UK TV Adverts Channel 4 Xmas 1987

[FrankFurter451]

UB40 were adored and revered by Proto-Chavs throughout the land.

[multimill]

I know remember why my parental home was burgled in the 1980s and only the video was nicked!!!

[talcy]

Hi, I'm Ed Winchester.

[NeedleHitsTheGroove]

@talcy Ha Ha Ha! My exact same thoughts.

[bulwine]

i thnk every house had a black and decker bench in 1987

[motherflange]

It would be genuinely more efficient to utilise a dustpan & brush than to Black & Decker any mess displayed in the ad.

[bulwine]

@motherflange well, that's that then. she's getting a dustinpan and brush for christmas. thanks mate.

[HuggyInSheppy]

As others have said- £329 for that pile of shit? No wonder Sir Al's effing minted now!

[MisterSenseless]

Is it just me or does that Maxwell House commercial sound a bit like the "Coke Is It" campaign?

[Deverstater3000]

At £329 It Won't Stretch your Budget WTF?!

[Time71Team]

@Deverstater3000 I remember my dad buying one of the first Betamax Videos. It cost £500 and took two people to carry it out the shop. It was the size of a suitcase and weighed a ton.

[mcginlm72]

@Time71Team I remember we used to rent video players for 3 pound a day from the video shop and they weighed a tonne!

[BRAKESUK80]

bejam we're hot WTF

[grimmyx22]

Hi! Im Ed Winchester!

[fistpounder]

@grimmyx22

Hi, he's Ed Winchester! :)

[fistpounder]

@grimmyx22

Hi, he's Ed Winchester! :)

[morval99]

I cant imagine that birds trifle shite being advertised now

[morval99]

Long play tapes - ahh those were the days, a tape of porno lasting 8 FUCKING HOURS!!

[RedHeadVicky]

Lemon sole kiev - there's a reason that never caught on.

[barcyorky]

Proper English trifle is indeed a treat, Bird's trifle is a pile of plastic shit!

[bedfordcrusader]

0:20 he wont be so smug when his spunk has gunked up the buttons

[bedfordcrusader]

0:02 fuck me...its doctor christian

[wisteela]

I've got that UB40 album on cassette.

[HigHGuyism]

at 2:16 haha

cockburns... that gotta hurt

[krisanton80]

Just been looking at inflation calculators online. They seem to say that £329 is between £650-£700 at 2011 prices!!! For a bloody Amstrad!!! And Bird's Trifle was a real treat in my house...How times change! Btw, I'd get a slap if I bought my missus an electronic tin opener for xmas :-D

[ade2006]

yeah £329 at that was over 20 years ago..

be like £500 plus with inflations in terms of today..

[Tobycek]

"Bejam. We're hot." Wtf???

And £329 would stretch my budget now, never mind in 1987.

[CelticReject]

@sofasport Agreed, Utter Tripe.

[peewee1403]

£329 for a VCR that's probably today's equivalent of about £500 !!

[MrSyrett]

£329 quid for a video? - Jesus H Christ

[raven8dragon]

0:57 Maxwell House.....EPIC ZOOM!!

[scruffjones]

you always needed a friggin degree to programme those bloody video players back then .. and when you`d just managed to master yours and work it out one of your mates mums would ask you to show her how to do theirs.. oh thank god for sky plus nowadays..

[lizzykiss441]

these bring back happy memories b4 it all went wrong!!

[amarone1956]

@lizzykiss441 When did it start to go wrong?

[lizzykiss441]

@amarone1956 no it just reminds me of my childhood b4 i made loads of mistakes, coz i didnt have a care in the world then. sorry it sounded a bit morbid didnt it ?

[JonnyInfinite]

my brother had that ub40 album on CD, was one of the first I saw..

[rberry978]

'Ladies, get all the close people in your life to buy you things to make you cook and clean better' lmao! couldnt imagine that black and decker advert today

[Misanthrope1969]

QUEEG 500 and ("Hi I'm..")Ed Winchester in the same ad break!

[THEremiXFACTOR]

@Misanthrope1969 awesome!!

[gallafey]

our wages are getting smaller an the prices go higher

[bigron1000]

Get the Max!!!!

[MonaLodgeProductions]

QUEEG!!!

[JonnyInfinite]

that was the guy who played Queeg? No way!! lol

[MonaLodgeProductions]

ya!! i know cause they mention it on the DVD commentary.

[DPQuiz]

Wow - how crap is all that black and decker stuff? Xmas '87. Car boot '88.

[GeorgeASFTHM]

landfill site '89.

[drakeramorey78]

LMAO!

[koksy]

@DPQuiz Actually I still have my Black and Decker Dustbuster Powerbrush. Didn't realise it was so old though!

[fabulousreggs]

look at the colour of that amstrad remote, u would get an eletric blue one now but that one in the eighties its the colour of crap lol

[missmostess]

oh my god, how much for that piece of Amstrad crap?!? (Plus the price of Kievs, albeit from the sea, is still the same price in Tescos now!!) We were so ripped off in the eighties!!

[JoeScaramanga]

Did Enn Reitel do EVERY voiceover in the 80s?

hahaha

Love the video recorder. That would be about £800 these days! No wonder my parents always rented.

[RomansBigBugle]

Haha,look at that crappy Amstrad machine and the cheesy remote,LOL !!

And wasn't the black guy in the Babycham ad the same guy who played Queeg in Red Dwarf ?

No doubt Robin Carmody can set me straight on that one,right Rob?

[hazardaew]

it certainly sounded like him.

[Mick342]

yeha and £329......Jaysus that must be like....what £650 or so today?

[kjo78]

the 80s may have been turbulent,with thatcher,poll tax,privitisation,etc etc,i thought they were great maybe cos i was just a kid.

[Imtubedup]

If you think the 80s was that depressing in so many ways you must have had a lot of fucked up personal issues at the time and you are the only person i can see who hated that era.

[sidbolero]

Incredibly depressing to see this stuff again. My God' the 80's were horrible in so many ways

[NuttBaII18]

im drinking babycham right now. the bottel hasnt changed a bit.

[daavedave]

brilliant black and decker advert..

just what a woman wants for xmas huh? lol

[scruffjones]

If i bought any woman those black n decker household products for christmas it wouldnt be a kiss on the lips id get, it would be a smack round the chops! " there you go love a new dustbuster the hallway needs a bit of a clean up, happy christmas"

[xpack1]

I bet that Cockburn stuff did actually make your cock burn. If you ate that food now it would probably be like snorting a load of drugs or sommat. Our feeble modern bodies aren't able to cope with the food additives of the 80's

[LukeChucky]

0:27 £329 in 1987! How much is that in today's money?

1:36 Ahhh, i'm bleeding!

[SgtPeppersRevolver]

It would be about double that today, so £660 at today's prices, give or take.

[daavedave]

about 800-900

wont stretch your budget!!!!

lol

[mrslmathers]

Babycham was ace - that was the first drink I ever got pissed on. Ah, happy days! Funny you don't see it advsertised anymore!

[DirkBendict]

£329!!!!

Jesus - thats a bomb now, never mind 20 years ago

[Holygasoline]

I got a free Jar of Maxwell house recently- i should have sent it directly back to them and told them it tasted like spew ! Bet they use the same old formula the did in the 80's . God these ads are like another world now arnt they ? Kind of innocent i guess but you can never go back, its all downloads and knife attacks now, how sad .. ;0( The fat twat family on the UB40 ad cheered me up for a moment though lol ! great post this one .

[welshuser]

LOL at that Babycham advert!

[jcb180]

£329 for a Amstrad video no wonder the VCR was a main target for burglars in the 80's

[randybompson]

i brought as ferguson video star had to go halfs with my mum and dad and pay it off in monthly installments .the shop was called H W Stone it was somthing like 1.16 a month for 3 years

[pow1983]

@jcb180 yeh! "it wont stretch your budget" people must have been uber rich back then, thats probably £400 in todays money. I wouldnt pay more than £50 for a DVD player today

[bayamrob]

trifle...what tha hell is that??

[becikh]

Obviously you must be a septic, trifle is delicious hun, great anytime but especially sherry triffle at xmas, its a must. Traditional ehglish sherry triffle has a layer of fruit and strawberry/raspberry jelly topped with fingers of sponge cake soaked in sherry topped with thick english custard and then plenty of fresh whipped cream on top of that and a sprinkling of chocolate or flaked almonds or what ever takes your fancy, yum!!!!!

[vanillaorchid]

Trifle is the food of the Gods.

I remember that Babycham ad.

[NurseGlimmer]

Check out the hanging fat family in the UB40 video. Class

[josefene1986]

no wonder alan sugar is sooo rich-£329 for a vcr?!

[mandude83]

wow makes you realise that some things are cheaper than they used to be

[weds9994]

also 'ed winchester' from fast show is on first ad :)

[orwellboy44]

Great quality, thanks for putting them up. 20 years seems like yesterday, gulp. And that VCR was sooo expensive, we're spoilt today.

Has anyone got the Amstrad ads with Tommy Vance voicing? There was one with a record deck on a drawer 'that slides back in to protect your records while playing'.

[orwellboy44]

Great quality, thanks for putting them up. 20 years ago seems like yesterday - gulp. And that VCR was so expensive! Has anyone got the Amstrad ads with Tommy Vance voicing? There was one with a turntable on a drawer that 'slides back in to protect your records while playing'..

[FabFM]

makes me want to pop into bejam and pay 2 quid for those juicy kievs, too bad they got absorbed into iceland.

[djugly]

The way they spurt their filling makes them look alive. Mind you, I remember getting 3rd degree burns from a chicken kiev in the 80's. Lethal things

[psychorob]

Ahh brilliant it's Charles Augins in the Babycham advert, better known as Queeg from Red Dwarf :D

[SweetStevieAaron]

You mean QUEEG 500!