Re: why were the women in those days so much better looking? I dunno why but they were much sexier than today. I love 70's chics!! The hairdo's maybe or were they european girls? German, French, Italian models?
These adverts are from 1978 because the Sunbeam's registration is an 'S' which was correct for that time of year. And imagine persuading your missus to wear Tramp perfume!
This was at least October '77, '78. The Chrysler (soon to become Talbot) Sunbeam was first released late July '77, but the first VHS video gear wasn't marketed for homes until October. Must have been very expensive, though the Sony U-matic, the earliest commercial VCR aimed at homes was marketed in 1971 for about £4500 in today's money! Though, it had a better picture and stereo sound, unlike these early VHS models, so yes, like most new technology, it's best to wait for both cheaper and better!
Also you can date this by knowing a bit about the Twiggy ad's tie-in with her "pop career". That kicked off with an album recorded intially for European release (ie. Germany/Switzerland where they didn't know any better) in late 76 that didn't get any attention in the UK until her single "Here I Go Again" made the Top 20 (released in August 77, in the charts in Sept). This advert of hers was one of a series produced to only be used if and when such success was achieved.
0.38 - that boggle-eyed Pint-Size muppet thing is creepy as fuck, especially with that R1 DJ-style rip-off Hanna-Barbera toon V/O.Pint-Size prolly lives behind the fridge, lives off of rotting, congealed blobs of Angel Delight and comes out at night to Jonathan-King the kids.
@southlondonpimp This is definitely 70's not 80's. You had to be loaded to afford a video back then, but they were for sale. Our family didn't get one till 1985. The Chrysler Sunbeam ad I remember well with Pet Clark singing was around 1977.
Michael Robbins...excellent character actor-and a great bloke. I know people who knew him in Croydon, and they all say he was just an all round decent bloke.
Died sadly young.
Was, at this time still shaking off typecasting of henpecked "Arthur" from On the Buses of course.
@Cool2BCeltic spose it depends on whos looking. i just think they were more natural looking then and havent damaged their skin and hair from sun and products
@TheTerminator97 i think it more to do with the fact that women didnt drink booze by the bucket load, eat food in the same fashion, Use sunbeds and get repated STD's
I never owned a Chrysler Sunbeam, but a mate of mine had the Chrysler Alpine, it was bright orange and the engine sounded horrible even though it was only 2 years old, mind you at that time I owned a Rover SD1 2600, lovely car but the driver side window kept dropping down into the door cavity.
Didn't it used to be Talbot Sunbeam - then they merged with the Mericans? My 1st bf had one in - in brown. He swapped his MkII orange Cortina for it. I cried.
I remember this ad so well - especially the sound of that chicken drumstick being cut into at 2.29 (we never got scran like this in our house). Even if it sounds like someone rubbing a welly up a washboard.
TRAMP!! what the fuck! anything by Lèntheric,Coty or Yardley Like Tweed,Charlie, Panache or Tramp all had one thing in common they all smelt like cats piss!! The late Michael Robbins and Ann Beach for the British Relay ad and Patrick Allen that voiceover meant buisness didnt it Action Man at the ready ha
The bloke doing the voiceover at the end - it sounds like Tom Browne, who did the Radio 1 Top 30 from 71-77 while sounding like James Mason (and was on Emmerdale Farm in 75). He did a lot of advert voiceovers - I'm sure this is him.
But there is an LWT break bumper at 1:33 and later. I reckon this is several breaks spliced together for this upload. Also were VHS recorders even available as early as 1977? I believe 1978 onwards?
betamax,the system with the smaller tapes were available from 1975,it was reckoned they were better ,but the vhs caught on,in the early 1980s you had a display section for betamax in video shops,equivelant to the blue ray display of today
How did we operate VHS machines without a remote, oh, thats right we got off our arses and walked across the room to use the controls on the machine. Using up calories and becoming fitter. Get rid of modern obesity, throw away the remote!
I suspect that would be the launch ad for VHS - and I also suspect it would be from 1978 (though I could be wrong).
Patrick Allen voices for KP Sky Divers. The British Relay ad is a fine example of the Long Fifties. For the record, at least some of these ads must be from LWT.
wonder if this was recorded on a jvc video home system?
wayneypayney 2 months ago
Happy days of deep fried home cooking....
Stereolabdream 5 months ago
Shes wearing TRAMP!!!!!!!!!!!Oh i remember kp sky divers, salt and vineger ta!!!!
odsall 5 months ago
Whats Arthur doing buying a colour tv!!!!!
odsall 5 months ago
Who else is amused by a perfume called "Tramp"?
saintmirrenmalky 8 months ago 2
roy west
2008Sameoldfitup 9 months ago
We didnt even have a colour tv let alone a video player.
Springamatul 11 months ago
The Cadbury's caramel girl looks like that bird out of Corrie, the one who tried to seduce Tyrone. Is it the same actress?
Feisty1967 1 year ago
@Feisty1967 you mean julie? ithought the same at first then i realised 1977, she would be about 3 at the time
chrissy17169 7 months ago
Re: why were the women in those days so much better looking? I dunno why but they were much sexier than today. I love 70's chics!! The hairdo's maybe or were they european girls? German, French, Italian models?
1969atam 1 year ago
"Tramp - today's kind of fragrance for today's kind of girl"
My God! It's like they were able to see into the future!
Cathain78 1 year ago
@Cathain78 they created the future
topholewhat0 1 year ago
@Cathain78 Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
ClareH29 10 months ago
Why would any woman buy a perfume called tramp. Who sponsers it Katie Price
martinwilliamrandall 1 year ago
You couldn't make a Matey advert like that now due to there being too many paedos about
pawnsacrifice1 1 year ago
Tramp perfume was really tacky.
Feisty1967 1 year ago
This was the era of powdered drinks, I think even my mum bought Pint Size.
Feisty1967 1 year ago 2
These adverts are from 1978 because the Sunbeam's registration is an 'S' which was correct for that time of year. And imagine persuading your missus to wear Tramp perfume!
caxtonman 1 year ago
Look at the **king size of that VHS video recorder - we had a Sanyo Betamax!
caxtonman 1 year ago
I thought she said Put a Chrysler Zombie in your life
hilseymour 1 year ago
That's "only Sonia" from Fresh Fields sitcom in the British Relay ad.
Feisty1967 1 year ago 2
@Feisty1967 And the chap in the British Relay advert is Michael Robbins (Arthur from On the Buses)
filmnet 1 year ago 2
OMG the Matey ad could be enjoyed by Paedos
Feisty1967 1 year ago
God! Video recorders in 1977? We didn't get one in our School until 1978 and it was a Phillips.
Feisty1967 1 year ago
"She's wearing Tramp and everybody loves her" hahaha
fridaynightsmoke 1 year ago
hahaha, that JVC video system is the size of my car!
SuperAce5150 1 year ago
Mateeeeey! Doesn`t smell like it used too :(
kitty3309 1 year ago
Video recorders were big in those days
MsFanmail 1 year ago
This was at least October '77, '78. The Chrysler (soon to become Talbot) Sunbeam was first released late July '77, but the first VHS video gear wasn't marketed for homes until October. Must have been very expensive, though the Sony U-matic, the earliest commercial VCR aimed at homes was marketed in 1971 for about £4500 in today's money! Though, it had a better picture and stereo sound, unlike these early VHS models, so yes, like most new technology, it's best to wait for both cheaper and better!
IThinkYouLookLarvely 1 year ago 2
@IThinkYouLookLarvely There's always some Geek anorak isnt there ? ; takes one to know one !
kenfig 1 year ago
@kenfig Very true! I'm a sucker for old technology. Realised the post was getting very nerdy when I ran out of remaining characters!
IThinkYouLookLarvely 1 year ago
@IThinkYouLookLarvely
Also you can date this by knowing a bit about the Twiggy ad's tie-in with her "pop career". That kicked off with an album recorded intially for European release (ie. Germany/Switzerland where they didn't know any better) in late 76 that didn't get any attention in the UK until her single "Here I Go Again" made the Top 20 (released in August 77, in the charts in Sept). This advert of hers was one of a series produced to only be used if and when such success was achieved.
custardaghost 9 months ago
The word "tramp" must not have meant what it means today.
goombabear 1 year ago 2
@goombabear
And as for the MiniMoke in the Tramp ad, HEX 79N was off the road by 1 January 1999.
thecheesepriest 1 year ago
@ 2:35 "It's only me - Sonia"...
00simonwise 1 year ago
I just love that jingle at 1:25. That should have made the charts.
GeorgeASFTHM 1 year ago
@GeorgeASFTHM which jingle? 1.25 is that couple in the back of the car
LollieSmith 1 year ago
@LollieSmith The shampoo advert, which almost seemed ahead of its time.
GeorgeASFTHM 7 months ago
When we enjoyed the novelty of products and items etc.
Forestamtul 1 year ago
0.38 - that boggle-eyed Pint-Size muppet thing is creepy as fuck, especially with that R1 DJ-style rip-off Hanna-Barbera toon V/O.Pint-Size prolly lives behind the fridge, lives off of rotting, congealed blobs of Angel Delight and comes out at night to Jonathan-King the kids.
custardaghost 1 year ago
@custardaghost
A bit like the Vanish woman does now.
thecheesepriest 1 year ago
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custardaghost 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this col2006ie ! I remember the Skydivers ad. They look horrible.
pme96 2 years ago
I'd forgotten that there was a perfume called "Tramp" awesome!!
mgbgt1967 2 years ago
omg love the adverts wow
JoanCollins2009 2 years ago
Telly adverts are rubbish nowadays. i cant work out what the hell they are even Advertising lol!
jimboss1986 2 years ago 12
God these bring back memories.
Pack of skydivers 6p LOL.
That JVC video camera was probably several months wages.
brunster64 2 years ago 2
hold up...they had VCRs and camcorders that you could film and then watch on video in 1977!!?? I thought that all came about in the early 80s.
southlondonpimp 2 years ago
@southlondonpimp This is definitely 70's not 80's. You had to be loaded to afford a video back then, but they were for sale. Our family didn't get one till 1985. The Chrysler Sunbeam ad I remember well with Pet Clark singing was around 1977.
j4wn 2 years ago 2
Michael Robbins...excellent character actor-and a great bloke. I know people who knew him in Croydon, and they all say he was just an all round decent bloke.
Died sadly young.
Was, at this time still shaking off typecasting of henpecked "Arthur" from On the Buses of course.
Stereolabdream 2 years ago
The high water mark of Cooking Oil sales in the UK...heheheheheee...
And yet....you can't beat home made chips, can you? Its got to be years since I tasted a proper home made chip....I might buy some crisp and Dry!
Stereolabdream 2 years ago
There's many girls of today that should also wear 'Tramp'!
jezz1977 2 years ago 2
@jezz1977 But should be more courteous to guys who talk to them.
Cool2BCeltic 1 year ago
Yeah! Matey was the best!
kitty3309 2 years ago
why were the women in those days so much better looking?
LollieSmith 2 years ago 14
@LollieSmith I disagree. I think they're better looking now.
Cool2BCeltic 1 year ago
@Cool2BCeltic spose it depends on whos looking. i just think they were more natural looking then and havent damaged their skin and hair from sun and products
LollieSmith 1 year ago
@LollieSmith
Not as much leftism poisoning their mind and food and water supply.
TheTerminator97 1 year ago
@TheTerminator97 i think it more to do with the fact that women didnt drink booze by the bucket load, eat food in the same fashion, Use sunbeds and get repated STD's
LollieSmith 1 year ago
@LollieSmith On TV only.
kezadrone 1 year ago
@LollieSmith They were hot and sure loved to fool around with puppets infront of their kids
matilda1978 9 months ago
@LollieSmith because they WERE women..not ladette scuds pissed off of their tits covered in tats!
duffymoony 5 months ago 2
Christ. how much did that cost in 1977
LollieSmith 2 years ago
ironically, powdered milk always turned to mushy stuff anyway
johnedsel 2 years ago
I never owned a Chrysler Sunbeam, but a mate of mine had the Chrysler Alpine, it was bright orange and the engine sounded horrible even though it was only 2 years old, mind you at that time I owned a Rover SD1 2600, lovely car but the driver side window kept dropping down into the door cavity.
fossilisedmuso 2 years ago
Didn't it used to be Talbot Sunbeam - then they merged with the Mericans? My 1st bf had one in - in brown. He swapped his MkII orange Cortina for it. I cried.
custardaghost 2 years ago
I remember this ad so well - especially the sound of that chicken drumstick being cut into at 2.29 (we never got scran like this in our house). Even if it sounds like someone rubbing a welly up a washboard.
custardaghost 2 years ago
TRAMP!! what the fuck! anything by Lèntheric,Coty or Yardley Like Tweed,Charlie, Panache or Tramp all had one thing in common they all smelt like cats piss!! The late Michael Robbins and Ann Beach for the British Relay ad and Patrick Allen that voiceover meant buisness didnt it Action Man at the ready ha
sptol 2 years ago 2
Robbins looks like he wishes he'd stayed with Olive...
custardaghost 2 years ago
imao
colinfirth4eva 2 years ago
LOL!!!!!!
biopsychosocio 2 years ago
Remember Smitty :) Shitty more like...
biopsychosocio 2 years ago
ahahaha look at the camcorder at 0:28
it looks like a uzi
hardy309 2 years ago
Matey's 'Clean Kids, Clean Bath'?!
Mum always said that if you used too much, not only did the tub turn blue but so did we! Ahhh...1982 bath times; you just couldn't beat em!
LegalAlien100 3 years ago
The bloke doing the voiceover at the end - it sounds like Tom Browne, who did the Radio 1 Top 30 from 71-77 while sounding like James Mason (and was on Emmerdale Farm in 75). He did a lot of advert voiceovers - I'm sure this is him.
custardaghost 2 years ago
But there is an LWT break bumper at 1:33 and later. I reckon this is several breaks spliced together for this upload. Also were VHS recorders even available as early as 1977? I believe 1978 onwards?
filmnet 3 years ago
betamax,the system with the smaller tapes were available from 1975,it was reckoned they were better ,but the vhs caught on,in the early 1980s you had a display section for betamax in video shops,equivelant to the blue ray display of today
blade0954 2 years ago
"She's wearing Tramp, and everybody loves her!". Indeed. They couldn't flog it now...
CrouchEnder 3 years ago
I agree, not in this dumb PC strapped world we live in now! ... It'd be like...She's wearing the new perfume called "Whore" !
cashman156 2 years ago
Damn do they still make Matey? What happened to British Relay?
EwanMarshall 3 years ago
@EwanMarshall
They sure do! And you can now get a variety of Matey that is orange but it changes colour and goes blue when it hits the water... brilliant.
ladyskyflake 1 year ago
she smells like a tramp
verwoodspring 3 years ago
the twiggy add was so camp i loved it
sirburtonleigh1 3 years ago
MATEY!!!! lolololol such happy dayz! :) and remember scoffing skydivers too!! yummy
ads1066 3 years ago 2
The puppet in the Pint Size ad sounds like Roger Rabbit!
mistofoles 3 years ago
Isn't that Melvyn 'Gloria' Hayes from It Ain't Half Hot Mum as the fruit seller in the Tramp ad?
Great stuff - thanks for posting.
chipsy1967 3 years ago
How did we operate VHS machines without a remote, oh, thats right we got off our arses and walked across the room to use the controls on the machine. Using up calories and becoming fitter. Get rid of modern obesity, throw away the remote!
cavalier080854 3 years ago
Michael Robbins From On the Buses in the British Relay ad
happinesscounts 3 years ago
you're tefferic pint-size, lets hear it again for pint-size.
bluwooforme 3 years ago
I suspect that would be the launch ad for VHS - and I also suspect it would be from 1978 (though I could be wrong).
Patrick Allen voices for KP Sky Divers. The British Relay ad is a fine example of the Long Fifties. For the record, at least some of these ads must be from LWT.
RobinCarmody 3 years ago
The Twiggy shampoo ad is cheesier that the deli counter at Sainsbury's. LOL. Mike S.
thecheesepriest 4 years ago
Who the heck thought that "tramp" was a good name for a fragrance?
NickTheHorse 4 years ago
Essex girls!
LegalAlien100 3 years ago
I hope milk don't make your eyes go like that really LOL
SwindonCable 4 years ago