LWT Adverts, 12th September 1981 (1)

[DaltonMan321]

A BUTT? IN A COMMERCIAL?! HOW APPALLING!

[SatAMJunkie]

"WE'RE GONNA DO IT! ... We've done it. What now?"

[dmh872]

Fiona Fullerton for Colorfast!

[t1000eg]

is still play my tcr racing set

[MrSnashers]

Leslie Ash in the Minstrels ad.

[mepsib]

I feel like these were from my childhood, yet I wasn't born for another few years. Who was the woman in the max factor advert?

[geekgirltv2011]

that show is actually my program - new female presenter (1977) from ATV.

[sphereballs]

That Matey advert looks so trippy.

[Retrofanatic10]

Tony the Tiger and Tony Jay in the same set of commercials. Awesome!

[TRUMPER007]

Even the adverts were far better than the trash they call tv today!

[vania1013]

just close your eyes and you can hear the radio 1 with gary davies and smell the gravey as mum says dinner ready

[stur1975]

Fiona Fullerton - Yum!

[earth123ism]

i noticed leslie ash

[Applemask]

Kenny Everett should do all adverts. In history. Including the PIFs. Past present and future. Despite being dead.

[TheLizardmonkey]

@Applemask The BBC are making a bio drama about him. I think David Tennant is Kenny!

[Applemask]

@TheLizardmonkey Apparently Tim Whitnall's writing it. He's an alien.

[agfagaevart]

@TheLizardmonkey

Funny that, considering how they sacked him in the '60s. Aah well, good ol' hypocritical Beeb.

[davecub]

3:07 Leslie Ash pre Trout pout

[IMHAVINHOOPS]

omg ronco! purveyor of all things tat! i seem to remember a button stitching machine lol!

[joedgillis]

now now.if its a puff you want...' and hey presto a muscle mary in tights decends from the sky. godamn homophobia!

[Feisty1967]

Minstrels were great! And they were replaced by those Godawful M and Ms. Thats when British society got overtaken by American shit crap.

[wnesbitt1]

@Feisty1967 I think it was 'Treets' that was replaced by M&Ms. Minstrels are still around, although only in big bags.

[Feisty1967]

Frosties are the best!!!

[PinkFloydFan74]

Fantastic marketing from Frostie's there. 'We just chuck suger over them!' They don't make4 ads like that anymore for a reason!

[VengaboysRbackINtown]

Superman always was a boy scout.

[kenfig]

Much better times than now before technology went too far and fucked us all over really.A good mixture of modern and older values at that time.If we'd not had Margaret bloody Thatcher,it would have been perfect

[Charmlessman77]

Leslie Ash riding a bike and eating Minstrels. Awesome!

[mhairi2006]

OMG, just the smell of Matey takes me back to being a kid! BTW, anyone else notice the wee boy covering his bum with his t shirt in the Matey advert? A cute detail that probably wouldn't be allowed today's cynical world.

[danielthomasslade]

130 quid for that atari!

[kaneundertaker4life]

@danielthomasslade lol, we'll be laughing at the playstation 3/xbox 360 in 20 years probably, ... i grew up slightly after this with the ordinary Nintendo and SNES,

[TheFoppa123]

it's Frosted Flakes.

[krakenwave]

Tommy Vance advertising Ronco disco compo? Either the Friday Rock Show job wasn't paying him enough or he'd heard a Venom track and completely lost it...

[LukeChucky]

3:34 'If its a puff you want' lol

[Mujahid1977]

Good old days ..... "Never say yes to a cigarette" .... kids these days are on pot, weed and all kinds of shit !

[SofaKingWeTodEd666]

@Mujahid1977 hells yeah kids today have got it good! hahahaha

[v5dan]

Notice that the matey advert and the atari had voiceovers from the one and only Kenny Everett!!! Loved his show when i was a kid!!

[Gaffer96]

I loved my Atari and TCR......happy days

[NikkiClo]

short boyish hairstyles were the inthing in '81 it seems!

[PGMEagle]

I'm surprised they had an add about not smoking back then.

[nogginzinc]

Those minstrels are EVIL!

I remember choking on them when I was a little moomin. Fucking tasty though =)

[1971ScoobyDoo]

I still have my super hits 1 and 2 lp`s. Those were the days when vinyl ruled. My mum also used to buy me matey bubble bath and i still love frosties.

[uppon2]

MY GOD TCR LOOKS WICKED

[Stereolabdream]

Nick-o-teen....I'd forgotten about him.

I hadn't forgotten how attractive Fiona Fullerton and Leslie Ash were though, back in the day....

[lifedoessucks]

3.09 Leslie Ash ?

[lostintimeline]

omg atari.the 80s play station.now this was real gaming who needs an xbox lol

[Primodummy92]

That was creepy i was eating some minstrels while i was watching that

[jakepet1]

is that leslie ash at 3.09 ??

[agfagaevart]

Yes! Before the fish-face op.

[wolfatthedoor81]

i love watching old commercials, these are from the year i was born so its even better.

[UKArchiveTV]

Oh, Kenny Everett Atari ad at 2:17 (also the Matey ad at the start?), Nick O'Teen at 3:25

[UKArchiveTV]

Every clip of col's that I click on features a Frosties ad! Interesting that by 1986, the Frosties formula was a closely-guarded secret stored securely in a sparkling gold sack.

[ah1701]

hehehe they're GRRRRRREAT!!!! ;-)

[teamuggy]

LOL! The Frostomaton!!!

[heine71]

Why did Ingersol own the UK rights to Atari?

[deadthevideo]

I have fond memories of the old Frosties ads with the black and white cat and the sneezing rabbit.

[agfagaevart]

I really REALLY wanted one of them TCR racing sets back then.

[Perranporth]

Wonderful stuff! I'd forgotten all about that Superman one! And the Frosties one was a big childhood memory as well.

[GOODFELLAS74]

In America it was frosted flakes,you have alot of the same protucts we do, only the name change's Minstrels are M&M's.I like the UK commercials.

[pomomatthew]

we never got wispa in america though :(

[heine71]

Was Minstrels the UK version of M&M's?

[dacrlit]

No, Minstrels are entitly different.

[deadthevideo]

Minstrels are circular pieces of chocolate. M&M's are chocolate or peanuts covered in different coloured shells.

[agfagaevart]

It melts in your mouth, not in your hand...That what I say to all the girls anyway.

[heine71]

Did the late Thurl Ravenscroft even do the voice of Tony the Tiger for UK and Aussie Frosted Flakes/Frosties TV commercials 1970's and 1980's?

[peterproscia]

With that voice, is there any doubt?

[RobinCarmody]

Tommy Vance in vision for Super Hits 1 & 2 and Disco Nites & Disco Daze, while Kenny Everett voices for Matey (and I think he's doing his American accent in the Atari ad as well).

[NickTheHorse]

You're a legend. Thanks for uploading.