Thames Adverts & Christmas Continuity | Christmas Eve 1980

[@geoffjoffy]

I was 18 back then. It's nice to be transported back and at Christmas! Thanks for the upload.

[@judet5426]

Happy memories for a child of the Thames/LWT region, loved Peter Marshall. ❤

[@julianfogarty2243]

I think this was my all time favourite Christmas. I was 11 and got a tape recorder and I was taping all of these adverts adding my own content 😂

[@spanishpeaches2930]

Gotta say....from 73 to 88 every Xmas i had was bl00dy brilliant, all except 77 which was crap.

[@vanderark89]

That’s cool. It’s amazing to look back at how impressive tech was. I got a Sony personal stereo one year and I loved it

[@miked4377]

i loved early 80s christmas the best...i was 12 and got a tv boom box ! loved it

[@fightersweep]

Just turned 11 that Christmas. Remember it well. Main present was the Palitoy Millennium Falcon and Bought the Snowspeeder with my Christmas money from Argos on New Years day. Also got a big 1/8th scale Airfix Honda 750 Four model kit, a Cadburys selection box, a box of Rowntrees Weekend and a few crafty sips from the Watney's party seven in the evening. Happy days!

[@marcusorme261]

Happy days 😊

[@samueldixon-fyle3041]

Ah life was so straightforward and simple in those days ❤❤❤

[@GREGROWBREY]

Great present's i was 6 in 1980, take me back forty four year's please 😅

[@lylahale5284]

TWIX, "the longer lasting snack", not anymore, its the size of a matchbox and 4 times the price !

[@naysmith5272]

@13:35 lots of people look at me blankly when I tell them about the listening bank.

[@twitchygiraffe4636]

I remember it well!!!!

[@originalveghead]

Dear God, the ads really were better than the programmes back then.

[@rajnirvan3336]

And still 3 channels

[@carolined668]

Take me back to 1980 please

[@vanderark89]

@@carolined668 I can’t work out how to build my time machine but I will let you know

[@davidfrost779]

In the P.O ad that's P.H.Moriarty getting knocked down with a feather, Later on he appeared as Razors in The Long Good Friday and also appeared in Jaws 3D

[@chrisburton8079]

The mini Metro advert filmed in Lavenham in Suffolk

[@ianfryer8386]

Ray Burdis leading out the football team in the Debenhams advert, and David Bradley enjoying a pipe full of St. Bruno. Michael Angelis and Chris Langham enjoying Skol lagers.

[@anthonybailey1966]

Kenneth Cope on a horse with a bad cold!

[@ianfryer8386]

@@anthonybailey1966 Not Kenny Cope but Kevin Lloyd, who played Tosh Lines in The Bill for years.

[@anthonybailey1966]

@@ianfryer8386 yes you're right....my bad....I thought it was a bit of a scoop!!

[@anthonybailey1966]

I'd better atone for my error....definitely Derek Nimmo as the main voice in the KP ad , Paul Darrow was being billed for room service , etc in the American Express ad and Jeff Rawle was the mug who bought the chest wig in the Panama Cigars ad........I hope!!!

[@anthonybailey1966]

Michael Angelis seemed to pop up in the Thomson Holidays ad as well,at the airport check bit!

[@Dr.D00p]

Cor!!...Look at the size of that Twix Bar.

[@Tardistravels-d5b]

The film George and Mildred was on at the cinema in 1980

[@ianfryer8386]

Interesting that the George and Mildred film debuted on TV only five months after its cinema release. Was special dispensation given for the film to be screened so quickly? Wasn't the normal rule four years after a cinema release?

[@twitchygiraffe4636]

Probably because Yootha Joyce had died in August of 1980!!

[@Scatscar1985]

Well, it's not like it set the box office alight...

[@ianfryer8386]

@@Scatscar1985 Indeed, but the British film industry took its embargo on showing films on TV extremely seriously. Originally there was an 8 year limit set, later reduced to (IIRC) 4. Such a short amount of time as in this case was absolutely unheard of.

[@stevenoneill7166]

​@twitchygiraffe4636 a similar thing occurred when David Niven passed away in 1983. His final film was shown on BBC ONE that Christmas

[@stevenoneill7166]

​@@twitchygiraffe4636I remember hearing that on Radio 1's brief news bulletin just ahead of the Top 40 that year. Such a shame

[@rajnirvan3336]

2:42 wow Highbury Stadium with terraces on North Bank and Clock End. Thames always were in a festive spirit when with decorations in back. Still only 3 channels back then when tv was all about quality but not quantity of channels

[@george.mathieson2]

I've got some Baileys a couple a days ago.

[@naysmith5272]

@5:01 - it is too nice. I almost drunk a whole bottle once and had to point out to my brother that it is thick glass and you don't get as much as you would expect inside.

[@karylhogan5758]

Us in Dublin were glued to English tv… not sure if signel reached all of Ireland back then💁🧐 When tv was worth watching..💁🧐🇮🇪🇬🇧

[@martinranalli8572]

This is good😊. Merry Christmas 2024 everyone. 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🧑‍🎄🧑‍🎄🧑‍🎄🧑‍🎄🧑‍🎄🧑‍🎄🧑‍🎄🧑‍🎄🧑‍🎄

[@KitCurranRadioShow]

Brilliant line up

[@JoeFarrell-e3f]

Only three channel but programmes that were watchable. Even the adverts.

[@Jozman2005]

Cherry Gillespie in the Twix ad…

[@naysmith5272]

"Drop in any time"

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

@ Jozman2005: I thought she looked familiar. Thank you.

[@leefran71]

Thanks, i was thinking that was a pans people lady

[@rach5516]

Wasn't she in Octopussy too?

[@Jozman2005]

@ yes she was, around that time she was also in the Hot Shoe Show

[@davidstewart9665]

Robin Bailey voices Goldener Oktober from Grants of St James, that is an ad I remember.

[@victoriaharbach5968]

McEwan's lager and Guinness ads get better later on in 1980s

[@TheSaintsray]

Even my son fancies Cherry Gillespie.

[@martinshepherd626]

Better than the shit offered in 2024. I was 7 at Xmas 1980

[@MorristheMinor]

Isn't that Harry Sullivan (Doctor Tom's assistant) taking Day Nurse before a shift as UNIT's Medical Officer?

[@ianfryer8386]

Yes, good spot.

[@victoriaharbach5968]

1st Christmas of 1980s

[@mgthestrange9098]

My first Christmas too, although I can’t remember it👶

[@mjp8648]

Whatever would Carter and Regan of The Sweeney think of DS Tom Daniels getting all gooey with his young daughter (toothpaste advert)?

[@tonyhoughton6857]

A time when we had regional TV

[@jeee6835]

Simpler times Can we go back please.

[@Strawberry_pjs]

I thought i had imagined an advert with a chest wig.

[@victoriaharbach5968]

late Mel smith in p and o ferries ad

[@CombOver007]

Women in Baileys advert looks like Alice Krige

[@mjp8648]

It is definitely her.

[@RowanDarcy-b5h]

that was year John Lennon was shot Dead.

[@borrance]

Pretty sure I just spotted Dr who smoking a pipe

[@garyhunt8067]

I was ten. I think BBC1 had better shows on Christmas eve

[@MissMarceline-wp6oq]

Same here I wish I could go back to being 10 and go back to 1980.

[@rajnirvan3336]

Xmas in 1980s was awesome

[@christineread849]

I was there - must have wiped it from my memory thank god! Was it really that bad 😮