Some Classic 1980s adverts

From 1985, these ads where shown on Thames during a showing of Ira Levin's Deathtrap. There's some classics here.
00:00 - Tefal Durabase
00:21 - Ariel - Dirt Says Hot Label Says Not
01:02 - Canderel
01:33 - Twix
02:04 - Mentadent P
02:35 - BonusPrint
02:45 - Sure Solid
02:56 - Rambo First Blood Part II in cinemas
03:09 - Hamlet
03:42 - Heineken - Elocution
04:43 - Esso
05:24 - Fairy Liquid
06:05 - Nat West - Piggies
06:36 - SupaSnaps
06:46 - Martini
07:20 - Harp Heating
07:32 - Toby Bitter
08:02 - Access
08:42 - Odor-Eaters
09:14 - Boots
09:35 - Coca Cola
10:04 - Kodak Monitoring Service
10:26 - Lyons Maid

[@meddylad]

Its sad to think those were the days I loved...... I dont recognise the world anymore, I feel alien 😮😢

[@sharontonks3192]

You're not alone, I was born in 1970 and a teenager in the 80s and I don't understand half of what goes on!

[@philipelwell4214]

​I was born in 1971 and I feel exactly the same way!

[@markperry5975]

Yep me to, born in 1970 and just don't get what goes on these days, where did it change so fast for the worst!

[@louwoods9278]

I'm vintage 1967. Oh for the old days.😢

[@bobrew461]

coz you are alien.

[@deanstanley5799]

We didn’t know it then but the 80s were without doubt the decade of the century 👍

[@KingpinTBM]

That'll be the 60s...

[@ushoys]

1900-1910 was better

[@stephenfenwick4309]

60s were brilliant, 80s were creative, 90s were the best... now it's all crap cos humanity reached its peak at the turn of the century. On the anniversary of the tragedy, 911 was the point at which the West began to decline

[@user-qw8ti5uf3r]

Agree with you.

[@FlyAmeliaEarheart]

The only YT video where I don't look for the 'skip ads' button.

[@Mortimer50145]

I love that Heineken elocution advert 3:42 "The wawtah in Majjorker dun't taste like wot it ortah" with Bryan Pringle and Sylvestra le Touzel.

[@lsd358]

These Adverts are a blast from the past 😱. Oscar winning acting has always 🤣.

[@halloweenville1]

All of these adverts were somewhere in my subconscious, i remember them all.

[@marklopez7775]

Hola. Buenos días. Mi nombre es Brian López. ¡Me encantan todos los comerciales de televisión latinoamericanos de la década de 1980!

[@theriddlers4630]

80s ads were the best why do we have to get older awww dear

[@leighirvine]

Ahhh the 80s..... when a twix was still bigger than a chomp 😩😭😂

[@bibekdas7449]

1980's were really a golden age! Miss those days!

[@tomclifton1607]

"The w*nk stain says hot, the label says not - but Ariel got it clean" - classic advertising.

[@cryingonion2]

LOL! HA HA :0)

[@Bertanerny]

That's brilliant lol

[@euchariaoconnor8201]

Absolutely brill, 47 next month and I can remember all of these ads xx

[@Agui007]

Loved the 80s! Ads were, Short, clear, well spoken, funny and straight to the point. Now, they are .. Loud, irritating, uninteresting, fast paced and poorly spoken at times.

[@matthewbelmoh3283]

I remember these adverts like it was yesterday. Memories

[@progress-ms3du]

The Heineken advert is a work of sheer GENIUS!! That ad' has never been bettered for its creative genius :)

[@Dead-Ball-Situation]

I know. People were repeating that sentence for years.

[@osamaalmulki4548]

Love 1980's

[@johnwinters4201]

Remember posting off your 35mm film to get your prints? And only 36 shots on a roll.

[@captainbadd]

The Heineken ad 😂

[@787Speedbrakes]

When everything cool had ‘Turbo’ written on it!

[@davidkennedy6208]

Love the Henniken ad, it's great seeing these again!!!

[@scotscub76]

Why is the Heineken one so funny ha ha

[@swaldron5558]

I haven’t drink these Henniken for ages, cos I prefer Foster’s.

[@timglennon6814]

Look at the length of those Twix’s compared to now.

[@oli720-oli]

EVERYTHING is now smaller....from polo mints to wagon wheels....😦

[@timglennon6814]

@@oli720-oli. Wagon Wheels are now pram wheels. 😆

[@Useaname]

And when you complain to the companies, they always say that everything looked bigger when you were smaller.

[@compostcorner5934]

Same here ,I was born in 61 . If you research what's going on we are living in Very sinister times . I'm just glad me and my mum n dad before me lived our lives when we did

[@oli720-oli]

Loved the 80's❤

[@marklopez7775]

Hola. Buenos días. Mi nombre es Brian López. ¡Me encantan todos los comerciales de televisión latinoamericanos de la década de 1980!

[@Dead-Ball-Situation]

I remember that Heineken advert had people everywhere saying that Majorca sentence for years.

[@Useaname]

That woman always reminded me of my girlfriend's best mate who I really fancied.

[@Mortimer50145]

@@Useaname Sylvestra le Touzel. Rather typecast as a Sloane Ranger. Haven't seen her in anything for years. Rather out of the same mould as Haydn Gwynne: posh totty who you could never decide whether were fanciable or bloody scary.

[@rhyfelwrDuw]

​@@Mortimer50145she was in ITVs Northanger Abbey in about 2005 (I think it was made)

[@user-qw8ti5uf3r]

Best decades ever are 1970s &1980s.in every thing.

[@user-qw8ti5uf3r]

@@ashleighwilkinson3174 . Exactly

[@ashleighwilkinson3174]

@@user-qw8ti5uf3r Just better times overall.

[@bobrew461]

@@ashleighwilkinson3174 nope! check out some UK history

[@tims7639]

“Ere y’are. Get yer laughing gear round that!” 3.34

[@keithphilbin3054]

The 80's, When, in the UK you could actually afford to buy your own home.

[@Olivia-vn1tf]

Before you had to compete with the rest of the world admitted by our traitorous governments.

[@bobrew461]

Afford? when interest rates were nearly 12%? double what they are now! (2024) In January 1985 it was a whopping 14% take off those rosey spex. :-0

[@keithphilbin3054]

@@bobrew461 In Manchester in the 80's a 3 bed semi was approx £16k Now they're upwards of 350k

[@bobrew461]

@@keithphilbin3054 And...unemployment was just over 3 million. Even though there were fewer landlords around, who could afford to buy those 16k houses even back then? Thank Maggie!

[@keithphilbin3054]

And now immigration is around 3 million 😆

[@user-qw8ti5uf3r]

..Those were the days my friend,we thought they'd never end .. yes the most beautiful era all over the bloody world...Mary Hopkins was right.

[@Killamarshian]

Excellent quality picture.

[@sofiaplatini3273]

When adverts were good and better then the rubbish adverts of now

[@sallyquinn9851]

I don’t know why, but that advert with the guy with the smelly trainers sticks in my mind 😂😂

[@amandanixon7819]

The scary thing is they don't seem that old! I must be ancient!!!

[@MustangMach1696.0]

Ahhhh the 80essssss so refreshing.😊

[@marklopez7775]

Hola. Buenos días. Mi nombre es Brian López. ¡Me encantan todos los comerciales de televisión latinoamericanos de la década de 1980!

[@roxideskye]

Best quality versions of these that I've seen on here ^_^

[@AlanMacKenzieBTN]

A Hamlet cigar at 3:31 saved the man from getting his dander up.

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

He could have just walked up to her and asked if she wanted a bit of fun? I don't think the register existed back then. 😁

[@Moviesxp]

They are AMAZING! I really like the Piggies ad.

[@andyflint5422]

The size of those Twix bars! I'm sure they are a lot smaller now and cost a lot more

[@annabelleshortshort1126]

I was 6 or 7 back then Remember and ads for Blue band and Gold Margarines. Also remember the ad for a breakfast cereal Start and ads for Kellog''s Fruit and Kellogg Fibre and Kellogg's Bran Flakes. Kellogg's Start had the slogan song Lets Stick Together. Gosh those were the days when credit cards were new and places didn't always take them. I remember my mum making a cheque out getting cash back with bank card in our local Waitrose when doing the Weekly Shop. My dad occasionally smoked Viligar Cigars I don't remembering him drinking either of the beers advertised but I remember one of mum's friends drinking Martini. I do remember may parents using making coffee using Dowe Egberts filter coffee.

[@Correctrix]

I remember most of these. Ahh.

[@tims7639]

Oh man! I had the Nat West Pigs! 6.20

[@beverleyr2625]

Nanette Newman in the Fairy Liquid ad. She is a very attractive lady, but they hired a lady extra, with much more beautiful hands than Nanette, for the hands close-up shots!

[@josiebishop8830]

Back when chocolate bars were bigger and tasted better! 🍫🤬😡😠😤🙄😒😁

[@beverleyr2625]

Jimmy Young doing voice-over on Ariel ad - "orft we jolly well go"! 😂

[@llamedosr7843]

No dolphins were harmed during the candarel advert, the twix on the other hand

[@MattF340]

Mild and soft Fairy liquid, yeah right, hands were like sandpaper after using that for a few days.

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

Why are you speaking in the past tense? Fairy is the market leader and the original is still the best seller

[@MattF340]

@@handsoffmycactus2958 Its past tense in this house.

[@annabelleshortshort1126]

@@handsoffmycactus2958 These In th1980s there was a bath of soap which had the same name it is no longer on the market. Since the late 1990s there has been a Washing Powder/Liquid and fabric conditioner. The original washing up liquid now also in upside down Max version exists a part of a wider range washing up products. also exists in Dishwasher products.

[@paulmason6474]

The Heineken advert is Sylvestra Le Touzel ( I need one to get her name correct) Nanette Newman who was married to Brian Forbes advertising Fairy

[@glyn6170]

The young lad in the Heineken advert is Mark Hadfield. He was 3 or 4 years ahead of me at Bramhall High School. He played Pizzaro in the school production of Royal Hunt of the Sun.

[@londonroulette]

When the label says not but the ahhhh

[@dianaprice8070]

Aerial never that great without vanish stain bar…….i preferred the persil ads Washing machines far better now

[@stephenalanmoore7278]

'The wawahh in Mujawkah daown't taoyste laoyk whah ih awahh!'

[@scottpeacock5492]

The water in Mallorca don't taste like what it oughta! 4:15

[@UncleBoogieRF]

Ah, Rambo. 15 certificate. Saw it aged 14. Felt so naughty.

[@Mr_Bean_Stalk]

Me too. Remember going to the cinema in Ramsgate to see this when I was 14.

[@bozotheclown169]

was only 8. too young to sneak in :(

[@GG-zl3et]

I remember seeing Robocop when I was 8, when the violence kicked in it made me realise why it was an 18 and I shouldn't be watching it. Didn't stop me, although some of the images are still vivid 😂

[@NH-tv3jr]

Crazy how a 1980s film could be an 18 for some mild swearing, but now you see worse in soaps every week. Standards have plummeted.

[@jintsfan]

Jimmy Young - Ariel.

[@progress-ms3du]

The scary thing is my kitchen still looks like that! 😅🤣

[@kathybarry7850]

@@progress-ms3du 😄😄

[@Mr_Bean_Stalk]

My teenage years and I thought tv quality was good... then.

[@bobrew461]

26th of August, 1985.

[@markfarnon6742]

Anthony Hopkins narrated the first one

[@gordoncampbell7858]

The esso advert didn't age well

[@lovemussb1940]

To think those piggy banks are worth a bit of money now 👍🏼

[@seanelstob5922]

That Coke ad towards the end is pretty invisible on the internet in any form. Searching for the song/lyrics used or the fact that Jennifer Runyon from Ghosbusters (Female Student Venkman does his ESP experiments on) appears to be in it very for a few frames, all turn up with zilch when you Google it. The only other evidence that I’m aware of that this ad exists is an old Ben Elton routine about the absurd lyrics and lifestyle this ad portrays.

[@YOYOKE64]

Is that Todd Carty in twix ad (aka Tucker),boy with bike?

[@euchariaoconnor8201]

Probably, he was in Grange Hill. X

[@GMW.artist]

Chesney Hawkes did a Sure advert?!...

[@Mr_Bean_Stalk]

7:34 Brian Hall died in 1997.

[@benquilter113]

1:08, why is there a dophin in the pool?? 6:49 gosh, 9:37; what was coke's angle on this one? Makes next to no sense lol.

[@VictoryRRR]

Frank Butcher was in the alcohol advert

[@John-ed2wj]

No he wasn't

[@VictoryRRR]

@@John-ed2wj Looks like him

[@John-ed2wj]

@@VictoryRRR It's not him

[@GG-zl3et]

Different haircut, eyes, nose, face, body and voice. Apart from that, similar.

[@VictoryRRR]

@@GG-zl3et Didn't they have cosmetic stuff back then? 🤣

[@cryingonion2]

what about blood, sweat, gravy and egg?! LOL

[@leighirvine]

You forgot about pen ink 😂

[@qow2427]

9:48 Bill Pullman?

[@Awakeninghumanzombies247]

🌎

[@AckzaTV]

0:36 ⚛

[@Tommytucamoto]

First blood, I thought it was a film about someone starting their period

[@tomfu6210]

Wait for woke remake.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

Little did we know how bad tefal was/is

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

What? Why?

[@TheStevenWhiting]

@@handsoffmycactus2958 I should of said Deflon. Look up Dupont and the film Dark Waters as they explain it better than I can. And deflons health issues.

[@knockyninedoors6345]

Definitely 👍

[@mat5267]

@@TheStevenWhitingthat was them illegal dumping the chemicals into the water, nothing to do with the actual cookware

[@theworldsfullofsnowflakes7119]

When chocolate was proper size and things lasted and had quality. Now chocolate is smaller like everything else with a fair trade label which means shareholders dividends not what they say. And the throw away culture we now have because nothing lasts too keep you know shareholders happy. Cooperate greed has ruined western society.

[@Rom-ju5tf]

Born in 84, I remember quite a few of these

[@joequigley9766]

if you where born in 84 how can you remember these ads

[@annabelleshortshort1126]

Were you really? Writing this in 2002 so by age two years ago you were 36. Therefore you would be chronologically too young to remember the,

[@EvilDogMedia]

2:05 - Destroying a tree to sell toothpaste. Legit 80s disregard for the Earth, lol.

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

It was probably being cut down anyway.

[@Awakeninghumanzombies247]

🤣🤣🤣🌍

[@mekonta]

Love the Hamlet one. Wouldn't be allowed now due to SJWs and feminists stifling creativity and humour.

[@quigley1able]

canderel ads with the sexy women in her red swimsuit having sex with the dolphin i be her husband was jelsous

[@quigley1able]

she had great legs and a fab body to match

[@annabelleshortshort1126]

Neither should these ads or any similar modern ads be allowed as they often push outdated views off those some groups used in them.

[@mekonta]

@@annabelleshortshort1126 What's outdated about it?

[@annabelleshortshort1126]

@@mekonta Why should ads in 21st century be allowed to espouse the views of the 20th century just to spare the creativity? Surely those making the ads shouldn't be spared having to realign material with the changing views of society on certain topics? Indeed some would argue that for some products the material in the ad has to change in order for the ads produced to remain relevant to the time it is shown. What was funny/cool/acceptable in the 1980s is not always be viewed. that way a generation or more later. For e.g. the PG ads with the monkeys might well be viewed as cruel today or to ad certain food/drink products as only for consumption by one gender is not acceptable.

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

Considering the massive turnover petro chemicals are making now. When the rest of us are buying air fryers to try and lower our bills. Sounds like patronising.