Tv Adverts from 1988

[janeybundybird]

Nesafe always said they didn't make coffee for anyone else so I always have a jar around, but my neighbour has a jar too, I saw it in his kitchen. Lying bastards

[tommanserable]

As a kid I had no idea that Sarah Greene was in fact crumpet.

All that time i wasted not letching over her on saturday mornings could have been spent having a good hard letch.

[theknittinggal]

Why did people in the 80's always have a hand full of coffee beans on them? Must have been a pain emptying their pockets before washing their clothes

[dolphtrains2]

why would she be carrying a random huge jar of nescafe with her?

[ashadowinsociety]

These adverts make me proud to be a baby of '88 : P : D

[SirSathington]

Bloody hell that takes me back...Our Price

[atomicnortherner]

babadas was porn intro!

[weds9994]

Anyone notice the guy in the last (Talking clock) advert was the doctor from Blue Jam/ Jam/ Jaaaammmmm? Hes been in some other chris morris stuff too!!!!!!!!

[weds9994]

that old jewish chick was kinda hot

[bazfanv2]

Youtube.......for the memories your brain forgot. This is better than hypnosis.

[eclectica1]

@bazfanv2 Either that or "for the memories stuck away in a remote corner of your brain, waiting to be dug up again".

[jockadoobee]

Who carries around coffee beans in their hand? Is it just so they can show off?

[BelatedCommiseration]

About the only one I really remember was, obviously, the granny in the BT advert and her frequent bitching down the phone at her long suffering son, whose name was Alan I think, although here she redeems herself slightly. Apparently she was supposed to be a jewish granny, but I used to like her because she reminded me of my Granny, who isn't jewish at all and yet speaks, sounds and looks a bit like that one without the perm. In fact I think most 'youngish' Grannys go on a bit like that.

[joannedj1]

@BelatedCommiseration Her grandson, who'd failed everything but Pottery and Sociology, was called Anthony. I've got the book "You Got An Ology?" which has all the scripts from the adverts Maureen Lipman did for BT!

[bunclip]

What happened to Our Price? Was it bought up or did it go bust?

[eclectica1]

@bunclip The chain was bought up, and rebranded by the then owners as 'Sanity'. I remember this, because I frequently used to go to the Our Price store on the high street where I was living at the time, and thinking "WTF!!!!" when the name changed.

They eventually did go bust in 2004. Oh well, as music chain stores go, it was always a poor man's HMV.

[Tregmedia]

Awesome Collection



[basketcase2001]

hardly any tag lines come with copyright or trademarks.

[EssexIrons]

Sarah Greene 2:20 Memory's of youthful loins.. stirring

[RossSewage]

I wish I was European. Seriously. North America is shite.

[GazAnders69]

@RossSewage

Seriously you don't dude, it's crap.

[tom9154]

Wow at that soup commercial they FLAT OUT say you will get fucked after you use our product. God damn they were direct in the 80s

[BuddyFantastic]

British Telecom, it's you we answer to...well, not anymore

[corky7ca]

Have CD's really been around that long? Wow I didn't think so!

[UFO380]

What a great compilation, I worked on most of these early commercials back in the 80's thanks for uploading then to Youtube which has brought back some good memories.

[MrTom235863]

@UFO380 fuk u bitch

[UFO380]

@MrTom235863

Get a life you sad person & you can't even spell which makes me think you must be just a child :(

[NuttyGooner82]

I used to love the Maureen Lipman BT ads, when I was growing up... who else remembers the dress shopping ad?

[Xxfancythat79xX]

I laughed at the Accurist advert, when we were kids we always used to phone '123' to hear the speaking clock for a laugh....but stopped when we were told it cost alot of money! Anyone know if the speaking clock is still going?

[martybhoy72]

@Xxfancythat79xX It's still going. I checked it last week

[leonardsleopard]

anyone know where i can get some badedas?

[martybhoy72]

Those old bt adverts were so popular

[MrTom235863]

@martybhoy72 fuk u bitch

[martybhoy72]

@MrTom235863 What's with the attitude?

[MrTom235863]

@martybhoy72 Oh you'l see you bitch !

[MrTom235863]

@martybhoy72 you're fucked bitch!

[MrTom235863]

@martybhoy72 you're in deep trouble bitch!

[martybhoy72]

@MrTom235863 Is that supposed to some kind of threat? It's words on a screen you coward

[vigerfa]

The most intruiging thing about the ads from the 80's is that they were so down to earth and so much to the point.......

[LollieSmith]

OMG Sarah Green is a wanker as well..

[MrTom235863]

@LollieSmith fuk u bitch

[LollieSmith]

'Whether its a Well done or a hard Luck, a phone call says (costs) a lot.

British Telecom.. Its you (Ourselves) we answers to...

Is that Rolf Harris's voice on the Blue Stratus advert

[LollieSmith]

blue stratus lol



[dylandior123]

OMG Sarah Green! :-p

[rimmersgirl81]

can someone explain to me how the red smeggery you are supposed to see someone's face light up while you are phoning them up from your office? what is the guy some kinda psychic or sommat?!

[NakedJKid]

who the fuck carries a jar of nescafe in they're handbag?

[LollieSmith]

@NakedJKid i do cos when i go to a hairdressers or to me grans house i get Tesco value coffee

[kernalmeldew]

@NakedJKid maybe they had a sense of humour back then.

[MrTom235863]

@kernalmeldew fuk u bitch

[MrTom235863]

@NakedJKid fuk u bitch

[seancov100]

@NakedJKid my mother in law

[JFredUK]

@NakedJKid Shoplifters. LOL

[supafuckinmingster]

@NakedJKid Reckon there's also a big bag of smack/crack/crystal meth, a big dildo, a pistol and a rancid cheese sandwich in that bag.....lol.

[layzergun]

@NakedJKid or in their ear for that matter

[w3cvw]

@NakedJKid Sarah Green does!!! :)

[Dementiumfan1990]

@NakedJKid I Don't Know A Damn Loonie Would Do That

[unclemort1960]

@NakedJKid caffeine addicts ?

[supahdupahguy81]

2:17......

WANKER! (a female one)

[kevpunk]

good old BT. Pottery, very usefull. and an Ology. lmao.

[v5dan]

I dont know how i stumbled on these videos but i am glad i did! takes me right back! An ology?!!! i soo remember that advert! The days when BT was a decent company, and didnt give you crap service!!!!

[KaitainCPS]

Blue Stratos...dear god, that was the aftershave you dreaded getting from your doddery great aunt at Christmas. Ghastly stuff. Worse than Brut 33.

[Keri74]

lol these brought back a lot of memories, but what is scarey is all those fashions have come back arrrrggghhh! :)

[dotzvbjnp]

The guy in the accurist advert looks a bit like David Cann who appears in Chris Morris things like Jam and Brass Eye. Not sure if it actually is him or not.

[lockerroom65]

i got a semi in the badedas advert

[yido4life79]

the bt woman is defo jewish!!

[mattrwsmith]

It's Maureen Lipman

[bigmanbreakfast]

These adverts were about the time my memories start. This was a better time, a more innocent time.

[weslake898]

@bigmanbreakfast yeah... better times for sure.

[HitMeQuick]

Our Price was massive then. It was the place to go on a Saturday. Hah!

[cuntymash]

Think i spotted Carla Brunei at the beginning, on the "our price" ad. 0.06-0.07...

[NewYankee01]

those were pretty decent, respectable ads that show the good side of the 80s, and not those dodgy ones that take you right back to the shitty, miserable times which for the most part i avoided luckily.

[SDRockman]

Can you explain what you mean by the dodgy ones?

[WallyPyneoil]

Funnily enough, the '70s were also "shitty, miserable times" as well - I lived through them and can testify to that. But in recent years, the '70s have been so rewritten, sometimes by people not even born until the 1980s, that it's hard to see that fact.

Isn't it odd? '70s rewritten as totally GREAT.

'80s rewritten as totally BAD.

And meanwhile, TODAY can go hang because everybody's too busy playing heroes and villians with PAST decades!

Great ads, by the way - thanks for uploading.

[agentk1986]

Everybody lives different lives, so no decade (maybe minus decades dominated by war such as the 40's) can be described as 'shitty and miserable.' It's too much of a generalization. My Grandma has fond memories of her childhood, and she grew up during the Depression! Nostalgia is different for everyone.

[jawsapple]

Did she just pull those beans from here fuckin hair!??

[halseyM]

SHAKE THOSE BEANS

[Lauraloos1981]

1981 is the year i came along, i remember it all

[rimmersgirl81]

@Lauraloos1981 when in 81 were you born? i was born in september 23rd 1981 so i do remember these ads well the ones that were shown in the scottish television region! (STV)

[Lauraloos1981]

May 1981

[Nickdonjuan]

The 80s must die

[LOOPYMOOCOW]

2 right

[carriebuk]

Goodness that BT ad doesn't seem long ago...I was 10 when it came out!

[OriginalRoygbiv]

Superb! I remember most of these! :D and in that nescafé advert... That's "Julia" from the BBC1 Daytime Drama called Doctors!!!

[eightwillwontcannot]

lol, i remember the BT one and i was FOUR!

[petejt]

GROSS

[TheRetroDude]

lmfao at the nescafe advert its scary but i remeeber that 1 :-S lol

[nahpop1]

i was born in 1988.....i'm glad i was too young to remember these lol!!

[scottnoodle]

the accents are hilarious. that RP accent they tried to force on everyone is long gone now... regional genocide my nan called it, trying to force everyone to sound southern beause it was 'proper'.

[jonno673]

Jee I was only 8 then and I can remember that BT ad like is was only a few years ago!! scary

[1L0V3C1IT]

FFS man, I was just a pup when those ads were out....scary

[0114owl1867]

thats mad how can that bt ad be 20 years old - come on ? i'm gonna die an old man very soon at this rate

[0114owl1867]

omg thats outrageous that bt adverts 20 years old, jesus ive done nothing for 20 years - well thats what it feels like - i'm gonna die very soon at this rate !

[harrichun]

Look at the size of the shoulderpads in the All Gold advert ... She didn't have to tilt her head to hold the phone in place. HUGE!!

[Jantek36]

Now I think Sarah Greene is a legend - but why does she carry coffee beans in her pockets.... ha ha

[bryanferrfan]

same damn thing I was thinking. Who carries around coffee beans .......... Juan Valdez is the only person who should carry around coffee beans.

[steerpike66]

Probably is Jamie Foreman; I've seen or heard Ian Richardson, Geoffrey Palmer, David Thewlis, Leo McKern and virtually the entire cast of Eastenders whilst looking at these old ads.

[JoeScaramanga]

Nice set there.

That Badedas commercial was a bit risque wasn't it? And I might be going mad, but wasn't that jamie Foreman in the Accusrist ad?

I assume this was from the pre-christmas time given the ads for chocs, cds and after shave...

[RobinCarmody]

I suspect so too. But I suspect it's 1987, which is when the Bryan Ferry album was released.

[Perranporth]

"INSTANT COFFEE" - very Chuck Jones!

[mrslmathers]

Plenty of memories there, especially the classic "You got an ology!"

Our Price used to be my favourite record shop!