They're awfully casual with that KillaSpray, bathing themselves in insecticide vapor.
I had a Polaroid Swinger in 1967 (in the US); here they were advertised (as you might guess from the name) as the inexpensive Polaroid for teenagers. And it wasn't just a matter of tearing and peeling the photo; you had to coat it immediately with fixative liquid from a moist wiper that was included with the film. If not, the picture faded quickly. And the peeled-off part had a caustic chemical in it too.
Well done for recovering this clip, it is very good. It would take a miracle to recover much more of the AR-TV archive. I would also like to correct your "correction". AR-TV stopped broadcasting in 1968, so this couldn't possibly have been recorded in 1969.
These days it's not politically correct to show sugar being put on cereals, I think it was banned years ago. However, it doesn't reflect reality, as most people add sugar to their morning cereal.
@chrissy17169 Jesus, John Slater eh ?. I remember him well as sgt Stone on Z Cars but haven't given him a thought in all those years !!. You're right, I think he didn't die until the mid '70s, but I doubt if Special K killed him !!.
@TheKenfig given up on any reaction after 3 months! according to wikipedia he died of an illness related to injuries in a car crash some years previous to his death. for some weird reason i remember it was jan1975 within days of john gregson dying,yet i can't even remember what happened yesterday! special k didn't kill him of course but look at the amount of sugar in that bowl . shouldn't lol. thanks for replying
@chrissy17169 Do you know , I bloody remember that now you've said. I'm not just saying that now, but I remember seeing it in The Sun newspaper about Gregson and Stone around the same time when I was 12 years old....AND I remember reading in The Sun about Laurence Harvey death earlier but roughly in the same era !
@TheKenfig yes!!!!!!!!!!!!.not quite as old as you as i was only 11 at the time,but i remember my dad reading the birmingham post and as he held it up a front page headline read "john gregson dies at 58 and john slater dies at 55".dont know much about laurence harvey but as i said before isn't it odd that we can recall that long ago yet forget what happened last week?maybe because it was a less complex world back then
@chrissy17169 Well I am 48 now until next week !. Its like when Benny Hill & Frankie Howerd passed away within a day or so of each other in '92. I think Harvey went in 1973, but I remember The Sun feature on his life etc when it happened. I have quite a good memory for when I was young as I can remember stuff I know to be when I was 3 years old and by the time I was 4 I can remember loads of stuff from tv, radio pop charts, having new records etc. I remember LOADS from 1967 vividly
@TheKenfig how about 84.we lost cooper.morecambe bosanquet dors within weeks of each other,as well as several others in 83-84. i class this as the end of an era from non pc to altenative comedy so called pc.cooper died live on tv.didn't see it. did you? if so ,did you realise what had happened or think it was part of the act? knew someone who watched it and says he knew he was dead right away.never believed him.
@chrissy17169 Well, not at the time, but it's on here ; Youtube if you didn't know. It's understandable that they thought it was a gag. Same with Sid James back in 76. They thought it was part of the show when he died. Even when someone said "Is there a doctor in the house ?", everyone laughed. Lol, it sounds funny I can't help chuckle
@TheKenfig have seen it on youtube before but of course i knew what to expect as opposed to actually watching it live at that time.apparently the curtains closed and itv went straight to an ad break. an unscheduled ad break may have raised suspicions that maybe something was wrong.thanks again for your feedback
@TheKenfig this gets sadder by the minute! i can remember slater was a contributor on this is your life just a week after he died.the announcer had to say that his relatives gave permission to go ahead. those eerie announcements were commonplace whenever a programme had been recorded shortly before one of its stars passing.i got his age wrong he would have been 95 this year.so sad
I remember the Smarties advert, Thames took over during the week from Reddifusion and LWT took over at the weekend from ATV,so these must be pre 1968 .
I'm sure I've seen that ad on a programme, proabably a Victor Lewis Smith one, having the mickey taken out of it.
I have the Wimbledon link on a tape, but I don't remember these ads from that tape, and it's the usual one that gets copied and passed around. I shall have to check. I have it all on DVD too, from a different source, but the same tape of 60s material.
I'm currently rewriting a story/novel I started over ten years ago set in '67 (because now I got better info than I had in '96 which was zip) and these old commercials are very good help in my research of the time era.
It's not the ad's themselves exactly I'm trying to get the feel of the times and being accurate is a good act of detail that not enough time period stuff I've seen really bother with and if they do, they've found a mid 70's box of something put in a story set in '66...
That's incredible! So high quality, and its curious to see that the special K logo is actually the same today. Never thought id see such old ITV footage.
This is actually from 1967 - I read on the Missing Episodes forum (missing - episodes . com) that this clip is from the summer of 1967 and is part of a Rediffusion off-air that includes continuity for Wimbledon, and 5 minutes of an edition of This Week. Excellent clip - thanks very much for sharing! B-)
They're awfully casual with that KillaSpray, bathing themselves in insecticide vapor.
I had a Polaroid Swinger in 1967 (in the US); here they were advertised (as you might guess from the name) as the inexpensive Polaroid for teenagers. And it wasn't just a matter of tearing and peeling the photo; you had to coat it immediately with fixative liquid from a moist wiper that was included with the film. If not, the picture faded quickly. And the peeled-off part had a caustic chemical in it too.
hebneh 9 months ago
and the polaroid picture lasted as long as the marriage! 3 years lol
freddielaker2 10 months ago
Nowadays you are not allowed to have sugar on your Special K, it's not considered to be politically correct.
Feisty1967 1 year ago
Gosh, aren't the breakbumpers long.
callwithcurrentconti 1 year ago
This is fab! Thanks for posting.
Feisty1967 1 year ago
This is from 1967, not 1969 because Rediffusion Television became Thames Television, and ATV London became London Weekend Television in 1968.
JHollowayNetwork 1 year ago
These days your'e not allowed to have sugar on your Special K, how times change! sugar is not politicaly correct anymore.
UKSazzy67 1 year ago
Well done for recovering this clip, it is very good. It would take a miracle to recover much more of the AR-TV archive. I would also like to correct your "correction". AR-TV stopped broadcasting in 1968, so this couldn't possibly have been recorded in 1969.
PeterannaProductions 2 years ago
Things sure have changed. boy this makes me fell old.
mollybabygirl1 2 years ago
These days it's not politically correct to show sugar being put on cereals, I think it was banned years ago. However, it doesn't reflect reality, as most people add sugar to their morning cereal.
UKSazzy67 2 years ago
@UKSazzy67 didn't do much good for the man doing the advert. he (john slater) died suddenly a few years later
chrissy17169 7 months ago
@chrissy17169 Jesus, John Slater eh ?. I remember him well as sgt Stone on Z Cars but haven't given him a thought in all those years !!. You're right, I think he didn't die until the mid '70s, but I doubt if Special K killed him !!.
TheKenfig 3 months ago
@TheKenfig given up on any reaction after 3 months! according to wikipedia he died of an illness related to injuries in a car crash some years previous to his death. for some weird reason i remember it was jan1975 within days of john gregson dying,yet i can't even remember what happened yesterday! special k didn't kill him of course but look at the amount of sugar in that bowl . shouldn't lol. thanks for replying
chrissy17169 3 months ago
@chrissy17169 Do you know , I bloody remember that now you've said. I'm not just saying that now, but I remember seeing it in The Sun newspaper about Gregson and Stone around the same time when I was 12 years old....AND I remember reading in The Sun about Laurence Harvey death earlier but roughly in the same era !
TheKenfig 3 months ago
@TheKenfig yes!!!!!!!!!!!!.not quite as old as you as i was only 11 at the time,but i remember my dad reading the birmingham post and as he held it up a front page headline read "john gregson dies at 58 and john slater dies at 55".dont know much about laurence harvey but as i said before isn't it odd that we can recall that long ago yet forget what happened last week?maybe because it was a less complex world back then
chrissy17169 3 months ago
@chrissy17169 Well I am 48 now until next week !. Its like when Benny Hill & Frankie Howerd passed away within a day or so of each other in '92. I think Harvey went in 1973, but I remember The Sun feature on his life etc when it happened. I have quite a good memory for when I was young as I can remember stuff I know to be when I was 3 years old and by the time I was 4 I can remember loads of stuff from tv, radio pop charts, having new records etc. I remember LOADS from 1967 vividly
TheKenfig 3 months ago
@TheKenfig how about 84.we lost cooper.morecambe bosanquet dors within weeks of each other,as well as several others in 83-84. i class this as the end of an era from non pc to altenative comedy so called pc.cooper died live on tv.didn't see it. did you? if so ,did you realise what had happened or think it was part of the act? knew someone who watched it and says he knew he was dead right away.never believed him.
chrissy17169 3 months ago
@chrissy17169 Well, not at the time, but it's on here ; Youtube if you didn't know. It's understandable that they thought it was a gag. Same with Sid James back in 76. They thought it was part of the show when he died. Even when someone said "Is there a doctor in the house ?", everyone laughed. Lol, it sounds funny I can't help chuckle
TheKenfig 3 months ago
@TheKenfig have seen it on youtube before but of course i knew what to expect as opposed to actually watching it live at that time.apparently the curtains closed and itv went straight to an ad break. an unscheduled ad break may have raised suspicions that maybe something was wrong.thanks again for your feedback
chrissy17169 3 months ago
@TheKenfig this gets sadder by the minute! i can remember slater was a contributor on this is your life just a week after he died.the announcer had to say that his relatives gave permission to go ahead. those eerie announcements were commonplace whenever a programme had been recorded shortly before one of its stars passing.i got his age wrong he would have been 95 this year.so sad
chrissy17169 3 months ago
@chrissy17169 Oh right, yes
TheKenfig 3 months ago
I'm interested to know if this stuff was originally filmed off the TV screen or is that just how it was transferred from the old video format?
RodCow 2 years ago
I remember the Smarties advert, Thames took over during the week from Reddifusion and LWT took over at the weekend from ATV,so these must be pre 1968 .
vidpop 2 years ago
The smarties song sounds like it's done by an established band, Hollies maybe?
popitinpete 2 years ago
I wonder if that Killer Spray will work on my neighbour? She's a bloody pest.
FaerieCrone 3 years ago 6
I OWN THAT CAMERA!
moxie96 3 years ago
..gawd..not getting old..jus old...
cornergang 3 years ago
how are these Corrected? they still look Home VT to me
ade425mxy 3 years ago
The date was corrected
KrayzieBoneForLife 3 years ago
"49/6" Is that 2.48 GBP in today's currency, or is it a company's name "forty-nine & six"?
zekepig 3 years ago
49 shillings & sixpence= £2 9/- 6d in old money!.
I like the 'seniorita from Havana'-more likely a 'Chelsea bird with fake spanish accent'.Great fun!.
soapbox5 3 years ago
I'm sure I've seen that ad on a programme, proabably a Victor Lewis Smith one, having the mickey taken out of it.
I have the Wimbledon link on a tape, but I don't remember these ads from that tape, and it's the usual one that gets copied and passed around. I shall have to check. I have it all on DVD too, from a different source, but the same tape of 60s material.
presheaven 2 years ago
Ah, I just checked, I have the whole section from the end of the Hancock programme through the ads to the start of This Week...
presheaven 2 years ago
yup its £2.48, correct!
gramule 3 years ago
It's a treat to see commercials from late June 1967.Here's a geeky trivia link:'The Monkees' were in London on this same day!.
soapbox5 3 years ago
I'm currently rewriting a story/novel I started over ten years ago set in '67 (because now I got better info than I had in '96 which was zip) and these old commercials are very good help in my research of the time era.
It's not the ad's themselves exactly I'm trying to get the feel of the times and being accurate is a good act of detail that not enough time period stuff I've seen really bother with and if they do, they've found a mid 70's box of something put in a story set in '66...
moxie96 3 years ago
That's incredible! So high quality, and its curious to see that the special K logo is actually the same today. Never thought id see such old ITV footage.
Slay33D 4 years ago 2
These are from Friday 23rd June 1967. A pity that Redvers Kyle's link into This Week - The Arts was not included.
RobinCarmody 4 years ago
robin, you always manage to put a date on these vintage brit tv clips. how do you do it?
dunkiep 3 years ago 2
Same here! Great memory?
moxie96 3 years ago
Crikey that's John Slater advertising Special K. He used to be in Z Cars.
airscrew1 4 years ago 2
This is actually from 1967 - I read on the Missing Episodes forum (missing - episodes . com) that this clip is from the summer of 1967 and is part of a Rediffusion off-air that includes continuity for Wimbledon, and 5 minutes of an edition of This Week. Excellent clip - thanks very much for sharing! B-)
AntarcticaTelevision 4 years ago 3
Cracking clip! Well done for posting. However, this would have been earlier than 1969 as Thames took over from Rediffusion in 1968.
keenmustard 4 years ago