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A promotional spot using the female leads of three ABC Thursday night sitcoms: Bewitched, Love On A Rooftop, and That Girl. (I had never heard of Love On A Rooftop. I looked it up; it lasted just one season.)
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ABC
Bewitched
That
Girl
Added: 20th November 2007
Views: 388
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
 
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Probably my favorite sports story is the day a midget, Eddie Gaedel, batted in a major league game. The date was August 19, 1951. The lacklustre St. Louis Browns were hosting the Detroit Tigers in a Sunday doubleheader. Browns' owner Bill Veeck promised that anyone who bought a ticket would see a memorable sight. He was right. Gaedel, all 3'7" of him, took part in a brewery promotion between games. Gaedel, clad it a batboy's uniform bearing the number 1/8 and carrying a toy bat, made baseball history in the first inning of the second game when he batted for outfielder Frank Saucier. Jim Cain, the Detroit pitcher, nearly doubled over in laughter at the sight of Gaedel and walked him on four pitches--all of them high. Once Gaedel trotted down to first base he was replaced by pinch runner Jim Delsing. Gaedel's picture appeared in virtually every newspaper in North America the next day. That same day American League president Will Harridge banned midgets from baseball. Most of the players involved in the stunt relished their connection to it. Jim Delsing said, 'A lot of guys have hit 50 home runs in a season, but I'm the only guy who ever ran for a midget.'
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Eddie
Gaedel
baseball
Added: 22nd November 2007
Views: 407
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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Here's a promotional spot for ABC's Saturday morning lineup beginning in September 1971: Roadrunner cartoons, Lidsville, The Funky Phantom, Curiosity Shop, and The Jackson Five. The latter four would all be off the air in two years.
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ABC
network
promo
1971
Saturday
Added: 28th November 2007
Views: 513
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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Homer, disturbed by the box of Mr. Sparkle, contacts the manufacturer in Hokkaido, Japan for information. He is sent a promotional video for Mr. Sparkle, which consists of a bizarre TV commercial. At the end of the video, the mascot is shown to be a result of a joint venture between two large Japanese conglomerates whose mascots, a fish and light bulb, merge together to form Mr. Sparkle, thus, Homer discovers it was all a mere coincidence.
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the
simpsons
homer
japanese
mr
sparkle
animation
Added: 22nd December 2007
Views: 466
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Posted By: geminat |
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This clip got a lot of airtime in Canada: From August 2007, a lucky fan at a Toronto Argonauts CFL game tries to win a trip to a resort in the Dominican Republic. She has to try to find the travel company's banner while blindfolded. See what the result is.
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Toronto
Argonauts
promotion
Added: 11th May 2008
Views: 149
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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On June 4, 1974 the Cleveland Indians held the most short-sighted promotion in pro sports history: Ten-Cent Beer Night. There was no limit to the amount of 10-ounce beers one could buy for a dime each. Hey, what could possibly go wrong? A crowd of about 25,000 people chugged down more than 60,000 cups of beer. The effects of the discount brews caused rowdyism to break out in the stands and spread onto the field. The game was abandoned by the umpires in the ninth inning with the score tied 5-5. The visiting Texas Rangers won by forfeit.
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Cent
Beer
Night
Cleveland
baseball
Added: 4th June 2008
Views: 318
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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Carlton Fisk and Rich Dotson promote Pizza Hut and the restaurant chain's promotional Chicago White Sox placemats in this 1984 commercial.
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Pizza
Hut
White
Sox
baseball
Added: 14th December 2008
Views: 47
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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