UK TV Adverts, c. 1978 (2)

[pictureisup1]

I love the british accents

[pictureisup1]

They never had a milky bar in the USA

[ollie705]

loved the weetabix cut-outs and scenes. I remember the various Disney and doctor who ones. My favourite cereal back then was the 'Sooty' wheat snaps. Sweep advertised coco pops, which have survived until today of course....

[JFredUK]

Regardling Nestlé. The company originated in Switzerland and was pronounced as the French, Nestlé, everywhere else other than the UK. Fortunately, the English verb nestle, meaning to move or arrange oneself into a comfortable and cosy position, fitted well with the company's logo of a bird sat near a nest of chicks. However, as the 80's drew on, the decision was made to cut costs, and the French pronunciation was adopted in the UK, in the commercials from that time onwards.

[blackcountryme]

If you didn't have a Raleigh bike you were a tramp, and you probably drank out of dog food tins...and sat on milk crates.. kids were really kind back then... that tank command game looks like fun... Ideal games were cool!

[OzBitch98K514]

does make me smile that Nestlé was always used to be wrongly pronounced as Nestles and is now Nestlé.

[2008Sameoldfitup]

roy west

[areyoureceivingme]

Mum! Dad! Get me Tank Command for Christmas! If you don't I will make myself sick.

[topholewhat0]

@areyoureceivingme spoilt bastard

[areyoureceivingme]

@topholewhat0 Ha yeh but I never got it.

[NeedleHitsTheGroove]

@areyoureceivingme I did (I wanted it so, so badly).........and it was utter rubbish :-(

[Cool2BCeltic]

@areyoureceivingme Tank Command makes me sick.

[hilseymour]

Funny how it was pronounced 'nestles' then...

[ChameleonDave]

Sooo many board-games!

[SeventiesMania]

I ride Raleigh for a living for sure!

[MeMeMeMeMeMeMeMeAndU]

In the milky bar ads it's wonderful to hear they actually sing nestle as it's meant to be pronounced. i.e. nes-uls NOT nes-lay as they say it now.

[bensmithkeys]

you're an idiot. It's a swiss company and there's an accent on the final 'e'. Thus, nes-lay...

[MeMeMeMeMeMeMeMeAndU]

They sing it correctly in the above ad. We're in England not Switzerland.

[bensmithkeys]

so.... how do you pronounce 'cafe' then? Or 'duvet' or 'faux pas' or 'Renault' or 'fiance'...... and so on and so on - those are French words used in English, how stupid would it be to completely change their pronunciation, just because "we're not in their country".

[MeMeMeMeMeMeMeMeAndU]

Why, in the above ad (made by nestle), do they sing nes-uls and not nes-lay?

[ChameleonDave]

@MeMeMeMeMeMeMeMeAndU Well, they are saying "Nestle".  It seems that, in the same way that you don't realise it is spelt "Nestlé", they didn't realise back then that it was pronounced "Nestlé".

[topholewhat0]

@ChameleonDave they did but just deemed it too continental (out there/fancy) for the general public to handle. the nestle logo was a nest with chicks and a parent bird if i'm not mistaken hents nest...lay!

[Wolfington]

So how do you pronounce Löwenbräu then?

[Matt571]

I recognised Ed Bishop's voice in the Micronauts Ad. He was Captain Blue's voice in Captain Scarlet.

[Klurty34]

oh yeh me too, he was great in TV, RIP Ed

[krakenwave]

. the last ad shown: SORREE LAWRENCE. Was it just my school (and sibling) who picked up on that?

[biggles3332]

Anybody recognize paul kaye (dennis pennis/strutter mtv)in the stay alive ad "i survived",lol.

by the way were videos recorders around in 78?

[billybingo2006]

yes betamax were around in early 70s but very rare we had a ferguson videostar in 1978!!!

[middleofnowehere]

Oh my word! Micronauts! I'd forgotten about those...

[thecheesepriest]

Fraserkatie, Noel Edmonds is so stinking rich, he could BUY Raleigh. Mike S.

[fraserkatie]

How funny is that Noel Edmonds Raleigh advert! "I've got a new Raleigh"" Wow! Have you now Noel? I really wanted to know that! Sorry for being sarcastic!

[agfagaevart]

I think he meant to say, "I've got the Lombard RAC Rally!"

[Flickyhecky]

Robin, can you date it?

I was just thinking how innocent those times were!

[Xxfancythat79xX]

That whistling toy is so freaky!

[RobinCarmody]

Oh, and Richard Briers voices for Sorry!

[agfagaevart]

'Sorry Lawrence'. That has stuck in my mind for nigh on 30 years. All those toy ads were great. The best yet even. Thanks Col.

[glunglun]

"Hello! I've got a new Raleigh!"

Just as well he wasn't advertising Choppers...

[RobinCarmody]

That ad moves me. I think it's because the ad is so much part of a less *nasty* time, and Edmonds in his later incarnation so strongly embodied the nastiness of the 1980s and beyond.

[Lexum2]

I've never understood why 'everyone' hates (with a small h), Edmonds so much. I'm 36 and he has been part of `My` TV since forever. I just don't get what is so horrid about him. A little shallow perhaps, but he is light entertainment. For something with more substance, i'll watch the Christmas lectures.

[RobinCarmody]

I've no problem with light entertainment at all - why do so many people seem to assume that if someone hates even one individual light-ent figure they must be some kind of caricature Reithian?

If you have ever seen the 'Noel's HQ' clips on here you will, I *hope*, understand why Edmonds is so despised by so many.

[Applemask]

Wow, thirty years ago.

[RobinCarmody]

Quite. The timespan involved now is as serious, as vast, as it seemed in practice even ten years later.