You want to see a really weird old promotional commercial for Chevrolet?

[Bunny]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=L3HvkrYIIwo

This is from 1965. I think it was sent to Chevy dealers to introduce the new line of Chevy cars for that year. It's set in Virginia City (from the Bonanza tv show), and it features the cast of Bonanza, Bewitched, and Robert Vaughan from The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

It is so weird to see Hoss Cartwright and Endora, in character, examining the new cars. And to see Samantha Stevens driving one of the cars is also really weird. I can't imagine tv actors doing this today.

[terrya]

1. How funny!

OMG...Napolean Solo is getting behind the wheel of...a Corvair!!! Yikes!

This commerical prompts several questions...

Why would two witches, who really don't even need to drive, be interested in....Chevrolets?

Why does Agnes Moorehead have such big hair?

[hunter]

2. That was the BEST.

Man, I'm old. I remember 1965!

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Actually, the "Virginia City" is the Bonanza set up at Incline Village, NV

http://www.ohwy.com/nv/t/trlpiotr.htm

The real Virginia City is extremely hilly all over...no flat out roads anywhere there.

Cool commercial time flashback!

[pdx_prog]

5. Yep....

They used to mention Lake Tahoe in some of the episodes...

[pdx_prog]

4. Good lord I remember these Chevy commercials...

Chevy sponsered Bonanza for a long time. Sunday nights were filled with Ed Sullivan, Lassie, Bonanza and Chevy commercials...:)

"See the USA in your Chevrolet
America is asking you to call
Drive your Chevrolet through the USA
America's the greatest land of all "