Classic British Adverts from the 1970s Part 8/10

[@cosmicdogdancer]

See how big Marathon's (Snickers) were in those days? It took eight people to carry one. Now three bites and its gone.

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

cosmicdogdancer what’s got a hazelnut in every bite?

[@lukevanderlinden8875]

@@Eleventhearlofmars Nutella?

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

Luke Vanderlinden squirrel 🐿 shit

[@lukevanderlinden8875]

@@Eleventhearlofmars Hahahaha true isn't that how they make it?

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

Luke Vanderlinden Nutella or marathons ?🤣

[@Agislife1960]

Everybody in these adds are what I call normal size, as opposed to the new crop of supersized people lol

[@susanbunting7003]

I'm 13 and I like going back and looking at things like this

[@stevetaylor9846]

Susan Bunting: Thanks for making me, a young man of 70, feel really old. To you, it's ancient history but to me it's my youth. If you do go back to the 70s please let me go with you.

[@Bud-gk8bw]

When the girl in Marathon ad did a high-kick, we could all see her snickers. I'll get me coat.

[@Beatlefan67]

I just had to check...

[@slobodanreka1088]

Nowadays, there's a chance you could see nuts.

[@MeaHeaR]

Nutts ???? Hole hazeŁ Knutts Cadbury také thémn untt tháy cuvver demm withé Choco-Latés

[@markosolo]

@@MeaHeaR What gets you a hazelnut in every bite? Squirrel shit.

[@jiffcat]

See how much better it was when snickers were called marathon- the country made a wrong turn when that happened

[@JeffDeWitt]

No wonder it looked so much like a Snickers! I looked it up, that was a UK thing, they were always Snickers here in the States.

[@davidrowcliffe58]

And actual proof that they were MUCH bigger in the 70s!

[@fatbelly27]

That's when it all started to go downhill...

[@madeinuk68]

Jeff DeWitt It was called Marathon until I was the age of 20,and now I am 50 and I still think as it as a Marathon. I think it was to save money that we changed it to the name of Snickers,so it was the same as everywhere else in the world.

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

Jeff DeWitt it had to be either an American or an Aussie that could come up with a terrible name like that lol. Snickers ffs

[@KevTheImpaler]

They are still Marathons to me.

[@danielgiles2579]

Kevin Varney same here

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

Seniku Moonjewel who invented the name snickers? Ffs , must of been mighty proud of himself for being twat of the century.😂

[@philsaspiezone]

It was named after Franklyn Mars horse which was called Snickers. I agree it was a stupid name for the peanut chocolate. Better called Marathon

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

TheRenaissanceman65 well we should of told the other countries to f******off and kept marathon like we keep our pound.

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

TheRenaissanceman65 dead right, should have.😃

[@2opler]

Warning! Viewers born post 1985 may find themselves triggered!🤯

[@jimmywalker1568]

This makes me feel old but I am old

[@repo136]

*"LOLLIPOP MEN. IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG? DISTURBING FACTS!"* Enquiring minds need to know!

[@whatshisname3304]

perverts, lollipop men, shock, horror.

[@avalonvalley2722]

Cheapskate nonces cant even fork out for a vanload of sweets or a puppy, just walk around with massive lollipop shaped bits of industrial highway warnings all day...

[@markosolo]

The cops searched a lollipop mans house as they suspected him of stealing from work. All the signs were there.

[@vingotaq777]

Wow at 5:00 , Fresca brings back memories of hot 1970’s Summers 😌

[@Idcanymore510]

'Arfa' Mullard, Lorraine 'Luton airport' Chase, Ronnie Barker and that LILT adevert that everyone was singing in my school! Ah, the days, the days!

[@mirabellamcgarry8269]

Great adverts from 40 years ago better than today's adverts

[@TheMickvee]

Absolutely spot on Laurel & Hardy ad! Can't say that I recall seeing it in the 70s, though!

[@emdiar6588]

Me neither. This entire video reminds me that I grew up in a BBC watching family.

[@grimTales1]

Can't believe it took so long for Cadbury to add caramel to their chocolate. Now it doesnt taste the same it was sold to Americans and they use pissing palm oil :(

[@ronwhite8503]

I've had an oozy red centre since 1999.

[@TheRowlandstone73]

What was with the "slice after slice" thing with Marathon?! Just stuff the bloody thing in your gob and bite it, like with every other chocolate bar ever invented!

[@LLOOYYYDD]

LOL!!!!! "Lollipop Men - The disturbing facts!!!!" XD

[@ushoys]

"Lollipop men!!; is there something wrong? Disturbing facts!"

[@Bud1UK]

Who can ever forget AND LIZARD!

[@zaftra]

Mums still got the Abba album.

[@garyfaulkner1480]

Those bloody swingballs were hard work..!!

[@MrAronRobinson]

I used to love Fresca.

[@annoldham3018]

Yes. It was my favourite. 😋

[@blastfromthepast8344]

Yeah, when you could still put flashers and peeping toms into adverts! I miss the '70s...

[@ysthafellgynghori8423]

Smug twit.

[@larrytalbot3824]

2:09 I love how her face starts to drop as the camera is left running just ever so slightly too long! - & that obviously is NOT her voice!, she's probably a brummie or something! - & there's an old UK ad I've been trying to find for ages on KZbin, that had a guy in a boiler suit, stumbling through the thick snow in a forest & the voice over guy is saying something like "This man is not drunk..." & eventually he is found by a S&R team in a chinook helicopter & wrapped in a blanket, it's about hypothermia or something.

[@noiwanttobeanonymous3797]

This makes me feel young,Hey guess what I'm young again.

[@kingporter67]

A gorgeous lady in a light blue bikini bathing suit at the 1:54 mark on the Sunday Mirror ad, love the Lilt ad, two gorgeous ladies wearing black bikinis at the 7:29 mark on the Sekonda watch ad, these are excellent 1970's British Adverts classics!!

[@alanfinlayson3274]

Blue bikini girl was model Angela Jay who died recently of lung cancer at 71.

[@The.Last.Guitar.Hero.]

bring back space 1999 lollies

[@stephenhowell5611]

I bought a can of tab once, never again.

[@kengeorgejones6855]

That exerciser never looks very safe. I wonder how many kids who bought that thought Lizard was a superhero.

[@leopold7562]

Never mind that, when was Robin ever a superhero? He's nothing more than a sidekick.

[@brunster64]

Happier days when women in swimsuits and women showing their underwear on tv was a common sight 😀😀😀😀

[@marksouthall4508]

brunster64 you’re a bit sexist!

[@theothertroll]

Yet dumb-asses saying stupid shit is timeless ~

[@philiplancaster9668]

Ah me! I remember those days with fondleness.......I mean fondly, with fondness! What?

[@adriftinaboat3452]

Philip Lancaster Oh dear........let’s hope your Mother, daughters or sister were never sexually objectified. You’re part of the problem

[@philiplancaster9668]

+Adrift Inaboat SJW alert........can you not detect a sense of irony in my post? By and large, I do remember those days fondly. Sure, some things went on that shouldn't have, but wrapping up everybody's "feelings" in cotton wool a la 2018 mode is not the answer. Get a life.

[@hgm8337]

Oh dear,.. we had some crap consumer products and food back in the day

[@billt1954]

i want to know what was wrong with lollipop men!

[@blastfromthepast8344]

Kiddie fiddlers. They were all at it, doncha know.

[@georgejacob3162]

If you knew you'd never trust your kids with a lollipop man again!

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

billt1954 nothing with the majority of them, but perceptions changed over time with the likes of scout leaders and other scurrilous jobs that got kiddy fiddlers their prey.

[@pyewackett5]

There was a disturbing percentage stealing womens knickers from washing lines

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

pyewacket 5 the more disturbing ones were stealing men’s y fronts.

[@salvadormarley]

I now want a space 1999 lolly.

[@thefurrybastard1964]

I remember buying one. Never bought another afterwards, they were awful.

[@KevTheImpaler]

See, what's wrong with sexism? It's great.

[@ronwhite8503]

@Laz Arus at least he has a sense of humour, libtard.

[@avalonvalley2722]

Explain lol

[@Idcanymore510]

Except of course if you're on the receiving end. That's when all these 'freedom of speech' warriors show their true colours.

[@pollyanne234]

Omg I remember those dinosaur lollies

[@brunster64]

I’d forgotten about Fresca - can’t even remember what it tasted like

[@SuperGingerBickies]

+brunster64 ... I remember it too well. Fresca tasted like cat's pee.

[@annmitchell4663]

Pretty bad..lol

[@dickturpin4786]

Bitter and chemically

[@RodKirkbride]

Fizzy nothingness

[@annoldham3018]

Bit grapefruit. I liked it but general opinion suggests otherwise!

[@RodKirkbride]

"Lollipop men. Is there something wrong? Disturbing facts." !

[@annoldham3018]

😂

[@annoldham3018]

Loved the Humphreys.

[@hgm8337]

Ann Oldham using an overweight actor in a tight sweater to advertise a food product,... love it

[@annoldham3018]

@@hgm8337 Arthur Mullard. He was top. Other celebs of the day were in these ads.

[@RIXRADvidz]

the Lilt commercial, jammin' it Down, to .75 speed and it makes more sense and at 4:03, they must have him taped into those shorts, cuz nuttin's floppin'

[@lindalee5871]

shame to see half on the people on here have passed on...great days...

[@garethbramley1]

Great 'Marathon' ad - used to like these. The Coca-Cola ads were always catchy. Sounds like John Carson on the 'Tab' ad. Those 'Lilt' commercials were unforgettable! I still have the Abba LP - along with many of their others. Kenny Everett again on the Fresca ad - I never touched anything grapefruit. Arthur Mullard was one of a few actors who did the 'Humphrey' ads - others were Cassius Clay / Frank Muir / Benny Hill / Sid James. Jingle was by Mike Batt. Great 'Sekonda' ad with Ronnie B - I think he did quite a few of these. That's Patrick Allen voicing the Skyhawk ad. Lorraine Chase in the 'Campari' ad - doesn't look like Nigel Havers this time but the quality is so poor.

[@stingray4real]

It's not Nigel Havers it's Jeremy Clyde of the 1960a duo Chad and Jeremy.

[@RIXRADvidz]

Campari and Ribena. LIVE BIGG!!!

[@spitfire4206]

who remembers the double size coke cans from the 1980,s

[@thefurrybastard1964]

Me. And I remember using the ring pulls as projectiles. You used the tab as a spring and the ring as the projectile. You could make them go miles.

[@delilahhart4398]

So Snickers bars are called Marathon in the UK.

[@delilahhart4398]

you know i am right Good one!

[@MrDavey2010]

So un-pc but it doesn’t matter. So much free-er & no angst in sight!

[@FacOmniaAdDeiGlo]

unless you were a bme or lgbt!! .. this era fostered the likes of fred west peter sutcliffe and dodgy mp's ntm institutional rac... do i need to spell it out?

[@bobgreen623]

No angst in sight? Where were you in the 1970's, there was conflict and intolerance on every front.

[@bobgreen623]

airscrew1. Twat. Of course there were Muslims. What if there were? You say that like it's a problem.

[@vincen4465]

STANLEY Knaggs Why don’t you build yourself a time machine and fuck off back to those days if you think it was so great?

[@AndreiTupolev]

Is that "American Consumer Exerciser" a joke? The voiceover sounds straight out of Harry Enfield

[@Nemesis_T_Type]

8:23 I want a Fist Fighting Superheroes cinematic franchise.

[@muskra66]

Hot girl in blue bra made me click on this vid

[@jimmywalker1568]

Remember her what is her size again 36 24 36

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

muskra66 yep , 70s women had a classy sexier look even in a bikini, women today full of tattoos, silicone, cortisone and whatever they think enhances their looks and it doesn’t, it’s fkin horrible.

[@spinningnumbers]

frothy low calorie grapefruit juice...I wonder why that didn't take off? The only thing that's stood the test of time is ABBA.

[@agimasoschandir]

Humm, thought I could still get Lilt. Have to check next time I go to the shop

[@garrycowan4394]

Jet jeans advert was creepy

[@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968]

So how come some of these ads are black and white, when originally they were in colour?

[@RazSux]

Marathon is back, back, back!

[@david-bs2ov]

How did "Swingball" make it to "Shaun Of The Dead" ? 😂😂😂

[@dickturpin4786]

Wish they'e shown the Roy Hood one as an east end barrow boy selling Marathons to American astronauts on the Moon.

[@Sameoldfitup]

I hate the time i live in now

[@MusicFurler]

Someone should make a Marathon YTP.

[@TheImatube]

Remember wanting an exerciser for Christmas

[@georgejacob3162]

Just hope no-one opens the door and bangs your head as you are exercising!

[@Paul-te8mz]

That isn't a young Pierse Brosnan in the Mirror add at 1.55 - is it?

[@kevinshaw1387]

Tab and Fresca - early generation low cal drinks - in retrospect tasted shit, thank god Diet Pepsi soon came along

[@janettembf7677]

Tab in particular was terrible. Reminded me of petrochemicals.

[@RodKirkbride]

Janette MBF Fanta's the same now!

[@MusicFurler]

Batman, Superman, Spider-Man and....lizard, all your favorites wait! Who is lizard?

[@TheAgProv]

That sunglasses advert in the 70's. Bared female nipple? I recall in the early 2000's there was an advert, I think for some sort of shower care product, where the model went topless (well, half topless, she bared one breast) and the howls of protest from the Usual Suspects and the Mary Whitehouses were so loud and so shrill that the ad was pulled and the TV companies actually apologised for letting it pollute the airwaves. So we were doing this as early as the Seventies? I don't recall this at all. I wonder if this attracted the Moral Guardians' fury?

[@therealpbristow]

I think you're imagining things: She's wearing a yellow bikini top! =:o} Though admittedly, the colour's so washed out and mis-aligned it's hard to distinguish it from her skin.

[@DAVIDE-bk8by]

Im sure the lilt advert was in colour

[@leopold7562]

It probably was. Maybe this particular recording was in black and white.

[@thefurrybastard1964]

@@leopold7562 More likely the tape the recording was taken from has deteriorated over time. If it was broadcast in colour, it would have been recorded in colour.

[@leopold7562]

@@thefurrybastard1964 Not necessarily. There used to be a cheaper license for B&W back then, and you weren't even allowed a colour capable VCR if you had this cheaper license.

[@dlamiss]

Its a different "coke" in use these days

[@samuelwoods164]

They started favouring it with with corn syrup instead of sugar around 1985, apparently it is still available with sugar from Mexico and a few other countries and they used to still used sugar in glass bottles until recently or may still.

[@brianknowles1727]

Rip Bruce do many talentd

[@David-mg1yj]

Watch out, watch out, there's a Humphrey about.

[@aalexjohna]

I sat on Humphrey Cushion, and his nose went up my dirt box.

[@keithnaylor1981]

Wonderful and over too soon. Never seen the Ronnie Barker one before. ABBA? Don't remember them!

[@rangersasc]

Fresca never made it haha

[@agimasoschandir]

Still get Fresca. Hard to find, but still around

[@grimTales1]

7:09 Brucie apparently hated the margerine, remember he mentioned the story on HIGNFY

[@leopold7562]

The man clearly had taste. Stork tastes bloody horrible unless you're using it to make cakes.

[@6toonboy]

"lolipopmen is there something wrong" WTF was that about ? anybody remember ?

[@atilllathehun1212]

Ah, back in the day when they still had white people in adverts....

[@rojh9351]

You might want to skip the Lilt advert, then!

[@Idcanymore510]

@@rojh9351 Way too much for him! Lol!

[@Idcanymore510]

But I guess you're one of those who scream 'race doesn't matter!' But here you are complaining.

[@opinionday0079]

that swingball thing ...what a piece of crap that was.

[@donroberts2126]

Oh, I don't know. I Still take my cousin on at family gatherings. He's 40 and I'm 52. At least you don't have to run after the sodding ball!

[@melgrant7404]

Loved it

[@thefurrybastard1964]

Me and my mates used to try and hit each other with the ball when we played it.

[@sreyasdesai4865]

ABBA 1970’s disco 5:00

[@WinChun78]

I lived in Liverpool for a few years and never heard anyone say "wack". Where did that come from???

[@loosingmymemory7]

I would take that coke commercial more seriously if they were cooking human limbs with their colas.

[@steadyc9277]

What's a Humphrey and why are they back? Where did they go in the first place?

[@frankmcconnellogue3351]

Jesus how bad were those ads🤪🤪🤪

[@jaredbowhay-pringle1460]

So when are DC releasing the Lizard movie?

[@TheRowlandstone73]

He's a Marvel villain. He was in 2012's 'The Amazing Spider-Man', played by Rhys Ifans.

[@MrBlueSky474]

Whoever SLICED a Marathon??

[@jimmywalker1568]

A tight Scot

[@TheKonga88]

MrBlueSky474 Me, I freeze chocolate and slice it..YUUUUUUUMY FOR MY TUUUUUUUUUMY😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍬🍬🍬🍬🍭🍭🍭

[@thetessellater9163]

Me and my sister used to freeze them then slice them, so that's three of us!

[@gorillaau]

I was thinking that they came pre-sliced... left me confused for a bit.

[@blastfromthepast8344]

I have been known to.

[@avalonvalley2722]

Lollipop men, is there something wrong?? D I S T U R B I N G F A C T S 😳

[@LAnonHubbard]

Blimey, Diet Coke was called Tab? I don't remember that.

[@leopold7562]

Yeah, that's what it was before it was rebranded as Diet Coke. Around the time Tab Clear died a death, IIRC.

[@sreyasdesai4865]

4:00 yeah mon Rastafarian

[@sarahlouise7163]

cadbury’s caramel is shite now, runny caramel with an artificial aftertaste

[@tracy3364]

Isnt it funny how times change women are made sexual in all these adverts ...I'm 52 and remember how it was but it was normal back then ...memories though

[@sreyasdesai4865]

2:00 Atlanta

[@joannegray5138]

I see those elastic band exerciser thingies now advise they can be used on bedposts as well as doorknobs (see earlier videos in this series). Did the marketers find out that the people who had been using them on doorknobs kept getting their heads caved in when someone opened the door on them? 😸

[@ronwhite8503]

Or on the bedpost for totally different things!

[@excelents]

What were the disturbing facts about Lollipop Men ?

[@thefurrybastard1964]

They have sticky heads and wooden bodies.

[@therealpbristow]

@@thefurrybastard1964 =XoD

[@theenglishman9596]

The 70s were great for me, but they did bring out some total crap things.

[@5implesimon]

lollipopmen istheresomethingwrong disturbingfacts!!

[@pyewackett5]

Yep. Cross dressing knicker snatchers , the lot of em ; )

[@stephennoonan8417]

6:36

[@jingham2387]

Chemicals wow

[@bbbf09]

Why - instead of some harmless nostalgic reminisces about tv ads - is more than half of these comments from rose tinted blinkered people declaring everything today is shit and everything back then was so much better. I suspect perhaps many here didn't even live through the 70s to know what they are talking about. a) It wasn't that great in the 70s - I lived through it so can confirm. It was pretty crap, dirty, cold, miserable and poor with infinite lack of disposable income or choice (unless you were a pedophile or a serial killer). b) If it is shitter these days - its only because the internet is full of moaning, whinging casual racist, xenophobic and sexist individuals going on line to declare 'how much better it was back then'. In the 1970s the internet was arpanet and you lot certainly wouldn't be on it or even aware of what it was (or likely even have access to a computer). So here's an idea - why not walk the walk and live the 1970s - i.e. stop using the internet - and do us all a favour.

[@leopold7562]

I grew up in the 70s. Some of the music was pretty decent, but the strikes weren't and neither was the rampant inflation. I remember we'd always hear on the news about the energy workers going on strike, which meant having to find the candles and light them before the power went out for the night. Maybe the nostalgia of being in candlelight seems pretty romantic, but the reality was that you'd be in pitch darkness with no heating (because the pump that fed the radiators was electric) and precious little entertainment. You couldn't read a book or play a board game by candlelight and I suspect many house fires occurred thanks to the unsafe use of candles.

[@leopold7562]

@TheRenaissanceman65 I doubt that computer your dad showed you was as capable as a ZX81. Your laptop is probably more powerful than it when it's powered off!

[@leopold7562]

@TheRenaissanceman65 Okay, yes, I'll concede that the old S/370 would have dumped all over a ZX81 from a very great height. But your laptop would still make mincemeat out of it.

[@MrDirkles]

Totally agree. When people start moaning about global warming i sideways like to suggest that to do their bit they get rid of their car, switch off central heating, grow their own food and have one bath a week.

[@394pjo]

That 'white supremacist' ad for Lilt soft drink wouldn't make it past the wokesters today.

[@sreyasdesai4865]

Fresca 5:00 health

[@kanezim1135]

4.24 Abba

[@JeffDeWitt]

Abba indeed... I like Abba and have no problem saying that. There is something about their music that is cheerful even when the subject isn't.

[@lisasainty8949]

That Tab was disgusting

[@cableguy786]

Lolly pop men the disturbing facts

[@MusicFurler]

Didn't she do well!

[@sreyasdesai4865]

TAB diet lite free 3:00

[@Faulty720]

Some of the snowflake comments on here..... 😂

[@Admiralhall2000]

Shitehawk!