Tidy Up At Night (1969)

[DrHeinersSanatorium]

THIS WAS A MESSAGE FROM YOUR MOTHER!!

[paulstrad1973]

The man looks a bit like Bod.

[DarkDolly]

triangle of doom tells you to tidy up

[Xxharukapanda]

This is adorable, and the only PSA that doesn't scare me shitless.

[lancededcena123]

There is no Power Swiches Back then? Im not going to waste 15 minutes just to unplug everything in the 60s!

[Matty112uk]

PIFS from the 60's don't seem as scary as the ones I remember from the 80's. Seem to be more light hearted.

When my mom and dad moved into their house in the late 60's there was only one electrical socket in each room, shows much much electrical equipment there was back then compared to now. It would take an age to unplug the lot these days!

[BrokenWarrior92]

fire engulfing the front of your house makes a cool noise according to this video...

[ticketyboooo]

@feisty1967 oh dear, I hate to say I have nearly all of them. Am I really the only one living low tech? Ah well, it's a hybrid life-style as I do have access to t'internet. ( :

[SuperFlamethrower1]

all fair enought then but nowadays if this advert was shown again i would be unplug everything from the mains hmmmm right i have to unplug xbox,ps3,wii,washing machine,the 4 tvs ,radio ,dvd,kettle e.t.c ud be up all bloody night unpluggin the buggers be4 u went to sleep haha

[MIKON8ERISBACK]

@SuperFlamethrower1 Unplugging a TV never prevented fires. Constantly unplugging and plugging in a TV is bad for the power transformer inside. This is especially true with TVs from cheap brands, the electrolytic capacitors in those things always wear out after a couple years.

[Feisty1967]

Oh, I love those days when we all had coal fires and electric heaters and b/w tv sets, so warm and cosy.

[Feisty1967]

As if anyone has a coal fire or a clothes horse or a gas heater these days!!!

[Thebustermann]

@Feisty1967 I have two of the three. A coal fire is cheaper by far to run than gas or electric, a clothes horse by said coal fire is cheaper to run than a tumble dryer (I have one of those too)... Besides which, unless youve experienced an open fire you really dont know how different they are to gas (in a good way).

[Time71Team]

@Thebustermann I agree. I have a coal fire and it is far better than gas and it is lovely at Christmas.

Best of all you can burn all your rubbish.

[TheTmny876able]

He done all that and as murded by burglars!.

[jenzeppelin]

@TheTmny876able that made me laugh so hard i almost fell off my chair, lol

[MrOregona230]

this guys house is a death trap even when hes awake

[Feisty1967]

Oh God who has coal fires these days?

[vaguelyvintage]

@Feisty1967 me......

[Feisty1967]

@vaguelyvintage Wow! Have you realised we are now living in the 21st Century?

[vaguelyvintage]

@Feisty1967 yeah, but it's nice for the winter!! it's not that we use them all year round, but for the worst of winter it warms up the lounge better than the radiators!

[borgduck]

You're damned if you do damned if you don't. Switch off the fire & freeze to death in the middle of the night!

[Cool2BCeltic]

I can remember this ad too. I'm a householder myself now and I don't have a coal fire or an oil heater. I don't smoke and don't dry clothes in front of the boiler. The only thing in this film that would apply to me is taking the plugs out, which I always do before going away on holiday. But electrical appliances now are a lot safer than they were 40 years ago.

[lcrip]

666 triangle at the end? 

[Goonerworld]

But it will take for forever to unplug anything and my phone will be discharged in the day!

[vntr2006]

This video was more scary than anything else at the time on tv!

[PaulMichaels78]

It's BOD

[26highstreet]

Jesus christ i was a kid in the late 1960s and every night my mum would just switch off the mains electricity and turn off the gas supply.

And then send us up to bed with candles!!!!!

we use to put them on our bedside cabinet right by the window near the curtain ( no double glazing back then but drafty windows)

sometimes i would take the candle under the bed clothes and read a book... i woke up on a few occasions with singed sheets and a candle lying in the bed all broken up

[robonaught]

@26highstreet

lol u must have a charmed life or something!

[waveali]

This PSA makes me very sleepy.

[bunnygirl9043]

the funny little man looks like bod

[LOOPYMOOCOW]

well i would unplug my tv but it does a disk check which takes 10 minutes every time you plug it in again!

[mmr11027]

because your house is a death trap

[Glenn1967ful]

Of its time, as most houses now don't have coal fires, paraffin heaters or televisions that overheat if left on.

[MasterMeaker]

One of the best ever British PIF's.The house turning into a one armed bandit is a very early TV memory for me.

[northernbloke67]

Fuck me it was a barrel of laughs in the '60's I wouldn't want to go to bed! I'll have the tent in the back garden....

[ECWC72]

If i unplug my telly, ive got to spend 15 minutes resetting my video, ill take the risk thank you.

[Kenn1965]

Indeed. Can you imagine the time it would involve now going round the house at night taking all of the plugs out of electric points? LOL, of course when this was made, the house we lived in only had the centre light pendant in each room for electricity. We had those bloody adapters all over.

[dymond9999]

I would have hated his heating bills.

A coal fire,an electric fire,a boiler,and a paraffin heater the poor cunt must have been frozen.

[Idol2Idol]

Lol yer right there !

[dymond9999]

It probably never occurred to him that if he let the hoose burn doon he would have made more on the insurance than what he was paying to heat it.

[johlufc]

Hypothermic and a chain-smoking nicotine addict!

[JackDaniels267]

I remember that was drummed into our heads never to leave the telly on or it would catch fire! National anthem, telly unplugged.They really scared the crap out of you with ads back then.I miss that.

[Applemask]

Incidentally, what's that logo at the end?

[ringrangadongfor]

Look at the disturbing picture the man has on his wall.

[psychonaut3]

So that's what Bod looks like in the nude...

[Applemask]

Styling bassline too.

[mutinyonthekitkat]

Yes, seeing the film itself again for the first time since I was about 10 really shows how things have changed over the years.

I clearly remember this being on last thing at night once before bed when I wasn't tired. Radio as well as tv closed down at night in the early 70s and being an only child I was scared having to face the long night with only my collection of comics.

[lioshenka]

Oh i so like the 60-ies... Wish i lived back then

[timsarmchair]

Me too.

[fromthesecondside]

Is there ANYONE who's unplugging a TV nowadays when going to sleep?

[robonaught]

@fromthesecondside

yes my Dad

[vntr2006]

This scared me a lot when I was a little kid!

[RainJetSprinklers]

This is before the days of electrical grounds

[MisterTrimble]

I was either 3 or 4 when this PIF first came out, although I can't recall that far back. My earliest memory of seeing this on ITV was when I was seven in 1972, and it's still one of my all-time favourites.

[matelot95]

And one of mine too me hearty!

[TMCRyan]

Crikey, I remember this! Didn't realise how basic an existence we lived then. This actually scared me - & I must've been about 5! Thanx for posting

[Applemask]

How We Used To Live!