Classic British Adverts from the 1970s Part 3/10

[@theresapierce3934]

I love these old ads, it brings back memories of a more happier, settled time.

[@sarahlouise7163]

i think the biggest contrast between these adverts i remember from my childhood, and today’s offerings is positivity and optimism and zero agenda

[@user-rj9rh8lf2j]

Is that your real picture Sarah

[@lisasmith9536]

A wonderful era to grow up in ❤

[@steved1593]

That 'exercise like a dog' ad at the end 🤣🤣🤣 ! "Roger, come back at once." Excellent!

[@goldheartbadge]

Roger was actually Roger Walker - who was Freddy Marks' predecessor in the trio Rod, Jane and Freddy of 'Rainbow' fame, and later played Bunny in the BBC's flop soap 'Eldorado'.

[@Dan_druft]

If adverts were this good today I would pay for a TV license

[@thelanefamily65]

But the licence is for the BBC and they don't show ads.

[@Dan_druft]

@@thelanefamily65 They do show adds that promote BBC products like BBC radio or program's that the sell around the world and you hear these on both the TV and Radio services.

[@misst.e.a.187]

@@thelanefamily65 But the channels were BBC 1 & 2, and ITV as a package

[@michaelrawson6261]

@@Dan_druft:... The ads to which you refer, aren't any part of the licence fee. bbc-lefty-biased funding all comes from the tv licence, the ads they show, are not "commercials" which make the bbc money, they are in-house promotions for their own programmes and services & the two types of advertising serve quite different purposes. The bbc, does NOT do commercial advertising.

[@michaelrawson6261]

@@misst.e.a.187 :... Not on the licence they weren't. Only the bbc is funded by the tv licence, itv, ch4, ch5 etc, are COMMERCIAL tv stations. The ones that show ads.

[@richardparkin4930]

Honestly, if you weren’t alive in that era, you will never understand how utterly wonderful it was

[@AmethystDew]

So, so true.

[@richards9407]

Absolutely, now all we get is shouting, aggressive feminists spouting politically correct garbage. What a poor frightened and sterile little country we have become.

[@gremlinuk1968]

was ,, a kid back then,, 70s, kid,, born 1968,!

[@PenisMcWhirtar]

Toys were better then - see 3:20 - those Action Man jeeps were really tough toys!

[@Paul-fq9pj]

Life was more straightforwards

[@lillymay3632]

All those adverts are just so wonderful; entertaining. Now, 2018, we have 'very personal' hygiene problems, we need funeral plans, injury lawyers. Not to mention incontinence pads. That is all the adverts we seem to have these days.

[@trippy2johno280]

you humourless twonk

[@DarrenHarrison7160]

BestCanKeanRob2 Wow how conditioned are you? Bet you don't use Vosene...

[@Dreaded88]

@Chump At sea: Know what's missing from today's ad's of 'Very Personal' Hygene problems, Funeral Plans, and Injury Attorney's? 1970's Slap-Stick Non-PC humour about these things!

[@MrMittens1974]

Too true. Even a Flymo garden strimmer ad was something special.

WERES KATY

[@kingporter67]

Love the Bounty candy bar ad, love the Old Spice lotion ad and the Ambre Solaire sun tan milk are my three best ever ads, excellent 1970's British Adverts classics!!

[@georgedonaldson7220]

From a far simpler time. Life seemed a bit more real back then.

[@moobag587]

What lovely memories 🥰. Life was so simple back then 😊. Not like nowadays 😡

[@davidc.williams-swanseauk3623]

I lost my heart to a starship flymo!

[@chopchung]

glad to see that at least ONE other person noticed WHO these gals were!.

[@OofusTwillip]

Sir David Jason nearly lost a few toes to one.

[@slobodanreka1088]

Given this was the 70s, I'm guessing most of Hot Gossip could have used that Flymo in the bathroom, if you know what I mean...

[@pigknickers2975]

the absolutely naturally merging of lawn-mowing with interstellar bacofoiled-up space travel.

[@mutinyonthekitkat]

Seeing this I suddenly remember wanting that helicopter for my action man but my parents bought me the dark green dinghy with outboard motor instead. It took a time but I have got over it.

[@garethbramley1]

Flymo - cashing in on all the late 70s disco stuff. Love those Bounty commercials and the Badedas one is also nice. The Harmony hairspray ad was on all the time as I recall - such a memorable tune and ad. Pepsi was another cash-in - this time on Grease, presumably. The 70s Milk Tray ads were never as good as their 60s counterparts but they still used Cliff Adam's great theme - I think Gary Myers lasted over 10 years. Smarties ('Bop') is sung by Linda Lewis - written by the great Mike Batt. Superb ad - the cinema version is much longer. Ambre Solaire would never be shown today - half-naked women; protruding male organs and naked kids! This was late 70s. You can see why this ad won an award in 1979! Is that Barbara Carrera in DuBonne? Can't be, can it?- but a jolly good lookalike. Recognised the location in that final ad instantly - it's Primrose Hill, London. Thanks for posting this great collection.

[@sirandrelefaedelinoge]

Cashing in on the post Close Encounters sci-fi infatuation

[@albertbatfinder5240]

Kellogg’s ad would work today. It would stand out as being pleasantly refreshing, not simply retro.

[@richarddavies9032]

I used to wonder why I turned out the way I did. As a child of the 70s I was force fed James Bond, and Benny Hill, I didn't remember the commercials - watching them again explains a lot! Thanks for preserving.

[@petrichor649]

It was great because I was kid, lighting candles when the electricity stopped was exciting. It was still good though, flares and wedges 😁. Very pre-internet, less poison and porn. It was maybe better than we thought.

[@jazzman1626]

I used to leave the stylus on the record I was playing until it came back on and the music would get back up to speed again lol.

[@hazelwray5307]

Wedge heeled shoes

[@andrewcollier1093]

The genuine optimism. Something sadly lacking today.

[@elbownesdam4024]

1968 to 1972 were the best years of my life as a young boy 😸

[@bigteno4597]

Takes me back to an era when my family were all.alive.

[@andrewyoung5429]

so sad but they are all around you all through your ups and downs hope your doing well😊

[@bigteno4597]

@@andrewyoung5429 I hope so Andrew, best wishes to you and yours.

[@andrewyoung5429]

@@bigteno4597 And also to you my friend All the Very best😊

[@colinharper5147]

I realize it's kind of off topic but do anyone know a good site to watch new movies online?

[@brysonavi2500]

@Colin Harper i would suggest Flixzone. Just search on google for it =)

[@jdvanguy296]

its weird how these ads actually make me want to buy the product, todays ads don't really speak to me

[@jazzman1626]

רבקה I bought old spice a couple of months back.

[@amethyst1826]

I buy Old Spice and Brut for my oh.

[@spikeybevan]

good observation, I agree with you

[@richardmullins1883]

1:50 made me spit my tea through my nose when he said "with extract of horse chestnuts"

[@balsingh1]

Flymo .. always felt I was dressed wrong when mowing the lawn!!

[@annmitchell4663]

balsingh1 Didnt you know thats how we all dressed to cut the grass.lol

[@Mozzie666]

Bless her. She thinks it's a vacuum cleaner you can use outdoors!

[@ozzie-sk9dh]

Think it was Hot Gossip from The Kenny Everett Show. Fun Fact!

[@whatshisname3304]

how to make lawnmowers sexy and futuristic, as if they weren't already. suits you.

[@joannegray5138]

Waaah! I want to go back to the 70s!

[@davegalea6689]

Me too , and the 60's. it makes me happy thinking about the 60's and 70's. music , football , TV programmes , people , etc was so much better.

[@manslayer1972]

Blimey. Proper sized bounties!

[@SebBrosig]

notice the singer imitating Kate Bush.. or is it really her?

[@jazzman1626]

I love bounties. I bet they were wider then too. There’s hardly any eating in them little things now.

[@noonthumbs2644]

I'd that a euphemism?!

[@amethyst1826]

BLEURGH, blimmin awful chocolate bar.

[@michaelrawson6261]

@@amethyst1826:... I'll 'ave urs then...!!!

[@MrDavey2010]

Takes me back to a much happier and more innocent age.

[@edwinscholey990]

Y'know....my grand-children will say the exact same thing when watching adverts from 2018. Honest, they will.

THAT FLYMOW ADD LOL

[@PenisMcWhirtar]

1:50 - Badedas bathgel was the ultimate luxury back in the day! Also, whatever happened to red Bounty bars? And 3:20 - OMG awesome!!!

[@sarahlouise7163]

no they won’t because today’s kids barely watch tv

[@desertrose1226]

thomas Prior plenty of those around today sadly, shitty attitudes of tail end gen X and Millennials who are just wet farts...

[@timbodude2009]

Its amazing that I remember all of these adverts...so cheesy but so good!!

[@canopus101]

I love the dog walking advert, classsic!!! Good looking women too!

[@daveb9816]

Ah, the 1970's... how life should be.

[@colmmccabe7223]

@Imani Alexander both amazing decades.

[@desertrose1226]

Prefer the eighties but both better than today!

[@The.Last.Guitar.Hero.]

Leslie Ash in the Harmony hairspray advert. I remember so much of these, think the TV was my babysitter

[@YourJellyFishAteMyTV]

"Love I'm going to cut the lawn" but first I need to put on me tin foil outfit with matching hat 🤣

[@DavidFraser007]

Bounty ads made my Gran laugh, go to a hot beach and eat melted chocolate she said.

[@blastfromthepast8344]

They were better times. Action Man Transport Command - we had the helicopter, the land rover the armoured car and the tank - Hot gossip advertising lawnmowers and George Carter from The Sweeney wearing an OXO vest. Better times.

[@toby2636]

Oh yeah I loved the 70’s. I had no job, the electricity was always out, the car never started and everything seemed so dull. I don’t think people remember what the 70’s were actually like.

[@blastfromthepast8344]

@@toby2636 Nonsense! There were a few power cuts (mostly about 1973); everything was bright and cheery (especially in 1976) and your employment status and bad choice of car is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

[@michaelrawson6261]

@@toby2636:... Y'know what Toby, those who went out looking for a job, and looked like they wanted to DO a job, usually found one, whatever it was, and when they did, if they didn't waste their income, after a while, it usually meant they'd start to thrive, rather than just survive. Including, starting to buy motors less than 20 years old, whose previous owners numbered in SINGLE figures.

[@Polemicist0]

Some people today may actually laugh and scoff at these classic, retro television commercials from the 1970s. But the sad fact was they were often far better, and even more entertaining, than most of the the utterly awful television programmes that went on in-between them.

[@ThatsnewsTV]

That's true. Also, I forgotten how naughty some of them were!

[@ThePsiclone]

nothing changed there then

[@ronwhite8503]

They're better than the rubbish on the box now.

[@pigknickers2975]

they were certainly the most expensive programming on the Tv minute for minute.

[@theenglishman9596]

Oh my gawd these ads really work, I'm desperate to rush out and buy 12 boxes of Milk Tray and and all the other stuff especially the chocy bars, mmmmm scrumptious.

[@johndsmith9165]

We used to have a sense of humour, afraid that is history, bad news !

[@markedwards1515]

Thanks to PC Wankers!!!!! Excuse my French.

[@johnnywires943]

Who remembers Benny Hill,ding tha Cadburys Milk Tray take off.He would say,he jumps off mountains and cliffs,walks over crocodiles,avoids explosions and bombs and when he gets to the Lady,he just put the box of chocolates next to her but.......never wakes her up to give her one.Thanks for the post Alex.xxx

[@COIcultist]

Ultrabrite advert. Cindy to Jim. "Would you like some TWA coffee." Jim. "No but I'd love some TWA tea!"

[@ThePsiclone]

I see what you did there hahaha

[@ShadeATV]

Everything was super good back then! kids didn't stay up 24/7 staring at 'smartphones.' Gee, I hate the word smartphone. We grow old too soon. I remember Saturday Mornings with a bowl of cornflakes, watching Hanna Barbera

[@corzakkzakkcor3309]

I grew up in the 70s and i'm proud to say I hardly remember any of this, I was always out doing something instead of watching TV, and here I am now watching this on youtube ,what the hell happened.

[@CaradocX]

Every single one of these ads in the entire series, would be banned, if not actually illegal today. Screw the 21st century.

[@chloekona3632]

That sounds like something my crazy grandma says.

[@ashervonsteinlager]

I know... Im 35 y/o & I'm highly depressed with the current state of the west. The media of my Country of New Zealand is telling us to celebrate the birth of our unmarried communist prime minister. At least Trump talks some sense (when CNN haven't edited his footage and words to tell their version of events)

[@ashervonsteinlager]

Sorry I meant the birth of the prime minister's baby, not the birth of the prime minister.

[@lawrencedavis5459]

These ads are better than anything on TV these days.

[@markdunbar8219]

Wish I was back there now I'd buy several houses for a start 🤔

[@vickyoliver1738]

All my friends and I had to learn the Pepsi add lipsmacking etc and I did and I would say it every time I got a bottle ,have no idea why. I really like watching these brings back good memories,but the girls with the hoover mower soooo funny

[@MrMrh1958]

Because the ads were memorable back then!

[@bluelady4183]

Brings back memories thanks for the upload!!!!

[@ianmax69]

I love that walkies one at the end... Its straight out of a Dave Allen sketch! :D

[@tedski69]

Bounty. Twice as big as it is now!

[@gazzarrr666]

A bit like my cock, unfortunately....😐

[@lozzer6644]

So is everyone who ate them a lot....

[@JohnSmith-el2nj]

No actually. It was never that big. Still believing what they show you on the adverts you moron.

[@jazzman1626]

The size they are now (definitely much smaller), is what they called “fun size”. Eh?! How can smaller be more fun (said the actress to the bishop😂)?

[@AtheistOrphan]

@@jazzman1626 - Just like Ewoks are actually fun-sized Wookies.

[@Fazbats1]

How sad are we watching "ADVERTS" Brings back some great memories 🤣🤣

[@chopchung]

@1:42.... like Mars Bars, you aint gonna find THAT much chocolate on a Bounty these days.

[@kevinshaw1387]

Flymos were bloody heavy from what i remember ...a complete grassy workout in fact !

[@rachp6785]

OMG , I really need a Badedas bath!😅😜

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

Bloody hell, that Flymo ad LOL!!! Very nostalgic collection of ads!

[@HERITAGE12]

when i saw the thumbnail FLYMO was the LAST thing i expected ! :D

[@luvuforeverjames]

Some of those ads are from the 80s....not that I mind of course, they all bring back fantastic memories 😀

[@cathevans9859]

That exercise ad was great and very funny. But can you imagine trying to do that today? You'll have the....oh, never mind - everyone knows where I'm going with this one.

[@anneperry9014]

All these are glorious to see again!!😊😊😊

[@jamescopen9817]

the very fact that some of these products are still here today speaks louder than these ads ever will......

[@gremlinuk1968]

born, 1968,, love looking back to better times, was easer times back then,,!! not like now,!!

[@scottb4697]

I was born in 68 also, definitely better times back then!

[@pigknickers2975]

was born in 68 too. How do you like it now! Getting even better LOL

[@chocoholic832]

Me too & wish we can turn the clock back

[@nicolepowell5470]

Thank you. Great to see Dennis waterman in the oxo advert, love the flymo advert just what we all should be wearing in the garden. Oh not more pepsi adverts.

[@hubs37]

The exercise ad is brill.

[@Leoviliti1]

The era of power cuts ..real family closeness of playing cards and board games under candle light.. Meters to power up the gas..and Slot paying TVs or maybe using radio rentals or Granada ... the TV times and radio times being able to choose what to watch .. And the last word was said by the parent anyway ..and adverts...? We never left our seats!

[@kevinshaw1387]

ahh all the memories come flooding back.

[@paulbarrett423]

the dog walking cracked me up lol

[@davethomas1241]

Life was so much more fun back then lol

[@TonyWeaving]

Totally agree with you Dave. I was a child of the 1970s

[@mistofoles]

A young Dennis Waterman in the Oxo ad !!

[@LINDSAYWINN]

well spotted, I thought it might have been Chris Tarrant.

[@TheKonga88]

mistofoles It's not him it's Peter Sutcliffe 😄😄😄😄😄

[@this_is_a_tiny_town]

I thought it was going to say at the end of that one. "Oh 'ang on. When are you going to get yourself a ruddy 'aircut? Your dad says you look like a big wooly woofter."

[@patrickrose1221]

Didn't realise just how happy we were in our Rupert flares with side pockets and our helmet hair cuts lol ; )

[@davethomas1241]

God if i had a time machine id miss virtual reality but its a sacrifice id be willing to make

[@marksouthall4508]

My mum had a huge crush on Sacha and bought this for my dad, he hated it ! I still love bounty

[@vlobster7660]

This is gold dust...how on earth did you get your hands on all those wonderful adverts??

[@annoldham3018]

One or two I remember from 1978 and 1979, like the cornflakes and ambre solaire ones.

[@joshgellis3292]

That last one is wonderful! I must add it to a personalized track!

[@RazSux]

That Flymo advert is something else!

[@TR6Telos]

Bet that Flymo is now in a landfill.

[@gollycom]

It's on Mars. 👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽🚦🚦🚦🚦💀💀💀💡💡🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🍭🍭🍭🏥🏥🐍🐍

[@marcse7en]

Err, well, it WAS over 40 years ago! I'll wager YOU will be in "landfill" over 40 years from now! 😂😂😂

[@Rosiebeatle]

Flyyyyyyy--moooooow ... probably the best lager in the world... So that's why my neighbour used to mow the lawn in a tin foil suit. Explains everything...

[@doyleperkins7663]

Rosiebangle Lol!

[@willowmadhuridixit8991]

Hot Gossip was the troupe of dancers. Prancing around their lawn trimming their bushes.

[@vickyoliver1738]

Willow MacGregor nothing like trimming your bush outside

[@jazzman1626]

In those foil “space suits”, they should have sung “FlyMo to the moon” lol.

[@nevermind2161]

the human doggie ad gave me tears of laughter

[@joeoliveira1843]

My freind Bobo splashed mandate and he was chased by 3 dogs when he went out for a bike ride.

[@michaelhoward1167]

I preferred Hai Karate - smelled of chocolate 😁

[@gollycom]

I splashed some dolly mixtures on and was chased by giant queen ants.. 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🏃

[@keithwaites9991]

I knew a few girls like that

[@RodKirkbride]

I remember laughing at "things happen after a battered arse" made with horse chestnuts. Class

[@harnois75]

Now that's how you sell Lawnmowers - put Donna Fielding and the rest of Hot Gossip in charge of a Flymo.

[@coastbill]

Its a good job she called her husband in the last clip. He was just about to sniff her bottom

[@gollycom]

He was about to cut her piss flaps off with a razor blade. 🐍🐍🏥🏥🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🍭💡💡💡💡💋💋🛀🛀🐸🐭

[@jazzman1626]

At first I thought that misandrous adverts had started earlier than I thought, but the woman had a collar too. Very funny. He should have humped the other “dog” or someone’s leg ha ha.

[@fruitpie4048]

That last clip was golden! So funny!

[@markjolley3768]

Sacha distel advertising mandate!! fab!!

[@gaynor1721]

Mark Jolley - Mandate speaks his language - French!

[@annoldham3018]

This is not fiction.....this time it's for real. Not just a fun thing, like some kiss and run thing 😘. I was singing along.

[@astrabelmont]

And also a rather wonderful Lotus Esprit!

[@bindgagger]

"Action Man....now available in transgender edition where you can change hair length and breast size by moving a special lever."

[@misst.e.a.187]

😁 Action Wo(Man)

[@michaelrawson6261]

Good grief......!!!

[@AtheistOrphan]

Just dress him in Sindy’s clothes.

[@Slarti]

I would have thought that Mandate was a cologne for gay men, given its name.

[@gollycom]

😂😂😁😁😁😂😂😂🍫🍫🐍🐍🐸🐸🐸🐸

[@amethyst1826]

Roflmfao

[@Trevski2001]

Wonderful adverts. This brought back memories of the Pepsi advert (product being poured over ice cubes) which I saw not on TV but at the cinema - the much missed Odeon Queensway - impressive screen, impressive sound system - really sounded as though an avalanche was going to break through the screen. Infinitely better than the trashy sound systems you get at the average multiplex these days.

[@aardvarkmcgillicuddy]

Ferkin Hell! Those Bounties are the size of housebricks!!

[@bettybarton3832]

Nice to hear again Clare Torry's vocal on The Bounty Hunters TV ad. Composed by Richard Harvey.

[@crystalball6358]

RIP Sasha Distel. Lovely man and entertainer.

[@garryheywood1]

Wow! Mandate aftershave, I used to wear it all those years ago, strange how having your memory jogged like this makes you wonder just how many other things in your past you have forgotten, nostalgia eh? isn't it wonderful ?

[@gremlinuk1968]

born 1968,, was a kid 70s,! rember most of them from the 70s,!! when a kid !!! where has the years gone ?? ;-)

[@desertrose1226]

Sacha Distell, lol the French Cliff Richard!

[@gremlinuk1968]

Remember most of these, as a kid in the 70s,,! Born 23rd May 1968, ! From northern Ireland UK,,! Great Times, but had bad times as well, will not say why,, sorry,, ! Wanted , some toys back then as a kid, but was to much pocket money,,! As I got only got 20p , 50p , at most,,! a week ,!

[@getsomecolourinyourlifedav2478]

Was great to see and remember these ads lol

[@richardbrown1189]

How did anybody sell anything in the 70s and 80s without Patrick Allen doing the voiceover?

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

Brilliant, just brilliant...

[@Rosiebeatle]

"Hi...I'm Sasha Distel ...and I wear Mandate because they pay me a fortune...""

[@SirBorisHayter]

I thought it was a rohipnol advert

[@MartTLS]

Rosiebangle Or Slasher Drizzle As Terry Wogan used to call him.

[@ronwhite8503]

Couldn't sing for toffees......but he preferred a man date.

[@NoirL.A.]

alot more american accents than i would've expected from british ads that long ago. some of those i remember from my own childhood so obviously those were just transplanted american ads but the british ads i was surprised at that.

[@davethomas1241]

I love the flymo advert😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@stuartsmith1489]

The world was a far better place during this decade. A far, far, far better place.

[@stuartwebster4955]

Not a sunlife advert in sight! The halcyon days of the seventies, great times and great memories, no moblie phones no Internet and no political correctness

[@andykelly7321]

Roger seemed like a nightmare to take for a walk.

[@Gandim45]

Even Flymo were cashing in on Star Wars!

[@suzyb4237]

All these ads would work today lol... maybe we might watch the adverts instead of switching them off switching over or turning the sound off Love the French dubonnet advert... a lesson on French verbs lol ...BRING BACK THE OLD DAYS PLEEEEASE

[@stephenhicks9902]

If anyone does a top ten of WTF moments that flymo ad has to be in with a shout for number 1.

[@TumbleTower]

How many TV adverts of 2020 will be this memorable in 30 to 40 years' time? I'll nominate one: Virgin Media: "Nothing's going to stop us now". That will become a classic, like the various Milk Tray ads, the Old Spice surfer (O Fortuna), or the Smash Martians.

[@takerhapsody]

My Mum love Sasha distal but I couldn't say it so he will forever be known as Slasher

[@gollycom]

He was going around in Venice cutting women's piss flaps off 🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🐍🐍🐍🐸👽🐴🐴

[@CS-mo7xp]

anyone remember an ad from around this time...it was split up to look like 3 different ads in a row, but in each one that ennio moricone "ooo-eee-ooeeooo" cowboy music sound would suddenly play. (the last ad in the sequence of 3 was set in a supermarket iirc...)