Tag: VHS Revue

Commercial break highlights from a 1990 VHS tape of Channel 9’s ‘Sunday’ program and Channel 7’s ‘AFL Today’. Presented by David M. Green. Tape courtesy of Isabella Valette.

Featuring:
– A brief look at home video formats Video8 and VHS-C
– A plug for Isabella Valette’s ‘Cabaret Unscripted’ show
– Highlights from Channel 9’s ‘Sunday’ program with Jim Waley
– Tommy Emmanuel’s intense throw to an ad break
– Highlights from Channel 7’s ‘AFL Today’ with Peter Landy (replay of the second half of the 2nd semi-final Collingwood v. Essendon)
– Signcraft TVC
– King Gee workwear TVC with voices by Keith Scott
– Crown Forklifts TVC with Don Chipp
– ANSO V worryfree carpet stain removal TVC with ‘Winston Churchill’
– Nobby’s Nuts TVC “let’s nibble Nobby’s Nuts!”
– NEC Facsimile TVC
– Nylex Contact TVC (plus censored version)
– What The Hell Was That?
– BP TVC with silly music
– Siemens Hi-Com 100 phone TVC with bone phone
– Kellogg’s All-Bran TVC with bowel cancer warning
– Warburton Health Care Centre TVC with Ian Rawlings
– Julie Martin’s death scene from ‘Neighbours’ Ep 2242 (1994)
– Strange anti drink-driving TVC by Carlton United Breweries (CUB) featuring lots of cars
– Special guest appearance by Isabella Valette
– Bonus: AFL Today sponsors

Footage recorded from Melbourne’s Channel Seven and Channel Nine, 23 September 1990 and used here for review, parody and satirical purposes.

Special thanks to Alexis Kotlowy, John Hnatowych, Tim Wray, Gerard Kotlowy, Annika Samuelsson, Carolyn Lawlor-Smith, Nigel Charman, Isabella Valette, Rex Hunt and our generous supporters on Patreon.

DMG

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