A Trip Down Memory Lane To 1985 British TV Ads

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  • @robmortimer4150
    @robmortimer4150 3 роки тому +4

    Finally found an old ad I remember from when I was very little in this collection, thanks for uploading - even if the years vary a bit!

  • @Kobra31677
    @Kobra31677 Рік тому +1

    Bloody hell, still have the game 'Knock Your Block Off'! Remember getting that at Christmas 1988. Great to go down memory lane!

  • @clairemcmahon9392
    @clairemcmahon9392 3 роки тому +4

    I remember some of these ads as I was born in 1976… Definetley better days back then.

  • @ChantingInTheDark
    @ChantingInTheDark Рік тому +2

    23:33 - I’d actually listen to this track, ad jingles back in the 80’s were some of the best!

  • @bartlemy
    @bartlemy 5 років тому +15

    I just spend the last 3 hrs watching these old adverts...must ..stop....NOW!

  • @Llyander
    @Llyander 5 років тому +9

    God, I remember so many of these. Thanks for the blast from the past.

  • @sd750
    @sd750 4 роки тому +11

    Nice to see ads with no bullshit propaganda.

  • @Michelle-qd9gm
    @Michelle-qd9gm 4 роки тому +5

    Pls bring back some tv what we used to watch on a sat night in 1980s

  • @AR-dn6kh
    @AR-dn6kh 2 роки тому +2

    John shrapnel and joss Ackland have the best voices for voice-overs ever , takes you back to the 80s when I hear their voices.

  • @maarg1
    @maarg1 Рік тому +1

    The funny thing is when they read the phone number on the British gas ad, i recognised it as though I was back in 1985.

  • @Liam_Graer
    @Liam_Graer 2 місяці тому

    Those were the days
    Didn't appreciate how good they were at the time but suffering through these last twenty years made the previous twenty years seem so much better

  • @minislayer2010
    @minislayer2010 4 роки тому +6

    Me. Installs ad block
    Also me. Spends 1:45.00 watching adverts

  • @AndreiTupolev
    @AndreiTupolev 5 років тому +8

    God that Wisk advert went on didn't it. Anyone would think it was a trailer for some Hollywood epic

    • @Mitch-Hendren
      @Mitch-Hendren Рік тому

      The product itself was groundbreaking at the time the first non powder or bar soap for laundry .
      Lever forced to introduce it here by public pressure as USA had been able to use tide liquid for years by then .

  • @edwardconnolly572
    @edwardconnolly572 Рік тому +2

    23 quid for that block game in 85 madness

  • @johndickson76
    @johndickson76 5 років тому +9

    Mr Dog. What imaginative geniuses came up with that name for a dog food. They must’ve been up all night.

    • @pinkyn0se
      @pinkyn0se 5 років тому

      Even so, today they'd have been forced to call it "Gender Netutral Mammal"

    • @StormsongK
      @StormsongK 4 роки тому +2

      "Try Mr. Dog for small yapper-type dogs, and maybe they'll shut the f___ up." ---Eddie Izzard

    • @anthonybailey1966
      @anthonybailey1966 3 роки тому

      Probably why they changed the name to Cesar later!

    • @anthonybailey1966
      @anthonybailey1966 3 роки тому

      @@StormsongK Lol! I remember that Izzard routine....he wondered why they changed the name to Cesar. ....then did the Roman leader called Mr.Dog routine....comic genius!

  • @michaellupton335
    @michaellupton335 5 років тому +8

    Still waiting for my order of firepower issue 2 to arrive.

  • @jamescoburn6789
    @jamescoburn6789 6 років тому +16

    £28 a week on a YTS. How did I survive?

    • @johnburden3671
      @johnburden3671 5 років тому

      If I remember, it went up to 32 quid a week the following year?

    • @neilchapman5145
      @neilchapman5145 5 років тому

      £26.25 in 1984 I speak through experience

    • @nickpink25
      @nickpink25 4 роки тому

      £27 first year for me then year 2 £35

    • @ayupmeduck5708
      @ayupmeduck5708 4 роки тому +2

      £23.50 and my dad wanted a tenner board. 1981.

  • @jrgboy
    @jrgboy 4 роки тому +1

    I was working shifts throughout the 70/80's with lots of overtime so I missed a lot of TV..

  • @bartoszjanprzybyszewski1891
    @bartoszjanprzybyszewski1891 5 років тому +8

    I’m born in 1998 outside Britain but I miss living in 80s London. Is it weird?

    • @lisaparis684
      @lisaparis684 4 роки тому +1

      Not at all...i was born outside the UK and I've watched these compilations multiple times.

  • @john111257
    @john111257 6 років тому +14

    Whens the film come back on?????????...bloody adverts

  • @Sheffield_Steve
    @Sheffield_Steve 5 років тому +15

    Some of these ads showing the beginning of the end,....the end of reliable public transport, a publicly owned post office (Royal Mail) & selling off our energy services to overcharge us for them and get less of a service.

    • @Sheffield_Steve
      @Sheffield_Steve 5 років тому +2

      And a publicly owned phone service. 🤔

  • @noka79
    @noka79 3 роки тому

    I was 6 and would have been glued to the TV in 85

  • @gcooper642
    @gcooper642 4 роки тому +2

    The Whisk advert special effects are pretty impressive for the 80s. That must have cost a bomb to make.

  • @markbarker6739
    @markbarker6739 3 роки тому +2

    Christopher Ryan (Mike in the young ones) voice over for autumn gold who else spotted it

  • @bobbydorou8438
    @bobbydorou8438 3 роки тому +1

    At 20mins lovely to see Arthur Daley (George Cole) once more.

  • @cazt766
    @cazt766 6 років тому +1

    Excellent fav year thanku👍👍👍❤

  • @Sheffield_Steve
    @Sheffield_Steve 5 років тому +5

    Walker's Bitza Pizza, used to love them as a kid!

    • @pinkyn0se
      @pinkyn0se 5 років тому

      Remember puking after trying just one Bitza Pizza. Never tried them again afterwards. Can still remember that awful taste...

    • @simonlloyd7557
      @simonlloyd7557 2 роки тому +1

      They were very nutricious, especially when eaten with food.

  • @simoncook1885
    @simoncook1885 3 роки тому +2

    0:03 fun fact. They had to scrap the giant chewing gum prop as it crushed an actor during the creation of the next ad.

    • @camore5422
      @camore5422 3 роки тому

      Crushed and killed? :o

  • @OofusTwillip
    @OofusTwillip 2 роки тому +1

    01:59 - Voiceover by Hugh Laurie, sounding just like his Prince George character from "Blackadder III".
    05:45 - Voiceover by Burt Kwouk.

  • @thefog7067
    @thefog7067 3 роки тому

    Lol Kellie Bright before she started collecting spoons . . She can knock my block off anytime !

  • @ChantingInTheDark
    @ChantingInTheDark Рік тому

    Lol, we gave Campbell’s Meatballs to the dog! I’d totally forgotten about them!

  • @anthonybailey1966
    @anthonybailey1966 3 роки тому +2

    Nice collection .....however if this is from 1985 how come it featured an ad for the sticker album called "Soccer 88".....?!!!

  • @forresg500
    @forresg500 4 роки тому +6

    When British airways was good
    Now it just rude version of Ryanair

  • @seltaeb9691
    @seltaeb9691 Рік тому +3

    Adverts last century covered household shopping too cars, now its gambling & charity ads wanting your savings with BLM saturating every advert & programmes. Its pretty racist to be frank.

  • @ChantingInTheDark
    @ChantingInTheDark Рік тому

    50:55 - OMG I bought that exact issue of that magazine series.

  • @makara80
    @makara80 5 років тому +2

    Ah, a timely reminder that those _Bounty_ (as in the chocolate bar _not_ the bog roll!) adverts were sexy as hell!

  • @armorybrunotjr.3204
    @armorybrunotjr.3204 6 років тому +4

    A rare animated trailer for Disney's 1940 classic "Pinocchio" , followed by a featurette with the popular Gummi Bears is shown.
    The Gummis (Sunni,Tummi,Zummi,Cubbi,Grammi and Gruffi) starred in a very successful television series in the U.S. of A.

    • @armorybrunotjr.3204
      @armorybrunotjr.3204 2 роки тому +1

      @j smithIn 1985, Disney aired "The Adventures of the Gummi Bears" and was a hit series for six seasons. The Gummis (Sunni,Tummi,Zummi,
      Grammi,Cubbi and Gruffi) lived in a secret place called Gummi Glen in
      Dunwyn. Occasionally, they are visited by a Gummi named Gusto, who
      lived near the ocean and loved to do deco art.

  • @dominewimbury9120
    @dominewimbury9120 7 років тому +1

    Year I was born lol. Great!

  • @simonlloyd7557
    @simonlloyd7557 2 роки тому +1

    0:29 the barmaid from Eastenders as a child

  • @russellford5597
    @russellford5597 5 місяців тому

    4:03 Oh my!
    The first time I realised a beautiful woman... I would have been 6 years old! 😂
    First time I've seen this ad again since then.

  • @hilarybarnes1319
    @hilarybarnes1319 4 роки тому +5

    Knock your block off - 2nd advert in. Thats Kellie Bright from The Queen Vic!!!!!!

  • @KarmasAbutch
    @KarmasAbutch 4 роки тому +6

    Had the biggest teenage girl crush on that Persil lad! 🤣💘

    • @rehan2118
      @rehan2118 3 роки тому +1

      How old are you now?

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles 2 роки тому

    @3:26 - He used to play DI Chris Deakin in "THE BILL".

  • @stevegoddard363
    @stevegoddard363 6 років тому +13

    That's kellie bright from Eastenders Linda Carter iam sure.

    • @abingleyboy
      @abingleyboy 6 років тому

      Yep was just gonna say the knock your block off ad girl is Kellie Bright from Eastenders, The Upper Hand & that Only Fools and Horses prequal Rock and Chips. Her brother Simon played either Boz or Baz on Live And Kicking on saturday morning kids tv along with Andi Peters playing the other character they used to give out the prizes in long brown coats. He seems to have disappeared from tv, now but she still on our screens.

    • @Koala.Prepz.13
      @Koala.Prepz.13 6 років тому

      abingleyboy And the boy from the same advert played the young lad Jason in the Only Fools & Horses episode “Thicker than water”

    • @GEricG
      @GEricG 4 роки тому

      @@Koala.Prepz.13 Good spot - actually I think that he was in a couple of episodes.

  • @ChantingInTheDark
    @ChantingInTheDark Рік тому +1

    1:13:36 - Always thought this was well acted for an ad, still holds up!

  • @invade81
    @invade81 4 роки тому +4

    Board games were pricey back then

  • @nicolepowell5470
    @nicolepowell5470 4 роки тому +1

    Wow knock your block off was £23.00 jeez and funny to see Kelly Bright in it.

  • @johnbailey5616
    @johnbailey5616 5 років тому +1

    Yes it is she used to be in the upper hand as well

  • @chrisrowl5001
    @chrisrowl5001 5 років тому +2

    I assure you all after 2 bottles of martini extra dry you’re not hearing pan pipes

  • @ChantingInTheDark
    @ChantingInTheDark Рік тому

    “Awwwwwwww Mum”

  • @pershorefoodbanktrusselltr3632

    Wow @ 15:48 Anthony Hopkins still having to earn a crust by narrating the British Gas advert, just shows he didn’t really become a household name and star until - Silence of the Lambs, in 1990.

  • @gaggymott9159
    @gaggymott9159 6 років тому +1

    Wisk liquid in the bright orange bottle!! Used to buy it in our local 'Co-'

  • @RIXRADvidz
    @RIXRADvidz 4 роки тому

    goodness, the Gila Copper Mine pr. - (hee-la), mythological smelting, super secret secure transport, to finish the stitching on a pair of dungeries with a copper knob. oops, to Secure the Stitching of THEE American Brand, Levi. Levi Jeans. LOL !!!

  • @collinhunter9792
    @collinhunter9792 6 років тому +6

    GEEES!!!!! Presto supermarket... i used to be asst manager in our one. no one seems to remember Presto. Did they get changed to Tesco or wat?....."You'll be impressed with Presto" lol

    • @davidsumner4335
      @davidsumner4335 5 років тому +1

      Presto was the new larger branches of Liptons. The name came from the first store at Preston Grange, North Shields. They where mainly in the North East of England. In the early nineties they were bought out by Safeway. All gone now. I was a rep for Van den Berghs (oils and fats) and called on about 10 of their branches on Tyneside.

    • @invade81
      @invade81 4 роки тому

      @@davidsumner4335 Then Morrisons eventually bought Safeway. So that would make Presto a Morrisons. Kinda.

  • @ChantingInTheDark
    @ChantingInTheDark Рік тому

    1:19:37 - Such a great ad!

  • @marcrosser8556
    @marcrosser8556 2 роки тому

    ❤️The lurpac add

  • @agl1138
    @agl1138 4 роки тому +1

    Did Robert Powell do every advert voiceover in the 1980's?

    • @OlagGan
      @OlagGan 4 роки тому +1

      It must have been a miracle. Well he was Christ after all. He must have got family assisstance 😃

  • @mirabellamcgarry8269
    @mirabellamcgarry8269 6 років тому +5

    Omg 2018 anyone

  • @bryemycaz
    @bryemycaz 5 років тому +1

    I think some of these are from 1988, Peter Howitt quit playing Joey Boswell in Bread during that year.

    • @makara80
      @makara80 5 років тому

      I think you must be right because a Currys ad here features the ZX Spectrum +2 computer of which was Amastrad's first model after the company purchased (original makers) Sinclair.....in _1986_ !

  • @donroberts2126
    @donroberts2126 5 років тому

    Commercial Union ad at the end: you're telling me that in the Highlands, nobody moved. No tractors, no Land Rovers? Nope. But a Morris Marina - apparently - COULD! Yeah right!

  • @HighTen_Melanie
    @HighTen_Melanie 6 років тому +3

    A fantastic trip down memory lane. No not from 1985 though. This is from 1986 or 1987. The Pedigree chum advert states it was the 1986 winner. Also the ZX Spectrum +2 came out in 1986. Thoroughly enjoyable to watch all the same!

    • @tovip5661
      @tovip5661 6 років тому

      yes - those segments are clearly from pre Christmas 1986. But there are a range of dates here - British Airways new Club World 1:10:49 for instance, would be no earlier than January 1988 (when the Club World brand was launched)

    • @purplehaze689
      @purplehaze689 5 років тому

      Yep and First Among Equals was on TV in late 86.

  • @jcanyiam8309
    @jcanyiam8309 6 років тому

    thank you

  • @deepee1988
    @deepee1988 4 роки тому +5

    Edam? Haha! That's not cheese . It's candle wax

  • @gremlinuk1968
    @gremlinuk1968 3 роки тому

    ever ready torch 1 , they were crap ,, but only was the only 1 we could get back then ,was 17 back then and working as a milkman,!Northern Ireland,

  • @waynerafferty1048
    @waynerafferty1048 4 роки тому +1

    Linda from EastEnders going to knock your block off

  • @bastardtubeuser
    @bastardtubeuser 6 років тому +1

    1:07:11 an unusually cheery Gorge Harrison appearance.

  • @Sheffield_Steve
    @Sheffield_Steve 5 років тому +3

    McVities Fruit Jaspers, what ever happened to them?

  • @salus1231
    @salus1231 3 роки тому

    #4 rule
    There's always someone trying to flog you something, getting you to spend that £ in your pocket, and they don't care if it's your last one.👍

  • @S7EVE_P
    @S7EVE_P 2 роки тому

    41:45 IS That a Young Robert Carlyle?!

  • @fionamessenger7660
    @fionamessenger7660 6 років тому +2

    2:01. Ha. Hugh Laurie.

  • @RIXRADvidz
    @RIXRADvidz 4 роки тому

    1:06:13, ...Balls to you Dear. the drop in the octave gives it away.

  • @beckyl1450
    @beckyl1450 4 роки тому

    I love the music on the Taunton Cider advert... Anybody know what it is? Obviously the lyrics are about the cider, but I'm just wondering if its a sample from a real song

  • @klisher
    @klisher 5 років тому

    according to the Heinz website it started in 1869 not 1885.

  • @daverose8082
    @daverose8082 4 роки тому

    Trying to find a particular ad - I think it was in the 80s. Can't remember what it sold. It featured a piece of film of individuals repeating the same sequence of movements that were recorded at different times so they sort of laced their actions into a single clip.
    Anyone know it or know where I can find it?

  • @OofusTwillip
    @OofusTwillip Рік тому

    1:13:20 - Varta - with Philip Pope.

  • @geegod9122
    @geegod9122 4 роки тому +1

    £23 for this knock yr block off game????? That's pricey now in 2021

  • @BritishComedyUK69
    @BritishComedyUK69 6 років тому +1

    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

  • @Clara-ph7my
    @Clara-ph7my 3 роки тому

    Pepsi had some big stars advertising. Tina Turner I can't recall but always remember Michael Jackson.

    • @agfagaevart
      @agfagaevart 2 роки тому

      That advert is from 1988, not 1985.

  • @rupert-j8f
    @rupert-j8f 4 роки тому +1

    hahaha paul daniels must have been skint to advertise yorkshire buses plus how many 85p bus tickets whould you need for that walkman ?? my guess is 1504.

  • @slobodanreka1088
    @slobodanreka1088 4 роки тому

    30:59 Elliott Schwartz before he stiffed Walter White over Gray Matter

  • @stevenspx6226
    @stevenspx6226 3 роки тому

    So they had a big thing about butter back in the day? Drinking on the other hand 😂

  • @DoubleGauss
    @DoubleGauss 6 років тому +28

    This was before the UK turned into the Islamic Republic of the United Kingdom.

    • @nutshell74
      @nutshell74 6 років тому +4

      The way things are going we'll soon be watching tv in 'letterbox' mode again. Cleverly marketed as widescreen!

    • @tracycree9886
      @tracycree9886 6 років тому +3

      Gammon Bantz.

    • @spencerhardy8667
      @spencerhardy8667 6 років тому +9

      You could go months without a single street stabbing back then. How impoverished we were without such exciting vibrancy. Acid was a recreational hallucinogen rather than a popular assault weapon.
      Kids these days don't know how lucky they are.

    • @MrMaxwood
      @MrMaxwood 6 років тому +3

      D-Gauss, good to see racism is alive and well in 2018, I guess that's progress 😒

    • @McSeahorse
      @McSeahorse 6 років тому +6

      D-Gauss you're a fucking dick.

  • @yandan7010
    @yandan7010 4 роки тому

    58:14 woops!

  • @Michelle-qd9gm
    @Michelle-qd9gm 4 роки тому

    How did we survive with 3 channels

    • @rehan2118
      @rehan2118 3 роки тому

      there was channel 4 in 1985

  • @davequinn5122
    @davequinn5122 3 роки тому

    A cassete tape with your kfc 😂😂😂

  • @leaturk11
    @leaturk11 5 років тому +20

    The days before the politically correct Nazis got hold of TV adds.

    • @GryphLane
      @GryphLane 4 роки тому +4

      Not really. Inclusion is a thing, get over it 😂

    • @TibetanFox68
      @TibetanFox68 4 роки тому +12

      ​@@GryphLane Inclusion is fine, deliberate over-representation is something else. I think adverts kept improving until the early 2000s, but nowadays they have to have 50 people on every advert so that every type of person is represented, and political correctness rules. The quality of the adverts have suffered as a result - the originality and humour has gone, and pushing social/political agendas seems to be more important than actually advertising products.

    • @nickpink25
      @nickpink25 4 роки тому +2

      Import 3rd world become 3rd world

  • @sdeee3842
    @sdeee3842 3 роки тому

    0:45 she’s was in east Enders and whose the boss uk version l just realised Cafe Hag is decaf! 😂🤣😂. Buy that next time 2021 never too old to learn 🤣. Kiplings cake are not exceedingly good anymore! My pension is with aviva it’s shit! Did anyone cook real food! Pack this tin that and a lot of boxed food!😂

  • @plebjames
    @plebjames 2 роки тому

    11:33 is that Joanna Lumley?

  • @ivornappinion9406
    @ivornappinion9406 6 років тому

    TSB speedbank card

  • @simonwells247
    @simonwells247 5 років тому

    58:12 oops
    😍😂😉

  • @mgthestrange9098
    @mgthestrange9098 6 років тому +1

    Pot casserole? WTF is that? Bet it was bloody disgusting.

  • @MS-rr1re
    @MS-rr1re Рік тому

    4:33

  • @lister_of_smeg6545
    @lister_of_smeg6545 4 роки тому

    3:22 Peter Wingfield?

  • @beanbison
    @beanbison 2 роки тому

    Powdered rubbish to eat remember it well

  • @knight-pg8gk
    @knight-pg8gk 4 роки тому +2

    Ewww🤢🤢 Campbell's meat balls I remember those. And they were and probably still are disscusting 🤮🤮 there could have been any type of meat in them most probably horse meat lol

  • @abingleyboy
    @abingleyboy 4 роки тому

    St Ivel Gold was vile!!!!

    • @Juliukas101
      @Juliukas101 3 роки тому

      Yeah it was pretty horrible! I remember the adverts with the very aggressive voice-overs and weird visuals. Sometimes they would scrape a knife over the margarine and an image would appear!

  • @agfagaevart
    @agfagaevart 6 років тому +1

    1:22:02
    1985?

  • @simonellis878
    @simonellis878 7 років тому

    theres no way a bare arsed kid could appear in a coke or any other ad these days...128:10 ish

  • @maser525
    @maser525 4 роки тому

    1:16:01 German Parody

  • @Sheffield_Steve
    @Sheffield_Steve 4 роки тому

    Far too many ads on this channel, I'm writing to the IBA to complain about the lack of programmes on 'ere! 😉 Ahhh.....the IBA & ITV, something else that "The Milk Snatcher" f**ked over.