Have Some Corn Pops With Wild Bill and Jingles

Here's a 1950s television commercial for Kellogg's Corn Pops cereal that aired during an episode of Wild Bill Hickock, which was sponsored by the cereal maker.  Stars Guy Madison and Andy Devine are featured here.

If Raisin Bran Is More Your Bag

Here's a commercial from what looks like the early 1950s for Post Raisin Bran, starring Maisie the Raisin and Jake the Flake.

Try A Bowl Of Post Grape Nuts Flakes For Breakfast!

From circa 1954, here's an old television commercial for Post Grape Nuts Flakes.

It's Craftsmanship With Flair!

Here's a television commercial for the big new 1956 Studebakers.

Hey Roy, Where's Bill Cosby?

And now, for desert, how about some Jell-O Instant Pudding? Here are Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and their offspring enjoying some Jell-O Instant Pudding----and singing a song----in this 1950s television commercial.

Where Are Those Wild Hickory Nuts?

From circa 1964, here are Andy Griffith and Don Knotts in a commercial which originally aired at the end of a telecast of The Andy Griffith Show. Back in the day, the stars of a given television show would appear for the sponsor's product at the end of that week's show. This is commercial for Post Grape Nuts, from General Foods, which sponsored Andy and the gang from Mayberry, Monday nights on CBS.

See Your Nash Or Hudson Dealer Today!

Here's a commercial for the 1957 Rambler Cross-Country hardtop station wagon. They were available at Nash and Hudson dealers as well as those dealers that were now starting to sell Ramblers exclusively. Nash and Hudson, both divisions of American Motors, were reduced to the V-8 Ambassadors and Hornets respectively by then and would be phased out shortly before the start of the 1958 model year as AMC concentrated on Ramblers and the British-built subcompact Metropolitans.

How Would You Like To Ride On A Station Wagon With So Many Four-Legged Friends!

Here is a commercial for American Motors from 1967 with Noah and all his animal friends.

Here's Dutch

Ronald Reagan, who succeeded Stanley (The Old Ranger) Andrews as host of Death Valley Days, is shown here talking about Boraxo Powdered Hand Soap and Boraxo Waterless Hand Cleaner. This is probably from the mid-1960s.

Before You Stuff Your Mouth With 40% Bran Flakes and 7Up

Be sure to get you dadgummed hands twice as clean with Boraxo.






That's Stanley Andrews, as The Old Ranger, who was the original host of the syndicated Death Valley Days television show, and that's a commercial (from circa 1953) for 20-Mule Team Borax and Boraxo powdered hand soap, which sponsored DVD.

Wash Down Those 40% Bran Flakes..........

With a bottle of refreshing Seven-UP. This commercial comes from the pre-Uncola year of 1964.

Why Take Ex-Lax?.

When you can have a big heaping bowl full of Post 40% Bran Flakes. Yum Yum! Here's a 1950s TV commercial for this General Foods cereal product.



We were more of a Kellogg's family as far as 40% bran flakes cereals are concerned.

Wanna Keep Your Pizza Hot?

Here's a 1978 commercial for Shakey Pizza's Pizza Keeper, which was supposed to keep your Shakey's Pizza hot.

Hungry For A Pizza?

Try Godfather's Pizza. Here's a commercial that aired on local television in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1978.

How Bout A Bowl....

Of Cheerios. Here are Donald Duck, his nephews, and The Cheerios Kid in a 1950s commercial that probably aired on either Disneyland or The Mickey Mouse Club on ABC.

Maybe You Folks In Portland Have Fond Memories Of This

Here's a commercial for The Organ Grinder Pizza Parlor that aired on a local Portland, Oregon television station in the early 1980s.






The pizza parlor closed its' doors in 1996.

Hey, Isn't That Dr. Johnny Fever's Boss?

Here, for your approval, is a 1970 television commercial of Shakey's Pizza.



Yes, that is the late Gordon Jump, best remembered for his role as station general manager Arthur "Big Guy" Carlson on the old (1978-82) television sitcom WKRP In Cincinnati. Yes, the Shakey's Pizza chain still exists with some 400 outlets worldwide, including some 60 here in the States.

We Treat You Right

Here is a 1971 commercial for the now-defunct Burger Chef fast-food restaurant chain.



There was a time when only McDonald's had more outlets than Burger Chef. In 1970 there were 2400 such establishments. But in 1982, General Foods, which owned BC, gradually sold the business to a Canadian outfit that owned Hardee's. Many Burger Chefs were converted into Hardee's restaraunts. The last Burger Chef closed its' doors in 1996.

Here's The Colonel Himself

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that IS Colonel Harlan Sanders appearing in this 1969 Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial.






Makes me want to dig into those eleven herbs and spices.

If Pancakes Are Your Bag.....

Here's a commercial for International House of Pancakes (IHOP) which aired back in 1969.






Sounds a little like Alvin the chipmunk on Quaaludes.