I'm traumatized!

[trekgeezer]

No, it wasn't odinn7's picture that did it.

I had posted about watching Kojak on this new retro tv station we have. Well I was watching the A-Team this afternoon and they played an old grainy b&w commercial from the 60's with Boris Karloff hawkin' A-1 steak sauce. Boy talk about scary, but I guess the old guy needed the dough. After all he did star in a few Roger Corman movies.



Post Edited (10-26-05 16:31)

[Gerry]

trek_geezer wrote:

> an old grainy b&w commercial from the 60's with Boris
> Karloff hawkin' A-1 steak sauce.

I've got a really crappy version of that on a disc somewhere.  Classic!

[odinn7]

trek_geezer wrote:

> No, it wasn't odinn7's picture that did it.
>


Beyotch

[AndyC]

There's a few old commercials from that era I'd like to see, the ones that actually feature characters from the show. I'd heard about one with the Flintstones selling cigarettes. Anybody see that one?

[peter johnson]

I think Fred Flintstone did one for Lucky Strikes -- I'm fairly cerain he did print spots for them too, in Life Magazine, with Barney Rubble.  
It's been forever, but I certainly do remember TV cigarette ads very well:  Taryton:  I'd rather fight than switch!  Show us your Lucky pack.  "To a smoker, it's a Kent!"  "Just a silly millimeter longer!"And, of course, the ubiquitous Marlboro Man ads, with the distinctive music.  Marlboro used to be a poor-selling ladies cigarette, until some marketing genius got ahold of that cowboy image & soundtrack.
Never saw the Karloff spot, but toward the end the old boy would do just about anything for the work -- It's good that the very last thing he did that was high-profile was The Grinch That Stole Christmas, so at least he went out on a high note --
peter johnson/denny crane

[Dunners]

bad enough to see flinstone and Barney doing 'midas' commerciasl now.