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1980s TV Adverts
Ben_Fisher1
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Which ones stick out in your memory, and which ones did you like best?
I'll start off.
Clarke's magic step shoes 'magic shoes?'
Monster Munch ads
'It's for Yoouu hoo' BT ad
'Coca-Cola is it'
I'll start off.
Clarke's magic step shoes 'magic shoes?'
Monster Munch ads
'It's for Yoouu hoo' BT ad
'Coca-Cola is it'
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R Whites Lemonade
Yellow Pages - Either J R Hartley or the one where they need to find a furniture polisher
Levi's Jeans - Launderette
Shake n' Vac
Carling Black Label
Maxell Cassette Tapes - The guy holding up cards with the misheard lyrics to The Israelites "Me ears are alight"
You'd think there was heavy lifting involved.
The OP never asked for YouTube links or provided them in their posts and I'm on my phone so it takes twice as long to provide links but just to make you happy here are the links to the adverts I mentioned
Kia Ora
R Whites Lemonade
Yellow Pages - J R Hartley
Yellow Pages - Furniture polisher
Levi's jeans - Launderette
Shake n' Vac
Carling Black Label
Maxell cassette tapes
Hope it's chips, it's chips..
Ross Kemp doing Bran Flakes
Chewits, chewier than Barrow-in-Furness bus depot....
Cinzano with Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins
Heineken - the water in Majorca don't taste like what it ought ta
Carling Black Label with Steve Frost and Mark Arden
Trio
BT ads with Maureen Lipman - He's got an ology (etc)
Hamlet cigars with the Baldy Man in the photo booth
Bran Flakes - They're tasty, tasty, very very tasty
Edit: I just noticed someone else has already said Carling
How about the Coca-cola ad from the late 80s 'Tomorrows people' or whatever? it was apparently filmed in Liverpool. Does anyone else recall this? or were you in it
Loved that one, in particular.
Others l recall from the 80s, are:
Weetabix, with the skinhead weetabixes: 'Okay?'
Britvic, with the singimg barmen: 'But me name's Kevin!'
Chewits, with the Godzilla-like giant monster.
Lenny Henry, Square Crisps: 'It's weird!' (,remember him seeming to grow as he waked across the room, so he has to crawl out of the door)
Do It All: with the rock and roll song, 'How do Do It All do it?'
That one with the mime artist from kids' show Jigsaw advertising camera film (,before digital cameras, kids). I found it funny when he looked at a picture of big women's boobs in a bikini, then you saw him shield his eyes with both hands, his face painted bright red!
Who was the actress in the Heineken ad?
Wasn't she someone famous later?
Sylvestra Le Touzel. She's done loads of telly stuff over the years.
Also the Apple Mac ad that was inspired by George Orwell's 1984 and directed by Ridley Scott. I remember that was a big deal at the time.
Birds Eye Potato Waffles (waffely versatile!)
Um Bongo (they drink it in the Congo)
Coco Pops (so choclatey they turn the milk brown - I was never sure this was a good thing tbh)
Gold Blend
Cadburys Flake
The husband being played by John Ringham.
You'll have to wait and see!
'The Morris Ital, styled by Jagaro of Italy.' It's just a Marina with a plastic radiator grill stuck on it......and Bickerton bikes featuring a nun in a hurry and her folding bicycle, seemed a bit niche marketing consequently it wasn't just the bike that folded.
'Birds Eye Potato Waffles, are waffly versatile'
The Hamlet ad with Russ Abbott where he chucked a Record Player playing a Des O'Connor record into the river and all of the fish jumped out.
That was actually Castella.
Meowmix
The road safety ad to the tune of The Message' Don't step out when you're close to the edge or you'll find that you'll lose your head'
The Renault Five ad ' what's yours called' with all the different songs
CoCo Pops
Skips (Clumsy Colin)
The Weetabix ads - You Make it Neat Wheat Mate'
Imperial Leather soap because it made me wish I could have a sunken bath