When Eagle was introduced, Anheuser-Busch reunited the stars of TV's original Odd Couple, Jack Klugman (at the time starring on Quincy, M. E.) & Tony Randall, for what amounts to a variant on an old vaudeville routine......!
Edit, 2/26/21: Have to change the video. Here, they're doing the ol' hidden camera ream.
River West is working on rebooting the Eagle brand, so look for it to resurface at your favorite supermarket sooner rather than later.
River West is working on rebooting the Eagle brand, so look for it to resurface at your favorite supermarket sooner rather than later.
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Fun Fact:
Tony Randall was starting up his pet project, the National Actors Theater.
He needed a lot of seed money to put the project together, and asked Jack Klugman to help out.
Klugman had been doing commercials for quite some time, and told Randall that a few well-placed spots could pay off in steady residuals for years at a time.
Randall was sold, and he and Klugman sold themselves to Eagle Snacks as a comedy team; they wound up doing the spots for years.
After Klugman lost his speech temporarily to cancer, he played a silent straightman to Randall on the Eagle spots for several more years.
So Tony Randall got his theater, Jack Klugman got racetrack money, and all was well.
I've found a variation on this video on YouTube that marks this as from 1986. Would that be about right, Mike?
Sounds about right. I remember seeing these commercials in HS.
Thank you. I will update the header.
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