menu Home chevron_right
SLACK! : NOSTALGIA

🎅 Dave’s Archives Annual Christmas Special | 45 Minutes of 80s & 90s Holiday Commercials! 🎄🎁

Dave's Archives | August 18, 2026



🎄 Merry Retro Christmas! 🎄
(All of these ads were FRESHLY transferred from 8 VHS tapes in total – over 35 hrs of scrubbing through footage and hand picking all of the holiday ads, woot!)

Settle in, grab some eggnog, and rewind the clock. This is a 45-minute holiday time capsule packed wall-to-wall with classic 80s and 90s Christmas commercials, just the way they were meant to be seen.

Thanks for spending part of your holidays with Dave’s Archives.
Sit back, relax… and Merry Retro Christmas. 🎄✨

00:00 Coca-Cola Holiday Trucks (1998)
01:05 Toys “R” Us Holiday Sale Pokemon & Furby (1999)
01:31 7 Up Tastes Like the Holidays (1992)
02:00 Sprite Home Alone 2 Promo (1992)
02:29 WebTV One Holly Jolly Button (1998)
03:04 Farmers Insurance Holiday Spot (1998)
03:26 CVS Rudolph Bean Bag Collectibles (1998)
04:04 Hess Toy Truck & Space Shuttle (1999)
04:48 PlayStation Spyro 2 (1999)
05:00 Duracell CopperTop Tester (1998)
05:18 Mervyn’s Secret Santa Solutions (1998)
05:50 JCPenney Beauty of the Season (1998)
06:54 McDonald’s A Bug’s Life Happy Meal (1998)
07:24 M&M’s Holiday Spot (1998)
07:48 Oreo Jingle (1998)
08:18 Polaroid Spectra Camera (1987)
08:37 ABC The Dolly Show Holiday Promo (1987)
08:56 Tide with Bleach Scrooge Sponsor (1987)
09:09 Circuit City eMachines PC Sale (1999)
09:43 Volvo V70 Cross Country Mr. Winter (1999)
10:10 McDonald’s Holiday Nuggets (1999)
10:44 7 Up Countdown to Christmas Poster (1992)
11:18 Sprite I Like the Sprite in You (1992)
11:41 ShopRite Holiday Gift Ideas (1992)
12:15 The Wiz Sega Genesis (1992)
12:59 Toblerone Whack and Unwrap (1999)
13:16 Disney Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas (1999)
13:49 Pets.com Sock Puppet Turkey & Iguana (1999)
14:10 Folgers Peter Comes Home (1986)
14:49 Disney Winnie the Pooh Seasons of Giving (1999)
15:03 JCPenney St. John’s Bay & Bugle Boy (1999)
15:34 Milton Bradley Travel Games (1999)
15:53 MasterCard Master Values Holiday (1999)
16:23 Polaroid Spectra Hold the Feeling (1987)
16:36 ABC The Three Kings Promo (1987)
16:50 Red Lobster Party Platters (1987)
17:15 New York Telephone Nutcracker Sponsor (1987)
17:31 ABC 20/20 Donna Rice Interview (1987)
18:14 Stuart Little Movie Promo (1999)
18:42 NBC It’s a Wonderful Life & Friends (1999)
18:56 Channel 4 Online Shopping Report (1999)
19:09 Gateway Astro PC Rugrats Edition (1999)
19:51 Food Network Leftover Marathon (1999)
20:23 Sears Portrait Studio Toy Story 2 (1999)
21:07 PayLess Deluxe Photo Album (1999)
21:38 Miracle Piano Teaching System (1992)
22:11 Martini & Rossi Asti Spumante (1992)
22:40 Batman Returns VHS Promo (1992)
22:51 Hallmark Christmas Cards (1992)
23:13 ABC The Dolly Show Mac Davis (1987)
24:00 Roy Rogers Teddy Bear Promo (1987)
24:19 ABC The Three Kings Promo (1987)
25:10 Eyewitness News Gift for Fitness (1987)
25:47 Alka-Seltzer Jingling Bellies (1987)
25:56 ABC 20/20 Promo (1987)
26:31 Wisk 12 Days of Dirty Laundry (1987)
27:05 Pillsbury Crescent Rolls (1987)
27:58 Hallmark Wrapping Paper (1987)
28:19 Bank of America Holiday Message (1987)
29:19 Coca-Cola Leonard Part 6 Promo (1987)
29:50 ABC Hotel Promo (1987)
30:10 Disney Sunday Movie Holiday Greeting (1987)
30:22 ABC The Dolly Show Promo (1987)
30:38 Batteries Not Included Movie Promo (1987)
31:06 GMA Christian Bale & Stevie Nicks (1987)
31:21 MacGyver Promo (1987)
31:43 Local Station Holiday ID (1987)
31:57 Merry Christmas Hits Compilation (1987)
33:25 Arsenio Hall Barry Manilow (1989)
33:39 Sears Fine Jewelry Sale (1999)
33:56 TNT How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1999)
34:09 Lifetime Martha Stewart Promo (1999)
34:40 Playskool Express Train (1987)
35:11 Hormel Cure 81 Ham Charity (1987)
35:37 Target Holiday Sale (1999)
36:11 Lifetime Six Ladies Laughing (1999)
36:25 Kodak Star 35 Camera (1990)
36:51 Bank of America Holiday Reprise (1987)
37:20 Hallmark Hockey Card Spot (1999)
37:50 Big O Tires Holiday Food Drive (1999)
38:07 Kmart Shop-Vac (1999)
38:35 The Good Guys Invisible Shopper (1999)
39:05 Dirt Devil Mop Vac (1999)
39:24 Fox Family 25 Days of Christmas (1999)
39:54 Foodtown Holiday Grocery Spot (1999)
40:16 TNT It’s a Wonderful Life Promo (1999)
40:35 Rubbermaid Cool Combo Gift Pack (1999)
40:52 Pets.com Sock Puppet Mistletoe (1999)
41:22 e-greetings.com Click Me Baby (1999)
41:49 Honey Nut Cheerios Scrooge (1999)
42:30 Hickory Farms Food Gifts (1999)
42:38 PayLess Scotch VHS & Tinkerbell (1992)
43:17 Disney Sunday Movie Michael Eisner (1986)

🫶 *SUPPORT the Channel*———————————————————

Buy me a drink: https://bit.ly/3gXRm4m 🙌
My merch store 😍: https://davesarchives-shop.fourthwall.com/
Join me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/DavesArchives

———————-Sponsors and Supporters———————-
Telehell Podcast: Telehell has kindly provided tapes often used on this channel. Please support his retro-inspired podcast by visiting https://telehell.libsyn.com/
——————————————————–
#christmas #VHS #90scommercials #holidays

Tagged as , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

Written by Dave's Archives

Comments

This post currently has 42 comments.

  4. @nathanielbarry

    August 18, 2026 at 12:24 pm

    Hey Dave. I tried to contact you through your email, but YouTube has a glitch or something.
    There were 2 ABC Specials in the 80's called Kingdom Chums.
    The owner is Squire Rushnell.
    He has the digital downloads on his site, but they are not great quality at all.
    If I sent you the VHS copies for the 2 specials, how much would you charge me to make quality digital copies?
    Thanks in advance.

  13. @ksstoner

    August 18, 2026 at 12:24 pm

    I'm so thankful for people like you who kept all of their old VHS tapes from their childhood. Awesome job, keep up the great work! Love your channel.

  14. @Coffeebibber

    August 18, 2026 at 12:24 pm

    Watching this on my CompuServe 2000 subscription from Circuit City. Took awhile to download onto my eMachines computer!🤣 Great selection of commercials, THANK YOU!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!🎄

  23. @ElijahRetro1982

    August 18, 2026 at 12:24 pm

    Hell yeah, I was wondering when you were gonna do a Christmas Commercial video. I like how you did the setup in the Description(timestamp, name of commercial and year it came out) I'm digging that. Keep that up with every video, I'm also digging the Holiday "letterbox bars" with the brands of 📼s. Merry Christmas/Feliz Navidad Dave and fellow Retronians 👍🏼🎅🏼👍🏼🎄☃️🎁🍻

  24. @AldenRDavis

    August 18, 2026 at 12:24 pm

    Hi Dave. This is Alden. I'm sorry that I've visited your channel lately. Have a merry christmas. As i say it before, you got power, SUPER RETRO POWER!!!!

  30. @alanostroff23

    August 18, 2026 at 12:24 pm

    You can’t tell me that some of this is not AI. Coca-Cola x Leonard Part 6 x Action Max? That could not have been an actual thing. Who do you think you’re fooling?!? 😜

  31. @melvinshine9841

    August 18, 2026 at 12:24 pm

    I was thinking it'd been a minute since the last installment of retro commercials.
    I miss when Coca-Cola put effort into their "Holidays are Coming" ads instead this AI shit they do now.
    This isn't a knock against Joe Namath, but I doubt he knew what a Sega Genesis was before he did that ad.
    30:42 – 31:08 Bro, I haven't seen Batteries Not Included in, like, 25 years, but I really liked that movie. Pretty sure it came on The Disney Channel or whatever Freeform was back in the day. I loved the idea of the little UFOs being the aliens themselves. Didn't know the movie was as old as me, though.
    That Honey Nut Cheerios commercial with Ebenezer Scrooge came on for years. That, or it just really stuck out in my head.

  33. @PhilipGipson-m9q

    August 18, 2026 at 12:24 pm

    Happy holidays, Dave, and thank you so, so much for posting these classic Christmas commercials. They were an absolute blast and awakened the nostalgic inside of me. Your ever-growing collection of vintage media is just *absolutely astounding*!

  35. @InsaneKoyote

    August 18, 2026 at 12:24 pm

    Miss the old Christmas Eve feeling as a kid watching Charlie Brown, Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer and failing to fall asleep due to all the excitement of waking up the next morning. 🎄 🎁 ☃️

Comments are closed.

Related
Dave’s Retro Watch Party / T.G.I.F. Spooktacular!🍻📺📼 ...
Dave's Archives | October 18, 2026
Related
1970s Prime Time Network TV : A World That No Longer Exists — ...
My So-Called Gen X Life | October 18, 2026
Related
Making Morally Ambiguous Choices – A Macabre Game Review
PushingUpRoses | October 18, 2026

This area can contain widgets, menus, shortcodes and custom content. You can manage it from the Customizer, in the Second layer section.

 

 

 

Go to album
  • play_circle_filled

    92.9 : The Torch

  • play_circle_filled

    AGGRO
    'Til Deaf Do Us Part...

  • play_circle_filled

    SLACK!
    The Music That Made Gen-X

  • play_circle_filled

    KUDZU
    The Northwoods' Alt-Country & Americana

  • play_circle_filled

    BOOZHOO
    Indigenous Radio

  • play_circle_filled

    THE FLOW
    The Northwoods' Hip Hop and R&B

play_arrow skip_previous skip_next volume_down
playlist_play