Funny WIlkins Coffee Commercials with Jim Henson.

[chad22]

I came across this funny collection of Wilkins coffee commercials that Jim Henson did. :laughing:

 

[mddorange]

I never heard of Wilkins Coffee. When was that and where at?

 

[chad22]

I never heard of Wilkins Coffee. When was that and where at?

I hadn't heard of that coffee either until I saw these commercials.

After researching on google it looks like these ads were done from 1957 to 1961

Drink our coffee. Or else. That’s the message of these curiously sadistic TV commercials produced by Jim Henson between 1957 and 1961.

Henson made 179 ten-second spots for Wilkins Coffee, a regional company with distribution in the Baltimore-Washington D.C. market, according to the Muppets Wiki: “The local stations only had ten seconds for station identification, so the Muppet commercials had to be lightning-fast–essentially, eight seconds for the commercial pitch and a two-second shot of the product.”

Source: Jim Henson's Violent Wilkins Coffee Commercials (1957-1961) | Open Culture

 

[Baby Grand]

Those were great!
Thanks for posting.
That's some straight up ad technique - you never see that anymore:
1 or 2 story boards set up the tag line. BAM!
I bet they sold a lot of coffee.

 

[Thomas]

That's bring back memories.