Hit Celebrity TV Commercials (2004)

A cheap '80s-era introduction bookends this smattering of 74 TV commercials spanning several decades from Spanky McFarland to Don Johnson. A half-dozen are memorable, including Tim Conway for Lay's chips and Iron Eye Cody (the Native American with a tear in his eye) against litter. The rest are a soft spread of nostalgia if you've lived through the past 60 years or are interested in them: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Arthur Godfrey (who is so relaxed and spontaneously off-script and funny that you wonder what he's been smoking), Ronald Reagan, what's-his-name and Mister Ed, Mclean Stevenson, Harry Morgan (with black hair), Fred McMurray, Andy Griffith, a few ingenues like Cybill Shepherd and Farrah Fawcett, and classic matrons like Jean Stapleton and Rue McLenahan. Three commercials were clearly not final versions but they were entertaining and revealing just so. The audio track sounds fine. IW. 2.5 stars.