View Full Version : All-time favourite (mainly 1970s') TV adverts:
Birds Eye Beef Burgers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FjAv3Z_Efo)
Birds Eye Fish Fingers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py2-UEL1UAo)
Birds Eye Peas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5_9CS1YKmA)
PG Tips (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AeTZ4-wLXk)
Cinzano (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkjidE0WnAI)
Cointreau (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYKeWv5goc)
Courage Best (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xniNcRCNvac)
Denim (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5TuGQcXgc8)
Flake (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkyx4-65inM)
Gold Block (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJBgEofQY1M)
Harmony (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzbvqW_dOwY)
Harmony (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ4hzdwkD1U) (prototype)
Hi Karate (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7nPRFQFgmQ)
Hovis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkyx4-65inM)
Milk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPFrTBppRfw)
Milk Tray (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVDnGpIscbM)
Old Spice (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg-IlJMQMIU)
Pagan Man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mFake1B6iI)
Ready Brek (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9CdeEyx7NY)
R Whites (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hro4AdTYiTA)
St. Bruno 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-DpZAlM6YU)
St. Bruno 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nt1RNpGgPY)
Shake 'n' Vac (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8CTscW3dpI)
Smash (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo5Csopw0MU)
Tramp (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tShArz5J0bY)
Changes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKQIUJOr1GA)
oldboots
14-05-2020, 19:31
Birds Eye Beef Burgers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FjAv3Z_Efo)...
Excellent, good to see Accrington Stanley again, the best PG Tips is obviously
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzEBLa3PPk, and the best Hovis obviously https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mq59ykPnAE, the link to the Flake ad is wrong and I can't find my favourite one but this is good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9X3IhfB7lk and as the premise is the same in them all it I can swallow that.
A few more:
Pepsi (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB8rnZ-0dKw)
Cresta (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thxAqdxGSPU)
Hofmeister (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkR0krOm9M4)
Hamlet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdxm8Ia0Wc) any are good but I like Gregor Fisher
Kia Ora (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LvLn9PWln8)
John Smiths with Peter Kay (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-hhWUywXgU)
That's my favourite but all of Peter Kays John Smiths are here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpHShPqF-uY)
and all the Gordon Rollings' ones are here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuVY6p6zdkI)
Tetley Tea Folk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN7xsK6-5y8)
Carling Black Label (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u18b65Om2jA) best of the series
Bistro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj-WJHUO6ag)
Lady Grey
14-05-2020, 20:03
Smash aliens
Coke - I'd like to teach the world to sing
Nimble bread - She flys like a bird in the sky
Cadbury fudge!
Double Diamond
Wrigley's spearmint gum
Old Spice
Charlie the cat - public information advert
Pick up a Penguin
london calling
14-05-2020, 21:06
In the 80s but the Heineken advert with the posh girl trying to say The water in Majorca don't taste like it ought to was memorable.
oldboots
14-05-2020, 21:55
...Charlie the cat - public information advert...
Petunia was quite popular too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6x236Q82_A
oldboots
14-05-2020, 21:58
In the 80s but the Heineken advert with the posh girl trying to say The water in Majorca don't taste like it ought to was memorable.
and here it is (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4VFqbroi1I) a great series of ad's both on TV and billboard.
Wittenden
14-05-2020, 22:15
An evening in September,
Summer's main force is spent,
A dog barking somewhere in Sussex,
Can be heard...
From a village In Kent
An ancient elm remains unmoved
As a swallow performs some tricks,
And the man who bats at number 3
Hits a gnat...
For 6
Such and evening should be celebrated,
So, it's no ordinary bitter for me.
Tonight let money be no object,
I'll have a pint of JC
The pub in the ad was The White Hart (https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/59022/) , and definately a Courage house in the seventies.
The Birds Eye Beef Burgers series of ads were directed by a young Alan Parker. The Hovis ad was directed by some bloke called Ridley Scott. The little girl in the Birds Eye Peas ad was Patsy Kensit and the air hostess in the Cinzano ad was a young Marina Sirtis, later of Star Trek: TNG fame. The woman in the Heineken ad was Sylvestre Le Touzel.
Long ago, some comedy troupe did a mickey-take of the Cointreau ad, mimicking it perfectly until the end when the Frenchman says to the woman: 'Fancy a shag?'.
The 1970s (and early '80s) weren't all about memorable ads, there was also a campaign to scare the bejesus out of us with things like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt016gTNp_k) and this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZWD2sDRESk)! :eek:
These were also good: Unigate (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOeL18BFc0o) and Fruit & Nut (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOw3EDawJh4).
oldboots
15-05-2020, 21:08
The 1970s (and early '80s) weren't all about memorable ads, there was also a campaign to scare the bejesus out of us with things like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt016gTNp_k) and this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZWD2sDRESk)! :eek:
Ah the good old days before our society got all feeble and emasculated, you forgot THIS ONE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SqRNUUOk7s)
Ah the good old days before our society got all feeble and emasculated, you forgot THIS ONE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SqRNUUOk7s)
You won't Die of Ignorance if you STAY ALERT!
There was also THIS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6U9T3R3EQg), but who knows, the way things are going, it may soon be relevant.:eek:
Wittenden
16-05-2020, 16:49
You won't Die of Ignorance if you STAY ALERT!
There was also THIS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6U9T3R3EQg), but who knows, the way things are going, it may soon be relevant.:eek:
I was more a Protest and Survive man, myself. (Occasionally).
I was more a Protest and Survive man, myself. (Occasionally).
The campaign was famously voiced by the actor Patrick Allen. Here he is (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daSqvhEcfDM), causing more mayhem in his helicopter than The Bomb ever could!
oldboots
16-05-2020, 19:53
The campaign was famously voiced by the actor Patrick Allen. Here he is (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daSqvhEcfDM), causing more mayhem in his helicopter than The Bomb ever could!
And if you weren't scared shiftless by the ad's there was always this (https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190925-was-threads-the-scariest-tv-show-ever-made), mind you I've been to Sheffield :eek::D
Wittenden
17-05-2020, 17:37
You won't Die of Ignorance if you STAY ALERT!
There was also THIS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6U9T3R3EQg), but who knows, the way things are going, it may soon be relevant.:eek:
Not an advert,but did anyone see The War Game? Made by the BBC in the mid 60s, it imagined the result of a nuking of Rochester. Judged too beastly, it wasn't televised until the 80s, but I saw it at school in the late 60s.Scared me sh1tless.
Not an advert, but did anyone see The War Game? Made by the BBC in the mid 60s, it imagined the result of a nuking of Rochester. Judged too beastly, it wasn't televised until the 80s, but I saw it at school in the late 60s.Scared me sh1tless.
Yes. Saw it in the early 1980s, made all the more scary for being narrated by
Michael Aspel! (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059894/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1):eek:
Also this, from aound the late '70s/early '80s. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwLqhokv6us)
Not an advert,but did anyone see The War Game? Made by the BBC in the mid 60s, it imagined the result of a nuking of Rochester. Judged too beastly, it wasn't televised until the 80s, but I saw it at school in the late 60s.Scared me sh1tless.
I remember watching it at school as well. All the more horrific at the time as I knew Rochester and Chatham well and recognised many of the places where it was filmed.
On reflection, though, nuking Rochester now might have some benefits.
an_ecumenical_matter
26-05-2020, 13:28
Lads, does anyone remember a 1970/80s brewery advert, possibly welsh, man goes to walk the dog every evening but is sneaking into the pub. Then he gets ill and wifey brings the dog for the walk and gets dragged to the pub ????
Mobyduck
26-05-2020, 13:43
Lads, does anyone remember a 1970/80s brewery advert, possibly welsh, man goes to walk the dog every evening but is sneaking into the pub. Then he gets ill and wifey brings the dog for the walk and gets dragged to the pub ????
Pretty sure that from the John Smith stable.
Lads, does anyone remember a 1970/80s brewery advert, possibly welsh, man goes to walk the dog every evening but is sneaking into the pub. Then he gets ill and wifey brings the dog for the walk and gets dragged to the pub ????
Pretty sure that from the John Smith stable.
Yup. Not Welsh but John Smith's. You can see the whole lot here, but if you can't stand it, you can see the ad in question at 3.48 seconds. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuVY6p6zdkI
). And not a stereotype in sight.
Mobyduck
26-05-2020, 20:58
Yup. Not Welsh but John Smith's. You can see the whole lot here, but if you can't stand it, you can see the ad in question at 3.48 seconds. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuVY6p6zdkI
). And not a stereotype in sight.
Ah yes, nicer than bunny wunnies.
Ah the good old days before our society got all feeble and emasculated, you forgot THIS ONE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SqRNUUOk7s)
And don't forget THIS ONE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NmdUcmLFkw). Government agents keeping a watchful eye on us. Then they send the boys round...
The ones from the '70s were better (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wure26PhGYo).
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