Brit Reacts To AUSTRALIAN COMMERCIALS FROM THE 60’s & 70’s

[@vtbn53]

March 1975 for colour in Australia

[@siryogiwan]

all things dry themselves eventually, if water is hot, the quicker it evaporates lol

[@davidberriman5903]

1974 they started colour test patterns but it was 1975 before the change.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Colour TV started in the UK in 1969 (thanks Pointless)! We were a few years later! Some of these were made for movie theatres as many people weren't keen on home TVs! Schweppes was the no 1 lemonade! TAA, Trans Australia Airlines, my great aunt was a hostess with them! Definitely love jingles in Australia and anthems! Richie Benaud was a lifetime cricket hero, every cricket kid wanted Milo! Interesting, simpler times! Ta! 🙋👍

[@coraliemoller3896]

The TAA jingle was based on the hit song by ‘The 5th Dimension’ called “Up, Up and Away (in my beautiful balloon)”.

[@patriciaholden7332]

Omg - I just sang most of the words to the TAA ad! (I was a kid). Apparently it stands for Trans Australia Airline. But I won a board game as a kid that was called TAA - Travel Around Australia involving airplanes and I always thought it stood for that until I just googled!

[@nolajoy7759]

Me too! 😅

[@popeye807]

Colour tv didn't come out in Australia until the 70's

[@lisainhofe2996]

I’ll bet it was expensive when it did come out.

[@ianmontgomery7534]

@@lisainhofe2996yeah but i don't think they were any worse than what new phones cost these days.

[@ianmontgomery7534]

1975 was the full introduction

[@leahlapham5634]

We had the first colour TV in our neighbourhood. 1974! I went around so excited telling my friends about cartoons in colour. Of course our place was full of the neighbourhood kids watching our TV😂

[@Fiona-zc6oz]

Just test patterns in 74​@@leahlapham5634

[@ront2424]

Thanks for that Kabir, I remember most of those adds which is scary 😁😁

[@lillibitjohnson7293]

The first colour tv show was Aunty Jack Show on ABC tv

[@nolajoy7759]

Yes..used to watch Aunty Jack and I remember how they did that!

[@lillibitjohnson7293]

@@nolajoy7759 these days the conservatives would be flipping their lids about a drag queen tv show haha

[@coraliemoller3896]

@@lillibitjohnson7293 There were plenty of drag acts on TV in Australia because they originally came from vaudeville live acts and children’s live pantomimes. The Ugly Stepsisters in the Christmas Cinderella pantos were always played by men in drag. The uglier, the better. Carlotta was a famous Sydney drag queen. The problem that many conservatives have now is that what used to be strictly camp for kids pantos & suggestive for adults is being forced in the faces of children - literally - for the enjoyment of the lewd drag performers. Any rejection or criticism of this perverted fetishism is labelled as transphobia. It is really just letting kids live with childish innocence until they are old enough to start wondering, at a natural pace, about why men want to dress up and shimmy in costumes when they are not playing one of the Ugly Stepsisters in a pantomime.

[@Carol-zb3td]

Yessss and remember how they had the colour slowly move across the screen, colouring the black and white. I remember how my little brother would be in tears if we couldn't watch it because Aunty Jack said he would come around and rip your bloody arms off if you missed a show. 😂

[@nolajoy7759]

I remember the Screaming Demons ad and the TAA jingle (taken from a popular song at the time). Fancy an Iced VoVo now 😊

[@vtbn53]

July 1967 for colour in the UK, it was being experimented on in the UK way be for that though.

[@nolajoy7759]

Iced VoVo's and Milo still going strong!

[@gusdrivinginaustralia6168]

Tarax is a sub brand of Cadbury-Schweppes.

[@nolajoy7759]

I remember my mum buying loads of Tarax sarsparilla on a trip to Adelaide.. she loved it and we couldn't get Tarax in WA.

[@solreaver83]

Doesn't need to dry is the point, it leaves no residue bubbles etc to mark the dishes

[@geetee4459]

Tarax was (I think) bought out by Schweppes in the 80s and disappeared as a brand. The woman in the orange ad was 'Abigail' - the first woman to appear naked on Aussie TV back around 1972/3 in our most popular soap-opera of the time lol. UK might have had colour TV 5 years before Oz, but we had nudity much earlier ;)

[@MarkJessop-hq2uo]

I'd have to say most of these products are long gone

[@miniveedub]

The saucy woman in the Tarax orange soft drink ad was one of the stars of a popular early seventies TV soap opera called Number 96.that was set in a block of flats She played an artist’s model and you got to see quite a lot of her. It was a fairly ground breaking show for the time with several LGBTQ characters, interracial couples, nudity, rape, drug addiction etc. on the world’s first prime time, five nights a week soap opera. It was a bit too controversial to be shown in some countries so it didn’t do well overseas, it still couldn’t be shown on mainstream US TV more than 50 years later.

[@trevorkrause7220]

Abigail was her name, and even today that name provokes memories of what we saw of her, almost everything, on the TV.

[@leahlapham5634]

We use to sneak watch number 96 when we were kids. Very controversial in its day. All the characters were great and no one will ever forget Abigail 😂

[@miniveedub]

@@leahlapham5634 I was an adult, the first show was the week after I got married .

[@gusdrivinginaustralia6168]

I've created a few playlists on my channel of ads with various themes, beers ads, random funny, betting agencies, and Victoria's Transport Accident Commission (these can be brutal). I'd like to see you do a reaction to them.

[@jonsant7232]

Australia was very late getting colour TV coming in 1975 a lot of people still had B&W in 1977 when I came to Australia

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

Loved my electric cars so fun

[@sammychicken4290]

I think the washed dishes are left on the sink to air dry.

[@nolajoy7759]

My ex used to call that "letting God dry the dishes".

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

Yes the first one is actually Schweppes

[@shezza66]

Colour tv started in 1975. You should watch the Aunty jack show where the changed from black and white to colour

[@davidcarter4247]

This was before the rise of national brands in Australia. The Tarax and Guest ads are Melbourne products and new to me as someone who was living in Sydney in this era. The two cities were very different and had different TV locally made shows, with Melbournians especially engrossed in their celebrities. The precursor to AFL, the VFL was a strictly Victorian league and an obsession verging on an illness. Melbourne TV shows were filled with VFL references that left Sydneysiders wondering WTF they were talking about. Such was the disconnect Melbournians assumed Sydneysiders were just as obsessed with rugby league. They weren't. Sydney in this era had much more than TV and footie. Melbourne didn't. Beaches, the Blue Mountains, the harbour, the Royal National Park, strolling through the city, Sunday in the the Domain, Taronga Zoo. That is where you found crowds in Sydney on weekends. The nation has homogenised. Local brands became national brands as they were gobbled up by the global food giants. local celebrities became national, the VFL became the AFL, Melbourne stayed open after noon on Saturdays. The country has changed a lot since these ads were made. The blonde in the Tarax ad is Abigail, a British actress who landed in Australia as a young woman. Her willingness to take her clothes off made her a household name. Her big break came in a TV soapie called Number 96. Number 69 was a bridge too far in 1972. The show hit our screens at a time when we went from painfully prudish to full frontal, literally. This era ended in the early 1990s with another soap called Chances, the last tits and bums show. A new prudishness driven by feminism pretty much returned us the 1960s when it came to nudity. Now in 2024 we live in a 1950s TV kindergarten where everything bad is pixelated out of news bulletins. Bums, boobs, dead bodies, blood, people giving the finger, Nazi salutes and swastikas, obscenities being mouthed. We have ceased to be adults.

[@andrewhall7704]

I remember the TAA

[@trevorkrause7220]

TV always seemed to come to Australia late. B&W TV was first broadcast in Australia in 1956, probably only because that was the year that the Olympic Games were held in Australia, otherwise it might not have been until the 1960s. Colour TV was first broadcast commercially in 1975 with the major cities having four TV channels, most regional areas having only two TV channels with some only having only one channel, ABC, and many areas still having none. Satellite TV and digital TV also came to Australia usually much later than most other Western nations, especially US, UK, Europe and Japan. The generally late introduction of the different TV standards to Australia compared to the rest of the world along with strict government oversight meant that when Australia did receive those TV services they were already a mature and settled technology of the best or most appropriate systems available that was then a very much known and standardised technology.

[@Fiona-zc6oz]

Aust was slow for colour. We went from Aust to live in NZ 72-74 and had colour TV there

[@vtbn53]

Tarax is still available albeit in a much more limited sense

[@chezzachezza7325]

We got our colour TV with a remote control with a cord when I was 9 years old 😂 1976. I'm not sure when colour TV actually came to Australia 😂😂😂

[@nolajoy7759]

1975 😊

[@deniseelarde2074]

It’s Tarax Lemonade, sadly the company is long gone. Good soft drinks though! The sexy blonde is Abigail, she’s 77 now. Arnott’s Iced VoVo are still with us. Milo is actually a man’s first name of Greek origin, eg Milo Yiannopoulos TAA = Trans-Australia Airlines. Not Atlantic, we aren’t near the Atlantic. 😃 The Trix commercial has Stuart Wagstaff in it, born in Dumford in 1925, he came to Australia where he worked and lived until his death in 2015 at age 90. The dishes dry themselves when you leave them in the dish rack and Trix doesn’t leave streaks like other dishwashing detergents. Saves wiping up. Did you not know that wet things dry in the air? 😂. Sometimes your brain freezes, Kabir! 😃😍

[@lillibitjohnson7293]

We got colour tv in 1975

[@DavidPola1961]

The cricket was shown in colour in late 1974 but officially 1975 , ha Abagail from number 96 black label orange TAA Trans Australia Airways went the way of the Dodo along with Ansett many years later

[@coraliemoller3896]

Did you mean the original TV show with Mr Peabody (smart dog) and Sherman (the boy) and the WABAC (history travel) machine?

[@SheriRoyston]

1974 we got colour TV

[@top40researcher31]

1st March 1975 Australia switched to colour

[@amandameale6000]

Never heard of Tarax.

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

A algal wow

[@lillibitjohnson7293]

TAA = Trans Australian Airway

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

Gasoline

[@frankisfunny2007]

The US came with color in 1953 by the US electronics company RCA (Radio Company of America).

[@frankisfunny2007]

Interestingly, Matchbox cars were originally made in the UK by Lesney. That building is still around, and still has "Lesney Matchbox Toys" on the side. The brand went through 2 other owners, and it's now owned by Mattel.

[@frankisfunny2007]

7:30..... here in the US, we got Trix, but Trix is a cereal brand

[@Aussie_gamer.]

Can you react to chopper Reid

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

Miss my great uncle Terry

[@Aussie_gamer.]

First can you pin me

[@top40researcher31]

You need to speak fluant English to pronouce Australian words

[@mikeparkes7922]

Colour TV USA - 1954 Britain - 1967 Australia - 1975