Quasar Color TV System Commercial (1972) 

Loved that sound "Quasarrrrr" what a cool sound.

Ahhhh I remember quasar as a kid, and the Mercery cougar ad, remember "at the sign of the cat" never forget it.

Ahhhh...nostalgia. Two vivid memories of childhood include the jingle at the end of the ad, and driving by the the Motorola factory on Grand ave. on Christmas night after a big family get-together.

If there's one thing I can't get enough of, its Quasar!!!

Seeing and hearing that really had me believing we really were in the space age.

I remember this commercial, when I was 9 years old, especially the lady at the end of the commercial, saying Quasar.

I remember this commercial, I was 10 years old. I still prefer these old sets then today's garbage made tvs of today. The quality was so much better than today!

QUASAR was good in its day.

I was 3 years old when I saw and heard this commercial in 1972. Yes 3. The music still is in my head like it was imprinted in me and I still remember it to this very day. Life is strange sometimes But that triggered my childhood imagination into motion from that time and forwards. I remember hearing this for the first time and I got scared of it and crying and didn't want to go to bed lol😅. But as time went on I got to liking it.

Despite NTSC color being adopted in 1954, It took until 1972 for color sets to outsell black and white sets. Black and white TVs as large as 19' were still being sold in the mid 1980s!

I looked up this commercial specifically because of remembering the girl sing "Quasar" at the end. But my parents owned Zenith TV's, and... Ramblers... Yes, many (sigh) Ramblers... LOL

I remember fixing these. It was pretty easy.

Love this commercial... I remember this when I was four years old...

"We put the works in a drawer for ease of service, because we know your TV is going to need to be worked on A LOT!" All kidding aside, that was the truth. However, as a kid back then who wasn't paying for the service call, I enjoyed seeing the TV repairman show up at the house with his gigantic fold out box of tools and vacuum tubes. It also reminds me of how finicky TVs were back then. I was my family's remote control for changing channels, adjusting volume, stopping it from "flipping" (vertical hold), adjusting the fine tuner or rabbit ears, or after we got our first color set in the late '60s, almost constantly adjusting the color. It's funny now, but back then it was aggravating that even though we lived in a city with four nearby TV stations (three VHF and one UHF), sometimes the only way to get a decent picture was to keep one hand on the rabbit ears. If you let go and tried to walk back to your seat it would get fuzzy again before you could sit down. Sometimes I'd just give up, pull the footstool (remember those?) up next to the TV, and just sit there within an arm's reach of the adjustments. It saved a lot of walking back and forth.

That’s actually a good commercial at a time when corny was the norm in TV ads.

Remember this music well. The beginning chord reminds me of the Windows 95 startup music.

I remember this and used to associate it with Pulsar watches... I was always facinated by the sound 'QUASARRRR'... Always thought a beautiful martian did it for the commercial... I was 5 at the time, so..........

I can remember seeing the commercial and think why did daddy buy a Zenith.

I remember the “works in a drawer”. We had this exact set when I was a kid. It was (as all TVs were in the early 70s) connected to an antenna, or “aerial”, that was mounted on the roof. One day it was hit by lightning when we were watching it and I remember all the smoke coming out of the “works in a drawer”. I knew that was the end of my beloved cool TV. We replaced it with a Magnavox I think. Or another Motorola (not Quasar). I can’t remember.

Aired perhaps during ABC's long running Monday night sports program series "NFL Monday Night Football" or more less

Bling! QUAsar! dun dun dun dun!

Beautiful remembers. My first television in my infancy was motorola brand . Thanks Bionic Disco, greetings from Costa Rica.

I never heard of it happening, but I wonder how many kids tried to open the "works in a drawer" on the family Quasar?

That was Peggy King, singing "quasar".

Is that the same Motorola as the phones from nowadays?

We know it's going to break down so let's just make that as easy for us to work on as possible.

Why did Motorola stop making televisions under their name only to adopt Quasar as their brand of televisions?

And two years later Motorola sold its consumer electronics division to Panasonic. "Quasarrrrr!"

Ahhhh, console TVs. I'll never forget the "BARRRROOOOWWWW" sound effect ours made when you turned it on. ahhhhhh! Remotes? Who needs remotes!?

Quasar!

How can you "look at the color on this actual closed circuit picture?" (0:19). You're watching that commercial on your own TV. If the color is great, you don't need a new TV. :/

I remember Huffing Gasoline and Sniffing Airplane Glue while watching this Commercial.

I always thought "Color TV" commercials were a little bit of a waste. Reason: You couldn't see how great the color was unless you had a great color set already.

"and look at the color on this closed circuit picture!" .....Yeah, and how great it looks on YOUR crappy TV!