This was certainly an unusual prequel to Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
@nderohan3 жыл бұрын
Giles had a side gig
@eclectica12 жыл бұрын
Giles was hard up at the time. He needed the money from these to pay his way into the Watcher's Council.
@nancyglem Жыл бұрын
In Graduation Part 2 episode of Buffy, Giles actually makes a comment about coffee after Xander gives him a cup. It was an acknowledgement of these commercials
@FluffyDragon9 ай бұрын
Ripper? He hardly knew'er!
@whisperienced Жыл бұрын
I heard she left him when he switched to tea, he moved to California and trained a cheerleader to fight vampires, demons and the forces of darkness.
@daniel_b1uk0887 ай бұрын
She left him when he switched to tea 😂😂😂
@janebrown1706Ай бұрын
I got a real surprise when he popped up on Buffy! I thought what the heck?
@philiphunn1942 жыл бұрын
I remember these ads being a huge deal when I was a boy. The whole country was seemingly gripped by the saga of the Nescafe coffee lovers.
@gaslitworldf.melissab289711 ай бұрын
I don't recall getting all of these stateside. How would I miss it. I was a tv fiend - watched everyday.
@KristineMaitland6 ай бұрын
@@gaslitworldf.melissab2897We got them in Canada 🇨🇦.
@L_Martin6 ай бұрын
@@gaslitworldf.melissab2897 Do you still watch was much tv or are you now an internet fiend? I'm always interested in how tv fiends' habits changed with the arrival of the internet
@daviddawes2935 ай бұрын
People couldn’t wait to see the next installment. It really was a vibe
@Michael-br9yf2 ай бұрын
This is how adverts should be made, with a story that keeps you wanting more
@EKS511 Жыл бұрын
When Buffy started I was like “Hey it’s the guy from the coffee commercials!” lol
@sensimania8 ай бұрын
I never made the connection until now, and I was a huge Buffy fan, lol!
@WakandaBabe2 жыл бұрын
I remember these commercials when they aired on TV. They always ended with a 'cliff hanger.' Very popular here in the US.
@mackenzie982 жыл бұрын
Canada too. Well I don’t know how popular they were, but I remember then
@laminage2 жыл бұрын
@@mackenzie98 I live in Canada and I loved them.
@jesusisgod29532 жыл бұрын
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@maxhalsted53812 жыл бұрын
Great ad
@msotrfan1 Жыл бұрын
Yes! I wish they continued them on.
@threesoundband Жыл бұрын
After hearing Sydney Pollack describe Kubrick’s obsession with these commercials, I can’t stop noticing its rather blatant influence on Eyes Wide Shut.
@fredo10704 жыл бұрын
That campaign was incredible, nothing like it today, and it still works.
@laminage2 жыл бұрын
You got that right. I live in Canada and I used to watch it on US TV. Gillette Razor's The Best A Man Can Get written by and sung by John Parr (St. Elmo's Fire) was amazing.
@NoName-jq7tj2 жыл бұрын
Yes but in the 1980s there was a few of these. A narrative intertwined with a product. Oxo Garvey had the family.
@Windgonner5 жыл бұрын
For the younger audience : AD-viewers (at the time) actually wrote in and suggested how the ad-campaign "should develop".
@midinerd2 жыл бұрын
why couldn't they just write in the comments
@Windgonner2 жыл бұрын
@@midinerd What comments? These were TV-ads, long before the proliferation of KZbin et al.
@gelectrox5 жыл бұрын
Everyone in the 80s was obsessed with instant coffee and going for dinner .
@GoldKingsMan4 жыл бұрын
And tea.
@redcastle35224 жыл бұрын
Not a bad time to live in
@sunkat764 жыл бұрын
the dinner was a Pot Noodle
@stephenmcconnell1000 Жыл бұрын
@@sunkat76...or Findus crispy pancakes
@sunkat76 Жыл бұрын
Indeed! With a Vienetta chaser.@@stephenmcconnell1000
@wondermum9770 Жыл бұрын
The only advert I ever looked forward to to follow the storyline ❤
@scottyunitedboy2925 Жыл бұрын
I don't know whose idea it was to cast Sharon Maughan and Tony Head as the leads in this advert but, excuse the pun, it was pure gold.
@osurpless Жыл бұрын
Imagine what her child Alice Eve would’ve looked like with Head’s features to boot? Helen of Troy worthy…
@kathyjarvis81915 жыл бұрын
These were the best commercials ever!
@laminage5 жыл бұрын
Kathy Jarvis I loved them too!
@sewforlife57283 жыл бұрын
Me and my mom tuned in to these commercials like episodes of a soap opera. Such a cool advertising idea. Never seen anything like it since.
@GreenAliceVerte2 жыл бұрын
I grew up watching those commercials, I'm so nostalgic! Probably my favourite commercials of all time.
@Dead-Ball-Situation5 ай бұрын
It has to be one of the best adverts the UK ever had - or rather a saga of adverts. There was a simple gripping storyline and it just had people hooked for years.
@zyzzyvacation2 жыл бұрын
Fun Fact: The woman in the ad is Sharon Maughan, mother of British actress Alice Eve. The commercial started in the U.S. in 1987 and ran as a "Taster's Choice" TV campaign, almost like a mini soap opera . . .
@tinamaria5144 жыл бұрын
I just was having a flashback moment of this and had to indulge. I loved these ads. I had no idea there were so many. They played like a mini movie. The chemistry between the actors was incredible. Anthony Head(my beloved Gilles from Buffy) was so gorgeous and sexy.
@kurtsnyder47524 жыл бұрын
And Ms Maugham was a gorgeous eyeful too.
@lyncat Жыл бұрын
I remember reading that the man who played her brother was actually the actress's husband, and that Tony stayed with them when he came to America. I could be wrong about all that.
@kristibradford3026 жыл бұрын
The writers should've just went ahead and either made this a tv series or a movie.
@rippersspot6 жыл бұрын
There is a U.K. book based on this couple called Love Over Gold.
@kristibradford3026 жыл бұрын
@@rippersspot they should've made it into a tv movie
@laminage5 жыл бұрын
Wow! Thanks for the info. Nora Roberts couldn't hold a Candle to these two.
@laminage5 жыл бұрын
Is it available to buy online
@davegibbs64235 жыл бұрын
No. Perfect as it is.
@bawoman4 жыл бұрын
omg that ending..never knew a commercial could warm my heart like that
@jeffjohnson55442 жыл бұрын
I loved these little commercials from the 80's. So much fun to see them again in this compilation.
@nickjones28503 жыл бұрын
"It is important for you not to expect extremes of sensation. Nescafé Gold is to coffee as Druids are to be the D&D Alignment Chart. The true middle. It is coffee as it exists in Plato’s World of Forms: the exact average of all coffees." -- AA
@jameswilkes451 Жыл бұрын
Then on the bottom tier you have Greggs coffee and happy shopper instant coffee (Granted I have had one or two okay greggs coffee's before and it might have just been a good day or maybe I just really wanted one)
@janebrown1706Ай бұрын
Moccona Number Five.
@JeffreyJohnson-ip4fy6 ай бұрын
These commercials were the best!
@melmulcrone70204 жыл бұрын
That last bit made me tear up. . .again!
@MegaDeansy2 жыл бұрын
The best adverts - ever !
@masonkanterbury30072 жыл бұрын
Glad this is on here. Was listening to old Greaseman recordings online and he did a skit about the series. He said the guy in it looks like someone who would hijack a truck. So i wanted to see for myself and i got a good laugh. He was spot on about his face.
@cheshirecat6518 Жыл бұрын
The ad company that thought of this was GENIUS!!!
@artyphartycreations32192 жыл бұрын
There was a book written turning this couple into a story, which incorporated all the advert stories. It was called “Love Over Gold”. I read it - was quite good.
@alyssaleonard4002 Жыл бұрын
whaaaat?? Now I need to find this.
@artyphartycreations3219 Жыл бұрын
@@alyssaleonard4002 I’m sure you could find it on eBay or somewhere
@keshavanmcneil3 жыл бұрын
Fond memories of watching this as a long woman, then watching Buffy and saying it's the coffee guy!
@shayshay97645 ай бұрын
omg i loved these commercials..a soap opera i9f i ever watched one..wow the chemistry between those two rivaled laura and luke!
@acth13193 жыл бұрын
I like the fact that an Italian would love instant coffee 😂
@32mybelle3 жыл бұрын
This is how Giles and Jenny really met.
@pauleliot6429 Жыл бұрын
good storytelling
@DiarmuidJason013 жыл бұрын
Great commercial of Nescafe Gold Blend coffee. And that's actor Anthony Head from the movie "A Prayer For The Dying" and the TV remake of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer".
@NoName-jq7tj2 жыл бұрын
I find these commercials interesting in era pre-Starbucks, Costa. Coffee shops are everywhere now. I mean everywhere. As a kid cappuccino was an Italian defender. ☕️ 🇮🇹 It’s a very 1980’s success narrative of Filofaxes.
@mrfancytanks87004 жыл бұрын
In times like these, I’d like to see the adverts have a reboot, but with Toilet rolls instead.
@kristibradford3026 жыл бұрын
They should do more commercials like this again.
@shun-li82044 жыл бұрын
You should watch the Sakeru Gummy ads series from Japan. More on the comedic side but enjoyable nonetheless.
@kristibradford3024 жыл бұрын
@Mark Guerrero agreed
@laminage3 жыл бұрын
Do you have the link?
@kirk27674 жыл бұрын
Better than anything Lucasfilm has put out in awhile.
@MasterfulKane3 жыл бұрын
You...shhhhh you.
@Lonewolf.wildcamping3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣 truth
@jerseypooh4664 Жыл бұрын
When instant coffee and adverts were good.
@JulieWilkins-w1e10 ай бұрын
I would walk into the living room from the kitchen to hear these commercials! 😂
@stevewahlin7110 Жыл бұрын
I like to imagine these are in the Ted Lasso universe. That is definitely Rupert.
@laminage5 жыл бұрын
I loved 1:29. It was like he was saying "Keep Your Hands Off Of My Woman, Even Though She's Not Officially". It also reminds me of how Therese Belivet went to find Carol Aird in The Movie Carol.
@Angel_Donoghue4 жыл бұрын
I saw a Nescafé gold blend ad today and literally the first thought was of this
@sheliaheverin8822 Жыл бұрын
I forgot about these.
@bremex5 жыл бұрын
Oof Rupert ❤️
@GoldKingsMan4 жыл бұрын
I say,got any sugar? I’m all out.
@OK-wb1dy2 жыл бұрын
The coffee cup sets used in these ads are classy and beautiful I wonder where I can purchase from ?
@JennyZinaTavares3 жыл бұрын
These are my favorite commericials to watch; Nestles Sweet Dreams Are Made of This my favorite for listening.
@thegrievancegordieshow98822 жыл бұрын
Genius! I’m gonna copy this format with my Jalapeño Peanut-butter Commercials (Kubrick loved these spots too)
@bernadettemurray8260 Жыл бұрын
Remember the first two adverts.
@skyway734 жыл бұрын
Who's here from Netflix The Stranger? 😊 Loved these ads back in the day
@GoldKingsMan4 жыл бұрын
Who?
@memejeff4 ай бұрын
Uther, king of coffee.
@scottyunitedboy2925 Жыл бұрын
The woman at 1.14 ended up playing Angharad in Emmerdale from 1993-5
@TheMOV133 жыл бұрын
Uther Gold Blend Pendragon
@jennytaylor33244 жыл бұрын
NICE WORK!
@nobody84510 ай бұрын
Coffee at a dinner party, are you planning on having your guests over for breakfast as well ?.
@wallybarbwire-fence21267 ай бұрын
I remember this series of ads. There was one where he finally gets her into bed and in the "morning after" he asks her how it [the sex] was and she sips her coffee then says "It was like your coffee: instant" and his face drops. Can't remember if it was the actual final ad or a spoof the two original actors did for Telethon or Comic Relief or something.
@shayshay97645 ай бұрын
rotflmfao
@KristineMaitland6 ай бұрын
I met Anthony Stewart Head (seduced? I did phone seduction voice really well in those days and he could not see me initially as the lights were dim) at Toronto Trek. I delighted in teasing him about the coffee ☕️ ads. "We Canadians drank a lot of coffee in those days."
@stephenjames4937 Жыл бұрын
I remember these commercials from when they were first aired. Many little charmers were grumbling, "Oh, for heaven's sake, just shag her already." The series did seem to rather drag on. And on. And then when I moved to America from the UK in 1990, they were being shown there and he had put on an American accent.
@Dannyboy2k63 жыл бұрын
Who was “the other woman?”
@shelleysanders9666 Жыл бұрын
Sharon Maughan in this: v successful actress, married to Trevor Eve
@shayshay97645 ай бұрын
she was so elegant..probably still is
@janebrown1706Ай бұрын
He got more interesting as he got older!
@stephenshelton42672 ай бұрын
It's funny how Buffy nailed serialized story telling on TV: the episodes were largely stand alone while linking into a larger narrative where a big story played out over the course of a season, and the popularity of these commercials was due to their serialized narrative. Ripper or not, these commercials are still memorable to those around at the time, and Tony Head's later portrayal of Rupert Giles has little to do with it since most are surprised when they hear who the guy is.
@ohkay74182 жыл бұрын
Wow Giles
@londislagerhound3 жыл бұрын
Chances of this being made today. Absolutely zero.
@shayshay97645 ай бұрын
were not allowed to be happy never mind entertained in the US or its "allies" anymore..
@LaRusso3 жыл бұрын
Young Tony Head, this is odd
@laylasimic47096 жыл бұрын
Her real life husband, Trevor Eve, was in one of these commercials, picking up their son
@rippersspot6 жыл бұрын
That was a Taster's Choice version.
@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1 Жыл бұрын
Uther Pendragon seems less tyrannical here...
@thoughtsurferzone501210 ай бұрын
Meanwhile, his brother was having a night in Bangkok.
@mikmac2203 жыл бұрын
How many of these ads were there !
@modsmum3 жыл бұрын
I've just realised he was Uther! 🥰
@garyablet34463 жыл бұрын
THAT IS RICH , DODI . . .
@topman85653 жыл бұрын
AA used to be smoooth
@mr_nobody_0003 жыл бұрын
holy crap its giles
@irinasantillan83004 жыл бұрын
king uther after dying
@EricPollarrd Жыл бұрын
Cripes 6 years worth of series in 2 minutes. And a better ending than Game Of Thrones 🤣🤣 Edit: not every ad is here.
@Amfilmmaking2 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know what year this commercial was made in?
@stephenmcconnell1000 Жыл бұрын
They began in 1987 and ran until 1993.
@stingray4real3 жыл бұрын
Anthony Head was in TV show Buffy The vampire Slayer
@deanwinchester33565 жыл бұрын
Buffy
@TheVocalMale2 жыл бұрын
Nothing quite like coffee breath first thing in a morning?? Haha
@thebunnyfoofoo3 жыл бұрын
VHS Video Vault, was this ad campaign ever on a VHS? When I looked up "Gold Blend Couple" on Wikipedia, it says there was a "video compilation", but I have not been able to find a VHS in my searches (either for Nescafe Gold or Tasters Choice).
@vhsvideovault3 жыл бұрын
Perhaps they were talking about this ad, which ran on UK TV. I can't remember whether this was the end of the series or whether this compilation was a prelude to a final ad.
@michellemaher20103 жыл бұрын
Is that Ethan Rayne saying Nescafe Gold Blend towards the end??!!
@robinorlowski9045 Жыл бұрын
Yes!!
@giannisdimitropoulos2012 Жыл бұрын
Nescafé nestlé
@anaccount8474 Жыл бұрын
As if those poshos drink gold blend.
@jeffjohnson55442 жыл бұрын
Who were the actors in these fun commercials?
@chrishorsfield4893 Жыл бұрын
Anthony Head and Sharon Maughan.
@KaylaAKJean2 жыл бұрын
Wait, is this like Lilly’s Garden style ads?
@thekodex11862 жыл бұрын
Uther man
@OK-wb1dy2 жыл бұрын
Who is the woman right at the very end? Is it meant to be his sister?
@vhsvideovault2 жыл бұрын
I think it is. This compilation doesn't include every moment from all the adverts.
@IHeartAtx Жыл бұрын
I MEAN
@davidzof3 жыл бұрын
Back in the day when you could get your leg over with a fit burd for a cup of instant coffee
@sheilaklein38224 жыл бұрын
Who is "the other man"?
@laminage4 жыл бұрын
Her Brother
@sheilaklein38224 жыл бұрын
@@laminage, not what I meant. I meant the actor. Whom I have discovered was in As Time Goes By.
@kalvingoodlaxson2 ай бұрын
Previously on Buffy…
@GoldKingsMan4 жыл бұрын
I say good fellow,have any hot chocolate?
@underneonloneliness23 жыл бұрын
I only knew him from little Britain
@spensert4933Ай бұрын
Thats no juan valdez!
@marti24743 жыл бұрын
All of this for a piss poor beverage
@scrantonrogueofthesilvertr90312 жыл бұрын
And then of course he killed her with magic to create an heir
@NYCest20103 жыл бұрын
What the hell even is this lol
@return2earthvideochannel2 жыл бұрын
Too 'tacky' to comment further.
@kasimsultonfan3 жыл бұрын
Always made me feel vaguely nauseous. No sale , then ...