Re: Crazy Eddie at 3:49; around this time, Crazy Eddie was buying time in infomercial-length blocks on TV stations as part of the “Crazy Eddie World of Shopping Network”, WFTY/50 in DC was one of the affiliates (1986-1987)
One quality commercial you caught on this tape was the Bell of Pa. Yellow Pages takeoff on Dragnet (starring the guy who also played Joe Isuzu, I think a few years later). Those series of ads for the Yellow Pages I'd forgotten about until watching this clip.
Ah, yes. The Bell of Pennsylvania/New Jersey Bell commercials that parodied 1950's "Dragnet." I like the fact that they alternated each yellow book. Yes, that is David "Joe Isuzu" Leisure and he would do the Isuzu commercials not long after this, then "Empty Nest," with Richard Mulligan shortly thereafter.
Yep, we did have Crazy Eddie stores in the Phila. area - only they arrived much later (later 1980s?), and weren't around very long before the chain went under. I recall seeing those commercials back in the 1970s on NY TV channels while visiting north central NJ, and always identified them as definitely a New York kind of production.
Some movie trivia. In the 1950's as TV was taking away people from theaters, many film companies had to come up with something to draw more people in. The most widely used was CInemaScope (used by MGM, Fox mainly but Warners, Universal and RKO [1 time] went widescreen). There was also Cinerama. Paramount came up with VistaVision. White Christmas, which turns 60 next year, was the first VistaVision film. Yesterday AMC or what was once American Movie Classics, played White Christmas. And as for Harvey, well he was busy. Hosting Hollywood Gold, as seen by the promo, doing morning radio on WMGK-FM, and serving as announcer on a little kids game show. You may have heard of it...Double Dare.
Someone asked if there were Crazy Eddies stores in Philly. I am not sure but wikipedia says they had stores in PA. I know central NJ had Crazy Eddies and CH 29 did have coverage in that area.
