Tv was so elegant and classy the year I was born heart and feeling went into them love old adverts there's something about times gone by and seeing the same tv your nan and parents saw 😢❤
lovely memories.... remember woolies... aaaargh imagine if you could go back.. just one night ...sit in the living room and listen to the family argue over the telly.. just once more... lovely...
You won't get a pint and a Castella together today, only if you stand in the draughty outhouse or have one at home! Loved the chocolate ad with Mel Smith - remember it well!
Seeing this now as an adult is truly sobering even though it is very much modern history in the making. I never had alcohol aged 10 in 83 nor did I ever recall any takeaways (only) fantasies of a loving family and a pair of roller boots only middle-class families could afford.
Thanks for the memories. I remember all the family sat around the TV watching these together as a special occasion. Not now, My eldest son is on his X box in his room and youngest watching TV in his bedroom. What have we done? I blame myself.
Im big Minder fan and ive noticed there are many of these adds and others from way back which stars most of the actresses and actors from the very early years of Minder,Just pure gold and the best...you really dont get ads like this anymore.
These memories are like a warm feeling in your stomach . Happy times , no smartphones, no social media, no progenda news . Just straight honest advetts .
And the contents were of better quality. My cousin told me that when she was a kid in the 60s, Quality Street tins were elbow deep. Nowadays, they're so shallow, you can easily find the bottom of the tub by poking your finger in.
All the moaners about quality street.... you can still get the large tins www.amazon.co.uk/Nestle-Quality-Street-Large-Tin-1-3kg/dp/B01551KHU6/ref=sr_1_5_s_it?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1512473701&sr=1-5&keywords=quality+street Also the price as actually reduced since the 1980's by loads
Those were the 1kg tins not 2lb's. :D Born in 68 remember those tins.. there were two sizes by the way regular and the larger 1kg tins. Still have a 1kg Quality street tin in fact, it's from the late seventies, it's my button box lol...
You won't today you just see black plenty of it and Whyte women in a fake living room pretending to be a couple ...sad eh the false representation of TV today even though they are only 3%.
Everybody here seems to be missing the singularly most important fact from these ads....you could get a Millenium Falcon from Debenhams for less than 20 quid!!
I was 12 back then and I remember every single advert, especially the Woolworths advert with Joe Brown at the end - GREAT NOSTALGIC MEMORIES, LOVED IT!! XX
Fake normalising of mix race couples black man with white woman..when we all know that most of our decent white women wouldn't go any where near them..and the skregs that do end up pregnant and single with Leroy no where to be seen....#keep it white live life right.🏴
I often leave comments about how muck I hate Ads creeping in on UA-cam and yet here I am watching a video dedicated to Ads from 1983 purely for nostalgic reasons. I need to re-think my life.
Yes, Sascha Distelle did advertise Mandate, and the BBC claimed it was first advertised by him in 1979, but this is disputed. UK newspaper ads seem to place the advent of this product in the early 1980s.
You have a great memory! I'm not calling you a liar, but I was a Mandate fan from early on (how embarrassing) and thought it later than '79. Also, none of my video collection and newspaper archives contain ads for it in 1979. I recall the BBC stating it was 1979 in the "Class Of..." programme, but some BBC research has been discredited following the "I Love 1970s" series. The Space Hopper was first in the UK in 1971 according to the BBC - it's actually in UK newspaper toyshop ads from 1969!
83 was my favourite christmas. i was 9, got a pull back knight rider car. it squeeked but i loved it. we will have watched 321. a couple of days ago my 13 year old nephew asked who dusty bin was..... a bin for a prize???? i guess you had to be there.
Wow!! Black Magic. Thanks a lot. £1 off the Millenium Falcon in Debenhams' toy sale...Big deal. Kestrel? The thinking man's lager? Uh? I remember quite a few of these. Exellent!!
Wow what a trip down memory lane! We all now know the secret of the Black Magic Box, they are bloody awful! Imagine trying to get a signal on that big red 1983 mobile? And Hugh Laurie looks about 12 in that lager ad, bless him!
I guess it's mostly nostalgia. But this was a time when you had more local television and small companies could afford to advertise. Imagine seeing a regional advert now or for motor oil. There's an honesty there too. Modern adverts are too clever and up they're own ass (or pc propaganda) or even worst sinse deregulation crappy junk adverts for laywers or shark loans and every 15 mins, ugh. modern junk junk junk. I think it's a sign that it hasn't been good really since the millenium.
Hi...did you ever see a crown paints ad with the colors by a roller going up and down the screen with kind of Jamaican piano mucic in the background....real catchy tune too.......80's i think....looked for years...still can't find it!
there is a classic joke in the Xmas special of Only Fools & Horses "To Hull and Back" about The Bear (the constellation) sitting on top of a glacier mint. Dated joke but very very funny
i don't see why they can't rerun this ads now. Quality street is still very popular and recently they have started showing an old milky way red/blue car toon
@AlannTH Look at the woman's face here: 01:47. She's thinking; "Oh god! Not that awful cat's pee again?" Then here 02:01 she's thinking; "You won't get into my knickers tonight Johnny!"
Hey man, thanks for the compliment!! That BBC series (I Love My Asss!!) really pissed me off. Because it was soo inaccurate in places. They said that Tucker's Luck, the Grange Hill spin-off series, aired in 1984 when I clearly remember it being shown during April / May of 1983. I even have an audio recording of a BBC2 trailer for the show.
I remember the Old Spice advert, that particularly tended to crop up at Christmas. As a kid at the time, I thought the song went like this: Old Spice Old Spice Old Spice Old Spice Old Spice a la la la-la Old Spice Old Spice Old Spice a la la la-la (crescendo) Old Spice Old Spice Old Spice ah ah a la la Old-a-ning Spice Of course, I now know it's "O Fortuna" from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
what was the ad about a beer that refreshed the parts other beers couldn't reach? was that British or American? and I vaguely remember someone sending it up with 'refreshes the parts other beers are too tactful too notice' - that sounds definitely British! and is that Tom Baker doing the voice over for Skol??
Tv was so elegant and classy the year I was born heart and feeling went into them love old adverts there's something about times gone by and seeing the same tv your nan and parents saw 😢❤
lovely memories.... remember woolies... aaaargh imagine if you could go back.. just one night ...sit in the living room and listen to the family argue over the telly.. just once more... lovely...
Takes me back to better times
You won't get a pint and a Castella together today, only if you stand in the draughty outhouse or have one at home! Loved the chocolate ad with Mel Smith - remember it well!
Seeing this now as an adult is truly sobering even though it is very much modern history in the making. I never had alcohol aged 10 in 83 nor did I ever recall any takeaways (only) fantasies of a loving family and a pair of roller boots only middle-class families could afford.
I miss Woolworths especially around Christmas time.
Thanks for the memories. I remember all the family sat around the TV watching these together as a special occasion. Not now, My eldest son is on his X box in his room and youngest watching TV in his bedroom. What have we done? I blame myself.
I used to love these Christmas adverts
Love that black magic advert it's like yesterday watching it right now the music .it all comes flooding back Xmas 83♥️
Top notch, so many memories from being a ninteen year old.
these were the times when we did'nt have a care in the world.
Thanks for posting.
Love these old, classic ads.
Im big Minder fan and ive noticed there are many of these adds and others from way back which stars most of the actresses and actors from the very early years of Minder,Just pure gold and the best...you really dont get ads like this anymore.
Bloody hell - I'd completely forgotten about Pint & Castella and When you know Skol, you're a Skolar.
Great childhood memories
These memories are like a warm feeling in your stomach . Happy times , no smartphones, no social media, no progenda news . Just straight honest advetts .
that music for black magic is smooth!!!!
I remember the Quality Street ad, that massive tin was about 2lb! Not the cheap and nasty plastic tub with only 750grams in it! Those were the days!
And the contents were of better quality. My cousin told me that when she was a kid in the 60s, Quality Street tins were elbow deep. Nowadays, they're so shallow, you can easily find the bottom of the tub by poking your finger in.
All the moaners about quality street.... you can still get the large tins
www.amazon.co.uk/Nestle-Quality-Street-Large-Tin-1-3kg/dp/B01551KHU6/ref=sr_1_5_s_it?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1512473701&sr=1-5&keywords=quality+street
Also the price as actually reduced since the 1980's by loads
Those were the 1kg tins not 2lb's. :D Born in 68 remember those tins.. there were two sizes by the way regular and the larger 1kg tins. Still have a 1kg Quality street tin in fact, it's from the late seventies, it's my button box lol...
Jeez it’s years since I’ve seen a black magic advert!
You won't today you just see black plenty of it and Whyte women in a fake living room pretending to be a couple ...sad eh the false representation of TV today even though they are only 3%.
Everybody here seems to be missing the singularly most important fact from these ads....you could get a Millenium Falcon from Debenhams for less than 20 quid!!
Brilliant what a flashback.......wish id never thrown away those old vhs tapes
Now all I need is Bond, Star Wars figures and chocolate. Thank you.
I was 12 back then and I remember every single advert, especially the Woolworths advert with Joe Brown at the end - GREAT NOSTALGIC MEMORIES, LOVED IT!! XX
Best part Christmas TV the ads always looked forward to the ads LOL💜
How times have changed. Advertising a cigar with a pint. I was 11 back then and surpsiingly remember some of these.
Why can't they make simple but classy adverts like these anymore?!!!
Because you have to have a black man with the white woman now.
I mean white woman WITHOUT a black man, now.
Fake normalising of mix race couples black man with white woman..when we all know that most of our decent white women wouldn't go any where near them..and the skregs that do end up pregnant and single with Leroy no where to be seen....#keep it white live life right.🏴
The voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in the Pint & Castella ad... awesome stuff. So many flashbacks with these.
I often leave comments about how muck I hate Ads creeping in on UA-cam and yet here I am watching a video dedicated to Ads from 1983 purely for nostalgic reasons. I need to re-think my life.
Fun memories. Mum always had a box of Black Magic for Christmas and Dad Old Spice :)
Nicolette Sheridan as the Martini Girl - brilliant!
Hard to believe but yes. And the late Sacha Distelle used to advertise it in the '70s.
Look how deep that quality street tin is. I swear it would make a nice starter home these days.
Eat all the toffees, then split the tin up into 5 bedsits.
MeTheRob
Mercenary. I like it.
eddie lasowsky
Yes, Sascha Distelle did advertise Mandate, and the BBC claimed it was first advertised by him in 1979, but this is disputed. UK newspaper ads seem to place the advent of this product in the early 1980s.
That Mandate bloke puckering up and baring down on the screen used to make my skin crawl!
That’s what you called a tin of quality street
You have a great memory! I'm not calling you a liar, but I was a Mandate fan from early on (how embarrassing) and thought it later than '79. Also, none of my video collection and newspaper archives contain ads for it in 1979.
I recall the BBC stating it was 1979 in the "Class Of..." programme, but some BBC research has been discredited following the "I Love 1970s" series. The Space Hopper was first in the UK in 1971 according to the BBC - it's actually in UK newspaper toyshop ads from 1969!
The advert at 4.40 shows just how much times have changed.
Cant beat woolies a proper family shop
That IS Hugh Laurie. I love love love him.
You weird, weird, weirdo....
83 was my favourite christmas. i was 9, got a pull back knight rider car. it squeeked but i loved it. we will have watched 321. a couple of days ago my 13 year old nephew asked who dusty bin was..... a bin for a prize???? i guess you had to be there.
I'm sure that in the Skol advert the bloke's mate in the red t-shirt is Robert Glenister.
In the Sasha Mandate ad he was seen cuddling a lady on a sofa. "It's all right, she's my wife!" he grinned.
Wow!! Black Magic. Thanks a lot. £1 off the Millenium Falcon in Debenhams' toy sale...Big deal. Kestrel? The thinking man's lager? Uh?
I remember quite a few of these. Exellent!!
Fuck. I was eight then and still remember every single one like it were yesterday.. Scary thoughts.. Thanks for the trip.
There are LOADS of ads from the '70s and '80s that I recall, and haven't seen on You Tube...alas.
Wow what a trip down memory lane! We all now know the secret of the Black Magic Box, they are bloody awful! Imagine trying to get a signal on that big red 1983 mobile? And Hugh Laurie looks about 12 in that lager ad, bless him!
To elaborate further, O Fortuna is the opening (and closing) chorus of Carl Orff's setting of "Carmina Burana"
In the description it says 'ITV Granada'. At this time it was still known as 'Granada Television'.
I liked old Sasha too. So don't be ashamed. He was a suave debonaire type of guy back in the '70s. A ladeez man to look up to.
Nice to see house in the Kestrel advert.
Starting to feel Christmassy now. Time to check out the old tv Christmas indents.
those Quality Street tins were massive back in the day.
I remembered most of those - except the Mel Smith cupid...Well - maybe my memory was protecting me from an image of Mel Smith semi-clothed...
Bloody hell! I remember watching these whilst playing with my spirograph set!!
Me too and my lego ❤
I guess it's mostly nostalgia. But this was a time when you had more local television and small companies could afford to advertise. Imagine seeing a regional advert now or for motor oil. There's an honesty there too. Modern adverts are too clever and up they're own ass (or pc propaganda) or even worst sinse deregulation crappy junk adverts for laywers or shark loans and every 15 mins, ugh. modern junk junk junk. I think it's a sign that it hasn't been good really since the millenium.
And the adverts nowadays have more BLK people than Whyte in them even though they are only 3% ...sickening eh..
Give me these ads over today's craporama
The first meeting between the Doctor and Sabalom Glitz in the Skol advert.
Ha ha! You're not allowed the pleasure of "a pint and Castella" now, unless you sit outside!
Hi...did you ever see a crown paints ad with the colors by a roller going up and down the screen with kind of Jamaican piano mucic in the background....real catchy tune too.......80's i think....looked for years...still can't find it!
It's called Carmina Burana by carl Orff.
Tom Baker doing the Skol advert! "Hyper-intelligent mega-being from a distant galaxy!" It could be a Jon Culshaw Dead Ringers sketch, couldn't it?
there is a classic joke in the Xmas special of Only Fools & Horses "To Hull and Back" about The Bear (the constellation) sitting on top of a glacier mint.
Dated joke but very very funny
Yes. There was a longer version. And it scared me too. Eeeek!
Im with you ah1701!!! jeez! I miss the 80s (live in America now!-xmas not the same) merry xmas for this yr though..Steve St Louis Missouri
Great ads, thanks! My dad used to use Old Spice back in the 80's, right after he'd 'bicked his face up' with a good old bick razor lol.
Great quality! Aah brilliant nostalgia :)
i don't see why they can't rerun this ads now. Quality street is still very popular and recently they have started showing an old milky way red/blue car toon
This is awesome. Excruciatingly awesome.
Briliant, thankyou.
Hilarious. I so miss the 80s.
Definitely the 70s&80s were the best decades all over the world. .
I notice the Quality Street tins were bigger in those days!
Is that Tony Selby tending bar in the Skol ad? If so, how fitting Tom Baker is doing the voiceover.
@AlannTH
Look at the woman's face here: 01:47. She's thinking; "Oh god! Not that awful cat's pee again?" Then here 02:01 she's thinking; "You won't get into my knickers tonight Johnny!"
Have to say the video quality is fantastic, well done whoever posted this!! (You didnt get a LOGIK vcr then, lol!!!)
Isn't that Tony "Sabalom Glitz" Selby behind the bar in the Skol advert?
I was born in 1983, just wanted to see what the ads were like when I was born. Quite cool
Ambiefyer I like to see what adverts were like before I was born.
Hey man, thanks for the compliment!! That BBC series (I Love My Asss!!) really pissed me off. Because it was soo inaccurate in places. They said that Tucker's Luck, the Grange Hill spin-off series, aired in 1984 when I clearly remember it being shown during April / May of 1983. I even have an audio recording of a BBC2 trailer for the show.
OMG I have one of those skol mugs!
Mandate's New Slogan Should Be "No Means No, But No Means Yes To Me"
A Pint and Castella, get em together!
That would be Heineken refreshing the parts other beers cannot reach! XD
No. I quite clearly recall seeing the Mandate ads during 1979.
Has anybody got the 1989 ITV Christmas ident, when the V turned into a Christmas tree please?
I think I saw Rula Lenska in the 'Woolworths' ad!
I can't remember his name, but I'm sure the guy narrating the Castella ad is the same actor who played "Harry", in CITIZEN SMITH.
Hugh Laurie pretending to be "working class" in the Kestrel Larger advert.
I remember the Old Spice advert, that particularly tended to crop up at Christmas. As a kid at the time, I thought the song went like this:
Old Spice Old Spice
Old Spice Old Spice
Old Spice a la la la-la
Old Spice Old Spice
Old Spice a la la la-la
(crescendo)
Old Spice Old Spice
Old Spice ah ah a la la Old-a-ning Spice
Of course, I now know it's "O Fortuna" from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
I think you were right all along.
Anthony valentine was always narrating ads back then
Dr. Gregory House selling Kestrel Lager. Brilliant
Oh my word, Hugh Laurie.
When voice overs were excellent ❤❤❤❤
Yeah, I was wondering what that song was too, first time I heard it was in a preview video for Phantasmagoria.
what was the ad about a beer that refreshed the parts other beers couldn't reach? was that British or American?
and I vaguely remember someone sending it up with 'refreshes the parts other beers are too tactful too notice' - that sounds definitely British!
and is that Tom Baker doing the voice over for Skol??
Who would have thought that 30 years on Joe Brown would still be doing the business ?
God bless Woolworth xx
Why didn't we seem to mind the adverts in those days?
Was that Nicolette Sheridan as the Martini girl??
Robert Vaughn camio in the Tia Maria ad!
That, cracked me up!! lol.
Longest commercial break in history!
lol at the debenhams toy sale, save £1 on castle grayskull and the millenium falcon.
amzing savings