Yorkshire Television Adverts, 17th January 1981 (3)

[cwilliams1976]

Did anyone notice a Channel 4 trade test piece in one of the advertisements seen here?

[JFredUK]

James' Last? If only...

[mistofoles]

Was that Michael "Paddington" Bond narrating that first ad?

[Yorkmackem]

@mistofoles

Yeah its Michael Horden who was the narrator, Michael Bond was the author

[mistofoles]

@Yorkmackem Oh, yeah, I got 'em mixed up. Michael Hordern also did the voice of "Badger" in "THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS"!

[JoeScaramanga]

hahaha.... my mum had that James Last album.

She was a sucker for 'this album is not available in the shops'

[darrowby1972]

everybody`s mum had a sodding James Last LP

[NedoflandersArchives]

James Last...oh hell, to me that man was satan. His music was only appreciated by the elderly and religious, it's hard to believe that you can actually buy some of his shows on DVD! Whoever issued them should lose his/hers job.

Peter Cook did a good spoof of his works on 'Saturday Live' in 1986.

[RobinCarmody]

The music in the OSL ad (voiced by Richard Briers of course) is "Festival" by Richard Harvey (erstwhile of '70s prog mediaevalists Gryphon) - an oft-used library piece at this time, which featured on BBC Christmas trailers in both 1980 and 1982 and later as Channel 4 testcard music.

[jonnanna]

Love the old phone nos; 01 200 0200 forgotten about them.

[darrowby1972]

And who could forget that old classic AD-MAIL number - 0272 272 272

[RobinCarmody]

A Bristol number, of course (before it became 0117).

Most of the privatisation ads in the late 80s also had a Bristol number you could ring to apply for shares, I remember that much - and it may well have been the same one.