I was eleven when I saw these first and if it weren't for YouTube I could've gone on thinking that ads were ultra-sophisticated back then instead of realising that they stank of hideous cheap lager. I include the non-lager ones. Excuse me, I must go and be sick.
Robert Powell working overtime on the voiceovers...the crappy Old Spice ad wheeled out ...where's the Woolworths ad that used to take up a whole ad break and cost them a fortune each year? This must be the cut-down version. Only thing missing is the follow the bear Hoffmeister ad. French Cointreau man (" zeee aice melts") not appearing here either. Scary thing is I remembered all these ads
those milk tray ads were so outrageous you just had to laugh, remember the one with the skier out pacing an avalanche to give a woman in bed in nighty and open doors on a mountain her chocs, erm yeh its -10c outside luv, close the doors.
there is a classic joke in the Xmas special of Only Fools & Horses "To Hull and Back" about The Bear (the constellation) sitting on top of a glacier mint.
i don't see why they can't rerun this ads now. Quality street is still very popular and recently they have started showing an old milky way red/blue car toon
@indiegirl00 I only recognised him as I'd recently seen Doctor Who: The Caves Of Androzani for the first time in years, which was around the same time as the advert I think. :)
I was 12 back then and I remember every single advert, especially the Woolworths advert with Joe Brown at the end - GREAT NOSTALGIC MEMORIES, LOVED IT!! XX
Funny how all the adverts were basically showing alcohol and chocolates, but of course it was the 21st Dec and thats all people were thinking about.. And that definately was Hugh Laurie advertising Kestrel Lager.
Seems women were depicted as easily seduced by cheap chocolates, after shave and booze in those days, when they weren't doing their hair. "Drinking faster"(followed by)," travelling faster", (cars depicted), I could have sworn this would be a drink drive campaign and not indigestion tablets.
the debinams advert , look at the range of cool toys on offer He-man star wars the 80s best era for toys ever, im glad i was a kid through all this and saw it all first hand , most of which where opened on good old christmas day mornings...i would do anything to go through it all again...
the Voice over for the cigar ad was Steven Moore. who played Adrien Mole's dad and was the voice of, Marvin the Paranoid Android, in the hitchhikers guide.
I noticed back then they did a lot of advertising concerning alcohol... I was eight going on nine back in 1983, I do remember a lot of the ads from then, the Braun Independent and Milk Tray and Old Spice ads etc. with the exception of the Martini ad, none of the above mentioned ads really struck a chord with me.. Where I live in Ireland, not only is it prohibited to smoke in public places, shops, cafes, restaurants etc, it is also now prohibited by law to ADVERTISE tobacco.! So much has changed
I often leave comments about how muck I hate Ads creeping in on Youtube and yet here I am watching a video dedicated to Ads from 1983 purely for nostalgic reasons. I need to re-think my life.
Amazing how times change, to think only 25 odd years ago, I could of sat at my desk at work with a cigar on the go and had 3 pints at lunchtime, I'm sure we were all much more chilled out then.
£.1.99 for a box of Milk Tray omg if you paid that for a box of choccies now you could guarantee they would taste awful and Hugh Laurie in the "Kestral" ad wow. I was just over 2years old when these ads were around god I feel old lol
Hi...did you ever see a crown paints ad with the colors by a roller going up and down the screen with kind of Jamaican piano mucic in the background....real catchy tune too.......80's i think....looked for years...still can't find it!
Yup! That definitey is Tony "Get Some In" Selby behind the bar. AND did you recognise the bloke's drinking buddy at the end .... Robert "Hustle" Glenister!!!
brings back many memories.....especially of school xmas fancy dress parties where about 3 girls came as the martini girl,with a dangerous amount of glass stuck to a tray....no health & safety then lmao
If you were born in the 80s then you wouldnt be bothered about the fasion cos you would only be between one and ten you ******** Imbecile fortunately i was born in the 60s so i lived as a teenager in the 80s and woudnt have missed it for the word
I remember Xmas Eve this year. 321 was on ITV and Flash Gordon on BBC1 the same time. I kept flicking between the two but stuck with 321 cos as a kid Flash Gordon frightened me!
83 was my favourite christmas. i was 9, got a pull back knight rider car. it squeeked but i loved it. we will have watched 321. a couple of days ago my 13 year old nephew asked who dusty bin was..... a bin for a prize???? i guess you had to be there.
Those "tower systems" at 7:59 - I begged and pleaded for one of those when I was a young boy! Had to settle for some cheap plastic thing instead, unfortunately.
Ah!! Those were the days we forget how everythings moved on since then and its nice to be reminded of how we all once were however Mandate and Old Spice I do not fucking think so The Mark Of A Man like avin turps on ya face after a shave and if ur a Skolar ur a tight fisted fucker who wouldnt part with ur wallet 4 a decent lager nobody drinks Martini and thank fuck that awful Cointreau ad wasnt on there i hated them ads at xmas forgot bout Hugh Laurie in the Kestrel ad
What ever you do, or did back in 83, don't ever walk into a shop in Soho looking for aftershave named 'Mandate' - No i said... splashing man...advert, loved by woman, ahh... PumpDad 2 you want sir second shelf on the left, discrete packaging...
Look at the woman's face here: 01:47. She's thinking; "Oh god! Not that awful cat's pee again?" Then here 02:01 she's thinking; "You won't get into my knickers tonight Johnny!"
aww pity woolworths closing down . loved ur adds do u know the name of the song on the old spice add?? its also on x factor . but i dont know what its called
Ahhh, Binatone Tower Systems, surprisingly of a lower quality than the crap Alan Sugars' "Amstrad" company was churning out. Does anyone remember the ad for Sony Tower Systems that John Cleese did ? "You don't want half a plateful of spaghetti hanging out the back".
I'm researching British Adverts at the moment. If anyone has any unusual or rare footage of Ads from the 50s 60s 70s. It's hard to find them, does anyone know of any that aren't on youtube?
Yes, Sascha Distelle did advertise Mandate, and the BBC claimed it was first advertised by him in 1979, but this is disputed. UK newspaper ads seem to place the advent of this product in the early 1980s.
You have a great memory! I'm not calling you a liar, but I was a Mandate fan from early on (how embarrassing) and thought it later than '79. Also, none of my video collection and newspaper archives contain ads for it in 1979.
I recall the BBC stating it was 1979 in the "Class Of..." programme, but some BBC research has been discredited following the "I Love 1970s" series. The Space Hopper was first in the UK in 1971 according to the BBC - it's actually in UK newspaper toyshop ads from 1969!
Hey man, thanks for the compliment!! That BBC series (I Love My Asss!!) really pissed me off. Because it was soo inaccurate in places. They said that Tucker's Luck, the Grange Hill spin-off series, aired in 1984 when I clearly remember it being shown during April / May of 1983. I even have an audio recording of a BBC2 trailer for the show.
The IL'80s series was okay, but so damn inaccurate in places. The trouble with these retrospective series, is that they get 20/30 something people to do research for them, and they don't know WTF they're talking about. "Get in touch with me you wankers!" that's what I always think.
I think one of the funniest things about the "I Love 1970s" series was discovering toy fair and newspaper stuff about the spacehopper in the UK in 1969, and newspaper and mail order catalogue material showing people in walloping great flared trousers in the late 1960s. Ordinary, everyday "Joe Bloggs" types used local newspaper archives to prove highly paid twenty-something BBC researchers were producing a load of inaccurate drivel!
Also mate, the 8mm segments they showed were NOT from the '70s or '80s, but new stuff created for the series. This was seriously misleading. All the stuff showing people walking around in shell suits during the late '80s was fake. Even though peeps like me actually DID wear shells suits! Ha ha!!
Yes, at least five items of "70s pop culture" in reality belonged to the 1960s and 1980s in "I Love..." series - it was TRASH!
I didn't buy Mandate because of Sasha - I bought it because I liked the smell (TERRIBLE, WHAT?!!). My Mum used to love Sasha back in the 1960s and '70s.
I always found him kind of '60s.
As you say Mandate was advertised by Sasha in 1979, do you recall if it was pre-or post ITV Strike?
Pre or post ITV strike? Well...I ain't that good. If only. All I remember about the strike was, it was damn annoying!! I wanted to watch The Muppet Show...The Professionals...Sale Of The Century on TV. But whenever I switched to ITV I saw this.."Due to industrial action..." ITV ain't gonna show your favourite programmes tonight. So fuck off and watch BBC for the next 3 months!!
yeah right british telecom, british leyland,iwork for royal mail theyve ruined everything british i used to be proud to be british blooody government .....nice vids though thx
Fantastic compilation!! Thanks
rcallan 1 week ago
Thanks for sharing - A few classics in there. Mostly the adverts were for chocolates and booze! nothing much changes.
Iaingrant 2 weeks ago
Ah, Dr House drinking Kestrel lager!!
torquesport 3 weeks ago
Remember when chocolates used to have a SELECTION and not just a paste filling with a different flavour in everyone ...
iloveyouhunny 1 month ago
Love the early attempts at rap, and not really 'getting it' in the Bruan curling tongs advert.
metafis 1 month ago
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metafis 1 month ago
I notice the Quality Street tins were bigger in those days!
wandawizard1 1 month ago 2
Love these old, classic ads.
wandawizard1 1 month ago
Great quality! Aah brilliant nostalgia :)
elissdeja 1 month ago
arse grab at 0:19
atomicnortherner 2 months ago
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ludocrat 2 months ago
Was the tart on skates in the martini advert the woman in 'Desperate Housewives'?
runforthehills707 2 months ago
@runforthehills707 Yes, Nicolette Sheridan
MissTeeFy 2 months ago
@MissTeeFy Thanks, that was really bugging me!
runforthehills707 2 months ago
1983 Hugh Laurie A.K.A Dr.House @ 7.08
Deverstater3000 3 months ago
I was eleven when I saw these first and if it weren't for YouTube I could've gone on thinking that ads were ultra-sophisticated back then instead of realising that they stank of hideous cheap lager. I include the non-lager ones. Excuse me, I must go and be sick.
xen300 3 months ago
i have been humming the theme tune to the first ad for years but not remembered the product until now 'black magic chocolate'
luckylizard1 4 months ago
0:34 - this is my rape face
weds9994 4 months ago
Mandate's New Slogan Should Be "No Means No, But No Means Yes To Me"
Dementiumfan1990 4 months ago
that music for black magic is smooth!!!!
duffymoony 4 months ago
The Martini Logo Looks Like Nissan's Logo
Dementiumfan1990 4 months ago
Robert Powell working overtime on the voiceovers...the crappy Old Spice ad wheeled out ...where's the Woolworths ad that used to take up a whole ad break and cost them a fortune each year? This must be the cut-down version. Only thing missing is the follow the bear Hoffmeister ad. French Cointreau man (" zeee aice melts") not appearing here either. Scary thing is I remembered all these ads
ivyolddog 4 months ago
those milk tray ads were so outrageous you just had to laugh, remember the one with the skier out pacing an avalanche to give a woman in bed in nighty and open doors on a mountain her chocs, erm yeh its -10c outside luv, close the doors.
peterpeterxxo 4 months ago
Have to say the video quality is fantastic, well done whoever posted this!! (You didnt get a LOGIK vcr then, lol!!!)
grumbo39 5 months ago
The Martini ad - So good yet so wrong.
hoffmanshades 5 months ago
I think I saw Rula Lenska in the 'Woolworths' ad!
TheJaking87 6 months ago
there is a classic joke in the Xmas special of Only Fools & Horses "To Hull and Back" about The Bear (the constellation) sitting on top of a glacier mint.
Dated joke but very very funny
AchtungEnglander 6 months ago
i don't see why they can't rerun this ads now. Quality street is still very popular and recently they have started showing an old milky way red/blue car toon
ceejay75 6 months ago
@ceejay75
Copyright.
You'll know all about that, if you hang around here long enough.
agfagaevart 5 months ago
Longest commercial break in history!
86compgeek 6 months ago
BET EVERYONE IN THEM ADVERTS ARE DEAD NOW
RAYSTOKES2011 6 months ago
im starving,need a pint,a smoke and a shave after watching all of these.
themachman19691 7 months ago
Bloody hell! I remember watching these whilst playing with my spirograph set!!
pageygeeza 7 months ago
LOL @ phone box advert IF ONLY THEY KNEW
iamwhoiamwhoiammark2 7 months ago
I'm sure that in the Skol advert the bloke's mate in the red t-shirt is Robert Glenister.
merseymal 7 months ago
@merseymal yep it sure is!!...great find thanks...great fan of Roberts so please let us know if you find more!!
indiegirl00 7 months ago
@indiegirl00 I only recognised him as I'd recently seen Doctor Who: The Caves Of Androzani for the first time in years, which was around the same time as the advert I think. :)
merseymal 7 months ago
@merseymal ...yep it sure is..found your tweet..great RG fan so let us all know if you find more.thanks.
indiegirl00 7 months ago
I thought that Mandate was a condom advert at first...
JAS6193 8 months ago
A Pint and Castella, get em together!
Matty112uk 10 months ago
Xmas 1983, i remember it well, i was getting my raleigh super burner bmx!!!
kamikazie1974 10 months ago
@kamikazie1974 now that takes me back hearing that ,, i had a raleigh ultra burner silver with blue padding lol
LovelyLorena99 9 months ago
A Pint and Castella!! My god! The PC brigade will be having coronories watching that!!
tonyregan021177 11 months ago
A pound off Castle Greyskull! BARGAIN!!
RedHeadVicky 11 months ago
Skol advert was epic
JonnyInfinite 1 year ago
How times have changed. Advertising a cigar with a pint. I was 11 back then and surpsiingly remember some of these.
martybhoy72 1 year ago
@martybhoy72
A pint.
A Castella.
A heart attack.
A quick trip to A&E.
agfagaevart 5 months ago
I was 12 back then and I remember every single advert, especially the Woolworths advert with Joe Brown at the end - GREAT NOSTALGIC MEMORIES, LOVED IT!! XX
TheCaulfield1 1 year ago
Mel Smith, Hugh Laurie, how soon they sold out.
NorwichTeenwolf 1 year ago
Was that Nicolette Sheridan as the Martini girl??
TheLindycoll 1 year ago
@TheLindycoll I just noticed that too. It looks like her!
TheJaking87 6 months ago
For some reason I get the feeling there was something more going in that Baileys ad but I can't quite figure out what.
jimtheguern 1 year ago 2
Funny how all the adverts were basically showing alcohol and chocolates, but of course it was the 21st Dec and thats all people were thinking about.. And that definately was Hugh Laurie advertising Kestrel Lager.
sanjacintomercysteet 1 year ago
Seems women were depicted as easily seduced by cheap chocolates, after shave and booze in those days, when they weren't doing their hair. "Drinking faster"(followed by)," travelling faster", (cars depicted), I could have sworn this would be a drink drive campaign and not indigestion tablets.
onwebcameron 1 year ago
the debinams advert , look at the range of cool toys on offer He-man star wars the 80s best era for toys ever, im glad i was a kid through all this and saw it all first hand , most of which where opened on good old christmas day mornings...i would do anything to go through it all again...
LizzyS186 1 year ago
The barman from the skol ad was the sargent from get some in I think
hitchhiker38 1 year ago
4:52 thats why BT scrapped nearly all of them
hitchhiker38 1 year ago
the Voice over for the cigar ad was Steven Moore. who played Adrien Mole's dad and was the voice of, Marvin the Paranoid Android, in the hitchhikers guide.
hitchhiker38 1 year ago
Was that Linda Bellingham in the baileys add, she looks well hot there.
hitchhiker38 1 year ago
@hitchhiker38 Sorry mate I dont think it was. Wasn't she the oxo mum by then?
sanjacintomercysteet 1 year ago
@sanjacintomercysteet no! it really was her. Either she did the oxo add at the same time, or the oxo ads came a bit later
hitchhiker38 1 year ago
@sanjacintomercysteet Ive just looke it up, and she looks a bit older in the oxo ads
hitchhiker38 1 year ago
I noticed back then they did a lot of advertising concerning alcohol... I was eight going on nine back in 1983, I do remember a lot of the ads from then, the Braun Independent and Milk Tray and Old Spice ads etc. with the exception of the Martini ad, none of the above mentioned ads really struck a chord with me.. Where I live in Ireland, not only is it prohibited to smoke in public places, shops, cafes, restaurants etc, it is also now prohibited by law to ADVERTISE tobacco.! So much has changed
vigerfa 1 year ago
That IS Hugh Laurie. I love love love him.
TheMKEWERBY 1 year ago
wow! blast from the past! that mandate ad is plain odd and really, a bit pervy.
the black magic girl looks really like Angeline Jolie!!
trollhater70s 1 year ago
I often leave comments about how muck I hate Ads creeping in on Youtube and yet here I am watching a video dedicated to Ads from 1983 purely for nostalgic reasons. I need to re-think my life.
matrags 1 year ago
Amazing how times change, to think only 25 odd years ago, I could of sat at my desk at work with a cigar on the go and had 3 pints at lunchtime, I'm sure we were all much more chilled out then.
PhilVersion1 1 year ago
I was 2 and remember the Black Magic advert!
Letspreach 1 year ago
Pint and a cigar! ha ha.
davesmith20092009 1 year ago
Fuck. I was eight then and still remember every single one like it were yesterday.. Scary thoughts.. Thanks for the trip.
stan633 1 year ago
Briliant, thankyou.
Woffo 1 year ago
I love the telecom ad..."in the out of the way places of the push-button world"
"through it..they can have all the support of a modern society"
LOL...yes, by biking up a wind-swept mountain.
Fuck!!...did you see THAT?..Debenams sold Millenium Falcons for under 20 quid!!!!!!!
homerbear46 1 year ago
..sadly...the World continued to get faster...bisodol had little effect.
homerbear46 1 year ago
I love the 80s adverts Thank you davidmcn
saxonfield 1 year ago
I love the 80s adverts
saxonfield 1 year ago
I wish I could go back to 1983!
amarone1956 1 year ago 28
@amarone1956 same here and start again & be young again
Springamatul 10 months ago
@amarone1956
YOU CAN!
just visit Wolverhampton
bedfordcrusader 7 months ago
@amarone1956 Yeah, we would still have Woolworths and smoking in pubs
marcsealey 7 months ago
@marcsealey cant smoke in pubs
relmmih6 7 months ago
@relmmih6 ...that's my point buddy...you could back in 83
marcsealey 7 months ago
@relmmih6 that's my point...you could in 1983...keep on the same page matey
marcsealey 4 months ago
@marcsealey lol
relmmih6 4 months ago
That Mandate bloke puckering up and baring down on the screen used to make my skin crawl!
ossyrefugee 1 year ago
£.1.99 for a box of Milk Tray omg if you paid that for a box of choccies now you could guarantee they would taste awful and Hugh Laurie in the "Kestral" ad wow. I was just over 2years old when these ads were around god I feel old lol
AbsintheGirl27 1 year ago
OMG I have one of those skol mugs!
crassazell 1 year ago
Dr. Gregory House selling Kestrel Lager. Brilliant
nicomonkeyboy 1 year ago
yuk!!... Skol!!!
knobrot1980 1 year ago
Brilliant stuff.
Watching that Woolworths one at the end made me all nostalgic.
Times change eh!
Jarren202 1 year ago
Hi...did you ever see a crown paints ad with the colors by a roller going up and down the screen with kind of Jamaican piano mucic in the background....real catchy tune too.......80's i think....looked for years...still can't find it!
noelio67 1 year ago
i like the one at 5:45
quidnick 1 year ago
I felt like I was getting raped by that Mandate commercial
SnitTrippin 1 year ago 16
@SnitTrippin hahahah
JonnyInfinite 1 year ago
lol at the debenhams toy sale, save £1 on castle grayskull and the millenium falcon. amzing savings
FFFSilencer 1 year ago
There's one partnership that gets on famously everywhere...Chirrosis and Lung Cancer....
Stereolabdream 1 year ago
@Stereolabdream Cirrhosis actually
happinesscounts 1 year ago
Fantastic! I owned the exact Binatone HIFI! £170-blimey!
jtayuk 2 years ago
Great ads, thanks! My dad used to use Old Spice back in the 80's, right after he'd 'bicked his face up' with a good old bick razor lol.
Matty112uk 2 years ago
Isn't that Tony "Sabalom Glitz" Selby behind the bar in the Skol advert?
brickie78 2 years ago
@brickie78
Yup! That definitey is Tony "Get Some In" Selby behind the bar. AND did you recognise the bloke's drinking buddy at the end .... Robert "Hustle" Glenister!!!
lilmisspino 1 year ago
Oh man old spice, my poor dad kept getting that for xmasv for about 4yrs running, shame think he wouldve prefered the Martini bird!!!!Still.......
odsall 2 years ago
26 years ago today. I wonder what I was doing?
MrHawksmoor 2 years ago
Goodness me... I was born exactly 7 days after this! It's hard to imagine my heavily preganant mother sitting watching these adverts?!
julietbravo69 2 years ago
The voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in the Pint & Castella ad... awesome stuff. So many flashbacks with these.
badreaxion 2 years ago
Love it!!!! takes me right back.......
rayp5 2 years ago
Ha ha! You're not allowed the pleasure of "a pint and Castella" now, unless you sit outside!
mistofoles 2 years ago
Tom Baker doing the Skol advert! "Hyper-intelligent mega-being from a distant galaxy!" It could be a Jon Culshaw Dead Ringers sketch, couldn't it?
StormsongK 2 years ago
brings back many memories.....especially of school xmas fancy dress parties where about 3 girls came as the martini girl,with a dangerous amount of glass stuck to a tray....no health & safety then lmao
zakwilks 2 years ago
I want the Sindy and pony!
NikkiClo 2 years ago
Oh wow, I finally get to see that Castella advert after looking at the images in Tony White's "Animator's Workbook"!
TServo2049 2 years ago
this was my 21st birthday 1
linara21 2 years ago
what's the name of the song in the first advert?
stefancc22 2 years ago
what was the ad about a beer that refreshed the parts other beers couldn't reach? was that British or American?
and I vaguely remember someone sending it up with 'refreshes the parts other beers are too tactful too notice' - that sounds definitely British!
and is that Tom Baker doing the voice over for Skol??
imdbbookaholic 2 years ago
heineken
kazzafar 2 years ago
That would be Heineken refreshing the parts other beers cannot reach! XD
kitty3309 2 years ago
it is tom baker
zakwilks 2 years ago
I know the secret of the black majic box ...ITS A DILDO
007bondspy 2 years ago
That, cracked me up!! lol.
kingdaniel69 2 years ago
The man on the mandate advert looks really creepy when he goes to kiss the camera.
MeMeMeMeMeMeMeMeAndU 2 years ago
If you were born in the 80s then you wouldnt be bothered about the fasion cos you would only be between one and ten you ******** Imbecile fortunately i was born in the 60s so i lived as a teenager in the 80s and woudnt have missed it for the word
fgourlay 2 years ago
@fgourlay
Lois jeans. Nike Diablo trainers. Leo Gemelli / Lyle & Scott sweaters.
And to think....some people are wearing those clothes now!!
happy days.
agfagaevart 5 months ago
07ammatchdan u ignorant kid!
i was born in the 90's and i think this fashion was brill!
racingfan2k10 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Thank god I wasn't born in the 1980s - awful fashion and hairstyles in everything
07matchamdan 2 years ago
OMG Hugh Laurie the house guy for all you americans at 7.09
seonidh 2 years ago
I remember Xmas Eve this year. 321 was on ITV and Flash Gordon on BBC1 the same time. I kept flicking between the two but stuck with 321 cos as a kid Flash Gordon frightened me!
matwsussx 2 years ago
83 was my favourite christmas. i was 9, got a pull back knight rider car. it squeeked but i loved it. we will have watched 321. a couple of days ago my 13 year old nephew asked who dusty bin was..... a bin for a prize???? i guess you had to be there.
hazardaew 2 years ago
Those "tower systems" at 7:59 - I begged and pleaded for one of those when I was a young boy! Had to settle for some cheap plastic thing instead, unfortunately.
marksoutof10 2 years ago
Wasnt that Rula Lenska in the Woolworths ad??
sptol 2 years ago
Ah!! Those were the days we forget how everythings moved on since then and its nice to be reminded of how we all once were however Mandate and Old Spice I do not fucking think so The Mark Of A Man like avin turps on ya face after a shave and if ur a Skolar ur a tight fisted fucker who wouldnt part with ur wallet 4 a decent lager nobody drinks Martini and thank fuck that awful Cointreau ad wasnt on there i hated them ads at xmas forgot bout Hugh Laurie in the Kestrel ad
sptol 2 years ago
@sptol
LOL!
So true!
So hilarious!
French bloke trying to get into some old tart's nickers in the Cointreau ads.
PMSL!!
agfagaevart 5 months ago
What ever you do, or did back in 83, don't ever walk into a shop in Soho looking for aftershave named 'Mandate' - No i said... splashing man...advert, loved by woman, ahh... PumpDad 2 you want sir second shelf on the left, discrete packaging...
b6gm6n 2 years ago
Id love to know how they are able to capture the deep rich taste of a warm Caribbean Night ?
AlannTH 2 years ago
Exactly mate! Especially in the freezing month of December.
dymond9999 2 years ago
@AlannTH
Look at the woman's face here: 01:47. She's thinking; "Oh god! Not that awful cat's pee again?" Then here 02:01 she's thinking; "You won't get into my knickers tonight Johnny!"
agfagaevart 5 months ago
That was a young Dr. House from the Kestrel ad
BennyHustle 2 years ago
Which Scott brother shot the first advert, then? ;)
gizmo4eva 2 years ago
Gawd - how scary! I finished the end of these adverts before they did. All those years ago and they're still stuck in the memory!
TrysilBoy 2 years ago
8:29 Wellworths !!!!
ALEXJDXBL 2 years ago
Joe Brown should've stayed where he belongs............... firmly in the 1950s.
akava77 2 years ago
In the Sasha Mandate ad he was seen cuddling a lady on a sofa. "It's all right, she's my wife!" he grinned.
WallyPyneoil 2 years ago
Furthermore, the BBC's inaccurate "I Love 1970s" information seems to have infected other sites - including the toy retailers and Wikipedia!
WallyPyneoil 2 years ago
Skol Lager ...... urine with bubbles
BigDogsDangler 2 years ago
OH MY FREAKIN GOD! I REMEMBER MR. POP!
DaOneToRuleDaWorld 2 years ago
Doesn't Hugh Laurie look lovely in the Kestrel Ad ?
tshirtsprout123 2 years ago
Eric Bristow on an ad...Ex..
lyptonvillage1970 3 years ago
The Tia Maria advert is cringingly aweful!
bombsiteweed 3 years ago
oh my word lol
ChrissyboyH44 3 years ago
5.27 - Tom Baker!
glenbw 3 years ago
no wonder woolies is going bust!!!!
ste5f 3 years ago
aww pity woolworths closing down . loved ur adds do u know the name of the song on the old spice add?? its also on x factor . but i dont know what its called
janaughty 3 years ago
It's called Carmina Burana by carl Orff.
dunkiep 3 years ago
Yeah, I was wondering what that song was too, first time I heard it was in a preview video for Phantasmagoria.
lmcgregoruk 2 years ago
Ahhh, Binatone Tower Systems, surprisingly of a lower quality than the crap Alan Sugars' "Amstrad" company was churning out. Does anyone remember the ad for Sony Tower Systems that John Cleese did ? "You don't want half a plateful of spaghetti hanging out the back".
fossilisedmuso 2 years ago
Long Live things that are so good but so bad for you!! give me a beer anyday and a fag!
mooseman2468 3 years ago
Wonder what that Black Magic lady looks like now? Bet she's still smokin' hot.
ArtieBoy1980 3 years ago
Robert Vaughn camio in the Tia Maria ad!
anpj2006 3 years ago
House MD at 7:10!
GFantastic 3 years ago
Hi all,
I'm researching British Adverts at the moment. If anyone has any unusual or rare footage of Ads from the 50s 60s 70s. It's hard to find them, does anyone know of any that aren't on youtube?
Elizabeth de Villiers
London UK
elizabethdevilliers 3 years ago
There are LOADS of ads from the '70s and '80s that I recall, and haven't seen on You Tube...alas.
agfagaevart 3 years ago
No, sorry - I edited out these ads and deleted the rest some time ago.
davidmcn 3 years ago
Mandate?
They actually had a product called Mandate?
LOL times infinity
Stygosi 3 years ago
Hard to believe but yes. And the late Sacha Distelle used to advertise it in the '70s.
agfagaevart 3 years ago
Yes, Sascha Distelle did advertise Mandate, and the BBC claimed it was first advertised by him in 1979, but this is disputed. UK newspaper ads seem to place the advent of this product in the early 1980s.
WallyPyneoil 2 years ago
No. I quite clearly recall seeing the Mandate ads during 1979.
agfagaevart 2 years ago
You have a great memory! I'm not calling you a liar, but I was a Mandate fan from early on (how embarrassing) and thought it later than '79. Also, none of my video collection and newspaper archives contain ads for it in 1979.
I recall the BBC stating it was 1979 in the "Class Of..." programme, but some BBC research has been discredited following the "I Love 1970s" series. The Space Hopper was first in the UK in 1971 according to the BBC - it's actually in UK newspaper toyshop ads from 1969!
WallyPyneoil 2 years ago
Hey man, thanks for the compliment!! That BBC series (I Love My Asss!!) really pissed me off. Because it was soo inaccurate in places. They said that Tucker's Luck, the Grange Hill spin-off series, aired in 1984 when I clearly remember it being shown during April / May of 1983. I even have an audio recording of a BBC2 trailer for the show.
agfagaevart 2 years ago
The IL'80s series was okay, but so damn inaccurate in places. The trouble with these retrospective series, is that they get 20/30 something people to do research for them, and they don't know WTF they're talking about. "Get in touch with me you wankers!" that's what I always think.
agfagaevart 2 years ago
I think one of the funniest things about the "I Love 1970s" series was discovering toy fair and newspaper stuff about the spacehopper in the UK in 1969, and newspaper and mail order catalogue material showing people in walloping great flared trousers in the late 1960s. Ordinary, everyday "Joe Bloggs" types used local newspaper archives to prove highly paid twenty-something BBC researchers were producing a load of inaccurate drivel!
WallyPyneoil 2 years ago
Also mate, the 8mm segments they showed were NOT from the '70s or '80s, but new stuff created for the series. This was seriously misleading. All the stuff showing people walking around in shell suits during the late '80s was fake. Even though peeps like me actually DID wear shells suits! Ha ha!!
agfagaevart 2 years ago
Yes, at least five items of "70s pop culture" in reality belonged to the 1960s and 1980s in "I Love..." series - it was TRASH!
I didn't buy Mandate because of Sasha - I bought it because I liked the smell (TERRIBLE, WHAT?!!). My Mum used to love Sasha back in the 1960s and '70s.
I always found him kind of '60s.
As you say Mandate was advertised by Sasha in 1979, do you recall if it was pre-or post ITV Strike?
WallyPyneoil 2 years ago
Pre or post ITV strike? Well...I ain't that good. If only. All I remember about the strike was, it was damn annoying!! I wanted to watch The Muppet Show...The Professionals...Sale Of The Century on TV. But whenever I switched to ITV I saw this.."Due to industrial action..." ITV ain't gonna show your favourite programmes tonight. So fuck off and watch BBC for the next 3 months!!
agfagaevart 2 years ago
I liked old Sasha too. So don't be ashamed. He was a suave debonaire type of guy back in the '70s. A ladeez man to look up to.
agfagaevart 2 years ago
lol - Hugh Laurie looks like he is 10 in that Kestrel advert!
faf587 3 years ago
Im with you ah1701!!! jeez! I miss the 80s (live in America now!-xmas not the same) merry xmas for this yr though..Steve St Louis Missouri
remeclerk 3 years ago
Bloody hell - I'd completely forgotten about Pint & Castella and When you know Skol, you're a Skolar.
ah1701 3 years ago
Enough bloody BEER adverts, Tia Maria, Skol booze booze and more bloody booze!
THis is shocking lol!
pierrepepi 3 years ago
But we had less problems with drinking and fighting back then.
agfagaevart 3 years ago
its a different world now int it people
bobbyzox 3 years ago
wow,i remember just about all of those.
blaster2012 3 years ago
worn by men loved by women
beerbum83 3 years ago
yeah right british telecom, british leyland,iwork for royal mail theyve ruined everything british i used to be proud to be british blooody government .....nice vids though thx
sparge2 3 years ago
"Delicious" "Just like you" what a cheesy chat-up line!
mistofoles 3 years ago