It’s the 2024 season premiere of VHS Revue! Episode 51 – The Bribe (1991), with commercial break highlights from a 1991 VHS tape of the 1949 Hollywood film ‘The Bribe’ and 1941’s ‘The Strawberry Blonde’. Presented by David M. Green.
Featuring:
– 500 tapes update
– The Red Tape Book
– 1991 Channel Ten ident
– Eyewitness News promo “Crime Fighting in the ’90s”
– Mitchell on Sunday promo with Neil Mitchell
– Sports Week promo with Eddie McGuire
– Hard Copy promo
– Blind Date promo
– Several late night phone dating ads: Fling Fun Dating Service, Link-Up Partyline, Fone – Date, Adult Directory Information
– Norman Vine cameo
– Promo for the 1988 comedy ‘Casual Sex?’
– Alcan Guttering ad
– Marble Effect ad with the ‘Coloured Karran’ kitchen sink
– Fantastic Furniture ad
– Sydney Lounge Discounters ad
– A Tedious Explanation why Sydney lounge ads were on Melbourne’s Channel Ten in 1991
– Stewarts Furniture ad
– Parklea Markets ad with additional footage of musicals ‘The King and I’ and ‘Hair’
– Wynn’s Charge for Oil ad
– Runner Addiction ad with rap jingle
– Queen Adelaide Chardonnay ad
– Computer Spot ad with and Australian doing a slightly off American accent
– ‘Good Health’ magazine ad with nutritional advice from ‘Discovery’, presented by the Seventh-day Adventist Church
– Auto Alley Parramatta Road ad
– Auto Alley Doctor Sketch
– Bonus message from Norman Vine
– More from The Red Tape Book
– Tribute to John Blackman
Footage recorded from Melbourne’s Channel Ten, 15 September 1991 and used here for review, parody and satirical purposes.
‘The Fool’ drawing by Tanaya Quinn.
Special thanks to Alexis Kotlowy, John Hnatowych, Nicholas Godfrey, Gerard Kotlowy, Aaron Nassau, Tim Wray, Lori Bell, Tim Whitt, Annika Samuelsson, Carolyn Lawlor-Smith, Nigel Charman, Rhys Marshall, Tanaya Quinn, Daniel Sofia, Leo Vida, Didz, and our generous supporters on Patreon.
-DMG
