UK TV Adverts - ITV 1985

[NeedleHitsTheGroove]

Julie Peasgood all covered in soft, soapy Radox bubbles. God, I love the 80's :-b

[motherflange]

The only person who could truly appreciate Silkience is Predator.

No wonder his dreads look so well maintained.

[jockadoobee]

Ah! The good old 80's - a time when it was possible to leave your car boot open and full of groceries and no one would think of stealing them (or the car). It's all sexting and happy slapping nowadays.

[Jarren202]

@jockadoobee Too true my good man, too true. Why I remember in the 80's football fans were a lovely bunch of fellows, you'd get none of this drunken shouting and whatnot that you get on the terraces nowadays.

And young ladies refrained from opening their particulars until they got married to a fine gentleman. Not like now, when marriage is so undervalued.

Yes, the 80's. So different to nowadays. ;)

[Mattyc]

This was the day I was born

[kimil22]

WOW These are ads broadcast the day after i was born!!!

[AchtungEnglander]

I remember the Mr. Kipling advert, I was 12 in 1985

[EssexIrons]

Win Lesley Crowthers garden! Must enter competition 5:44

[unclemort1960]

@EssexIrons theres probably vodka bottles buried at the bottom

[booldawg]

lol, people just dont talk like they did in 1985, innit!

[drpoxy]

Can anyone identify the make / model of computer @ 0.39? It actually looks like there are many pieces missing if you freeze frame (and rather dated even by 80s standards !). Apropos the Post Office Giro Bank ad - in 1985 "banking hours" were 9.30am to 3.30pm so having a bank that opened between 9am to 5.30pm weekdays and 9am until 1pm at weekends was something of a selling point.

[1969atam]

Tasty Yummy Mummy in the radox add!! :)

[MrRik2]

@1969atam Julie Peasgood.

[JonnyInfinite]

does that Silkience touch cover 'feel me, touch me' by the Who? lol

[Cathain78]

Sweetex - why be fat when you can contract cancer instead?

[2k10JD]

National GiroBank, we're different because we have more to offer, we'll take your savings, then use them to pay off debts and go bust =) congratulations!

[2k10JD]

National GiroBank, we're different because w ehave more to offer, we'll take your savings, then use them to pay off debts and go bust =) congratulations!

[willdatsun1]

3:04 where the HELL did that red toilet come from, I WANT A RED TOILET NOW!

[Xxfancythat79xX]

The sweetex woman looks like Camilla Parker-Bowles...

[dodgysparks]

julie peasgood dressed as a nurse in Radox advert PWOARRRR!!!

[RectoBold]

@dodgysparks You're kidding, right? She's rank.

[oliviaw83]

5:34. havn't seen that bank around have u ?

[utrapzab]

@oliviaw83 was the old post office bank

[Applemask]

@oliviaw83 That's because it was privatised, which completely negated the whole point of the GiroBank.

[jsidiropoulou]

I actually remembered the taste of French fancies when I watched the ad!!!! Strange!

[JOCKATEO]

and now nan has joined a bike gang and gets pissed with Carlsberg special brew

[CometMcNaught]

WTF @ the Edam advert!

[MultiEGGMAN]

BALLS OF CHEESE!

[Matty112uk]

Nice ads, have you seen my little archive?

[kingdaniel69]

Well, i'm a nurse and i can tell you all for nothin' if she's got the energy to go running at lunchtime (if you lucky enough to get one) then she's not working hard enough!

Thanks Maggie Thatcher Union Snatcher!

[flyingdamingo]

lol I like this : ) from what I've seen as a sadly to often regular patient I compleatly agree I don't know how you do it amazing : )

[peterpeterxxo]

@kingdaniel69 carry on nurse.

[kingdaniel69]

@peterpeterxxo Thankyou sister.

[kitty3309]

Ha! I forgot it used to be TVS.

[ceejay75]

the quality of the picture is amazing considering these ads are almost 25 years old!!

[MegaDave1973]

is the mccain micro chips advert with bill oddie as the voice over

[flyingdamingo]

yep I remeber that I thought it was Yakkety Yak but then got it into my head that it was the boys are back in town.

[MegaDave1973]

I think this is one of the best adverts of the eighties because the adverts of today are absolutely lousy . There should bring these eighties adverts back today.

[flyingdamingo]

yep you are so right or as my nan tells me everyday they don't make them like they used to. Have you seen the weetabix 80's pirate add amazing worth a watch if not

[MegaDave1973]

Pity we all couldnt get a petition together to bring all these eighties adverts back on tv.

[flyingdamingo]

I agree I would deffinatly sign it I have noticed a few old ones back like the lego add and the wagon wheel advert. Everyone loves nostalgia and I am sure I read somewhere that companies were starting to do it because it raises sales that I can beleive. I can recomend watching the pirate weetabix add its awsome.

[MegaDave1973]

@flyingdamingo Did you see the lego advert on tv a few weeks ago with tommy cooper as the voice over that advert was definetely made in the eighties good times.

[flyingdamingo]

yep lol it was amazing : ) you know I thought it was buy got it into my heasd it was Russ Abbot? clearly I was having moment

[flyingdamingo]

I need to stop saying yep bnecause I don't normally lol

[MegaDave1973]

Have you had a look at the adverts from the other tv regions from the eighties they are plenty of classic ones

[kaledmasterme]

4:08 worst use of a who song ever!

[EmOsUcKsMuNkEeS]

only the british would have a commercial for portable sugar for tea

[kingdaniel69]

Ha ha true. Bring's a tear to my eye!

[flyingdamingo]

lol thats so true : )

[OverTheGun]

3:28 who needs a religion when theres toilet cleaner so good it'll send you to heaven?

4:08 glow in the dark hair, sweet..

[TheKlanao]

Toilet cleaner truly is the savior of mankind.

:]

[Mappman]

French Fancies ftw! The lemon ones are still frickin' awesome.

[MegaDave1973]

classic yakety yak advert one of the best eighties adverts

[kaledmasterme]

does anyone remember the yakety yak advert for micro chips??? i cant find it anywhere!!

[skibum7986]

love the brunettes haircut at 4:20 !! so short !! that's sexy !!

[HitMeQuick]

Mr Kipling sounds rather sinister in hindsight. He'd have social services snooping about these days.

[thaibox07]

24 years ago my god where has my life gone lol memorable adverts

[bthomehub2]

French Fancies?! They're called Fondant Fancies now aren't they?

[WillowAlchemist]

nope they are still called french fancies

[bthomehub2]

oh right

i should buy some - I love them :D

[themachman19691]

you may need a bank loan to buy them now though,lol

[bthomehub2]

hahaha

[Applemask]

Cruise of a lifetime in Leslie Crowther's garden? What?

[NewYankee01]

thats a weird fucking cartoon very slow.

[Project25o1]

A chance to win a tour in Leslie Crowther's garden, OMG where do I sign up ?

[Agerasia]

The man playing Julie Peasgood's partner is Rob Brydon :)

[fraserkatie]

OMG! It is! Never knew that!

[sundaeg1rl]

That's Julie Peasgood in that Radox bath. She went on to be in Brookie

[lilmisspino]

Julie Peasgood in a bubble bath? Mmmmmm! Happy New Year!

[s3ansk1]

goto facebook and search in groups for ' Bring back worcster sauce twiglets' trying to get a petition together to bring them back thanks!

[F1archivesDotCom]

All the worlds problems, solved with a cup of tea, lol.

[pierrepepi]

Science brings you Silkience....nowerdays it's more like "Infused with nuetrellium and cryptonite for a shine you can see from Jupiter!"

This was when Science started badgering women and indeed there after men, with bollocks about chemicals in a vein effort to try and amaze and impress the average ignoranus....WTF..it's either got it or it doesn't...I don't need warp speed hair shampoo LOL!

[GeorgeASFTHM]

The music in the Radox "Yakerty-Yak" has been used in so many ads over the 1980s and 1990s - that example was the first that I remember.

[xoLovemeformeox]

'Great ball of cheese!' lol, i weren't even born when these came out

[valhooligan68]

where the fuck do ye get this footage!!? no seen this shit since late 80's

[Cool2BCeltic]

Really like the Giles cartoon tea advert. Very clever using a great British institution like Giles to advertise tea.

[menadeb2us]

That was the year I was born!! So cool to see TV adverts from the UK!

[bazariah]

these ads were aired one week before my 6th birthdays... 23 years on i still remember them, i cannot say the same for the adverts i watched yesterday

[vasquez109]

Leslie Crowthers garden! oooh!

[caxtonman]

Hell of a job to paint that lion blue!!!

[GOODFELLAS74]

Yes,I can't wait to open an account in that bank, the blue lion did it for me,lol!!!!!!!

[phanface]

"Goodness gracious, GREAT BALL OF CHEESE!" Literally, wouldn't you say?

[billygoatUK]

3:05 , i LOVE this freshmatic ad, i remember the tune like 20+years on, thats how catchy 80s ads were, and the whole ad is just so 80s, the music, the makeup, doncha just love it? Thanks SO MUCh for posting this ad. Was there another Freshmatic ad with the end going 'its clean and its fresh and its only from Harpic?'

[mrslmathers]

Ha, used to love the Giles grandma!

Is that Pat Coombs doing the V/O on the Ross one?

[DrGroothe]

science brings you silkience.... lol so this was when shampoo starting trying to sound important

[Wcross34]

She looks rather like (what's her name) - the hippy girl Doctor Who assistant.

[knyvette]

The actress in the Radox ad is Julie Peasgood.

[agfagaevart]

Thought I recognised her! Dig the hairstyles in that Silkience ad.