Donna Reed Show - Cast Commercials

[stuartfanning]

Did Donna Reed, or any other cast members, do commercials for Campbell's or any other sponsor during a show? I have videos of a fair number of shows complete with original commercials, but none of mine have.

[octobereve]

Here is a link to a site that has old commercials that you can watch online. I found one with Donna Reed doing a commercial for Campbell's Soup offer for soup bowls. http://www.roadode.com/eat_1.shtml (http://)

It's second from the top, on the right hand side.

[stuartfanning]

Here is a link to a site that has old commercials that you can watch online. I found one with Donna Reed doing a commercial for Campbell's Soup offer for soup bowls. http://www.roadode.com/eat_1.shtml (http://)

It's second from the top, on the right hand side.Thanks.

[treky]

yes, they did. In the 50s and 60s, cast members of TV shows had to do at least one commercial per show, for the shows sponsor(s).

[octobereve]

If you look in the Photos section for The Donna Reed Show here at Sitcoms Online, I posted screen captures from four Singer cast commercials back in January.

So I guess the cast did commercials at least for Campbell's and Singer. I wonder what other products they did?

[TV Knowledge Fan]

....Campbell Soup Company {Swanson TV dinners, Campbell Soups, Campbell's Pork & Beans, Franco-American canned spaghetti} sponsored "THE DONNA REED SHOW" on ABC during its first seven seasons (1958-'65), on alternate weeks. Johnson & Johnson {Band-Aid, Johnson's Baby Powder, etc.} was the show's "alternate sponsor" until 1963, when The Singer Company succeeded them for another two seasons. In fact, there's a 1964 Christmas album issued as a "special offer" by Singer at a discount [only available at your local Singer dealer!] which featured the entire cast on its cover. That turns up in a lot of garage sales, flea markets and thrift shops these days. I believe "participating sponsorship" carried the series through its final season (1965-'66).

Yes, 'treky', because most sponsors "controlled" the time period a TV show appeared in, the cast (or lead stars) usually did an "integrated" commercial for the sponsor(s) at the end of the show- this practice eventually died out
by the early '70s, the last known examples being the Kellogg's spots (featuring Shirley Jones & company) seen on "THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY" and Liz Montgomery plugging Clairol hair care products on "BEWITCHED".


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[comedyfreak]

yes, they did. In the 50s and 60s, cast members of TV shows had to do at least one commercial per show, for the shows sponsor(s).
I wish they would continue doing that today, at least one commercial.

[Tim Lones]

In the Petticoat Junmction and Beverly Hillbillies DVD's from MPI Home Video thre are loads of cast commercials..Hillbillies for Winston Cigarettes and Kellogg's Cereals and Petticoat Junction for Procter And Gamble