Monday, November 10, 2025

WOR-TV Channel 9 New York TV Commercials from Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1981



The holiday season is nearly here--some people consider the season officially begun--and what better way to get into the holiday spirit than to enjoy these TV commercials that aired on Channel 9 New York, WOR-TV, from Thanksgiving Day, 1981?

While WNBC-TV Channel 4 showed the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, this station had an annual tradition of showing King Kong movies on Thanksgiving Day, followed by a Godzilla movie marathon on Black Friday. Sounds awesome to me!

As you can imagine, there are plenty of Christmas-related commercials here, and some good, local ones too, especially if you're a fan of the commercials for the Crazy Eddie electronics store chain. After all, their prices were INSANE!

This collection is courtesy of one of my favorite YouTube channels, 80s Commercial Vault. Do yourself a favor and subscribe to the channel here. Amazing stuff!

Thanks!

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Post-Halloween Palette Cleanser

Hello all! I hope everyone had a fantastic Halloween season! Let's do it again next year!

This is just a quick note to say that the blog might be quiet between now and Thanksgiving. One reason is I have a thousand things going on that need my attention, and the other is that I'll likely spend any time I do have to blog to write up posts for a Countdown to Christmas I want to do. Last year, I only had one Christmas article and that was it. I want to do better than that! But to do that, I'll need to write stuff in advance and schedule it to appear in December.

So please stay tuned for great Christmas stuff coming up, but please be patient until then. Of course, if I can post something before Thanksgiving, that would be great. Keep me in your blog feed and look out for me soon.

Thanks!