UK 1971 Colour TV Adverts x 7

[diamondinthedirt100]

I just wish they sold deoderant in France

[BearCubster]

BEN SHERMAN!!!! I had no idea they were around in those days.

[ConnorG56]

@BearCubster then you dont know very much about the company then.

[Fifty1stState]

1:30 when Jim talks, it makes sense!

[gordongate]

what was that about a frail object in a box jimmy?

Too soon?

[matt9741399]

Also, 'the only boy in the world' would be quite a niche market.

[matt9741399]

That shirt is something else.... Yes, yes it is.

[MsPete1963]

the size of that deodorant can... they must have really stank in 1971.

[MrOutstep33]

R.|.P Jimmy savile

[PeowPeowPeowLasers]

That's a nice shirt! It's a Ben Sherman!

[TheTechnoToast]

today in 2011 we still have adverts as barmy as this

[weerobot]

The seat belt AD was excellent still packs a punch today.

[paulspydar]

the "swordsman" crimplene ties.. lol

[diskochimp]

FANTASTIC!

[williamkanegateshead]

"Every day in every way, you're o.k. with us." I remember that song like it was yesterday!

[evilrobottolhurst]

though my spelling of "you're" is not so hot...

[evilrobottolhurst]

Humming "you;re OK with US" now...

[Mehefinheulog1]

I was a roadie for that band

we used to dream of having matching crimplene ties and hankies

where did it all go wrong, damn it

[castlebar67]

memories is right the hoover my late mum had away back in 1971 the electeolux cleaner ah well all is gone pb manc irishman

[shortandbald]

oh my god, the memories!!!!! thanks so much for posting, i@m there!

[robinbrum]

Absolutely brilliant, where you get these from I do not know but you deserve an award for posting them - thanks fot the memories!

[Feisty1967]

Noel Edmonds must have a share in "That Shirt".

[IThinkYouLookLarvely]

@Feisty1967 Very true, he's stuck in the '70s with his shirts and the '80s with his hair. :D

[radiodarkhorse]

What ITV channel was this from?

[eydiot909]

Effective advert for seat belts with Jimmy

[dvws1]

I need me a crimplene tie right away!!!

[areyoureceivingme]

Were girls prettier then?

[JFredUK]

@areyoureceivingme No, they just looked and dressed more feminine, back then.

[jrmetmoi]

@areyoureceivingme Just not any widespread, accessible, and cheap plastic surgery back then.

[jasmoff]

The "you're ok with US" theme was released in the UK as a 7" single at the time,though its a slightly different version to the advert.

[halfmetal74]

Jimmy, it's inertia not the Law of Gravity - jeez

[littleniyah]

@halfmetal74 Yeah. but no-one would know what inertia was. They would think it means "can't be arsed." Saying "Gravity" gives it a scientific serious sound. So it will do the trick, even if bollocks.

[Feisty1967]

I'm sure the Jimmy Saville ad is not 1971 cos he is wearing wide lapels, which didn't come into fashion until about 1973.

[mistofoles]

"That's a nice shirt! I hope the bloodstains wash out of it!"

[mistofoles]

Excuse me....you find your wife's toyboy hiding in the wardrobe, and you compliment him on his shirt?!

[rabsmiff]

great memories! Wonder what the 'beautiful people' in these ads look like today?

[goombabear]

That hair is horrible, it looks like and old women's hair.

[infrasleep]

70's fashions were appalling!! And most of it tailored in nylon! That woman would have produced enough electricity to power half of London the way she rubbed her legs together.

I didn't appreciate it at the time, but looking back on these fashion catastrophes, I'm glad I was forced to spend most of the 70's in a school uniform. There aren't too many blackmail corner photo's about, though one exists of me in a shirt with chocolate collar and cuffs.

[ab37z]

The first ad - groovy baby - the smoking is shocking though

[UKSazzy67]

I'm sure the Jimmy Saville ad was from later than 1971, you can tell by the wide lapels on his jacket, excuse me for being pedantic.

[williamkanegateshead]

@UKSazzy67 It was 1971. I remember this sequence of ads being on Television Heaven on Channel 4, presented by Frank Muir. Oh and the US ad is possibly my favourite ever!

[IThinkYouLookLarvely]

@UKSazzy67 It's all '71, this is the first Clunk Click ad he did from then. I guess Jimmy was one of the trendsetters! I've got a clip of Herman's Hermits (past their success) on Morecambe and Wise from 1970 and they've got big lapels on their suits. They look like '70s wedding guests :D

[Gmancrap]

A fine time in advertisements.

[installLSC]

If your kids ask you "Daddy what were the 70s like" just show them the first commercial. And then they will run screaming from the monitor.

[bules72]

Brilliant.

[pommol]

those shirtcomercials where ones sampled by Meat Beat Manifesto for there satyricon-album in 1994

[bules72]

2.08 be funny if it then moved onto a big, hairy man in the bedroom wearing his wifes clothes and squeezing into her heels.

"Mr John McTavish, tranny and time tights wearer."

He looks into the camera and with a rough northern accent and says,

"No ladders even when they get snagged from the bushes"

[UKSazzy67]

I was only 3 in 1971! That lady with the tights, if the tights lasted from 9 to 5, then why did she have 2 spare packets in her desk drawer?

[djhejfdngszldlvvn]

She was simply promoting the other chic colours on offer: balaclava brown & ketchup red.

[digbycurrents]

Two pairs are her shagging tights, the others are her working tights.

[transitcoffin]

@digbycurrents how crude

[constanzavictrix]

UKSazzy67.....she had a selection of different types of 'Time' tights in her desk to wear straight after work...

[velocet1976]

I'm sure i've seen this montage some years ago on a great TV show on C4 called TV HEAVEN with the late Frank Muir. They did a certain year each week with full episodes of programmes, a selection of opening credits from programmes of that year & tv adverts. I taped all the adverts from each show...that went bye-bye sometime ago...! :-(

[stevealexR1]

The UK got colour TV in '67 on 625 line BBC2 but colour was only gradually introduced on BBC1 and ITV in late sixties and early seventies...

[LollieSmith]

Savile was sex on legs in those days

[geffel]

I can see that.

[tomservo56954]

@LollieSmith Then I would DEFINITELY have worn my seat belt driving with you...obviously you were pissed at the time...:)

[skybaby42]

Just a baby then!

[creepmag62]

Aahh... if only I appreciated those times when I was living them but I was just a bit too young to realise how groovy they were.

[mukatuna]

3 TV adverts for men's clothings. Now that's something which hasn't happened in a long time. Ben Sherman is still around, however looking at the Double 2 shirts it's no wonder we don't see that brand any more.

Nice tweed 3 piece suit Jimmy Saville is wearing in the Clunk Click advert, I approve of that.

Civic.. now whatever happened to them? I remember my dad buying a stereo from Civic, sometime in 73 or 74.

[geffel]

It's about time ties were advertised on telly again. There's just aren't enough tie adverts these days. Crimplene and polyester? Sign me up!

[bluebus270]

Double Two were made in Wakefield. In fact people still wear them in Featherstone.

[Mehefinheulog1]

now then lad, no point in gettin all lah-di-dah

there's nowt wrong with a good dose of crimplene

[sameoldfitup2008]

I WAS 7 THEN.............

[capitalsho]

0:17 OMG she is perfect. (WAS perfect)

[LollieSmith]

Yeah i cant get over how perfect Savile was either!

[RabidRaccoonUK]

No shit. Those shirts really ARE something else...

[webbhead92]

Wow. TV adverts in colour. And no 118 bozo's either.

[CHANNELOMD]

GREAT POST THANKS!

[twelvemeister]

i want ... that shirt

[capitalsho]

I wonder if Miss A Western is "smoothly efficient". Actualy by now she would need more than a little lubricant to be useful.

[jessyjoojoo]

haha THAT shirt. so cheesy i love it.

[cutebikerwannabe]

lost era, sad

[minutegongcoughs]

Terrific gas. Tx for your uploads. We remember them!

[halsalli]

It is unbelievable in this day and age that people as a matter of course didn't wear seatbelts in their cars. I also didn't realise that the moto "clunk click, every trip" was around in 1971 three years before I was born! Imagine not wearing a seatbelt today.

[jimjams91]

38 years ago!

[GFantastic]

LOL. My mum used to work for Double Two in the 60s.

[zepromz]

Haha, the guy leaning against the wall in the first advert is "Benton" from Pertwee era Dr Who!

[hooweelewis]

Pass that can of us under arm spray, so we can all have a pommy shower!

[ossyrefugee]

Have you not got sheep you should be shagging convict?

[hooweelewis]

what's tha matter, upset cause you live in Englandistan?

watch out for the exploding public transport loser.

[mrspester]

Ms. Angela Weston 'easier to choose than a man' - what a slut, like to see where when shes 70, which she probably is now

[Ampex196]

Fantastic - thanks for posting !!

[fugggit]

man thats some snazzy shirts right there!!

[halsalli]

and it would great with one of those Favourite ties, in teroline and crimpoline of course

[gmullin]

Anybody know what the track is that is playing on That Shirt?

Meat Beat Manefesto sampled it.

[JAYROX1969]

Hows about that then? Now then now then!

[associatesfan]

I remember that ad for US deoderant, I have mentioned it to others but no one I knew remembered it so glad to have seen this. I used to love the persuaders too

[unigateman]

I have these ads on tape, the programme that followed was the persuaders

[caturn88]

I bet old Saville wouldn't be to partial to wearing a belt if it mean he had to give up his pinky ring (and its neighbour)

[JonnyInfinite]

Doctor Who voicing ties

[scorpiosview]

keogh an savage eat yer heart out...holy shit thats serious trippy stuff

[Glorify27]

I remember that 'US' advert very well. What memories.

[wayney]

Me too - and if anyone has any supplies of the US roll on - especially the green one - I would love to buy some so that I can relive the days of my youth when I was influenced by this very advert and purchased the deodrant ! i

[mubd1234]

THAT SHIRT!

[thebob34]

great adverts, check out that old vac, prob last longer than the ones today.

[blade0954]

people laugh at the fashions then,nowadays in hot weather they go about with baseball caps with the hood up!!! you couldnt make it up

[jamierourketen]

they wear baseball caps and hoods up so they cant be filmed on cctv!

[thecheesepriest]

I've got it now, That Shirt is one of those Magic Eye things isn't it? Get your eyes really close and concentrate and you can see two hedgehogs mating in a bath full of fairy lights! Mike S.

[thecheesepriest]

"That Shirt" was something else all right.

A tablecloth! Mike S.

[ATVmidlands5581]

@thecheesepriest

made me laugh :o)

[barrybwfc]

@thecheesepriest PMS

[JFredUK]

@thecheesepriest Either that, or what was once some living room curtains.

[johnnygorgeous]

great memories thank you for posting!

[MikeJF355]

That shirt is definately something else !!!!

[Ampex196]

Thanks For this great trip back in time. I'm old enough to recall all of these - even though I rarely saw ITV! And who could ever forget Harry Worth? I love it - including the opening with a Thorens turntable and arm!.... Now then - where did I put my nice new anorak - lol?

[nam1956]

I absolutely loved the 'US' advert when I was younger, I was in love with the blonde girl!!

Not seen this ad for years, thanks!

[RobinCarmody]

Some very of-their-time ads here, but the Civic one could easily have come from a decade earlier.