THE BEST BBC ADVERT EVER

really love this ad in view of the news regarding bbc going back to what they do best - if past anything to go by in for good times

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[agledhill]

"well didn't we turn out to be a nation of well rounded individuals"

Well ... no, no we didn't...

[Nicadeemas]

One of the best adverts the BBC has ever done. So many memories. 10/10

[UKxxSophiiiexxUK]

This was my favourite advert EVER! XD was searching for ages for it, thank you for posting it up :)

[DarthJedi2005remixes]

@DarthJedi2005remixes Actually, just checked and this was done in 1998, when he was 5. Making him now a year YOUNGER than I am...

[DarthJedi2005remixes]

I'm guessing late 90s. Specificaly, some point after '97, 'cos that's when the Teletubbies started. Which is kinda scary, because judging by his age then (perhaps 6 or 7?) that makes the kid in this the same age as me... (I'm 19 by the way)

[ChalkeyProductions]

@an1man1ac54l1f3 There are odd episodes of things still in archives thanks to people submitting personal copies back to the BBC to be digitised. However in this adverts case a lot of it will have been specially recreated so that they could chroma key him in.

[TheRazorbladesmile]

He looks like Ian Hislop, poor wee boy

[danielrichardbond]

@oliviaw83 Scott Chisholm

[an1man1ac54l1f3]

I remember when this was on TV!

So not all the BBC's pre-1970s programming was wiped...

[TheMicksterdee]

I remember when this trailer first came out, it was shown on Have I Got News For You as the little boy has a striking similarity to Ian Hislop.

[MACHAWK123]

Well, it's a BBC propaganda advert aimed at people (like me) in their 40's & 50's reminding them of all the kids stuff they enjoyed when life was less complicated. It runs through their own youth and then taps into the kids stuff they will have watched when they had their own children about 15 - 20+ years ago and should be regrarded as exactly what it is, a propaganda film. The newer digitised versions are rubbish. Give me Michael Horden and Paddington .....Wonderful!