Three Courage Best Ads

Here are three classic ads for bitter featuring the dulcet tones of Chas & Dave. Written by John Webster.

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• Courage
• Best
• Chas
• Dave
• advert
• commercial
• ad
• John
• Webster
• BMP
• DDB

[jcn01]

-when was this ad published?, wot year?,

-anyone knows?,

-is courage beer stil produced in UK? thanks in advance.

[boywoolner]

@jcn01 'Gercha' is from 1980, 'Rabbit' and 'Nothing More Important' are from 1981.

You can see the rest of them if you Google "Arrows Archive".

...and you can still buy a pint of Courage today.

[MaolchaliumsVidBlog]

Incredible. I used to drink Courage's . I drunk in pubs like that. Good beer. But now pubs have been killed by the healthy diet, no smoking brigade. Wood Green Jazz Club without fag smoke. It's just not real. Never ate a healthy diet and never been that keen on TV dinners. Drunk beer since I was 14 and smoked since I was 12. Now I'm 70 but I've got a hell of a lot of memories. None of them about lager or soya. Yeah I've got COPD but drive a 1980 kit-car. Lets live. 'I Have No Regrets'

[uarsman]

Blimey I could really do with a pint!

[mrbillhicks]

@mrbillhicks

Robert Krasker (El Cid, The third man etc) was the name of the lighting guy I was trying to think of but I still can't verify if the story regarding the production team thinking that he was past his best and were only letting him go through the motions so as to be kind to the old chap. Bob came out of retirement to light the Gercha ad and sadly passed away the following year in 1981

[blaggermouth]

Oh, the memories come flooding back

[mrbillhicks]

Does anyone recall the story behind the 'Gercha' ad ? I remember reading that they got an old guy in who used to do the lighting for old black and white films to light it. After watching him set up his lights they decided that the old boy had lost it but let him continue planning to re-shoot after he had gone so as not to offend him. When they watched the rushes they realised that the old fella had absolutely nailed it and they ran with the footage they had, But I can't recall the old guys name

[jcn01]

@timsarmchair . thanks but, so corage dissapeared from earth?, how s that?

[timsarmchair]

@jcn01 They still sell Courage in my local, and it's sold in bottles at the off license. So I suppose they do, but maybe it's not commonly found?

Don't have answers to the others, but they might be on the Chas & Dave wiki...

T

[edwards21416]

@TheShittingbull the pin apple what kind of name is that for a pub ?

[TheShittingbull]

pure class,i live next door to the pub in the first ad,it`scalled the pineapple in hercules road ,lambeth london and it hasn`t changed much in over 140 years,if you wannna visit a proper london pub look no further,