Wasn't aware of any bad karma following Morrie Davis around, care to elaborate? I don't think you were meaning Muldoon.
The Alan Wicker commercial might have been pulled before airing in NZ but I am 100% sure it was made. I recall Alan Wicker stating in a news article that this was the first time in his career where he had endorsed an airline (not that he did it for free of course). I saw the advert when in LA.