Today, Super Bowl commercials are big business, and considered as important a part of the big game as the half-time show: companies spent months previewing ultra-high budget ads that they will then ...

In the 1970s, charismatic actor James Garner, who died in 2014, and beloved actress Mariette Hartley, now 85, were paired for a series of TV commercials featuring the then-popular Polaroid camera.

The 1970s were an expansive time for American television. There was the gradually increasing diversity in casts, gritty detective tales, socially conscious Norman Lear series, the female “jiggle ...