British TV Adverts From the 50s 60s 70s part 4

[john111257]

bobby moore.. a beer...real footballer...real beer..REAL DAYS

[ashbytimuk]

The Hovis ad always makes me smile. Supposedly set "oop North" the hill is actually Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Dorset. I have been there, it is almost unchanged and there was an old delivery bike like the one in the ad on display at the top of the hill.

[martin1698]

i am so old godamit

[martin1698]

god i am old lol

[chanctonbury63]

Bell bottom terylene suit. Got to get one of those.

[cashman156]

Adverts..... Annoying today... As they've always been!

[ImaniHekima]

Times have changed - footballers wouldn't dare be seen in a pub now.

[vintagerosenz]

Wow I want one of those flakes!!

[TheRazorbladesmile]

Isn't it odd how gender specific certain products used to be, Beer=Man, Bread=Woman

[christuiqbul]

was it five pounds with persil?

[Seaventeares]

Where can I buy them boots from? That's a brilliant Tuf advert. Good ol' Arfur mullard. Great stuff. And what about the hairspray for men? Note the 'Beiber' -do that the one bloke has got. It's all the rage today.

[Seaventeares]

What a laugh. Les Gray of Mud. Have a squizzy at his kecks!! He must've nicked his 10 yr old brothers trousers. Having said that It's better than today's fashion of having the crotch down by yer knees and the bottoms of the trousers dragging on the floor.

[hplexmark1]

if i saw someone like that dish soap handmaiden at my door, i don't think i'd open it.

[anubis33]

Flake for 6d now they are 13/-

[thatmuse76]

Is that John Moulder Brown in the Pepsi commercial?

[larjanus]

@thatmuse76 no, not JMB, it's Mike Grady, who appeared as Barry Wilkinson in Last of the Summer Wine.

[captainumbnuts]

6:41 -drunk driver narrowly misses kids, reversing lights on. then narrowly misses parked car

[captainumbnuts]

nimble was 1/3 of the size of an ordinary loaf and made of shit flour, so yeah it was less calories.

[firefly5339]

eeeeee ovis

[Keymeister]

I'm not surprised so many people were "rude on the road" (see part 3 of this vid). The streets were full of Daz White Knights, Dreft Handmaidens, Mrs Flash, and Persil Girls all jostling for position!

Jimmy Durante - "hyphen" LOL!

But WTF? It stopped just as we got to the "Humphreys"! (Milk Marketing Board Ad) I need to see part 5 NOW!

[lonestar2779]

wow.... a whole £14 wow you have me sold

[Coleshill1]

Age 46uk i know i sound old...but somethings in the old days..were actually more simple and just better...

[torquesport]

Cadbury's Flake back in the days when they were more than 3 inches long!

[mickyb8419]

Thank god they used Les Grey from Mud in the Green Cross Code AD and not Garry Glitter.....

[6PBP6]

1 dislike ??? Why would ANYONE dislike this? It is brilliant!

[spib65]

That Kelloggs advert, was that Jimmy Durante or Freddy Kruger?

[shefflassD]

@spib65 Jimmy Durante- bless him

[Feisty1967]

I can't believe they had Persil liquid in those days! I thought liquid detetergent only came out in the late 19880's.

[AerialRcoet]

@Feisty1967 lol 19880

[biteitoff]

the swan should have gone for her eyeball.

[Fatoldbear]

Loving these old adverts! If the Nimble girl dived in now she would more then likely come out with an old tyre round her neck, in the Flake advert, the swan didn't break her arm, she fed it the wrapper. After it's operation it went right off chocolate.

[mysterymachinist]

"look in at the local" is freaking amazing. i can't believe there was actually a bleeding PSA encouraging folk to spend their evenings in BARS. amazing. amazing! that's what i call civilization! just one more reason to move to the UK some day....

[nakedmambo]

Funny to think that ICI were advertising Terylene to the general public. Don't think I've ever seen fabric advertised like that.

[tenbensons]

win 5 pounds...... win 5 pounds.......

[KaleunMaender77]

Lyons Tea "specially blended for Northern Ireland"? That's very weird... I wonder why it weren't good enough for Britain...

[Celiamolestrangler55]

@KaleunMaender77 it's specially blnded for Northern Ireland because their tap water's very soft compared to England. There's a Yorkshire Tea which is especially for hard water in the UK, so this was ahead of it's time!

[Feisty1967]

I can't believe they had liquie Persil in those days!

[SvalbardJanMayen1976]

Oi I gotta get me some Double Diamond! I'm in the Czech Republic, beer nation, but I'm curious about DD, the beer men drink.

[refsworldlee]

@SvalbardJanMayen1976 It works wonders...

[Feisty1967]

I can't believe they had liquid Persil in those days, I thought it was a 1990s invention. This is incredible!

[SvalbardJanMayen1976]

@Feisty1967 It's still here in CZE. At 3:10 is where I'm stumped, "specially blended for Northern Ireland"?? Ideas?

[Feisty1967]

@SvalbardJanMayen1976 It's an odd one that. Why would Northern Ireland have its own special tea?

[Feisty1967]

That's Jimmy Durante in the Kelloggs Cornflake ad, or Shcnozzle as he was sometimes known. A typical Brooklyn, New York Jew.

[Runrome]

Was that Mr Bains from the Onidion Line voicing the Holvis ad ?

[lindabaxter1979]

Look at those suits!!

[pluto1111777]

that Persil ad confuses me lol - it says in one breath buy a liquid and powder and double your money (to £10 - buy one or the other and its £5) then it says again buy a liquid and powder but you win £20! Have I misunderstood the ad??

[dirtydonki]

The good old days when people on TV could speak English.

[2079423644]

Ha ha ha....check out the pants on Les Gray of MUD @ 6:35 He's waiting for a flood in those!

[iloveyouhunny]

as for nimble-cotton wool and it was only lower in calories because the slices were half the size !!

[SvalbardJanMayen1976]

@iloveyouhunny but they kept yer bird bony and gaunt and hungry, I guess that was the end result. Fuck that, I'd rather have a normal bird than a Nimble bird I tell you.

[iloveyouhunny]

@SvalbardJanMayen1976 me too xx

[iloveyouhunny]

can you imagine todays wags meeting in the local ?

[yetoner]

Draught DD was the Biz. Could only normally get it in WMClubs though

[kiribula]

@roystannard Racists are boring

[amarone1956]

In those days £30 would buy you a house, a car, a Rolex, a yacht, and you'd still have enough left over for a round-the-world cruise.

[amarone1956]

@lopzilla Exactly.

[draven26]

At various points in History Britain has been invaded by French, Germans, Italians and Scandinavians and all have impacted on our history so immigration / invasion are very much a part of our Countrys past

[sonicavenga]

Exciting prizes worth £14??? I'm THERE!!!

[frankbing1]

@sonicavenga Do ya think the offers still on, ive got a shit load of persil.

[sonicavenga]

@frankbing1 hahaha...we live in hope!

[doctorw2]

double diamond bloody tastes like paint thinner!

[cozener1]

The Harmony Hairspray girl has definately not got the same collar and cuffs!

[cozener1]

Did anyone pick up that the Lyons tea lady is Gloria Hunniford and the little girl is her late daughter Carron Keating! No parent should out live their child!

[cozener1]

The Deft girl definately got the crappest uniform!

[Stravinski59]

Have any other Floyd geeks noticed that the birdsong soundtrack to the 'Flake' advert is the same one used for 'Cirrus Minor'? I know, sad, but true ;o)

[7xPinballWizardx7]

@Stravinski59 Haha I did, I noticed that right away. For a second i was expecting to hear some Floyd!

[EelingStudios]

Surprising there were any Nimble girls with 6d Flakes on offer, and imagine how chuffed the Dreft Girls were when they were shown the hats they had to wear :-). Happy black and white days, my old man would give me 2/6d to go to the sweet shop with, bought 5 bars of chocolate. What on earth has gone wrong.... as it's all screwed now :-/

[Cool2BCeltic]

The ad starts off with WAGS before the term was coined.

[Ampex196]

Great stuff - many thanks for sharing! That's Mike Grady in the Pepsi Ad.

[bules72]

Terylene! Wrap yourself in plastic for the day. No wonder men stank to high heaven in those days. Beer, smoke, fart and sweat. To top it all they used hairspray on top of greasy stinky lank hair.

[RollaArtis]

Great days - - but the ads were far better than the product!

[gnomely1]

True story. Jimmy Durante was famous for his big nose. A friend visited him one day and Jimmy was annoyed because he couldn't find his glasses. The friend said, "They're on your nose Jimmy." Jimmy replied, "Could you be more specific."

[asceses]

"win £5, win £5, win £5, win £5" ...Ugghh !!! Id quite like to strangle that woman with the very anoying voice LOL

[UKSazzy67]

Nimble has no taste.

[MrStonecold69]

the second clip is brilliant

can u imagine alan shearer or john terry or steven gerrard to drop in to the local pub nowadays?

GREAT STUFF

[Hirsute63]

Would the advert then include them beating the shit out of an innocent customer too! "Drop-kick someone in the local" lol

[bootsamou]

Man ~ give that Terylene-look quick !!

[sewitt60]

Bobby Moore and Martin Peters!

[leer0y999]

Win five what?

[dannyboiii19]

6:16 dirty harry lol

[NatGrays]

Greedy cunt - give the swan some of your flake! bitch!

[Hirsute63]

Just after the camera panned away that swan broke her arm...!

[ladyskyflake]

@NatGrays

If she had, it might have have had her arm off at the elbow! That's an ad I'd have liked to see...

[stemajad]

to true....when britain was great.....golden times compared to the dross that has taken over our once great country.....

[univibe23]

I'm ready for you hand maiden.

[sightscreen66]

At 1:58 a range of prizes, all manufactured in Britain... how weird is that?

[elephantbarbiegirl]

No wonder so many women were on Vallium! It really was a man's world then

[expatbritingermany]

The third 'model' in the boots ad near the end looks like Peter Noone from Herman's Hermits!

[AnElephantsChild]

That was Robin Askwith from the 'Confesssions' films - not that I've ever watched them ;)

[jankirstein]

Just shows how parochial people were in those days. The Pepsi commercial, the girl said back to him in Danish (Dansk): " I do not understand what you say unless you speak slower. I learned English at school...."fades off. May be a few inaccuracies, but sound quality on this is very poor.

[Raiko101]

I bet Persil only visited about 10 homes around the entire country. What a dirty and cheap sales tactic.

Thanks for putting these up. A very interesting watch.

[b6gm6n]

Those washing products, "Dreft" and "Persil" where people really that stupid? ok "Britains Got Talent, the sun newspaper, scratch cards etc" ok so were the same, but that was blatant out and out manipulation, 3 vans covering the size of the UK (or up north) win 5 pounds, double our *cough* your money, win five pounds, goto the pub become docile and apathetic, win five pounds, put a hole in the ozone with Harmony, win five pounds :) thanks for the clips, they are great.

[selfelin]

what's with the three or four vocie overs?

[LollieSmith]

You can imagine housewives atcking up a load of liquid and powder by the front door and holding it every time someone comes to the door lol.

[cbak12sg]

Jimmy Durante!

[jobbieface]

suck me off "win five pounds"

[leejohnson79]

I recon the flake advert starting at 0:45 has the same birds singing as Pink Floyd's Cirus Minor song has at the start. Don't ask me how the hell I noticed that!

[cushing007]

The mum in the tetley tea ad is Gloria Hunniford

[j1o2h3n4n5y]

Ah,the days before the friggin supermarkets took over.

[yumyummoany]

Life's very different for footballers and their Wags these days - look in at their local - lol

[custardaghost]

7.42 - Robin "Confessions" Asquith poncing about in a barn.

[ucheucheuche]

2:26 "Win Five Pounds" sounds like some Dizzy Rascal track or something random like that! Listen for 10 seconds and you'll understand. ;)

[zephyruk]

It's funny to see the awful gender stereotyping, I suppose there's still quite a bit of it in today's advertising, just not quite as pronounced.

[spike555mr]

Mens hair spray..! Keeps the hair in place", feels like wearing a crash helmet..!

And The blond on the bike , is "Brian" from the "Sweet" before he got the lead singers job..!

[LikaLaruku]

Christ, I though calorie counting was a 2000-2010 fad.

What can you get for 5 pounds these days. a gumball?

That big-nosed guy with the funny voice used to eat at my great grandmother's restaurant.

I miss the way men dressed & wore their hair long in the 70s. :(

[BEEFYBAYONET]

Jimmy Durante?? Bless him.

[csno1]

agree

[paul20motorbikes]

Appy days...well disturbingly the start of mass commercialisation...aka....bra­inwashing.

What a great shame that we entered the age of technology.

[csno1]

I agree!

[agentk1986]

Kind of ironic you made that comment considering you used a computer with internet access, along with Youtube that allowed you to view old commercials. But Women knew their place back then so I guess it all evens out right?

[paul20motorbikes]

Dont take life so seriously....dude....

[simonbnyc]

I don't see any Welsh, Irish or Scots though. Who gives a toss about the English? Those fake plumb accents...ugh!

[csno1]

Well, soon we'll have fake polish and Pakistani ones :)

[agfagaevart]

The north didn't exist back in the '50s and '60s.

That Persil girl, can come by me a look at my stubborn stains.

She's wearing Harmony Hairspray, but not any nickers! And she looks like the singer from The Sweet.

[rasputin63]

The women in Ad #1 look like Mandy and Christine, no?

[rasputin63]

Sir Bobby really was a gorgeous chap; I miss him.

[rhys21kipling]

its funny "British TV" when all the people in the video are English, should be English TV

[styxman100]

The Jimmy Durante ad was superb!

[Monstrance23]

This is a very interesting and disturbing collection. It gives some clues as to the genesis of the brainwashing poison that is helping to destroy the world.

[styxman100]

You're an idiot.

[krakenwave]

Nazi shitbag

[elizabethdevilliers]

Things have really changed!

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

[paul20motorbikes]

This is spiffing!! Oh well....reminds me of our England in better days. All the hyper speed high pressure dross that fills the screens today. They say you look back with "rose tinted specs" but things were better then. Love England.

[killieguyno1]

did i win £5 lol

[LukeChucky]

That Heineken advert would be blasted by the PC bunch, if it were broadcast today. By PC bunch i mean the nanny state knicker twisters, moaning about the all white male line up of the police officers. That and seeing feet on the TV while tucking into teas throughout Britain.

[bigbreadeaterellis]

thats because adverts are 1 dimensional whereas life is 3d whether we like it or not.

[LukeChucky]

6:49 They should have ended with a rendition of Tiger Feet with alternative lyrics such as #Thats right,thats right, thats right, thats right. Don't forget to look left and right. Thats neat,Thats neat, Thats neat. Be safe when you cross the street. You crossed the street!

7:17 The Natural Way. You too can have hair that looks like a bell end.

[LukeChucky]

4:54 The lovechild of John Denver and John Lennon.

5:28 How could they tell she was using harmony hairspray. Was it her nice hair or the fact she looks and acts labotomised?

5:58 Rearranging his tackle like a typical bloke!

6:03 Having a game of pocket hockey?

[alfa01spotivo]

excellent

[angel0udak1]

"be smart be safe" .. LoL be seen in the GOLD TRIM!!! If he came up to me like that I'd RUN LOL

[PlanetZany]

I remember this!

[selection79]

hairspray 4 men/god those styles didnt do them any favours,men look loads more masculine these days and long hair seems to be a thing of the past for the majority...nothing against it either way but it seems men were more obsessive about length of there hair in those days.

[flashtheoriginal]

"Ah Sayyyy, That Gells, wearing Harmony Hairsprare....."

Wrong pal, thats a wig. And I know - she's my Mum

[JFBridge]

That's Joanna Lumley in the Nimble ad.

[xraycortina]

Is that a young Joey Ramone at 05:00?

[xraycortina]

"Look in at your local."

Unfortunately I can't, due to it having closed as a result of the smoking ban. Pubs are closing at record levels; they are clean & smoke free now, mainly due to being shut.

End the nanny state!

[mill101]

Good! Do your drug habit in private thank you.

Just off to the cancer free local now to meet my mates.

[FaerieCrone]

Very true, mate. Funny how we get all these people moaning about smokers, yet most of them don't think twice about getting behind a wheel of a car after a few drinks. Nahh, that doesn't shorten anybody's life, does it?

[LazloStPierre]

the girl wearing harmony hairspray looks like the lead singer of Sweet!

[bigbreadeaterellis]

ive got all these ads on tape

[LazloStPierre]

Yep, TV Heaven, C4, 1992. Though my tape got chewed up.

[mrslmathers]

LOL - some of those old ads were crummy!! The Heineken one is funny though.

I would cross the road just to avoid that bloke from Mud!

The 'sixpence' Flake one with the swan was somewhat tamer than their later counterpartes!

Who is the guy in the Kelloggs Cornflakes ad? He looks familiar.

[weesue]

Jimmy Durante

[mimaloche]

have you got nuts o hazel nuts oo caburys take em and they cover them in chocolate.I play in a death metal band and want it for a bit in a song about satans eating habits.The adverts were tuff!!!

[dotokobobo]

great hovis ad

[PETEEAT]

arfurs  priceless

[Turinas]

The Pepsi ad was my absolue favorite.

Les Gary of Mud. Now that's what I call roadsafety

Arfa Mullard, the Heineken ads, Hovis

Bliss

[happinesscounts]

The classic hovis ad

[pmc826]

stunning, absolutely stunning......

[AcridPeter]

The Persil advert seemed to suggest that one might be eligible to win a prize, some amount of money. But I'm not sure...

[jayshari]

you know, i think... now this is just a guess, but I think you might be on the right track with the idea of a prize or something...

[zekepig]

just show the prize patrol all your Persil products, answer a skill-testing question correctly, and you'd win a cash prize

[AcridPeter]

Ah, a CASH prize. Awesome.

[Guedingen]

Wonderful, you half expect a Harry Enfield talk-over!

[tonyaitken]

These adverts are pure gold, where did you get them all from?