UK Channel 4 Adverts 1985 x 8

[Feisty1967]

Has anyone got the Ovaltine ad where there is a woman who looks like Olive Oyl, falling down a mountainside and the song goes "falling down raveenas"? Or the Just Seventeen ad where there is one brain displaying grey cogs turning and another displaying the contents of J17 magazine. (No, I'm not making this up!)

[piggyimp]

@Feisty1967 it's here

.youtube.com/watch?v=TytbYnlBz­5A&playnext=1&list=PL29A4B1EF8­A072F48

[mrslmathers]

Did anybody else ever think they were singing "full of peppery goodness" rather than Cadbury goodness in the Finger of Fudge ad?? Oops, just me then! *blushes* Always wondered why a chocolate bar would taste peppery!!

[drewtonta]

ORACLE!? My God! What ever happened to them and Ceefax :(

[Matty112uk]

lol, jiff lemon day, I haven't seen that for years, thanks! Great ads.

[edibleplywood]

Why would the Royal Mail need to advertise back in 1985? They had no competition back then.

[Applemask]

That is one damned good cat. Sitting there behind a full bowl of cat food, all patient. My cat would never manage that.

[uhegbu]

Is it true that Shrove Tuesday fell on my birthday, February 23rd and in what year (the most recent)?

[teresah1982]

the girl in the fudge ad has to me a massive fudge im sure it is massive and they are not that big now

[imran78]

@teresah1982 I was thinking exactly the same, but everything was bigger. Do you remember how big the Mars bars were back then?! Today they've cut everything down by 50% and charge three times as much.

Before anyone says it - sweets were bigger in 1985, and it has nothing to do with the fact I was only 4 foot tall! : )

[shredderkrang]

I can'tbelieve how many other people also had the Jif Lemon advert/tune in their heads too!! It's been in my head for YEARS before finally finding this video here!

Does anybody know if there's any other versions of it anywhere on the net?

[fraserkatie]

Classic! Have been looking for those adverts for Jif lemon where the people put the lemon on the plate instead of the pancakes! Very funny and good memories of that one!

[nisha82]

I had the piano jingle in my head today when I saw Jif Lemon in the supermarket! Classic indeed!

[uhegbu]

I remember the Jif lemon adverts that used to show every year around Shrove Tuesday in February or March, particularly in the 1990s.

[theemrod]

I remember all of these apart from the Savoury Rice one and the shampoo one. Funny how the packaging for most products has barely changed in nearly 20 years.

[mercuryvapoury]

DolceVita: yeah, they're still out there, but not those particular varieties.

Karvol, though. That's a blast from the past.

[DolceVita]

do they still do those savoury rices?? i hated them lol

thanks for posting, i remember all these ads!!

[59211bart]

they still do and i hate them too, once my mum did them, i chucked it out the window and just ate the chicken lol