SEC Victoria: ELO / Molly Meldrum - Australian TV commercial (1981)

Here's a ripper from 1981 - a TVC for Victoria's State Electricity Commission, looking at what would happen to rock concerts if they weren't supplying the power... The ad features what may or may not be the Electric Light Orchestra, with Jeff Lynne (or an actor playing Jeff Lynne) even getting a line when he asks Richard Tandy (or an actor playing Richard Tandy) for an "E" (which didn't mean then what it means now!).

It was one of a series, the best was a VFL football one featuring players from each club on a darkened VFL Park...

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• ELO
• Electric Light Orchestra
• Jeff Lynne
• Molly Meldrum
• Festival Hall
• TV
• television
• SEC
• Victoria
• commercial
• advertising
• electricity
• power
• 1981

[odeliagardens]

this is one in a series of ads, another one had a night footy theme (this was replayed on the Footy Show after that infamous late 90s blackout at Waverley Park during a game), another was when people were pushing a tram.

[Conniptions886]

@odeliagardens - Mmm, I mentioned the VFL one in the description, had forgotten all about the tram one!

[MicMogul]

If only the SEC was still around, there wouldn't be talk of shutting Yallourn Power Station down; after all, the ad did say they'd look after us for 50 years and that'd take Victoria through to 2030.

[JLynnefan]

Wooow..awesome *rofl*...THX!!!

[heavyheadrecords]

hola

los que aparecen en este anuncio no es la ELO ni Lynne, ni Tandy, ni Bevan, ni groucutt..

son actores caracterizados como la ELO de la gira "Out Of The Blue" de 1978, pero no en la ELO ni ninguno de sus componentes los que aparecen en este anuncio-recreacion..

un saludo

[mosey0001]

Very funny. But they did use the actual recording of "Sweet Talkin' Woman". Great!