Bears do the YMCA Dance for Pepsi in this television commercial broadcast in February 1993. The BetaGems channel also has "Shaq & Michael J. Fox 1996 Pepsi TV ad," "1987 Pepsi TV ad Michael J. Fox," "David Bowie & Tina Turner Pepsi ad 9-11-87 longform," "Pepsi & Pete's Snowman vintage Pepsi cartoon ad," "Pele 1974 Pepsi musical commercial," "1986 Pepsi ET spoof Drew Barrymore lookalike," "Hans Conried 1955 Pepsi intermission TV ad," "Polly Bergen 1950s Pepsi commercials," "Marx Bros TV ads: Pepsi, Prom Cream, De Soto/Plymouth," "1992 Pepsi TV ad cartoon cows," "Cindy Crawford & Michael Richards 1994 Pepsi ad," "Pepsi Generation Next most 90s ad ever!," and "1988 Pepsi The Breakup TV commercial."
BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded from the early 1980s into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on Youtube or online.
Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads. In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area.
