Classic British Adverts from the 1970s Part 10/10

[@The4thDensity]

I was born in 1968 and my childhood was all the way through the 70's. Just brings back these amazing feelings inside. I love watching them but it makes me so sad that I'll never be able to go back. I'm so thankful I was born to experience this amazing time in our history. Kids today haven't got a clue.

[@juliancrittall3291]

1968, a good year !, so was I, sadly cannot go back !. Was the bike advert a bit later, the popular 70's bike I remember was a chopper !.

[@paymydues]

Couldn't agree with you more and I tell everyone the same thing. Mobile phones are more of a curse than a blessing. Drives you nut's

[@honeyplaysroblox77]

I’m 13 😂 I don’t know any of these ✌🏻 but my mum if she saw this would cry

[@The4thDensity]

@JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE I bet your fun at party's.

[@The4thDensity]

@Purple Guy If I was born in 1968 surely you would be able to work it out. However just in case I'm now 52.

[@jameshunter7303]

Life was so much simpler and better back then. Getting those vibes back just watching these. Miss the 70’s and 80’s so much

[@velobob4299]

Me to.

[@labradormcgraw]

Wonderful memories. What I wouldn't give to go back. Such a simpler time.

[@busterabcat]

As kids growing up during that era, we all had proper childhoods then - and they were all rough and tumble and stark and austere and filled with equal amounts joy and fear (of strangers and scary public information ads) as you would expect....but there is such a huge difference between the post 80s generations and what we had from the 1960s-1980s. Fittingly, we had great music and TV to go with it. Those glorious Halcyon days of our collective misspent youth..... Modern life is rubbish really.

[@CelticSaint]

Ain't that the truth, just look at the state of things now. Country has gone to pot. Thank God I experienced it when it was sane.

[@t3chnod3lic]

We were born at the right time... the best times are gone. Wouldn't wanna be a youngster nowadays.

[@andybaker2456]

Just watched all 10 of these back to back...what a trip down Memory Lane! Amazed that I was singing along word for word with jingles I hadn't heard for 40+ years! 😊

[@andybaker2456]

@Ian Warren I bet kids of today won't remember TV adverts in 40+ years time!

[@fluorosco]

​@@andybaker2456 Or songs or music or movies

[@chunkythehutt7106]

Lots of these old ads are alot better than lots of TV today.

[@mirabellamcgarry8269]

Omg I bloody agree with you right there

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

Chunky the Hutt the only ads today are funeral related, accident claims, life insurance and boring as fuck.

[@melgrant7404]

@@Eleventhearlofmars agree

[@hgm8337]

True,.. although what they were selling was a bit lame,. if we’re honest

[@notanumber1311]

@@Eleventhearlofmars Comparison Sites.

[@steviefitzsimons9113]

I was born in 67 and remember these. I was in the basil brush fan club..memories.

[@davegalea6689]

I Miss the 60's and 70's. wish we had a time machine to go back

[@CHIMNEY7]

This takes me back. I remember we had a large television set that was in a fitted wooden cabinet with folding doors on the front and it weighed a ton when we had to move it. Great memories and great times.

[@rolandcolyer5199]

I love all nostalgia ads! They make me feel younger ......mind you I've just turned 64!

[@kuryakn]

Except for the guys, and the blacks of course.

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

Aww used to love Basil Brush as a kid. I remember some of these ads!

[@Seasider70]

That basil brush one was genius, and that rabies one scared me shitless.

[@amethyst1826]

Should have a rabies one these days. It might not be rife now but it could stop people bringing in their pets.

[@langdale55]

Good to see Mr Roy back on our screens!

[@annalewis5443]

Sat watching these great ads, got hundreds of channels to choose from and these are far more entertaining than any of them. Say no more.

[@mjfan3709]

Aww honey monster!!!! Memories.........I’m 8 years old again!!

[@nonyabusiness999]

That bike advert was ahead of its time...the video effects would still look great today..

[@blastfromthepast8344]

Pulling a bird in the '70s was so easy... you just stood at a bus stop eating a Twix and a stunning, complete stranger would run the entire length of the road, straight up to you and literally beg for those three inches of yummy badness. I had a friend who spent the entire decade standing at bus stops eating Twix. He died a virgin in 1981 of a heart attack, weighing 27 stone.

[@mjfan3709]

Blastfrom thepast 😂

[@dezmondwhitney1208]

Brilliant! A gentleman and a scholar.

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

Blastfrom thepast only 3 inches? No wonder he died a virgin.

[@stephenroney6490]

He should have eaten curly wurlys. They were about 9 inches long.

[@supaooze3600]

Stephen Roney ahh yes Curly-Wurly When Cadbury’s was an English company and didn’t try to sell us crappy U.S “candy.” The Americans do a lot of great things but their chocolate (candy) really is shite.

[@alm5966]

I got a Grifter for Christmas but when I opened the garage door it rode off and I never saw it again.

[@billgowland3250]

I remember walking down the high street aged ten with my dad I stopped outside a shop window My dad asked what you looking at son I replied I've got my eye on that grifter dad He said at those prices son you better keep your eye on it son because you'll never get your arse on it A harsh lesson well taught and well remembered Thanks dad

[@Goodbyeeveryonehere]

Omg. I take it the band Slick didnt last long. I was born in 70s and I never heard of them

[@scarletpimpernelagain9124]

Janie Holland Midge Ure became Ultravox and produced the best single of the 80’s, Vienna. He then went on to co write the Band Aid single with Bob Geldolf. Quite an accomplished young lad really.

[@mjh5437]

@@Goodbyeeveryonehere "Slik"

[@jetstv3636]

My wife told me that she used to have a Chopper...I thought she always walked a bit funny

[@beebopvroop5218]

Pocketeers! My god that's the first time I've even thought of those in forty years. Actually had the magnetic racing car one....happy days 😊

[@therealpbristow]

The Nintendos of their day! =:o}

[@Ianstonn]

'Pockateers' ! ... That takes me back, had all of those in the 70's!

[@JonsTunes]

100% forgotten about those 🤯

[@cheesy1489]

I had a grifter bike n my brother had the striker good times man being a kid in the 70’s-80’s making crazy ramps 🙈😂😂

[@stingray4real]

The pop group Slik featured in kid's TV magazine Look-In .The lead singer was Midge Ure .

[@classic3511]

The last one, Actionwear, brilliant.

[@SoEightiesItHurts]

I'm a 50 year old guy and i still want a Grifter.

[@tracycollins7935]

SoEightiesItHurts GROW UP.......LOL

[@dionysiaex5538]

Grifters were too heavy. I remember trying one. Not as good as my Chopper.

[@markroberts4575]

SoEightiesItHurts :Had a grifter when I was 10 and that bike was as tough as old boots,aaahhhhhhh they where the day's.

[@leehallam9365]

I had one!

[@dogtieredwozear6098]

SoEightiesItHurts yes and I'm 59 and still want a Raleigh chopper

[@tamarawiggall4457]

I still laugh at Basil Brush... & I'm now 48!! 😃😂

[@martyireland58]

Just loved the honey monster. Bring him back, not the new one but the original.

[@OrthodoxChristian809]

@ No, the muslim transsexual.

[@NOTODIVERSITY]

The original honeymonster admitted years later that he was a heroin addict and spent all his money on it.he was broke homeless and sleeping on the beach at Blackpool...

[@pjmbidge632000]

Twix and all the other snacks are tiny now, Wagon Wheels are so small now they would be called skate wheels

[@simonmoore2380]

Paul Marshall Twix, yes, but not “all other snacks” - quite a lot of them are larger now than they were 30 years ago. Cadbury’s cream eggs are actually 3% larger than in the mid 70s. The reason you think they’re smaller is simple: when you first had them you were about 7 years old - you’ve got bigger, it’s not the snacks that have got smaller.

[@mirabellamcgarry8269]

Omg love them

[@stephenroney6490]

@@simonmoore2380 I remember toffee chews were the size of my outstretched hand, but then again they cost only 1/2p in 1971 and I was only 3.🤔😂

[@abdulmiah1415]

Skate wheel 😂😂

[@sashaboo72]

Paul Marshall I thought wagon wheels had got smaller, but I think it’s just that I’ve got bigger

[@AbsoluteMiniacGena]

2019 and reliving my childhood. Anyone else here?

[@seansands424]

Yes

[@honeyplaysroblox77]

No I’m 13 😂

[@manslayer1972]

I wish life was still like this. Those were the days.

[@bens1972]

It’s great to look back at the old adverts when I was younger, I had a great childhood growing up in the 70’s and 80’s. Although it’s like looking through rose-tinted glasses. But I also don’t like living in the past. There’s so much choice we have today and everything is so much easier, it’s so much better living positive and happy, than moaning, being miserable and negative.

[@richardwright3907]

Wow memories just came flooding back amazing how time flies

[@CelticSaint]

Midge Ure of Ultravox was a member of slick in their early days.

[@busterabcat]

yep - they were Glasgow's answer to the Bay City Rollers too. Another member ended up joining The Skids and later Simple Minds (the drummer Kenny Hyslop).

[@mjh5437]

Slik

[@CelticSaint]

@@mjh5437 Yep, I stand corrected. Thanks.

[@andybaker2456]

I still remember the first time I heard 'For Ever and Ever' by Slik, I thought the intro was scary! But then it morphed into a happy, bouncy song...loved it! 😊

[@fretboardmaster70]

Now at last I find that bloody Rabies advert that put the fear of god in me as a 7 year old. Serves me bloody right for searching for nostalgic ads from the 70s. That was a disturbing one.

[@mjfan3709]

Chris Lightfoot So true Chris I was enjoying the old ads til that came on........ I don’t remember it but it is disturbing to see as an adult so even worse for a child!

[@wleon4068]

Now, it's not so much that rabies kills...IT'S THE TORIES WE HAVE TO BE SCARED OFF!

[@stephenroney6490]

@@wleon4068 I wish we could.get rid of these fuckers with a jag.

[@amandascott5837]

That rabies advert terrified me as a kid.

[@mcfcguvnors]

kinda want a pocketeer game - i dare you 2 go on ebay n try buy one :D

[@JojoChampion]

I still think of that Twix advert whenever I have one. :)

[@stephenroney6490]

When you were 8 did you want a finger of fudge, and when you got it promptly left the cubs? 🤔😂😭

[@jamierothschild1604]

aaah when life was simple and everyone was happy

[@TheRowlandstone73]

3:27 "He's been sulking since those girls kicked him out of that flat".. I see what they did there.

[@jackiebrown7229]

I loved Man About The House. It was cheeky but good fun. ☺️

[@TheRowlandstone73]

@@jackiebrown7229 I love it too. I watch the complete series boxset every 18 months or so! Although I never watch the last episode because I hate that Chrissy married Robin's smarmy brother! :D

[@jackiebrown7229]

@@TheRowlandstone73 funny thing is, the smarmy brother went on to play the snobby neighbour Geoffrey in the spin off George and Mildred. 🙂

[@darrenbrashaw8409]

@@jackiebrown7229 now Dickie O is " Man About Brinsworth House" , I wonder if he still chases the nurses?

[@jackiebrown7229]

@@darrenbrashaw8409 😂😂😂😂

[@dropkick-j6g]

That certainly brought back some memories. In the 70's my brother was in an advert for Bovril, where he played a goalkeeper. (I was secretly hoping to see it among the list) But I did enjoy the trip down memory lane. Thanks 👍

[@amethyst1826]

The flares, now known as 'bootcut jeans.' 🤣🤣

[@artemiszeus9735]

I used to sing the Dairy Milk tune when I was small.

[@mirabellamcgarry8269]

Omg what was it

[@criticalboot2567]

Is it the red and blue car one?

[@someoneorother2222]

That rabies advert (or should be "anti-rabies advert") used to scare the living daylights out of me at the age of about 6 or 7. I suppose that was the idea.

[@GodlessGrandpa]

Very good, thanks for sharing. There are a few more I would have liked to have seen. The PG Tips chimps, Finger of Fudge, the Brut Ad with Henry Cooper and Kevin Keegan. Also the Birdseye peas one with Patsy Kensit and the only a fool breaks the two second rule safety ad.

[@NeuronalAxon]

'Peas that go POP!'.

[@keithnaylor1981]

"Look out for Look-In every week" WONDERFUL slogan. Surely there can be NO ONE who didn't try Clearasil. Some ads then were simply beautiful, the Cadbury's Flake ones and just look at the Crunchie one!

[@MrMittens1974]

Actionwear..when someone slips the whole family an E.

[@johnnyveganite9141]

😂Gotta get me some Actionwear

[@humansrants1694]

My mate had a Grifter it was heavy as hell compared to my girly bike. I nearly cried at Honey Monster that takes me way back to maybe my earliest memory.

[@Thorny5718]

Ahh always wanted a grifter or a striker, my mates always had them, I was always asking to borrow them. I used to have to get my bikes from the tip and build from scratch...poor child haha

[@MusicFurler]

Action wear, my parents would be saying stop dancing, your scaring the budgies!

[@Sameoldfitup]

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams

[@rebeccataylor1625]

Whatever happened to the Look-in magazine that used to feature stories every week like the Six Million Dollar Man (Steve Austin) and the Bionic Woman (Jamie Summers)? Look out for Look-in every week!😄 Brings back brilliant childhood memories seeing this video.

[@pepshaven6520]

That first ad was Nicholas Young from the 70s "The Tomorrow People". Oh the flashbacks... And Richard O'Sullivan!

[@kingporter67]

Great British Adverts classics!

[@bobsoldrecords1503]

I met Lindsay, the Bionic Woman many years ago. Very sweet person.

[@t3chnod3lic]

That guy with the Twix starred in 'The Tomorrow People' (Character 'John' / Nicholas Young)

[@fluorosco]

Straight to the wardrobe for My action wear

[@TheGreatest1974]

Whatever happened to those innocent 80’s? Now all we get all day is life insurance, or as it SHOULD be called- death insurance!!

[@busterabcat]

it's all rather intriguing to recall when exactly the Sugar Puffs mascot changed from Jeremy the Bear to the more infamous and anarchic Honey Monster - as you can clearly see here in the ad starring Henry McNee (or was it MacGee) that the bear still graced the cereal packaging!

[@yvonnejohnson772]

mcgee is Irish name

[@paddymulligan]

Guy Talking on the Look-In ad was former ITV continuity announcer Phillip Elsmore

[@nicolepowell5470]

Basil brush still so funny at 46 years old.(sorry I'm 46) don't know how old basil is.

[@mirabellamcgarry8269]

Omg he don't look it

[@YorkshireMemes]

The last time basil brush was on tv was the early 2000’s and he was hilarious then

[@stingray4real]

Basil Brush today is totally crap.

[@derekporter7658]

Oh jeez!! I remember most of those adverts!!! Roy North and Basil Brush!!! Look-in magazine! Is it still going? The Slik edition cover, a photofit image of Midge Ure 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😯!!!

[@trippy2johno280]

The bird in the rotary/watches advert is 'Anthea' from Whatever happened to the likely lads. (I think!)

[@tonyandthewhoniverse8527]

Quite pleased with my chopper. Wife likes to ride it sometimes too

[@EnglishAddict]

I don't remember cockney sparra' Mike Reid being in The six million dollar man. 5:27

[@takerhapsody]

Look in . Had that every week till I discovered Jackie

[@simonhickey9621]

I had a Red Chopper in the 70s having 3 gears i thought I was the dogs bo##ocks

[@strivingformindfulness2356]

That last ad! 😂😂😂😂😂😂💃😂😂😂😂😂🕺🏻😂😂😂😂💃😂😂😂🕺🏻😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💃😂😂😂🕺🏻😂😂😂😂😂💃🕺🏻

[@halcyon289]

Actionwear....what a great ad. And the music is the business.

[@TheImatube]

Loved my pocketeer

[@scottmac2186]

Cassy Wilkinson still got mine😉😎

[@TheImatube]

Cool

[@andybaker2456]

I had a few, but the Fruit Machine was the best!

[@stephenroney6490]

It was usually young boys who had fun with their "pocketeers".

[@mcfcguvnors]

omg you seen the price of em on ebay ? :o i had an action man apollo space capsule - they are a grand on ebay now - up to 1500 for a boxed mint one - up to 700 for a boxed hasboro/palitoy original action man figure - wish id kept em now

[@galaxi407]

Those Raleigh bikes were ahead of their time.

[@janewagner1601]

I used to be scared to death of rabies had nightmares as a kid....thanks to the adverts media we were bombarded with. Funny how nothing changes. Fear projected by media.

[@ianmcatamney7213]

brilliant i miss my griffter wot a beating that bike took you could go over bottles the ultimate housing scheme bike

[@mirabellamcgarry8269]

Omg I love basil brush haha he's so funny

[@capitol7950]

I loved basil brush show.

[@davethecurrymonster]

I built a 5 speed grifer brilliant for pulling wheelies had a 5 speed chopper to happy days 😀

[@NeuronalAxon]

How did you get a 5 speed Sturmey Archer hub?

[@annoldham3018]

Loved Basil Brush. Loved the way he would say "brush, please, brush!"

[@racheltaylor6578]

I remember this RAF hypothermia ad from the 70’s

[@pauljurgen-romrig9616]

Damn! The action wear girl was fire!

[@MaximusJohal]

Most of these are short and straight to the point

[@farmbrough]

Is that John from The Tomorrow People pulling a bird in Ealing because he's been wise enough to invest in the longer-lasting snack?

[@gilesbrooks8790]

aye

[@walkersmith947]

I use to run home from school to watch the tomorrow people

[@marcstoodley5532]

WE HAD FREEDOM OF SPEECH THEN

[@jharux]

He shouted freely on a public forum.

[@sq1734]

When you could call a spade a spade

[@jourellelane1686]

I remember the first twix advert It takes me back to when i livwd in england i also love this Raleigh bike advert Basil Brush my uncle Walt loved basil brush his variety Show on BBC 1 seeing this advert Reminds me of my uncle walt who has now passed on along wirh his wife aunt IVY seeing basil Brush Reminds me of my uncle walt Richard o sullavan from man About the house i remember look in that was an excellent magazine I used to have picketeers the fruit Machine one god i loved it it Kept me entertained for hours Loved the Dairy milk candy bar I love english chocolate love flake Bars too I remember henry Magee In this commrercial for honey buns Brakefast cereal before he got on the benny hill show that ad for action wear clothes looks like it was made in 1966

[@digglyda]

The Twix advert always used to enrage me because it wasn't just a fucking *snack* like the other *snack* bars. It was a chocolate bar and it was always sold next to things like Mars, Marathons, Double Deckers and Topics AND cost the same. The actual snacks were little things like Penguins, Breakaways, Clubs and Trios. Twix really were taking the piss.

[@Si-ew3ff]

I feel your anger, Diggly...I feel your anger.

[@joshday2334]

The top right member of Slik looks exactly like Peter Capaldi at 3:47

[@CheesestringXX]

Any time you saw a dog frothing at the mouth snarling at you back in the day you and your mates shouted 'RABIES' and ran as fast as you could.

[@vickyoliver1738]

I remember nearly all of these except for the rabies one it’s sure is a blast from the past the action wear clothes is so funny everyone dancing round the livingroom I could not stop laughing

[@klisher]

i just had a crunchie moment myself.. better go and change my clothes.. haha

[@hopebgood]

I remember Look-In. It always had a sort of feeble telly listing at the last page. For progs like Planet of the Apes or The Six Million Dollar Man or The Man From Atlantis and what time it was on for LWT, Southern TV or Yorkshire TV.....

[@jackiebrown7229]

Loved the 70's. I had a Grifter and it weighed a ton! 😂

[@cindywright5883]

My brothers were bought a grifter and a chopper apiece for Christmas from off our nan and grandad. And me, a got a girlie shopping bike 😫 not very good for pulling wheelies, no matter how hard I tried. But I had to be grateful, which I was, that we had really lovely grandparents who made our Christmases great.

[@ajdbatfan]

In the Twix advert, seeing as the fella eating the Twix is John from The Tomorrow People couldn't he have just jaunted to his girlfriend's house ;-)

[@pigknickers2975]

Seriously as a kid I was quite disappointed in him for being like a normal human being at the bus-stop. Remember thinking that.

[@jamescoburn6789]

Grifter, the best bike I never had. Had to borrow me neighbours'.

[@sashaboo72]

james coburn yep same here.😩

[@sashaboo72]

@ that’s a pain you don’t forget ouch!

[@user-gk9pu6oq7j]

Anyway i can go back to the 70s ??

[@lucu01]

you just did

[@simonmoore2380]

Shazad Akhtar I thought we were......bloody well feels like it these days

[@mirabellamcgarry8269]

Wish time flies by

[@gtp_vexd3507]

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[@suethurston2971]

God this brings back memoriers

[@Superbokka]

I never knew Mr Roy was a Druid.

[@TheWendable]

That rabies advert scared the bejesus out of me, I was scared of all animals 'cause everyone that got rabies were apparently 'foaming at the mouth'. Ive never came across or heard of rabies since in UK.

[@rob.cglasto6478]

Has anyone ever found an old advert from around 1975 for a fizzy drink by qoush called Jokers, it had Tom and Jerry on the can along with a comic strip of some kind as well

[@Witheredgoogie]

Today you see a special effect and say oh its just CGI but when you see a bike riding itself in the 70s that was clever.

[@paddymulligan]

Actionwear. Good to see Tessa Wyatt shimmying to the beat 😄

[@kerenchadwick6535]

haaaaaaa "tellem about the Honey Mummy !" haaaaa😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@funkydozer]

Pocketeers! my pocket money went on lots of those

[@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206]

00:49 In this video ... I So wanted a Grifter for xmas when I was 11 in 1979 they were about £85 (A fair chunk of money back then ) ..BUT my dad was just a humble coal miner and I had 4 other brothers so it was out of the question...

[@stephenroney6490]

My dad was a miner as well. I was 11 in 1979 and at Christmas 1978, when I was in the primary 7 class and some guys were going to go to Belgium for a week over Easter. I wanted to go and also to get a new Raleigh bike for Christmas. I was told one or the other, thought it through for 10 seconds and settled on a bike. It had white tyres and a white saddle and white handle bar grips and full length gold mud guards. I got a dynamo set for my Christmas from my 19 (nearly 20) year old brother, Jim and my 24 year old (nearly 25) sister Betty back from Hong Kong with my brother in Law Andy and nmmy 16 month old nephew Craig, after 2 years,. They gave me a komono and a remote controlled tank. At 11.(I turned 11 on 14th December) the Raleigh bike with the adjustable seat and handlebars, even at the lowest was still high up for a wee 11 year old boy and it meant I was balancing the bike on my tiptoes. By age 15 the bike seat and handlebars even raised to its highest level and setting and by then my knees were nearly hitting the handlebars. It then sat in the shed for a year until the summer of 1984 when my brother sold it without my consent for £10.

[@Hellwyck]

I remember Slik... actually, I don't and that's how good they must have been.

[@frankplatt323]

I bet that bloke is going to do a Marianne Faithfull with Twix when he gets his missus home

[@n136h]

Twix, helps you give her the finger

[@jamieb0nd]

I remember that rabies advert. It used to frighten the life out of me 😐🤤☺️