1985 BBC Commercial with John Cleese

From the days when the BBC had something to shout about, here's a special 'commercial' in the style of the 'What have the Romans ever given us...' scene from the 'Life Of Brian'. Set in a pub, it features Michael Horden behind the bar and sundry BBC personalities of the day (sports, radio, Blue Peter team etc.), plus Bob Geldof rattling his box. I wonder what a similar commercial made today would look like.

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• BBC
• John
• Cleese
• Michael
• Hordern
• Blue
• Peter
• sport
• commentators
• david
• coleman
• bob
• geldof
• two
• ronnies
• steve
• davis

[safeashouses211]

16p a day. It's 40p a day now!

[JoseTwitterFan]

BBC kicked ass in the 80s!

[xandy1959]

if ther were fewer bbc channels we might get the variety of shows we got back then

[RetroGamePortal]

Sir Patrick Moore playing Space Invaders...this is brilliant!

[houndtang]

Patrick Moore looks the same now

[gculloty87]

Please can somebody upload the brilliantly funny Spitting Image sketch that spoofed this ad.

[haku8645]

I'd almost prefer to see it re-broadcast exactly as it is

[Darkstar1484]

This is good, though I also do like the rebuttal to it that I saw on Spitting Image.

[kraalomega]

It is Ken Campbell. I wasn't aware he was dead.

[fraserkatie]

That part's funny!