Here are some highlights from the 1980 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with all of the original commercials included of course. These originally aired on NBC on November 27th, 1980. Happy Thanksgiving!

1. Nestle Toll House Morsels
2. General Electric
3. Promo for "Godzilla Hong Kong Phooey Hour" and "The Flintstone Comedy Show"
4. Promo for "Barbara Mandrell And The Mandrell Sisters
5. Child World
6. Coleco Head To Head Electronic Football
7. Child World
8. Promo for "The Sound Of Music"
9. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Featuring The West Point Glee Club and Marilyn Michaels...who is totally not lip syncing)
10. McDonald's Gift Certificates (The boy at 7:16 is Kirk Cameron)
11. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Featuring Todd Bridges and the cast of Broadway Musical "Barnum". That is Glenn Close singing...this was about two years before she became a film actress)
12. Zales
13. The Generals (Reminds me of the internal speaker in old DOS computers)
14. Nestle Crunch
15. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
16. Nestle Toll House Morsels
17. Karen & Her Magic Carriage
18. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (If you had told me before watching this that I'd hear Ed McMahon sing a song about Thanksgiving and would feel some genuine emotion toward it...I'm not sure I would have believed you)
19. Promo for "The Sound Of Music"
20. Child World
21. Coleco Head To Head Electronic Baseball
22. Child World
23. Promo for "Intergalactic Thanksgiving"
24. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (If you had told me before watching this that I'd hear Sister Sledge sing "We Are Family" while riding a giant Turkey...I'm not sure I would have believed you. And that appears to be actor Robert Vaughn in the crowd with the fancy camcorder at 22:22. Also featuring a rare glimpse of costumed characters from "The Aristocats")
25. Nestle Quik
26. GE Spacemaker Microwave Oven
27. TCR Slotless Racing
28. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ("Didja ever try stuffing an Eagle?" With Famous Amos, Scottish dancing, and the cast of "Brigadoon". If you had told me before watching this that I'd hear a couple sing while the Loch Ness Monster looked on...I'm not sure I would have believed you. And LOL at Ed McMahon's Budweiser plug..."I know those folks!")
29. Team America Super Stunt Dirtbike (♫America...F*** YEAH!♫)
30. McDonald's
31. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Featuring the Happy Dragon balloon. This balloon was retired in 1981 and was brought back briefly in '91 and '92 before retiring again. Though it has been kept in storage since then it is currently the oldest surviving Macy's balloon)
32. Nestle Crunch
33. Rubik's Cube (First released by Ideal Toys in the U.S. that year, this was just before it became a national craze the following summer)
34. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Featuring Popeye. Out of all of the music to use from this movie they chose this? They should have had Harry Nilsson drunkenly slamming on a piano playing "Blow Me Down" or "I Yam What I Yam". Also Featuring Linus The Lionhearted balloon and terrifying Clown man)
35. Promo for "Dick Clark's Good Old Days"
36. Promo for "Number 96" (This was a remake of a popular Australian soap opera...it was cancelled after one season)
37. Child World
38. Coleco Electronic Quarterback (With Mike Starr)
39. Child World
40. Promo for "The Sound Of Music"
41. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
42. Electronic Detective (With Don Adams)
43. Ronald McDonald House
44. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Featuring Smokey The Bear balloon)
45. Flash (With Joe Namath and Jim Palmer)
46. Rubik's Cube
47. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Featuring Underdog, Lacey J. Dalton, Dean Butler, OH GOD that terrifying Clown man again and Danielle Brisebois)
48. American Tourister
49. Polaroid (With Mariette Hartley)
50. Bell System
51. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Featuring The Lone Ranger)
52. Rayovac Batteries
53. Toss Across and Mouse Trap
54. Bell Phone Center Store (Giving someone a landline telephone screams "last minute gift"...but those kitschy 70's phones look pretty awesome)
55. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Featuring Casper the Ghost, the cast of "Sesame Street" and Kermit The Frog balloon)
56. McDonald's
57. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Featuring Stephanie Mills and Henrietta Hippo. If you had told me before watching this that I'd hear The Spinners sing a Sam Cooke song next to a giant moth...I'm not sure I would have believed you. Also featuring Mother Goose. "Nice going Mother G!" Unfortunately the end of the parade wasn't recorded so no Santa)
58. The Generals
59. Nestle Toll House Morsels
60. Bell System