UK ITV advertisements (LWT region) - April 8th 1984

[DaveyC95]

''Moulinex makes things simple...and that includes the price.''

[Feisty1967]

The red haired guy in the McDonalds ad is John Salthouse, who was in the Bill.

[brickbat246]

"Trims and mows and won't cut toes" - classic ad, still makes me chuckle today

[PETERALEXANDERSCOTT]

Got anymore spits?

[spittingimage4005]

3:01

[spittingimage4005]

got any more spitting image?

[dissonantdreams]

Ah, thanks for the upload - this was broadcast on the day I was born :)

[JoeScaramanga]

That's Neil Morrissey in the Mac advert!

[agfagaevart]

And John Salthouse who was in The Bill at the time.

LWT were still using the squares between ads in 1984? Interesting...

[RobinCarmody]

Must be one of the last times the old LWT break bumper was shown - maybe because the Chicken Oxo ad was older than the others?

The abolition of the GLC remains one of the nastiest acts of political spite in British history.

[filmnet]

I'm guessing the Oxo ad was played from film, and the others from VT? (Note the pause and fade at the end of the Qualcast advert, rather than a flash cut).

[imangrynow]

Hear hear! Still Ken showed 'rm in the end didn't he? You have to have a certain amount of devolution for such a major city.

[col2006ie]

Was this the episode in the first series where a laughter track wasn't added, and from the following series onwards they didn't include a laughter track?

Great upload, btw.

[spittingimage4005]

What are you talking about?

[col2006ie]

I was asking if this episode, from the first series, was the one in that series where the producers forgot to put on canned laughter.

[spittingimage4005]

Are you talking about the spitting image episode?

[col2006ie]

Yes.

[spittingimage4005]

Being a spitting image nerd. I can clear things up. Yes the first episode had a laugh track but dropped it very quickly but the second had a bit of luagh. But even after that it was still finding it's feet.

[StevieO1974]

The first sketch in the second episode also had a a laugh track. Apparently, the laugh track on the first episode was added at the insistence of Central.

The 1992 election special and two live episodes shown in 1993 also had laugh tracks, but these shows were performed in front of a studio audience, rather than the laughter being added later.

[andrewscottuk]

Thatnks! Couldn't give a better description myself.