Speedy Alka-Seltzer Commercials

Classic Commercials, 16 mm films, Swift-Chaplin Productions, 1950-1964, from the former Miles Corporate Archives, Elkhart, Ind. (17:00). All were made for Miles Laboratories by Geoffrey Wade Advertising, Chicago, 1950-1964. Dick Beals, voice of Speedy Alka-Seltzer. Charles Chaplin, director. Howard Swift, producer. Geoffrey Wade, II, script writer. The Flintstones was TV's first prime time cartoon show, developed by Wade Advertising and Hanna-Barbera as a vehicle to sell Miles Laboratories' One-A-Day Multiple Vitamins. Speedy Alka-Seltzer appeared in 212 commercials, but never in more than 40% of the total. The product was advertised for headache (ASH), upset stomach (ASU), general symptoms (ASG) and special occasions (drinking). ASU-202 “Singing Tablets” 1950 ASC-158R “Speedy Fables – Three Little Pigs” 1954 ASH – 159R “Speedy Fables – The Tortoise & the Hare” 1958 ASH – 245 “Speed Throwing Tables,” 1955 ASG – 248 “Speedy & Marching Alka-Seltzer Tablets” 1955 ASG- 45 – 1 “Speedy Parade of Champions (Ross, Feller, Graham)” 1957 AS-20-12R “Speedy & Mountie” (with Buster Keaton) 1958 AS-60-16 “Speedy & Santa” 1958 ASG-272 “Speedy & Piano” 1958 AS-60-43 “Cuckoo Clock” (with The Flintstones) 1960 AS-60-46 “Mechanical Man” 1960 AS-60-102 “Basic with Speedy” 1964 ASC-60-17R “Speedy and Ship Captain” (with Buster Keaton) AS-60-41 “Speedy at Cape Canaveral” 1960 ASG – 251 “Speedy Marching across Country (Your Town USA)”