UK TV Adverts - ITV Christmas 1983

Adverts from 21 December 1983 on ITV Granada:
Black Magic (Secret)
Mandate Aftershave (Worn By Men Loved By Women)
Baileys Original Irish Cream (A Purely Personal Pleasure)
Quality Street (All The Fun Of The Share)
Tia Maria (A Taste Of The Caribbean)
Castella (Pint And Castella)
Bisodol (Pace Of Life)
Fox's Mints (Fox And Bear)
Terry's Milk Chocolates (Mel Smith / Cupid)
Braun (Free To Curl)
Timex (Makes Technology Beautiful)
British Telecom (Out Of The Way Places)
Debenhams (Toy Sale)
Skol (You're A Skolar)
Old Spice (The Mark Of A Man)
Martini (The Right One)
Kestrel Lager (The Thinking Man's Lager -- with a young Hugh Laurie!)
Woolworths Christmas Show (Joe Brown)

[@barnyification]

lovely memories.... remember woolies... aaaargh imagine if you could go back.. just one night ...sit in the living room and listen to the family argue over the telly.. just once more... lovely...

[@annoldham9355]

You won't get a pint and a Castella together today, only if you stand in the draughty outhouse or have one at home! Loved the chocolate ad with Mel Smith - remember it well!

[@robertcramb4654]

Takes me back to better times

[@hottestbabe1000]

Im big Minder fan and ive noticed there are many of these adds and others from way back which stars most of the actresses and actors from the very early years of Minder,Just pure gold and the best...you really dont get ads like this anymore.

[@tomsullivan8284]

Thanks for the memories. I remember all the family sat around the TV watching these together as a special occasion. Not now, My eldest son is on his X box in his room and youngest watching TV in his bedroom. What have we done? I blame myself.

[@ShikiraPressley]

Seeing this now as an adult is truly sobering even though it is very much modern history in the making. I never had alcohol aged 10 in 83 nor did I ever recall any takeaways (only) fantasies of a loving family and a pair of roller boots only middle-class families could afford.

[@LynneUK1]

I miss Woolworths especially around Christmas time.

[@majorsharpe5208]

Everybody here seems to be missing the singularly most important fact from these ads....you could get a Millenium Falcon from Debenhams for less than 20 quid!!

[@duffymoony]

that music for black magic is smooth!!!!

[@MrTaxi10]

Top notch, so many memories from being a ninteen year old. these were the times when we did'nt have a care in the world. Thanks for posting.

[@wandawizard1]

Love these old, classic ads.

[@englandshark6698]

I remember the Quality Street ad, that massive tin was about 2lb! Not the cheap and nasty plastic tub with only 750grams in it! Those were the days!

[@joannegray5138]

And the contents were of better quality. My cousin told me that when she was a kid in the 60s, Quality Street tins were elbow deep. Nowadays, they're so shallow, you can easily find the bottom of the tub by poking your finger in.

[@blazer666del]

All the moaners about quality street.... you can still get the large tins www.amazon.co.uk/Nestle-Quality-Street-Large-Tin-1-3kg/dp/B01551KHU6/ref=sr_1_5_s_it?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1512473701&sr=1-5&keywords=quality+street Also the price as actually reduced since the 1980's by loads

[@LindaTCornwall]

Those were the 1kg tins not 2lb's. :D Born in 68 remember those tins.. there were two sizes by the way regular and the larger 1kg tins. Still have a 1kg Quality street tin in fact, it's from the late seventies, it's my button box lol...

[@ossyrefugee]

That Mandate bloke puckering up and baring down on the screen used to make my skin crawl!

[@TheJaking87]

Why can't they make simple but classy adverts like these anymore?!!!

[@k.avilla8061]

Because you have to have a black man with the white woman now.

[@k.avilla8061]

I mean white woman WITHOUT a black man, now.

[@NOTODIVERSITY123]

Fake normalising of mix race couples black man with white woman..when we all know that most of our decent white women wouldn't go any where near them..and the skregs that do end up pregnant and single with Leroy no where to be seen....#keep it white live life right.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@marksawyer3876]

Fun memories. Mum always had a box of Black Magic for Christmas and Dad Old Spice :)

[@Paul-fq9pj]

I used to love these Christmas adverts

[@tiedupsmurf]

Great childhood memories

[@originaldw]

Tv was so elegant and classy the year I was born heart and feeling went into them love old adverts there's something about times gone by and seeing the same tv your nan and parents saw 😢❤

[@illuminatedgalaxies7777.]

Best part Christmas TV the ads always looked forward to the ads LOL💜

[@eddielasowsky7777]

Look how deep that quality street tin is. I swear it would make a nice starter home these days.

[@MeTheRob]

Eat all the toffees, then split the tin up into 5 bedsits.

[@eddielasowsky7777]

MeTheRob Mercenary. I like it.

[@kelliehoward9575]

eddie lasowsky

[@NOTODIVERSITY123]

Love that black magic advert it's like yesterday watching it right now the music .it all comes flooding back Xmas 83♥️

[@avrovulcan617]

Brilliant what a flashback.......wish id never thrown away those old vhs tapes

[@TheCaulfield1]

I was 12 back then and I remember every single advert, especially the Woolworths advert with Joe Brown at the end - GREAT NOSTALGIC MEMORIES, LOVED IT!! XX

[@MartinFarrell1972]

How times have changed. Advertising a cigar with a pint. I was 11 back then and surpsiingly remember some of these.

[@Atomic_Haggis]

The voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in the Pint & Castella ad... awesome stuff. So many flashbacks with these.

[@Seasider70]

Give me these ads over today's craporama

[@TheMKEWERBY]

That IS Hugh Laurie. I love love love him.

[@k.avilla8061]

You weird, weird, weirdo....

[@WallyPyneoil]

In the Sasha Mandate ad he was seen cuddling a lady on a sofa. "It's all right, she's my wife!" he grinned.

[@tortoiska]

I guess it's mostly nostalgia. But this was a time when you had more local television and small companies could afford to advertise. Imagine seeing a regional advert now or for motor oil. There's an honesty there too. Modern adverts are too clever and up they're own ass (or pc propaganda) or even worst sinse deregulation crappy junk adverts for laywers or shark loans and every 15 mins, ugh. modern junk junk junk. I think it's a sign that it hasn't been good really since the millenium.

[@NOTODIVERSITY123]

And the adverts nowadays have more BLK people than Whyte in them even though they are only 3% ...sickening eh..

[@ah1701]

Bloody hell - I'd completely forgotten about Pint & Castella and When you know Skol, you're a Skolar.

[@daley251]

those Quality Street tins were massive back in the day.

[@jimbogregs1]

Nice to see house in the Kestrel advert.

[@skip765]

Starting to feel Christmassy now. Time to check out the old tv Christmas indents.

[@Matty112uk]

Great ads, thanks! My dad used to use Old Spice back in the 80's, right after he'd 'bicked his face up' with a good old bick razor lol.

[@talcy]

Now all I need is Bond, Star Wars figures and chocolate. Thank you.

[@bucksby]

The advert at 4.40 shows just how much times have changed.

[@agfagaevart]

Wow!! Black Magic. Thanks a lot. £1 off the Millenium Falcon in Debenhams' toy sale...Big deal. Kestrel? The thinking man's lager? Uh? I remember quite a few of these. Exellent!!

[@Ambiefyer]

I was born in 1983, just wanted to see what the ads were like when I was born. Quite cool

[@timgoodwin4424]

Ambiefyer I like to see what adverts were like before I was born.

[@DarenPage]

Bloody hell! I remember watching these whilst playing with my spirograph set!!

[@mikeowen7526]

Me too and my lego ❤

[@matrags]

I often leave comments about how muck I hate Ads creeping in on KZbin and yet here I am watching a video dedicated to Ads from 1983 purely for nostalgic reasons. I need to re-think my life.

[@hazardaew]

83 was my favourite christmas. i was 9, got a pull back knight rider car. it squeeked but i loved it. we will have watched 321. a couple of days ago my 13 year old nephew asked who dusty bin was..... a bin for a prize???? i guess you had to be there.

[@DALLAS70]

Nicolette Sheridan as the Martini Girl - brilliant!

[@Woollylinnet]

To elaborate further, O Fortuna is the opening (and closing) chorus of Carl Orff's setting of "Carmina Burana"

[@elissdeja]

Great quality! Aah brilliant nostalgia :)

[@barcyorky]

Wow what a trip down memory lane! We all now know the secret of the Black Magic Box, they are bloody awful! Imagine trying to get a signal on that big red 1983 mobile? And Hugh Laurie looks about 12 in that lager ad, bless him!

[@stan633]

Fuck. I was eight then and still remember every single one like it were yesterday.. Scary thoughts.. Thanks for the trip.

[@WallyPyneoil]

You have a great memory! I'm not calling you a liar, but I was a Mandate fan from early on (how embarrassing) and thought it later than '79. Also, none of my video collection and newspaper archives contain ads for it in 1979. I recall the BBC stating it was 1979 in the "Class Of..." programme, but some BBC research has been discredited following the "I Love 1970s" series. The Space Hopper was first in the UK in 1971 according to the BBC - it's actually in UK newspaper toyshop ads from 1969!

[@jonathansayers9564]

Hilarious. I so miss the 80s.

[@osamaalmulki4548]

Definitely the 70s&80s were the best decades all over the world. .

[@WallyPyneoil]

Yes, Sascha Distelle did advertise Mandate, and the BBC claimed it was first advertised by him in 1979, but this is disputed. UK newspaper ads seem to place the advent of this product in the early 1980s.

[@applemask]

The first meeting between the Doctor and Sabalom Glitz in the Skol advert.

[@Woffo]

Briliant, thankyou.

[@crassazell]

OMG I have one of those skol mugs!

[@robertoc2485]

Kestrel lager - the rich man's Skol. Hugh Laurie obviously out of work at that point.

[@09weenic]

I think it must have been his first acting job since drama college

[@mikeowen7526]

When voice overs were excellent ❤❤❤❤

[@JennyAnnTea]

Jeez it’s years since I’ve seen a black magic advert!

[@NOTODIVERSITY123]

You won't today you just see black plenty of it and Whyte women in a fake living room pretending to be a couple ...sad eh the false representation of TV today even though they are only 3%.

[@TumbleTower]

I remember the Old Spice advert, that particularly tended to crop up at Christmas. As a kid at the time, I thought the song went like this: Old Spice Old Spice Old Spice Old Spice Old Spice a la la la-la Old Spice Old Spice Old Spice a la la la-la (crescendo) Old Spice Old Spice Old Spice ah ah a la la Old-a-ning Spice Of course, I now know it's "O Fortuna" from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana

[@carlastaton8348]

I think you were right all along.

[@Crocs4cats]

That would be Heineken refreshing the parts other beers cannot reach! XD

[@wandawizard1]

I notice the Quality Street tins were bigger in those days!

[@scruffjones15]

ah the good ole days when we all smoked and drunk ourselves stupid without one ounce of guilt.... oh well just ban the food and we wont be fat either... sigh

[@kawasaki5187]

Who would have thought that 30 years on Joe Brown would still be doing the business ?

[@phil2415]

This is awesome. Excruciatingly awesome.

[@agfagaevart]

Yes. There was a longer version. And it scared me too. Eeeek!

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

Hugh Laurie pretending to be "working class" in the Kestrel Larger advert.

[@agfagaevart]

Hey man, thanks for the compliment!! That BBC series (I Love My Asss!!) really pissed me off. Because it was soo inaccurate in places. They said that Tucker's Luck, the Grange Hill spin-off series, aired in 1984 when I clearly remember it being shown during April / May of 1983. I even have an audio recording of a BBC2 trailer for the show.

[@agfagaevart]

I liked old Sasha too. So don't be ashamed. He was a suave debonaire type of guy back in the '70s. A ladeez man to look up to.

[@WallyPyneoil]

I think one of the funniest things about the "I Love 1970s" series was discovering toy fair and newspaper stuff about the spacehopper in the UK in 1969, and newspaper and mail order catalogue material showing people in walloping great flared trousers in the late 1960s. Ordinary, everyday "Joe Bloggs" types used local newspaper archives to prove highly paid twenty-something BBC researchers were producing a load of inaccurate drivel!

[@noelio67]

Hugh Laurie at 7.20

[@imranhussain55]

Cant beat woolies a proper family shop

[@StormsongK]

Tom Baker doing the Skol advert! "Hyper-intelligent mega-being from a distant galaxy!" It could be a Jon Culshaw Dead Ringers sketch, couldn't it?

[@crimsonraven1]

that's the old size tin of quality street twice as much as u get these days

[@Bruce-vq7ni]

These days it's a tiny dogs bowl size tub of nonsence. Like Brexit Britain.

[@kingdaniel69]

That, cracked me up!! lol.

[@hoss1962]

I remembered most of those - except the Mel Smith cupid...Well - maybe my memory was protecting me from an image of Mel Smith semi-clothed...

[@Matty112uk]

A Pint and Castella, get em together!

[@ceejay75]

i don't see why they can't rerun this ads now. Quality street is still very popular and recently they have started showing an old milky way red/blue car toon

[@jtayuk]

Fantastic! I owned the exact Binatone HIFI! £170-blimey!

[@happybugs4544]

That’s what you called a tin of quality street

[@mistofoles]

"Who knows the secret of the Black Magic Box?" Possibly David Copperfield ?

[@SuperJord88]

Oh my word, Hugh Laurie.

[@kengeorgejones6855]

Is that Tony Selby tending bar in the Skol ad? If so, how fitting Tom Baker is doing the voiceover.

[@mistofoles]

Ha ha! You're not allowed the pleasure of "a pint and Castella" now, unless you sit outside!

[@TheJaking87]

I think I saw Rula Lenska in the 'Woolworths' ad!

[@iloveyouhunny]

Remember when chocolates used to have a SELECTION and not just a paste filling with a different flavour in everyone ...

[@iloveyouhunny]

God bless Woolworth xx

[@skip765]

Loved the Skol ads but the Old Spice music used to scare the shit out of me!

[@agfagaevart]

Hard to believe but yes. And the late Sacha Distelle used to advertise it in the '70s.

[@97channel]

Never seen that particular phone box design before.

[@remeclerk]

Im with you ah1701!!! jeez! I miss the 80s (live in America now!-xmas not the same) merry xmas for this yr though..Steve St Louis Missouri

[@AchtungEnglander]

there is a classic joke in the Xmas special of Only Fools & Horses "To Hull and Back" about The Bear (the constellation) sitting on top of a glacier mint. Dated joke but very very funny

[@merseymal]

I'm sure that in the Skol advert the bloke's mate in the red t-shirt is Robert Glenister.

[@mistofoles]

Definetly Tom Baker narrating the Skol ad.

[@ronaldcustard4636]

mistofoles He should have narrated a jelly baby advert

[@lmcgregoruk]

Yeah, I was wondering what that song was too, first time I heard it was in a preview video for Phantasmagoria.

[@BuddyFantastic]

@Caxton Man Also no bloody adverts for injury lawyers and loans either. Too right we should have stayed with the old ways with adverts.

[@grumbo39]

Have to say the video quality is fantastic, well done whoever posted this!! (You didnt get a LOGIK vcr then, lol!!!)

[@dmc1200]

In the description it says 'ITV Granada'. At this time it was still known as 'Granada Television'.

[@86compgeek]

Longest commercial break in history!

[@kawasaki5187]

I think I'll just cycle up to the local telephone box and ring some friends

[@noveltybobel]

Even though it's Christmas non of the adverts have irritating Christmas music like they do today.

[@lisamorris7491]

Omg1983 I was like 4 lol 😝😁

[@NAT4TONY]

Anyone notice how the size of the measures poured in the booze adverts are tiny compared to those in todays ads for the same products!!!

[@hollysouthwell2227]

I was born on Christmas day this year 😅