80s UK tv adverts from 1984-1985

My most random purchase from eBay so thought I would share it with the world.
Look at the hair, look at the clothes...how many of these can you remember?

[@JohnSmith-jd4qm]

hey OP, are you aware that your upload was used to make a fantastic music video for a reconstruction of a lost 80s pop song? surprised nobody's mentioned it in the comments here - look up "Motives Project - World of Lies (Lo-Fi '99 AI Version)" if you haven't seen it

[@hippyraverocker]

I did NOT know that, that is super cool! Thanks for letting me know!

[@JohnSmith-jd4qm]

​@@hippyraverocker I wonder if the person on ebay will ever find out! Do you have any idea if they were an eccentric recording random/favourite ads, or if this was some sort of official compilation tape made by a marketing company to show off their work?

[@ajh90210]

as things get worse in the world, these ads only get more relaxing.

[@noveltybobel]

This makes me miss my parents, as I would be sitting with them watching tv when these ads would have been on

[@graffitikingdom4081]

Beautiful and heartbreaking all at the same time! 80s were the best💯

[@whatshisname3304]

@@graffitikingdom4081 i think he misses his parents, not the eighties.

[@graffitikingdom4081]

@@whatshisname3304 I miss both

[@karl.weaver]

@@whatshisname3304 lol

[@whatshisname3304]

@@graffitikingdom4081 not equally.

[@stevecook3673]

The adverts of 80s were so much more gentle on the ear, compared to the in your face boisterous ads of today. These vintage ads take me back and not a reality show plug in sight .

[@jennawalden8547]

I know. Everyone seems to shout on today’s ads

[@GEricG]

They were totally watchable - humorous, imaginative, sometimes sophisticated and although I'm not one of those 'fings woz better in my day' type of people, I really do think that the 80s was a high point for advertising.

[@hansolo374]

Totally and no imagination these days. Buy our crap the end. No wonder people skip ads now .

[@user-jt5vm3mi1w]

false

[@Juliukas101]

That's because the voice-overs were done mainly by men with gravelly voices and good diction whereas nowadays they are done by immature-sounding women trying to convey friendliness by talking whilst smiling.

[@jasonramsingh9947]

It is a fact that 70's and 80's advertisements make for great therapy in today's insane world. So fortunate to have been a child of the 70's and 80's! Thanks for sharing🦜

[@michellefalleur960]

Same here, born in the '60's. Love '70's adverts .

[@gonnahavemesomefun]

Agree. I am know every generation says the same, but they were simpler times.

[@NailHeavenAshford]

Born in the 60s too. The 70s was great but the 80s were absolutely perfect for me.

[@mrandrew1243]

For those who lived through this generation, let us be grateful that we experienced times when life was joyous and actually worth living

[@martinda7446]

MrAndrew, That is a worrying thing to say and makes alarm bells go off... Except I feel the same!! Send the ambulance to me when you are finished Andy. Mart.

[@ladyE602]

I was a kid in the 80s. I was born in 1978. I miss the 80s and the 90s. Today's age is an Orwellian hellscape

[@gr3yh4wk1]

I was born in 1969, today is miles better than it was. Yeah there's crazies and kids doing stupid stuff, same as any generation. But life in general is better all round despite the hardships.

[@martinda7446]

@@gr3yh4wk1 Naaa!😾 😸😸😸

[@NailHeavenAshford]

I was a teenager in the 80s. Born in 68. I feel lucky to have been able to enjoy the last decent decade of music and clubbing before things went pear shaped. Yes there were one or two decent singers in the 90s, but the 80s for me, were perfect. The decade ended in my wedding. Unfortunately even though he was a lovely man and we were together for 15 years, he was the wrong man. I was still stuck on the man in his early 20s who is been with aged 17. I still am stuck on him, and even though we email still about family life and work etc he is with someone else. We met at the wrong time. Still glad I met him though. I wouldn’t have such a good friend now.

[@chazbrennan9632]

I feel this overwhelming urge to look at childhood 80's advertising during the Christmas season. It makes me feel very cosy.

[@lisasmith77785]

I'm doing exactly that this year. Nostalgia...feels good

[@cult_of_odin]

Its because the consequences of those born right after WW2 hadn't hit yet.

[@Chad-xd3vr]

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[@TheKingOfBeans]

Same, it’s definitely a cosy winter activity

[@crimsonpirate1710]

Yes!!! Me too

[@skdinterceptor2828]

Look how calm and informative the adverts were. Straight to the point and not like the silly adverts now, with constant music to make you remember the brand. Britain lost the plot after the late 90s..........!

[@scattygirl1]

However, older people in the 1980s thought adverts were better in the 1950s, and older people in the 50s thought they were better in the 20s, and so on all the way back to the early days of mass production. As we age, older things make us feel reassured, new things make us feel nervous. It's the same whatever the decade, century or subject. And in 30 years time, today's youngsters will be saying things were so much better in the 2020s...

[@CARLIN4737]

1988 was the official losing the plot date well year in the Uk. After that down the tubes like.

[@fluorosco]

​@@scattygirl1Bullshit

[@deanrideout1275]

You are so right with your comments

[@deemdoubleu]

Imagine, you could call the Gas people and they would pick up the phone and someone would actually speak!

[@djtonylee]

And it wouldnt be someone from delhi that you cant understand..

[@ravenhill_the_cryptic_of_1968]

brilliantly fucking said.

[@zetetick395]

What CAVEMEN they must have been! _"Press... ONE... to... lose... the... will... to... live"_ :/

[@RodKirkbride]

deemdoubleu Aye. And from a phone box!

[@RodKirkbride]

willnicholson18 no lindline. No.

[@poot1258]

Lovely warm nostalgia flooding back. A time when I didn't have any worries. If only I knew how lucky I was at the time.

[@muhammadalieesaa1507]

Poot Yes but only 1 thing which horrorfied me at 1:31:22, you watch carefully.

[@mojo76]

That's life my friend.

[@noka1979]

Poot the very reason i watch these.. its pure nostalgia. My parents used to say back in our day etc. Now we say it ourselves.

[@noka1979]

Muhammad Ali Eesaa 👀

[@TapManDancer]

*+Muhammad Ali Essea* Muhammad, it's just part of a British Gas ad... I don't understand what you find as a problem? Please explain!

[@steveganz7418]

Who would of thought that when we were watching these adverts back in the 80’s we would be watching them again on something called KZbin , on something called a smartphone via something called the internet...

[@Funkstar124]

I used to work for Apricot Computers in the eighties and they developed voice recognition on their P.C.s., Wireless keyboard and mouse on the Apricot F1 way ahead of Apple. Shame Sir John Harvey Jones, the "Troubleshooter" from BBC2 came along as he gave some rather bad advice to the bosses which they acted upon!

[@tedtheturbot]

...with a feeling called melancholy

[@SirDBee]

...during an international lockdown for a pandemic called Coronavirus 😭😭

[@bobrew461]

@@Funkstar124 You Tube has stopped me from going insane, because before I used to remember ads and think I only imagined them. But now I can just search for them here!

[@goodchefbadchef1729]

Don't forget through the Airways 🙂🙂🙂

[@ravenhill_the_cryptic_of_1968]

i love watching these vintage clips, but it does make me sad and wish i could go back.

[@th8257]

It's called getting old! Happens to every person who ever lived long enough!

[@deejayintheuk2657]

Better times .

[@robertcramb4654]

I know what you mean.

[@comedygold1278]

Yes it’s strange as you get older, I’m only 44 but always reminiscing

[@SUPERGBX321]

@@th8257 ik

[@bendennis7730]

I was 14 in ‘85 - a very different world back then...

[@zaftra]

Funny how back then these would be boring and you leave the room till they were off, now looking at hours worth for nostalgia.

[@MsMarciax]

How Britain has changed so much in the last 40 years including the TV and ads. Miss those simpler happier days.

[@gaggymott9159]

Just a reminder of how good the entertainers were, and how CLEVER the people who produced these advertisements were too. 40 years ago, and most people STILL remember then.....Now thar's powerful advertising! Take me back to the 80s! ❤❤❤

[@deanrideout1275]

Well I am living the 80s right now right this minute

[@quietside3734]

Ads were much shorter back then. If only we had known the crap that awaited us.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

It was in the eighties that a lager ran an advert that seemed to last ages. As I recall, it featured someone going through all sorts of situations with cowboys and Indians, gangsters. War movies, etc. It was probably about two minutes long but seemed like 20.

[@ladyE602]

Lol! Yep!!

[@beegeesthea6]

The fact i recall many of these word for word having not seen them for 30 years shows how well they did their job. The voiceovers are soooo british. A much less abrasive time to be alive !!

[@weaponofmassconstruction1940]

I wish I didn't think of all the terrible stuff that's happened in the world since these ads originally aired. I need nostalgia counselling 😭

[@krishnan-resurrection714]

All the LiEs the scum have created ....

[@80srenaissance67]

Don't forget...its your corrupt politicians that have allowed and encouraged ALL the terrible stuff you speak of...

[@GMW.artist]

When these adverts were on the telly, we were being blown up by the IRA power was being turned off constantly, the streets were dirty and crime-ridden.. yeah, lovely!!...

[@andyjohnson8239]

The days before before social media where so carefree ❤️

[@GMW.artist]

And people possessed a dictionary...🙄

[@michellefalleur960]

I wouldn't say careFree, - we just tend to look back, and Think they were, as we look fondly of the past, because we know what's now , and we don't like it.

[@robertcramb4654]

Alison Moyet was a fabulous album

[@dashcamuk23]

the 80s were a great decade

[@RodKirkbride]

BestCanKeanRob2 lol. That about sums it up. Every day was like Sunday.

[@Scalihoo]

Also seen so many people ruined by cocaine ,including suicides OD's@BestCanKeanRob2

[@whelkshuffler]

the 80's was shite, much better now

[@unrealharry]

@@whelkshuffler Must be joking right?! Impossible to get on the housing ladder, immigration has totally changed the face of the country, music is absolute shite, social media has ruined minds, depression is at an all time high.. Yeah brilliant

[@petercarrick2678]

@BestCanKeanRob2 all far better than anything these days but you don't get what your dealing with these days that someone isn't telling you yet 30 years from now

[@axelnitrocycle69]

I love 1980s christmas TV adverts Full of joy Wonder and feel good factor.

[@jujulionesselsa1416]

Makes me so melancholy it really does... Love watching these ads... Reminds me of when my Children were younger... And family no longer here x

[@maggiemay9381]

Life is fluid and we have to find a way. Hope you're OK.

[@prepperjonpnw6482]

It’s the same for me lol. I watch stuff from the 80’s because it was my favourite time period but it sometimes makes me sad or melancholy. I’m only in my 50’s but have days where I feel like there’s nothing left for me in life.

[@peteg9011]

Im 45 but loved the 80s. Great memories

[@maggiemay9381]

@@peteg9011 everything back then was great.😊

[@desertrose1226]

The Olay advert is so beautiful, heartwarming ..the beautiful mum and sweet daughter...😊 gentleness, kindness..things we have forgotten today...

[@maggiemay9381]

But it was called Ulay.

[@GMW.artist]

It was an advert. Not real!

[@amandastill5124]

​@@GMW.artistwhat are you talking about

[@DL-oy2qn]

This is like a weird time-capsule acid trip.

[@bobstermaher]

The acid was better back then too

[@benwalsh7027]

wow i miss the 80's so much!! not a care in the world with so many great memories.

[@Shavenhamster]

The IRA, Aids, Football hooligans Poverty and people where more ignorant back then than ever. All we had was 4 TV channels to entertain us no internet back then. Everyone smoked in every public place. Everything was naff and cheap.

[@anonb4632]

Ben Walsh Except if you lived in an industrial area with constant fear of unemployment and crime.

[@djtonylee]

Was still better back then than now. Fact.

[@kristianj.8798]

East Germany wasn't much fun. No Coca Cola; no fun.

[@Goldi3loxrox]

@@Shavenhamster Dont forget the Nuclear Threat Cold war. acid rain.Chernobyl.

[@vtrmcs]

J R Hartley has to be the clear winner.

[@matthewcurtis2388]

I remember my parents buying Quatro soft drink for me at Sainsbury in Bracknell (closed February 2020) fond memories evoked by this collection. Thank you.

[@martinda7446]

You lucky bugga!

[@bcasey3639]

I remember having Quatro for the first time at Wandsworth Common cafe . I felt so trendy!

[@chrisc2037]

80s was the best decade for everything. Tv, films, music, sport and the golden age of gaming were all just fantastic. Even the adverts were brilliant. Wonder if I could find a DeLorean and go back in time to this golden decade.

[@th8257]

Not a golden decade at all for a lot of people. Beyond the superficial consumerism, there was mass unemployment, the height of the cold war, and a society that was deeply intolerant and fairly nasty. I. Think you'd be fairly shocked at a lot of things if you could go back.

[@chucky2316]

Yes Chris I agree simpler times but happier. Cars, music aftershaves, everything better.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

@@th8257 There's something about the years of our youth that no matter how bad society's problems, we still remember the time fondly. I grew up with people being nostalgic about their childhoods during the war. The eighties were crap in a lot of ways, yet I still miss those days.

[@ScotsDestroyer]

uses ad block, watches two hours of adverts?

[@norepetitivebeats]

I was just thinking how I hate adverts on TV nowadays and always FFWD when watching recorded stuff on sky box. How ironic. The difference with these adverts here are that they are sentimental to my childhood, a time when life was a lot more simple.

[@sajmeister]

LOL You should turn that into a meme for Scumbag Steve (or even Goodguy Greg)

[@samsmith1580]

The ads really were better back then. I remember looking forward to the ad breaks and people talking about the latest cool ad.

[@retro8696]

I was just thinking I use Adblock to stop the KZbin ads but yet I'm watching 2 hours of ads lol.

[@npr1300A8]

Me too Sam. These are so much better than today's PC crap!

[@russefrance4869]

The 18-30 holidaymakers are now 57-70. Unfortunately, I'm near the upper end...but hell...I enjoyed that time!!!

[@hilaryanderton]

Life was so much slower, simpler and quieter then. I’m grateful for having lived through that time 😊

[@KittyCatFurbabiesMaria1972]

Cinzano advert with Leonard Rossiter and Joan collins - CLASS

[@Cooke125]

I was born 2000 and these adverts are better then the ones today

[@th8257]

Totally Different situation. In those days, there were only 4 TV channels and only two of them had adverts. So TV programmes had huge viewing figures cos there was nothing else to watch. Advertising companies could reach a much bigger audience then, so had an incentive to put more into it. nowadays, there are a million other ways to advertise - it's a much more diverse market so advertisers can target adverts much more effectively.

[@nomanmeet4626]

@@th8257 I CAME TO UK FROM PAKISTAN IN 1986 IN BIRMINGHAM MY AUNTY HOME WHEN I SAW 4 CHANNELS I WAS VERY EXCITED BECAUSE ON THESE DAYS IN PAKISTAN ONLY 1 ONE CHANNEL AVAILABLE NOW I AM 48 YEARS OLD AND LIVING IN KARACHI , PAKISTAN BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES OF UK BRITISH PEOPLE ARE REALLY NICE LONG LIVE UK ❤️😭👍

[@uzz32carl]

Yes, back in the 80’s people knew how to use the word than instead of then - you dipstick

[@martinda7446]

😸 I remember 2000 riding my bike across the Thames and thinking blimey I'm only 37. I had, as a kid done the maths to see how old I'd be in 2000 and got it wrong. Even though its so obvious it was wrong, somehow it gets fixed in your head and I just had a number which was 43 and it had been clanking about in there for twenty years - stupid thing . And then Cooke 125Maanchester was born! Amazing .

[@goodchefbadchef1729]

When you sit and watch these commercials you can see how society has changed in this country for the "worst"

[@StumpyVandal]

Nah, you were a miserable bunch of c$&ts back then too.

[@joebickers893]

Ours too, here in the U.S. They are full of perversions. The advertisements we're innocent then, Not trashy.

[@vssjim4311]

It makes me so sad every day

[@savannahglebe5165]

I was just thinking the same. Everything’s so controversial and political now. It’s depressing watching how simple it was back then.

[@garryharriman7349]

Can you? How?

[@FishpondsLady]

I'll always remember when my parents took me and my sister to the Black Country museum. My dad grew up in London. But we had to go through a tunnel and the guy said "Who's going to do this then?" My dad pushed his legs throughout the tunnel, got us all out the other side, and the guy said "Now I know who drinks Carling Black Label". What a great dad ❤️

[@bcasey3639]

❤❤

[@bcasey3639]

When I'm finally in the Loony Bin due to this horrible world of today I want the nurses to keep playing this and giving me pills. I miss the past so much 😢

[@booldawg]

As a teenager in the 80s you just knew you were on the very edge of the Information Revolution and advances in technology was gathering pace at an exponential level. It felt exciting and scary at the same time and we all craved the latest and greatest. But we have become the victims of our own success, enslaved by the very things we sought after,

[@ladyE602]

So true!

[@lynne3124]

And, in-between the adverts which lasted seconds we had great programmes as well. Fancy!!!

[@AERIEDM]

Benny Hill blacking up as BA. Nothing wrong with that ha ha. :D

[@tomfu6210]

Well, nothing wrong with that at all.

[@richardmullins1883]

That Mr T character Benny Hill does wouldn't fly today

[@patrickaspel5167]

Nope, the Wokies would be out in force!

[@voodoodan7793]

Neither would 59:00.

[@johnbattalgazi2108]

@@voodoodan7793 never had a white eye before?

[@sci_ent_ificsui_neg9236]

That right there ... is the issue. This is England ... our country, we welcomed in people in need ... they didn't integrate, they created areas resembling the shithole they ran from ... now they want the country. It will only get worse.

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

@@sci_ent_ificsui_neg9236 we welcomed with open arms and all we got was a two fingered salute and jihad. 🤦‍♂️

[@candjim]

I remember Christmas of 1984 because I received a ZX Spectrum.

[@chucky2316]

I miss my spectrum and all its wiring and loading times. :) zx spectrum was the best

[@ladyE602]

We had a spectrum 128k plus in the very early 90s. As well as a Commodore

[@peterf5318]

Why do i get this recommendation just as I’m going to sleep? Hours of nostalgia when England was so good and friendly. Another world compared to the crap we live in.

[@ladyE602]

Very true, .....we now live in an Orwellian hellscape. Unbearable.

[@Feyenoord_Albion4927]

Oh, the memories! Whilst most of the 80's was really great, as I grew up an Army Brat in Germany, we travelled on the Herald of Free Enterprise, which was a Townsend Thoresen vessel, a couple of weeks before it capsized, killing so many. I also worked for both Thomas Cook and Club 18-30 later on in a life, and both brands are no longer around, sadly. However, if somebody offered me the chance to travel back in time, I would definitely go back to my childhood in the 1980's.

[@deanrideout1275]

Me to I miss the 80s so much

[@MonsieurJimjams]

I remember that Yellow Pages/Fly Fishing/J.R. Hartley ad. That must've played for absolutely donkeys.

[@mynahification]

Oh God! I love the 80s soo much, I was just 8 yrs old when I came to UK from Bangladesh.

[@OfficiallySanctionedKATG]

Cool! Where abouts in the uk do you live hun?

[@robferguson8696]

It’s nice we both have the same memories 😊

[@westaussie965]

You can go back now😉

[@adamdavanna6229]

@@westaussie965 Christ there’s some twats in these comments

[@scottkeys6212]

Bet you wish you hadn't bothered.

[@sirrom5155]

having never set foot in the UK, I have such fond memories of these ...adverts.

[@alisonlaing5626]

"always" remenber JR HARTLEY etc....who doesn,t remember that one.

[@CelticSaint]

'Fly fishing'.

[@RIXRADvidz]

they would dredge it up every 5 years and then play it relentlessly for 7 months until you wish he was done already. then 5 years pass and a whole new crew discovers, JR hartley

[@toneskill]

Yellow pages

[@wisteela]

And the bike one.

[@CelticSaint]

@@wisteela Yeah that one's often forgotten but it was excellent in its own way.

[@martinedingivan]

I was born in 1971 love the look back at so many ads I remember top marks:)wondering how many of these products still exists

[@sedoniadragotta8323]

I grew up in the 80s miss it so much but it had its issues and world problems to just when your younger you really don't notice.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

@@sedoniadragotta8323 The problems of the world then were ones we'd grown up with. They seemed normal and possible to overcome. That's not the case with the problems we've got now.

[@martinda7446]

martindeang..i. (😾) nearly an anagram of my name there.. 3 short out of 15.

[@deanrideout1275]

Same age as me then it was a joy back then people spoke more as well

[@martinedingivan]

@@deanrideout1275 true

[@rebellionrob]

Ahhhh The yellow pages ads..."I were right about that saddle though" Instantly took me back to being a 9 year old.

[@rugosetexture2716]

What a trip down memory lane; thank you for putting this together!

[@Cuddles-rd8vg]

Magic memories of a time gone by. I remember some of the ads and this is a great trip down memory lane for me. Thanks so much for the upload, a real gem!

[@itallia666]

Good lord! The days of putting on yr hat & coat, locking up the house, walking half a mile to the high street to use the telephone kiosk! It seems so antiquated!

[@MissTLI1980]

The Jimmy Saville one on a train, so creepy now we know his past.

[@mrgreenfingaz1]

He gets all flushed during the take, watch again

[@Stephie2007]

@@mrgreenfingaz1 I KNOW RIGHT?! 🤣 Step away from the kids Jimmy!

[@BoomerNewman]

I suppose he took the "Kids for a quid" promotion way too far!

[@wisteela]

Yes, my thinking too.

[@mlight6275]

@@mrgreenfingaz1 where ? missed it

[@robgardner4754]

Strangely comforting watching these adverts now, especially during these times. Thanks hippy

[@Springsong5]

I think I would have loved 80's London.

[@bernadettehynes-cafferkey3917]

You would, the 80's were great

[@evonne_]

In the whole the 1980s were alright

[@nickpink25]

You def would of 🇬🇧

[@trippy2johno280]

London has lost it's London'ness

[@user-yd3jz8kk9i]

It was awesome man. Didn’t know it at the time though.

[@warlockuk]

Ah, back before every second advert was for Payday Loans.

[@Alan7997]

Credit cards and car insurance as well.

[@horrortackleharry]

@@Alan7997 Or bingo/gambling sites.

[@Bruce-vq7ni]

And coffin dodger over 50s life insurance featuring the dumbest people you have ever seen.

[@MrThecarebear]

@@Bruce-vq7ni "Coffin dodger"? How disrespectful to your elders.

[@alextilson5809]

we even could get away with drink driving back then, the amount of times we used to drive to the pub and get pissed and drive home if the police pulled us up it was a case of a talking to about the dangers of drink driving and we were given our car keys back and sent on our way, this was before the great nanny state

[@Nombredeusuario1030]

It's funny how adverts suddenly become interesting when they're 30+ years old.

[@marcse7en]

It's called NOSTALGIA! 👍

[@itallia666]

I only remember a small amount of these ads because i was always out & about in the early 1980's i hardly ever watched television. There were far more interesting things to do than sitting on ones backside watching the goggle box, that was for the old fogies 😆lol

[@JohnnyFriendly]

You are 100% correct - I was the same and this is why these ads are in no way a reflection of life as it was back then

[@itallia666]

@@JohnnyFriendly Thank you replying, yes most of the ads from the 70s & 80s were directed to who would be likely to view them, so the ads were about games, bikes, Barbie Dolls, snack foods, confectionary etc up to the watershed time. Then they were targeted to Mumsy & Dadsy & the latest home improvement, gadgets, gardening, travel/holidays etc Im only just catching up on BBC serialisations which my mother raved about but were of no interest to me then! The only TV i ever watched was Top of the Pops, Ready Steady Go & The Old Grey Whistle Test. As music was my main interest, but i was like a caged animal, as soon as my programmes stopped i was out of the house, nothing would induce me to " watch telly" Actually im still the same! Ive not had a TV for decades, i read or listened to the radio. The tv was boring & manipulative & apart from the odd decent documentary, my tv was a dust collector so gave it away & have never missed it. Im new to the internet even! Ive only been online for 2.5 yrs & im quite pleased with it. Great for researching stuff & viewing brilliant documentaries. Some daft stuff too, cheers me up no end. Cherrio & pip pip etc 👧

[@GMW.artist]

We hardly watched commercial TV in our house, the "1" was rubbed off the button on our telly!!!...

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

@GMW.artist I went to school with a lad who's father wouldn't let them watch BBC because it was for posh (middle class) people. Yet he was happy to watch Upstairs Downstairs, Bucket of Barbed Wire and Hadleigh on ITV.

[@Agui007]

Ads are so stray from the point and dull now!! I love the 80s clear, concise and explain what they're advertising. Car ads these days....weird!!

[@lyndseyaloui354]

80s and 90s were the best. How times have changed its pants now

[@speckledjim9895]

Still have that Alison Moyet Alf cd. Bought it when it came out.

[@Stu-SB]

Strange to see Alison Moyets album advertised ...I bought it in 84 lol. Worked on me !

[@ladyE602]

Alison Moyet!! What a woman!! What a voice!!! She was one of my mum's favourite singers The Timotei ad was my favourite. That lady had the most beautiful hair. ❤

[@rich_edwards79]

9:40 'it's easy going Townsend Thoresen' unless of course someone falls asleep and leaves the bow doors open. Creepy seeing the Herald if Free Enterprise knowing what would happen to her a couple of years later.

[@Grithron2]

1. My usual comments re what's changed - Even in the mid-'80s, the majority of voiceovers were in (what now sound like) "posh" accents. And there was more use of classical music in ads (not just to parody it, but for its own sake - in keeping with the agents' own tastes) 2. Ads I was particularly pleased to see again:- Babycham, British Telecom (advertising the existence of phones - odd!), Britivic 55 (so shoot me), Carling Black Label (all of them), the trailer for Company of Wolves (a film that's not so much scary as fascinatingly freaky, also Danielle Dax is in it for all of ninety seconds), Cup-A-Soup (with inferior third-draft slogan), Fairy Soap, Grapefruit, Hamlet (the Channel 4 parody), KP, Nice n Easy, Toffee Crumble, Wot No Meat?..and, dare I say it, the London "British Rail" ad with you-know-who (that nursery rhyme was surely a figment of the ad writer's imagination) Decades later I still can't decipher a lot of words in the Nat West "Figaro"/"Piggy Bank" ad - but at least now I know they're porcelain, not "posturing", pigs! Random thought - sometime in the '80s, programs which appeared across all the ITV regions were advertised against a cityscape animation, with fanfaring string-synth-based music, and a very low-pitched voice rather sneerily announcing that these programs were coming soon on Eye...Tee..Veee. No evidence of this on YT, yet.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

I used to handle the job adverts for the company that made the Nat West piggy banks. Wade's in Burslem, Stoke on Trent. They used to make those big ceramic things on the top of electricity substations that looked like piles of dishes as well.

[@AlisonBryen]

Wow I didn't realise I remembered Cafe Hag until I saw the advert for it!

[@helenwatson4645]

And how utterly foul it was.

[@ssss-df5qz]

In the 80's: Bloomin adverts all the time! 2021: "2 hour compilation of adverts from the 80's? Yes please!" If only advertisers could harness the power to make people want to watch adverts hey?

[@ladyE602]

Adverts today are cringe and embarrassing

[@bigrarr]

Thanks for sharing, brought me back to a place in time I forgot even existed! I was thoroughly mesmerised, the best advert collection on the net :)

[@MrDustpile]

Now VHS is becoming retro, almost chic, even the old adverts and continuity breaks add to that magic in your old boxes. Any good owner has his own.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

I had hundreds of tapes. Then I had a problem with damp in the house and the whole lot went mouldy and wouldn't play. I said some rude words the day I discovered that.

[@paulspopculture5592]

When every advert wasn't about planning the cost of your grave I remember asking my dad for a box of start was trying to remember the name of that for years

[@saturn1returns]

And we had the acid house and rave movement explosion in the 80s, never forget that one.

[@ladyE602]

❤❤❤ I've got rave posters and flyers from 89 til 99.

[@581mitch]

amazing how you remember these adds when you see them again after years ..guess they must have worked !!...fuck i feel old now

[@wisteela]

Wonderful. One of the kids in the first Spania advert looks like a young Moss from the IT Crowd. I've actually got one of those ACT Apricot computers in my collection. I bought it from my college for £25 in 1995.

[@rafiqadarr6217]

Like everyone else on here, I never thought in a million years that I would be watching 1980s adverts and yearning for the past. If anyone had told me 40 years ago, in forty years time, this is what you will be doing, I would have laughed and said:-“Don’t be ridiculous!!” and yet here we all are. I miss random things - adverts for pans and irons, Bejam, all the things I took for granted and ignored when I was young. We all do it, don’t we. I am sad for the time gone by, and wish, like many, I had a Time Machine to go back 40 years. But as my sister said correctly, we only want to go back as we are now, not as we were then. Nostalgia. Yet I feel so sad, and old. Menopause has wrecked my mind.

[@joebickers893]

Benny hill, We love him here in the u.s. I'm watching what you guys were watching in the 80's . I'm over a half century old now and I miss the 80's too. I've always wanted to visit the UK, maybe one Day.

[@WhatALoadOfTosca]

All I could think as those people slid around on the ferry was, "I wonder is that the Herald of Free Enterprise". Surreal looking back on that TT ad nowadays.

[@Juliukas101]

It's easy with Townsend Thoresen.

[@Nately22]

Remember a good number of these, resurfaced memories. Strange how adverts back then seem to be iconic and tied to a time. I guess watching tv was big thing back then, especially with only 4 channels and no Sky or Netflix. Angus Deayton in a car ad 32.16 and David Jason Del Boy in a phonecard advert 36.24. Hah! And why doesn't anyone drink Tia Maria any more?!? The Yellow Pages ad at the end is pure advertising gold.

[@martinda7446]

I remembered only parts of maybe half at best and only a very few were well remembered. I'd have guessed I'd remember the lot... Very strange, some were completely unknown and alien.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

@martinda7446 I watched a Top of the Pops from 82 the other day. I definitely would have seen it at the time, but I didn't have a clue who half the acts were and most were rubbish. Then to make it worse, the chart run down showed half a dozen songs I loved but did they play any? Did they eckerslike.

[@martinda7446]

@@zacmumblethunder7466 😸😸😸

[@chrismullan7191]

I got my first tv in the 80s, paid up for it over two years, it lasted 14 years, adverts back then had more fun to them, but here in London the 80s where a time of greed, many people just like today feel such dispair how things are going, as a teen our tv went on at six each day you only had three channels, when the ten news came on on itv with big ben it was of to bed lol.

[@rolybaker7770]

I live on Corfu and seeing the 18-30 holiday add reminds me of all the things that used to hang out in those day's lol.

[@seancrowe3353]

Apparently everyone was on holiday in the 80s

[@Juliukas101]

Yeah, Sean, we were! :)

[@maggiemay9381]

They were😂

[@jakecavendish3470]

We literally were

[@Sheffield_Steve]

We couldn't afford it! I think we managed a week away to Chapel St. Leonards that's it! That was because my Dad was lent a car & the caravan.

[@jakecavendish3470]

@@Sheffield_Steve I couldn't afford it either but I took advantage of the fact Wham! had a packed touring schedule and never used their full luggage allowance. The cramp and semi-asphixiation was worth it.

[@23hublock1]

Brilliant upload, remembered about 85% of them! I would've been 9/10 years old back then. Thanks H.

[@johncronin3105]

That Tunes ad was legendary! Looool

[@yozza4978]

Lol yeah...so many kids in my school playground got shoulder thrown followed by a "tuuunnness"

[@BOUNCERBABE]

Hahaha I have to laugh. Nowadays, we moan about adverts, and avoid watching them, yet here I am, watching adverts from my childhood lol. I'm pretty sure, that back then, my mum and dad probably moaned about these adverts, back in the day. I certainly couldn't watch an hour and a half of today's adverts lol

[@sgtg4600]

This used to be such a great country.

[@chantalmascoe4594]

R .I.P Thomas cook R I P Woolworths(loved that shop)

[@GMW.artist]

Up until 1997 it was called Woolworth 😎✌🏼

[@ronilaw8661]

Move to Australia. It's where we buy our groceries

[@DivineIntuitions.Ishita]

I wasn’t even born then but those were the best days & the best decade ever! 1980s and 1990s!!! I miss!! 💔💔💔💔💔😭😭😭😭😭

[@BlowinFree]

How can you miss something you have never experienced you fool

[@malcolmcampbell1968]

Before we had to have a person of every race in each ad !!! Before we were invaded....!

[@AndreiTupolev]

why do these kind of videos ALWAYS have some wearisome racist drivelling on? Anyway, what a load of bullshit you do spout. Did you know how much immigration there was between the 1950s and the 1970s?

[@rich_edwards79]

Just because minorities weren't represented in TV advertising, doesn't mean they weren't there. But yes, letsxall get nostalgic for a golden age that never really existed except in the rose-tinted imaginations of a few million baby boomers.

[@taylorjordon6706]

Adverts for Woolworths! Those were the Days! I remember seeing Woolworth Commercials from the 90s with the Phrase... "You May Forget What You Went In For", and now Woolworths has been closed down! I remember it happening and I was really upset because I often bought DVDs and CDs even CD Singles I bought in there and I lost count of how many CD Singles I bought in Woolworths! Sometimes I wish they'd bring it back but I guess they never will unless there is a huge Campain or Something... Great Video! So many lovely Adverts from before I was Born! :) And that's coming from someone who was Born in the 90s! :) The 80s were Great weren't they?

[@stevetaylor8698]

It's been replaced by Wilkos

[@desertrose1226]

They were awesome! I was only born halfway through but damn, I miss it.

[@bobrew461]

Woolworths is online only now...

[@carlybishop6160]

I know how you feel. I was born in 1990 but I love the 80's and feel I was born about 25 years too late.

[@krissyc6761]

b and m Home bargains

[@ratuse]

My gawd! I never realized how obsessed Brittan was with vacationing! It was like, 80% of all the ads!!

[@pigknickers]

+ratuse that always happened after Xmas going into January.

[@S.Hitchcock]

Now they obsessed with vaccinating

[@markhampshirewildcamperand8731]

Was saying to my mum other day I miss the 80 and 90s best years . Life was so .was easier. And fun wish I could travel back in time and re live them .

[@user-yd3jz8kk9i]

Ahh, Ceefax and Oracle.... the 80’s internet.

[@octaviussludberry9016]

Got to love marketing men. Le Piat D'Or was invented by Dave Gluckman in London.

[@thislifewelive5206]

Nothing like benny hill doing black face to bring back that 80s nostalgia 😅 Born in 84 these ads are not much different from how I remember them

[@davidbillyard6629]

I had a laugh at that..

[@bobstermaher]

Benny Hill would have no place on TV nowadays... Too many snowflakes

[@AlexandraStarr1974]

I have not watched television for about 7 years now, it just annoys me, telly now feels like it is made for people with little imagination, though the 80s were not perfect, the endless gameshows were so shit, but the sitcoms were at least fairly funny, if very middle class for the most part. But the adverts, they really stand out and watching this i can remember more than i thought i would, the adverts seemed to have a bit more class about them back then, now the adverts are as annoying as the programs!

[@MrFuzzyGreen]

Are you in prison or something?

[@flybobbie1449]

Spot on, no tv licence i haven't watched any tv for several years. I flick it occasionally, have a look at the schedule, then turn it off.

[@th8257]

Very different set up then. Remember in the 80s there were only four channels and only two of them had adverts. Nowadays, there are many more ways for advertisers to reach consumers so there's less incentive to make memorable TV adverts. Far fewer people are watching these days.

[@matrixstrobe1176]

There has never ever been a funny middleclass comedy

[@user-zv9zu6hv3p]

@@MrFuzzyGreen ! Where in Uzbekistan ! Sure All (Hotels) sorry Prisons, have the Full SKy Movie and Sports Packages available for their 'clients' !!

[@desertrose1226]

Also, people were so naturally gorgeous back then the women AND some of the men!

[@LusciousTwinkle]

They really weren't. These were models don't forget.

[@flybobbie1449]

@@LusciousTwinkle Still prettier than models today.

[@desertrose1226]

fly bobbie they're plastic today, half of them resemble Spitting Image puppets with their fakey lips!

[@flybobbie1449]

@@desertrose1226 Or Thunderbirds puppets.

[@robertstevens735]

What a wonderful time . Look at this greedy awful world

[@utrapzab]

Back when britain was british

[@CelticSaint]

Yep. When our politicians actually still cared about the nation. Now, they care about everyone else but hate us.

[@Savoy1984]

Amazing how much is totally different yet exactly the same.