We were bombarded with these as kids in the 70's and 80's. We were given the "Play it safe" book so we could reteaumatise ourselves whenever we wanted 😂 You have to watch Apaches, 1970's. I've never drunk paraquat or drowned in a slurry pit thanks to that one 👍
One scary PSA about seatbelts has stuck in my head. The voiceover script: "Like most victims, Julie knew her killer. It was her son, who was sitting behind her without a seat-belt. After crushing her to death, he sat back down."
I remember that clear as day - can we link other videos here? Not sure - it's on here as video v=mKHY69AFstE Several on that channel. Not sure if I remember this one or not; I think I do but it was "post-watershed" so maybe not (it was "post-watershed" for a reason!) v=qsp-nrf_8KQ We forget, perhaps, what a significant change the mandatory seatbelt law was - and how many people were utterly indignant that they should be required to use them. The visceral nature of these campaigns reflect the sea-change in public opinion that was needed for it to take full effect.
There's one from my childhood in the 2000s. It opens with a little dead girl led against a tree. She says "if you hit me at 40mph there's an 80% chance I'll die. If you hit me at 30mph there's an 80% chance I'll live" While she's speaking, tîme is moving backwards, the blood goes back in her ears, her wrists snap into place and she slides back into the road as if being dragged.
i remember the first night this was shown, they messed up, because right at the end the girl spoke, and she said "please hit me at 20" i was drinking coffee and choked on it, because it was literally asking drivers to run over children at 20 mph. They changed it within a week
I was born in 1973 in the UK ; can confirm that these ads were regularly screened - seeing them again takes me back to a time where our mum and dad would gladly send us out of the house for hours on end only expect us back several hours later. No mobile phones, no internet, no social media, good times!
Yes. Climbing trees in the woods - falling out of them from insane heights but it didn't matter because the branches kind of cushioned the fall (a lot of pain and minor scrapes) and you ended up hiting soft grass or moss. It was hilarious fun as a 1970's child when you took the L like that. Same with ponds in winter - absolutely we would skate on the frozen ice. Just don't go near the overhanging bushes - guess how I learnt that one when going under the ice? An L turned into a life threatening educational experience W. For a more leisurely pastime go and invade the local landowners estate in order to collect as many conkers as possible - but hide from the gamekeepers who would use their shotguns at ruffians like me. (They really did but obviously shot in the sky and made us 7-8 year old scramble for our lives. We honestly believed the local lord was allowed to kill us on sight.) So much more fun than anything kids get to do today.
So true, I the early 80s we would cross the rail way track, to get to the quarry to go swimming. On the way back we would enter the electricity sub station to get the frisbee stuck on the roof. Then get in the van with the old bloke who had the puppies to take us back home. We would pet the rabies infested puppies. We’d get home, watch Jimll fix it and then make some toast in the Bath before bed time before falling asleep sleep with a cigarette in my mouth at the age of 12
It honestly kept me safe as a kid. We were allowed to roam more without parents and we definitely went near rivers etc. The advert definitely scared me enough to be cautious!
@@rosemarmion1655 I agree there was no way I was ever going to play in that water. you must be mad. It's full of run off from the local mine, there is old diesel oil, oil, supher, lead oxide, old car battery's,....... It was the 70's
The stroke one hits me hard to this day, I remember seeing it on TV before I had to go to hospital to have my appendix removed. In the bed next to me was a nice older fella in his 50s, we got chatting a lot about different stuff, but suddenly he started slurring his words, I asked him if he was okay, more slurring. I started screaming for the doctors. They all came running and pulled the curtain around him, all I remember was the doctor shouting to him that he was having a stroke. He got whisked away to surgery and I never seen him again before I was discharged, but I did go back a few days later and thankfully he was alive and well. His son was visiting at the same time and I was able to explain what actually happened. They both thanked me but I just kept saying to thank the doctors and nurses. Sorry for the ramble, but that memory just came back as vivid as it was 18 years ago.
That had to have been a scary experience for you, but thank goodness you were there and able to get help the instant you noticed something seemed amiss. If nobody else had been there or you hadn’t been conversing with him, who knows if he would have gotten help in time despite already being in a hospital?
The FAST stroke one definitely worked for my nephew - he was in a staff room having his lunch when he was experiencing his stroke and his lady workmate - who had recently seen the advert - noticed his face dropping and his mumbled speech and knew straightaway it was the sighs of a stroke and dialled 999. She literally “saved” him as the Paramedics were able to take him very quickly to a Stroke Unit at the hospital so that the Doctors there could treat him. If his workmate had not been aware of the Stroke signs and acted as the PSA said, my nephew would be very disabled…..
The recorded message you hear when phoning my doctor's surgery, includes the signs of a stroke as one of the conditions for which you need to phone 999.
Unless you're dealing with a severely understaffed NHS now so many foreign health workers have buggered off back to their countries after the idiotic Brexit fiasco, and you wait 6 hrs for the ambulance, then sit in the ER for another 3 while a kid with a bit of a cough and another with a broken ankle get triaged first 'because they arrived before you and we're working our way down the line'. Then you order a taxi to go back home because you are physically unable to sit in that waiting room chair anymore and just hope any damage isn't permanent.
The point of being a "Drink Driver" is that you don't have to be "drunk" to be a peril behind the wheel of a car. Just drinking and driving is enough, because a second drink can take you over the legal limit for alcohol,, but at that point you are still a long way from actually being "drunk".
There's a phrase here in Ireland for someone who has consumed too much alcohol, as 'having drink taken'. Used more in Courts than general conversation nowadays.
I remember a film showing a young boy walking around seeing people crying and upset, and wondering what had happened. He crosses a road and a car goes through him and he says 'that hurt more the first time!'
@@wilmaknickersfit I think that was the one with the little girl in the reversed impact footage. Hit at 35 = 70% chance of death, hit at 30 = 70% chance to survive iirc
@@AdventuresAndNapsAt the moment I only 3:43 min,s in and these thinking that these may not be as bad as Apache a late 60,s BPSA which is made like a film and the complete thing is on UA-cam ,
The "boil a kettle on a boat" one was because of gas safety (or lack thereof on a lot of boat stoves). The spilling water could extinguish the flame but without a cut-off the gas would continue to flow and fill the boat (including the bilges) until it met a source of ignition. Venting the cabin wouldn't vent the bilge space, so the incident could happen later (for example when starting the motor).
The 'Drink Driver' thing is to let people know that you don't have to be drunk to have your judgement affected by the alcohol, the first thing that alcohol does is affect your perception and reaction time.
A lot of the PSA 's in the sixties and seventies were made by young filmmakers straight out of art school who later became famous producers and directors . Alan parker , Ridley Scott to name a couple . That's why they're so creative and a bit over the top !! lol
I'm pretty sure the squish sound was added later; that PSA (originally from Northern Ireland in 2014) was subject to a lot of reworking and memes. It's horribly reminiscent of the accident in July 2023 when a driver had a seizure and drove into an end-of-year party on the grounds of a London primary school, killing two students.
I lived in England when the "Charlie says" adds aired, year later I emigrated to Australia and was a head chef. One of my motivational phrases was 'Charlie says' and obviously no one knew what I was talking about, until my 2nd chef went on holidays to England and was watching late night t.v. and saw the adds in a comedy show. He actually sent me a postcard telling me all about it and to this day it is still a regular greeting we share.
Superb! I remember they actually released a Bullseye game for the BBC Micro in '80s. My sooper middle class rich friend was all like "Oh, this is so working clarse!". I just found his reaction highly amusing rather than starting a class war and being a total dick. (He was a great source of pirated games it has to be said)
In the 80s I was gutted as a kid I never got a reply when I wrote in to jim'll fix it, in hindsight I'm glad...wasn't broken then but might've needed fixed now 😂 Nothing like a mental trauma joke lol.
The broken glass on a beach happened to me when I was a kid in the 1970s. Ruined my holiday. Whenever people react to these PIFs they omit 'The Finishing Line' - a 25' film about the dangers of playing on railway lines. Truly terrifying. It's on UA-cam.
The one with the car rolling over a class of kids is obviously meant to be just representational of a number, and not litterally a bunch of kids in one spot. But the scary thing is a car has crashed through a school (cant remember if it went through a hedge or a wall) and killed a bunch of kids who were just innocently playing outside, it was in the news not too long ago.
The spirit of dark and lonely water is narrated by Donald Pleasance, who specialised in the sinister. He was in many films, and even played a Bond Villain. Also, as far as don't get in a car with Jimmy Saville is concerned, he had that covered too. About the same time, he was the face of British Rail exhorting people to travel by train. "This is the age of the train" as the slogan was sung at us back in the 1970s.
When you're a child of the Seventies and you see a news report about one of the stars of your childhood, you actually hope it's the announcement of their death because that's one of the two most likely reasons for them making the news now. The other is that they've come to the attention of Operation Yewtree.
I don’t know if it was because we lived in a semi rural area but whilst at junior school we were shown a PSA about being safe on a farm. From memory 1 kid drowned in a slurry pit, 1 kid impaled himself on metal spikes on a piece of farm equipment and another crashed a tractor and died.
I went to a rural school too - we were shown one called Never Rest, which sounds pretty similar. I think there was a ghost in it - just for an added level of spookiness.
British Health & Safety in the 70's & 80's. Do what you like, just don't come crying around here if it all goes wrong. Don't say we didn't warn you either, serves you right, now go to your room!
If you can find it - The “Killer in the Backseat” PSA by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) is a memorable safety campaign. This PSA highlights the dangers of not wearing seat belts, especially for backseat passengers. The message is clear: even if you’re in the backseat, wearing a seat belt is crucial for your safety. I remember thee voice over saying that it wasn't the on coming vehicle that killed the mother/father, but the unsecured child in the back seat that colllided with their head before it was ejected through the windscreen. Possibly 1980's or ealy 90's. Very scary.
i'm pretty sure that "Don't boil a kettle on a boat" is satire. might be Chris Morris on The Day Today or maybe some other forgotten sketch show like Big Train. british PSA's are usually well made but that one is thrown together from different sources - it's obviously a house kitchen. the exploding boat i recognise from programmes in the 70's and 80's. the rolling car PSA is Irish and it *doesn't* include the comical squishing noise but it does have some sound effects.
You HAVE to watch Apaches. It's set in the 70s and is about young children who play on a farm. It really scared me as a child and to this day I still am very wary of farms.
When I was 9 I jumped off a fence onto what I thought was grass, but was actually grass growing over a wooden board with a rather large nail in it. Went right through my shoe and foot. The worst part was having to remove myself from it so I could get home. Luckily managed to miss my bones somehow, didn't stop me jumping off fences but I did pay more attention to the ground after that :)
My school teacher did something similar whilst on holiday - but the other side was the top of a leaf covered greenhouse / vine house - He was lucky got some seriously bad cuts and broke both legs.
@@WoNkY_DoG I mean, I actually couldn't have done that, with what I was nailed to, but it didn't even occur to me to try. My memory is admittedly by this point what I've told people, I'm 40 and I was 8 or 9 when it happened. I remember going to the doctor's, and my friend was with me and we were nearer his house so we went there first. But yeah I had to detach myself from the nail to move anywhere.
I fell in a chest freezer when I was 8. I was leaning in to get an ice lolly and flipped in and the lid shut, I was on loaves of bread and meat. I could open the lid from the inside but still wary of chest freezers if they are not full to the brim
As I remember it was one of the old freezers with the external latching handle. They definitely locked and the you couldn't get out of them from the inside. I think that's why they changed the domestic freezers to magnetic catches.
As a small child I was convinced that countries like France and Spain were full of rabid dogs roaming around eager to bite small children like myself. My mum was a vet but didn't really do much to reassure me.
Fear of rabies is worth hanging on to. Saw a dog with it in India. Then a dog bit me in Thailand, but did not break the skin. I washed it and crossed my fingers and still here 45 yrs later. (no vaccinations then)
Boats generally had gas bottles without a flame failure device ... Boiling water overflows pan and extinguishes gas flame. Without a flame failure device the gas continues to pour out and lines the bilges, eventually igniting as a gas-air mixture. The have since added flame failure devices ...
The Rabies thing: we had these infos/ads because the UK was the last place in Europe which *didn't* have rabies! It was a really big deal because treatment was awful and not guaranteed to be successful and inoculation was (is?) hideous and expensive and unpleasant. It was a real problem in Europe because prevention and treatment were so difficult but UK did manage to keep it out. We used to visit France several times a year when I was a kid and I distinctly remember there were big campaigns there too about "La Rage" and scary posters of rabid dogs and maps of how far it had spread. It was a big deal.
Oh Alanna, I love your "go play on the train tracks instead" comment, naughty but...🤭 and your British accent and sense of humour are coming along swimmingly 😉
Ironically, Jimmy Saville became the face of the British Rail InterCity train travel ads, once he stopped doing "clunk click". "this is the age, of the train...."
It's made my evening seeing this. The most priceless moment is when Alanna says "I love those fashions"......only to then be obviously thinking "Holy crap, that poor kid really does have rabies". And it wasn't staged, it was real! The reason the announcer said "that was a public information film" is because it would have been shown on the BBC, probably late at night, in order to remove any suggestion it was an ad.
Was the word you were looking for "Visceral"? Also my preferred drink driving ad was the one where the Bartender basically acts out the whoel situation, becoming a police officer, a judge, the man's boss firing him, in a rapidfire series of impersonations, then goes back to neutral with "So... what'll it be?" which is a great double-meaning.
I’ve seen reviewers say that was one of the worst because they thought the guy’s acting was terrible. But I love that one too. As you said, that question at the end definitely has a double meaning. It’s really more clever when you stop to think about it.
The water death one continues to save my life back in the seventies and still to this day. I have always been strangely attracted to any water even puddles float my boat. I have literally got into the situations those kids got into and remembered at the last minute that advert and got myself out of there. Just A few years ago (I am now 62) while working down In Darwin Australia the water near my hotel cast it’s magical charm. I snaked past a broken fence to get a better look at a well known fish pool hopped across a few rocks then all of a sudden this advert came into my head and I moved further back from the waters edge. A minute later I noticed a log drifting towards the spot I was trying to get to only it was not a log but a humongous salt water crocodile. Thank You scary British PSA’s!
APACHES is a 70s public information film about the dangers of children playing in and around farmyards,it was brutal and scared the crap out of me as child despite the fact I didn’t live anywhere near a farm.
“Spirit of Dark Water”? My, you’re certainly jumping in at the deep end for you first British PSA! No pun intended! And I most certainly remember that 2009 drink driving one, it was actually jus one of many done in the same fashion! Speaking of drink drive PSAs, I remember one from when I was a kid in the 90s, it had Summer Time playing, they were in a beer garden, they supped up, got in a car and we saw them drive off, the camera panning up and the next image was them still in the car wrapped round a lamppost! British ads, everyone and you wonder why we are the way we are!
Still get nervous walking past sub stations or near any kind of power lines and I am 45 now, those public information films, were very scary when they were shown in daylight hours for me as a youngster in the 1980s.
the Irish RSA (Road Safty Authority), the ones made by the Republic, not Northern Ireland, are pretty hard hitting, and some of them are pretty graphic
Suggest check out Joe and Petunia Public Information Films for a funnier cartoon side, Coastguard is a classic, Joe and Petunia were in quite a few and I loved them as a young nipper 😁
I remember all of these, and I can tell you they worked. Gen X is the generation who grew up living great childhoods without a Nanny State controlling every aspect of our lives, and we survived. A lot of cuts and bruises, but we survived. These films did stick in your head. We also had 30 minute films in the classroom about playing on building sites, farms, and by canals.
I remember my parents comforting me any time nuclear war was mentioned by telling me "Don't worry we live in London we'll be dead before we know it's happened."
14:26 "We've got to traumatise our children, do you know what I mean?" I love how you cut straight after saying this, but we could still see a few frames of that smile afterwards as you couldn't take what you were saying too seriously hahaha
Hi Alana, I grew up in the 70's and remember these. Ironically, whilst the government was scaring us to death with PSA's in order to be "safe", they were providing us with "Adventure Playgrounds". These were basically buildings sites for kids to play on, yet adults would not be allowed on them without safety equipment and extensive training ! The "drink driver" as opposed to "drunk" was because they advocated zero alcohol if you were driving. Drunk would imply you could have "some" so long as you didn't get drunk. When I got over the trauma of all these PSA's, I made it to the 80's where I could have the time of my life with lots of beautiful girls - NO, we will now scare you to death with lots of AIDS PSA's. They were really grim. BTW:- Your Anglofication is coming along. Nice use of both "Numpty" and "Bint" 🤣
she said "please hit me at 20" and that was only for the first week, they changed it when they realised that it was asking drivers to run children over on purpose at 20 mph (edit) i remember as this nearly put me in hospital the first time it was shown as i nearly drowned on my coffee
"This video is sponsored by me" is a refreshing touch. Hope sales go well! Edit. Just bought 15 Ml of 'Chartwell'. To use North American parlance..."We shall fight them on the bleachers"...
Opening few seconds I thought "please don't tell me you've been sucked into a MLM" Thankfully that notion was quickly disavowed and it's her own company making artisan products. Faith restored.
From N Ireland 'The Cat's in the Cradle' confidental telephone line PSA from during the troubles sticks in my mind. Theres a few more road safety ones from there as well but the class of children one os the most remembered. Form the mainland, 'she knew her killer/then he sat back down again' is a good one.
There were less cars on the road in the seventies and no screen technology, so kids went out and explored their environment, thus the plethora of horrific PSA's.
First video of yours I saw I thought you said: "Hi, it's me. My name is Alanna. I'm a comedian". However, having watched dozens of them now, I have to say that you always bring a smile to my face. So, keep up the good work. I always look forward to another one.
I sometimes wonder how we survived the 1970s. My personal favourites, in a gentler vein, are Reginald Molehusband parking his car and Augustus Windsock safely overtaking on his bicycle.
I remember all of these. I'm 52 and still alive, despite being basically stupid, so they obviously worked. The most horrific was one of the Public Information Films, which could be five or ten minutes long; from 1977 it's called The Finishing Line and features school kids on a railway line.
As a child of the 70s every PSA was determined to traumatise me….and they did, lol. Never did any of that stupid stuff though, so I guessed they worked! That “Don’t Boil a Kettle on A Bost” spoof kills me everytume, I laugh so hard I can barely breathe….is that safe? Lol
@@lobbymccawker2083 Agreed, but why should I pay to not have something that I didn't ask for? That wasn't the real point of the comment it was just the terrible timing.
Uk psa videos have no chill I’ve seen 2 at school one was when I was 7 and a boy ran onto train tracks got severely injured(showed ever bit gore)and the boy was screaming for his mum and every time it got weaker and weaker the boy was screaming and crying and after like half a minute died every kid including me were balling our eyes out second was where in died instantly on the train tracks and the people in charge just went “Make him explode” And the after scene of him getting hot had blood everywhere and his head just rolling around and later we see him as a ghost crying in a cop car as his parents hear and cry after hearing their son died I was only 9😭
You've not scratched the surface when it comes to traumatizing PSA's - Check out "Apaches" to see a group of adventurous little tykes get massacred in inventive ways. As for the 1970's PSAs about fireworks... gruesome. There were also a series of "Follow the Country Code" animated PSAs with Joe and Petunia, being terrible city-folk who ruin the countryside/seaside.
They showed Apaches twice in my rural primary school projected in the classroom when I was there in the late 80s. It was such a small school that there were only 2 classrooms so some very young kids saw it. To cheer the us up they showed a very old fashioned early 1950s cartoon called Lambeth the Sheepish Lion that I've never seen anywhere else, except of course it's on UA-cam these days. It was right to show it to us. One of the kids was run over by his dad's tractor once but thankfully the farmyard was so muddy he was ok.
if you ovefilled the kettle without putting the lid on properly , once the kettle boiled it put out the flame but did not stop the gas supply to the rings . having a whistle on kettles letting you know they were boiling was great , but they didn't work if the lid wasn't on right . gas poisoning with a potential fire risk .
Before the Don't Drink and Drive campaign ... people drove home drunk, because they "were fine", after, you got designated drivers, who got free cokes at the bar...
The water safety haunts me now 50 years on, and the don’t leave glass on the beach is the reason I’m terrified about going barefoot on the beach even now
Getting shocked by a power station is much worse in person. I had a friend die this way when I was 14. He was 12. He climbed up the pylon and put his hand close to the top and the electric jumped into him. Killing him instantly, he fell to the ground and landed on the big spiky fence below.
Had some `likely lads `climb over the fence to a big substation to knick the cable`s , we live a mile away and saw the flash just as the lights went off ,,,,say no more
Re "drink driver" I think the British term is better. The point is that you don't need to be what you'd consider "drunk" to be impaired enough to get someone killed while driving.
There were a few more of those Irish road safety ones, all equally as brutal. Also, in case anyone didn't realise that cartoon squish sound was not in the ad, whoever posted the video you watched obviously added it in.
I was scrolling down to see if anyone else had spotted this. The fact his parody was so well done that it’s accepted as real alongside the others is hilarious to me.
My wife, Rhona, is an actress and she was in one of the drink drive adverts from around 2000. Hers was about summertime drinking in a pub garden. Same sudden crash effect. The advert paid well, and she just had to sit in a pub garden for a day! Brian.
As a kid in the '70s, I remember these. They were scary. I suppose the objective was to frighten kids into staying out of danger, maybe give them nightmares, but I did the kind of stupid things these kids do, so it didn't work with me. Kids just think it won't happen to them. By contrast, there was a series of cartoon information films featuring a cat called Charlie who would hold a child back from danger, speak in garbled cat-speak to the child and the child would translate for viewers what Charlie had said. My friends and I thought it was funny rather than earnest.
Your reactions were funny. If I remember correctly seat belts were not mandatory here in the UK until the 1970's, so getting people to wear them back them using adverts made sense.
I'm 60, born in 1964 and I can remember most of these, the 70's what a time to be a kid, Jimmy Saville and Gary Glitter (who I actually met, but was fine) three channels on the telly and powercuts so you couldn't watch it anyway.
That Irish anti speeding one has been altered by the internet, that cartoon squishing sound was never in it lol Drink Driver implies that you don't need to be drunk... you only need a need a drink... we use both drunk and drink, but drink is aimed at those who frequently drink and drive because they don't get drunk. The law is not being drunk whilst driving...
That's what I was thinking - I don't remember the sound effect! I'm pretty sure it was on in the UK too or perhaps doing the rounds on the internet, because I definitely remember seeing it at the time.
@@Gambit771 No... clueless people use "Drunk Driver" in the UK... Authorities, law enforcement and everyone who has done research use Drink Driver. I was being polite... until you came along.
This is true. I can confirm that the comic sound effect was not in the original version. The use of such a noise would have caused huge public offence and would have been seen as a deliberate insult to countless grieving families.
there was a girl at a local school that got squished by a dumper truck, all that was left was a pool of blood, as her body got stuck between the double wheels at the back of the truck, after that accident they banned trucks from that village
Yes- the first time I watched the real one it was the most shocking ad ever, closely matched by one whose care driver is killed by the head of the child thrown forward in the collision.
I think we say ‘drink driver’ because you don’t need to be drunk to be over the safe limit. Perhaps in USA more people will get drunk off a small amount of alcohol?
I know a guy who was blinded by fireworks, he wrote to Sir Jim about his dream of milking cows, sir Jim fixed it for him, he spend hours milking a cow that day.
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We were bombarded with these as kids in the 70's and 80's. We were given the "Play it safe" book so we could reteaumatise ourselves whenever we wanted 😂
You have to watch Apaches, 1970's.
I've never drunk paraquat or drowned in a slurry pit thanks to that one 👍
Have you ever seen "When The Wind Blows"?
Proper tearjerker 😢
that car advert for seatbelts in the back. Julie knew her killer!
My favourite
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@@DustinHoward-xh9sl I remember that one. Very clever.
One scary PSA about seatbelts has stuck in my head. The voiceover script: "Like most victims, Julie knew her killer. It was her son, who was sitting behind her without a seat-belt. After crushing her to death, he sat back down."
I was hoping Alanna would see that one.
I thought that was 1 of them for a sec, but it turned out to be a different 'un.
That one still makes me feel sick!
I remember that clear as day - can we link other videos here? Not sure - it's on here as video v=mKHY69AFstE
Several on that channel. Not sure if I remember this one or not; I think I do but it was "post-watershed" so maybe not (it was "post-watershed" for a reason!) v=qsp-nrf_8KQ
We forget, perhaps, what a significant change the mandatory seatbelt law was - and how many people were utterly indignant that they should be required to use them. The visceral nature of these campaigns reflect the sea-change in public opinion that was needed for it to take full effect.
Yup, I still think about that. The way "sat back down" was said shudder
There's one from my childhood in the 2000s. It opens with a little dead girl led against a tree. She says "if you hit me at 40mph there's an 80% chance I'll die. If you hit me at 30mph there's an 80% chance I'll live" While she's speaking, tîme is moving backwards, the blood goes back in her ears, her wrists snap into place and she slides back into the road as if being dragged.
I remember that.
never forget that one. I always go 20 plenty because of that (and obv the law!)
Yep that one is seared into my mind too 😂
i remember the first night this was shown, they messed up, because right at the end the girl spoke, and she said "please hit me at 20" i was drinking coffee and choked on it, because it was literally asking drivers to run over children at 20 mph. They changed it within a week
oh god I'd forgotten about that one
I was born in 1973 in the UK ; can confirm that these ads were regularly screened - seeing them again takes me back to a time where our mum and dad would gladly send us out of the house for hours on end only expect us back several hours later. No mobile phones, no internet, no social media, good times!
Those were the days, back before dark was the only rule...
@@LoremIpsum1970 It is a bit odd to think we used street lights coming on to tell us it was time to go home :D
@@Єнот-т4й, my Dad used to whistle to let us know it was time to go home at night - that was in the 1950s.
Hunger or too dark to see the ball!
Yes. Climbing trees in the woods - falling out of them from insane heights but it didn't matter because the branches kind of cushioned the fall (a lot of pain and minor scrapes) and you ended up hiting soft grass or moss. It was hilarious fun as a 1970's child when you took the L like that.
Same with ponds in winter - absolutely we would skate on the frozen ice. Just don't go near the overhanging bushes - guess how I learnt that one when going under the ice? An L turned into a life threatening educational experience W.
For a more leisurely pastime go and invade the local landowners estate in order to collect as many conkers as possible - but hide from the gamekeepers who would use their shotguns at ruffians like me. (They really did but obviously shot in the sky and made us 7-8 year old scramble for our lives. We honestly believed the local lord was allowed to kill us on sight.)
So much more fun than anything kids get to do today.
Kids in the 70s needed to see PSAs like this. We wandered all over the place on our own.
So true. Got into all kinds of minor mischief as kids. Best memories ever. Lots of cuts and bruises.
It turned out the most dangerous place to be was in a car with Jimmy Savile.
So true, I the early 80s we would cross the rail way track, to get to the quarry to go swimming. On the way back we would enter the electricity sub station to get the frisbee stuck on the roof. Then get in the van with the old bloke who had the puppies to take us back home. We would pet the rabies infested puppies. We’d get home, watch Jimll fix it and then make some toast in the Bath before bed time before falling asleep sleep with a cigarette in my mouth at the age of 12
What? Can no one in Britain swim? No wonder they had to wait the D-day invasion until the Americans could get there.
Relax, people. It's just a joke.
@@CanWeNotKnockItI'd rather crash thru a windshield.
The spirit of dark and lonely water is one of the best pieces of film ever created.
Narrated by Donald Pleasance who could, despite his name, make anything sinister.
Especially when it's followed by Jim'll f** it.
It honestly kept me safe as a kid. We were allowed to roam more without parents and we definitely went near rivers etc. The advert definitely scared me enough to be cautious!
@@rosemarmion1655 I agree there was no way I was ever going to play in that water. you must be mad. It's full of run off from the local mine, there is old diesel oil, oil, supher, lead oxide, old car battery's,....... It was the 70's
@@TheEulerID from the great escape and halloween no less.
The stroke one hits me hard to this day, I remember seeing it on TV before I had to go to hospital to have my appendix removed. In the bed next to me was a nice older fella in his 50s, we got chatting a lot about different stuff, but suddenly he started slurring his words, I asked him if he was okay, more slurring. I started screaming for the doctors. They all came running and pulled the curtain around him, all I remember was the doctor shouting to him that he was having a stroke. He got whisked away to surgery and I never seen him again before I was discharged, but I did go back a few days later and thankfully he was alive and well. His son was visiting at the same time and I was able to explain what actually happened. They both thanked me but I just kept saying to thank the doctors and nurses. Sorry for the ramble, but that memory just came back as vivid as it was 18 years ago.
it's horrible
and a similar anti smoking one was awful too
That had to have been a scary experience for you, but thank goodness you were there and able to get help the instant you noticed something seemed amiss. If nobody else had been there or you hadn’t been conversing with him, who knows if he would have gotten help in time despite already being in a hospital?
The FAST stroke one definitely worked for my nephew - he was in a staff room having his lunch when he was experiencing his stroke and his lady workmate - who had recently seen the advert - noticed his face dropping and his mumbled speech and knew straightaway it was the sighs of a stroke and dialled 999. She literally “saved” him as the Paramedics were able to take him very quickly to a Stroke Unit at the hospital so that the Doctors there could treat him. If his workmate had not been aware of the Stroke signs and acted as the PSA said, my nephew would be very disabled…..
The recorded message you hear when phoning my doctor's surgery, includes the signs of a stroke as one of the conditions for which you need to phone 999.
Unless you're dealing with a severely understaffed NHS now so many foreign health workers have buggered off back to their countries after the idiotic Brexit fiasco, and you wait 6 hrs for the ambulance, then sit in the ER for another 3 while a kid with a bit of a cough and another with a broken ankle get triaged first 'because they arrived before you and we're working our way down the line'. Then you order a taxi to go back home because you are physically unable to sit in that waiting room chair anymore and just hope any damage isn't permanent.
“You numpty” 😂 you are certainly becoming more and more like us everyday 🥰
The point of being a "Drink Driver" is that you don't have to be "drunk" to be a peril behind the wheel of a car. Just drinking and driving is enough, because a second drink can take you over the legal limit for alcohol,, but at that point you are still a long way from actually being "drunk".
There's also yhe offence of being "unfit to drive", no limit there.
There's a phrase here in Ireland for someone who has consumed too much alcohol, as 'having drink taken'. Used more in Courts than general conversation nowadays.
@@robmontier3770 Also Drunk in charge of a Horse / Animal / Bicycle, so no riding to and from the pub.
@@robmontier3770 im not even dinking and that applies to me
@@tonys1636 Also: He's not a drunk, he just likes a drink.
That "don't leave glass on the beach" PSA was extremely effective.- we've NO glass on our beaches anymore, only plastic.
Which is at least less of a danger when stepping on it.
Now, how do we make people stop with that as well?
I remember a film showing a young boy walking around seeing people crying and upset, and wondering what had happened. He crosses a road and a car goes through him and he says 'that hurt more the first time!'
omg 💀
Was it the one about children more likely to die if hit by a car driven at 40 mph?
@@wilmaknickersfit I think that was the one with the little girl in the reversed impact footage. Hit at 35 = 70% chance of death, hit at 30 = 70% chance to survive iirc
"that hurt more the first time" ... thats what the Jimll fix it regulars used to say.
@@AdventuresAndNapsAt the moment I only 3:43 min,s in and these thinking that these may not be as bad as Apache a late 60,s BPSA which is made like a film and the complete thing is on UA-cam ,
Yup, the beach broken bottle gave me nightmares as a child. The 'Apaches' death on the farms were massively disturbing too.
They use drink driver to emphasise a little alcohol can be dangerous. Drunk driver would suggest it’s only a problem if you’re hammered.
The "boil a kettle on a boat" one was because of gas safety (or lack thereof on a lot of boat stoves). The spilling water could extinguish the flame but without a cut-off the gas would continue to flow and fill the boat (including the bilges) until it met a source of ignition. Venting the cabin wouldn't vent the bilge space, so the incident could happen later (for example when starting the motor).
The 'Drink Driver' thing is to let people know that you don't have to be drunk to have your judgement affected by the alcohol, the first thing that alcohol does is affect your perception and reaction time.
18:38 Storage heaters - my flat was a 70s new build and had them. When they were taken out, the bricks were too hot to touch barehanded for FOUR DAYS.
A lot of the PSA 's in the sixties and seventies were made by young filmmakers straight out of art school who later became famous producers and directors . Alan parker , Ridley Scott to name a couple . That's why they're so creative and a bit over the top !! lol
Scott of course did the iconic Hovis advert 'Boy on a bike.'
@@Elwaves2925 Filmed in Dorset though, despite the Northern accent and the colliery band playing Dvorak.
@@TheEulerID Gold Hill, if I recall correctly although I'd forgotten it was in Dorset. Cheers.
I'm pretty sure the squish sound was added later; that PSA (originally from Northern Ireland in 2014) was subject to a lot of reworking and memes. It's horribly reminiscent of the accident in July 2023 when a driver had a seizure and drove into an end-of-year party on the grounds of a London primary school, killing two students.
Definitely added, the splat sound effect was not in the original ad.
"Charley Says", if only to get to the Prodigy track of the same name that samples the PSA series heavily.
Fun fact: the cat was voiced by Kenny Everett
I lived in England when the "Charlie says" adds aired, year later I emigrated to Australia and was a head chef. One of my motivational phrases was 'Charlie says' and obviously no one knew what I was talking about, until my 2nd chef went on holidays to England and was watching late night t.v. and saw the adds in a comedy show.
He actually sent me a postcard telling me all about it and to this day it is still a regular greeting we share.
Boiling a kettle on a boat became a big problem in the 80s with Bullseye contestant winners!
laughed out loud , great comment sir !
Superb! I remember they actually released a Bullseye game for the BBC Micro in '80s. My sooper middle class rich friend was all like "Oh, this is so working clarse!".
I just found his reaction highly amusing rather than starting a class war and being a total dick.
(He was a great source of pirated games it has to be said)
She didn't think it was real did she?
excellent work
@@soudley8 SO DID I 😂😂😂😂
Nothing scares children like Jimmy Saville
😬
Surely he can fix it
Well, he was a national treasure at the time, or at least headed in that direction. Who didn't want to get on Jim'll Fix It?
In the 80s I was gutted as a kid I never got a reply when I wrote in to jim'll fix it, in hindsight I'm glad...wasn't broken then but might've needed fixed now 😂
Nothing like a mental trauma joke lol.
Maybe but the Rolf Harris PSA about swimming is very close.
The broken glass on a beach happened to me when I was a kid in the 1970s. Ruined my holiday. Whenever people react to these PIFs they omit 'The Finishing Line' - a 25' film about the dangers of playing on railway lines. Truly terrifying. It's on UA-cam.
I and my sister were extras in it.
You need to watch the ‘Charley Says’ & ‘Tufty Road Safety’ adverts…….they are classics
I just recommended Charlie Says. They ran for so long and I think they only made about half a dozen.
I was going to mention those, and they weren't scary the way most of these were. Check out the animated "learn to swim" ad starring Joe & Petunia.
There was a Road Safety ad that always stuck with my dad… cuz it had DARTH VADER in it!
@@CD-Gaming Aah yes, David Prowse as the Green Cross Code Man. I remember that well - Darth Vader unmasked.
The one with the car rolling over a class of kids is obviously meant to be just representational of a number, and not litterally a bunch of kids in one spot.
But the scary thing is a car has crashed through a school (cant remember if it went through a hedge or a wall) and killed a bunch of kids who were just innocently playing outside, it was in the news not too long ago.
The spirit of dark and lonely water is narrated by Donald Pleasance, who specialised in the sinister. He was in many films, and even played a Bond Villain.
Also, as far as don't get in a car with Jimmy Saville is concerned, he had that covered too. About the same time, he was the face of British Rail exhorting people to travel by train. "This is the age of the train" as the slogan was sung at us back in the 1970s.
Scary how many 70's tv stars were "not good people" !
"Let the Train take the Strain"
When you're a child of the Seventies and you see a news report about one of the stars of your childhood, you actually hope it's the announcement of their death because that's one of the two most likely reasons for them making the news now.
The other is that they've come to the attention of Operation Yewtree.
@@DEEJAYWAL You don't have to be a child of the seventies. I was a kid in the 80's & I still remember seeing the news & going "Oh, not Rolf Harris!"
I don’t know if it was because we lived in a semi rural area but whilst at junior school we were shown a PSA about being safe on a farm. From memory 1 kid drowned in a slurry pit, 1 kid impaled himself on metal spikes on a piece of farm equipment and another crashed a tractor and died.
it was called Apaches.
Loved this one
Also one drank weedkiller and died
I went to a rural school too - we were shown one called Never Rest, which sounds pretty similar.
I think there was a ghost in it - just for an added level of spookiness.
Yes. This. Is. Trauma.
British Health & Safety in the 70's & 80's. Do what you like, just don't come crying around here if it all goes wrong.
Don't say we didn't warn you either, serves you right, now go to your room!
By far the most traumatising one I’ve ever seen has to be that “Julie Knew Her Killer” one 😨
Try 'AIDS don't die of Ignorance' from the 80's another classic scare the crap out of you PSA
Yes, I was thinking of the AIDS ads. Truly terrifying.
If you can find it - The “Killer in the Backseat” PSA by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) is a memorable safety campaign. This PSA highlights the dangers of not wearing seat belts, especially for backseat passengers. The message is clear: even if you’re in the backseat, wearing a seat belt is crucial for your safety.
I remember thee voice over saying that it wasn't the on coming vehicle that killed the mother/father, but the unsecured child in the back seat that colllided with their head before it was ejected through the windscreen. Possibly 1980's or ealy 90's. Very scary.
i'm pretty sure that "Don't boil a kettle on a boat" is satire. might be Chris Morris on The Day Today or maybe some other forgotten sketch show like Big Train. british PSA's are usually well made but that one is thrown together from different sources - it's obviously a house kitchen. the exploding boat i recognise from programmes in the 70's and 80's. the rolling car PSA is Irish and it *doesn't* include the comical squishing noise but it does have some sound effects.
Well it’s Michael Spicer the UA-cam comedian… his name was clearly shown and his voice is quite distinctive.
We were shown these all the time when i was at school in the 80s. I have vivid memories of some of them...
We all do…
You HAVE to watch Apaches. It's set in the 70s and is about young children who play on a farm. It really scared me as a child and to this day I still am very wary of farms.
When I was 9 I jumped off a fence onto what I thought was grass, but was actually grass growing over a wooden board with a rather large nail in it. Went right through my shoe and foot. The worst part was having to remove myself from it so I could get home. Luckily managed to miss my bones somehow, didn't stop me jumping off fences but I did pay more attention to the ground after that :)
Same here but had to walk home with a plank 'nailed' to my foot! kids nowadays have it so easy! (luckily no lasting damage to my foot)
My school teacher did something similar whilst on holiday - but the other side was the top of a leaf covered greenhouse / vine house - He was lucky got some seriously bad cuts and broke both legs.
@@WoNkY_DoG I mean, I actually couldn't have done that, with what I was nailed to, but it didn't even occur to me to try. My memory is admittedly by this point what I've told people, I'm 40 and I was 8 or 9 when it happened. I remember going to the doctor's, and my friend was with me and we were nearer his house so we went there first. But yeah I had to detach myself from the nail to move anywhere.
@@rupertaitken3114 I think the broken legs might have been the bigger issue there :)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. Empathetic nervous response.
Moral of the frisbee in the electrical substation one is never listen to girls !
😂
Lol! Love it! :D x
Play on the train tracks instead. The ones where the third rail carries only 700 volts.
Yeah, get your own soddin frisbee!
The one with the lighter has a cut in the middle of it for some reason, the character actually burns the whole city down.
Yep, I thought it was missing a bit and expected that to happen the it didn't.
Nothing beats Protect and Survive for the scariest series of public information films.
"When you hear the air attack warning...."
"If someone in your sanctuary should die..."
And probably the most pointless 'advice' ever published! 😂 Neutronic radiation doesn't much care about bricks and the like!
The sound of fallout haunts my dreams.
@@UranusMcVitieFish-yd7oq "put them outside, remember to tag them first for identifications purposes."
Where"s the chest freezer one? Little Jimmy playing in the woods and gets in a freezer and the door shuts. Perfect Darwin Award winner!
I fell in a chest freezer when I was 8. I was leaning in to get an ice lolly and flipped in and the lid shut, I was on loaves of bread and meat. I could open the lid from the inside but still wary of chest freezers if they are not full to the brim
As I remember it was one of the old freezers with the external latching handle. They definitely locked and the you couldn't get out of them from the inside. I think that's why they changed the domestic freezers to magnetic catches.
What a chilled out way to go
@@lips5913 We had a fridge just like that... it lasted decades.
It was so retro it would still be cool now 🧊
As a small child I was convinced that countries like France and Spain were full of rabid dogs roaming around eager to bite small children like myself.
My mum was a vet but didn't really do much to reassure me.
Fear of rabies is worth hanging on to. Saw a dog with it in India. Then a dog bit me in Thailand, but did not break the skin. I washed it and crossed my fingers and still here 45 yrs later. (no vaccinations then)
Boats generally had gas bottles without a flame failure device ...
Boiling water overflows pan and extinguishes gas flame. Without a flame failure device the gas continues to pour out and lines the bilges, eventually igniting as a gas-air mixture.
The have since added flame failure devices ...
When I was young, many moons ago, there was a spate of explosions/fires on boats on the Norfolk Broads caused by similar events.
Also the Rolf Harris "learn to swim"😢😢😢😢
Swim away before he catches you
@@CamelCasee or get a "thumbs up" from Len Fairclough!!! [The OG PDF]
@@jamesbeeching6138 I'm creasing
The Rabies thing: we had these infos/ads because the UK was the last place in Europe which *didn't* have rabies! It was a really big deal because treatment was awful and not guaranteed to be successful and inoculation was (is?) hideous and expensive and unpleasant. It was a real problem in Europe because prevention and treatment were so difficult but UK did manage to keep it out. We used to visit France several times a year when I was a kid and I distinctly remember there were big campaigns there too about "La Rage" and scary posters of rabid dogs and maps of how far it had spread. It was a big deal.
Oh Alanna, I love your "go play on the train tracks instead" comment, naughty but...🤭 and your British accent and sense of humour are coming along swimmingly 😉
Oh, there were a number about the dangers of railway lines too. Similarly nightmare inducing.
@@mistycromThe Finishing Line. I was in it, aged about 9.
Ironically, Jimmy Saville became the face of the British Rail InterCity train travel ads, once he stopped doing "clunk click".
"this is the age, of the train...."
"He who shall not be named" was all over the telly in the 70s, fronting the "clunk clip "seatbelt campaign, and advert for British Rail.
He did a whole series of safety / first aid videos in the 80s.
At no point did he mention the danger of being alone with him!
Our PSAs have always been prety visceral. They get their point across and don't pull any punches, even our modern ones are quite graphic.
It's made my evening seeing this. The most priceless moment is when Alanna says "I love those fashions"......only to then be obviously thinking "Holy crap, that poor kid really does have rabies". And it wasn't staged, it was real! The reason the announcer said "that was a public information film" is because it would have been shown on the BBC, probably late at night, in order to remove any suggestion it was an ad.
Was the word you were looking for "Visceral"? Also my preferred drink driving ad was the one where the Bartender basically acts out the whoel situation, becoming a police officer, a judge, the man's boss firing him, in a rapidfire series of impersonations, then goes back to neutral with "So... what'll it be?" which is a great double-meaning.
"C'mon, Dave. Just one more."
God, that one’s so powerful and so well acted!
“I’ve lost my job, my wife left me, can’t see the kids…” I believe it went like that, I know the one you’re on about, I’d forgot about that!
I’ve seen reviewers say that was one of the worst because they thought the guy’s acting was terrible. But I love that one too. As you said, that question at the end definitely has a double meaning. It’s really more clever when you stop to think about it.
The water death one continues to save my life back in the seventies and still to this day. I have always been strangely attracted to any water even puddles float my boat. I have literally got into the situations those kids got into and remembered at the last minute that advert and got myself out of there. Just A few years ago (I am now 62) while working down In Darwin Australia the water near my hotel cast it’s magical charm. I snaked past a broken fence to get a better look at a well known fish pool hopped across a few rocks then all of a sudden this advert came into my head and I moved further back from the waters edge. A minute later I noticed a log drifting towards the spot I was trying to get to only it was not a log but a humongous salt water crocodile. Thank You scary British PSA’s!
The voice on the first one ‘Lonely water’ was Donald Pleasance, ex Bond villain (Blofeld) and Dr Loomis in the Halloween films- amongst many others.
APACHES is a 70s public information film about the dangers of children playing in and around farmyards,it was brutal and scared the crap out of me as child despite the fact I didn’t live anywhere near a farm.
More fun ones were "Charlie Says" and the Green Cross Code Man (aka Darth Vader)
I'll never forgive George Lucas for not using his voice.
Oi foind yer lack of faith disturrbing.
Jimmy Saville!!! The last thing kids needed to worry about in his company was not wearing a seatbelt!!
The point is/was, you don't have to be 'drunk' (from the perspective of most Brits), to be a 'Drink Driver'.
“Spirit of Dark Water”? My, you’re certainly jumping in at the deep end for you first British PSA! No pun intended! And I most certainly remember that 2009 drink driving one, it was actually jus one of many done in the same fashion! Speaking of drink drive PSAs, I remember one from when I was a kid in the 90s, it had Summer Time playing, they were in a beer garden, they supped up, got in a car and we saw them drive off, the camera panning up and the next image was them still in the car wrapped round a lamppost! British ads, everyone and you wonder why we are the way we are!
Still get nervous walking past sub stations or near any kind of power lines and I am 45 now, those public information films, were very scary when they were shown in daylight hours for me as a youngster in the 1980s.
the Irish RSA (Road Safty Authority), the ones made by the Republic, not Northern Ireland, are pretty hard hitting, and some of them are pretty graphic
Suggest check out Joe and Petunia Public Information Films for a funnier cartoon side, Coastguard is a classic, Joe and Petunia were in quite a few and I loved them as a young nipper 😁
Coooeeeeee Lubley day int it
The police, fire brigade and ambulance service used to come into our schools and show us these in assembly!
"I think we are in for a shock today"
Presses play and immediately sees Jimmy Saville.
Yeah, that's perfect timing.
That "don't boil a kettle on a boat" made me actually LOL so thanks!
I remember all of these, and I can tell you they worked. Gen X is the generation who grew up living great childhoods without a Nanny State controlling every aspect of our lives, and we survived. A lot of cuts and bruises, but we survived. These films did stick in your head.
We also had 30 minute films in the classroom about playing on building sites, farms, and by canals.
Did your teacher just put episodes of Casualty on that they taped the night before?
Aye. I remember the police coming to our school with a video about trespassing on the railway. Never did that particular thing again.
I remember my parents comforting me any time nuclear war was mentioned by telling me "Don't worry we live in London we'll be dead before we know it's happened."
Remember watching "When the Wind Blows" cos it looked like "Snowman" and "Fungus"?
Wow.
@@doyle8711That is the quintessential stiff upper lip.
14:26 "We've got to traumatise our children, do you know what I mean?" I love how you cut straight after saying this, but we could still see a few frames of that smile afterwards as you couldn't take what you were saying too seriously hahaha
Hi Alana, I grew up in the 70's and remember these. Ironically, whilst the government was scaring us to death with PSA's in order to be "safe", they were providing us with "Adventure Playgrounds". These were basically buildings sites for kids to play on, yet adults would not be allowed on them without safety equipment and extensive training !
The "drink driver" as opposed to "drunk" was because they advocated zero alcohol if you were driving. Drunk would imply you could have "some" so long as you didn't get drunk.
When I got over the trauma of all these PSA's, I made it to the 80's where I could have the time of my life with lots of beautiful girls - NO, we will now scare you to death with lots of AIDS PSA's. They were really grim.
BTW:- Your Anglofication is coming along. Nice use of both "Numpty" and "Bint" 🤣
Remember the one with the kid balancing on that pillar next to the train track…he falls the bahm..baaaaaah. Train rushes through.
The little girl saying “hit me at 30mph” is the one that sticks in my head
she said "please hit me at 20" and that was only for the first week, they changed it when they realised that it was asking drivers to run children over on purpose at 20 mph
(edit) i remember as this nearly put me in hospital the first time it was shown as i nearly drowned on my coffee
"This video is sponsored by me" is a refreshing touch. Hope sales go well!
Edit. Just bought 15 Ml of 'Chartwell'. To use North American parlance..."We shall fight them on the bleachers"...
🙏🏻
Opening few seconds I thought "please don't tell me you've been sucked into a MLM"
Thankfully that notion was quickly disavowed and it's her own company making artisan products. Faith restored.
From N Ireland 'The Cat's in the Cradle' confidental telephone line PSA from during the troubles sticks in my mind. Theres a few more road safety ones from there as well but the class of children one os the most remembered.
Form the mainland, 'she knew her killer/then he sat back down again' is a good one.
Mr Cholmondley-Warner's ' Women know your limit's ' was the best ever PSA. 🙂👍. It warned of the dangers inherent in women over extending themselves 🤣.
"There's One born every minute" is a common English phrase! And that's a vast under estimation!!
There were less cars on the road in the seventies and no screen technology, so kids went out and explored their environment, thus the plethora of horrific PSA's.
You need to watch the 1977 PSA "Apaches" - alternatively known as "if you live on a farm, your children are going to die horribly"
Hope Charlie the Cat is on here - (Stay away from Strangers - unless they have a fish, I think)
I always eat fish like Charlie now.
Ah "Charley Says..."
Keith from 'The Prodigy' liked this one too
First video of yours I saw I thought you said: "Hi, it's me. My name is Alanna. I'm a comedian". However, having watched dozens of them now, I have to say that you always bring a smile to my face. So, keep up the good work. I always look forward to another one.
I sometimes wonder how we survived the 1970s. My personal favourites, in a gentler vein, are Reginald Molehusband parking his car and Augustus Windsock safely overtaking on his bicycle.
Remember these being on the TV when I was a kid in the 70's. Scared the crap out of me, job done. Great way to get the messages across.
I remember all of these. I'm 52 and still alive, despite being basically stupid, so they obviously worked. The most horrific was one of the Public Information Films, which could be five or ten minutes long; from 1977 it's called The Finishing Line and features school kids on a railway line.
They showed us that one in school.
As a child of the 70s every PSA was determined to traumatise me….and they did, lol. Never did any of that stupid stuff though, so I guessed they worked! That “Don’t Boil a Kettle on A Bost” spoof kills me everytume, I laugh so hard I can barely breathe….is that safe? Lol
Don't you just love UA-cam? They have the ad break just as the car slides sideways and then resume the crash after the ads - revenue over disaster!!
Because no tv network ever cut a show/movie just before some climactic point for an ad.
An adblocer fixes this type of thing.
@@lobbymccawker2083 Agreed, but why should I pay to not have something that I didn't ask for? That wasn't the real point of the comment it was just the terrible timing.
@@clivewilliams3661 adblockers are free.
Uk psa videos have no chill I’ve seen 2 at school one was when I was 7 and a boy ran onto train tracks got severely injured(showed ever bit gore)and the boy was screaming for his mum and every time it got weaker and weaker the boy was screaming and crying and after like half a minute died every kid including me were balling our eyes out second was where in died instantly on the train tracks and the people in charge just went
“Make him explode”
And the after scene of him getting hot had blood everywhere and his head just rolling around and later we see him as a ghost crying in a cop car as his parents hear and cry after hearing their son died I was only 9😭
You've not scratched the surface when it comes to traumatizing PSA's - Check out "Apaches" to see a group of adventurous little tykes get massacred in inventive ways. As for the 1970's PSAs about fireworks... gruesome. There were also a series of "Follow the Country Code" animated PSAs with Joe and Petunia, being terrible city-folk who ruin the countryside/seaside.
Sparkler 😮
Kids were more resilient than the snowflakes of today ....
I remember Joe and Petunia on the beach waving back to in the sea Dave who is actually drowning! "Coo-eee!" 😂
@@wilmaknickersfitYes! 🤣🤣🤣
They showed Apaches twice in my rural primary school projected in the classroom when I was there in the late 80s. It was such a small school that there were only 2 classrooms so some very young kids saw it. To cheer the us up they showed a very old fashioned early 1950s cartoon called Lambeth the Sheepish Lion that I've never seen anywhere else, except of course it's on UA-cam these days.
It was right to show it to us. One of the kids was run over by his dad's tractor once but thankfully the farmyard was so muddy he was ok.
if you ovefilled the kettle without putting the lid on properly , once the kettle boiled it put out the flame but did not stop the gas supply to the rings . having a whistle on kettles letting you know they were boiling was great , but they didn't work if the lid wasn't on right . gas poisoning with a potential fire risk .
Before the Don't Drink and Drive campaign ... people drove home drunk, because they "were fine", after, you got designated drivers, who got free cokes at the bar...
The water safety haunts me now 50 years on, and the don’t leave glass on the beach is the reason I’m terrified about going barefoot on the beach even now
Getting shocked by a power station is much worse in person. I had a friend die this way when I was 14. He was 12. He climbed up the pylon and put his hand close to the top and the electric jumped into him. Killing him instantly, he fell to the ground and landed on the big spiky fence below.
Strewth, talk about overkill!
Growing up there was a pylon in the garden of the house next door. We used it as a climbing frame. Our parents never said a word.
@@shaunfarrell3834 kids are fearless because they don't understand
Had some `likely lads `climb over the fence to a big substation to knick the cable`s , we live a mile away and saw the flash just as the lights went off ,,,,say no more
I don't have to imagine watching that first PSA - I saw it as a child!
Re "drink driver" I think the British term is better. The point is that you don't need to be what you'd consider "drunk" to be impaired enough to get someone killed while driving.
Quite correct; we gave those ‘across the pond’ the correct words but they messed up the English, as they are oft do 🤨🤔
Imagine seeing that as a child? I don't need to I was a child in the 1970s.
Surely the most useful PIF was the "Reginald Molehusband" film on how to park a car.
There were a few more of those Irish road safety ones, all equally as brutal. Also, in case anyone didn't realise that cartoon squish sound was not in the ad, whoever posted the video you watched obviously added it in.
I love how Michael Spicer's parody of 1970's PSA's came up in Alanna's search, I encourage everyone to watch his other videos, they are hilarious!
I was scrolling down to see if anyone else had spotted this. The fact his parody was so well done that it’s accepted as real alongside the others is hilarious to me.
"Poison sockets" is also a good parody.
My wife, Rhona, is an actress and she was in one of the drink drive adverts from around 2000. Hers was about summertime drinking in a pub garden. Same sudden crash effect.
The advert paid well, and she just had to sit in a pub garden for a day!
Brian.
I remember that one because it used a really popular song and was really shocking.
As a kid in the '70s, I remember these. They were scary. I suppose the objective was to frighten kids into staying out of danger, maybe give them nightmares, but I did the kind of stupid things these kids do, so it didn't work with me. Kids just think it won't happen to them. By contrast, there was a series of cartoon information films featuring a cat called Charlie who would hold a child back from danger, speak in garbled cat-speak to the child and the child would translate for viewers what Charlie had said. My friends and I thought it was funny rather than earnest.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s, and these PSAs did make me think about being safer. They made me afraid of danger, and taught me to look out for myself.
Your reactions were funny. If I remember correctly seat belts were not mandatory here in the UK until the 1970's, so getting people to wear them back them using adverts made sense.
I think it was the 80's.
@@elemar5 1983
small point about seat belts, they were created by the us airforce during one of their wars due to losing more pilots to car accidents than to combat.
I'm 60, born in 1964 and I can remember most of these, the 70's what a time to be a kid, Jimmy Saville and Gary Glitter (who I actually met, but was fine) three channels on the telly and powercuts so you couldn't watch it anyway.
That Irish anti speeding one has been altered by the internet, that cartoon squishing sound was never in it lol
Drink Driver implies that you don't need to be drunk... you only need a need a drink... we use both drunk and drink, but drink is aimed at those who frequently drink and drive because they don't get drunk. The law is not being drunk whilst driving...
That's what I was thinking - I don't remember the sound effect!
I'm pretty sure it was on in the UK too or perhaps doing the rounds on the internet, because I definitely remember seeing it at the time.
Drink driver is rarely used and usually only when taking about a specific incident.
@@Gambit771 No... clueless people use "Drunk Driver" in the UK... Authorities, law enforcement and everyone who has done research use Drink Driver. I was being polite... until you came along.
This is true. I can confirm that the comic sound effect was not in the original version. The use of such a noise would have caused huge public offence and would have been seen as a deliberate insult to countless grieving families.
It's Northern Irish. Not Irish.
there was a girl at a local school that got squished by a dumper truck, all that was left was a pool of blood, as her body got stuck between the double wheels at the back of the truck, after that accident they banned trucks from that village
The Irish speeding PSA you watched had that ridiculous sound effect added. The original is at ua-cam.com/video/Wv1rKHGeMRk/v-deo.html
Yes- the first time I watched the real one it was the most shocking ad ever, closely matched by one whose care driver is killed by the head of the child thrown forward in the collision.
Northern Irish. Not Irish.
I think we say ‘drink driver’ because you don’t need to be drunk to be over the safe limit. Perhaps in USA more people will get drunk off a small amount of alcohol?
the fireworks adverts were shocking back in the 70s and 80s
I know a guy who was blinded by fireworks, he wrote to Sir Jim about his dream of milking cows, sir Jim fixed it for him, he spend hours milking a cow that day.