The decade of excess, the "Me" decade: no matter what you called it, the 80s was a peculiar decade packed with flavor and originality. Cranking out more icons and memories than you can shake a stick at, revisit the 80s here with tons of 80s TV commercials and show intros, from a time when imagination had no limits.
The decade that introduced a whole new generation of slackers and lazy Gen-X'ers: the 90s had attitude; breaking free from New Wave to embrace grunge, hip-hop and techno. See the progression of pop culture and values in the many commercials and TV shows displayed in this section.
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Friday Night Videos was network TV's answer to MTV: airing a presentation every Friday night that was hosted by a duo of different actors or musicians, who would go back and forth about that nigh...
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A pretty retro-80s commercial advertising Charlie perfume from Revlon.
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Two kids play an Atari-ish video game where chocolate crashes into peanut butter, in this commercial for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
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Another addition to the long line of cartoon inspired breakfast cereals, this one introduces Strawberry Shortcake 'strawberry flavored' cereal.
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Corn Pops cereal once featured this porcupine mascot named "Poppy" within its cartoon commercials.
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A short and simple Children's Television Workshop station ID, that ran throughout the early and mid 1980s.
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A commercial for Talking Viewmaster's "Voltron" and "Rainbow Brite" reels.
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This animated commercial series featured a toothpaste superhero who prevented cavities from getting to children.
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This show opening appeared during the earlier seasons of the animated series, "Mister T." It also includes the original NBC bumper for the show, from its original airing.
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A pretty goofy commercial advertising Bonjour's clothing line. Very retro.
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One of the earliest He-Man commercials, this one advertised Castle Grayskull, the He-Man action figure as well as the Ram Man figure. These earlier commercials were typically simple, and did not ...
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ABC featured these "Bod Squad" commercials, which featured different cartoons for the purpose of teaching kids the proper eating & exercise habits. This particular one taught kids t...
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A commercial for the long-lost "Halfsies" corn and rice cereal, named as so for having "half the sugar" of most cereals. The commercial cereals featured the King of the Kingdo...
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This commercial for Taster's Choice featured its ground coffee from the dramatized perspective of a Space Shuttle Columbia astronaut. This particular space shuttle had its 2nd run in 1983.
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Ktel advertises this 14-track LP, which includes tracks from The Police, Def Leppard, Rick Springfield, Eurythmics, Styx, Bryan Adams, Naked Eyes, Michael Sambello and more.
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