80's Commercials Vol. 1171

These commercials aired on NBC on July 4th, 1986. Happy Fourth of July!!! 1. TV Spot for "Running Scared" 2. News 4 Salutes The Lady Commercial Bumper (This aired during Liberty Weekend, which I have posted a bunch of programming from. It was celebrating the reopening and re-dedication of the Statue of Liberty, which had been under restoration for several years) 3. "Friday Night Videos" Intro (With Lisa Bonet, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Phylicia Rashad and Ahmad Rashad. RIP Malcolm Jamal Warner) 4. TV Spot for "Under The Cherry Moon" 5. Bain De Soleil 6. Diet Coke (With Whitney Houston, Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Willard Scott...RIP to all) 7. Right Guard (What a weird commercial. I recognized the bartender here, it is the late character actor Peter Jason who appeared in many John Carpenter movies including "Prince of Darkness" and "They Live") 8. Maybelline Shine Free Mascara (Are we sure that this is not a well done parody of 80's commercials?) 9. Coppertone 10. Le Clic Disc Camera 11. Bud Light 12. 7up 13. TV Spot for "Top Gun" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (These releases from Paramount had both been out in theaters for a while at this point, "Top Gun" released first on 5/16/86 and "Ferris Bueller" released on 6/11/86) 14. Just Shirts ("Excuse me, do you sell pants?" READ THE SIGN) 15. Miller Lite (With NFL player Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds and NBA player, coach and color commentator Tommy Heinsohn) 16. "Friday Night Videos" Commercial Bumper 17. Promo for "The Facts Of Life", "227", "The Golden Girls" and "Me and Mrs. C" (Hard to find info on the last show but it aired on NBC from 1986 to 1987 running for a total of 19 episodes) 18. Action Park (A notorious amusement park located in Vernon Township, New Jersey. From Wikipedia: "While extremely popular, Action Park had a reputation for poorly designed rides, undertrained and underaged staff, intoxicated guests and staff, and a consequently poor safety record. At least six people are known to have died as a result of mishaps on rides at the park.") 19. Honda Scooters (With Jim McMahon and Sandra Bernhardt) 20. Calvin Cooler (:insert Calvin Coolidge joke here:) 21. News 4 Salutes The Lady Commercial Bumper 22. "Friday Night Videos" Commercial Bumper 23. TV Spot for "About Last Night..." 24. Miller Lite (With Sgt. Bill Dower) 25. Neet 26. Ford Escort EXP 27. Michelob 28. TV Spot for "Psycho III" (Also directed by Anthony Perkins) 29. Cheetos 30. Canada Dry 31. A&S 32. Just Shirts (I would apologize for the dupe commercial here, but nope...it deserved a repeat) 33. McDonald's Breakfast Sandwiches 34. "Friday Night Videos" Commercial Bumper 35. Promo for "The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins" (a TV movie starring Gary Coleman originally from 1984) and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" 36. Champale (With the voice of Lorenzo Music) 37. Budweiser Summernationals 38. New York State Health Department Pregnancy PSA 39. WNBC News 4 Bumper 40. "Friday Night Videos" Commercial Bumper 41. Coke (With Max Headroom 42. Bain De Soleil 43. TV Spot for "Club Paradise" (Robin Williams, Eugene Levy and Rick Moranis in the same movie directed by Harold Ramis? I need to watch this) 44. Care Free Gum 45. Colgate 46. Sprite (With Bill Fagerbakke) 47. U.S. Army 48. Vitalis (The woman in pink here is Rene Russo) 49. Miller Lite (With Bob Uecker) 50. Impulse Elation Body Spray (With Elle Macpherson) 51. Wrigley's Spearmint Gum 52. Gillette MicroTrac Razor 53. Promo for "The Execution" (Originally aired in 1985, the Nazi in this was played by Rip Torn...it can be seen here:    • The Execution (1985) | Full Movie | Lorett...  ) 54. Promo for "Saturday Night Live" (This was a repeat of the 3/7/81 episode when Bill Murray hosted. He would not host SNL again until 1987) 55. Give A Hoot. Don't Pollute. Forest Service PSA 56. Miller Lite (With Sparky Lyle, Boom Boom Geoffrion and Boog Powell...I guess they collected all of the sports guys with weird nicknames for one ad)