KNXT-2 KNBC-4 KABC-7 1971 Promo,s & Commercials 

Thank You for your keen and perceptive insight and commentary! 🙂

@@selwynmiller3282 I appreciate that you enjoyed it! I love television history (mainly 60's, 70's) and this promo just struck me that the early 70's was a sort of odd, tricky time for television. The past was giving way to the future.

"THE DORIS DAY SHOW" was still in a state of "influx", as she edged closer to the "MARY TYLER MOORE"/"THAT GIRL" format (young woman in the big city) that fall: it was explained that "Doris Martin's" family (the two boys and the big dog) had returned to her father's farm, leaving her "single", and working with a new executive staff at "Today's World" magazine [John Dehner and Jackie Joseph]. That was how the remainder of her series stood, until she ended it in 1973.

When Ms. Moore's show first debuted, there was a bit of irony. In its first five seasons, one of the supporting co-stars was Cloris Leachman as eccentric landlady Phyllis LIndstrom. "MTM," when it premiered in 1970, replaced in the time slot into which it was plopped, the rural sitcom "Petticoat Junction" one of whose co-stars in its last two years on the air was June Lockhart who'd played Dr. Janet Craig on that show. The irony was that while the specifics are different, it came about a dozen years after Ms. Leachman was replaced on the "Timmy and Lassie" show by Ms. Lockhart.

@@fromthesidelines Yes, I've read how the format of "The Doris Day Show" kept changing each season. Once the shock of her husband's death started to ease, she took more personal stock in the show and decided the rural setting wasn't what she wanted nor how her fans wanted to see her. I'm guessing at some point, once MTM took off, she saw this era of the single woman was the way to go. I don't think I really paid it much attention when I was a child, but now as an adult watching it, those changes are a bit of a head-spinner. Still, it seems her fans were willing to accept the fact that this show was going to be different from season to season. Says a lot for the charisma Doris had and the love she had from her fans.

Apparently when middle aged men could make a living working at McDonald's.

No women on the crew at all.

Yes, folks. Even Cleo McDowell of McDowell's had to start somewhere, hehe. :P

And I believe that's Robert "Boogie Nights" Ridgely at the burger machine.

Who then went on to become a weatherman at WJM TV, Minneapolis, MN!

He was a New York staff announcer for NBC.

Norman was mostly a freelance announcer/narrator; technically, he wasn't employed at NBC, even though he did a LOT of promos for them over the years.

@@fromthesidelines - That probably explains why, of all the clips from NBC where his voice is heard, I didn't hear any evidence of him doing any WNBC local booth work.

@@fromthesidelines And the voice of "Deteriorata"...

@@tomservo56954 Good call on "Deteriorata." He was also Woody Allen's lawyer in "The Front."

The Frito Bandito was retired by Frito Lay in mid-1971, after Latinos (namely Mexican-Americans) found him stereotypically offensive. He premiered in 1967, and was voiced by Mel Blanc, the great cartoon voice actor who gave life to Bugs Bunny,Porky Pig,Barney Rubble and many more. As for W.C. Fritos, he was retired in mid- 1973. Who knows why.

The family- and estate- of W.C. Fields sued Frito-Lay over their "unauthorized" use of his voice and likeness [they hadn't asked permission before producing those Fritos ads]. That's one reason why they "retired" him after a brief period.

Re. 9:13 : Sho' iz.

And at 5:23, you got it...Veronica Hamel 9 years before her stardom as Hill Street’s Joyce Davenport. Also in ‘71 (or maybe it was ‘70), her commercial for Virginia Slims made history as the very last cigarette commercial ever broadcast before their ban went into effect .

Yep, Tuesday August 15, 1971 “Escape” Ch7 830PM, right after Mod Squad and before 10PM Marcus Welby

That was the previous season...

+Paul Duca Oh, but what about "NBC You... Next Fall?" wasn't the 1970-71 season slogan "It's Happening on NBC!" by the way?