UK TV Adverts, 1974

[redcardinalist]

Fairy "...and may all your doughtnuts tune out like Fanny's" :)

[25ghr]

Joe Baker , in the Bold Ad , he went to the States and did well there , I saw him in a few things on US TV when I lived there, he Died in 2001 ,

[torquesport]

Dear old Kathleen Harrison and Richard Wattis in the Pork Pie ad.

[RexHavok666]

Nicola Paget's boyfriend in the 'Camay' ad is none other than Dave Warbeck! Fearless Zombie slayer of 'The Beyond' and countless other Italian exploitation flicks. Winner!!

[MrOutstep33]

Excellent

[chrissy17169]

nicola paget was a stunna in those days. shame about her .problems of recent years.wish i had been around then as she looks like a woman who could easily be seduced

[digitalbroadcaster]

Hope teenagers aren't watching this, as they be searching the shops for Bold automatic after they read they can get 'high on cleaning'!

[Stereolabdream]

Happy days, when Italian's all said "Mamma Mia" and you got Spaghetti Bolognese and liked it...

Hold on a minute...Dolmio are still selling the same line 40 years later...

[legindyoll]

The song on the Kellogs Corn Flakes ad is Tony Christie

[ascolti]

Holy crap! Pork Farm is now considered to be the cheapest, crapest of junk food.

[BigDogsDangler]

Didn't Boris Becker try some 'Cupboard Love'?

[RAIDERS58th]

Dear God; I want my childhood back!

[staffsmole]

Is that chap in the Bold advert Charlie Slater from Eastenders?

[MrOutstep33]

@staffsmole

No it aint him!

[clealuira]

I remember when cornflakes looked like that! Wish they'd bring back the old recipe.

[MrOutstep33]

@clealuira

Agreed.... cornflakes are just boring now!

[keef71]

nice to see that however technological washing powder/liquid gets, they still use the same old schtick they always did....

[DevSodDribble]

As an American, I love the 'Cupboard Love' ad. Dogs are overly-demanding attention whores, but cats are just kind of mellow and meow when they really really really want something. (Like some dinner.)

[illuminatusds]

and Tony Chrisitie singing the Kellogg's d too. Almost sure the Yoghurt ad is Eric Thompson as well.

[bossletlet]

Perhaps Fairy Liquid hoped that Fanny Craddock would scare viewers into buying their product.....

[JHollowayNetwork]

Which place was this recorded in?

[terryjohn]

where in hell' did you find these tv adds..

[jarama77]

@66inca you mean by 'their' side right?

[GEOFF0906]

Kathleen Harrison played the part of 'Mrs. Thursday', a domestic cleaner who inherited a fortune from her late employer (1960s)

[euronick61]

No it's not Gtretchen ..it's a character actress called Kathleen Harrison

[DolceVita]

i used to recreate the Camay ad during bathtime when I was a kid, rubbing soap on both cheeks and saying "Ooh, but this soap is so much creamier and luxuriousssss" lol

[JHollowayNetwork]

The Thames Break Bumper at 0:34, used since 1968.

[Feisty1967]

I'm a bit sceptical about the first advert, it's in black and white, looks like it's from 1970.

[Yorkmackem]

Is it Gretchen Franklin in the second one ?

[coolitababy]

Can't be Camay...it is!

[themanmaschine]

This MUST have been recorded on a Phillips N1500, that was the only domestic video recorder you got in 1974, the first VHS machine didn't come out until 1977, it was a JVC and was also made for Radio Rentals and badged either Ferguson or Baird, a very brief history of home recording!

[dirtydonki]

makes me wish I had a time machine.

[supertuber97]

I wouldn't want to swap the internet, mobiles, ipods etc for the 70's, but wasn't life simpler? A man could fix his own car, we weren't all potential paedophiles, families stuck together, we were freer from state control, kids respected their elders more and you could go out on a Saturday night without getting knifed or glassed. Hang on ..... yeah I would swap it.

[littleniyah]

@supertuber97 but it was also so dull kids played on the railways, there was no sugar in the shops, there were power cuts in the freezing winters, etc. And no mobiles or internet, no awesome technology!

Still, it's true none of us were fat. No-one had giant family packs of crisps. I swear, a Mars Bar was a monthly treat. I used to cut mine in slices.

And as for getting a 99! Mums used to act as if it was the icecream of Satan!

[2079423644]

I love this stuff! It's a snapshot of the past.

[00simonwise]

The man from bold was a stand-up named Joe Baker.

[bugsbunny2022]

I was 8 in 1976, and i remember all the adverts. In 1974, I was 6 and don't remember any of these adverts. What a difference 2 years makes to your memories at this young age.

[LollieSmith]

People really believed that eating buscuits could make you lose weight

[PortVienna80]

@LollieSmith

LOL! They still do.

[daveghaxton]

2:39 ive had a bit of Cupboard Love before.....

[RodCow]

Sounds like Keith Barron narrated the last one.

[procrustesuk]

It certainly does!

[DeadMartha]

This story reminds me of my trusty Mitsubishi VCR bought in the 80's. Used to press the pause button to cut out commercials when recording. However, seemingly over the years the length of time given over to commercials etc. has significantly grown, and the VCR just times out these days and restarts recording in the middle of a commercial.

[RAIDERS58th]

@DeadMartha Not surprising. TV sucks. I spend most of my time on YOUTUBE these days.

[jelleyman123]

@RAIDERS58th sad

[jh94]

Amazing to have adverts from as early as 1974, didn't think people had VCR's then!

That snappies advert is very annoying.

[wpl955g]

3.30 - yeah, it'd be soft and smooth if it weren't for that guy slobbering all over it... bleah...

[simonvaddan]

Note here Richard Wattis from the old St Trinian's films in the Pork Farms pie ad, and especially note the gorgeous Nicola Pagett in the Camay ad - check her out in the Sweeney episode "Stoppo Driver" where she plays a seriously foxy wrong 'un!

[salvadormarley]

@simonvaddan

Oh yes - Nicola Pagett. YUM.

[fiesta1100]

fanny cradock the chef,After showing how she made donuts her husband said if you follow the recipe you will have donuts like fannys.

[LollieSmith]

Hells bells the very idea of moisturizing with a toilet soap seems madness now...

1974 the year i was born

[thecheesepriest]

City dirt?!

[gpo746]

did she say city dirt or shitty dirt?

[StanPomeray]

"Drinking yogurt" Havent heard of that since I was about 8! Basically yogurt that went too runny...!

[endaoliver]

Grapefruit Drinking Yogurt.

Up there with Guinness Light.

[creepmag62]

yum, cupboard love , minced morcelsmmmm

[maryade]

LOL - as if any dirt (City or otherwise) would DARE remain on Fanny Craddock's collars!

As for the make of the washing machine - I recognise the crest as being the same one that was on my parents fridge for over 20 years - I think it was an Indesit.

[PM1970]

That actress, Nicola Pagett in the Camay ad was so sexy and very glamorous! Many a bloke dreamt about her!!

[custardaghost]

Anyone know who did any of these voiceovers? Some of them sound so familiar from many 70s ads...eg. the Dessert Farms bloke on the end on sounds like he also did the famous Badedas "Things happen after..."

[col2006ie]

The only one I recognise is Keith Barron on the Three Wishes advert.

[mukatuna]

The only advert I remembered was the Fairy dirty collar one. I was 10 in '74.

[williamkanegateshead]

@custardaghost The corn flakes voice is Bob Harris, I think?

[Feisty1967]

@custardaghost I think Tony Christie sang on the Cornflakes ad.

[BritNostalgia]

@custardaghost It's John Hurt voicing the Kelloggs Cornflakes ad.

[CHANNELOMD]

GOOD OLD FANNY!

[coolitababy]

Nearly all of the earlier ads here were quirky and funny. Someone's lost their sense of humour.

[Thesurus02]

Ah 1974. My dad was probably getting caned back then.

Good ads!

[col2006ie]

Just learnt that these ads are actually from 1974, not 1976...

[Strabismus2]

Tony Christie singing on the Cornflakes ad!!!

[halsalli]

You don't really see adverts on tv anymore for plain old fashioned soap. It's all moisturising liquids and shower acoutramonts with hydroxy ceramides and anti rinkle plenatomines.

[wellohmeeeeeee]

triple flavour yogurts...I can remember that ad and it really was a whole new world of exotic consumerism.

[GUSTILBITCH]

these adverts are far more formal than todays

[GUSTILBITCH]

melton mowbray oh yes!!!! i luv them!

[scorpiofootiemad]

Fannie and Johnnie Craddock advertising the soap,and was that Kathleen Harrison doing the pork pie advert?

[NikkiClo]

Fanny!

[BlackmoonUK]

Who the hell had a video recorder in 1976? I know we didn't. Well done, this is marvellous.

[Thesurus02]

Half of Britain?

[mpwheatley]

VCRs didn't become popular until about 1981/1982 at the earliest, that's when they dropped down to about £400.00 in price (and blank tapes cost about £10). In 1976 I would be amazed if 1% of the population had them.

[Thesurus02]

And one of that 1% who had a VCR is Cols family.

[col2006ie]

Ha! No chance, we didn't have a VCR until around 1983, apparently.

Besides, most of these ads were recorded in the London and Southern regions, whereas my family and I lived in the Ulster Television region :P

[thisisriffed]

In '76 I doubt they were in the shops at all. In about '79 they were very expensive rich boys' toys. There was VHS, Betamax and the Phillips system competing for domination.

[ZilogJones]

@thisisriffed: Home video recorders were around since the '60s in the form of very expensive reel-to-reel b&w recorders. U-Matic (1969) was the first popular cassette format, some schools and businesses would have had these in the early '70s (and rich people). Philips' VCR format was also around in the early '70s. I don't think anything else was available in the UK in 1974.

[ketmaniac]

@ZilogJones Weren't the ones from the 60s made by EMI? I seem to remember them being about as big as a fridge, with tape about an inch wide.

[mason642]

keep this up.

[hoovcand]

well thas defenetly a candy washing machine

[agfagaevart]

Isn't that Gemma Craven on the floor in the Limmits ad?

[knyvette]

Well spotted, agfa!

[agfagaevart]

Thanks.

I've got a good nose for faces.

[RebelVoDKa]

Sounds like the great Tony Christie singing the Corn Flakes jingle.

[RobinCarmody]

The first ad I would suspect is considerably older even than the others.

[knyvette]

Lovely Nicola Paget doing Camay!

[col2006ie]

I believe one of the other men in the advert is Jimmy Greene, an actor who was one of the first announcers on Ulster Television.