The SMASH ads were superb....especially this one. These were the days before we started copying off America, Marathon changed to the ridiculous Snickers and out police sirens were still ours, not the US type that was copied later.
Bee Baa, Bee Baa, Bee Baa we would be shouting as we ran around playing cops and robbers, great days. And our adverts were so typically British unlike today when they are so boring and as you say American influenced have you noticed how many American voices are in our adverts today, bleeding loads of them. Also most of our t.v. is American these days, it sure is a sad state of affairs.
Or Durex adverts or ladies incontinence knickers or creams for thrush and discharge or vaginal dryness or tampon adverts or erectile disfunction or sofa adverts or car insurance or life insurance or distressing adverts for abused animals or third world problems still not sorted since bloody Live Aid with BOB GELDOFF...
I must have plonked in fron the TV for 8 hours a day in the seventies as I can still remember a lot of the adverts very clearly and it's 34 years ago ffs!
+ Jonathan Hale That is the same with all chocolate bars they have shrunk, back in the 70s bars were much bigger than today Mars, Marathon (Snickers now), Dairy milk (much thicker chunks and bigger bars), Galaxy, bounty and so on all much bigger than they are today ... we live in a rip off world today.
TheRenaissanceman65 trouble is they shrink the size of the chocolate bars AND put the prices up nowadays,that’s the real ripoff. I too remember that Not The Nine O’clock News doing that with the broken teeth after trying to bite into a Yorkie Bar,hilarious.😂
I guess when you were a kid you could tolerate ads but now I absolutely cannot stand them probably because they have no imagination and are longer than the show you are supposed to be watching thank God for Tivo! watching this is like these were just yesterday though!
Living in the south my only knowledge of the north was from Coronation St where everyone lived on tea, best bitter ,pies chips and hotpot.Burgers must have been the breakthrough to a food revolution!
+chud jackson Like Lorraine Chase, Buzby the BT Bird, Leonard Rossiter and that's just off the top of my head. I think if you went back to the 70s, you'd find the most common accents on TV would be Southern.
Was Lorraine Chase in Worzel Gummidge? Are you confusing her with Una Stubbs, who played Aunt Sally? Lorraine Chase was in 'Emmerdale' for a while and I saw her on a celebrity edition of 'Come Dine With Me' too. Lovely lady - I bumped into her in Brighton once and she fell in love with my little dog!
glamdolly20 How nice that you met her. As I said, I wonder what she has done since the 1980s. Yes, Lorraine Chase was in Worzel Gummidge, playing Dolly Clothespeg, a window display model come to life. She only appeared in a few episodes, while Una Stubbs was a regular, also marvellous as Aunt Sally.
Gosh yes, I had forgotten about Dolly Clothespeg! Well remembered. Thank you, that's brought a smile to my face! What a lovely kids show Worzel Gummidge was, Jon Pertwee was just superb and a great supporting cast. I loved it as a kid 'A cup 'o tea and a slice 'o cake!" Happy days!
Why did the mum in the Birds Eye ad serve one child a quality burger and the other a cheaper item? The Birds Eye burger looked like carpet lol! What was that Yorkie guy going to do with that bar of chocolate after his delivery? Looked a bit suspect to me. Love this old ads. Thanks for posting
These ads must have run and run, I was born in 76 and remember a few of these, especially the Smash one and Busby (who I loved so much that someone made me a toy of him which I kept for years - the ex hubby destroyed it in revenge for me leaving, the tit!). Me mum used to buy me a Yorkie when she wanted some peace, my little teeth would knaw away at it for hours!
The old adverts were definitely much better, we never see food adverts now, think its soon going to be outlawed to even THINK of food, incase we all get obese dontcha know.
What a scorcher that summer of 1976 was too, hottest on record. must have been near the end of the summer and did this advert especially. Guinness is not the drink that springs to mind when it's a hot day mind. Shit advert.
What? I somehow like this sentence, but, what? A Campari bottle? An old one, with grass growing in it? Did you drink the liquid therein? Should I call an ambulance? When you say "grasses" is that like chewings fescue, rye etc you know, an ASSORTMENT? I DO like your sentence.
fritzthedog007 hello it had no liquid in it just roadside grasses .which are quite lovely. I love flowers& nature& those aliens _& co can go away! high opposite they are
"high opposite they are" I love your way with words! This image of a be-grassed bottle by the roadside is etched into my brain now....I think you have a poetic soul, in a similar vein to Ivor Cutler. We must be fucking mad to be discussing such matters over a seventies advert compilation.
Love these ads, remember them like it was yesterday! We were blessed with Quality ads in the 70's!! Thank you revoxy!!
1976 was an INCREDIBLE year. I wish I could go back and live it all again.
The Smash advert is absolutely hilarious!
The Smash one is the best, it always makes me laugh.
It's great to see these ads again. Thank you so much for posting this vid.
These take me back, oh the oldies lol
Great stuff - you used to hate sitting through the adverts - but I remember every one of these. I was 6 in 1976
Me too, that Guinness one reminds me of sitting in a pub beer garden watching my mum and her friends drinking and smoking, I can smell it now.
The SMASH ads were superb....especially this one.
These were the days before we started copying off America, Marathon changed to the ridiculous Snickers and out police sirens were still ours, not the US type that was copied later.
Bee Baa, Bee Baa, Bee Baa we would be shouting as we ran around playing cops and robbers, great days. And our adverts were so typically British unlike today when they are so boring and as you say American influenced have you noticed how many American voices are in our adverts today, bleeding loads of them. Also most of our t.v. is American these days, it sure is a sad state of affairs.
Absolutely right.
The Smash ad where the aliens say "It proves that there is intelligent life in Huddersfield" was the best but I haven't seen iit for forty years now.
70s snd 80s best decade's ever.
what no ambulance chasers.... no PPI insurance , back when TV ads more interesting.
So true! I'm sick of shite modern day adverts.
Anthony Mullen especially the funeral adverts when they say, 'when your gone' talk about depressing lol
TheGodParticle Such claiming/insurance adverts should be out right banned!
TheGodParticle yeah - no-one died in the 1970’s 😆 but I remember every one of these !!
Or Durex adverts or ladies incontinence knickers or creams for thrush and discharge or vaginal dryness or tampon adverts or erectile disfunction or sofa adverts or car insurance or life insurance or distressing adverts for abused animals or third world problems still not sorted since bloody Live Aid with BOB GELDOFF...
Ah yes,remember these well,when you looked forward to the adverts!!
Hahaha! I wouldn't go quite that far - but this is an enjoyable trip down memory lane.
ln that case, you definitely don't remember!
Ben and his beef burgers! Brilliant. I often wonder if he married Mary... And Busby! Back in 1976, only one person in my road was 'on the phone'!
I remember all these! Fantastic!!!
"Nice 'ere, innit?" A classic line if ever there was one!
Haha I remember all of those
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The 70s seemed to be one of the greatest eras, and yet I wasn't even born ;)
I must have plonked in fron the TV for 8 hours a day in the seventies as I can still remember a lot of the adverts very clearly and it's 34 years ago ffs!
60's and the 70's was the best decade's ever. everything was so much better. wish we had a time machine
I literally used to howl with laughter at the Smash Robot aliens. ABSOLUTE CLASSIC!!! LOLOLOL!
This was my generation
1976, the mother of all summers. Scorchio!
Mucho scorchio
Great ads, especially 'bens beefburgers' and 'yorkie'.Thanks for posting!
Allways loved the Hovis bread adds, and the oxo cube ones
Beautiful guinness ad there.
Thanks for the upload
That was in the "good ole days" before Variant C.J.D. turned up!
Have you seen the gap between the chunks in Yorkie bars nowadays?.....They must be saving a chunk per bar now....
+Jonathan Hale
Yes, they've gone from 6 to 5 chunks.
+ Jonathan Hale That is the same with all chocolate bars they have shrunk, back in the 70s bars were much bigger than today Mars, Marathon (Snickers now), Dairy milk (much thicker chunks and bigger bars), Galaxy, bounty and so on all much bigger than they are today ... we live in a rip off world today.
TheRenaissanceman65 trouble is they shrink the size of the chocolate bars AND put the prices up nowadays,that’s the real ripoff. I too remember that Not The Nine O’clock News doing that with the broken teeth after trying to bite into a Yorkie Bar,hilarious.😂
legend says the smash robots were never meant to laugh, the puppeteers didn't like the producer and did it just to wind them up
I think that's why the adverts work, somebody had a sense of humour lol !!!
I guess when you were a kid you could tolerate ads but now I absolutely cannot stand them probably because they have no imagination and are longer than the show you are supposed to be watching thank God for Tivo! watching this is like these were just yesterday though!
loved Buzby bird. Had a toy one.
Noel Satterley Bernard cribbens
1976 was the year I started College!
I remember all of those except the Corona ad.
Knocked half a tooth out trying to bite into a Yorkie bar!
Some real UK classics here. Made by big name directors too.
Will this summer equal 1976's I wonder.
In the 70's, everybody was northern.
Living in the south my only knowledge of the north was from Coronation St where everyone lived on tea, best bitter ,pies chips and hotpot.Burgers must have been the breakthrough to a food revolution!
unclemort1960
Not forgetting 40 Benson and Hedges per day.
God its given me terrible flashbacks i need my therapist
Buck Partington
I can see you on the couch now saying `They peel with their metal knives` followed by a metallic laugh.
+chud jackson Like Lorraine Chase, Buzby the BT Bird, Leonard Rossiter and that's just off the top of my head. I think if you went back to the 70s, you'd find the most common accents on TV would be Southern.
The lovely Lorraine Chase in the Campari ad around 1:50. Apart from being in Worzel Gummidge, I am not sure what she did later.
Was Lorraine Chase in Worzel Gummidge? Are you confusing her with Una Stubbs, who played Aunt Sally? Lorraine Chase was in 'Emmerdale' for a while and I saw her on a celebrity edition of 'Come Dine With Me' too. Lovely lady - I bumped into her in Brighton once and she fell in love with my little dog!
glamdolly20
How nice that you met her. As I said, I wonder what she has done since the 1980s. Yes, Lorraine Chase was in Worzel Gummidge, playing Dolly Clothespeg, a window display model come to life. She only appeared in a few episodes, while Una Stubbs was a regular, also marvellous as Aunt Sally.
Gosh yes, I had forgotten about Dolly Clothespeg! Well remembered. Thank you, that's brought a smile to my face! What a lovely kids show Worzel Gummidge was, Jon Pertwee was just superb and a great supporting cast. I loved it as a kid 'A cup 'o tea and a slice 'o cake!" Happy days!
Miss Chassvwas in one Worzel episode as Dolly Clothespeg. Una Stubbs was a regular as Aunt Sally
Miss Chase was etc.......
like it,good ad's like the telly at the time
Before my time these commercials 😙😙🤓😁📺🧐🧐🧐
Love it !!!
Agree with every word. ITV has never been the same since many of the regional stations merged. Early 90s?
GREAT ads and not an immigrant in sight!
Ads back then were great
id love to have lived back then lol
😅😅😅😮well information good show 😅
Omg when mash get smash my fav ad of the 70s so far
Why did the mum in the Birds Eye ad serve one child a quality burger and the other a cheaper item? The Birds Eye burger looked like carpet lol!
What was that Yorkie guy going to do with that bar of chocolate after his delivery? Looked a bit suspect to me.
Love this old ads. Thanks for posting
Brilliant,right now wheres my Time Machine!!
we had our own lyrics for the yorkie bar lol
@brunster64 memories bring back the good old days brill tv nd ads
ha...when driving a truck was cool...!! great ads...!!
When the UK wasn't broken :-(
two bit loser when murder wasn't a daily occurrence
Not entirely true, the country was bankrupt, but I get where you're coming from :)
Much better than adverts now - all about getting a loan, car insurance or life insurance..... yawn.
Yes that was a young Lorraine Chase in the Campari ad !
Not so sure about the Southern Comfort and lemonade one though ?
I think the SC was Joan Collins.
Love birds eye products!
at least it wasn't online gambling adverts... plus your the same age as my dad!
0:49 to 0:50
That part had me in stitches XD.
I could really go for a cold Guinness right now.
Notice in a bottle and not a can.
What about the ROLO add, is just me or has anyone seen it or forgotten about it. Would have been around the same time ish.
Old adverts are more memorable because they tended to run them for years, and years, and years.
@UncleFeedle we weren't! I was just thinking how much slimmer everyone was. Especially the kids, no horrid blob kids, puffing and spotty.
These ads must have run and run, I was born in 76 and remember a few of these, especially the Smash one and Busby (who I loved so much that someone made me a toy of him which I kept for years - the ex hubby destroyed it in revenge for me leaving, the tit!). Me mum used to buy me a Yorkie when she wanted some peace, my little teeth would knaw away at it for hours!
Remembers the "Don't Kill Buzby" car stickers? Anti-privatisation.
Interesting - could've done with subtitles on that first ad!
No,not the Humber Bridge which came into operation in 1981.
Omg the ads look well better than
The old adverts were definitely much better, we never see food adverts now, think its soon going to be outlawed to even THINK of food, incase we all get obese dontcha know.
The burgers were the cheapest on the market_but they tasted really great better than Heinz etc
thumbs up if a loan or insurance or PPI ad has just come on television
I always thought that the Campari one ended with Lorraine Chase saying Yeah better than Bognor?
Remember the old slogan "Buzby Bends Ten Pence Pieces"
A up, jesus tonight their accents are very strong.
I miss Corona Pop.
It’s Great alternative to wallpaper paste
1:00
Bernie Cribbins=legend
actually 1976, not 1978 because 1978 is the late 70s, and 1976 is still the mid 70s.
I remembered them all apart from the Guinness one, which looked hastily stuck together for the drought. Whatever happened to Corona?
ow i dey love dem right northerners in adds dont dey.
I Was 5 Y'all 😂😂
@MattTheSaiyan My guess would be the Humber Bridge.
Where was this shown? Thames? LWT? Southern?
Really? What alternate 1970s did you reside in then... :-)
Luton airport....
Cadburys.....mash???? Whaaa? Chocolate flavour mash?
I can't believe how people preferred to deal with Smash rather than the taste of real mashed potatoes! Oy yay!
Lol it's Cadbury smash
Police would nick ya now for eating at the wheel waiting at the lights
Yes but kids where more respectable back then unlike today's horrible kids.
Lets hear it for bleedin mashed potatoes.
I don't remember the Corona commercial.
Ha nice Yorkie ad. I use to drive them Daf 8500, Nice trucks.
I used to think the Smash aliens said "boil them for 20 of their minutes, then they smash their bowl to bits".
Ok, I didnt say it was FUNNY did I?
yes i remember kids fainting at a 5 a side footy tournament in 76 summer...phew what a scorcher..
A glass of Corona cherryade with a lump of vanilla ice cream was one of my favourite 70s drinks! I fucking hated Cadbury's Smash, though.
Northerners eating hoof and eyelid burgers
What a scorcher that summer of 1976 was too, hottest on record. must have been near the end of the summer and did this advert especially. Guinness is not the drink that springs to mind when it's a hot day mind. Shit advert.
1976 (corrected), not 1978.
"Eeh, yus knor something? Nae fookers cun unnerstand a wud us Yurkies seh!"
mistofoles remember the old crowd pop ads get ten pence returnable coronation bottle pop man everything brilliant
You'd think they'd brush the kids hair before filming them eating birds eye horse burgers.
Cor 10p for a three minute call in 1976 that's "EXPENSIVE"
I found a comparison bottle with grasses in it
What? I somehow like this sentence, but, what? A Campari bottle? An old one, with grass growing in it? Did you drink the liquid therein? Should I call an ambulance? When you say "grasses" is that like chewings fescue, rye etc you know, an ASSORTMENT? I DO like your sentence.
fritzthedog007 hello it had no liquid in it just roadside grasses .which are quite lovely. I love flowers& nature& those aliens _& co can go away! high opposite they are
"high opposite they are" I love your way with words! This image of a be-grassed bottle by the roadside is etched into my brain now....I think you have a poetic soul, in a similar vein to Ivor Cutler. We must be fucking mad to be discussing such matters over a seventies advert compilation.
That second one deserved a Clio. Did it get one?
@Feisty1967 My dad is a good mythbuster there for a truck driver!
0:25 - now we know why