Thames TV Commercial Break 1980

[john111257]

we still had handles on glasses then..and change from a pound

[RetroSpectreUK]

damn, I only remember 1 of those.

[UKSazzy67]

Unfortunately I have eaten 2 Pot Noodles in my lifetime, 1 in 1980 and the other one in 1982, both of them nearly made me gag. There are 3 certaincies in life, Death, Taxation and Eating a Pot Noodle.

[AndrewJimScott]

I just hate how they try and make that pot noodle advert look good.

[Dristarg]

Our local cinema used to show extended versions of the 'Arctic Lite' ads

[BML8384]

i LOVED that Coke ad asa kid. And I'd forgotten all about the Pot Noodle ad.

Simply Class.

[derekexcelcisor]

Thanks, Mean Joe! 

Classic!

[tshirtsprout123]

Is that Keith Barron doing the talking on Pot Noodle ?

[HitMeQuick]

Yeah its def Keith Barron..."Amy, Amy"

[Thesurus02]

That Coke advert was parodied on an episode of Family Guy.

[AndrewJimScott]

Nothing special.

Has been spoofed a good few times.

[nevwhile]

That Pot Noodle voice over sounds like a refined Yorkshire accent, possibly Rodney Bewes of 'The Likely Lads' fame.....

[67genxer]

excellent. i remember the "now mind your shirt gerald"

[MidnightOverlord]

love the laserz

[b6gm6n]

I was wondering as i don't watch Tv anymore... do they still advertise government sponsored drugs? sorry i mean Beer? :/

[kieran196]

The bloke on the left in the ford ad ended up in Brookside

[hepstick]

Am I the only person who thought the Coke ads suggested we "have a coconut smile"?

Who remembers "Very tasty, Bernie. Very tasty" from the same era?

[SleazyMartinez]

God, I miss Cheese And Tomato Pot Noodles.

[80sExpert]

Great -such nostalgia!

[corby1978]

The Brazilian version of the Coke ad features Zico;

its on youtube as well, if you just enter "Zico Cola"

[ahoe06]

bit of drum and bass going on in the artic lite ad

[j4wn]

Yeah, that ad was ground breaking at the time. Check out 1979 Lee Cooper jeans advert with Gary Numan vocals and zombie punks.They have it on this site.

[paullockheart1988]

electro really :/

[ahoe06]

oh yes of course excuse my error

[xraycortina]

thanks for these memories, although they are vague ones. didn't realise that pot noodles had been around so long - they still taste great. oh yes, and good old cap'n birdseye, as seen in later ads, sailing round the world on a boat full of kids. think they may have stopped that now, or locked him up.

[mellysingsdoom]

Good old Cap'n Paedophile, eh?

[duffsmoses]

Ford! Shit cars then and shit cars now!Go buy an Audi end of!

[joh2]

You obviously kept that VHS tape (I never realized VHS existed in 1980! - I knew about Betamax and Philips) well!

I did like that W-Registration Ford Advert - As it happened, there would not have been many W-registered Escort Mk2s as shown there - Ford released a brand new Mk3 model at that time...

[AntarcticaTelevision]

Betamax and VHS was introduced in 1975 - and Philips was introduced in 1972.

[beerbum83]

that beer ad was quite something I want 1 nice to pot noodle when it was still golden wonder

[sshamus27]

what did the captain have for dessert? mrs pascoe s favourite chocolate fudge cake

[DiamondEyeProduction]

Yep. And the Captain provided the whipped cream.

[komraid]

is that one of the chuckle brothers playing the rozzer on the left?

[AndrewJimScott]

Where?

[GRIFF74]

Arctic Lite, where is it now? Nowhere, cos it tasted like shite!

[numberstation]

I've got an Arctic Lite glass in me cupboard!It's a nostalgia thing,I suppose.Few people seem to remember this stuff.Or are they trying to forget..?

[heine71]

Wow! That Mean Joe Greene Coca-Cola ad even aired on UK TV!

[MrBronson66]

Yeah, and no one knew who the hell he was.

[krushsister]

OMG, I was wondering if anyone wondered, "What the heck is up with this strange limping guy on this Coca-Cola commercial?" when I saw it smack dab in the middle of British programming. I mean, this commercial was before my time and so I've only seen it on commercial retrospectives, but it slays me that it actually aired on UK TV as well. I would've thought they'd have at least just transfered the idea over, maybe using a British athlete in Mean Joe Greene's place.

[MrBronson66]

That's not how America rolls.

The rest of the world is used to watching American shows / films / etc and not getting half the references. We just have to like it or lump it. But nothing "foreign" is allowed to reach the American mainstream if there's a chance they won't get it. It's not the American people's fault - it's just the arrogance of the US media.

[donjabroni]

That's true, Americans are more tolerant to foreign shows than what people think.

BTW, that limping guy is "Mean" Joe Green, an American football player who playing mostly during the 70s. He was a great player at his time and he's now in the Hall of Fame.

[buckaroobanzai84]

Great! Really good quality pictures too. Do you know what brand of machine they were recorded on?

[olliedann]

I think the original recording was made on a JVC HR3320-EK or something very similar. I used a Canopus ADVC 500 to get video/audio into my Mac.