TV Ads – 1982 – Ford Tempo & Purina HiPro Dog Food & Efferdent & Listerine & Alfred Hitchcock Promo

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DOG COMMENTARY:  Have you noticed that you rarely see a TV commercial in 2018 that has to do with cleaning dentures….I mean….you never see Efferdent…Dentural….Milton….Mildent….Steradent….Polident  ….Renew  Denture Cleaner…. Novadent commercials….and we just wonder if that is because the old folks of the Greatest Generation or the Baby Boomer Generation….who are featured throughout this entire video library at ImaSportsphile….just simply took…

TV Ads – 1981- Duracell Batteries & Peerless Faucets & Sugars Mens Club & Yellow Pages

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DOG ASIDE:  Long before the “Energizer Bunny” was moving all around and beating its drum…there was the “Duracell Dog”….who was a mechanical dog….who loved to startle and scare cats of all types. The Duracell Company was founded in 1924….which eventually became a part of the huge conglomerate. Proctor + Gamble….and was sold to Berkshire Hathaway in 2014….at a…

Bobsled – 1985 – World 4 Man Bobsled Championships – Cervinia, Germany – Part II

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DOG ASIDE:   Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of two or four teammates make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled….whose timed runs are combined to calculate the final score.   The various types of sleds came several years before the first tracks were built in St. Moritz, Switzerland, where the original bobsleds were…

Movie – 1936 – Reefer Madness – The Original Movie About Smoking Marijuana

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DOG COMMENTARY:    Reefer Madness (originally made as Tell Your Children….and sometimes titled as The Burning Question, Dope Addict, Doped Youth, and Love Madness) is a 1936 American propaganda film revolving around the melodramatic events that ensue when high school students are lured by pushers to try marijuana…..which includes such events as a hit and run accident…..to manslaughter…. to suicide …. to attempted rape…..with hallucinations and descent into madness due to marijuana addiction. The…

TV Ads – 1978 – Chevy Chase On Minorities & Jacqueline Smith For Wella Balsam & Jerry Lewis Telethon

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DOG ASIDE:  Every now and then….we will throw in some “spoof ads” that are supposed to look, taste and feel like a real television commercial….but rather are comedic satires aimed at not only the “television ad industry”….but also the more than humorous “gullible buying public”…..and then once in a blue moon…there will be a Public Service Message regarding…

TV Ads – 1979 – Dr Pepper I’m A Pepper & RCA Video Recorder & H n R Block & Conan’s Pizza

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DOG COMMENTARY:  No too long ago….I was asking Bone Daddy about some of the TV Ads that were coming up to be posted….and whether he has any memories from the vintage TV commercials….and he said that he and his good friend TNT both loved Dr. Pepper over Coke or Pepsi…..and that when they were with some girls…

TV Ads – 1983 – Fiat Cars + Robert Conrad For Eveready Batteries + Pearl Beer + Jack In The Box

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DOG ASIDE:  ImaSportsphile’s original 2300 hour vintage video library has nearly 5,000 different TV ads….of which we are beginning to post in our TV Ads Section….for it is this lil ole chiweenie Sportsphile’s opinion that these short little beauties are like “nuggets of gold” in our treasure chest of vintage memories….as everyone remembers driving a Fiat car…

Tennis – 1986 – NBC Special – Chris Evert + Dick Enberg Tour Wimbledon Womens Locker Rooms

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DOG ASIDE:  Every now and then we get a video that is just a bit out of the ordinary for us….you know, one that is not anything like any other within our treasure chest of 2000+ vintage videos that are currently posted on our site here at ImaSportsphile….and this one certainly merits that “a bit out…

Tennis – 1986 – Wimbledon Mixed Dbls Finals – Flach/Jordan Vs Navratilova/Gunthardt – Set 1

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DOG COMMENTARY:  This 1986 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals between Ken Flach + Kathy Jordan verses Martina Navratilova is a match well worth watching….so, in this series of comments….we will focus on the team of Gunthardt and Navratilova.   Heinz Günthardt is a former tennis player from Switzerland….who won five singles titles during his professional career….including the Rotterdam WCT in…