1980's and 90's Bay Area Commercials you Remember! - Invidious

1980's and 90's Bay Area Commercials you Remember!

These commercials weren't meant to disappear. I made sure they didn't.

For over 20 years, I produced and directed TV ads across the Bay Area — 9 years as retail commercial director at TV20, and two decades running Robert McWilliams Productions. Hundreds of spots. Real clients. Real places.

Now I'm releasing them from the original masters. First-generation transfers. Some VHS dubs and downloads from the TV20 era. No third-generation copies, no degraded dupes — the real thing, the way it was shot.

Brands, businesses that defined Bay Area life in the '80s, '90s, and 2000s. Many of them long gone. All of them worth remembering.

Nobody else has this footage. This is the archive.

Subscribe — and watch Bay Area history.

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The Original Saw Mill Commercial That Started a 20-Year Run

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The Susan Polk Case: What Really Happened? One of my many shoots with Geraldo!

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