Settle an argument and I'll pay you $100!

[brigden]

My buddy and I have been arguing over the original air date of a commercial for more than a decade. The spot in question:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqWxGMqI_SE

I maintain it aired in the late '80's. He's adamant it was after '90. If you can definitively prove the original air date, I will PayPal you $100.

I have contacted brand managers at both RVI and P&G who had worked on the product; both suspect it was late '80's. I spoke directly with Virginia Hey, the model/actress in the spot; she suspects it was the late 80's. I reached out to Advertising Standards Canada; their records only go back as far as '90 and they have no record of the commercial. The link above suggests '89, but that's far from conclusive.

So, settle this argument with definitive proof and I will PayPal you $100. Godspeed, little ones.

 

[zanejohnson]

never even seen it..

 

[LagunaX]

Just FYI when you google oil of olay Virginia Hey all the references on YouTube say 1989.

 

[zanejohnson]

looks like the guy above me won..

 

[brigden]

Just FYI when you google oil of olay Virginia Hey all the references on YouTube say 1989.

I know. I need definitive proof.

 

[zanejohnson]

I know. I need definitive proof.

it's not going to happen...

 

[phucheneh]

I know. I need definitive proof.

Contact the people who made it. Or start scanning really old, fucked up VHS tapes.

 

[TechAZ]

Don't know that you can get an answer that would be used in a courtroom, but everything points to 1989.

Another link with this quote:
"Virginia has appeared in the U.S. commercials for Oil Of Olay for ten years in the 1980s."

Source:
http://www.tv.com/people/virginia-hey/

 

[Soundmanred]

Appeared in the US in a well-known "Oil Of Olay" television commercial for 10 years in the 1980s, in which she played a schoolteacher who is mistaken by one of her former students as one of his own former classmates. She has appeared in 57 TV commercials in Australia and the UK.

 

[Murloc]

if even the actress doesn't remember I don't think there is much more that can be done....

 

[Blieb]

This is a no brainer. Your friend is wrong.

TOP Gun, Iron Eagle, cheezy Air Force Oil of Olay commercial ... 80's.

WTF is definitive proof? You want receipts from the set? A video of someone holding a newspaper next to the TV? HA!

 

[SKORPI0]

Another version of the commercial with date recorded.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz9vonydQpE -

Recorded March 1992.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

http://cocatalog.loc.gov/

was no help,

you are going to have to register with the screen actors guild to find out when the script was registered with them.

 

[Doppel]

I remembered this!

You're going all out to prove him wrong. It seems he probably is wrong, how much money did you and him bet over this?

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Seems it is absolutely 1989 if you google Virgina Hey Oil of Olay Bugsy Brown.

 

[SKORPI0]

http://www.inthe80s.com/tvcommercials/o.shtml

most of the websites mention 1989 - "Miss Fitzhenry - Bugsy Brown"

 

[Number1]

I know. I need definitive proof.

Define "definitive"

Most Google searches indicate 1989. This would be enough to prove a point to 99% of the population. What more could you possibly need to prove your argument?

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

You could always mail the company and ask if that's not definitive enough for you. Or invent time travel.