AP Films/Century 21 Supermarionation Commercials

[@darkstardavros]

Although it's not shown here I do remember the advert for Sugar Smax and the free plastic models you used to get in them. It would lead to a thundering of hooves down to the kitchen in an attempt to be the one that found it. Although there were four models. An SPV, Spectrum Patrol car, a Maximum Security Vehicle and the Spectrum Helicopter. It was usually an SPV when you did find one. They can go for silly money now but it's crazy to think that they were once just a free gift in a cereal box.

[@domtaylor1887]

All commercials: 0:08-0:23 Supercar Wall's Cornet (1 commercial) 0:25-1:26 Fireball XL5 Lyon's Maid Zoom (3 commercials) 1:30-3:33 Stingray/Thunderbirds Lyon's Maid Zoom, Super Sea Jet and Fab (5 commercials) 3:34-4:43 Captain Scarlet Lyon's Maid Orbit (2 commercials) 4:44-5:16 Joe 90 Lyon's Maid Zoom (1 commercial) 5:17-5:49 Thunderbirds Sugar Smacks (1 commercial) 5:50-6:58 Captain Scarlet Sugar Smacks (2 commercials) 6:59-8:07 Joe 90 Sugar Smacks (2 commercials)

[@ewaf88]

Yes I do recall when I was having a meal in the Post Office Tower - before the restaurant was shut down - a giant lolly was orbiting us. I now know why.

[@nigelcarren]

The one second of magnetic tape crackle at the end of these commercials is just like it was at the cinema.. GREAT upload Thank you! 🏆

[@errolnicholson5632]

A true blast from the past.. My mum bought me Sugar Smacks in 1967 age 4... Big Up Mr Jim!!!

[@jaymystery-i3k]

that was awesome, wish commercials were that cool these days, I might actually watch them!

[@tonybmw5785]

Thanks for bring back some memories, even if it did remind me of my age. I collected all the kelloggs spectrum badges when I was kid and kept them until my parents lobbed out a load of my old stuff after I went to university somehow they missed my Dinky SPV and FAB 1 though, which now sit on the book shelf behind me. Happy days thanks for posting.

[@flashtheoriginal]

Yes! Orbit!! Found both commercials here. Thanks so much. Note that the 2nd advert is meant to be Tony Blackburn in puppet-form, doing the sales pitch; he was approached for permission beforehand and agreed a contract

[@borusa32]

After having his brain rinsed in the Big Rat a few more times Joe probably thought he was a bowl of Sugar Smacks.

[@brettsalter3300]

Great watching Steve Zodiac in colour, Guess Lyons Maid had a bigger budget than the actual show (proportionally). A friend showed me these on 16 mm film in the mid eighties, when there was no internet to feast upon such classics, I almost lost it when they came out saying 'Fasten your seatbelts lolly lickers!'

[@peterlongden243]

Hello until today I never knew these adverts existed amazing !

[@darren2514fv]

they still make FAB lollies today

[@callanmacandie]

Yea they do. No zoom, orbit or super seajet though

[@tobygoodguy4032]

We had NASA. They had Lyons Maid.

[@pensylvania65000]

We had Gerry Anderson, who got us to Mars in 1966 Also Buzz Aldrin liked his hardware We were also off our tits on cereals with obscene sugar content

[@michaelquinones-lx6ks]

Lyons Maid. The British 'Good Humor'

[@leokimvideo]

for the kellogs box I had to hit the like button

[@JimtheOtter]

Fantastic, MrJim! I didn't know these even existed.

[@katherinephelps395]

Oh dear! **HAHAHA!**

[@chrishoare5652]

Fantastic. thanks for posting

[@MGSBigBoss77]

Fantastic gathering of the old Thunderbirds and Capain Scarlet Gerry Anderson TV ads. thanks for putting this out there. But i wish you had access to the ultra-rare and hardly seen; Supermarionation *Alien Attack* Jiff Dessert Topping adverts of 1977?!

[@robertlambert377]

Oh! Dear, I remember watching these in TV, and the day Britain got the 3rd channel... Gosh! stuck for choice

[@pastaman64]

I find it amusing how the Fireball XL5 adverts are in color while the actual show wasn't.

[@michaelturner4457]

The Fireball XL5 ads in colour were made later, in about 1968.

[@Matt571]

I have never seen the Fireball XL5 advert with Professor Matic at the controls, thanks for uploading. I know the three other Fireball XL5 adverts and it is fantastic seeing the Fireball flight deck in glorious Stingray-style colour. The advert with Steve and Venus appears to be the only one with the original puppets - Steve Zodiac looks different in the later adverts and the special effects are better.

[@historyhunter9074]

My mum loved fabs as a child and still does ^u^

[@iandeeley9033]

Great Video! Thanks Mr Jim!

[@user-ns3lb8ky5l]

That Captain Scarlet Sugar Smacks ad was awesome. I'd kill to get just one of those badges.

[@CZ350tuner]

Still have a Lt. Green one kicking about in a drawer somewhere. Came across it last year along with a Joe 90 badge. I remember the little snap together plastic Spectrum vehicles that were before the badges (SPV, MSV, Saloon car, Helicopter, etc.) When you're 8 years old anything free in a cereal packet is a bonus, especially if it's from the current "trending" kids TV show.

[@5argetech56]

Oh boy oh boy oh boy. This is absolutely awesomely fantastic.

[@bobSCOTT99]

At least we know where Fab came from ;-)

[@colinp2238]

I had the full collection of the car cards and almost all the trains way back then. The 2 stage (Capt Scarlet ) Zoom was sickly sweet as I remember, but I don't remember the sea lolly. Imagine the outcry today if confectionery was targetted at girls! You know we had the Thunderbirds Sugar Smacks but I don't remeber the puddle in our back yard ever moving to reveal a secret launch silo.

[@Whiteshirtloosetie]

Use to look out for these adverts in the Astra Cinema sometimes more than the films.

[@darren2514fv]

XL5 in colour very unique to these adverts

[@simonmason8582]

"very unique"?

[@grahamsherlock261]

Thanks for posting :-)

[@HaosGriffon]

Dang, to be a kid in the Space Age.

[@Kytori95]

I wonder if they will do a new advert, it would be awesome reboot the FAB and Zoom lollies with the new series, especially as FAB is still going! This was advertising done right!

[@aceyspud551]

So Fabs used to be aimed more towards girls?

[@kiwitrainguy]

This is the first time I've ever heard of a sexist ice cream.

[@kiwitrainguy]

Icecream on a stick for 9 pence. Big money in those days.

[@dermot51]

Nice one Jim love the way he says Zoouum!! fuckin hell they almost look too dangerous too handle

[@anthonypicco7811]

the first one w the ice cream was Supercar!

[@brianhepke7182]

These adverts are great. I remember some of them very well especially the Lady P ones. 6d for an ice lolly back then was a fortune... I thonk I was on one shilling a week pocket money so this type of confectionery was sheer indulgence.😮

[@tylerpauls5835]

You can't help falling for a Walls...

[@RussianMummy]

I yearn for the days when ice creams came with free pictures of trains.

[@marceloribeirobarros]

A M A Z I N G !!!!!! thanks from Brasil !

[@JohnnieE1961]

I can remember an ad from the 60s where the Hood armed himself with a pair of scissors snd cut the International Rescue guys' strings. It was horrible at the time.

[@christophersmith556]

Now all I want is a damn popsicle.

[@gabrielbennett5162]

Am I the only one who found seeing the Fireball XL5 characters in color a little jarring? I guess I'm just used to seeing them in black & white. Also, they would never allow this kind of blatant commercialism now days, the usual suspects would scream bloody murder! Ah, better days...

[@kiwitrainguy]

These were stand-alone TV commercials so I suppose that makes it OK.

[@gabe_s_videos]

Oh boy! Famous airplane and engine trading cards! Maybe the next edition will include cards with great moments in classical literature!

[@MrCliffipoo]

I wanna box of Mysterons.

[@HaosGriffon]

Start the day the Martian way! with Mysterons! All the energy you need to come back from the dead and carry out your plot to conquer the earth, indestructible Cary Grant lookalikes be damned. Look forward every morning to hearing that booming disembodied voice in your head! Each box of Mysterons comes with... nothing! Except the guarantee that Spectrum will be after your butt the minute you try anything.

[@youngireland8122]

Very interesting. How did you manage to get these in colour? ITV didn't start broadcasting in it until 1969.

[@AbelMcTalisker]

The ads were made to be shown in the Cinema as well as on TV so they shot the Fireball XL5 ones in colour for that reason even though the actual TV series was shot in B/W. Of course by the time Stingray aired the series itself was shot in colour for US distribution.

[@moodyguymick]

I remember the Zoom picture cards were always sticky !

[@blastfromthepast8344]

Brilliant. Some of those I hadn't seen before. It was a different world then. I don't suppose you could get away with having an ice lolly 'specially for girls' these days!

[@kiwitrainguy]

This is the first time I've ever heard of a sexist ice cream.

[@agentprime2179]

Wait Fab was for girls?

[@bettyleeist]

I’ve never seen these commercial’s before!In Amercica,we call it;Ice cream,not ice Lilly’s!

[@brianhepke7182]

I thought you called lollies, "Popsicles" in the States?

[@bettyleeist]

Okay,popsicles,no problem!And,that’s right!We call them;popsicles in the United States!

[@caatcher]

"Unfasten your seat belts, lolly lickers!" BTW is the Lyons Maid ad featuring Steve Zodiac the only existing color footage of him? (I know they colorized an episode of the DVD.)

[@colinp2238]

Better than window lickers lol.

[@tylerpauls5835]

Are Sugar Smacks still around today? Because I'm Looking everywhere for them at my nearest grocery store and I can't find them. How Can I get my Thunderbirds Energy If I Can't find my Sugar Smacks?

[@caatcher]

Sugar Smacks are called Smacks these days. "Sugar" has become a dirty word in marketing. See also "Frosted Flakes of Corn."

[@evieearley7341]

Tyler Pauls Kellogg’s renamed them Honey Smacks in the 80’s and now I think they’re just called Smacks.

[@w.hartnell-lives-on-while-6073]

I`m pretty sure, their was a rocket lolly available before Gerry Anderson`s programs, but, I think, they changed the name to Zoom to go with his program`s. I was pretty sure that the Fab lolly was developed especially, I wonder if kids now, know how they came about. I can`t say I remember Super Sea Jet surprisingly. Also Orbit, but, I think I would have been interested had I known. Kellogg`s Sugar Smacks would be called Sugar Puffs in the U.K., I seem to remember collecting some of the Capt.Scarlet badges. All these prices are pre-decimalization in 1971, 6d standing for 6 old pennies or sixpence like the coin, which was 1/2 a shilling, 20 shillings to the £ note as it was then. I believe, I heard the Zoom Lolly had been discontinued, since Lyons Maid was taken over a while back. If you do not mind, I will add to my page. :)

[@colinp2238]

I don't remember the Super Sea Jet either but the Orbit I do remember. The Lady P in the jungle I remember that ad and most of the others but oh so vaguely now. The card collection of the trains and the cars I had at age about 8 or 9 I think. At that time PG Tips also did cards in their packs of tea before there was tea bags and we brewed tea in a pot.

[@w.hartnell-lives-on-while-6073]

I think we used 1/4 lb pkts of Typhoo (Loose) Tea. You could collect the back-panels & send off for full colour poster-size photo`s of famous footballer`s. Such as "Georgie Best" for instance. :)

[@mervynwells6577]

Walls did a rocket called Booster which I think came out before Zoom.

[@w.hartnell-lives-on-while-6073]

@@mervynwells6577 The name sounds familiar but I don`t remember seeing one.

[@coziyftv78]

Xボンバー編も製作してほしかった

[@barbarakirk3064]

Is that a puppet of Johnnie Walker 1 min 33 in?

[@robot7759]

Even International Rescue sold out 😵😸

[@waynewhite2323]

Oh Blimey!

[@grizzlydan8248]

Why is this age restricted?

[@mervynwells6577]

Age restricted because characters from children's programmes are no longer able to endorse sugar cereals or sweets. Those were the days!

[@grizzlydan8248]

@@mervynwells6577 Wow, I'm watching from the US and had no idea. It's insane what the world is turning into :/

[@TV21]

To filter out the childish idiots leaving negative, non constructive comments.

[@nicolerosen7957]

I feel outraged that International Rescue and Spectrum would sell out to corporate interests. I feel so manipulated.

[@koont666]

Subbed

[@j.bproductions2261]

Lyon's maid

[@JohnnieE1961]

If FABs were specially for girls that means I've been misidentifying for 50 years!

[@mikegerrish3459]

Only thruppence!?

[@sacz20isstill21]

Auto-captioned of Another Joe 90 Cereal Commerical: John is a mover what’s the lady stuff with kilos Sugar Smacks n

[@CZ350tuner]

Them t'were days..... A lad could buy t'ice lolly for tanner, go t'cinema, buy fish 'n' chips on t'way home plus t'large bottle of R White lemonade and still have change from a shilling. There were plenty of jobs for every on and the only unemployed were poets, artists, and hippies (traditional bone idle useless to society waster types). All kids could read properly by the time they were 10 and Britain still invented and produced most of everything in t'world. Now if you tell Millennials that today they won't believe you.

[@patriot6067]

Andy Reid , too true , I blame the labor party & the decline of the British film industry , cough* John Davidson *cough*cough.

[@WASPdaddy]

its F.A.B.

[@dalethelander3781]

They gave Destiny Angel a weird voice.

[@markwardel6751]

F.A.B

[@Ghostly1989]

4:24 Choc-olate?? finish the word ???

[@matthewsoucy9073]

4:22 Saying ‘Choc’ sounds like you’re saying ‘Chalk’

[@dermot51]

Sugar smacks FAB.... Fuck All Bran

[@harrisgames1594]

0:40 dandy

[@WOFFY-qc9te]

01:45 1960 " A new ice lolly for girls ..... Its FAB " 2024 " A new ice lolly for preferred pronouns ...... its FAB

[@iwal1645]

I feel like i've been mind raped, by these products as a small boy. Fuck that lolly!!!

[@NoraInuG]

4:19 "It's got orange ice cream and raspberry ice cream dipped in CHALK?!" What advertising agency got away with that?!

[@datprawn4850]

Choc, not chalk

[@Ghostly1989]

4:25 Chalk?? eww......

[@kiwitrainguy]

I think it's supposed to be their pronunciation of "Choc" (chocolate).

[@matthewsoucy9073]

4:22

[@dandare2586]

What does a non binary lolly look like ? Probably a dog turd.