Emergency +4

Emergency +4 was an NBC Saturday morning animated television series based on the live action prime-time series Emergency!. It ran from 1973-1975.

Each episode of the adventure series revolved around the Paramedical Rescue Service. The "+4" of the series title refers to four children who join the paramedics in each episode's rescue activities. They were Carol and Matt, a sister and brother, and the boys Jason and Randy. Together with their pets, Flash the dog, Charlemayne the Myna bird, and Bananas the monkey, they were always ready to assist the firemen!

80's Candilicious Candy Commercial

Here's an 80's commercial for Candilicious candy. It had to have been made by the maker of Bubblicious gum... the name and packaging are sure similar.

Crazy Like a Fox

Crazy Like a Fox was a television series set in San Francisco, California, that aired on CBS from 1984-1986.

The show was about Harry Fox, a free-spirited private detective who lived by his wits, and his high-strung attorney son, Harrison, who unwillingly and frequently found himself dragged into his father's cases.

The show's opening would always feature Harry and Harrison talking on the phone in their offices like this:

Harrison: Hello?
Harry: Harrison, I need your help.
Harrison: Dad, you keep forgetting. I'm a lawyer. You're the detective!
Harry: Aw, come on son. All I need is a ride. What could possibly happen?

Little Golden Book: The Little Red Hen

A Little Golden Book memory...

The Little Red Hen

Schoolhouse Rock! Them Not-So-Dry Bones

Schoolhouse Rock! is a series of animated musical educational short films that aired during Saturday morning children's programming on ABC. Topics covered include grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and politics. The best of the series aired between 1972 and 1986.

Here is Them Not-So-Dry Bones from 1979!

70's Bubble Up Soda Pop Commercial

Remember the lemon-lime soda pop Bubble Up? Here's a 70's commercial for it...

The Jackson 5ive

The Jackson 5ive was a Saturday morning cartoon series produced by Rankin/Bass and Motown Productions on ABC from 1971-1973. It was a fictionalized portrayal of the careers of Motown recording group The Jackson 5 - Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and Michael.

The premise of the show is that the Jackson Five would have adventures when Berry Gordy, the manager of the band in the show's universe, would come up with an idea for publicity for the band, such as having to do farm work or play a concert for the President of the United States.

The Brady Bunch: Time to Change

Time to Change was a song sung by The Brady Bunch kids on the episode "Dough Re Mi," which aired in 1972. It was memorable because the refrain humorously featured Peter's voice cracking as the group sung the lyrics "When its time to change, you've got to rearrange".

Merlin Game

Merlin was a handheld electronic game first made by Parker Brothers in 1978.

Merlin's simple array of buttons and lights supported play of six different games, some of which could be played against the computer or against another person. Here is the list of games that could be selected:

1. Tic Tac Toe
2. Music Machine
3. Echo, a game similar to Simon
4. Blackjack 13
5. Magic Square, a pattern game similar to Lights Out
6. Mindbender, a game similar to Mastermind

1983 Milk Commercial

Here is a 1983 commercial for milk!

It does a body good!

Taxi

Taxi was sitcom that originally aired from 1978-1983.

The show focuses on the employees of the fictional Sunshine Cab Company, and its principal setting is the company's fleet garage in Lower Manhattan. The Sunshine Cab's drivers include Alex Rieger, Elaine Nardo, Tony Banta, Bobby Wheeler and 'Reverend Jim' Ignatowski. Other characters include Latka and Simka Dahblitz-Gravas. He is an immigrant from a very strange land, often speaking in his invented foreign tongue ("ibi da", "nik nik"). He works as a mechanic, fixing the taxis. She is from the same country as Latka. They belong to different ethnic groups which traditionally detest each other, but they fall in love and eventually get married. She is much more assertive than her husband, often standing up to Louie for him.

Home Adventure Library Children's Books

The Home Adventure Library were a set of 10 children's books about various topics. They were published in 1968 by The Southwestern Company.

The titles included...

1. THE EARTH AND THE STARS
2. NUMBERS AND DISCOVERIES
3. PLANTS AND ANIMALS
4. PEOPLE AND PLACES
5. AMERICA'S STORY
6. ALL ABOUT YOU
7. GREAT STORIES FROM WORLD LITERATURE
8. HOLIDAY AND ENTERTAINMENT
9. FACT BOOK AND INDEX
10. PARENTS' GUIDE

Sesame Street: Ten Turtles (#10) Song

Here's a classic Sesame Segment that has a catchy tune called the Ten Turtles. It was an animated song created by Bud Luckey in 1971 that demonstrated the number 10. The song was about "ten tiny turtles" who talked to the grocer by telephone.

70's Cocoa Puffs Cereal Commercial

Here is a 1970's commercial for Cocoa Puffs Cereal!

Are you cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?!?

The Biskitts

The Biskitts was a Saturday morning cartoon that ran from 1983-1984 and aired on CBS.

The Biskitts were a group of tiny anthropomorphic dogs who lived on Biskitt Island and were committed to guarding the crown jewels of Biskitt Castle. In the narration it was explained that due to their good reputation for responsibility and security, other kings had entrusted their treasures to be safeguarded by the Biskitts.

The villain of the series was the king's mean-spirited younger brother, King Max, who ruled the neighboring Lower Suburbia. Max constantly schemed to steal the jewels with the help of his hench-hounds Fang & Snarl and his jester Shecky (although Shecky was rather dimwitted and not always loyal to Max, as he even made friends with a Biskitt who shared his love of practical jokes). Biskitts were also in danger of being captured and eaten by a large wildcat named Scratch.

Rack-O Game

Rack 'Em, Stack 'Em & Score!

How will you stack up? Take 10 cards at random & pop 'em in your rack. Now see if you can be the first player to get all of your cards in sequential order from lowest to highest. Rack up the highest score and you win!

Here's a 60's commercial for Rack-O as well as another game called Easy Money!

Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You)

Anyone who loves The Jetsons is sure to remember the song "Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You)". It ran in the 1962 episode "A Date With Jet Screamer", in which daughter Judy Jetson wins a date with a rock star.

Enjoy!

1982 Peter Pan Peanut Butter Commercial

Here's a 1982 commercial for Peter Pan Peanut Butter...

"Peter Pan can, Peter Pan can!"

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 was written by Beverly Cleary in 1981.

Ramona Quimby, one of the most loved characters in children's fiction, has now reached third grade. At school, she acquires a new teacher, Mrs. Whaley, who addresses the class as "you guys." At home, she helps the family "squeak by" as her father returns to college to become an art teacher.

All the Quimbys have their ups and downs, but none feels them more intensely than Ramona. Her low point is undoubtedly reached the day she throws up in class and Mrs. Whaley instructs the children to hold their noses and file into the hall. But three days later Ramona recovers her verve sufficiently to give a book report in the style of a T.V. commercial, bringing down the house with her final ad-lib line of "I can't believe I read the whole thing!"

Swatch Watch

Remember how popular Swatch watches were in the 80's?!? I actually found a photo of the one I had -- It was a 1986 Lionheart/Coat of Arms. I loved that watch! You could even buy rubber watch guards to prevent the face of the watch from getting scratched.

Here's a great retro commercial for Swatches...

Here's a print ad for my watch!

Little House on the Prairie

Little House on the Prairie ran on NBC from 1974-1982.

It was about a family living on a farm in Minnesota in the 1870s and 1880s. The show was a loose adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s best-selling series of Little House on the Prairie books.


The show's central characters were Charles Ingalls, farmer and patriarch, with his wife, Caroline, and four daughters, Mary, Laura, Carrie and Grace. Later adding adopted children Albert, Cassandra and James.

Other memorable characters included the friendly Nels Oleson, proprietor of the town's general store, Oleson's Mercantile; his malicious, gossipping wife, Harriet; and their two spoiled children, Nellie and Willie; and later, their adopted child, Nancy.

Schoolhouse Rock! Ready or Not, Here I Come!

Schoolhouse Rock! is a series of animated musical educational short films that aired during Saturday morning children's programming on ABC. Topics covered include grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and politics. The best of the series aired between 1972 and 1986.

Here is Ready or Not, Here I Come! (counting 5's) from 1973!

1981 Band-Aid Commercial

Here's a catchy Band-Aid commercial from 1981!

I am stuck on Band-Aid 'cuz Band-Aid's stuck on me!

Play-Doh

Play-Doh was invented in the 50's and is a nontoxic, easy-to-use, easy-to-clean up modeling compound packaged in a variety of colors used principally by children for arts and crafts projects at home and in school.

Besides being hand-molded into animals, flowers, and other objects, Play-Doh can be sent through extruders created for the purpose to produce ropey strands of different shapes. In 1960, the Play-Doh Fun Factory (a toy press that extrudes the compound in various shapes) was invented and the Play-Doh Fuzzy Pumper Barber & Beauty Shop of 1977 featured a figurine whose extruded "hair" could be styled.

Play-Doh Commercial from 1981

Play-Doh Fun Factory Commercial