STV Adverts, Late Call & Closedown - 1985

1st / 2nd June 1985 - Adverts from the film Marathon Man, Late Call with the Rev. John Young and an in-vision closedown from Tony Currie

[@Jade_holloway]

I always liked the music for the Castrol GTX ad.

[@nowster]

Mahler, symphony no. 7, second movement.

[@steviegTVreturns]

Tony Currie on fine form here. I don’t think any other CA would promote one hour and forty minutes of a testcard on a Sunday morning...

[@DN21Media]

Funny only saw Tony yesterday!

[@showbizsam4440]

Dunno about that. If the alternative was The Big Questions with Nicky Campbell, gimme the testcard any day of the week.

[@janinefarnell1119]

And for all of those who live alone.... there's somebody behind you!!!!! Don't forget to lock the door and switch off your set. Like you need reminding...... 😂😮

[@jedimaster708]

'..And make sure the Rotweiller has the rubber band round the willy! Don't let it nod off!'

[@PrincessArdalasMaleConsort]

Smiley advert has John Grieg and Berti Auld in very brief cameos. Never noticed that back in the day

[@MirkoMazzoni2000]

"Incidentally if you are keen we will start showing the test card at 5.15 in the morning" Italian TV did that at about 9am (as Italians believe) after showing ½h of blank screen, static would start 15m of blank screen after closedown (and showing for about three minutes the time of returning on the air so it's 18m after closedown after all) and programming started at 12.30pm (at that time). Thank god there's no sign off (even though it became a monthly thing to sign off for the 0330-0700 time zone) (BBC three and four don't count)

[@stickytapenrust6869]

Wow, I thought the This-Morning theme-like music began with the Bertie Bassett era!

[@alwaysvinyl]

Yes, the music at 26:38 sounds suspiciously like the This Morning theme!!!

[@jedimaster708]

@@alwaysvinyl I was thinking the same thing!

[@jedimaster708]

That Dalepak ad reminds me of a public information film!

[@michaelhall6178]

Does anyone else have flashbacks to "Radio Active" when that Antartex ad comes on?!

[@emilyjaneleightonporter5367]

I'm from Hampshire UK East Hampshire where the TVS Studios once were then March 1993 Meridian arriving

[@emilyjaneleightonporter5367]

This must be TVS before it was Meridian in 1993

[@ivandinsmore6217]

I thought the minister said "Jesus is dead and his disciples have gone to Galloway".😁😁😁

[@MarcoNegrisEye]

😂😂😂 It'd be anyone's first reaction to a death. Galloway.

[@jedimaster708]

To get some of their famous mince!

[@speakertreatz]

I'm not sure I believe his claim that he was sitting out in his back garden at 5am that morning. 1985 was a miserable wet summer.

[@stephenroney3630]

1984, the year of the miners strike, now that was a scorched. That's how folk remember 1985 by comparison, cold and wet. In other words Dreich.

[@speakertreatz]

@@stephenroney3630 In our family we have a succession of birthdays throughout the summer, including my own in June so the weather for each year is always linked in my mind with either outdoor/indoor/holiday birthdays. For the record, on my birthday in 1985 we were on holiday in Blackpool, staring out of a caravan at sheets of rain and wind. And I agree about '84 because we were at the same resort the previous year on the same date and it was scorching hot, that was part of the reason why we went again.

[@stephenroney3630]

@@speakertreatz Apart from 1984 and 1976, when I went to West Germany, in 1983 with my Mum, it never went below 30°C in the day and 20°C at night. It was in Munster, in the Rhineland. 1st time I've been here in 7 months, (this site) so I just gave you a thumbs up.

[@jedimaster708]

In his conservatory, maybe!

[@speakertreatz]

@@jedimaster708 far more likely. sitting watching the rain bounce off the roof

[@agfagaevart]

Good animation for Dalepak.

[@jedimaster708]

Looks like he's borrowed Steve Hamilton's glasses!

[@markjeffries3684]

That Trio candy bar commercial has a resemblance to Stan Freberg's "Banana Boat Song" parody of Harry Belafonte's "Day O," where in the course of recording the song the beatnik bongo drum player (played by Peter Leeds) is constantly complaining that Freberg's singer is way too loud (despite the singer insisting that it is "authentic calypso"), finally demanding that Freberg sing the chorus outside of the studio, which leads to: SINGER (as we hear sounds of trying to open a locked door): I can't get back in there! BONGO PLAYER: Crazy. (as in beatnik sign of approval, like "crazy, man, crazy")

[@MakerfieldConsort]

I recall that at the time, Stan Freberg's parody was enjoying renewed popularity thanks to getting airtime on Radio Two, so it's not surprising that some advertiser would parody the parody.

[@emilyjaneleightonporter5367]

Hampshire Dorset and Isle of Wight TVS

[@jedimaster708]

I hope Glen Michael isn't the name of a new drug!

[@rahhunter5408]

I have black hair with a black bag so it is a bit different from my Huawei

[@noelwilson5960]

Advertising was peeesh in the 80s