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  • "Join the men in mining". Who'd have thought Mrs Thatcher would shut 'em all down a few years later. Bitch.

  • 2:18 Sounds like the sync sound at the start of 'Alpha and Omega' by Boards of Canada...

  • 4:27 I bet people were thinking there's no way that's Olive!

  • Back when colaminers mined coal and football supporters looked like Max Bygraves, women ate, 'real', bread whilst hot-air balloon gliding, women in black and white cycled to see some old bloke get off a train and, 'on the buses', got its own colour suplement in the TV Times!

  • Johnnie - you blithering idiot!!

  • @rooftopjump "i wish i could get my doughnuts to look like Fanny's"

  • @gordongate Of course, the secret was that Fanny was actually Johnnie's gay brother in drag.

  • If the Chanel commercial had been shown after the introduction of decimal currency in 1971, it would have said "Chanel, from three hundred pounds (£300) to three pounds (and) ninety-five (new pence) (£3.95)" instead of "three pounds nineteen (£3/19/-)".

  • The "Australia" advert looks more modern than the other adverts. It looks like it could be as many as 20 years later than it was, probably.

  • @jleer1 no, no it doesn't

  • At 1:39 - Trials of Dr Zorog's new execution method, known as the "balloon-noose" ended badly, when the doctor forgot to account for prevailing winds.

  • I distinctly remember the Nimble advert!

  • This Nimble bread Advert sure is classic.

  • @jakedp100 I agree. Remember the Nimble ad vividly.

  • @julesthemadman Me too, soon as I saw it I remembered the words to the song!

  • @VinnyMonster1 Strange isn't it? I hadn't given it a thought in decades.

  • Thats a laugh I seem to remember a certain prime minster destroying the mining industry!!

  • From 2:40 onwards is hysterical laughter caused by the sheer terror of the demon clown doll. It's all brainwashing after that point.

    "Sacrifice your own child for the demon. Place them on the horse." chats the clown...

    OK. That could just be me thinking that. :-) But it does look evil.

  • I love the way the motorist stayed in his car after knocking over Willy Weasel- maybe it was a rough area.

  • australia..fill in the coupon. but bfor: get the skin whitnr out first of. extra strength,

  • The best way to advertise australia to women - highlight the beautiful landscape, career opportunities and the economic boom? No: lipstick.

  • Maybe it's just me but that intercity railway slogan wouldn't seem out of place on a dulcoease advert.

  • ah the memories, thanks so much for posting !

  • Why would the British Government at the time want to send people to Australia? Is it to get rid of the dross??

  • @Feisty1967 They sent the English people to Australia and brought all the third world to England!

  • Save up to four bob in a pound LOL

  • When I was a wee boy, I thought Fanny Craddock was a man dressed up in drag. And those's two men in drag Hinge and Bracket were women. God i was innocent then. Mind you I was 7. I agree about the Miners. Real men who lived and worked a hard life, like my Father, my 2 Grandfathers ect. Thatcher burn in hell.

  • @bugsbunny2022 I agree with you, I felt the same.

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  • There's just something about these ads that reminds me that ordinary people were the important ones then. People all had more or less the same. And this was ok

  • The Australia advert is so absurd, it's such a male-dominated society.

  • willy weasel lmao

  • I LOVE the Chanel No 5 commercial.

  • @vidform Me too, I think that it's the most romantic ad and makes me cry

  • 41  años , menudo cambio d anuncios

  • That Inter city ad looks like it's filmed at Coventry Station. As for the Australia ad...well, Valley of the Dolls! Awww...Tufty. I remember him well.

  • @mazzab1970 it is Coventry, still a wonderful sight and emblematic of "the post-war dream"

  • @RobinCarmody to quote Pink Floyd, "Whatever happened to the post-war dream?" I think Cov station is Grade 2 listed. I spent many times waiting over an hour just to get 8 miles down the rails to Leamington. :D

  • @mazzab1970 I did indeed have 'The Final Cut' on my mind. And, yes, it is listed.

  • @mazzab1970 Ah yes. But does he remember you???????? Hehe!

  • The Australia ad looks like some creepy horror movie.

  • The Black & White advert at 3:00 looks like it's from 1969.

  • Was that Inspector Blakey ???

  • Chanel #5 .... wish it were that easy !!!

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  • Yeah, and by the mid-eighties all the pits were closed.

  • It was a brummie chap that wrote the music for Nimble!!

  • What is 4 bob in the pound?

  • @Feisty1967 20 p i think

  • @Feisty1967 4 bob is 4 old shillings ,in todays money that would be 20p!!!

  • I'm not quite sure about the last ad. 15p? Is that in old money?

  • Willy Weasel the stupid bastard !!!

  • The Chilian miners are moving to Northumberland

  • WTF is that creepy Australia ad about??

  • willy weasel makes one mean roadkill

  • ha ha.can you trust a chicken?sure,why not?

  • join the men in mining now,and should the mine cave in,rest assured your ghost will be well compensated

  • join the men in mining now and should the mine cave in,your ghost will be well compensated

  • Ice Cream!!! xD xX

  • Enjoyed the adverts - shame about the racist crap below them.

  • 3:31 Bernard Cribbins voice of the Wombles. On The Buses was huge in 1970.

  • LOL. BRING MUMMY WITH YOU NOOB!

  • Oh my god, Willie was hurt "because he didn't take mummy with him" - how about, Willy's mummy didn't teach him to look both ways before he crossed the road.

  • @moltennimrod Exactly what I thought! However, was that ad public service? I was a little confused by talking squirrels, weasels, and little buildings.

  • That Willy Weasel, I'm sure he grew up to be a bad 'un.

  • Is that a young John Cleese in the Australia ad at 2:51?

    Great memories!!

  • Love the Aussie advert. Clear pitched at white people only.

  • Ahhhh, such sweet memories. I just once wished Johnny could have said the immortal line... 'Follow these instructions and all your doughnuts will turn out like Fannie's'.

    I also miss the British sense of humour

  • I Love Fanny, Such a star!!!

  • Tufty takes goes with his mummy to the ice cream van. The ice cream man asks, "do you want nuts on it?" and Tufty replies, "are you taking the piss?"

  • Ahhh! Ads from my childhood. Certainly better than the shows from that era. So unsophisticated compared to the some of the clinical, cynical and too scientific ads now.

  • Always remember the safety adds, so many back then. I was only 3 years old still remember the fire addies. Sinister I thought.

  • olive looked sexy

  • "I 'ate you Butler; get that bus out!!!!!" 4:31

  • Women! Come to Australia! You can buy lipstick! And scary puppets!

  • I remember Nimble.......wasn't that long ago was it..FUCK

  • The company I presently work for, did the filming and owned the balloons. Ironically, over the last week, a team of us has been cutting up the old balloons from storage. They wouldn't have flown again as the material had perished. Company is still going strong though as we moved on to motion pictures and helicopter work.

  • Have you seen the most recent Wallace and Gromit short ('A Matter of Loaf and Death') ? It references the Nimble advert !

  • Join the men in mining NOW! before the pits shut down altogether

  • @gallafey to right mate ..back in the days when you could leave school and start work in a mans world...good times no matter what...soon decimated by Thatchers mob...treacherous bitch and her spite completely wasted whole communities..now the same party are back in power and calling the very men that she put out of work scroungers...get everyone off welfare and into work!!! begs the question..what work?

  • @gallafey  "There's a 'Woman's World' in Australia.........There's a 'Practical Motorist' in Papua New Guinea......There's a 'National Geographic' in Malaysia....Yes, magazines. The joke I'm doing is based largely on magazines.

  • The simple life. Great memories.

  • remember most of them

    WTF??

    Good to see On The Buses

  • love the chanel commerical!! the music is so cool. And when was the last time you saw a pretty woman like that in a commercial; with an actual hairstyle...and hair!?

  • Chanel no5 3 pounds 19 lol

  • Ah Fanny Cradock, that evil hag!

  • I guess Australia wasn't a man's world?

  • Can anyone remember an advert for a food (I guess about 1970 ish) that was based in the middle ages, with 2 peasants turning a spit over a fire and one saying "one day there will be all flavours of roasted meats in little boxes" and the other guy replying "oh yes? and one day man will land on the moon." I am beginning to wonder if anyone else remembers it and what the product was. Can anyone help.

  • I can remeber the advert to which you refer but I regret I cannot remember the product (sorry)

  • i thought i was going mad also it comes into my head every now and again, but alas i cant remember the product either. I am going to hunt it down, now

  • i thought they didnt have colour in 70

  • Colour TV started in 1969, but not across the whole country at first

  • The Australians couldn't get any Sheilas so they had to advertise for ours. Nothing changes.

  • Stop,Look and Listen was drummed into me at an early age in the 70's-and the roads were far less busy then than they are now!Who is telling today's kids anything about road safety???

  • great nostalgiac trip down the memorie

    lane of advertising through the glorious

    70's thanks for the great memories .

    frankie smales

    (retro tv advert fan)

  • Love the juxtaposition of the mining ad and Chanel No 5!

  • Great set of ads - thanks!

    The On The Buses supplement must have been '71 at the earliest - 15p, so post-decimalisation.

  • Quite creepy these for some reason. I remember the tufty advert - it must have been playing for years because I was only born in 69

  • Love the Chanel ad - it's got a funky late 60s vibe!

  • My best mate used to live and work with Fanny. The woman was quite impossible, yet could be hilariously inappropriate at times.

  • Who knew there were enough ice cream truck-related injuries to merit a PSA?!

  • Ahh! I get where the idea for the new Wallace and Gromit short came from now! It's the nimble bread advert! :D

  • I saw Fanny and Johnny and thought instantly of Benny Hill

  • Me too!

  • The "Men in Mining" ad is REAL history. Within a few years it was all gone along with their way of life.

  • Obviously a dying industry for them having to spend on expensive adverts in 1970.

  • Nice that Fanny knows the correct grammar, "come & join Johnny and me each week.." not "Johnny and I.." as so many people are convinced is the right way. Great so see the Nimble ad again.

  • Lots of people get that one wrong, I hear it on TV and see it written in newspapers all the time. I'm glad there is someone else out there that can spot it too!!!

  • True.

  • It was a classic TV moment indeed when the henpecked husband; Johnny Cradock said "I hope all your cakes turn out like Fanny's"

  • I believe it was actually "I hope your jam doughnuts all turn out like Fanny's." Fanny Craddock was an utter bitch who got her comeuppance after reducing a woman to tears on live TV by deriding her cooking. That was the end of Fanny's TV career.

    I see Tufty's STILL living with his Mum. She's only agreed to go to the ice cream van so she can get 20 Regal King Size.

    All together now, "She flies like a bird in the sky-i,i,i..."

  • You're not wrong there - she was a monster !

  • the benny hill kitchen sketch was fantastic i still rmember all these years on!

  • love them all. the ice cream van add shud come back, that was a very good add to stop kids goin on their own, the addswere so much better them days keep them comin plz

  • I'd pay good money for that On The Buses supplement

    I imagine the Australia advert was in response the a Focus group finding women perceived the country as being lacking in shiny sparkly things and therefore unattractive as a domicile

  • the chanel ad fuck I remeber that at the cinema, going to see Diamonds are Forever

  • it's certainly an ad with much style with a nice looking woman.

  • oh bugger i forgot to spirit away my ex girlfriend to australia.

  • Id like to smell those miner mens socks after a hard days work.

  • join the men in mining. Where? on the dole?

  • ..good grief..its come to this!i am not only turning into my dad,(no pipe & slippers please)!!i remember all these ads like they were yesterday,still fresh in my (tiny) mind,but where has the innocence gone?in todays society,we would all be classed as this that or the other!!..and i am NOT the other!..good post,great memories..

  • Wow, these are interesting.

    LOL at Johnny and Fanny.

    The Australia ad kind of creeped me out a bit for some reason.

    I was a proud member of the Tufty Club!!

  • Yeah the Aussie ad announcer sounds a little too heavy breathing. "Go to Australia so I can score some hot chicks!"

    You know Tufty said just before the weasel got hit, "Mom you're embarassing me! Everyone thinks I'm a dork since I can't walk by myself!"

    And as an American WHY THE HELL DIDN'T WE HAVE NIMBLE! THAT'S THE GREATEST COMMERCIAL I'VE SEEN!

  • A future in mining? Great! Where do I sign up??

  • LOL, you would have regretted taking that advice eh, If Margaret Thatcher had been attracted by the Australia ad they might have had a chance lol

  • i remember tuffty the squirl lol jesus im getting old :(

  • This is old! 38 years ago. I wonder where those people are now?

  • most are probably 6 feet under

  • Thats true :)

  • Sainsburys

  • You remember Monica?  She's still waiting for her train to arrive.

  • We nearly lost Monica at 3:03! Almost wiped out by a Fiat 1500.

  • join the mining community in 1970 go on strike in 14 years time. what went wrong ?

  • That Channel advert was soooooooooooooo 1970s!

  • I know! £300 for perfume in 1970!

  • anyone recognise anna karen(olive from 'off the buses') at 4.28? she was a tasty bird was anna,very different from the speccy dowdy bint she played at the time in otb. i saw her a few times in the fanny mags in the 70's,stripped off,she was well worth another look.

  • i dunno what jazz mags u were looking at mate , she was ropey. but im guessing if you were looking at jazz mags in 1970 u must be nearly 70 nown then i suppose any bird in a skirt will do ??

  • well how do you form an opinion of anna karen in the 70's unless you looked at her nude pics too pal? you must have bad eyesight cos she was a sexy chick was anna at that time.you'd have had trouble finding her zips and hooks so she'd have waited for the experts like me to do the biz for her! but you could've watched!

  • I'd shag Fanny Craddock.

  • Australia looks great

  • Is that Alan Freeman in the Australia ad I was in the Tufty Club... got a badge and a newsletter

  • I remember this set of ads being shown in 1992 on Channel 4 for TV Heaven. I threw all my VHS tapes down the tip.

  • I was 4 in 1970 and the Nimble advert was the first ad I ever remember, even the lyrics.

  • Pre-decimalisation "Off-peak returns can you save upto 4 bob in the £". The perfect voiceovers had authority, the imaging and the production were excellent. Now look what we've got post-Thatcher.

  • A faceworker, an underground man, a skilled craftsman. All of these professions were eventually made extinct by Maggie Thatcher in the name of "progress". Mike S.

  • Don't forget it was the Miners who held the Country to ransom, plunged us into darkness and cost other peoples jobs becasue they had the power to do so. There fate was sealed when they started to blackmail the British people.

  • What trades are now left in this country? Thatcher started this - Blair and his cohorts have seen to it that we produce nothing! Skilled workers are a thing of the past - cheap immigrant labour is the bread and butter of the ruling elite - Britain and the British people mean nothing to the rotten, marxist led corrupt government & PC brigade! I hated Thatcher, but what I feel for these traitors far surpasses hatred!

  • I and millions agree with you.....

  • Absolutely agree 100% mate.

  • @MerlinsTempest2223 You prat! You think Thatcher's a Marxist? Blair? Brown? You sick, fascist.

    P.S. I notice you didn't complain about Australia ASKING people from this country, to go there. It's all right for us to emigrate, in your tiny mind but it's not all right for people to come here. I'd rather have a whole country of immigrants than people like you.

  • @williamkanegateshead Go join the UAF you facist PC Brainwashed idiot!

    How the hell can you say it's o-k for thousands of immigrants to come to country with no work, no industry and no hope?? (Unless of course you want to join the Islamic radical club)

    It's people like YOU that's ruined this country.

    

  • @Thewizard22uk Firstly, it's "go AND join" or is your head so far up Uncle Sam's arse you want to use Americanisms rather than English. Secondly, you clearly don't know what a fascist is, nor how to spell it. Finally, consider what I told the other nazi, to be directed at you as well.

  • @williamkanegateshead YAWN...Another one that blames everything on Zionist and forgetsv the REAL threat.

    I did'nt see any Zionist 9/11 or 7/7 bombers, You protesteth too much hence...BRAINWASHED!

  • @Thewizard22uk Are you mental?

  • @williamkanegateshead

    I'm trying to figure to what "Americanisms" you refer. ???  Don't be so hard on US - we are allies after all.

  • @2079423644 I'm sorry that you got the impression that I'm anti-American, as I assure you that's not the case. I was simply pointing out to a fascist, the irony of him/her using an American term i.e. "Go join" rather than the accepted English "Go and join", when he/she clearly hate all foreigners.

  • @williamkanegateshead

    No worries! I was curious about the "Americanisms" from your point of view. Sadly, the English language has been butchered on this side of the pond. It is refreshing to see that people still care about preserving its proper use. The dislike for foreigners is a global issue;also very strong in many pockets of the US as in Arizona with the recent dispute re: illegal Mexicans there. We are a land of immigrants - a "melting pot" if you will but today there is no tolerance.

  • @2079423644 The USA is the most successful country in the world and was, indeed bulit on immigration but I can't seem to make some people in my country understand that. Our very language, Germanic in origin, has been influenced by Latin, French, Scandinavian languages, Dutch etc but the Fascists don't want to know about that. As long as there are tolerant people, like yourself, in this world, then there's hope for us all.

  • @williamkanegateshead

    Yes, tolerance goes a long way, but it's not exactly a black and white issue, (no pun intended). There are variables and scenarios making up the layers of grey in between. I believe much of the intolerance comes from fear in these hard economic times. People are uptight today! They look to a source or group to lay blame and anger, and perhaps in hopes it may lead to a fix. Right wing, Fascists- not my thing. I don't need my trains to run on time with Mussolini control!

  • @2079423644 The scary thing is , they - the fascists, won't have any idea what you were talking about! Trains? Mussolini? What are those commies talking about?

  • @2079423644 I don't mind Immigrants as long as they're not Illegal aliens! If you want to immigrate do it legally.

  • @williamkanegateshead Go and join is considered proper in American English too. ^.^ Go join is used but isn't correct syntax in, say, a paper.

  • @KittyKattyYukiLvr Hey, I'm amazed that you found my comment., it was so long ago. Yes i take your point and it's good to know but I DOOOO wish people wouldn't say it all the same.

  • @Thewizard22uk

    So true mate. Too many immigrants sucking off benefits and we'll all be shitting the koran if we don't rid ourselves of these Islamic parasites!

  • @AndBobsYourUncle1 lol. this is so, so untrue it is laughable. bet you can'y

    tsubstantiate your ineprt tirade witha ny concrete fact./figures/reports. truth is, we are indebted to migrant workers, wake up and smell the coffee my friend. hope this helps,

  • @gramule

    The number one name for boys born in London the last couple years is Muhammad. They are populating at alarming rates and have a vicious agenda. Wait and see. In the meantime, watch your public transportation. KABOOM!

  • @AndBobsYourUncle1 maybe we should look at our own behavoiur rather than blaming poor immigrants who are keeping this county going. fact one english woman locally stated in the press she would need £60,000 a year for it to be worth coming off benefites. think on this my friend

  • @MerlinsTempest2223 and see what Blair and his chums did to: Rover, ERF, Foden, Ford (Great Britain), Electrolux, Vauxhall, and loads of other companies that have gone for ever. When in Boston (USA) in 2005, I was asked 'What did I think of Prime Minister Blair?' I replied 'I rather not thank you!' He looked as if I came from another world. Blair was a smarmy git. His band of thugs did not give a toss about anything accept power. May they rot in hell!

  • hey fantastic selection thanks for posting

  • class............Austrialia...­.lol

  • When i was younger ,i served Fanny Craddock in Sainsburys... Her real name is Phyllis you know!!!!!!!!!

  • That Chanel ad remains absolutely gorgeous. Also nice to see Maggie the Nimble girl again.

    thanks for posting.

  • I must agree with you there, there is a certain lush quality to it, beautiful woman with some nicely realised camerawork along with a rather lush soundtrack. It is highly doubtful whether ad agencies could come up with this kind of work nowadays, everything is so mixed and matched.

  • lol, thanks.

  • As put together for TV Heaven ... a wonderful selection indeed.

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