I remember the BT and remember there was no mobile phone then not until the late 80s and they were like bricks you had to be rich to have one the 80s were better than now
Ahh Our Price...nothing else screams late eighties/early nineties to me as much as that brand name (except perhaps maybe the scotch video cassette advert with the dancing skeleton)...I was amazed to read on wikipedia that Our price kept going up to 2004! I just thought they kind of stopped mid nineties but apparently they were absorbed by Virgin and kept going until 2004. Also the Maureen Lipmann Granny...my Grandmothers not jewish but she's so like Maureen Lipmann here its uncanny!
Probably is Jamie Foreman; I've seen or heard Ian Richardson, Geoffrey Palmer, David Thewlis, Leo McKern and virtually the entire cast of Eastenders whilst looking at these old ads.
@BelatedCommiseration Her grandson, who'd failed everything but Pottery and Sociology, was called Anthony. I've got the book "You Got An Ology?" which has all the scripts from the adverts Maureen Lipman did for BT!
About the only one I really remember was, obviously, the granny in the BT advert and her frequent bitching down the phone at her long suffering son, whose name was Alan I think, although here she redeems herself slightly. Apparently she was supposed to be a jewish granny, but I used to like her because she reminded me of my Granny, who isn't jewish at all and yet speaks, sounds and looks a bit like that one without the perm. In fact I think most 'youngish' Grannys go on a bit like that.
The good news is that as a result you can pick up classic CDs and vinyl for pennies in lots of different places without the arseache of downloading. It costs nothing of convert them to MP3 and play them on the device of your choice. It's just like those weekends in the 80s and 90s when you got together with some mates at the house of someone with a vinyl and tape player, so you could get each others' best records for yourself.
@Lauraloos1981 when in 81 were you born? i was born in september 23rd 1981 so i do remember these ads well the ones that were shown in the scottish television region! (STV)
I laughed at the Accurist advert, when we were kids we always used to phone '123' to hear the speaking clock for a laugh....but stopped when we were told it cost alot of money! Anyone know if the speaking clock is still going?
Anyone notice the guy in the last (Talking clock) advert was the doctor from Blue Jam/ Jam/ Jaaaammmmm? Hes been in some other chris morris stuff too!!!!!!!!
Nice set there. That Badedas commercial was a bit risque wasn't it? And I might be going mad, but wasn't that jamie Foreman in the Accusrist ad? I assume this was from the pre-christmas time given the ads for chocs, cds and after shave...
can someone explain to me how the red smeggery you are supposed to see someone's face light up while you are phoning them up from your office? what is the guy some kinda psychic or sommat?!
@bigmanbreakfast I can't remember the Cold War threat of nuclear annihilation running throughout the 80s to be either better or more innocent..! Mind you, even that was better than that Nescafe add with Sarah Green.
Funnily enough, the '70s were also "shitty, miserable times" as well - I lived through them and can testify to that. But in recent years, the '70s have been so rewritten, sometimes by people not even born until the 1980s, that it's hard to see that fact. Isn't it odd? '70s rewritten as totally GREAT. '80s rewritten as totally BAD. And meanwhile, TODAY can go hang because everybody's too busy playing heroes and villians with PAST decades! Great ads, by the way - thanks for uploading.
Everybody lives different lives, so no decade (maybe minus decades dominated by war such as the 40's) can be described as 'shitty and miserable.' It's too much of a generalization. My Grandma has fond memories of her childhood, and she grew up during the Depression! Nostalgia is different for everyone.
These adverts were about the time my memories start. This was a better time, a more innocent time.
These adverts make me proud to be a baby of '88 : P : D
Our Price... that was the name of it!!! I been talking about this store for ages and people have thought I was crazy. But now I know the name. :D
I used to love the Maureen Lipman BT ads, when I was growing up... who else remembers the dress shopping ad?
Maureen Lipman is hilarious!
Ha ha that BT advert (and all the others with Maureen Lipman) are hilarious.
1981 is the year i came along, i remember it all
I feel like I remember some of these ads. I know I remember the "I failed" one. Would have only been 5 though.
I used to work in our price, first time I seen an add for them.
Superb! I remember most of these! :D and in that nescafé advert... That's "Julia" from the BBC1 Daytime Drama called Doctors!!!
Those old bt adverts were so popular
Bloody hell that takes me back...Our Price
I always hoped my face would get lit up with a box of Terrys All Gold, but then again I was always listening out for the Milk Tray Guy too.
lol these brought back a lot of memories, but what is scarey is all those fashions have come back arrrrggghhh! :)
I remember the BT and remember there was no mobile phone then not until the late 80s and they were like bricks you had to be rich to have one the 80s were better than now
Look at the size of the shoulderpads in the All Gold advert ... She didn't have to tilt her head to hold the phone in place. HUGE!!
Best quote: " the teachers can't mark, you know a lot of them can't see!"...haha
Ahh Our Price...nothing else screams late eighties/early nineties to me as much as that brand name (except perhaps maybe the scotch video cassette advert with the dancing skeleton)...I was amazed to read on wikipedia that Our price kept going up to 2004! I just thought they kind of stopped mid nineties but apparently they were absorbed by Virgin and kept going until 2004. Also the Maureen Lipmann Granny...my Grandmothers not jewish but she's so like Maureen Lipmann here its uncanny!
Have CD's really been around that long? Wow I didn't think so!
and not one advert selling you insurance or ppi ahhhh the days when tv adverts made you go out and buy coffee and a box of chocs
ben lockhurst yes and no Islam
@DWUnboundTenth I'm glad I'm not the only one who said that aloud during the Nescafé ad, Brooker ftw :)
Probably is Jamie Foreman; I've seen or heard Ian Richardson, Geoffrey Palmer, David Thewlis, Leo McKern and virtually the entire cast of Eastenders whilst looking at these old ads.
It says "See the face of the one you love, light up. With terrys all gold"
But they are on the phone!!!! didn't have video calling in the 80's.
He gets an ology and says he's failed.
@BelatedCommiseration Her grandson, who'd failed everything but Pottery and Sociology, was called Anthony. I've got the book "You Got An Ology?" which has all the scripts from the adverts Maureen Lipman did for BT!
It's Maureen Lipman
Sarah Greene 2:20 Memory's of youthful loins.. stirring
I was on a different continent when these were on offer. Don't recall a single one.
I suspect so too. But I suspect it's 1987, which is when the Bryan Ferry album was released.
See the face you love light up with terry's all gold,. over an analogue phone. Facetime in the 80's?
About the only one I really remember was, obviously, the granny in the BT advert and her frequent bitching down the phone at her long suffering son, whose name was Alan I think, although here she redeems herself slightly. Apparently she was supposed to be a jewish granny, but I used to like her because she reminded me of my Granny, who isn't jewish at all and yet speaks, sounds and looks a bit like that one without the perm. In fact I think most 'youngish' Grannys go on a bit like that.
why would she be carrying a random huge jar of nescafe with her?
"INSTANT COFFEE" - very Chuck Jones!
At least we did have record shops then who wants to download it's convenient but it's not the same
The good news is that as a result you can pick up classic CDs and vinyl for pennies in lots of different places without the arseache of downloading. It costs nothing of convert them to MP3 and play them on the device of your choice. It's just like those weekends in the 80s and 90s when you got together with some mates at the house of someone with a vinyl and tape player, so you could get each others' best records for yourself.
@Lauraloos1981 when in 81 were you born? i was born in september 23rd 1981 so i do remember these ads well the ones that were shown in the scottish television region! (STV)
I laughed at the Accurist advert, when we were kids we always used to phone '123' to hear the speaking clock for a laugh....but stopped when we were told it cost alot of money! Anyone know if the speaking clock is still going?
May 1981
Anyone notice the guy in the last (Talking clock) advert was the doctor from Blue Jam/ Jam/ Jaaaammmmm? Hes been in some other chris morris stuff too!!!!!!!!
British Telecom, it's you we answer to...well, not anymore
Nice set there.
That Badedas commercial was a bit risque wasn't it? And I might be going mad, but wasn't that jamie Foreman in the Accusrist ad?
I assume this was from the pre-christmas time given the ads for chocs, cds and after shave...
just read a comment saying so dated ha ha what a knob it's adverts from 1988 pal
i remember seeing blue stratos being sold in my local chemists bargain bucket for 50p - quality scent! ll
Think i spotted Carla Brunei at the beginning, on the "our price" ad. 0.06-0.07...
2:30 - Diane Keen from Doctors
What is the name of the actress playing Pat at 2:11 in the Nescafe advert? I know the other two are Sarah Greene and Diane Keen
things happen after Badaus ... lol ...soo true
Wow at that soup commercial they FLAT OUT say you will get fucked after you use our product. God damn they were direct in the 80s
Bryan Ferry. Before he became the father of a hooray Otis...
can someone explain to me how the red smeggery you are supposed to see someone's face light up while you are phoning them up from your office? what is the guy some kinda psychic or sommat?!
I think youtube removed most your link there.
@bigmanbreakfast I can't remember the Cold War threat of nuclear annihilation running throughout the 80s to be either better or more innocent..! Mind you, even that was better than that Nescafe add with Sarah Green.
i got a semi in the badedas advert
Can you explain what you mean by the dodgy ones?
3:16 I wonder if those still exist...
What happened to Our Price? Was it bought up or did it go bust?
@Xxfancythat79xX It's still going. I checked it last week
at 0.47, who sung this version of blue moon? cant find it anywhere :(
Did she just pull those beans from here fuckin hair!??
I remember that the British Telecom was parodied on Spitting Image with the tagline saying, "It's Jew stereotype.".
@NakedJKid Sarah Green does!!! :)
Funnily enough, the '70s were also "shitty, miserable times" as well - I lived through them and can testify to that. But in recent years, the '70s have been so rewritten, sometimes by people not even born until the 1980s, that it's hard to see that fact.
Isn't it odd? '70s rewritten as totally GREAT.
'80s rewritten as totally BAD.
And meanwhile, TODAY can go hang because everybody's too busy playing heroes and villians with PAST decades!
Great ads, by the way - thanks for uploading.
CDs in the 80s??!
+palma violets ,CD's were introduced in November 1982 in Japan and in March 1983 in Europe,
You can still buy those sweets!!
@NakedJKid A shoplifter?
SHAKE THOSE BEANS
a caffiene addict
Is that Sarah green at 2.19
What fun people were having while we were going to political cabaret and fighting Thatcher!
Sarah Greene.....PHWOAR!
there is a fault on this computer
2 right
@NakedJKid I Don't Know A Damn Loonie Would Do That
Everybody lives different lives, so no decade (maybe minus decades dominated by war such as the 40's) can be described as 'shitty and miserable.' It's too much of a generalization. My Grandma has fond memories of her childhood, and she grew up during the Depression! Nostalgia is different for everyone.
nice cuppa
@NakedJKid caffeine addicts ?
liz sladen doctor who rip the coffie ad
The late 80's, a time when culture vanished down the shitter.
@NakedJKid my mother in law
@MrTom235863 What's with the attitude?
Blue Stratos...dear god, that was the aftershave you dreaded getting from your doddery great aunt at Christmas. Ghastly stuff. Worse than Brut 33.
that old jewish chick was kinda hot
All 'aspirational' bollocks
Alcohol: improving relations lol. NOT
rattle those coffee beans lol
Why could nobody act in the 80s???????
GROSS
How dated!