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Title: Pat Sajak: Stop the Madness
Post by: dzinkin on December 19, 2004, 01:45:23 AM

X-Entertainment has a bunch of '80s-era commercials and PSAs available for free download.  The one that's on-topic for this group can be found here...

http://www.x-entertainment.com/downloads/c...ials/sajak.html (http://\"http://www.x-entertainment.com/downloads/commercials/sajak.html\")

...and the entire collection is here:

http://www.x-entertainment.com/downloads/ (http://\"http://www.x-entertainment.com/downloads/\")

Enjoy!

Title: Pat Sajak: Stop the Madness
Post by: rugrats1 on December 19, 2004, 12:40:46 PM

The "Stop the Madness" PSAs were CBS's PSAs against drunk driving, which was a big issue in the 1980s. The ads feature mainly stars of CBS series, including Pat, who was doing his ill-fated "Pat Sajak Show" at the time. These were from around 1989-1990, due to Pat's show, and Barbara Bush appearing in one of them.

Title: Pat Sajak: Stop the Madness
Post by: Jamey Greek on December 26, 2004, 08:03:53 PM

There was also one with Bob Goen who was hosting WOF at the time.

Title: Pat Sajak: Stop the Madness
Post by: Dbacksfan12 on December 27, 2004, 04:36:08 AM

[quote name=\'Jamey Greek\' date=\'Dec 26 2004, 08:03 PM\']There was also one with Bob Goen who was hosting WOF at the time.
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Can anyone attest to this? I question the reliability of this comment; due to the posters age; and posting history. That said, I'd love to be proven wrong.

Dave; thanks for the link. I knew I remembered that Juicy Fruit commercial!  [Oh, and for a time when Fruit Roll-Ups weren't Chergrapbanalemon].

Title: Pat Sajak: Stop the Madness
Post by: zachhoran on December 27, 2004, 09:40:53 AM

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Dave; thanks for the link. I knew I remembered that Juicy Fruit commercial!  [Oh, and for a time when Fruit Roll-Ups weren't Chergrapbanalemon].

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Another minor game show connection to at least one of the retromercials: a 15 second version of Nabisco Bonkers "Bonks You Out" Candies commercial was seen on a fee plug on a few syndie game shows. GSN showed Caldwell TTD and $100K Pyramid shows where that mini-commercial was a fee plug.

Title: Pat Sajak: Stop the Madness
Post by: ITSBRY on December 27, 2004, 12:08:20 PM

[quote name=\'dzinkin\' date=\'Dec 19 2004, 01:45 AM\']X-Entertainment has a bunch of '80s-era commercials and PSAs available for free download.  The one that's on-topic for this group can be found here...

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Thanks for the nostalgic look back...very cool.  I had the Frogger mini arcade game when I was about 10, but I don't remember ever seeing that commercial.

ITSBRY
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Title: Pat Sajak: Stop the Madness
Post by: ChuckNet on December 27, 2004, 06:14:56 PM

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Thanks for the nostalgic look back...very cool. I had the Frogger mini arcade game when I was about 10, but I don't remember ever seeing that commercial.

I had Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, myself.

ObGameShow: Those "tabletop arcade games" were actually offered as prizes during the Mark Richards era of Starcade, w/a video clip of said spot running during Kevin McMahan's plug.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")