I saw this mock travelogue on PBS years ago and just discovered it on YouTube:
John Cleese: Norway Home of Giants
Has anybody else found a TV show or film on YouTube that you hadn’t seen in years?
YouTbe is a great place to find old things you’ve wanted to see, but haven’t. Unfortunately, some of them only stay up a short time, and aren’t there now. I’m not going to look them up here at work, but a few examples are:
**The opening to the 1960’s “Alvin and the Chipmunks” show
The Openings and Closings to old Hanna-Barbera shows – “Huckleberry Hound”, “Quick Draw McGraw”, etc.
Stan Freberg Commercials – especially Jeno’s Pizza Rolls, All American Soups, and Sunsweet Pitted Prunes ** (it pains me that I can’t find the “Today the Pits, Tomorrow the Wrinkles” one anymore)
** The openings of Jay Ward Cartoons – Super Chicken", etc.** BUT YOU CAN’T FIND “George of the Jungle”!! Grrrr.
I’m also annoyed that I can’t find the public sefvice announcement “Aliens Must Register in January of Each Year”. They seemed to run that for years on every Saturday morning at 7 AM. And it was so badly drawn that the “aliens” actually looked as if they were aliens from outer space.
This isn’t very old I don’t think, but I love it and don’t know why.
Jay Ward Commercials – look up “Cap’b Crunch”. If you’ve only seen the recent ones, you have no idea what it was like. Ward’s epics were like mini-episodes of Rockty and Bullwinkle (“We’ve drained Lake Michigan and filled it with fresh milk to see if Cap’n Crunch will stay crunchy even in milk…”)
I remember that!
How about this? Really Rosie. I watched this in grade school (mid 70s.)
Vegetable Soup. It was a kid’s show in the 70s. I remember, like one of the commenters on YouTube, being totally freaked out by the characters in this intro.
For years, I’d tell folks about an old Mr. Bubble commercial that I remembered seeing as a kid. It was a cartoon that featured a Mr. Magoo-esque grandma giving her grandson a bubble bath - but nobody else remembered it.
Then youtube happened, and lo and behold, I found it.
Back in the early 90’s they made a cartoon series out of Battletech - a tabletop game like Warhammer and… uh… those other tabletop games.
It’s the basis for the Mechwarrior series of PC/video games.
Youtube has the whole series except for half of the final episode. I’d totally forgotten about it, but I thought the show was awesome when I was a kid.
Super Chicken:
The entire first TV broadcast of Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, with a live introduction by Menotti himself. (Since deleted, alas.)
The first Carnegie Hall show of Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NGWrRq3b58
The 1956 episode of I’ve Got a Secret where the guest had been present at the assassination of a US president. President Lincoln. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EHVruM8y3Q
Tom Lehrer’s songs for The Electric Company.
Much more.
I don’t remember that ad, but it sounds like it owes a bit to Stan Freberg. To illustrate the power of radio and the limitations of TV, Freberg did a radio spot where he fills Lake Michigan with hot chocolate then adds whipped cream and has the Royal Canadian Air Force drop a huge cherry into it. Stan Freberg - Wikipedia
I’m watching Yes, Prime Minister on YouTube right now 
Some clever wag has managed to get it past BBC Worldwide’s “Hey! That’s our content!” department by titling it just “Prime Minister s1e1” and so on.
Someone did the same with Doctor Who by labelling the episodes 55P9 (Story 55, part 9) but youtube seem to have come down hard and heavy on them all of late.
Speaking legally, I couldn’t find this one till a few days ago and hadn’t seen it since privatisation of the UK’s electricity firms took place. Star Trek and Powergen enjoy.
Showing my age but anyone remember the show Andy’s Gang with Andy Devine and Froggy the Gremlin and his magic twanger?
That was interesting. Someone commented that guy could have shaken the hands of Lincoln and Bush in his lifetime.
Fingerbobs!
Only in the 1950s could you have a show which dedicated more time talking about cigarettes and Desi Arnez, than they did to the guy who’d seen Lincoln get shot. TV, you’ve come a long way, baby. 
This beef commercial was filmed in my hometown in the summer of 1989, which is the last full summer I lived there, so that shot of Main Street is exactly how I remember the place. I think the laughing woman was a lunch lady at my school.
I remember that too, Mum made me the mouse as a kid, then Dad sat on it 
Whoa, that was weird. But then, weren’t most 70’s kids shows? I think directors were on perpetual acid trips back then.