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  • VHS Revue 51 – The Bribe (1991)

    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

  • VHS Revue 45 – Yogi’s First Christmas (1992)

    Highlights from a 1992 VHS tape of “Yogi’s First Christmas”. Presented by David M. Green.

    Featuring:
    – Seven’s Family Christmas message from Mike Smithson & Dixie Marshall
    – Wallis Cinemas TVC with seat belts
    – Beyond 2000 promo with primitive CGI Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe “actors being brought back to life for the movies of the future”
    – Beyond 2000 promo with a man in one of those spinning sphere things
    – Sony Handycam from City International Duty Free TVC
    – The 1992 Carols Celebration at Campbelltown Oval TVC with “BBQ tea” (special guest appearance by TV’s Andrew Maj)
    – Whitehouse Furniture TVC with a “I’m a Lumberjack-esque” jingle
    – Green’s groceries TVC
    – Seven Promo for Bony and Pacific Power’s Carols in the Domain
    – Clarksons glass repair TVC
    – Super Seal plastic bag sealer infomercial from Demtel

    Footage recorded from Adelaide’s Channel Seven in December 1992 and used here for review, parody and satirical purposes.

    Special thanks to Alexis Kotlowy, John Hnatowych, Andrew Maj, Jason Evans, Hannah Green, Annika Samuelsson, Carolyn Lawlor-Smith, Nigel Charman, Zoe Charman and our generous supporters on Patreon.

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    DMG