More TV adverts from the Eighties

[motherflange]

Because mums and daughters stand outside shop windows discussing soaps and talcs.

[leiting8]

A pint and a cigar arh happy days long live the of days

[Jermyn78]

Is it just me, or does the song in the Kitkat ad sound like "Asian Invasion"?

[Loosehh]

no one advertises cigarettes no more? 

[qwertyrobmaiden]

I want that spectrum and tape player

[lostinbass4]

Nicohlas Witchell advertsiing castellas haha!

[sphereballs]

That hair at 6:00! God bless the 80s.

[arobekie]

You cant sing you cant play you look awful,Youll make me fucking millions,Said Mr cowell.

[Grithron2]

Lots of great memories here: including the immortal Kit-Kat "you can't sing" advert; one of those Cadbury's Flake adverts mimicked by Julianne Regan ever since; the "first choice/people who care" Co-Op jingle; and the "who the hell thought of that?!" that was `Ovaltina'.

Interesting to notice how the voiceover people's accents still had to be "posh", as recently as the '80s.

[sarahgardom]

is that ross kemp 8:17 bit ironic really seeing as the guy in the next advert played tiffanys dad in eastenders!

[thelyniezian]

Shows you how much times have changed- you can not only advertise a cigar on V, but promote it for having in the pub...

And cash machines are a big deal!

[Awen34]

Thanks mum for Babeena.

...for strong bones, bright eyes, and clear skin, Ribena children are healthy children.

Once ipon a time, there was creativity in advertising.

[komodosp]

Is that a black currant drinking black currant juice? What kind of evil is this? A black-currant vampire?

[profbaldwin77]

03:25 - did she actually spray it on her neck or did it miss ?

[pedalpump1968]

"Why not really surprise him and get him a stripper for Christmas?"

LOL

[darkdubh]

Many a fantasy i had about thee girl in the flake advert.

[lookingintothepast]

Loved the blonde doing the coffee bean shake

[darrencornell1]

television,what a fucking joke it seems in this day and age

[MrSyrett]

Cat's Piss.......by Yardley

[Tommysgirl14]

Did Simon Cowell base himself on the guy in the Kit Kat advert?

And I always wanted hair like the Timotei woman!

[moccalou]

I love watching commercials from the decade I was born in on Youtube. Never thought to look up British adverts. I'm from the U.S. Yours were pretty cool too. :D

[lcozzarelli]

Abbott and Castella? ;)

[SuckerGamer]

8:45 to 8:50 pretty much sum's up the music industry nowadays

[caxtonman]

A woman getting her hair wet and not going ballistic??!! Must be an advert....

[onecrazylemming]

11 people were in the band on the Kit Kat advert and were lied to by the music executive.

[cordis69]

lol, if she's using nescafe instant why did she feel the need to bring in a handful of coffee beans with her?

[Donice09]

Why not really suprise him this christmas and get him a stripper lol

[probablecomplex]

Oh lord... how snoggable was Sarah Greene?

[MatthewBuick]

Wasn't that gas man Kenneth Branagh?

[MrSax84]

'Sarah Greene serves Nescafe' - just in case you needed it spelling out!.

[dazbop68]

Was there a multiple car crash incident prior to filming the Argos ad or wot !!!

No wonder the NHS are on thier knees with lots of A&E people reading the catalogue at will .

1 pudding had a pan on his head.

Must of crashed on the way to Pans R us . Ha.

Love these ads and remember my youth .

[soulgirl3000]

Cadbury's Flakes do not crumble like they used to. Trufax.

[skaven2100]

3:00 you can wash your hair as often as you wish, as oppose to what? never being able to wash it? did shampoo in the eighties make your hair fall out if you used it every day?

[Devilazer]

The commercials were all calm back in these times, now we have celebrities being the center of attention for commercials. Let alone all the hip hop. My gawd, the Hip hop.

[flingflong001]

the halifax cardcash is my fav...nice collection cheers :)

[swedishgamer]

7:43 what do the pillow fight have anything to do with the gas heater ?

[LargeOrangeTent]

How old do I feel, and I am only 28

[thecheesepriest]

"Never you mind, put it all behind, go and get wankered on Magnet"!

[thesloaneranger1]

rainbow and inspector gadget....now those were the days! the adverts were great, but the wee interlude was the best bit! :D thanks for sharing! xxx

[JonnyInfinite]

I think this is later than the mid 80's if the Aled Jones album is on CD

[MatthewBuick]

I don't believe you can make deposits in cash machines these day can you? I've certainly never come across one where you can...

[cdmharley]

@MatthewBuick yeah loads of cash machines do deposits... look at the options next time you put your card in.. An envelope comes out and you put your cash in and post... I was like "i never new that" first time..

[tweepixie]

Aled Jones => Castrati

[Shopola]

my God hes 15 years out of date!!!!!!

[carolineburns]

haha!! White Satin...£2 from the local chemist back in the day!! Classy!

[ac1dman]

Get him a stripper for Christmas!

[darkroge]

my mum got one of them strippers lol

[hoffmachine]

Castella. They're what Del Boy smokes :)

[TheChrisFrom1993]

Card Cash :L

[NMCarpenter1]

haha got love the old-spice ad.. "THE MARK OF A MAN!"

[Cool2BCeltic]

The Castella advert is a real period piece now. As is well known, if you light a cigar in a pub nowadays you get told to leave.

[stewiegriffin1001]

i can remember most of these, happy days

[earlemartin]

BEST BEFORE DEC 85... much like these adverts.

[cultcheese]

How thin is the Argos catalogue?

[UncleFeedle]

She's got big 80's hair.

[lulu3966]

OMG!!!!!!! these things look soooo old :o

[TheRealChowder]

I want a stripper for Christmas!

[132000Volts]

Them curries gifts still look a good deal!

[PRC1972]

why not surprise him and get him a stripper for christmas?

[cawdor33]

WHOA!!!!! Big hair at 5:58!!

[Lixilon]

ive got the braun silencio...its not silent

[Cathain78]

5:45

"Why not surprise him and get him a stripper for Christmas?"

Wow, that would be the best present ever!

[LeDucDArcachon]

I must be too conditioned. I kept on thinking, god, there are enough ads, when is this bloody show going to start.

:)

[VictorPhoenix]

HAha likewise

[kimjae19]

2:00? Yoou can deposit on atm???

[Concreteowl]

When they were first rolled out you could.

Just like the deposit machines inside banks.

[ThatKrazygirlie]

"So mild, you can wash your hair as often as you like!"

[Cwmbran1984]

You'll never see the 1st advert made ever again anywhere in the World.

A smoke & a pint never again.

[enaeb]

Ahhhhh, the old adverts. Today's adverts are not a patch on the one's we watched as kids! By the way, does anybody remember the advert that featured mars, twix, marathon, bounty and one other surrounded by ice? The premise of the advert was to enjoy chocolate from the fridge. The tune that accompanied the advert was very catchy.

[ClareH29]

My God...Yardley! The epitome of the 80's!!

[chicoflaco]

i only remember that timotei commercial, a classic

[BEENO132]

6:61 lmfaooooooooooooooooo

[swedisguy]

6:61?????

[Mancunian1001]

One thing I was noticed was the thickness of the Argos catalogue. It was a mere leaflet compared with the one of 2009!

[lostinbass4]

Ovaltina, swinging nearer, flicking bogies at the window cleaner!

[youtrojaxtube]

great i really enjoyed watching these. I think i missed them at the time due to making a cup of tea! :)

[JerryPilton]

"Why don't you surprise him, and get him a stripper for Christmas?"

Certainly surprising, especially coming form the wife. lol

[spidimuffin]

dats de best flake add ever!

[Th1sWasATriumph]

Cardcash machines - bastions of a remote, unforgiving future.

Also, GULP

[DaGizmoGuy]

The last one sounded as if it was narrated by Patrick Stuart, maybe?

[Th1sWasATriumph]

Fuck knows why you got negged for that, it does sound like him. Especially "mark of a MAN".

[Xilosmien]

I'd be more convinced if he sounded anything like Patrick Stewart at all.

[mukisito]

"The classic masculine fragrance. The mark of a MAN!"

[opencurtin]

The pace of life was so much slower back then.

[MeMeMeMeMeMeMeMeAndU]

Watching his ad, who'd have thought that Aled Jones would grow up into the drug-taking, beer-swilling rebel he's now become :o/

[Mappman]

"The classic masculine fragrance. The mark of a MAN!"

Love it!

[EmmaBeeba]

Haha, we still have that food processor at 7.00

[07matchamdan]

Wow - a cassette player - I want one of those lol

[chrislyon06]

Long ad break or is it me??

[Littlemissgemma]

You

[rebeccaproductions]

haha aled jones album xD

I only know aled for singing walking in the air! Born in '94 ya see =]

[philr009]

timotei timotei timotei timotei

lol

[FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0]

the guy in the kit kat advert

is gavin richards from allo allo and

eastenders and sarah greene did going live in the 80's with philip schofield before

it became live and kicking in the 90's

with jamie theakston and zoe ball

the show was axed years later and for

christmas it is a good six months away folks.

frankie smales

(retro tv advert fan)

[BLabelGuitarMan]

Doh! About a week late.

[BLabelGuitarMan]

5:45

Or why not REALLY surprise him, and get him a stripper for Christmas. Ahem.

[GarthDiant]

The second advert is one of the favorite ads ever.

[blinkingblythe]

8:46= Simon Cowell prototype?

[sptol]

Fuck! A runaway trolley get down its gonna hit the stacked tins of peas! And id ave sunk 12 pints of Magic Magnet if my missus was that minging get me a stripper this xmas by all means make sure shes got a nice arse and a lovely pair of tits!!

[sptol]

Ha yeah remote control trolleys at Co Op!! I bet that bird from the Timotei ad didnt wear Yardley it stunk of cat piss id av gone fuck me u aint gettin on the back of my horse luv smellin of Tiddles cat litter tray!and what the fuck do us blokes wanna piss around with a Quattro Drill for at Xmas?marketing strategy back then was fucking sad wasnt it its even worse now!

[billybobpeach]

1:57 never seen one of those before lol

[Nalcedttelhpma]

8.17 Kenneth Brannagh

[Gulftastic]

ALIEN INVASION!

(what on earth are we gonna do?)

[rorydog02]

the bird in the coffie adverts a babe

[locutus1962]

she's Sarah Greene formerly of Blue Peter and yes she was a babe

[KaitainCPS]

Nostalgia overload!

This is fantastic...

[MakubekuUrashima]

OMG Timotei!

[bushthetosh]

WOW Was The Argos Catalouge THAT Tiny?

Halifax Ad-No Freaking Howard Boy HAHAHAHAHAHA

OMG In The Co-Op Ad Does She Leave The Trolley

Unattended?,She Can Cause An Accident And Pay

For The Damage.

[therevengeofsaladboy]

That Argos catalouge was tiny!

[SDRockman]

I wouldn't look a dog in the eye with a screwdriver hanging from it's mouth!! Would be all wet...

[webbhead92]

Check out the Halifax ad. No sign of that singing toenail Howard back then.

[psycoticbastard]

7:03 sinclair spectrum .. oh i want one for xmas !

[andeegreen]

yeah, well when i asked my wife for a stripper for christmas, black&decker aint exactly what sprang to mind! ouch!

[GAZZA251170]

"Ovoltina, gets you up with Ovaltine"- No wonder my Dad used to drink it before bed!!!

[GAZZA251170]

That ad got me eating so many flakes girls like that don't look at me anymore!!!

[scorpiofootiemad]

Aled Jones-must have been 14 then!

[xjado2K8]

i miss the old cigarette adverts

[Jermyn78]

8:28 - That sounds like "Asian Invasion" to me...

[banneradders]

tyne tees - i knew some of these ads were regional , id not seen them lol

[maneatingtoilets]

I like how at 3:26 she completely misses.

[hardy309]

THE SIZE OF THE ARGOS COMPARED TO KNOW

[buckeejit73]

was there ANY adverts Robert Powell DIDNT fecking voice over!?!?

shame in the nescaffe advert they didnt do the hand gesture for wanking instead of shaking the beans!!

[ptaaffe]

Thank you for posting - takes me back in time. Seems like yesterday

[Project25o1]

omg I just stepped into the Tardis

[evildungbeetle]

Nostalgia is not what it used to be!

[ShanHetty]

"THE MARK OF A MAN!" quality

[Doooolan]

Personal Stereo lol

[jesjes13]

ive noticed some commercials use the ability to make the ad completely pointless and strange. this serves as a mechanism for the mind to remember it better. i think its smart :)

[scorpius319]

yeah, it's pretty Flakey to think that people sit around looking hot, wandering down some magical stream in a wee little boat, eating chocolate

love these 80s commercials

[boywoolner]

Good stripper gag.

[wadros]

That guy really likes that cigar.

[geography27]

Timotei, 'wash your hair in the wooden tub outside'. What's wrong with the kitchen sink or over the bath with a pan?

Black & Decker aimed at us blokes? Sexist! :-D

Rainbow, Telebugs, Inspector Gadget.. Wow, I watched them! I remember Pricefighters, but didn't know their trollies moved on their own!

Currys - 'no-one beats our prices & no-one has our products anymore'. I've always wondered why they pronounced Braun as 'brawn' and not 'brown' - odd, ah well.

The 80s - Great Stuff!!

[StaryKartofel]

Same bullshit as always... nothing has changed

[scook2003]

why did that guy jump off a waterfall with his perfectly good boat? Buggered the boat, got wet and all beacause the Lady loves Milktray? Bugger that.

[ScallywagTV]

For 70's and 80's cult UK Television, click on youtube channel 'ScallywagTV'. Remember Bod, Playaway, Chorlton and the Wheelies or the Charly says adverts? Over 80 memories from your childhood.

[spookylukey99]

I likes the stripper ad "get him a black and decker for xmas" ...hehehe

[cultcheese]

Is that the actor who played Tiffany's dad, Terry in Eastenders in the Kitkat ad?

[healfdeane]

Do you know what.. I think it is! Well spotted.

[cultcheese]

look how thin the Argos catalogue is! It's about 50 times more thicker!

[nightcrawler1200]

LOL,,, the black and decker advert,, "get him a stripper for christmas".

[JonnyInfinite]

Rascist ovaltine

[tomives1985]

advertising a cigar and its smoked in a pub ... seems so weird now

[senomad]

Old spice the mark of a man

[chezzeeX]

Most of those ads bring back warm memories for me,just like i was still there.About 84,85? i guess.The Sinclair Spectrum computer games,the Yardley ads,the White Satin perfume ad,even the Nescafe ad,i remember at the time,wanting to try that coffee,being only young then.Mmm,makes me fancy a cup now! lol

[supersonicj1m]

The mark of a man!

[sirdave80]

Black and decker: "Or really surprise him, by getting a STRIPPER for christmas....LUL

[orangechilli]

I LOL'D

[squarebanana94]

at 6:16, is that trolley moving on its own??!!

[BenjaminGage]

Rainbow, The Telebugs and Inspector Gadget with Matthew Kelly!!! My childhood was better than yours FACT.

[BLAMincorperated]

The chocolate ad made was strange...

[GeorgeASFTHM]

The Argos ad seems to be from Autumn 1984 as I saw an edition of the catalogue with the same cover as the one that features at the end of that ad on Ebay.

Aled Jones is very much still with us, doing the early Sunday mornings on BBC Radio 2. His high voice isn't.

[healfdeane]

Ok, what's going on with that shopping trolley at the beginning of that Co-op advert at 9:38 ... it moves along on its own!

*hears Twilight Zone music*

[RoadCone411]

aled jones? geez - he sings like somebody kicked him the junk a few times! I wonder where he is now? (then again, he probably makes more money than all of us using YouTube).

[williegofar95]

Lol -Or Why Not Get Him a Stripper For Xmas? =S

[Stimor]

go timotei go!

[18140]

in number 2 it basically says nothings going well, so go get drunk!

[daronhughes]

Ha! How thin is the Argos catalogue at 2:31!!? It's certainly gained some weight since then!!

[81runFROMwhat]

id love it if they showed adverts for cigars on tv now a days! someone would get crucified.

[logom0]

LMAO you cant do that anymore.

[CelticReject]

John Smiths 'Magnet' must have lost it's attraction!

[1964kns]

ah those were the days

[Nowtas]

Is that Jet (from the old Gladiators show) with the Silencio hairdryer?

[Ger319]

lol

[TigerWalrus26980]

Can't believe I can remember most of these products (if not all the adverts) - I'm older than I thought, lol. Can't say I've seen Old Spice on sale anywhere - or Yardley sprays, come to that. And a Walkman for less than £10? You couldn't get a pair of earphones for that today! And how true does that KitKat advert ring when you think of all the so-called 'talent' that gets signed up these days?

Could murder a Flake and a Ribena right now!

[Jermyn78]

My grandfather used to wear Old Spice! The band in the Kitkat advert are still more talented than most of the crap seen these days.

[TigerWalrus26980]

Yeah, sorry - I meant to say I hadn't seen Old Spice on sale for a good few years now. Totally agree with your comment about that KitKat band as well - still more in tune than most X Factor wannabes, am I right?

[drlemoncobra]

80s-tastic mate!

[armbar]

I think im addicted to TV clips from when i was growing up but I love this stuff! Seeing smoking advertised is weird considering the fascism nowadays.

[macstar2002]

£159 for a sinclar!! ha ah.

[wildenfree]

Blimey - Aled Jones when he sang like a girl!

[wildenfree]

Pint and Castella? - dont think that pub will ever exist now.How about The Hoodie and Asbo!

[bugpowderdust27]

That Co-Op meat looks bloody awful.

[shawrovers]

on that kit kat advert are they singing asian invasion.coz it sounds like it..lol

[Jermyn78]

Yeh, it sounds like it. Probably change it to Polish Invasion shorly...

[Spook442]

You even sure that is a guy lol

[sweetpeae1112]

at 3:52 the guy is UGLY!!!

[sparkly82]

lmao its Terry from Eastenders on the KitKat advert!!

[saintmirrenmalky]

How times have changed...... Nowadays the Argos catalogue needs planning permission.

[RobinCarmody]

We start off still in the autumn of 1984 here, I think, but the pre-Christmas ads look to be from 1986 (certainly that's when 'An Album of Hymns' by Aled Jones was released, not long before his voice finally broke).