These commercials aired on ABC on December 6th, 1986
1. "Heart Of The City" will not be seen tonight (The blonde girl at 0:02 and 0:07 is a pre "Married With Children" Christina Applegate. This show only aired for 13 episodes, the last episode airing a month after this)
2. "John Grin's Christmas" Commercial Bumper (Brought to you by Medipren)
3. Medipren
4. Sure & Natural Maxishields
5. Extra-Strength Tylenol (With Susan Sullivan)
6. Isotoner Gloves
7. Corning Visions Cookware (I'm not sure why you would ever need to watch corn boiling, but admittedly these are pretty neat)
8. Promo for "A Smoky Mountain Christmas" (Dolly Parton is always great but I much prefer Lee Majors in "The Night The Reindeer Died"...but nobody shows that one anymore)
9. ABC Station ID
10. Seagram's Wine Cooler (With Bruce Willis)
11. Cheez Whiz
12. Zales
13. Promo for "Swiss Family Robinson" (The music used here is "Reach For The Stars" by Richard Harvey: • Reach for the Stars It was later used in a trailer for "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" TV series: • Young Indiana Jones tr... )
14. "John Grin's Christmas" Commercial Bumper
15. Promo for "Moonlighting" and "Jack And Mike"
16. AT&T
17. Toshiba Digital VCR (Using the Hindenburg disaster to sell electronics? Oh the humanity! I'm not exactly sure what they meant by a "Digital VCR"...most likely digital tracking)
18. Promo for "World News Tonight"
19. Whirlpool Quiet Wash Dishwasher
20. Corning Visions Cookware (These apparently never really took off because of persistent rumors that they shatter easily when used. While there have absolutely been cases of this, it seems to be a rare phenomenon and they are still sold by Corning: www.corningwar...)
21. Wheat Thins
22. Heinz Ketchup (The only acceptable piece of silverware to use with ketchup is a knife used to get stuck ketchup out of the bottle. Get that spoon out of here!)
23. Heinz Cocktail Sauce
24. Wrigley's Spearmint Gum
25. Promo for "The Perry Como Christmas Special"
26. "John Grin's Christmas" End Credits (Music provided by knock-off Hall and Oates)
27. Promo for "JCPenney Classic" and "NFL Sunday Night Special"
28. ABC News Brief
a. President Reagan admits in radio address that mistakes were made in Iran Contra (This was when the Iran Contra scandal blew up and was really starting to embroil Reagan's second term)
b. State Dept officials pressured Sultan of Brunei to contribute to Contra rebels
c. Paris Student Protests (They were protesting a University reform bill known as the Devaquet bill that was being attempted to be signed into law by the French parliament. After Malik Oussekine, a bystander who was not even participating in the demonstrations was beaten and killed by police on December 6th the protests suddenly centered around police brutality...resulting in demonstrations and riots the following day. On December 8th the bill that started it all was withdrawn but protests against the police continued until January. en.wikipedia.o..., en.wikipedia.o...)
29. Underalls
30. Iowa City Accident (Partial, I couldn't find any info online about what this was about)
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