A Trip Down Memory Lane To 1984 British TV Ads

[@nelvaldo.4850]

We've gone backwards compared to then.

[@leechilds3725]

Enjoyable ads that don't irritate you & get straight to the point

[@Djpaul-lo1px]

Makes you think if in 34 years time anyone will be getting misty eyed about todays ads that are mainly bullshit about PPI, car insurance comparison sites and McDonald’s.

[@80srenaissance67]

I got this one...no,no they wont

[@jaffaxl]

Phew thanks ​@@80srenaissance67

[@RetroPlus]

I am playing this on my CRT TV from 1984, instant time machine

[@koogle5410]

me = pays for ad blocker also me = watches 90 minutes of ads 🤷‍♀️

[@andymoore9977]

Well observed!

[@juliewatkins7491]

I don't pay for an adblocker ,mine's free .It's called Adblock Genius Pro and it is on your appstore .

[@koogle5410]

Julie Watkins .. its not available in my region unfortunately

[@jameshardy6277]

lol

[@jameshardy6277]

Shows how much we hark back for better times.

[@jennytaylor3324]

Olay was Ulay, Cif was Jif, I was 8, and pestered my mum for a bottle of that Once stuff, having been reeled in by the ad! It came in 2 colours (orange and green) in a very modern looking ribbed clear plastic bottle, which you had to shake to mix the formula, which looked like a space-age oil and water preparation. I think I spent most of the 1980s mesmerised by how cool everything looked and forcing my parents to buy it all for me. Those were the days...😎

[@chriswaring5565]

FANCY CALLING A KITCHEN AND BATHROOM CLEANER CIF SOUNDS LIKE SYPHILIS

[@peterolley7159]

Although I'm watching this on KZbin I can't help but think I preferred the days without internet and god it so upsetting watching these ads realising just how Britain isn't great anymore !

[@ajs41]

Couldn't agree more. I was 5 years old when these were on TV.

[@cult_of_odin]

Your politicians allowed mass immigration from cultures that are totally incompatible with your own. The US has been dealing with it since the 1960s.

[@80srenaissance67]

4 years later and it's got a lot lot worse ,hasn't it

[@shadytube84]

One of my favourite things to do is phone all the old companies advertised and pretend I’m a time traveller and just seen their 1986 advert… it’s quite fun.. however when you ring up Bristol Hippodrome to book tickets for 1986’s Singin’ in the Rain production but they proceed to take my booking because Spring 2022’s show is.. yep you guessed it.. Singin’ in the Rain LOL!!!

[@liamroberts1103]

I have these on dvd that they sell on eBay but luckily I can watch them on here as the dvd I have got scratched up 👍

[@stevedickson5853]

The late Elizabeth Sladen advertising Rover cars, who would have thought it

[@kevinbush4300]

Wow!! Missed her! 14:04 for anyone who didn’t catch her.

[@robmortimer4150]

Good collection, though definitely not all from 1984

[@FM-ks1cs]

1987

[@rafiqadarr6217]

My Mum loved Panache. I miss her and my Dad.

[@garyorchard4195]

i did not know the rover 800 was a time machine. not bad for a car that was not sold till 1986

[@sarahdavies5507]

I was in the Milton Keynes ad. -somewhere in the big crowd letting the balloons go. Remember the day so well

[@peterolley7159]

I always remember as a kid hearing about Milton Keynes like it was another world it was a massive thing back then lol !

[@tamarawiggall4457]

What was it in aid of? Letting go of all those balloons? ☺

[@leighmathers9936]

What a great collection of ads, some I’d forgotten all about.

[@zaftra]

Hated ads in the 80's, went out of the room when they were on, just watch hour of them and can remember a lot; hows that work?

[@flukeman022]

Bet you hate todays ads even more!

[@tombro42]

can anyone remember an ad with Oliver Twist parody "please sir i want some more" what product was it for ?

[@RIXRADvidz]

Panache, when you wear it, Everyone Notices......oh my Cynthia has doused herself in that 'toilet water' again.

[@creationinmotion4124]

I was 9. Nice to see some I had forgotten about

[@matrags]

Better days I think.

[@janbarnfield3965]

Never mind box sets, have a look at these,. The good old 😂

[@incessantgaming8472]

Wonderful nostalgia, thank you, subbed.

[@incessantgaming8472]

I have to add, its ironic really.... I am watching a youtube video of nothing but adverts, yet I have adblock...

[@Bodogable]

Thank you for sharing

[@gordontaylor3489]

Great to see the Mucron advert again... I've been searching for this for ages.

[@gordontaylor3489]

I always wondered how this advert was staged... I'd like to have been a 'fly on the wall' (but just watching)

[@tmacmc2984]

These ads are a mix up, some 84, some more like 88 etc. Still good stuff though.

[@BenPanced]

The cheese and meat counters at Green's Food Fare looked spectacular.

[@ajs41]

What time on the videos is that?

[@BenPanced]

It's at 1:02:48.

[@Holywell88]

Baked beans 19p a tin 37 years ago. I just checked and they cost 22p in Tesco now. I wish everything had stayed so cheap

[@ajs41]

Food is one of the few things that hasn't got more expensive over the years. In fact a lot of it has got cheaper with stores like Lidl and Aldi.

[@philtowle4683]

Only the loss leaders

[@richardmullins1883]

Interesting i remember all those Bristolian ads

[@tiedupsmurf]

Good old days

[@sdeee3842]

Love the retro furniture

[@Stiffd1]

Midwank Bank with atm's on the motorway......' I'll just pull over darling and get crushed by an oncoming bus .. '

[@chriswaring5565]

THE LISTENING BANK CAN I HAVE A LOAN PLEASE EH!

[@chriswaring5565]

BEECHEMS AD DAVID LONSDALE FROM HEARTBEAT AND JOEY PETER HOWITT FROM BREAD

[@nitinbhatt8193]

Nick Berry aka Simon Wickes from Eastenders at 23:40, must have been on his way to Heartbeat 😀

[@damian-795]

23:45 Nick Berry before East Enders fame !!!

[@kevinbush4300]

Thank you... I was just about to ask if anyone knew if it was him

[@Stiffd1]

David Tennant at 6.01 - Doctor's Fix!

[@centrevezgaming4862]

i remember look in it was great and many years later i finaly met dolph lundgren at an convention he was great . but sadly tv times dis continued the magazine i think they should bring it back as an anniversary edition.

[@cult_of_odin]

Im actually disgusted about the number of bank advertisements.

[@chriswaring5565]

IN THE BEECHEMS POWDER AD WAS DAVID LONSDALE FROM HEARTBEAT, PETER HOWITT JOEY BOSWELL FROM THE LIVERPOOL COMEDY BREAD AND DOREEN KEOGH CONCEPTA RILEY IN CORONATION STREET AND MARY IN THE SITCOM THE ROYLE FAMILY

[@paulanderson7796]

Castrol GTX 20w-50. It suited engines for the era but today it's just engine glue.

[@nigelcarren]

Great upload, but does anyone know how to adjust the tracking on a 2015 MacBook please? 😉

[@HuntersMoon78]

A big sledge hammer at full belt to the screen or keyboard usually fixes the issue.

[@tsimeone]

Buy a better device.. Or to bodge. cover the label on the back should work wondrs..

[@thurstonhowell3569]

adverts I would alway ignore while waiting for the programme to resume.

[@joannegray5138]

Dolph Lundgren as He-Man! I need a cold shower!

[@Mink-yu8nu]

Primark was in The UK in the 80s?!

[@tony1kenobi202]

Ironically the first one opened in Derby in 1973 Came up in a pub quiz the other week :D

[@Mink-yu8nu]

@@tony1kenobi202 Blimey!

[@sdeee3842]

I noticed that too, just mentioned it to my 22yo! 🤣

[@sarah6557]

Wicksy Off EastEnder ....The first .....pizzahut advert pmsl not the second

[@conorshannon1303]

My ma had one of those nilfisk Hoover's for year's.

[@andymoore9977]

18:26 11% interest!!!!! They pay under 1% now. All great for most under 40s but rubbish for the rest of us. Ageist.,... just joking.

[@1969gawa]

23:10 That wee car is still knocking about.

[@gabrielionut8218]

This Is Gold !

[@sophiaabbasi5788]

2:37 the Hp ad - internet before the internet!

[@CaymanIslandsCatWalks]

Todays generation will struggle with 22:48 also. Let alone change a car wheel!

[@daveconyard8946]

Brilliant Stuff 👍👍

[@Kenners.]

Can anyone remember the early 80s advert for merseyside. Circa 82,82 83. Lasted about 4 or 5 mins

[@gordontaylor3489]

Do you have a collection of 1970's UK TV adverts, I'm looking for the Rael Brook wash after wash after wash advert?

[@nitram_nosnibor]

The best times for TV adverts. However you can see now see with the influence of American cuisine that the average Brit would end up being about 3 stone heavier than back in the 70s/80s.

[@philtowle4683]

The effect of the littering of the balloon race would never be allowed today.

[@philtowle4683]

The HP advert looks like a Family Guy pilot.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

Masters of the Universe was released in 1987, not 1984.

[@martintabony611]

Elizabeth Slayden in the Rover 800 ad

[@donroberts2126]

Notice that see didn't drive the car. Admitted, herself, that she was never, really, that comfortable behind the wheel. Oh, and there's no 'y' in her name. Don't worry. My proof-reading can be pretty crop, aswell...

[@terawattz]

20.35 the best ad ever the grolsh larger ad

[@cult_of_odin]

"Our friends the Americans"? What? We are basically you brothers. We are the rebellious kid who went of and made it big but still love our family.

[@MsBananasmel]

Audi estate ad sounds like the guy who narrated Threads.

[@MsBananasmel]

Oh gosh and the Nilfisk bloke is the Protect and Survive man lol

[@dominewimbury9120]

Great!

[@battleofwills7189]

The He-Man movie was 1987.

[@russellford5597]

Wish I'd read this before wasting 10 mins on Wikipedia, trying to find out if it spent 3 years in production. 🤣

[@clarec4299]

That Once conditioner advert is so of the time! Such a rubbish name for a conditioner though,and as if you condition more than once?! She looks like a young Stacey Dooley, even though she was probably only born that year!😄

[@michaeljohnson-li5nn]

Where are the POC?

[@jca111]

@17:04 Ah-Ha Take On Me Video a year before the actual video. Was it the same people who did this advert?

[@agfagaevart]

the advert was after ToM: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqi7XqZmiruKadk

[@russellford5597]

7:18 Jarre - Equinoxe!

[@CaymanIslandsCatWalks]

I want Horlicks now. Vicks sinus was funny

[@justinhumphreys4000]

The Ford escort mark 4 was 1989

[@flukeman022]

Because we're sick 45 mins ads and the same ads over and over again.

[@AndreiTupolev]

"Samsung. You pay for our product, not our name. " So no one had heard of them then?

[@jamesmcgrath578]

AndreiTupolev they were actually an unfashionable brand name in those pre-mobile phone days, hence the slogan

[@danielgiles2579]

Hewlett Packard beatles ad we can work it out😁

[@kevinbush4300]

40:30... David Suchet???

[@gmar7836]

I’m a Yank and wish I could live in England

[@junkyarddog2584]

Im english and wish i cud live in america lol

[@gmar7836]

@@junkyarddog2584 well my friend, stay away from Florida, Ohio, Rhode Island, Missouri, Massachusetts, parts of Texas not all, most deep southern states especially Mississippi, those are not ideal states.

[@mauriceosullivan6832]

Have you ever been too England??

[@g1egz]

Yeah, yank, stay away from Englahpnd.

[@g1egz]

So, what’s with utube misspelling, England ? Is there a conspiracy here, lol

[@silverhighwayman1938]

1:11 66 pence for Keloggs Corn Flakes inflation currency debasement

[@oldhat6100]

7:41 sounds a bit dangerous!

[@MacStoker]

they were safe if you done under 120 mph any faster and it was awkward putting the pin number in

[@bluethunder6801]

So theres adverts on adverts wtf

[@cult_of_odin]

If only we knew what a certain generation born shortly after ww2 would do to the world we would have taken them out in their sleep.

[@karoljarnuszkiewicz5451]

0:31 Nigel Hawthorne's voiceover

[@donroberts2126]

Freeze it 6:02. David Tennant??! Surely not, but...

[@deadsheep1559]

Now every ad has a mixed race family.

[@Steve20127]

Pandering to the minority.

[@periyattt7516]

DEAD SHEEP ok boomer

[@GryphLane]

What's the matter? Scared of a little representation? Morons 😂

[@blazer666del]

Dick

[@jacquiwilliams3102]

There black or mixed race now Where's the white man

[@RIXRADvidz]

goodness the Razy Lacism, good thing the Woke Folk haven't found this one LOL

[@paulmahoney3110]

All these are from 87 not 84

[@agfagaevart]

some like the Club and CU ads are from the 1970s. Cointreau ad is from 1981!