Ronco ads were for products made by Ronco such as record cleaners, fluff removers and saws that cut through bricks etc. They used to be on mainly around Christmas time and be voiced over by someone who sounded like a radio DJ. The ironic thing is that as awful as they were, I miss them!
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Do You Remember Ronco Adverts?
Do You Remember Ronco Adverts?
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Star Attraction
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I remember Ronco ads from the late 1970s and early 1980s. During those years they tended to appear in the run-up to Christmas, wow you don't get those ads these days. I agree with Steve Jablonski, the run-up to Christmas just isn't the same without Ronco ads.
Here's the products I remember advertised:
Battery Tester
Flower Loom (or whatever it was called)
Record Vacuum (that's the name for what you mentioned pennypuppywalker)
Roller Measure
Supersaw
They all ended with the PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT centred along the bottom of the screen, and finally "It's available from..." shop names, including Woolworths.
Then Xmas 1982, a composite one "Three ways to save time and money", advertising the Ronco Spark Plug Cleaner, Roller Measure and Battery Tester in one advert.
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pennypuppywalker
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I do remember the Ronco buttoneer, a hand held gadget that sews buttons onto your clothes. And also the record cleaner, which is ment to clean your vinyl Lps, by inserting your Lp between two rotating bits of foam/foil but actually wrecked them by scratching them to bits. what a great christmas gift!!
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Anonymous
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Does anybody remember the Ronco Bottle Topper ? A great gadget for making wine glasses from old bottles. Also probably injured thousands of people in the 70's
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Anonymous
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Let's be honest. Christmas has never been the same since they took off the Ronco ads. They may have been useless inventions but all that tacky coloured tinsel and enthusiastic (meaning desperate) voice-over really made Christmas for me. Rubbish then but definitely special now. Let's hope a DVD compliation is imminent so us 30 somethings can be transported back to our innocent childhoods when LP cleaners and jacket hoovers seemed impossibly exotic
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