UK TV Adverts 1985 (3)

[blackcountryme]

WOW piano key VHS recorders!! there was one in the ark i believe, the only good thing about those was you could fix them really easy. still ex rental for £199 is a hell of a lot.. Na! I`m backing Betamax, it`s the future :D

[MrSkinnyBill]

Wow a VHS for £199 - this world has moved on

You can buy 2 LCD TVs for that now ^^

[klisher]

that video recorder is nearly the size of the bww!

[jrmetmoi]

I liked Batchelors cup of soup actually.

[tedski69]

Mr Kipling wud be classed as a paedo in this day and age!!!

[03iamhopeless]

STIIIIIIIIIG

[trueplayer367]

no way, lea bridge road, i lived in clapton common E5 when i was a boy... oh man what a shit hole that was...

[rubysson57]

Even back then, when the politically correct rot was starting to set in, it was still pretty much easy to be able to watch the telly without some ethnic minority character popping its swarthy face in to remind us all tat we're now living in a multicultural, third world, colonised , shithole.

[Feisty1967]

Pete Murphy of Bauhaus in the Maxell tape ad.

[Letspreach]

Quality BMW advert!

[StevenHague]

/watch?v=m3_QbIAtrnI

3:37 - It's the guy from Ghostbusters who gets the electric shocks.

[StevenHague]

/watch?v=m3_QbIAtrnI

[RightUpYourTube]

LMAO The Batchelors cup a soup advert reminded me of some daft stuff! When this advert was on tv I was around 11years old and I would change the words to "Bitchelors Cuppa Puke"

[SuperTruth77]

Whiskers ad- ultimate mid-80s woman in ultimate mid-80s living room...

[multatuli100]

Oh, classic! I remember, should we get VHS or Betamax!? Well, Betamax cassettes are smaller, therefore they must be better. Thankfully, we chose VHS. I suppose the same argument is now ongoing with DVD and Blueray. I can never forget the first time we got a video player. My first movie was the original Dawn of th Dead. I was only 10!!!

[1919k]

Thanks they brought back memories. Did you see the size of that vhs recorder, £199 and ex rental. At least some things have got better for that money you could get a dvd recorder with a massive hard drive nowadays.

[Colortiniz]

Funny how the Batchelor's Cup-a-soup has the exact same jingle as Lipton Cup-a-soup.

[dusthillguy]

The Whiskers advert is quite modern looking, compared to the others.

[KONAretro]

I have champagne on my cornflakes every morning, its the norm round our way.

[happinesscounts]

@KONAretro There was a sketch by the two ronnies where Ronnie B has Champagne with his cornflakes

[KaitainCPS]

Corn Flakes are "as refreshing as champagne"?

wtf?

[Muffincakeswithsugar]

Fuck, now I want corn flakes with Champagne flavour

[MeMeMeMeMeMeMeMeAndU]

I'm gonna have to get some of that super polygrip coz everytime i eat a rare ribsteak i break my fucking teeth :o(

[thecheesepriest]

I didn't know that trevor horn was so desperate he had to sell videp recorders! :-)

[dylandior123]

"Mmmm spicy!"

[xprestigecarsx]

mr kipling would be locked up these days if he did that now. what has this world become

[xprestigecarsx]

milf touching her pussy at 1:30 ;)

[BlakeVII]

lol, you're stupid.

[OchAyetheGNU]

So that's what The Stig was up to in 1985 - advertising BMWs (1:10)

[neckus22]

Aye, you spotted that too :-)

[moleador98]

Cat food scientists. That's got to be a good name for a band.

[FATBEGONE]

god damn that vcr @ 5.14 - looks like a suitcase!

[sewitt60]

I know, FATBEGONE, I thought the man was going to get a hernia holding that thing!

[TheGodParticle]

maxell adverts were the best.

[dkstojentin]

peter murphy with his young beauty fetched a right good price through maxell tapes way back when, bless his dear irish heart...

[MOSTechnology]

@dkstojentin I thought he was born in Northampton??

[jjjjjjjjw]

old technology

[SteffersG]

Did you see the size of that video recorder? lol....and the Kellogs advert cracked me up - Kellogs cornflakes are the only one....where you can taste the sun.....hahaha

[Noobtube83]

Is it me, or are all the ads from the 80's alot quieter and less annoying as modern day ads?

[antmarkhemingway]

the memories! great, thank you for this :)

[bayamrob]

mmm, corn flakes and champagne,, yummy

[britishleylandcrap]

HA ! Whats The Stig doing in the BMW advert ? Is this proof he's not of this world :P

[mariegriffiths]

The OTV advert at the end should appear in Ashes to Ashes, do you have any other OTV adverts?

[AntarcticaTelevision]

No, alas I have no more, sorry. :-(

[pacer142086]

dont be the last one in your street to get rid of your VHS recorder ;)

[tinsley77]

margarine for men LOL

[Seabrook78in]

The cornflakes commercial was funny when they compared the cereal to CHAMPAGNE.

[hammerhartwell]

i think these commercials are good. but are all the gus in the uk soonstuffy.

[bakerford123]

we would call it well-spoken and cultured

[Jermyn78]

Toploanding video players - mint!

[PeterPW]

I like the whiskas commercial the cats are very cute

[elektrikgypsy]

I've got a feeling my dad designed that VCR. Not only did it weigh a ton, but even he couldn't program it.

[Futurebobbers]

That £199 is £416 in today's money. £416 for a second hand video recorder... ouch!

Worth it to join the video set.

[dannyellison84]

New VCR takes 3 men to carry home

[SpudTarantula]

...and, would Mr. Kipling be viewed with suspicion nowadays as a paedophile?

[SpudTarantula]

Why could flora only be eaten by men back in the day?

[1984AP]

The BMW E28 ad at 0:22-1:12 rules! Never seen an E28 ad.  Very cool.

[ghettofunk71]

i hate cats, lace that whiskas with bleach bloody vermin

[tomcat5100]

whoa.........that might make sense if you used punctuation but still....what a good example of british people speaking informally.. (i'm american)

[skoda321]

Nobody makes soup in a cup like Batchelors cup-a-soup...oooh chickeny. That'll be going round my head for days now...

[hyperwhizzkid]

Funny that ... a chicken-flavoured soup tasting chickeny, she had her brain cells working that day ...!

[cryingonion2]

Absolute classics, thanks so much for posting these. I loved that cornflakes ad as a kid.

[Stereolabdream]

Ahh the days when a Chicken and vegetable cuppa soup was "special". Wonder what she'd have made of a Thai Green Curry with lemon grass cuppa soup?!!!

[77moonunit]

If that Kellogg's Cornflakes ad was shown today, it would have to state: ENJOY KELLOGG'S CORNFLAKES RESPONSIBLY, at the bottom of the screen.

[77moonunit]

Kellogg's Cornflakes,"as refreshing as champagne" ???

[riktimmy]

Fantastic nostalgia, I love old ads so much. The cats look so cute. I hope one day that loads of UK ads from the 50s to the 90s will be released on many DVDs, only PIFs have been released on DVD as far as I know.

[morval99]

SUPER POLY-GRIP; "June?" - "lump of concrete please"

[AnthonyUK]

I had Maxell video and audio tapes;excellent performance!

[networksoutheast]

wow, that VCR was huge, and £199! imagine bringing someone from the 80s to the 2000s, they wouldn't have a clue what DVDs or mp3 players are! by the way, maxell audio tapes are a pile of crap.

[gurneyH1]

why WAS flora "margarine for men"?

[theeddielang]

two young scrumpers after my bramleys.... mr kipling would be on the sex offenders register these days lol

[Domcall]

Come into my house. I have some more bramleys for you..

[hyperwhizzkid]

Is it just me, or do these ads show much more imagination than today's commercials? And is that OTV ad real, or a spoof?

[agfagaevart]

It was real, believe. I remember seeing 'em first time round.

[AntarcticaTelevision]

Yes, these ads show INFINITELY more imagination than most of today's ads!!!

[themanmaschine]

Wow, I was just thinking about that BMW ad the other day, I remember it from the time, amazing! Don't care what anybody says, the past is better than now, these ads just don't have the attitude or aggression that modern ads have, and you'll notice NO BLOODY LOAN ADVERTS, bliss!!

[AntarcticaTelevision]

Well said!

[Danechip]

Fuckin hell, totally amazing. Nice share

[RobinCarmody]

Probably quite early in '85 again - that VCR design was becoming outmoded even then (and it's made clear that it wasn't new). I would suspect that OTV bloke was a crook, as well.  And maybe a racist.

[agfagaevart]

,That OTV bloke, was definitely a crook, I dunno about the rest. He's dead anyway...

[agfagaevart]

The year after, someone I know bought a Panasonic top loader, with a wired remote. We were like 'Wow! remote control!!' How times have changed.

[themanmaschine]

That video recorder is a Ferguson Videostar 3V01 model year 1979/80, so you are spot on, it was far from new, even then!

[oldgamingfart]

We had a 3V23, one of the first front loaders with an IR remote, even that was probably old by then!

[themanmaschine]

We had a 3V23 as well, that was one complex piece of kit, lots of firsts about it, first ever front loader, first ever completely microprocessor controlled VCR, launched 1981. My dad was a Radio Rentals Senior Engineer, thats how I come to know so much about old videos!

[oldgamingfart]

Yes it was a brilliant VCR, we had ours from new (cost about £700 in 1981, probably equivilant to £1400 in todays money! It broke down in 1995, even then I don't think it would of cost much to fix.

[scorpiofootiemad]

Maxell brought back a lot of memories.

[agfagaevart]

OTV?? I remember those ads with that crook. He's dead, so I can say that.

[rogerless]

Joe Williams of OTV, if my memory serves me correctly. Can't comment about his whereabouts or his integrity though.

[KevCityboy]

I'd only heard of 'Break the sound barrier' until now! Cool ads

[AntarcticaTelevision]

I believe that the guy in the Maxell ad was a member of the New Romantic group Bauhaus.

[redmikey67]

It's Pete Murphy from a Northampton (UK) goth band Bauhaus..

[AntarcticaTelevision]

Thanks for that.

[redmikey67]

you're welcome