Got to love how that British twang was still in ads, news and docos around then. I am glad it left over the next decade so you could hear proper Australian accents.
As someone pointed out to me ages ago when I first found the tape; Jeff's an idiot for not immediately retiring when he won the Pools. Buying a new truck so he could keep working? With that much cash in 1978 He could have become the Imperial Leather family.
Yep, every commercial, instant reply in my memory! Haven't seen that 'Summer Seven' ID since it originally aired. I remember that campaign and dubbing all the IDs to ACR at Seven Sydney (all that quad 2" banding all over it!). I'd only been there a year and yep _"You get to do all the dubbing young lad!"_ 10:08 nice to see Stewart Wagstaff again, lovely man. Ah "Simon, Tahiti" - still use that phrase. 11:33 😂😂😂😂. Love your channel David.
@@davidthegreen Apart from the obvious changeover period towards 1" tape, i'd say right up to around '84 ish. The cart machines that played the commercials were all 2", so that pushed along the format until actually mid 90" (those machines were VERY expensive to replace, so they kept them going with sticky tape & glue). When 2" tape stopped being produced, that forced stations to find alternatives.
Only discoved this channel today. It's excellent! Had a laugh at the breville tea maker. I've got a set of those glass Tea cups with the square saucer 😅
10:20 That's not just any posh bloke, that's Stuart Wagstaff, well known at the time. He was on the Australian version of Blankety Blanks in 1977 and 1978 with Graham Kennedy where he was often the up-tight foil to Kennedy's... Kennedy-ness. He worked with Kennedy earlier on stuff like In Melbourne Tonight. He also did hundreds of Benson and Hedges commercials. He died of pulmonary fibrosis.
He was also a stage actor appearing in My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music, and hosted Stuart Wagstaff's World Playhouse on the ABC (a series of one-off Australian and overseas productions). There's a story of Stuart flying to Perth and back on a Christmas Day with Graham Kennedy, because Kennedy had no-one to spend Christmas with.
3:48 It's wild that the bug spray canister would have been brand new, but already looks like it's been sitting in your grandmother's cupboard for 45 years. That font, man.
Bonza! I was hoping to see a tape from the 70s on the show. Didn't think it was going to be on a U-matic tape. In fact, this is the first time I've ever heard of this format.
Malcolm Douglas, Alby Mangels, Harry Butler, the Leyland Brothers - we loved our bushman TV stars back in the day, lol. Legit started singing along to that Salada ad - that jingle i(like so many others) is seared into my brain. Mum always bought Cusson's soap - my fave ad is when the fam upgraded to a spaceship lmao
In case you didn’t know David, that is not actually Malcom Douglas’ voice, they got a more ‘cultured’ Australian accent to do his voice over, in later videos from his you can hear his voice is australai
This was fanastic david. I actually downloaded this recording and two other 70s recordings from flemishdog's archive a few years ago because I was amazed he had tv recordings from that long ago. This was super interesting to see tv from this long ago!
@davidthegreen Yeah, so, umm, I'm broke (yay for the gig economy), so I can't contribute to your Patreon, but I love the series. I've burnt through the lot, and there's just so much work you've put into this. Fantastic. Since I can't fund you, I thought I'd fix the egregious omission of this series on your IMDb page. Ha. You're welcome, or I'm sorry. Either way, what's done is done.
@@davidthegreen Ha! Not really my forte; besides, I don't know enough to be able to write enough to qualify for an article. Since you pay for IMDbPro, you already know that the additional credits are always useful.
We were still advertising asbestos as a selling point in the late 70's? Blue asbestos and Wittenoom were already in the past by then... JH deserved every lawsuit that's come their way.
@@davidthegreen There's actually been suspicion of how deadly asbestos can be for as long as we've used it - since the times of Aristotle (4th century BC) there have been written accounts of illness striking slaves who were assigned the task of weaving asbestos into cloth - though its been discovered in Finnish pots dating back to 2500BC. The first recorded death that's been attributed to asbestos related illness occurred in the 1600s, and Britian had a series of inquiries into why asbestos factory workers - from those who shovelled it into bags to office workers - had higher instances of respiratory illnesses (and death) than in other industries at the turn of the last century. Doctors here in Australia tried to raise the alarm, but due to there not being a federal health system until 1925 and how much asbestos based building products were helping all aspects of industry: commercial, housing, defence (there's a high occurance of mesothelioma in our Navy vets due to its uses in fricking everything mid-century and navy - structures, boiler piping, ceiling plaster), it was never addressed until it had to become a cover-up.
Norman Gunston got paid $40,000 to do an ad for a Dukes cigarettes that was meant to premiere on the same night as the dismissal so presumably it never made it to air.
Malcolm Douglas tried to give a lift to a backpacker in his 2009 show and got turned down cold! John Jarrat took the backpacker's side when I mentioned it
Things must have modernised in a hurry by 1978! Colour had only just turned on in 1975. Probably all that change Whitlam brought about. To my eyes, most of these clips felt the same as early 1980s, except perhaps the flares. But the talking horse and the "sure can" from BP and the other kind of BP wouldn't have been out of place 5 years later. B&D roll-a-door hadn't started their "ownership" of a certain classical music piece, though.
Although the title is a little different, the same footage you showed is on UA-cam as "Beyond The Kimberley Coast", and...it seems fine? It might be from the same source you got it from, of course, but the quality is decent. ua-cam.com/video/QnMQQneEaKE/v-deo.html
Would you really want this SPECIFIC documentary restored & upscaled? Malcolm Douglas kept making documentaries - nearly the same ones - for 20 years, and it kept turning up on Channel 7 all through my childhood. (Context: I'm spending months per hour, in my spare time, restoring Australian TV content … you get choosy, fast). At a guess, there's a 10% chance the original film is preserved in a condition better than this, but if so, you'd get a lot out of rescanning it in HD (not upscaling it). But I'm biased and would just want those early few minutes in the city streets, for historic amusement.
Can you do more VHS revues from the 1970s. The 80s was cringe but the 70s was weird, cringe and lots of WTF and can't do that these days moments. In fact the whole decade was like that.
@@davidthegreen Fair enough and I look forward to seeing warnings before showing images of deceased animals in case vegans are offended or images of Mohommad in case Muslims are offended etc. It's called being respectful and polite 🤓
Oh right. Weirdly that didn't come up the first time I Googled it. Haven't heard of that format before. I doubt I'll ever find any of those in Australia
VHS Review is one of the most underrated channels on UA-cam!
Absolutely agree !!! 🏆🏆
Got to love how that British twang was still in ads, news and docos around then.
I am glad it left over the next decade so you could hear proper Australian accents.
As someone pointed out to me ages ago when I first found the tape; Jeff's an idiot for not immediately retiring when he won the Pools. Buying a new truck so he could keep working? With that much cash in 1978 He could have become the Imperial Leather family.
@@flemishdog Yeah he won $400,000 back when a house was like $20,000
Love seeing Australian culture represented here on UA-cam. Keep them coming!
Yep, every commercial, instant reply in my memory! Haven't seen that 'Summer Seven' ID since it originally aired. I remember that campaign and dubbing all the IDs to ACR at Seven Sydney (all that quad 2" banding all over it!). I'd only been there a year and yep _"You get to do all the dubbing young lad!"_ 10:08 nice to see Stewart Wagstaff again, lovely man. Ah "Simon, Tahiti" - still use that phrase. 11:33 😂😂😂😂. Love your channel David.
@@marktubeie07 Cheers Mark! Wow when did they stop using the 2” tape?
@@davidthegreen Apart from the obvious changeover period towards 1" tape, i'd say right up to around '84 ish. The cart machines that played the commercials were all 2", so that pushed along the format until actually mid 90" (those machines were VERY expensive to replace, so they kept them going with sticky tape & glue). When 2" tape stopped being produced, that forced stations to find alternatives.
Chester the wattyl horse!.. god damn that brings back some early memories!..thats like one of the first ads i ever seen remember seeing!
Only discoved this channel today. It's excellent! Had a laugh at the breville tea maker. I've got a set of those glass Tea cups with the square saucer 😅
Perfect just got my breakfast I'm going to enjoy this
10:20 That's not just any posh bloke, that's Stuart Wagstaff, well known at the time. He was on the Australian version of Blankety Blanks in 1977 and 1978 with Graham Kennedy where he was often the up-tight foil to Kennedy's... Kennedy-ness. He worked with Kennedy earlier on stuff like In Melbourne Tonight. He also did hundreds of Benson and Hedges commercials. He died of pulmonary fibrosis.
He was also a stage actor appearing in My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music, and hosted Stuart Wagstaff's World Playhouse on the ABC (a series of one-off Australian and overseas productions). There's a story of Stuart flying to Perth and back on a Christmas Day with Graham Kennedy, because Kennedy had no-one to spend Christmas with.
the scary part is that i remember some of these ads i was 8 years old when this was first broadcast
VHS Revue is Back!
3:48 It's wild that the bug spray canister would have been brand new, but already looks like it's been sitting in your grandmother's cupboard for 45 years. That font, man.
Bonza! I was hoping to see a tape from the 70s on the show. Didn't think it was going to be on a U-matic tape. In fact, this is the first time I've ever heard of this format.
@@i.m.evilhomer5084 There’s another one coming this season that’s even older
Malcolm Douglas, Alby Mangels, Harry Butler, the Leyland Brothers - we loved our bushman TV stars back in the day, lol.
Legit started singing along to that Salada ad - that jingle i(like so many others) is seared into my brain.
Mum always bought Cusson's soap - my fave ad is when the fam upgraded to a spaceship lmao
This is brilliant
In case you didn’t know David, that is not actually Malcom Douglas’ voice, they got a more ‘cultured’ Australian accent to do his voice over, in later videos from his you can hear his voice is australai
@@jimmyalderman543 Ha that’s news to me
@@davidthegreen davo i wrote that when i was drunk because boy your videos are a good watch after some grog! much love never stop!
This was fanastic david. I actually downloaded this recording and two other 70s recordings from flemishdog's archive a few years ago because I was amazed he had tv recordings from that long ago. This was super interesting to see tv from this long ago!
That joke was a real gamble 😉
@@MrMelo34 Eh they’re never gonna hire me anyway. May as well get a laugh out of them
@@davidthegreen You win some..
You lose more..😂
I used to love the soundtracks in the Malcolm Douglas programmes.
Fancy suit, BMW, control-a-door AND his own personal woodpecker servant. I think we've found another one who's won the pools.
@@user-is4jf8yr4z Poolin’ in the morning, poolin’ in the evening, poolin’ at supper time…
That "Simon. Tahiti." ad was remade in the 90s wasn't it? I remember a new version I saw growing up
@@judee.caulfield6386 Looks like it was remade several times over the years, often with the exact same script. Several versions on UA-cam
You can get the box set of all the Malcolm Douglas videos but it is several thousand dollars, meant to be for educational institutions
@@TimChuma Eh I don’t want it that badly
HE'S BACKKKKKK
My mate’s pub trivia team was called “Simon, Tahiti”
@@LordNimonYT Love it
Friends of my parents won Tattslotto twice in the 1970s. They bought a block of flats.
Great, now I need a ciggie 🤣
@davidthegreen Yeah, so, umm, I'm broke (yay for the gig economy), so I can't contribute to your Patreon, but I love the series. I've burnt through the lot, and there's just so much work you've put into this. Fantastic. Since I can't fund you, I thought I'd fix the egregious omission of this series on your IMDb page. Ha. You're welcome, or I'm sorry. Either way, what's done is done.
@@benespection Ha cool! Thanks!
@@davidthegreen Thanks for taking it in the spirit that it was intended! :)
@@benespection Feel free to work on Wikipedia next ;)
@@davidthegreen Ha! Not really my forte; besides, I don't know enough to be able to write enough to qualify for an article. Since you pay for IMDbPro, you already know that the additional credits are always useful.
We were still advertising asbestos as a selling point in the late 70's? Blue asbestos and Wittenoom were already in the past by then...
JH deserved every lawsuit that's come their way.
@@GoldenLion2004 Yep. They knew of the dangers back in the ‘50s. And it wasn’t completely banned in Australia until 2003!
@@davidthegreen There's actually been suspicion of how deadly asbestos can be for as long as we've used it - since the times of Aristotle (4th century BC) there have been written accounts of illness striking slaves who were assigned the task of weaving asbestos into cloth - though its been discovered in Finnish pots dating back to 2500BC. The first recorded death that's been attributed to asbestos related illness occurred in the 1600s, and Britian had a series of inquiries into why asbestos factory workers - from those who shovelled it into bags to office workers - had higher instances of respiratory illnesses (and death) than in other industries at the turn of the last century. Doctors here in Australia tried to raise the alarm, but due to there not being a federal health system until 1925 and how much asbestos based building products were helping all aspects of industry: commercial, housing, defence (there's a high occurance of mesothelioma in our Navy vets due to its uses in fricking everything mid-century and navy - structures, boiler piping, ceiling plaster), it was never addressed until it had to become a cover-up.
Norman Gunston got paid $40,000 to do an ad for a Dukes cigarettes that was meant to premiere on the same night as the dismissal so presumably it never made it to air.
@@TimChuma They’d still need to play ads?
File that BP servo under "Images you can smell"
5:50 - that's the only bad thing about Russell Coight; younger people can't take the work of people like Malcolm seriously as a result
Malcolm Douglas tried to give a lift to a backpacker in his 2009 show and got turned down cold! John Jarrat took the backpacker's side when I mentioned it
"and its not VHS"
Et tu, David?
@@tk5800thesecond People, this is not the first time we’ve looked at another format on this show
I wanna live in 1978. No internet and easy to buy a house. Sunny days in the wild west.
@@Animal_lives_matter Plenty of asbestos too
Pueools
Things must have modernised in a hurry by 1978! Colour had only just turned on in 1975. Probably all that change Whitlam brought about. To my eyes, most of these clips felt the same as early 1980s, except perhaps the flares. But the talking horse and the "sure can" from BP and the other kind of BP wouldn't have been out of place 5 years later. B&D roll-a-door hadn't started their "ownership" of a certain classical music piece, though.
This is not a VHS review? I feel cheated…what’s next? Radio plays?
@@BeyondDictation Three earlier episodes are Beta tapes…
@@davidthegreen I can’t believe you’ve done this
Although the title is a little different, the same footage you showed is on UA-cam as "Beyond The Kimberley Coast", and...it seems fine? It might be from the same source you got it from, of course, but the quality is decent.
ua-cam.com/video/QnMQQneEaKE/v-deo.html
@@FamousMortimer Yeah that’s essentially the same doco. Seems like it’s sped up a bit
u look like Dennis
@@OrchidEleven Walter?
@@davidthegreen nah it's always sunny!
@@OrchidEleven Must get around to watching that
Was that the first ever commercial teasmade?
@@HarryTheLoser Maybe the first Breville one but they’ve been around since the 1930s
Would you really want this SPECIFIC documentary restored & upscaled? Malcolm Douglas kept making documentaries - nearly the same ones - for 20 years, and it kept turning up on Channel 7 all through my childhood. (Context: I'm spending months per hour, in my spare time, restoring Australian TV content … you get choosy, fast). At a guess, there's a 10% chance the original film is preserved in a condition better than this, but if so, you'd get a lot out of rescanning it in HD (not upscaling it). But I'm biased and would just want those early few minutes in the city streets, for historic amusement.
@@whophd Eh I’m not particularly fussed
It's already on youtube
@@user-is4jf8yr4z Yeah but it’s sped up or something and the sound mix is weird
Can you do more VHS revues from the 1970s. The 80s was cringe but the 70s was weird, cringe and lots of WTF and can't do that these days moments. In fact the whole decade was like that.
@@glencoe1266 There’s another 70s episode coming up just for you Glencoe1266
@@davidthegreen chefs kiss brilliant. Love the channel btw tow chef kisses.
also you should do a segment on Don Lane shows. Peak Australiana right there..especially the food..oh the food WTF!
@@glencoe1266 If I find a tape, sure
Why didn't you make a warning at the beginning for caucasians
I'm offended
I thought so too - what if there are white people offended by seeing deceased white people? Are we supposed to just suck it up?
@@ArtVandelayOfficial Because to my knowledge, caucasians don’t have that cultural protocol
I believe traditional white custom dictates that you call into talkback radio
@@davidthegreen Yes I've got John Laws on speed dial for tomorrow morning!
@@davidthegreen
Fair enough and I look forward to seeing warnings before showing images of deceased animals in case vegans are offended or images of Mohommad in case Muslims are offended etc. It's called being respectful and polite 🤓
review* .... learn to spell.
@@quagini69 Revue* … Learn to use a dictionary. Maybe look up “play on words” while you’re there
🤣🤣🤣
Next Video 2000?
You mean will the next episode be from a 2000s tape?
@@davidthegreen No, Video 2000 was a type of Video tape 🙂
Oh right. Weirdly that didn't come up the first time I Googled it. Haven't heard of that format before. I doubt I'll ever find any of those in Australia
@@davidthegreen yes, the format is quite rare. Mainly sold in Germany and Europe.