Classic British Adverts from the 1970s Part 2/10

[@takerhapsody]

Am watching with a gentle tear on my cheek at memories of watching with my mum, dad and nan . Only Mum left now . Lovely times

[@speckledjim9895]

We've reached the age when life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

[@TheDillygent]

Oh dear Donna hope she is still with you, but if not you will have fond memories x

[@pyewackett5]

I'm the only one left out of my family. But we have our memories

[@georgiamurphy5799]

Dilly Gent that's true and lovely! Happy Thanksgiving, give thanks for all of our great memories and family times, even the challenges made us stronger ♥️

[@roryobrien3884]

Bore off

[@allysmith7351]

I haven’t seen these for nearly 50 years but can remember the adverts almost word to word !!

[@dizmop]

the power of good advertising, it's as if they were eon TV last night

[@fluorosco]

​@@dizmopI know ❤

[@cielobuio]

How I miss those care free days, life seemed so much more simple back then.

[@sparx180]

cielobuio I was more innocent back in the day. How I wish I could go back.

[@vivienneandersson6019]

Makes me sad, days when all my family were alive and we were all at home.

[@jazzman1626]

I remember when my dad was 60 and he said “race you to the bus stop” I was 13 but he beat me to it easily. I miss him when a war movie or cowboy movie was on TV and when he was going to the toilet, he’d say “tell them to keep their heads down, I’m going to get my gun”.

[@TheDillygent]

Andromeda, me too x

[@bigteno4597]

Andromeda you are so right. Those very same thoughts entered my mind too. Happy days. Xx

[@susanleitch8649]

And me.

[@camdenwyatt69]

i guess I'm kind of randomly asking but do anyone know a good site to stream new movies online?

[@zaftra]

What freaks me out is how many I remember and I haven't seen them since the 70's.

[@redscouse7056]

zaftra same here! just proves how effective those adverts were and how crap they are now

[@jazzman1626]

It’s like I saw them last week.

[@w1lf1ewoo]

It is very odd how we remember things with no apparent meaning....I get the same feeling from TV & films I know I haven't seen in 30/40 years and yet still remember random dialogue from them...wonder why?

[@NW-lv9gb]

Same here and I'm singing along😂😂😂

[@sparx180]

zaftra Because of the good quality.

[@kevinbill9574]

Wow, pathways to long abandoned memories just opened up in my brain. This was how the world looked when everything was still possible for me. I suppose that's the definition of the 'good old days'

[@gigsandbusking8959]

Hey your still around aren't you! :)

[@kevinbill9574]

Yeah, but everything was more intense back then...

[@ZnenTitan]

I agree, much more authentic and "realer"

[@crotchet1586]

Kevin Bill Simpler too Kevin.

[@alfiecollins5617]

You're never too old to try new things though. There are still a plethora of possibilities.

[@fluxfotos22]

1970's a fabulous decade, lot's of fantastic memory's. The 70's as a child growing up was for me remembering sweets like chunky chocalate bars, marathon's, opal fruits, texan's, and mars bars that were big, not the pathetic small, misely stuff you see now.

[@jimsimpson1006]

Old Jamaica, with rum and raisins. "And don't ee knock it all back at once, arrr Jim lad." Remember?

[@BaddaBigBoom]

Yeah! ...Lotses of memorieses ...and texanses and marathonses!

[@mauriziomoreni1434]

The crap says it all too worried about pc

[@mauriziomoreni1434]

Sorry its got ten x worse now

[@stingray4real]

The man involved in a collision with John Cleese is the late George A Cooper who played the Caretaker Mr. Griffiths in Grange Hill.

[@alfredlock3902]

That Dunlop ad..One of the funniest ever.You daren't go anywhere near my Dad as he roared with laughter with arms a flailing and feet a stamping..Oh happy days

[@howardfortyfive9676]

I was cracking up nearly all the time. That Dunlop ad was comic relief!!

[@Sheri451]

My dad, who passed away in 2012 used Brut. I still love the smell.

[@aalexjohna]

Sheri451 that's what killed him

[@halcyon289]

The smell of the 70's.

[@cotswoldcuckoo775]

Splash it all over. Worked a treat. Kept flies, mosquitoes and midges off me a treat. And women, except the ones who looked liked Henry Cooper .... you know, all those women who lived in the north of England. I switched to Hai Karate after a bit, but worse. All those blokes in pyjamas coming up to me saying their names were Cane, Sugar Cane, but I could call them sweety. That's what comes of a better life promised by advertising. Used Lifebuoy carbolic soap impregnated with essence of pickled onions after that and have never regretted my choice to this day.

[@colinp2238]

@@cotswoldcuckoo775 I wore Hai Karate and was attacked by 3 ninjas.

[@supaooze3600]

colin Paterson it was my go to Father’s Day present for years that one lol.

[@XbirdgirlX]

Haha 😂 I nearly started dancing to the Peugeot 305 ad. These ads are entertaining.

[@MrReasonabubble]

As tame as it looks now, I remember the disappearance of Carol Hawkins' tennis outfit really getting my attention as an impressionable teen! There's a whiff of Benny Hill about that whole Dunlop advert, and we will not see its like again. What surprises me watching that ad now is how well done it is technically. I tried to spot the edits where they must have removed each of the products, and in most cases they were barely perceptible. They even managed to get the dog to be (almost) perfectly still between shots! In those pre-CGI days, a lot of work must have gone into such a well-made ad.

[@victormorris3680]

Dunlop makes nothing in this country now, we, really too expensive to employ?

[@chaos.corner]

Reminds me of the Kentucky Fried Movie zinc oxide ad.

[@roadie3124]

Was that the voice of Richard Briers in the Dunlop ad? Richard's best part, in my opinion, was Felicity Kendall's bum in "The Good Life". Voted "Best Bum on TV".

[@jazzman1626]

roadie3124 I watched The Goodlife to see Felicity Kendal in her dungarees. Gorgeous, petite darling she was.

[@zosothezephead837]

I LOVE those Pepsi ads, especially the one with the nerd - the jingle is fantastic. And the end of the Dunlop ad - such a pity you'd never see that today. I thought the Kelly Le Brock speech was a parody, hilarious.

[@cmdfarsight]

Kelly lebrock really sounds enthusiastic about the head and shoulders lol

[@TCDL11]

"And that's really terrific". 😂😂😂!!!

[@yasminm7157]

The lady with the red curly hair in the Peps ad @4.23, I think she’s the the same lady from the Flake ad earlier in the 70s where she’s painting in the field. Now that one is soooo nostalgic. Probably my fave ad of all time. Really takes me back.

[@pj5517]

A few familiar faces, Ken from Citizen Smith, Cheggers, the caretaker from Grange Hill and a few more famous ones. Imagine the do-gooders re the Dunlop one now

[@Enpassantful]

Proper adverts, not like the rubbish you get nowadays.

[@concerned1]

Joss Cues what?

[@hgm8337]

Joss Cues true,.. some lame products if we’re honest though lolz

[@drsigh]

The Dunlop ad was just brilliant...

[@withonelook1985]

Orlando Bloom showing up in a commercial from before he was born was different...

[@MrArchie800]

Ironic that I find watching blurry 1970’s adverts on KZbin more entertaining than watching current TV shows in 2018 on my massive high definition TV! (And don’t even get me started on the dumb 2018 adverts!). Progress my arse!!

[@originalveghead]

Welcome brother

[@jeangough8053]

So true!👏👏 well said

[@markdemell6087]

Hahahah ,good one dude.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

Regress

[@Paul-11]

Absolutely, talk about Blurry, That current TV idiot Ant Mcpartlin Fartlin whatever, well he's still got his slot after seeing Blurry lamp posts & pavements and crashing his car while drunk. Could have killed someone & should be sacked.

[@michaelhoward1167]

£9.95 for a pen in the 1970's?? You'd have to be Audrey Forbes-Hamilton to afford that😮

[@tonyfranklin8306]

mid 70s up North probs about 25-30% of a weeks wages. I paid £70 for a pen in the mid 90s that I've still got, that was 27% of a weeks gross before tax for me.

[@toddscollectibles980]

Carol Hawkins....she was my babysitter years ago lol. Her parents were good friends of mine!!

[@mortuaryartist]

Please sir, Fenn street gang Carole..awesome

[@robertm7071]

The days when adverts made sense and you were never tempted to put the kettle on during them. They were made by people of maturity and sanity, unlike those today, made by children pretending to be adults.

[@Hirsute63]

The Skol ad, the girl in the bathroom was Suzie Birchall (Gail's mate) from Coronation Street.

[@Ronno4691]

Cor, yeah! A sensual redhead :-) She also shagged Gail's boyfriend Steve behind her back. The guy looked like Mark E. Smith from Manc band The Fall IIRC (this WAS in 1978). She turned up in Corrie again a few decades later.

[@carlomezzatesta4659]

Is that girl the one that worked in the jean shop with Gail ?

[@jamespond605]

I turned the tv off because of all the add,I am now watching old adds on computer

[@gremlinuk1968]

but the old adds are the best 70s,! well for me anyway, as a kid back then ! born 1968, , kid 70s !

[@fluorosco]

@@gremlinuk1968 1970 me. Being a kid in the seventies . The best

[@markdunbar8219]

😂😂😂same

[@Dreaded88]

@@@fluorosco : You've just given me a wonderful idea for an Advertising Production company! We'll do your ad's in 1970's commercial styling with today's fashions!

[@daver.j6805]

Im with you all

[@oldgit4260]

Adverts are soulless these days and have almost zero creativity compared to these old ones. Watching these is actually entertaining...

[@peteradaniel]

Yes because capitalism is full of soul and meaning whatever era you’re in!

[@jazzman1626]

paul wignall You can add man hatred in ads like the ones by Muller Light Greek Style Yoghurt.

[@j.dmetalhead7517]

My enjoyment of watching these old adverts was upset by bloody adverts 🙄

[@fluorosco]

Get tired of the same underpants

[@krishnan-resurrection714]

Irony at its best

[@mousehead2000]

Oh how I love the scratches and blips you get in old film.

[@byteme9718]

They're put there with a filter. Film technology produced near perfect images.

[@davba2]

@@byteme9718Actually, ad breaks in the 70s did have blips and scratches like that. It was caused by the film having a leader edited on to the front so that they could be run through a telecine.

[@byteme9718]

@@davba2 No ads shown at that time were of such poor quality. The cost of TV advertising, especially at prime time when these was shown was enormous and the quality was equivalent to the shows they were sandwiched between.

[@davba2]

@@byteme9718Yes they were. I was there, watching them at the time. It was just the limitations of the technology. I even remember an ad that slowed down and stopped, because it was being run straight from the telecine and it broke down.

[@byteme9718]

@@davba2 You're wrong, certainly in the 1970s.

[@st.apollonius5758]

A trip down memory lane but I think the Brut advert was from the 80`s we had Brut 33 back in the 70`s with Henry Cooper "Yeah Yeah splash it all over"

[@warrenalexander5285]

A golden age of advertising

[@johnrider5701]

We may only have had three tv channels and no Internet or mobile phone s but I'd go back to the 1970s in a hartbeat if I could ....

[@davegalea6689]

60's and 70's will always be the best. wish we had a time machine to go back.

[@angelaburton4712]

I used to watch these when I was a kid, they don't make these any more pity.

[@MrHarryHewitt1983]

I just skipped the ads so I could get on with watching the ads. 😂

[@AntimatePcCustom]

ha! that blond girl was talking danish xD what she said: "can you speak slowly? i learned english in the school..." and then it cuts xD

[@charliebrown3307]

I remembered this advert. I wondered what the girl was saying. What happened to her. where is she now?

[@bharatbhagwat]

These adverts never bored us .... :)

[@noesense769]

Awesome absolutely awesome.

[@KnowYoutheDukeofArgyll1841]

Dunlop meets Benny Hill. Try getting away with that in an advert nowadays.

I was thinking that was very convoluted just to see a female in her undies. Repressed men back in the day I suppose. Stuffy old ad men hot under the collar.

[@jazzman1626]

You could get it like that now, but it would be the man losing his clothes. That’s ok apparently in these hypocritically gynocentric times.

[@i.george2321]

10 quid for a pen is still steep even now. back in the day it would have been something like 100£. mental

[@mcfcguvnors]

get a case of biros for a tenner still now - 1,39 for a pack of 30 :D

[@alisonmccrackenmills6893]

It's a rolled gold pen for £10!!

[@jeffblack5024]

Notice how the noughts just roll off ...

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

£10 for a pen was a massive amount! I can remember saving up like mad to buy a 45 single!!!

[@jackiedavies6956]

Was great to see that Livi's ad again took me straight back to my 13 year old self.

[@GRAHAMAUS]

5:50 Keith Chegwin, RIP.

[@llewellynpatrick160]

Nice selections of ads - ty

[@MelliaBoomBot]

It really does all go too quickly, people ought to stop and enjoy and treasure their memories. Watching these for me, like other commentators, reminds me of being sat with the whole family, only my Dad left now. Now Ive moved to France to be with my French other half and he is the same. Treasure your family memories folk, enjoy them. x

[@hopebgood]

I hear ya sis. I only have my mum left. I've been chatting with other people about their old family Christmases. Good, unforgettable silly times. ;)

[@jourellelane1686]

Penelope keith i remember This commercial on english tv On ITV what memories The parker lady ad i remember Seeing this pepsi advert When the girl tells in in german To speak slower because she didn't understand him lol Love this campari commercial With Lorraine chase And seeing john cleese in that car commercial how i miss england I love that second pepsi commercial with the guy asking the girl out on the dance floor That levi commercial used that Bellamy brothes tune let your love fly love the pepsi commercials in England and that advert with Kelly lebrock for brut cologne I was a kid when this saint bruno Tabacco ad i love it Peugeot 305vad i remember This one too

[@probablygraham]

I acvtually used to look forward to some of the adverts in those days, for example the Guinness ads. Nowadays it seems that the people making the adverts believe that the more annoying the advert is, the better it works. I sat down the other day and tried to remember what the most annoying adverts were actually for, and I realised that I did indeed remember the ads but had no idea what they were advertising. A perfect example is the "Captain Sensible" adverts.

[@TheMickvee]

Strange isn't it? Back in the 70s you had glamorous birds extolling the virtues of pipe tobacco like St Bruno and Condor, whereas here in 2019 I cannot remember the last time I saw anybody smoking a pipe! How times change!

[@aestroai8012]

Ah these are so cool. Especially the Pepsi adverts. Love it. Thanks!

[@nightvision_887]

0:35 is that Margo Leadbetter from "The Good Life"

[@colinp2238]

Penelope Keith the actress.

[@BaddaBigBoom]

@but ton look, if you've got anything bad to say about Felicity Kendall, you can blimmin well say it to me!

[@AtheistOrphan]

@@BaddaBigBoom - “Oh Tom!”

[@mauriceosullivan6832]

​@@BaddaBigBoom😂

[@markunderwood6851]

when adverts WERE adverts

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

Gosh I remember all these ads. I loved the R WHITES LEMONADE ad!!

[@borgduck]

I forgot Kelly Le Brock existed! What an Angel!

[@huwbishop6995]

Levi jeans with smaller waists than cuffs. That's the 70's for you.

[@jakebond2294]

Before fast food took over.

[@almelling6699]

The point ...in most of the adverts, they wur taukin propa inglish,, a pleasure to hear these days.

[@markST24]

Advert coming in 5 seconds...While watching adverts...😂

[@mikehudson8884]

I know...... the irony.

[@borleyboo5613]

The Dunlop ad! What a hoot!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@paulanderson79]

Lorraine Chase was gorgeous in her day.

[@TheAgProv]

The blonde in the bath went on to be Trillian in the TV version of "Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Incidentally, only two of those adverts were either originally American, or else American adverts over-dubbed with British accents to disguise their origin? (Kelly le Brock would not talk with that accent - she was over-dubbed). what a difference from today!

[@MsHampster123]

The Head and Shoulders ad with Kelly le Brock hahaha the way she says 'It's really terrific' in a dull monotone voice.

[@Bud-gk8bw]

Have I finally lost my mind, or is the young guy in the first Pepsi ad Barry from "Last of the Summer Wine"?

[@choppy249]

Bud 1877 yes I am pretty sure it is him.

[@suzyb4237]

Yes it is Barry...

[@nutster9000]

Yep & sad old Keith Chegwin trying to pull a bird in a Pepsi add!

[@ianclegg794]

Yes it is mate

[@stairwaytoheaven321]

Wow, forty odd years gone by, and I still can't remember the words to the pepsi adverts.

[@darkdungeons184]

stairwaytoheaven 321 I learned that when it came out my family tried , HOPELESS LOL

[@unemployablegraduate]

That settles it. I'm off to buy a brown Peugeot 305 so I can feel stylish, powerful...

[@spmoran4703]

You will be the height of sophistication .

[@hugoagogo4324]

Ahhh when Britain was great , I just sit and wonder where have those years all gone ? Its just gone so fast

[@krishnan-resurrection714]

sold to africa

[@angel22893]

Peugeot really pushed the boat out!

[@atilllathehun1212]

The days when EVERY advert wasn't a PC box ticking exercise.

[@AnnabelleJARankin]

Love the Dunlop ad.

[@swifty1969]

too bad her underwear was not made by Dunlop.

[@huw3851]

Always nice to see Carol Hawkins again.

[@paperchain1239]

... And that Pepsi advert still makes you feel thirsty.

[@harnois75]

Oh, there was an KZbin advert break in the middle and I wondered why the quality and humour dropped, then, thankfully, the video came back.

[@peterking2651]

Classic! I forgot about Humphrey's.

[@U2QuoZepplin]

I miss the days when Pepsi used to come in white cans like that.

[@davidschwartz3894]

Jimmy Durex yes pepsi had flavour then-- it's tasteless now !

[@davidschwartz3894]

Leonard Chornomaz interesting.....yet coca- cola still retains its taste;must be the "magic" ingredient lol !

[@chrisrowe5506]

Pepsi was the best. It was the best tasting soft drink. Now it's like drinking water. All those E numbers need to return. Bring back flavour.

[@rayjay1585]

White cans in 2020 would probably cause a race riot

[@L3wis1]

I nearly died of laughter when John Cleese jumped out of that car. That second Pepsi advert is real quality as well.

[@stephendoughty1472]

Great to watch them now for me..never had a TV growing up we were skint..had a radio receiver though.

[@alwcurlz]

3:07 Hahah!! Dunlop had the best commercial ever!!

[@AcePanno1]

That's Barry from Last of the Summer Wine in the pepsi ad

[@cosmicdogdancer]

And the other Pepsi ad is Keith Chegwin, who also did a Marathon (Snickers) advert.

[@renard801]

I was just going to say that - about Barry, and Cheggers!

[@williamsterben]

Yes! Was trying to think where I'd seen him.

[@babs5968]

In the “ good old days’ you would often spot unknowns who later became well known ( the guy in the Pepsi add in the disco was from Please Sir too), now with celebraty endorsements it’s the other way around.

[@siobhanparker5076]

AcePanno1 he was also Wolfie smith's best mate(Robert Lyndsey) in citizen smith.he's brilliant at playing gawky!🤓🤓

[@misst.e.a.187]

I remember every one of those ads. I especially liked the cool Pepsi ads (never drank the stuff), and the Dunlop one is funny. Good old days.

[@alm5966]

I'm old so I remember them all.

[@s.wright6945]

Lovely memories.

[@bbreimm]

4:03 The moment someone at Dunlop decided they should be making Sports Underwear too.

[@steveprice638]

Anyone remember 'After two weeks of siege and Silk Cut' with 'de stubborn stains' and set in Rorkes Drift?

[@TheHideChild]

I sat watching the Peugot 305 advert thinking: ''Oh Christ, was I really born in that decade ??!...'

[@daftevader6718]

These were the days when adverts were designed to persuade you to buy things or do things. The days we had CHOICE! Now the government TELL us what to eat and drink. How often to dot it. Control the cars we drive and even charge us to drive on roads we already pay to drive on. These were the days you could be PROUD to be British. Not anymore now that we are the joke of the world.

[@ewolbach]

DAFT EVADER America is the joke of the world

[@BaddaBigBoom]

....and there he is: the obligatory Daily Mail worshipper. As you lot say "beggars belief"!

[@BritishComedyUK69]

Fantastic memories

[@deanpd3402]

It's a pity that Dunlop didn't make underwear.

[@I_Don_t_want_a_handle]

They did make elastic though ...

[@progress-ms3du]

The woman in that ad is probably in her own 70's now ! 😊

[@1800astra]

"I'm Kelly Le Brock's dad, and I can confirm her dandruff was truly shocking. Fortunately I got her the Head & Shoulders and she went on to star in some of the Eighties most mediocre movies." - Casper Le Brock.

[@SuperIliad]

Dunlop commercial a most ingenious idea!

[@EIBBOR2654]

One thing is for certain, my ex wife must have gone to that school for young ladies. She's Scottish but knew how to spend all of daddies money like a drunken sailor in port for the first time in a year! I had to laugh at that one, then cringed when the memories came back.

[@mh53j]

EIBBOR2654 women's groups would go bat-shit over that advert today!

[@mectron63]

i desperately need a peugeot 305 1300 cc looks like a right fanny wagon.

[@mh53j]

mectron63 but it's described as a family car.... interesting family!

[@1800astra]

The automaton with the dead eyes praising the virtues of Style, Power, Space, Comfort, and "Beautiful" in the Peugeot 305 ad does look like a right goer.

[@geegod9122]

@@1800astra crikey

[@markthomas9769]

Back when ads promoted products rather than sociology...

[@SpookyElectric319]

Kelly Le Brock in the Brut advert and then Head and Shoulders. Wow!

[@PtolemyJones]

I think it's funny how cute the Pepsi ads are, without implying their product will get you laid.

[@rcaken]

Ohh its our Barry from Last of the Summer wine !!

[@tonycharlton4296]

Remember them so well

[@suzyb4237]

The days when we had a MILKMAN in the morning!!Aaah and those retro cars ... we had a Morris Marina in the Dunlop advert ... such better times

[@manichairdo6346]

I remember those adverts....both of them.

[@john6203]

1:28 A very young Mike Grady who played Barry in Last of the Summer Wine.

[@L3wis1]

I didn’t think anything could make me want a Peugeot less but that ad managed it.

[@indigogolf3051]

Of course I didn't catch the pearl necklace reference in the Pagan Man ad when I was a teenager.

[@colinp2238]

Yes he gave her "beads" of the fluid kind.

[@terinasargeant138]

Lol yeh the Dunlop advert cool.

[@cogidubnus1953]

The seventies were a different world....

[@swifty1969]

you don't see adverts for pen anymore. Nobody cares about luxury pens anymore. Mine how times have changed.

[@Pheluv]

I still own a luxury pen. I use it for writing cards, they do make a difference my handwriting is much nicer with it, and usually I receive a complement on my script.

[@alisonmccrackenmills6893]

@@Pheluv Me too! Mont Blanc fountain pen at home and a disposable fountain pen in work!!

[@Stringbean421]

@Draveller The person you replied to with your comment obviously knows that!! That's why he says how things have changed.