Yellow Pages JR Hartley

[jacoblagden]

0h how the world was in 1983... so perfect

[bombaclaat]

Back when society was decent.

[shelfridges]

I can't believe that this was 1983!!! Damn - I'm getting old...

[1GodOnlyOne]

I don't see why people actually "like" this commercial.

Bizarre.

[alexskylarking]

@1GodOnlyOne Your comment is more bizarre than somebody actually liking this advert.

[1GodOnlyOne]

@alexskylarking Your comment is more bizarre than mine.

[LOCOMOTIONNUMBER1]

Have you got Fly fishing by JR Hartley, No......OK have you got a copy of the Yellow Pages. No .................sod it!

[Cerebralator]

Remember this one well. When I think of the yellow pages, I always associate it with that jingle, and the one and only J.R. Hartley.

[Keith10284]

Lovely ad. I remember this from when I was a little boy (it was on for donkeys years) and it is one of those ads you wouldn't resent during a commercial break. A kindly old man looking for something & he gets it in the end. I love it 'cos it has that warm, lovely feeling about it. I bloody wish they'd bring it back.

[molecularmadness]

Sadly this chap had a stroke before he could make it to the book store. Nevertheless, infinitely better than the Day V Lately piece of shit they are peddling on the TV at the moment.

[stavnico]

*Turns head, mouth open very wide, shaking head" "No"

[MrRobertSama]

The new one is terrible, it cant compare to the original.

[ChayD]

@MrRobertSama I agre the new one is a bit "been there, done that".

[DayVLately]

Move aside Gramps, there's a new kid in town!

[wikichris]

I remember this advert...it was on for flippin' years but I NEVER understood it and I still don't. He's looking for his own book...but why? What have I missed?

[SmackNcrack01]

@wikichris coz it was rather old and he didnt have a copy. he would of wanted a copy for sentimental reasons probably

[TaffTalk]

DAY V LATELY!

[Baybeegirl12xx]

Just like the out now, thats kewl :D

[WillShakespeare2007]

They have re made this advert for the yellow pages app and the guy is looking at old vinyl shops for a record he made back when. It is awful.

[artymekjd]

I have just realised the new Yellow Pages advert 'Day Vee Lately" is a take on this! Thought the concept sounded familiar! x

[spinout3]

one of the most memorable adverts ever.

[TStyle1979]

Who disliked this? Why would you come to this old advert unless you remember it and why would you do that if you know you disliked it?

[1917redstar]

In the original script he was looking for a copy of "The Diary of a Necrophiliac Crack Addict" but it was changed to "Fly Fishing". Political Correctness gone mad.

[MatthewHaydockPoet]

What a nice old man; a homosexual, but a nice old man.

[ricky2k9]

@MatthewHaydockPoet

hahaha what a quality comment

[LOCOMOTIONNUMBER1]

Do you have a copy of the Yellow Pages...............yes we've 50 bloody tons of them out the back of the book shop.

[ROCKSOLID19]

Most people in the 80's are cold, ruthless and nasty.

[anonUK]

@ROCKSOLID19

No- most governments were cold, ruthless and nasty, but at least they weren't stinking hypocrites who pretended to feel your pain while shafting you for the benefit of the bankers/ hedge fund managers etc. who then went about shafting the governments. The sneaky bullies being shafted by the uberbullies.

[voon100]

@ROCKSOLID19 28 years later it's still the same.

[ROCKSOLID19]

@voon100 But it is less evident. I thnak Bill Gates personally.

[zamfir707]

It's is rather oweledddd...

[proziumdude]

Thumbs up if your last name is Hartley and was born AFTER this advert. The not having a clue why people asked you if you knew JR Hartley

[matchbox555]

why doesnt he just google it

[Useless2112]

GOOD OLD YELLOW PAGES WE'RE NOT JUS THERE FU THE NARSTY FINGS IN LOOOIIIFFFFEEEE AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGHH­HHHHHHHHcocks

[marmadukesymesparker]

The daughter is doing embroidery!

[JohoFTW]

OMG I'm J.R.Hartley! sweeet

[sutcliffeshammer]

We had our catholic schools RE GCSEs returned in 1988 with a warning from the examiners, because we'd all answered the following question:

Suggest a suitable reading for a baptism

with

Fly Fishing by J.R. Hartley

[JRHartly1984]

I wonder if he's read the God Delusion by Rich-ard-Dawkins?

[WallyPyneoil]

1983 - different planet. Nowadays his daughter would find the book on eBay in a flash! Lovely ad - thanks for uploading!

[grahamt1978]

why didnt his daughter check the yellow pages first instead of sending the poor old duffer on a mission

[blears999]

vain grandad nothing better to do than phone around for his own book should of got a train set like the other yellow pages advert

[babbelquack]

Classic.

By the way this ad isn't from 90's, it's from 1983

[haribokey]

Date changed thanks!

[SuperIMH]

The glasses on the first woman. The GIGANTIC "NO" at 20 seconds. The inappropriate touch from the daughter. And the RSC-trained clasp of the phone at the end. MEGA!

[ChayD]

@SuperIMH That was an enormously unequivocal 'NO' lol! I never noticed that in the Ad when it originally aired.

[nakedmambo]

@ChayD I always hated that bit. He reminded me of a man in an independant bookshop near us, all half-moon glasses, pompous and ill-tempered.

[Pinnertop]

Lovely ad. So English!

[cdwordsworth26]

god the 90's look like the 70's. why didn't he have his own book

[teamfab]

Brilliant add, though he would have got it alot quicker if he'd used ebay lol...

[wieuyhf]

WILL SOME ONE DO A REMIX!

[Kathryn7384]

Love this ad, what a nice old bloke! "My name, yes, it's J...R...Hartley." Classic!

[PeterZeeke]

OH! HE'S JR HARTLEY!

[SamboC76]

At 0:24 you see the daughter embroidering something - I like to think it's the antimacassar featured on the old boy's chair at the end - bit of a trippy interpretation of a woodland scene.

[stevierock77]

Probably the best and well known advert in tv history. When J R Hartley (AKA Norman Lumsden) died in 2001 it made the national headlines 22 years after the advert first aired.

[jimbo620ti]

Why was he looking for his own book? Great ad and all, just always wondered that

[obbytoo]

Lovely advert :)

It'd be too "cheesy" for today.

[JohnnyContagious]

Just lovely. One of the most emotive 50 seconds in TV History.

[Dan00Syndrome]

classic classic ad do you have flyfishing by j r hartley ?

[smidge146]

He was looking for his own book?

[quoling]

Yes that's the idea.

[xihopeyouchoke]

lmao

[abhard6]

Best ad Yellow Pages ever did, a true classic, however I thought it was from the 1980's?

[stevierock77]

Think the brought it back in 93 ten years to the day that it was originally aired matey.

[barbarash]

one of the most memorable adverts in british television history.

[ThatVelaFella]

I remember that actor in the tv sci-fi show Buck Rogers in the later years being a scientist. Also the ad makes more sense now to those who saw the comedy done on the 'Yellow Pages advert spoof -A Bit of Fry and Laurie- BBC Comedy', also on here.

[stevierock77]

Buck Rogers? nah matey not him.

[ThatVelaFella]

Ah yes, my mistake. It was Wilfrid Hyde-White who was on that show. He sure looked and sounded very similar though.

[Joyanta]

Thanks for uploading this trip down memory lane!