Classic British Adverts from the 1970s Part 5/10

[@ainsleystones4600]

40 odd years later and i can still remember the words and music to many of these ads. I find myself finishing them. Top stuff.

[@jazzman1626]

Crispbreads. When you’ve finished the last one, you can eat the box too, it tastes just as good after all!

[@cindywright5883]

I'm ashamed to admit it, but I enjoyed Mellow Birds. I've fond memories of having a cup with my mum and having a girlie natter. Sadly my mum has passed away 😔 and I miss her every day. I would go back in a heart beat just to see her again.

[@yvonnejohnson772]

Hi from a mellow birds drinker you mum is still around you won't see her but she will be there when you need her

[@AtheistOrphan]

My mum was a Mellow Birds drinker too.

[@michellefalleur960]

Yes, of course you would x

[@annieheritage8444]

I see the standard of ‘journalism’ in the Daily Mirror and The Sun hasn’t changed over the years ...

[@malcolmclements9254]

But the price has...5p for the Sun £1 yesterday.

[@chopchung]

Such a DELICIOUS nostalgia rush from a British childhood!. LOVELY.

[@TonyWeaving]

I was born in March 1963 so i was a child of the 1970s. We had the best and in spme respects entertaining ads on television. So much better that fhe ads we have today. All we have today is ads for insurance cremations and bingo etc etc.

[@ajsmith5295]

That always made me laugh even back in the day the lady walking around with a jar of coffee in her bag

[@scottmcgregor2001]

In the bodyline ad with the gym attached to the door handle, they cut it just before she got a concussion when her kid barges in saying: "mum have you seen my shoes?"

[@superstephanie42]

Lol

[@mattw8332]

I've yet to encounter these huntresses and swingers The Sun were waxing lyrical about back then. :-/

[@pyewackett5]

Just love Christopher Timothy's over excitable voice when advertising - 😃

[@jiffcat]

The Sun advert was made back when truckin was fun - before they brought in the tachographs, speed restrictors and took all the dolly birds away.

[@Polemicist0]

You omitted to mention about all the numerous speed restriction camera traps that actually make driving a delivery vehicle for a living an absolute nightmare nowadays.

[@tamarawiggall4457]

I could do with purchasing a BODYLINE after this lockdown..😕 Wonder if they're still in production.. 😅

[@Hirsute63]

The lovely Julie Stevens from Playschool, doing the Mellow Birds ad

[@michellefalleur960]

I recognised her from playschool as well !

[@michaelgilbey341]

The one I remember the most here is the Toblerone advert. Many I don't remember at all like The Sun ads probably because they were just one off and I never saw them at the time.

[@bonnieandclyde222]

No gambling , insurance etc , just quality actors and fun , the thing lacking today

[@johnruby147]

4;11 The blonde girl in the Daily Mirror ad is Beverly Pilkington , a Page 3 Girl i was in love with as a spotty teenager

[@starkster2qf]

Like many comments here , I think the 70s were the best period in the human race ever...it was heaven,

[@georgejacob3162]

2:03. That's it! I'm sending off £4.95 for a Bodyline! I hope no-one opens the door as I'm using it!

[@AndreiTupolev]

Before they "improved" Toblerone by giving you more chocolate but fewer triangles, which somehow was an improvement

[@entropygenerator2646]

Dammit! now i want to go to a 70's swingers party.

[@kengeorgejones6855]

Those Sun ads are hilarious.

[@MrPoupard]

I had a suit made to measure by Hepworths circa 1980. It was only many, many years layer when I had the jacket altered that I discovered the bastards had palmed me off with an ex hire without telling me. Still it was a time when, incredibly, you were tripping over - get this -men only outfitters like Jackson, Burtons, John Collier, Hepworths as well as independents.

[@RazSux]

Great ads, thanks for the upload! Don't think I've ever heard my Body Bell

[@boonuts1975]

I miss skips. I'm in America I might have to look on Amazon for them

[@vickyoliver1738]

That exercise thing 4.95 was expensive in the 70s I only got 17 pounds a week and gave my mum 7 pounds of it for house keeping leaving me a tenner for records , tights ,and going out and my bus fair first record I bought was 45 pence. I wouldn’t have bought that thing for that price

[@gollycom]

What's tenner? 🙅

[@YourJellyFishAteMyTV]

That beer ad was class

[@johnbatty3535]

"Mellow Birds with give you piles" That's how I remember that coffee, Yuk!.

[@jazzman1626]

Didn’t taste like coffee either. It was like dust sweepings from the floor.

[@zosothezephead837]

Wow, the Williams ad - the legendary TV on the TV ;-)

[@risvegliato]

The Rolling Stones are back... Yup, still touring 40 years later.

[@johnazhderian5734]

Still touring 400 years later.

[@dizmop]

they've just released a new song 😄

[@HelloAllegro]

Back when the Rolling Stones looked old

[@kingporter67]

A lady in a bikini at the 4:03 mark at the Daily Mirror ad, this is a fabulous 1970's British Adverts classics!!

[@clivejones5880]

Hahahaha. The Sun adverts are so cheesy you could put them on a pizza. LOL.

[@leonardssenkindu188]

The swingers lol

[@Hirsute63]

That 2nd ad the 'Bodyline'. "And then someone opens the door..."

[@garethbramley1]

Toblerone was a terrific and memorable jingle and the only decent ad here. Stimerole - sounds like Kenny Everett who did a few ad voiceovers. Those ads for The Sun and Mirror are pure trash - like the papers they represent.

[@johnruby147]

Be honest how many of us put a smily face in a new jar of coffee like Mellow Birds ?

[@marcse7en]

I can't, because my coffee is granules, not a fine powder! But I do like the smell when one opens a new jar! Incidentally, the coffee aroma is added to the jar during manufacture!

[@garyhunt8067]

I remember Williams furniture store in Brixton

[@joolsfreeman4359]

The She-Male's...hillarious!

[@agfagaevart]

when we look back on today's adverts in the future, they'll all be in HD, with crackle -free audio, and not a scratch to be seen! A shame really.

[@johnfrum8069]

I can't see myself getting nostalgic over Gio Compario anyway

[@mgthestrange9098]

I think the Toblerome jingle was trying to sound like Bowie. Funny thing is that I remember a very similar advert being shown in the 90s.

[@jazzman1626]

If the time machine is ever invented, I’m going to take my hideous brown striped 3 piece suit (wot woz I fingking?) back for a refund, then go to Hepworths for a made to measure grey suit.

[@noelworkman87]

Sally sally right up your back alley!

[@2opler]

Mellow Birds..coffee without the taste of coffee.

[@richardhedderly]

Robert Lindsey at 6:48 :)

[@tamarawiggall4457]

Bring out the Branston!! 👍😃

[@paulwilson6064]

Anyone else spot Robert lyndsey in the stimorol ad.?...(which tasted like paint btw )

[@TheTibmeister]

I dont think I’ve seen a Pepsi advert since the 70s

[@marcse7en]

Jeans for under £3.00! No wonder Woolies went bust? 😂😂😂

[@johnmcgahern3946]

7:31....Sounds like an early days Monty Python sketch! :D

[@bluealnico]

People were happier then

JUST HAPPEND TO HAVE A JAR OF MELLOW BIRDS IN HER BAG LOL

[@Pommy1957]

No, they weren't that's why thousands buggered off to Australia in the '60's & 70's.

[@christianblake3997]

Movie Buff yeah and then Fucking came back cause it was Fucking SHIT!

[@bbbf09]

eeermm? Were you there? Maybe you were happier. Most weren't . Truly grim, dirty, dire poor times. Some very decent music and movies despite that though

[@SMAXZO]

Happier how? I don't think the workers strike meant they're happy, chief.

[@deanstanley5799]

Tommy Vance DJ on Williams advert great bloke

[@nicolepowell5470]

Love the bodyline advert i wonder if it worked.

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

Nicole Powell only if someone didn’t open the door and wallop you

[@almoisthonest5993]

Now add Texas Pete to your coffee and your Tropical fruit punch. We’re haveing a heat wave, a neutron heat wave.

[@yvonnejohnson772]

I drink mellow birds coffee it's in jar now

[@geraldinemckernan9129]

Yvonne Johnson yeah me too

[@yvonnejohnson772]

@@geraldinemckernan9129 don't like strong coffee big mug off hot milk and mellow birds don't drink a lot off coffee hi from a wet wirral

[@geraldinemckernan9129]

@@yvonnejohnson772 lol it’s hard to get too I have to travel to Tesco’s hi from a Glasgow stay safe 🎄

[@yvonnejohnson772]

@@geraldinemckernan9129 I get mine in Asia or bnms am from the wirral which is opposite Liverpool how's cov 19 in glasgow

[@geraldinemckernan9129]

@@yvonnejohnson772 Hi yeah I think I passed it when I was on the ⛴️ ferry Cross the mersey we are going back into to Level 4 an minute past 12 on boxing night 🤔

[@utrapzab]

did any one else skip the ads while watching this?

[@iainmcrae1914]

Anyone remember the old hypothermia ad..guy wallking through the snow? Searching for it

[@foleyartist62]

Some so cheesily bad they look like Victoria Wood sketches! Forgot those hilariously tacky Daily Mirror and Sun 'vicars and tarts' promotions. No sexism in these ads eh? Brilliant to step back in the time capsule but please who is the actress in the Mellow Birds advert - before Diane Keen - she became well known? OMG 'bring out the Branston!' My mother at the time said she would throw it at us if we shouted that at her! Thank you for uploading these.

[@dlamiss]

Possibly Julie Stevens was in the birds ads it looked like her anyway she used to be on play school

[@Ronno4691]

Diane Keen was amazing

[@AuntyM66]

I had a bodyline exerciser.

[@whatshisname3304]

did it work? looks a bit crap.

[@ntak7716]

Bet you got headaches a lot

[@sharongilboy3901]

Is that Lisa vanderpump in the skips advert ?

[@steved1593]

Clicking the [Skip Ads] button to watch more ads!

[@andrewdemetrius8090]

STIMOROL as voiced by Kenny Everett ;-)

[@berenicemoran2105]

Andrew Demetrius & with Robert Lindsay! (Power to the people 😁✊)

[@capitol7950]

It was bloody horrible.

[@6toonboy]

Stimirol the only chewing gum that also made you blind

[@charlesdixon52]

I wonder if she still throwing coffee into plant pots.....

[@withonelook1985]

Were those adverts for the Mirror and the Sun from the 70s or today?

[@craftyajay9495]

Definitely the 1970s; people thought it worth 5-pence back then; nowadays, they can’t give it away.

[@carlcarlson983]

"Bodyline uses the interaction of arms and legs to work with nature, allowing greater amounts of exercise" - wow, that's meaningless sales speak if ever I've heard it! She's literally just lifting her arms and legs, the "strings" aren't even doing anything! 😂

[@edbadyt]

I remember mellow birds, I don't know what it was trying to be but it tasted nothing like coffee. It was disgusting and I'm ashamed that Brits used to drink that stuff.

[@TCDL11]

Mellow birds........Costa Coffee it ain't. Lol!!!

[@burthabard8316]

David Leystar its in pound land lo

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

Made with mellow birdshit

[@mrbrown2186]

It must have a market because it's still in every store and supermarket in the coffee section.

[@MrPoupard]

we didn't know any better! Ignorance was bliss. Remember this was when a meal in the Berni Inn was sophisticated!

[@agfagaevart]

Did he say "...shemales"?

[@agfagaevart]

well blimey! the papers were obsessed with assertive women attacking poor defenseless men. we all know that started in the 1980s

[@lax9115]

Go back to those days in a heartbeat, none of the PC bullshit of today.

[@zanyzoo6767]

5.12, pretty sure thats Lisa Vanderpump

[@sandroballester12]

OMG THE SOFAS WERE HORRENDEOUS FROM WILLIAMS

[@vanillaorchid]

VATMAN calculator prices exclude VAT

[@susandoig4192]

THE SUN HAS NOT CHANGED OVER THE YEARS STILL DOLLYBIRDS AND FOOTBALL

[@susanwalls6232]

So sexiest in then mad to watch

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

The scum, worst newspaper ever, lying bastards, they may as well of pissed on the 96 who lost their lives, scumbags who’d do anything for a storyline.

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

Jackie Treehorn well done girl, nice to hear 👍🏼

[@grahamcunningham2320]

Fangsonofgreatfang, you should give up this commenting buisness you have nothing funny, intelligent or original to say. Just insults and swearing. Yawn!..............................................................................

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

Graham Cunningham I have an opinion and the likes of you won’t stop me making it, I’m only insulting to the rag not anybody on the thread. Btw there’s nothing funny about 96 people losing their lives so why would I want to say anything funny just to please you? Your obviously tired so get yourself to bed.

[@lizveta6643]

I want a BODYLINE

[@annoldham3018]

As you walk through the door, your pound's worth more, at Williams, where else?

[@invisibilitycriterion6782]

Or as saucepan lids (kids) in junior school pitched it: As you walk through the door you fall through the floor, at Williams where else? And Trebor Mints last a little bit longer, stick ‘em up your arse and they last a bit longer. Halcyon days.

[@limuemu4364]

I thought the kid was going to swipe the ones on the counter when the proprietor turns his back

[@weltonvillegal6258]

Okina Dikku - Me too! I thought he was going to fill the violin case with the pile on the counter!

[@beendoneagain]

Bodyline ahahaha a skippping rope and a couple of pulleys. Cha-Ching the marketing men have twigged on to how dumb the public are.

[@StuartVallantine]

Didn't Dynamints become Tic Tacs, or were they a competitor?

[@weltonvillegal6258]

Stuart Vallantine - I think they were different. I remember dynamints as being more like candy here in the States.

[@sithompson74]

Mellow Birds is not bad, better than normal Nescafe

[@datguy9915]

£37. 95 for a hepworth suit awesome

[@malcolmclements9254]

5p for the Sun newspaper.

[@berighteous]

3:45 The She-Males of the 70's

[@jmasl7]

Mellow Birds

[@JetblackThemeTime]

No one in America knows about Aloha Bobby and Rose.

[@humansrants1694]

I thought waste of time exercise toys were a 90s thing.

[@rayjay1585]

Those adverts about weight loss would be classed as body shaming by today's fat society

[@ragnarragnarson5184]

Mellow birds didnt make me smile, it made me puke, bloody horrible stuff

[@amojak]

gord the sun adverts were so baad

[@GeorgeASFTHM]

It's because the paper itself is so baad as well.

[@agfagaevart]

christopher timothy how could you? the mortgage need paying?

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

Scummy paper anyway, not even fit for wrapping your fish and chips in. I heard the lads in Liverpool prison used to use it for shit parcels before toilets were put in cells. Best thing for it.

[@johndickson107]

That’s what you call adverts no like now a days all it is now money for this and that the majority of people in Britain have not got money to feed themselves minimum wages never mind save animals etc

[@capitol7950]

The she males ..that hasn't aged well 😂

[@yvonnejohnson772]

sorry meant to say different jar

[@antoniod]

I guess Brits really like American coffee(to be fair, I don't like Starbuck's very much).

[@GeorgeASFTHM]

1970s adverts are so freaky to watch - the scratches on the film (which I assume looked like that back then) and anything else that even looked freaky in the 1980s. At least The Sun adverts were on videotape - only the contents of the paper were freaky. 0:33 I doubt that they dressed like that when on Radio 1 - I am not even going to mention the crinkly bottom prior to ironing. 1:08 Peter Wheeler, skiving off Crown Court (just like schoolkids did when it was on), to do the voiceover. Whatever happened to those sort of exercise things - were they banned because someone could have strangled themselves doing a cat's cradle with the string or something? 2:30 I thought he said Batman rather than Vatman. 2:47 Tommy Vance voicing the Williams advert. 3:12 The film "Aloha, Bobby and Rose" although made in 1975, was in the British cinemas in around March 1976 according to The Times, which I assume was when the advert was on television. The first showing on television was on Channel 4 on 21st September 1984, with S4C showing it on the 30th. I have been racking my brains trying to pinpoint the familiar music played at the start of the advert - it is of course, Elton John with Bennie and the Jets, which interestingly didn't enter the British charts until September 1976. When put in a 1970s advert, it makes it even more intriguing to listen to, where it didn't before. Rather strangely, the Cleopatra Jones film mentioned in the advert was not even shown on British television until 1997 when one of the Sky Movie channels had shown it. 8:38 This is what I mean by a 1970s advert looking and soundiing freaky - the first two seconds of the advert is silent, and then all of a sudden you hear that "Bring out the Branston" or "We are the champions" jingle, which almost freaks you out if the volume is turned up a bit. The same at the end of a lot of 1970s adverts where you can still hear the action going on after the visuals have stopped on screen. 9:23 I am surprised that Woolworths continued for as long as they did - I would have thought that with adverts like that, they probably wouldn't have made it to the end of the 1970s.

[@GeorgeASFTHM]

If I had a Time Machine I would see if you were right.

[@andrewdemetrius8090]

He is right ;-) A good colour TV and strong good UHF signal was as good as any flat screen 625 line digital picture today (we also had VHF 405 which was poor in comparison but picked up a signal when UHF was weak)

[@agfagaevart]

I've never seen Tony Blackburn in a suit! As for the Branston ad, that is down to the recording. I also have VHS tapes which repeat the audio like that.

[@GeorgeASFTHM]

As Blackburn was on the radio most for of his professional career, I doubt that you would have seen him in a suit or anything else for that matter.

[@agfagaevart]

he still appeared on TV / @ Roadshows / @ Soul Nights Out

[@ivornappinion9406]

TOBLERONE spelt wrong in the cops hand....i need to get a life

[@Amphy002]

ivor nappinion I think it's just the light, makes the E look like an L.

[@SMAXZO]

Egh...swinger parties...

[@Megabishop65]

Nostalgic, but hardly "classic"

[@paulpaul5606]

Dressed to kill strip for action

[@tulipwindmill]

These are awful pmsl!

[@nasskhan4543]

Skips were crap

[@neilpower60]

Watching all of these ads, the sexist and mysoginistic attitudes are pretty plain to see

[@BarryAllenMagic]

What's wrong with looking at tits and a fit arse????

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

Aahhh a snowflake, to me they’re just good old ads.

[@alm5966]

That's because you've been brainwashed by minority groups who keep going on and on about themselves until you start believing their shit.

[@The4thDensity]

Your age is showing through because of your attitude to these ad's. I fear the future.

[@scaramouche853]

Oh dear, oh dear, My PC arsehole alarm has just gone off.

[@richardhedderly]

Robert Lindsey at 6:48 :)