Late Night 1980s Australian Ads - Saba, EON FM, etc.

Some 1984 TV ads and promos from ATV-10 in Melbourne. Includes commercials for Eyewitness News, Nissan, Pedders, Guests Furniture, The Jam Factory, Saba, The Money Managers, Hoyts, Godfreys, Northern Electronics, Minolta, Paul Hayward Music Centre and EON FM - plus govt ads to drink responsibly and various station promos.

[@stussysinglet]

It's like another dimension... i can't believe how much world has changed since I was a kid

[@walter9724]

I really wish I could go back to these times. I really miss those days

[@freeman10000]

I don't! Give me 2023 Australia any day.

[@peterkehoe481]

​@@freeman10000If you hate Australia so much why are you here? Wanker.

[@mebeme007]

Both times have their good and bad points, imo.

[@professornuke7562]

I remember some students from Melbourne Uni broke into Saba and birdnapped Dave and Mabel for the Prosh Week Scavenger hunt. They were being looked after by Zoology students, and ransomed for a massive donation to Cystic Fibrosis research. They were returned unharmed and in better shape that they had been found, but Prosh week was banned as a result. I believe it exists again, after many years.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

Prosh week was never banned.

[@barrycade9803]

Advertisements back then did not have the third world in them like today's ads. I want my country back.

[@markevans3710]

Most of all, I loved the night stalker. Great memories, thanks for sharing

[@paulwillard4781]

Classic '80s commercials on late night TV. I remember all of these including EON-FM 'Rock of Ages', Minolta, Yamaha, Nissan Bluebird S/W, Pedders, Saba Furniture's "Dave & Mabel". Good ol' Channel 10 Melbourne.

[@AustNRail]

The best of Australian TV from America.

[@freeman10000]

Australia was a real cringe culture back in the Eighties.

[@peterkehoe481]

​@@freeman10000If you hate Australia so much why are you here? Wanker.

[@mebeme007]

@@freeman10000 Jog on, kid.

[@luiiaco6246]

Wow....I wonder whatever happened to the Saba facility it was huge .

[@kazbutler]

Looks like it is a Harvey Norman showroom and factory now.

[@darylcheshire1618]

cripes The Night Stalker, I have that on DVD

[@terrycarthy4433]

The '80's...when hash' was available!

[@TheAxelay]

Channel 10 showed the A-Team and I missed out on it?! And Guests was around that long?! The Jam Factory looks SO different to what I remember?! And I went there in the late 1980's (probably 88 or 89 and it was a heavenly pearly white color inside?!) and 90's and it was still pretty good but nothing like what is shown on here where it even has an Adventure-like playground?! Whoa Mind Blown!!!! The Jam Factory in 2018 is SO bad that it's not even funny?! I mean I've waited over 35 years for the most pathetic Target store in melbourne?! It's a boring dead-zone that not even the local birds will fly past! I can't believe how cool and unique the Jam Factory was in the very early 1980's and I was totally convinced that the mid 90's (1996!) was the best time?! I wish I could back in that time and visit it but I'd never want leave sigh......

[@DoctorBrodski]

"I wish I could back in that time and visit it but I'd never want leave" I know the feeling.

[@OldAussieAds]

The female anchor on the Eyewitness News ad is dressed like she's picking the kids up from school.

[@prickingthebubble3018]

Jo Pearson. She was married to the weatherman!

[@mebeme007]

Is it sad that I knew within seconds, that the voiceover guy in the beginning (waffling on and on about one network) was talking about Channel 10? 😜😂

[@ozlass7778]

Oh gawd.. Saba furniture. 4:45 Don't say baa-baa.. say Saa-baa! 😀 And Godfrey's 8:30 .. but they don't sell reconditioned washing machines or sewing machines anymore. But they still sell the cheap arse vacuum cleaners 😜🤣

[@Detroit8V92tta]

Yes and "admission is free" how generous of them.

[@Elitist20]

I miss the Fussy Furniture Fella and his chainsaw.

[@benpasquale6353]

@@Detroit8V92tta ah ha ha ha ha ha thats a beaudy

[@pbhpbh1379]

Hoyts drive in ad. They were the days. The old drive ins should make a comeback with all the COVID bullshit. That would be one good outcome in 2020. What goes around comes around.

[@railtrolley]

I remember going to the drive-in in Stud Rd, Rowville. Long since built over by housing.

[@michaelellis8726]

Still exists in Coburg

[@265hemi7]

Dandy drive in is back I believe ? .

[@colliric]

Lol. The Devil in Miss Jones 2 is a hardcore porno..... I guess Hoyts showed Porn back then did they?

[@mebeme007]

@@michaelellis8726 Yep, and Screen 1 at Coburg is apparently the largest outdoor cinema screen in the Southern Hemisphere.

[@joshjoshspangler]

Hahahaha Saba! 15 acres of shit furniture! Kath and Kim would have loved that place.

[@nicktubara]

we all could use a guardian angel :P

[@walter9724]

I had a Nissan bluebird wagon and my uncle had a sedan. I lowered mine and put a set of Simmons mag wheels on it and fitted s big exhaust system. Everyone wanted to ride in it. Man I wish I still had it 😭

[@MsCori76]

Nice to see Chris Haywood as the Guardian Angel.

[@FionaEm]

He almost sounds Pommie in this ad!

[@MsCori76]

Fiona Em - Yeah he does.

[@neilmcginn2074]

I thought that was Chris Haywood. I thought he was very good in Man From Snowy River ... Jim Craig: "Which bunk is mine?". Curly (Haywood): "YOU CAN HAVE ANY THAT DONT BUCK YOU OFF BOY!!!" LOL! Well he got his just desserts later in the film. Ha!! (BTW - very clever graphics that I think we're still computer-assisted in the early 90s in that adv)

[@Rob-fc9wg]

​@@FionaEm He is. He migrated to Australia in 1970.

[@Lemurai]

I was so surprised of how similar Aus was to America, I thought I never got on the plane, other than the accents, lack of a good variety of guns and having animals that want to find any reason to kill you at the drop of a hat, it’s just like home. Have been going back at least twice a year for the last 18yrs. Cairns is good stuff as long as you beat the Christmas crowd.

[@thewayneflyinghigh9128]

Lemurai did you ever go to the Great Barrier Reef?,.

[@cameronwhyte7223]

Bankcard welcome.

[@SludgedB]

Hi is the bank card still available?

[@VIV292]

Wow I’m guessing this is about 84 or 85???? Good old days damn Graham Yallop used to be gun cricketer at South Melbourne

[@tefllife2024]

1984.

[@garynewton1263]

Yes and for Victoria, what a fuckin grouse team Vic had in those days.

[@mebeme007]

Definitely 1984, having the Olympics logo under the Channel 10 logo at 1:08 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Late July to mid Aug.

[@catey62]

Lol..I have to agree with the ad for the Nissan Bluebird wagon. I had a series 2 wagon, owned it for 16 years and was one of the best and most reliable cars I've ever had. was even the same silver colour as the one in the ad.

[@rubiconnz1754]

Top Collection

[@gutz1981]

"Straightforward, Solid, Interesting News." See how never once did he call News "True" or hint it was factual. I never noticed any of it back then, but even then, it was all about "Getting views" and not about sharing facts.

[@paulbaxter430]

The EON.FM ad got me

[@mebeme007]

Australia's first commercial FM station. Loved EON back in the day, then it became Triple M and moved up to the other end of the band.

[@vinorob]

I remember all of these.

[@derhampaul2182]

All the shops have long closed down

[@Writeowl]

DAVE AND MABEL!! 😆😆

[@TheCleaner76]

Back when you had to go to the Drive-In to watch a Porno

[@mebeme007]

Nah, there were adult cinemas around, too. They just didn't publicly advertise them.

[@TheCleaner76]

@@mebeme007 speaking from experience 😉

[@mebeme007]

@@TheCleaner76 It doesn't take a genius to figure out that many cities around the world had some little dingy and dark cinemas to cater for men.

[@KobyPakka]

anyone have the no fighting at home advert

[@handapanda9232]

i missed out 20 years late (2003)

[@rdvrdv8920]

So many memories. Thanks vaginal.

[@CT-vm4gf]

😂

[@ijustdidahugeshit]

I am a qualified lesbian

[@doctorbohr1585]

I read it as vaginal the first time too 😂

[@ijustdidahugeshit]

@@doctorbohr1585 I am a woman

[@asianmelb]

Pedders sounds so wrong

[@mebeme007]

Only to a warped mind.

[@darylcheshire1618]

remember when Dave and Mebel were kidnapped, presumably a publicity stunt.

[@cameronwhyte7223]

EON FM is now MMM

[@SONICDUDEZ]

92.3 is now 105.1

[@michaelearthling]

Pluto is now a dwarf planet.

[@neriksen]

4:47 The old Saba building is now Harvey Norman Dandenong…

[@mebeme007]

And a factory. After all, the land that the Saba shop was on was HUGE. Much larger then the current HN store.

[@gerrym75]

Can anyone tell me where that Bluebird ad was filmed? Im thinking the old stadium in Swan St Richmond, where Collingwood now train. Is that correct?

[@Lins922]

It's in lygon street champ.

[@gerrym75]

@Lins922 thanks boss. What was the building they were parked in front of?

[@pbosustow]

You're right, it's the old glasshouse stadium. Not Lygon Street.

[@gerrym75]

@pbosustow thanks mate, I knew it wasn't Lygon. Old Lins is barking up the wrong tree

[@pbosustow]

@@gerrym75 no worries

[@colliric]

Lol.... So Hoyts showed Porn movies in the 80s? Lol.

[@TheMazz1234]

Wish I could go back in time, Melbournes isn't recognisable now.

[@mebeme007]

Aww boo hoo.

[@danmccarthy4700]

Wait, they showed porn at drive-in theaters?

[@cameronwhyte7223]

I had that model bluebird.

[@catey62]

I owned my Bluebird wagon for 16 years. brilliant car.

[@JohnSmith-mw2hh]

5:04 just screams Three's Company

[@dennisneo1608]

Ads tends to mean product advertising, not television show episodes.

[@mebeme007]

You do realise that showing upcoming episodes of tv programmes IS deemed as advertising. Which is what ads ARE.

[@KingFahtah]

8:04 They showed porno at the hoyt's drive-in? 😮oh my

[@Lins922]

As if you've never been

[@Lins922]

Fatah

[@Lins922]

Or is it fatass

[@mebeme007]

@@Lins922 After a quick peruse of the OP's channel, it looks like a flamin' nut case. 😜😂

[@gurmender4938]

6:03 back when Chapel St had some life left in it...

[@jcee6886]

What instruments would be banned?

[@kazbutler]

Baddum tish!

[@rachaelanna1488]

Listen very carefully at 1:17. 🤣

[@michaelearthling]

👍 yep, someone got one hell of a faarken surprise!

[@mebeme007]

Very well spotted.

[@peterm1826]

The first. Advert is about. News. And now days we’re browbeating with the news it’s the same crap over and over and over again.

[@garynewton1263]

Its Grouse! EON FM rocks Melbourne. Triple M sucks!

[@mebeme007]

Says someone who follows the Today show YT channel. 🤣

[@derhampaul2182]

Lol Saba furniture he

[@derhampaul2182]

Eon fm lol

[@derhampaul2182]

Ha ha

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