1980s UK Christmas Adverts Compilation (2016)

A compilation of UK TV Christmas adverts from the 1980s
Includes adverts for:
Braun
Denim
Old Spice
QC Sherry
Tweed by Lentheric
Cadbury's Dairy Milk
Foster's Lager
Polaroid
The Kirkgate Arndale Centre Bradford
Carling Black Label
Hellmann's Mayonnaise
Country Life Butter
Heineken
Oxo
Anchor Cream
BBC Videos
Cadbury's Milk Tray
7Eleven
Persil
Mini
Boots
Hofmeister
Pizza Hut
Spar
Whiskas
Guardian Royal Exchange
Hollywood Nites

[@paulreeves6796]

Remember all these happy days

[@michaelreddington1234]

RIP Lynda Bellingham. I remember watching those oxo ads as a kid and the special commemorative one they put out on Xmas day when she passed away in 2014.

[@hoopenhanger]

You know, I remember that ad well but am only now embracing the significance of it. Wonderful. God bless all mothers.

[@lindaashford7187]

Oh dear I remember every word of all the butter jingles, they’ll. be in my head all day lol

[@TheRowlandstone73]

Blimey! I remember that bottle and the box Tweed came in. It was the first Christmas present I ever bought for my mum when I was about 10 or 11.

[@gmar7836]

What did it smell like?

[@iloveyouhunny]

Better than todays shambles

[@timothysmith2724]

I loved Ghostbusters as a kid, everytime we used to go to our local video shop i always used to keep asking for it. Used to really annoy my parence they used to say NO! youve seen it three times already XD

[@janecox5818]

Bought a tear to my eye, what wonderful time it was to be around at the time. Such lovely memories. Thank you for posting.

[@garyhunt8067]

Thanks for uploading those ads

[@FromtheHerts81]

Gillette; take note. The Denim and Old Spice commercials are ones that WILL appeal to men and might make them start buying your razors again.

[@hoopenhanger]

For about an hour and a half now I've been watching commercials. Back in the day when these adverts actually came on the TV I'd change the channel. WTF?

[@alexgeorge501]

4:17 happy holidays from the Butter-men of Country Life "No butter better to spread on yer toast in the Mornin'!"

[@garrycowan4394]

Booze and butter glad to see we where so health conscious back then 😁

[@waynemarshall272]

The lights are bright in Bradford.

[@RIXRADvidz]

Really?? A CAR Commercial made me well up, Mini's have feelings too. Merry Christmas under the mistletoe

[@rhonddat]

Singalong with eastenders id rather stick dynamite in my ears lol

[@marcse7en]

So, you don't like a good old-fashioned East End knees up? Nor do I! I can't stand DeadEnders!

[@dominichazell7862]

Same thing isn’t it? 😖

[@n136h]

Bet that shopping centre in Bradford looks a bit different these days

[@Steve20127]

It couldn't be Bradford; everyone was white.

[@dacrlit]

Marlene, what in Gawds name are you doing at the Spar?

[@alisonlaing5626]

"always" remember the "tweed" ad every year etc. bob carrolgies(giant turkey etc" also the "braun" heated brush set, who didn,t have one of them etc back then, they were all the age.

[@alisonlaing5626]

.p.s. not forgetting "the" oxo ad/s. all of them bring those days back etc. brill.

[@cliffcook3993]

I can safely say i did not have the braun heated bush set back then, or indeed ever :)

[@GeorgeASFTHM]

7:54 I doubt that the BBC Video advert aired on commercial stations, although I could be wrong of course.

[@darren2514fv]

The BBC Video ad would have aired on BBC

[@cliffcook3993]

The ad was for bbc enterprises the then commercial arm of the BBC and air on commercial TV

[@duffymoony]

07:40, ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhh Linda Bellingham, RIP you beautiful lady. I'm welling up here, fk me!

[@sparkzmusic80]

3:08 that ain't Santa?

[@StephenLyons-tl8ie]

Cadburys stuff now is just pap.

[@martinkirby3100]

Tweed perfume is no longer around because it smelled like cat piss

[@Steve20127]

"Rot your teeth, with Cadburys!"

[@leeannmansfield5254]

EVERYTHING FROM THE 80S BRINGS WARMTH....TO ME....FAMILY....TIMES.....IM LOST THESE DAYS.....ILL TAKE THE MEMORIES TO MY GRAVE .....THANK YOU MUM AND DAD XXX

[@loulou7963]

Leeann Mansfield I hear you 😢😢😢😢

[@matthewoliver6655]

I hear ya dude.

[@DrMoorehen]

So true

[@samanthacampbell5048]

Very true these me3make me so happy

[@Clara-ph7my]

Expresses my thoughts, memories and emotions perfectly.

[@Steve20127]

When Cadburys chocolate still tasted good.

[@marcse7en]

What does it taste like now? Shite?

[@DrMoorehen]

I agree, now it's...er not nice

[@ThePlayerToBeNamedLater]

Not denying that products change but tastebuds change too as we age. That's the other half of it.

[@janinefarnell8570]

That country life advert was awesome. I was always singing that as a kid!!!!

[@floraflorabunda2216]

These adverts comfort me, taking me back to my childhood ❤️

[@samanthacampbell5048]

Me too

[@chrisevans5259]

There was a charm and clarity to the adverts from the past,...clear , precise advertising with imagination and fun

[@samanthacampbell5048]

Keep watching this takes me back and makes me so happy x

[@Agui007]

The old ads were better and straight to the point.

[@timeforatwix]

Aggghh, dam the internet with online shopping, look at all our high streets now, so many shops come and gone, big chains now like sports direct and amazon treating workers awful, we have lost all the personal customer- staff relationships from the past , and we call this progress???

[@natalietilsley9644]

They were better then, you had families around the table, all friendly and cosy on the OXO gravy advert, country life butter where the butter would turn into little singing men. They were the best adverts, all you get now is Sky TV life and also life insurance, and check up on what's happing on the covid 19virus. Bring back the 80's. Advert!

[@marcse7en]

Makes you feel old when you remember seeing all these adverts!

[@twinklestar29]

We're not old, we're retro 😉

[@ValChronification]

I miss these days.

[@koogle5410]

ok folks.. i pay for ad blocker...wtf am i sat here watching adverts for 3 hrs straight?? 🤷‍♀️😫

[@solangoose8372]

The Fosters ad was funny as fuck. They would never get away with that now.

[@limeyosu2000]

Thanks for these! been watching these compilations for last few nights such great memories growing up! thanks again.

[@chrisrowl5001]

I remember accidentally smashing a bottle of denim aftershave in my school bag and after that everybody knew where I was

[@gmar7836]

Lol!

[@leeannmansfield5254]

I REMBER THE SPICE ADVERT...EVERYONE HAD MORE MONEY BACK THEN....WE DIDN'T USE HIRE PURCHASES.....

[@nicolepowell5470]

I remember everyone. Thanks you'll never put a better butter on ya knife brilliant advert.

[@christopherdavies9483]

Bring back so many memories. Thanks 👍

[@andrewhills9746]

Oh yes lets go to bradford please for the love of god please let us go to bradford ffs

[@helendonnelly7092]

I like this ad and when I was child I loved the muppets and watching them because it got excited thinking of Christmas again Helen Donnelly

[@jakemarch-jones2789]

Sexism? 80s: Completed it mate

[@andyholmes6380]

We had 7-11 shops here? News to me!

[@leighmathers9936]

Great compilation there. Love the Muppet Polaroid ad - don’t remember seeing that before. I don’t remember seeing that long Country Life one before either.

[@marcse7en]

Fosters tastes like an angel crying on your tongue? So, basically SALT WATER? 😂😂😂 Great analogy ...... NOT!

[@charliehazelmere]

Can only imagine what shopping in Bradford must be like these days.....nothing like that advert I bet.

[@martinwillis6334]

Spot the white person

[@floraflorabunda2216]

Not like Bradford back then 😡

[@littlemisseatscrispsforbre5353]

There is always one knob head who had to bring that up. Are you forgetting they are allowed to be there? If you don't like it bring it up with the common wealth racist twats

[@waynemarshall272]

Kirkgate Arndale Centre was ahead of it’s time. These days it’s a crap hole just like the rest of the City. The ad must be from Yorkshire TV because they wouldn’t advertise outside Yorkshire for what was a relatively minor Shopping Centre. The decorations don’t look that great either although considering this was around 1980 I suppose they tried at least.

[@S7EVE_P]

I was feeling nostalgic and this compilation really hit the spot, the Christmas adverts were so much better back then.

[@bluethunder6801]

I would say the arndale centre Bradford ad is more 1970s

[@emmahasler2401]

How freaked out would you actually be if you ever met someone who spoke like the the bloke in the Denim advert! He doesn't speak so much as rumbles

[@mst3kanita]

Ok I’m kinda living for the mayo commercial. 😹

[@TheDarkThunder]

Okay I want to shop at Kirkgate Arndale Centre.

[@garyowens1517]

You can hear the offended now about the denim advert

[@xereeto]

Today I learned that there used to be 7-11 stores in the UK throughout the 80s and 90s! Was born in 98 and never knew this.

[@ajh90210]

I learned this today and I was born in 1982.

[@OfficiallySanctionedKATG]

There used to be one in dagenham (green lane) up until about 2000-2001 then it changed to budgeons

[@iestyndavies7287]

I never knew either and I’m a child of the 70’s. News to me!

[@Stairway1976]

There used to be a 7-11 on the corner of Portland Road and Boundary Road opposite Portslade station in Sussex up to mid 90s .Used to frequent quite a lot!

[@dominichazell7862]

I never knew until today either. I’m 41.

[@TheMasterNo6]

Adverts were so much better back then and in the 60s and 70s - substance over form whereas now it is just utterly awful. These ads prove people would rather watch old ads on KZbin than endure the crap in lengthy, copuous ad breaks on tv now. Also, all those old long gone brand name stores etc - proof back then they really cared about their media output and brand image. Once they stopped caring, those brands ceased to exist...

[@millionseller001]

when after shave and perfume was 2 quid a bottle and you could enjoy a drink before all this drink aware crap.

[@OfficiallySanctionedKATG]

Although true of a lot of perfumes etc Chanel and other perfumes of that ilk actually cost more rhen, than they do today. Even cheap stuff like the umbro aftershave that my hubby used to buy himself as a kid was around £2.99 a bottle in 1988 when he was 11. He still uses it today, aged 42 and its a quid a bottle now. Wish we could buy whiskey at mid 80s prices though. £4 quid for a bottle of jack daniels! We found an empty bottle clearing our garage out, and it had a £4 price sticker on it. You could have done a xmas booze budget on about £30 in those days. It costs us around £200 nowadays, and thats if were not planning any big parties/get togethers. My mum and dad didnt know it then, but they had it made, 80s wages were higher (in the 80s my dad would bring home between £250-£500 a week in a manual labour job depending what shifts he could get, compared to a similar job today paying around £200-£250 for the same hours if you are lucky!) Most stuff such as groceries were cheaper (not as good a choice then as there is now, but what there was in the 80s seemed to be better quaity) and you could get a house for virtually nothing. I think my parents paid around £5000 for their house in the 80s, im not sure but i think it was a council house when they got it, so got it for very cheap, and they sold it for £280,000 around 5 years ago. Jammy buggers. Only thing is, they used that money to put towards a retirement bungalow and had to ADD £12,000 out of their retirement money (cashed in a pension) to pay for the bungalow, otherwise they would have had to get a small mortgage/property loan, and they didnt want to move in to a new place owing anything, especially having been debt free for over 30 years. They wouldnt even have moved, as they loved their house, but they are both getting on and needed everything on one floor without stairs, walk in shower etc. Unfortunately, one thing that will get us all in the end if you live long enough, is old age. So, when im buying all my xmas booze this year, to help take our minds that trump is still president, his failed attempt at a clone is our prime minister and trying to tuck in to our post brexit xmas dinner consisting if Umps pstented chlorinated turkey substitute, irradiated bosnian sprouts and faux-cranberry sauce, i think instead of buying the booze, we should buy the 'umbro' aftershave to bring the new year in and drink that, its cheaper, can get you drunk and has a higher alcohol content, and is probably less likely to finish you off! Heres to wishing the 2020's are like the 1980s. Merry Xmas!

[@DJdefcon4]

Marlene @11:48

[@colinp2238]

The wife in the Spar ad was Marlene from OFAH.

[@woodgatejack]

Anyone else look up IMDB to see who directed _Innerspace_?

[@TheRowlandstone73]

Didn't need to. I knew it was Joe Dante and that Spielberg was only 'executive producer'.. In other words, he did naff all except let them use his name in return for millions of dollars.

[@MattExzy]

lol.. and still, no one here in Australia drinks Foster's. Classic.

[@duffymoony]

Nobody in the UK does either

[@DarksideoftheMoon79]

Most of these adverts for computers and shit when I were a kid pissed me off because we were peppered. Now I have too much shit!

[@cameronbeattie3087]

People would probably say the Persil ad is racist now haha

[@manofweed1]

I still have some 'Tweed' if anyone's interested ?!