UK ITV Adverts 1976 x 7

[xPablo69]

I think it's the old Severn Bridge

[MissWii85]

The old adverts were definitely much better, we never see food adverts now, think its soon going to be outlawed to even THINK of food, incase we all get obese dontcha know.

[MattTheSaiyan]

I know this is an odd question to ask, but...can somebody please tell me the name of the suspension bridge in the "Yorkie" commercial?

[mysterycatarrhman]

@MattTheSaiyan My guess would be the Humber Bridge.

[RebelVoDKa]

I think I'm more susceptible to Seventies ads. That Guinness ad of the 90s which won all the awards - the one with a man surfing and horses for waves; "Tic follows tock follows tic" - did nothing for me. Yet the far simpler one here just makes me want to down a pint of the stuff.

[hitchhiker38]

Ha nice Yorkie ad. I use to drive them Daf 8500, Nice trucks.

[Feisty1967]

Yorkie was based on the then current fad for American truckers and CB radio and Rowntree Mackintosh cashed in on it.

[jrmetmoi]

I can't believe how people preferred to deal with Smash rather than the taste of real mashed potatoes! Oy yay!

[MrTUCTUC1]

Just how much were BT (or the Post Office as it was at the time) ripping us off? 10p for a 3 minutes phone call? 35 years on and its cheaper than that!

[2008Sameoldfitup]

roy west

[lndac02]

@stur1975 You're looking through rose coloured glasses fella, people were as shitty, nasty and greedy then as they are now. The only difference being everyones racked up with debt trying to impress people that don't care now, whereas then borrowing money was more difficult. I also came through the 70s and I certainly wouldnt want to go back. I disagree people took pride in their work then as well. British leyland is a obvious first example of British workers making a poor product badly.

[Feisty1967]

The Yorkie myth implies that a man's teeth are stronger than a woman's teeth. I don't think that theory has ever been tested!

[RetroToledo]

@Feisty1967 My dad is a good mythbuster there for a truck driver!

[chris185821]

in 1976 i was 7 years old , the ads then were better than the tv shows i remember all theese , you know when you listen to the older generation , and they go on about the good ol days , well now in my forties , they were my good ol days , fantastic to see again , thanks ..............................­..........

[UncleFeedle]

Why were we all such ugly bastards in the 70's?

[littleniyah]

@UncleFeedle we weren't! I was just thinking how much slimmer everyone was. Especially the kids, no horrid blob kids, puffing and spotty.

[Cathain78]

2:57 - 3 months late, he was tried and convicted of rape

[Feisty1967]

You can break your teeth on Yorkies.

[webbhead92]

These ads must've run for years. I remember em all but I was only born in 75.

[1welshdevil]

What the hell is campari??

[Feisty1967]

I noticed beside the Yorkie bar there were 2 tomatoes, they will do him a lot more good than the Yorkie.

[JHollowayNetwork]

1976 (corrected), not 1978.

[Feisty1967]

The 2 lads in the Birdseye beefburgers ad look like they need a good hair wash.

[barrybwfc]

@Feisty1967 AND A GOOD DELOUSING WITH A NIT COMB

[SilverWitness]

I didn't notice it at the time, but the Yorkie driver looks demented

[TheBhoyJoe]

I don't think I've ever enjoyed a Yorkie. Yet, sometimes I succumb to their hugeness and buy one, thinking quantity over quality...

[SuperAce5150]

GREAT ads and not an immigrant in sight!

Ads back then were great

[barrybwfc]

@SuperAce5150 LOL

[Rodent689]

I bet these days if you eat a yorkie whilst driving you get 3 points on your licence and a fine.

[MikeTeaveeJr]

That second one deserved a Clio. Did it get one?

[mistofoles]

"Eeh, yus knor something? Nae fookers cun unnerstand a wud us Yurkies seh!"

[MrTaxi10]

These are great, they take me back to when it seemed no one had a care in the world, it all seemed so simple and easy in those days..............probably because i was a kid.

That bastard busby got on my tits though, i was glad bt got shot of him!

Thanks for posting.

[doctorw2]

guinness ooooh so brilliantly good, i used to have a whole shed full of those.

[blaster2012]

1976 the year that was....I remember all those ads like it was yesterday.The E numbers there must of been in all that 70's food and pop.I'm sure Corona limeade used to glow in the dark!

[RICHARDTOMLEY10WHARF]

@blaster2012 2 pence return on the bottle then went to 10 pence ,orangeade was the best ,very powerful ,

[bugsbunny2022]

Ah. What memories these bring back. I was 8 in 1976. The good old days.

[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 34 years ago ffs!

[charliewevs]

who would want a leeds united tracksuit???

[dolly32112]

the first one reminds me of the green giant ad: my mum says you are what you eat...

[frankbing1]

@dolly32112 yeah my mother used to tell me the same thing but ill say no more to that LOL....

[bodienutt1]

Cor 10p for a three minute call in 1976 that's "EXPENSIVE"

[capricious71]

Smash advert. Greatest of all time?

[JHollowayNetwork]

actually 1976, not 1978 because 1978 is the late 70s, and 1976 is still the mid 70s.

[RobertHartlepool]

Leeds Utd tracksuit, very good. Now the moronic prats on telly presume everyone supports Man Utd. I liked it back when Man Utd marketing department has controlled TV, and people could support who they wanted

[MrDS67]

those beefburgers look a lot like Cowsh*t! ;))

[capricious71]

@MrDS67 "those beefburgers look a lot like Cowsh*t! ;)) "

There's a very good reason for that.... :)

[spencerrayong]

ha...when driving a truck was cool...!! great ads...!!

[daveghaxton]

1:00

Bernie Cribbins=legend

[jnmklo9]

The Yorkie guy looks just like a regular driver to me! Good post - thanks.

[shopperviv]

What a fantastic trip down memory lane!!! They don't make ad's such memorable these days!!!!

[hinneybeast]

The Yorkie Man was something of a sex symbol. But through today's eyes he looks like a pervert.

[gazzer97]

lol nice here innit , lov that line by lorraine chase !

[sewitt60]

What a flash back! That was when adverts were good, rubbish now.

[Ophiuchus123456789]

0:49 to 0:50

That part had me in stitches XD.

[brunster64]

Much better than adverts now - all about getting a loan, car insurance or life insurance..... yawn.

[twenty1forty1]

@brunster64 memories bring back the good old days brill tv nd ads

[PROTEK123]

@brunster64 have u had a accident that wernt your fault ??? lol dont forget them ones.... got to go.... GoCompare i mean...........

[pandaKrusher]

I could really go for a cold Guinness right now.

[brutrules]

Every time I watch these ad's it takes me back, back life when everything seemed so basic and simple!

[StanPomeray]

I used to think the Smash aliens said "boil them for 20 of their minutes, then they smash their bowl to bits".

Ok, I didnt say it was FUNNY did I?

[mukatuna]

Buzby that revolting yellow cartoon bird. yuk.

[PM1970]

That's just so freaky! I'm amazed to say that I remember every one of those ads as clear as day.. that's when ads were funny and didn't dominate all over the programmes, particularly if watching ITV or Thames!

[foxyfaefife]

Bloody hell. That creepy lorry driver proves that they're all murderers and rapists.

[chilled91]

id love to have lived back then lol

[twenty1forty1]

@chilled91 fantastic times

[JonnoGM]

Wow ~ these really take me back - I was 5 in 76.

There's a few things that make smile about these ads ~ Guiness were definitely having a cheap year on advertising - That advert must have cos about £12.50 to make! And that Corona stuff ~ you can just imagine what must have been in it ~ every E number possible and industrial waste gasses ~ and that burger at the beginning ~ take a closer look at it. It resembles something you'd scrape off your shoe

ahh ~ the 1970s

Tomorrows world lied to us!

[skylightstar100]

we had our own lyrics for the yorkie bar lol

[MegaDave1973]

the smash adverts were an absolute classic

[lbee1234]

that sounds like lee evans on that cheap rate advert

[alanstarkie2001]

1976, the mother of all summers. Scorchio!

[Durbs75]

3 minutes on the phone for 10p? In 1976? That'd be the equivalent of about two quid now!

[Shropshire67]

I guess when you were a kid you could tolerate ads but now I absolutely cannot stand them probably because they have no imagination and are longer than the show you are supposed to be watching thank God for Tivo! watching this is like these were just yesterday though!

[tonightwefly]

now its 40p for 20 mins

[custardaghost]

In the Buzby era, you had go on a waiting list for a phone - it months for the GPO to install it. The phone itself was rented (i think) and cost a fortune and the height of luxury was some gayarse retro French-rococco job. They had a Mickey Mouse one too but it was available to 10 customers a year only.

[b6gm6n]

I had a 'Corona' rep visit my house once when i was 5 after my dad wrote to them saying "my son thinks your coke tastes like cherries" next thing you know a bloke turns up gives me a crate of coke-Corrona and a hearty sorry son... little did i realized the liquid was laced with a slow working brain chemical which took years to set in, next thing you know I'm autistic and lagging behind in school, i end up skipping months, made to go into home till i was 19, mentalist now, thanks Corrona.

[zephyruk]

If only those kids on the birds eye beefburgers advert had known that the cheap burgers would probably have given them mad cow disease....

[mistofoles]

Interesting - could've done with subtitles on that first ad!

[craigybus1]

Nah ther's no-er need fer subtitles..Its pure Yorksher Spayke! Nah wheres mi whippet?

[tootstanner]

Love these ads, remember them like it was yesterday! We were blessed with Quality ads in the 70's!! Thank you revoxy!!

[capitalsho]

My God, watching this made me realise just how SHITE ads on the TV are nowdays.

[thisisriffed]

The Corona voice-over is a poor impersonation of Telly Savallas (Kojak) if I'm not mistaken?

[RICOBLAB]

I thought more of a sarge Bilko/ topcat type of thing.

[allister1964]

Great ads, especially 'bens beefburgers' and 'yorkie'.Thanks for posting!

[6xentrix6]

These take me back, oh the oldies lol

[tonymontana1974]

THEY PEEL THEM WITH THEIR METAL KNIVES

mumble mumble mumble

BOIL THEM FOR 20 MINUTES

mumble mumble mumble

THEN SMASH THEM ALL TO PIECES

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­hahahaha

FFOORRR MASH GET SSSMMAASSSSSHHHHHHHHHH

[regentv980]

like it,good ad's like the telly at the time

[mazon111]

hey thanks for posting. it's weird seeing these when nowadays almost every ad mentions the internet/gives a website

[wearelegion88]

i was a coronaboy..pound a week,teeth rotting goodness delivered to you door.sandwich spread sandwiches but no yorkie..bastard

[soboneidol]

was there a national shampoo shortage when that beefburger ad' was made? i suppose a quick gander at any recent jeremy kyle show would suggest that it's still unobtainable in many areas. :)

[nm1270]

These are just great.

[waldomason]

the lorry driver in the yorkie ad looked like a serial killer!

[cielobuio]

Poor Blonde in the convertible car - probably found decapitated in a layby

[mediamadman747]

That's probably why he let her go around him.

o.O

[mistofoles]

Yep - it was Peter Sutcliffe, a psycho "Yorkie"!!

[hathome]

yum bright white mash!

[PBLEY]

Horrible hairstyles.

[LNER4468]

All us kids in the 1970s had haircuts like that. We thought we were dead cool.

[funkg]

not all, some of us had afros (:

[LNER4468]

There's a Scots-African kid in Edinburgh, about 12 years old, who has an amazing afro. I really admire his guts to do so.

[pratt68]

10p for a three-minute phone call in 76 is about the equivalent of 50p today. Who says everything's more expensive these days?!

[agfagaevart]

Some real UK classics here. Made by big name directors too.

Will this summer equal 1976's I wonder.

[Rhettdwarf]

Gawd great memories. Apart from the cold guinness ad...After seeing that ad I pestered my dad so much for a can of it (I was 10 y/o at the time) that he swore if I made him open a can, I'd have to drink the bloody lot. Yup...I spewed it, and never touched the stuff since!!! All good memories tho'

[ttillyer]

Buzby! :)

[phyd]

Remembers the "Don't Kill Buzby" car stickers? Anti-privatisation.

[whitby192]

I can remember all of them apart from the Corona fizzical - whatever happened to 'Ben' though? Thanks for the walk down memory lane!

[thecheesepriest]

This summer (1976), sit back, relax and get severely sunburnt. Mike S.

[scipfish]

yes i remember kids fainting at a 5 a side footy tournament in 76 summer...phew what a scorcher..

[mjd775]

........I can just about remember the summer of 76, the tar in the road of our avenue melted!! Then we had about 12 inches of snow in the winter, the most snow I can remember!!

[johnnygorgeous]

loved all these thanks!

[TUFCGULL2002]

I remember all these! Fantastic!!!

[AlanMcB]

Beautiful guinness ad there.

Thanks for the upload