80's Adverts Vol. 100: Channel 4 (13 December 1987)

Adverts broadcast on Channel 4 around "Zorba The Greek" on Sunday 13th December 1987.
0:00 Our Price "The House Martins: The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death"
0:29 Philips Philishave Tracer
1:00 Oxo "Turkish" (with Lynda Bellingham)
1:41 Cadbury's Biarritz (20s version. 30s was on Vol. 64)
2:07 Channel 4 trail for "The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby", "Charles Rennie Mackintosh Dreams and Recollections" and "The Mysteries: The Nativity".
3:06 Continuity into "Zorba The Greek" / break bumper
3:31 Orangina (Chris Tarrant voiceover. 20s Version. 40s was on Vol 30)
3:51 Mandate "Missing You" (10s version. Longer version later on)
4:02 Heinz Chicken Soup (SOUPertroopers & SOUPer Gran & SAX!)
4:33 Braun Shavers "Pampered Male" (10s version. 30s was on Vol 97)
4:44 Crosse & Blackwell Branston Pickle (30s version. 10s was on Vol 84)
5:15 Black & Decker Quattro Drill/Scroller/Workmate/Power File/Stripper
5:47 "Zorba The Greek" break bumper
5:52 British Telecom "Before and After" (with Maureen Lipman)
6:33 Sensodyne F "Thunder & Lightning" (updated version)
7:04 Scotch Video Tape "Not Fade Away"
7:34 Givenchy Ysatis
7:45 Pierre Cardin The Last Detail
7:56 Harvey's Bristol Cream
8:29 "Zorba The Greek" break bumper
8:36 Stone's Ginger Wine
9:07 Badedas
9:37 Carling Black Label "Bookworm"
10:18 McDonald's Gift Certificates (Stephen Fry voiceover)
10:39 Calor Gas "Venus Fly Trap" (10s version)
10:49 Anchor Cream (Martin Jarvis voiceover)
11:01 "Zorba The Greek" break bumper
11:09 McVitie's Digestives "Wendy Craig"
11:40 Mandate "Missing You" (30s version)
12:10 Terry's Chocolate Orange "Jungle" (10s version)
12:21 Charlie
12:32 Schweppes Tonic "Walking The Dog" (with Richard E Grant and Liz Hurley. 30s version. 40s was on vol 34)
13:02 P&O European Ferries
13:45 "Zorba The Greek" break bumper
13:52 Eisberg Alcohol Free Wine
14:13 Givenchy Xeryus
14:23 Emva Cream Sherry "Carruthers" (Joss Ackland voiceover
14:54 Calvin Klein's Obsession
15:25 One Day Capitalcard (Short version was on Vol 60)
15:59 "Zorba The Greek" break bumper
16:03 "The Night of the Generals" trail (partial)
* Pretty Polly Sheer Colour ad removed due to KZbin copyright detection blocking it.
Duplicates edited out that are on previous volumes: Terry's All Gold (Vol 94), Esso, Alka Seltzer, Cadbury's Roses, Heinz Ploughman's Pickle, Memorex Pro Series Charger, Casio, Nescafe (Vol 71), Quorum, Crosse & Blackwell Branston Pickle (Vol 84), Martini Extra Dry, Terry's All Gold (Vol 2).

[@stephenpowell5912]

Takes me back to Growing up in the 1980s ,Born in 1973 ,Great enjoyable collection of classic Ads 😆😂🤣R I P Linda Bellingham of the OXO ads 🕊️

[@notlob23]

God I love the housemartins and the beautiful south...

[@gavinpowers1217]

I have a Philshave Tracer from the 80's. It actually still works and I use it!

[@euchariaoconnor8201]

OMG the memories. Xx

[@acampbell8614]

I was 23 and wanted Kim Wilde and Bananarama for Christmas that year.

[@ashleigh890611]

I was born 89 and loved the 90s but I’d give anything to have been a teen in the 80s

[@DavidMander-rs4uk]

In 1989 i was listening to smash hits 89 with my mate on vinyl and watching him play mega drive.

[@liamf7838]

scotch advert LEGENDARY :)

[@andy86i]

Only one advert was repeated. Now we have to endure the same loathsome adverts every commercial break..

[@Dead-Ball-Situation]

The orangina ads always made me want orangina to thjs day.

[@pugxsi2]

Of all the brilliant adverts we got to enjoy in the 80s, the Scotch video tape one sticks in my mind pretty much above all others. Um Bongo and Kia-Ora come close though!

[@matt.willoughby]

I used to LOVE the Terry's chocolate orange Indiana Jones ads!

[@jasonbarnes957]

Terry's used to make a Chocolate Apple aswell I guess people just didn't want it over the decades from the 20's shame really.

[@mukhtaraslam3996]

Just glad that Heinz have kept same packaging from 80s.

[@PHILIPWATSON82]

So much better than the shitty adverts of 2021

[@bighands69]

The majority of modern ads have no relationship to the product they represent. They will be pushing some sort of political message instead.

[@paulie-Gualtieri.]

Less black faces or race mixing.

[@edwardmirza]

Awesome channel 4 graphics - great colours - looks amazing to this day...

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

But no buh da boom boom boom

[@jjperera3389]

That Philshave ad is just the pinnacle of the 80’s….love it

[@80sandretrogubbins25]

I loved the colours and design of that range.

[@Seasider70]

Cool man love these adverts

[@dominichazell7862]

I have some Scotch video tapes in my attic. ‘Watch Scotch forever’? If not, I’m going to claim my free tape.

[@jasonbarnes957]

Why not? Lifetime guarantee.

[@JC57515]

Unfortunately mine are Betamax, I still use vhs machines.

[@BassistPaul]

Gosh. @ 4:03 I co-wrote and produced the music for this Heinz ad. And it's come back to haunt me!

[@80srenaissance67]

.....souper troopers

[@chrislewis3038]

I can remember the Toshiba skeleton tape and reply well I was 7 🙈

[@AlisonBryen]

@Stroppy Paws I loved them! He had a skeleton parrot as a pet too. 🤣

[@AlisonBryen]

@Stroppy Paws I don't know if I'm just being overly nostalgic but I think adverts were better back then.

[@AlisonBryen]

@Stroppy Paws I know the Gold Blend ads went on for years...and we enjoyed the entire Renault Clio saga with Nicole & Papa. They were adverts people actually got invested in. You just can't do that with a Bet Fred advert 🤷‍♀️.

[@develynseether4426]

@Stroppy Paws same here, I was 5 and used to hide behind the sofa, made me scared of skeletons until I was 9 when I accidentally watched The Terminator on TV one night, suddenly bone made men didn't seem as terrifying compared to the possibility of a metal killing machine! 😂

[@kamurancay977]

@Stroppy Paws 1

[@HeyLaserLips]

I remember back then the "One Day Capital Card" (or Travelcard as it's known now) cost just £1.10 for Adults and 90p for Children, all of London, which means it really has gone up faster than the rate of inflation.

[@maxmattt]

I was 5 when theses aired.

[@develynseether4426]

Me too! April '82.

[@Seasider70]

Love the Biarritz advert.

[@AlisonBryen]

They were my Mom's favourites. Nice Barry Manilow pastiche with the song too...

[@ahshatmasell6751]

Wow a 50p macdonalds voucher for Christmas

[@develynseether4426]

6 Big Mac vouchers. People couldn't afford that nowadays 😂

[@trumjohannsmancave]

Philishave!!😍🔥

[@ARMAGEDDONlsCOMING]

15:20 "aaaawww the smell of it!"

[@josephgriffin9676]

How the hell did that carling black label advert get aired? I was born in ‘78 and never saw it before.

[@bighands69]

Probably a limited run but I do remember the advert at the time just forgot about it and nobody at the time would have considered it offensive.

[@develynseether4426]

Kia-Ora would be just as if not considered more offensive now. But this was a time that advertised cigars on TV so...😅

[@TheYoungDoctor]

Two weeks after my twelfth birthday (28th of November).

[@LovecraftComedy]

I wish someone could find the advert for MIRA showers that had a song that went ‘There was a young family from Crewe, who said only a MIRA will do’…

[@rachelmajor603]

My friend and colleague was the one who made that skeleton.

[@Agui007]

Ads when they were short and precise to the point. Now..they are wacky, weird and jump from frame to frame too soon.

[@dominichazell7862]

The thing they all have in common with ads today though is that at Christmas time suddenly all the products are ‘perfect for Christmas’.

[@christopherhowells1954]

I was 2 and my 2nd cousin had turned 8.

[@tenrgn]

Mandate aftershave was real fanny magnet juice back in the day

[@Autopsy6]

Wendy Craig eating biscuits in a possessed and poltergeist-infested kitchen!

[@daisydog1975]

Oxo pissed me off

[@mattetheridge6580]

When advert were about the product. note woke adverts.

[@ka5269]

Wonder if anyone got a new Scotch tape

[@thehoneyeffect]

I had almost forgotten just how white British TV was back in the day. it was so white that we used to call each other up if there was a black person on TV

[@BelatedCommiseration]

Wow....what a woke and enlightened comment...imagine...adverts targeted towards people in a country with a majority white Caucasian demographic...how strange...

[@80srenaissance67]

TV certainly has gone down the shitter since then....much like the country unfortunately

[@bighands69]

Britain is still white majority to day with it being 95% white.

[@nudisco300]

That's BS for a start, I was 10 when these adverts aired and I clearly remember black people on adverts and TV back then, stop trying to sound controversial.

[@atilllathehun1212]

Who remembers when we used to have white people in adverts.....

[@80srenaissance67]

Who remembers walking down the street and hearing English being spoken ?

[@sanchoodell6789]

Its amazing watching this wonderful collection of 1980s adverts in 2022. One is struck by just *how white* (& heterosexual!) these adverts are! All the voices have 'easy-on-ear' indigenous British accents. (not a foreign sounding lilt or argot in sight or sound!) The pace of these is gentler. What a contrast to today's over aggressive, over cosmopolitan, multi culti, aggressive ghettoised drose we now have to endure!

[@jeremymerrifield7244]

Oh dear. How afraid you sound dear Sancho

[@sanchoodell6789]

@@jeremymerrifield7244 Ah here we go (I suppose I should have expected this sort of thing from some silly penis head commenter to crawl out the woodwork) another *Cold Cold Cold Packed Faced Cultural Marxist Anti White Anti Male Anti Christian Anti Heterosexual Agenda Lefty* I'm afraid of how standards in *our* society* have plummeted so much along with standards in broadcast TV have also fallen in the intervening years. I worry about where *our* once *GREAT* and *CIVILISED* country and society are now headed. Watching British TV now is like being in Nigeria or some other third world country or a ghetto rather than Britain. Sad. That's why I love watching these old clips preserved on KZbin. It gives me comfort, solace and a much-deserved escape form this crazy ghettoised world which is now being hoisted upon us indigenous.

[@k.avilla8061]

@@jeremymerrifield7244Yes. i wonder why, in this age of social engineering , dear jeremy, darling,

[@nudisco300]

It's more complicated than that. Most adverts were voiced in deep RP accents by a small entourage of people, I think Hywel Bennett did the most. Companies and marketeers in the 80s believed am RP accent gave more gravitas and substance to a product, but this viewpoint changed leading into better connection with the consumers lifestyle so you'll find through the 90s accents became regionalised and the voices younger, this fitted a new generation of kids having TVs in their bedrooms to sell too. Just saying it's to do with immigration is a very basic argument that doesn't explore the changes in society in general at the time. I was 10 in 1987 and no one in my class had their own TV in their bedroom. Curry's brought out a cheap brand of TV called Matsui / Saisho and made second TV ownership a real thing when most houses just had one. By 1990 suddenly all my friends had second TVs. Overnight advertisers started to direct ads to niche sections of a family instead of aiming at the big box in the living room.

[@saturn1returns]

Most products in these ads where made in the UK - then China happened and the EU was exploited for cheap labour. Cadbury was sold to a multinational food corp. and shipped to Poland, its just cheap and nasty now. Folks, buy local, buy British - it will really help. Boycott foreign products where you can. We can make anything, sure it may cost a bit more but will do so much for our nation. We also need to grow more fruit and vegetables. Fucking new Zealand apples we have here wtf - we can easily grow our own apple orchards right here.

[@JonnyInfinite]

Channel 4 programming was so cheap ass