LWT Adverts, February 1975

[captainumbnuts]

'Discover what vicars daughters are really good at......in the sun'.

Lol some of them might be prison visitors, which is where some people who run the Sun will be soon.

[RAIDERS58th]

Nice to see THE SUN has gone up market since those days.

[2008Sameoldfitup]

roy west

[therealuptheass]

Really? So I'm assuming you masturbated over the Go - Dog advert when your parents were out?

[col2006ie]

@therealuptheass No, because I wasn't alive in '75. Sorry to shatter your illusions.

[seonidh]

what a load of shit the sun newspaper was and still is

[Feisty1967]

Oh such memories!! I never thought I'd see a Go-Dog advert again and that Marmite ad brings back such great memories of my childhood. Thanks for posting!!

[JHollowayNetwork]

@col2006ie How can you put back the continuity on, when it's removed?

[col2006ie]

@JHollowayNetwork To clarify, I do NOT have the continuity surrounding this junction in any format; I have the adverts ONLY. So I cannot, and I will not be, trying to "bodge" together the separate continuity file, wherever it is, with these adverts.

[JHollowayNetwork]

do you have some LWT Continuity, from February 1975?

[col2006ie]

@JHollowayNetwork No, the DVD this appeared on had the continuity removed. I know someone on here has a continuity link surrounding these ads, but I can't remember who.

[docsx225]

Wolfie Smith in the toothpaste advert - Power to the People

Biege artex walls that was class in the day - but still gives my chills

Someone should have listen to Enoch just take a look around England now

[Feisty1967]

Bloody hell! I remember the Go-Dog advert! You don't see Go-dog these days, however, you can still get Go Cat, it's strange.

[RebelVoDKa]

Those Sun ads are truly beyond parody.

In his autobiography, Christopher Timothy said he made a lot of money recording them every week.

[MissLisaJane]

Who does the voice over to the Dulux advert???

[MissLisaJane]

Marmite 'the growing up taste' sadly I grew too much!

[dirtydonki]

I wish I had a time machine.

[pcvideogamer]

I wonder how many "chavs" were humped into existence on the back of those "Sun" meat vouchers... page-3 tits then the establishments subtle political and opinion control agendas delivered...only in the Sun, 1975 no Star-Wars film yet so imaginations were hardly raised above the loin areas in those days, carry on up ya kazoo... flairs and hair-do's hairspray and bad food... TV was a large teat which most of the UK suckled on, i don't own a TV today, nor read the red-tops, ahh good old days.

[draven26]

"Kids will still like Marmite when they are old enough to have kids of their own" that'd be about 13 years old in todays currency then

[supertuber97]

Marmite ..... minging then, minging now

[goombabear]

Was the Sun like a National Enquirer?

[iloveyouhunny]

@goombabear yeah in the lies and exaggeration,;apart from that it had a few good uses ,like lining rabbit hutches and cat litter trays ...

[unclemort1960]

@goombabear without the intelligent journalism

[pawnsacrifice1]

I must have plonked in fron the TV for 8 hours a day in the seventies as I can still remember a lot of the adverts very clearly and it's 35 years ago ffs!

[daro2096]

£100 in those days would have been around 4 weeks wages. I think my Dad was earning something like £28 per week then.

[jahwob]

ATV that brings back memorys i grew up in coventry in 70's

[jahwob]

good production values in those days

[RAIDERS58th]

Wow! The sun used to be so highbrow!

[fimballs]

please tell me how you got all this on video when no 1 had video recorders them days??????????? love to know thanks

[b6gm6n]

03:31 onwards...you know what I'm talking about, i thought in the old days people were treated with respect and some intelligence, i realize now the people who watch xfactor read the sun and die of bacon related cancers are the same working classes this advert is appealing to, if fucking horrible and it hasn't changed, might as well be pages of tits, adverts, tits, arse and sports (with tits) and the usual government propaganda & usual 'thicko' shake down, millions of chavs were spawned on this.

[Forestamtul]

That baby is now grown up enough to have kids of his own. He probably also feeds them with marmite.

[Forestamtul]

I didnt realise that I hope Im not behind anything. I probably doidnt come accross the shag phrase.

[MeMeMeMeMeMeMeMeAndU]

I recently had a "close-up" moment. I asked the girl if she fancied a coffee and she replied "i did until i smelled your stinky breath" :o(

[hooweelewis]

at school we would sing, 'wrigleys spearmint gum gum gum, stick it up your bum bum bum. heh heh

[Gooneress]

We sung that too...only I can't remember the last bit we added. "Wrigley's Spearmint gum gum gum, stick it up your bum bum bum if it doesn't stick stick stick......????" Can't remember the last bit. I think what's amazing about all this was no internet back then! And yet, all the shared experiences. Where did it come from???

[ShutUpYouMong]

"If it don't fit, fit, fit, have a little shit, shit, shit"

[areyoureceivingme]

@hooweelewis So did we! Bum was such a rude word back then!

[unclemort1960]

@hooweelewis i presume you did`nt go to eton

[Gooneress]

Is it me or has the style of adverts for The Sun barely changed in 30-odd years? Thanks for uploading - great memories

[krakenwave]

Do you recognise who did the ad's voiceover? - Same bloke who did all their ads throughout the early/mid 70s. He only quit when he got a paying gig as a TV vet: its Christopher Timothy (Jjames Heriot in All Creatures Great and Small) and latterly on BBC's Doctors.

[nedoflanders2]

1975. This is rare, where did you find this col? 'Cause it is one find.

[col2006ie]

It was on a DVD compilation of 1970s adverts I was given about five years ago.

[therealuptheass]

@col2006ie I get the feeling that you've never had a girlfriend in your life!

[col2006ie]

@therealuptheass Funny you should say that, because I'm gay. No, seriously.

[thecheesepriest]

"Outspoken Enoch. What is his startling message for Sun readers?"

Don't worry, they'll buy it.

[agfagaevart]

Fuck Enoch! I want to know more about the Vicar's daughters. Phwwoooaaarr!

[simonellson]

@thecheesepriest @thecheesepriest I will tell you what he said; he warned of a new race storm, and 'a nation torn apart'. I only know this as I have found the newspaper from Friday Feb 28 1975 on top of our kitchen cupboard. The Sun front page headline that day was ''Enoch starts new race storm'' The Sun sort of distanced itself from his rant, but on page 2, the paper printed the whole speech from a Croydon rally the day before, and there are some startling prophecies

[custardaghost]

@thecheesepriest

And that's what Christopher Timothy did for a living before landing the lead in All Creatures - voicing the 70s Sun adverts.

[Feisty1967]

@thecheesepriest Must be a racist message, knowing Enoch.

[Thesurus02]

What is your oldest tape Col?

[col2006ie]

I think these ads are the earliest off-air recordings I have in my collection. I have stuff from the 1950s and 1960s, but other people have uploaded it either here or elsewhere.

[funkg]

can i ask what recording device did you use for this? my sisters ex husband had an old sony umatic machine which had 70s adverts

[keefybaby2007]

is it me....or is that Gavin Esler from BBC News in the second Sun ad being fed grapes?

[juttyhog]

I think you may be right! :D

[agfagaevart]

It looks more like Paul Greenwood, A.K.A. Captain Zep Super space detective.

[thecheesepriest]

"Jenny Scott was a Marmite baby" Does that mean you either love her or hate her?

[harleysmurf666]

Oh joy, Enoch Powell talks to Sun readers, thats the blind leading the blind!

[mistofoles]

Was that John Le Mesieur narrating the Dulux ad?

[thecheesepriest]

No mistofoles. It was Robert Lang. And Robert Powell on the Close Up ad.

[RobertTheDodger654]

What's the ATV ident doing among all those advertisements, I wonder?!

[pabsungenis]

I think it was from the beginning of a programme produced by ATV. The person apparently edited out the programme but forgot the ident at the start.

[RobinCarmody]

The programme is The Golden Shot. And that first break is from 16th February 1975, the second is a week or two later. A full LWT Sunday menu (which came between the LWT Presentation caption - which was itself coming out of The Persuaders - and the ads) was also recorded.

[alitshah]

KFC at "4:26" LOL! what ever happened to dewhurst butchers?(4:21).

[anne3362]

What ever happened to close up toothpaste? I had forgotten about that until I saw it in these commercials!!

[22Crystalline22]

That living room on the Dulux ad is back in fashion again

What happened to Go Dog??

[agfagaevart]

I noticed Robert Lindsay in the Close-Up ad.

[RobinCarmody]

Oh, and the Sun ads are voiced - as they all were back then - by Christopher Timothy.

[RobinCarmody]

These are from Sundays in early 1975 - the first Sun ad refers to "spring" so it may be Sunday 2nd March, exactly 33 years ago, and the second refers to an England-West Germany match which was played on Wednesday 12th March, so it could be Sunday 9th March. The music in the first Sun ad is "Harps and Flowers" by David Snell, also used over the Channel 4 testcard in the 1980s.

[simonellson]

@RobinCarmody second one must have been broadcast on thursday Feb 27th 1975 as I have the newspaper with Enochs rant on front page the day later

[knyvette]

Vicars' daughters! It's a real sign of the times that a Sun ad got the apostrophe in the right place!!

[RobinCarmody]

Quite - the paper and its proprietor had yet to do the damage they have done today, although they were worming their way in and the post-war consensus was collapsing dramatically and violently enough for them to take full advantage.

[RobertTheDodger654]

Cheers, col2006ie - I'd always wanted to see advertisements from approximately 1975. Got any earlier ones at all ?

[col2006ie]

I'll see what I can do.