I loved the Magic Steps advert! So memorable and I had pair of black ones if I remember rightly that had a picture of a key underneath the shoe! All the shoes did in the magic steps range! Lol I emailed Clarks to say I loved them and they sent me a photocopy from a catalogue showing the Magic Steps shoes!!!
I was only 3 in 1988 and I remember the Monster Much ad and the Magic Steps. I always, always got the latest Clarkes Magic Steps shoes for school, I loved them, felt so special in them!
Oh and I just realised that big pink Monster Much monster looks like the neighbour I have now - won't be able to say hi to him again without grinning!!!
I wanted those shoes so badly but ended up with Clarks black shiny t-bar shoes instead and I f*cking hated them:O(...That is the best advert ever, it still gives me the chills.
Oh yes my son got a pairyou had to lift a flap in the shoe and there was a car and got a free book aswell. No it was a pic of akey if I remember it disappeared if you stepped in a puddle?
ah haha, remember the lot!, the girls went nuts over those shoes. but what about that lego eh lads?.... proper good memories but, oh the cheese.........
I remember when Matthew Corbett's brother Dave - who did alot of the music, especially for Sooty and Co - came into our primary school with some of his instruments and recording gear. Must have been about 1991 when that happened. Quite random, considering the school is in the middle of nowhere!
I know. That ad wouldn't particularly make sense now. But it certainly did at the time.
Sooty of course was never off TV for half a century until the decimation of CITV did for him. I *may* - the memory is indistinct at this remove - have actually seen Harry Corbett when he still sometimes did the stage show (he'd retired from the TV show before I was born): if so, I'd certainly have been among the youngest people to see him.
I think you mean Matthew Corbett. Harry Corbett was his dad, the original creator of Sooty and he died a long time ago, in the 70s I think. I vaguely remembered seeing Matthew Corbett in a live stage show of Sooty but I thought I had dreamed it. After reading your comment the memories came flooding back and it was real! I must have been about five years old so that would have been in 1979/1980, probably at the Palace Theatre in Manchester.
Pretty sure I saw Matthew do the stage show (and I *definitely* saw the dreaded Connie Creighton do it), but I think I saw Harry as well, when he was semi-retired (and mostly doing stage shows at Weymouth). Harry did not die until 1989.
I had magic steps!!!
lilgirllost29 2 months ago
Wow that brings back loads of memories! I used to have those Clarks shoes :p wanted them cause they had a key in the bottom..lol.
hutch1081 2 months ago
I loved the Magic Steps advert! So memorable and I had pair of black ones if I remember rightly that had a picture of a key underneath the shoe! All the shoes did in the magic steps range! Lol I emailed Clarks to say I loved them and they sent me a photocopy from a catalogue showing the Magic Steps shoes!!!
fraserkatie 4 months ago
I was only 3 in 1988 and I remember the Monster Much ad and the Magic Steps. I always, always got the latest Clarkes Magic Steps shoes for school, I loved them, felt so special in them!
Oh and I just realised that big pink Monster Much monster looks like the neighbour I have now - won't be able to say hi to him again without grinning!!!
MissWii85 4 months ago
Wow! I'm 12 again!!!
pageygeeza 8 months ago
Wow @ those!!
craigt1981 11 months ago
they look nice
JamesBrett2008 1 year ago
sootys a twat
pfive 1 year ago
"Magic schoooos?"
jamesvolunteer 1 year ago
@jamesvolunteer - I remember I had a crush on the Girl in that Add. I wonder where she is now!
soeffingwhat 7 months ago
haha the clarks ad was so inventive, better than today's garbage anyway!
Jeet27 1 year ago 2
I remember the Monster Munch advert and the shoes one like it was yesterday.
Wilseus 1 year ago
That little girl is a future mass murderer for sure...
emadex 1 year ago
I wanted those shoes so badly but ended up with Clarks black shiny t-bar shoes instead and I f*cking hated them:O(...That is the best advert ever, it still gives me the chills.
Elvinauk 1 year ago
im so sad, I wish I could go back in time and stay there
GBJ83 1 year ago 3
"Magic Shoes?!"
LOL. Best. Quote. Ever.
Wintericecrystal 2 years ago 9
Indeed! :D
David315842 2 years ago
make that magic key! not kay! ha
ladyb1986 2 years ago
omg i had clarkes magic kay shoes!!!!
ladyb1986 2 years ago
I remember the Clarks advert. I remember thinking at the time that it was just ever so slightly over the top for a pair of £15 shoes...
RabidRaccoonUK 2 years ago
they should bring back the monster munch advert
johnykoop 2 years ago
@johnykoop do they even still make monster munch??
TheAutumnAyane 1 year ago
@TheAutumnAyane Yes, basically. I ate some today.
llundain 1 year ago
Was it me or did Clarks always wheel out those elaborate shoe ads toward the end of the summer holidays, just in time for the upcoming school term?
Worked a treat mind, I wore nothing but Clarks shoes in primary school!
Rocksteady786 2 years ago
Oh yes my son got a pairyou had to lift a flap in the shoe and there was a car and got a free book aswell. No it was a pic of akey if I remember it disappeared if you stepped in a puddle?
Lisadoll07 2 years ago
ah haha, remember the lot!, the girls went nuts over those shoes. but what about that lego eh lads?.... proper good memories but, oh the cheese.........
RSCOZZY 3 years ago
How exciting was it if you were a little girl and your mum or dad took you out to buy a pair of shoes and there in the heel was a key?!
Lisadoll07 3 years ago
awesome bass on that sooty exit
weekendoff 3 years ago 19
yeah man fucking right!! sweet
spoonballs 3 years ago
@weekendoff I was just thinking the same thing!
llundain 1 year ago
I was born in 1988 hehe! They look so aged... yet we're only talking 20 years ago!
cozz 3 years ago
I used to love that Clarks shoes advert when I was a kid....
azrael666ethereal 3 years ago
Remember the computer game one?
chrishopkins77 3 years ago
yeah clarks hardware, the adverts are on here somewhere. you got a free badge with them. every kid in the uk had them
AIR2015 2 years ago
I remember when Matthew Corbett's brother Dave - who did alot of the music, especially for Sooty and Co - came into our primary school with some of his instruments and recording gear. Must have been about 1991 when that happened. Quite random, considering the school is in the middle of nowhere!
glunglun 4 years ago
Ah, The Sooty Show! That brings back fond memories :)
Magic shoes?
glunglun 4 years ago
I know. That ad wouldn't particularly make sense now. But it certainly did at the time.
Sooty of course was never off TV for half a century until the decimation of CITV did for him. I *may* - the memory is indistinct at this remove - have actually seen Harry Corbett when he still sometimes did the stage show (he'd retired from the TV show before I was born): if so, I'd certainly have been among the youngest people to see him.
RobinCarmody 4 years ago
I think you mean Matthew Corbett. Harry Corbett was his dad, the original creator of Sooty and he died a long time ago, in the 70s I think. I vaguely remembered seeing Matthew Corbett in a live stage show of Sooty but I thought I had dreamed it. After reading your comment the memories came flooding back and it was real! I must have been about five years old so that would have been in 1979/1980, probably at the Palace Theatre in Manchester.
Ashworth6 3 years ago
Pretty sure I saw Matthew do the stage show (and I *definitely* saw the dreaded Connie Creighton do it), but I think I saw Harry as well, when he was semi-retired (and mostly doing stage shows at Weymouth). Harry did not die until 1989.
RobinCarmody 3 years ago
We lived in Peterborough so only ever got Connie Creighton. Who to be fair, was very good at it.
RobTheBuilder 3 years ago