Vintage UK Beer & Booze Adverts (Vol.6)

[@garethbramley1]

You certainly know how to keep me busy Steve! The well-known Campari ad aired in 1977/8 and was titled 'Nice Colour Ennit (Luton Airport'?)'. It was directed by Vernon Howe and the other actor is Jeremy Clyde. Patrick Mower in the famous Babycham ad ('Floating Party' - 1976). Heineken uses 'Ordinary Copper' music - the theme from 'Dixon Of Dock Green'. One of the many Jeeves & Wooster Croft Original ads which ran during the 70s and into the early 80s. Another one of the great Holsten Pils ads - this one from 1983/4. Heineken ad is from 1983 - 'Snow Business' directed by Bob Brooks - jingle is a re-orchestrated version of Cliff Adams' original theme ' Night Rider'. McEwan's Lager 'Escher' dated 1986/7 directed by Paul Weiland - original ad was a bumper 2 minutes!!!! I've never heard of some of these products! too many lager ads if you ask me - bloody awful stuff. Harp Standard Lager - 'Randy' - 1989/90 directed by Graham Hackney. Gaymer's Cider using the original song 'How Long' sung by Ace. Copperhead Cider - 'Rookie' - 1989/90 dire ted by Syd MacCartney.

[@RetroSteveUK]

A treasure trove of trivia, as always. 😁👍

[@garethbramley1]

If I had more time I could find more. BTW I found out from someone why some comments disappear. Apparently YT do not like more than one comment per person or comments showing links. Not sure if this is all links or just non YT ones. So I'll avoid any links as may cause comments to disappear so all then a complete waste of time. Bloody YT. 😔

[@RetroSteveUK]

@@garethbramley1 That's odd, and annoying.

[@COIcultist]

Great trivia. What was the original Dixon Of Dock Green theme tune? Just to aid sensible debate YT banned all non YT links, however individual content creators can also ban YT links as well.

[@garethbramley1]

Yes, and I'm sure channel owners can delete any comments too - if they so desire.

[@Louisejames23]

So glad they changed the advert laws so we aren’t tempted to get pissed every night these days 😏. Just gamble our cash away instead ! Thanks RetroSteve, these are great memories 😊

[@RetroSteveUK]

A good point, well made! 🤣👍

[@Jamb1967]

Superb , and testament to the skill of the advertisers that I still remember the catch phrases

[@Jamb1967]

Although the Harp and Mcewan efforts were poor

[@jasonorme4180]

I remember watching all those adverts over the years and no wonder I became a alcoholic lol.great video.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I mustn't have been influenced much by those adverts. It's modern day stress that turned me to alcohol! 😬🤣

[@Outspoken.Humanist]

I recall all of the adverts and tried all of the drinks, except Kontiki. Never heard of it and certainly never drank it. Often wished I hadn't drunk some of the others, like Skol lager 😁

[@AndrewHalliwell]

The very first refreshes the parts advert ever!

[@BigBadJon101]

Great to see the McEwan’s lager ad with the balls again.

[@cubanpete9030]

I was about 10 when that aired I was mesmerised by the advert

[@mattw8332]

That "Sharp Exit" Harp lager advert was great! 😄 Almost forgotten about that advert. Mickey take on the coffee advert and the added dark humour of the dog jumping out of the window. 😁

[@RetroSteveUK]

I'd forgotten about that one, too. I remember everyone thinking it was hilarious at the time. Nice that the dog showed up ok at the end.

[@rayjennings3637]

In the Castlemain XXXX ad, at 05:55, the Doc seems to almost morph into Spike Milligan and it's the type of joke he'd use as well!

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yeah, I never noticed that but you're dead right!

[@FishpondsLady]

Campari is disgusting, I know, I've drunk it. But for Lorraine Chase, I'd do anything. Thanks RetroSteve❤

[@RetroSteveUK]

I've never had Campari. Maybe it's better depending on what it's mixed with?

[@Bertie_Ahern]

70s-80s ads were a lot more memorable and interesting to watch. I wonder why they're so boring and humourless nowadays

[@danielsmith9817]

Watching these while drinking Hofmeister It like im back in the 80s 🍺

[@dennis8196]

Follow the bear

[@richardcummins5465]

Also liked the Boddington ads with Mel, the sassy bird from Des and Mel.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I used to enjoy watching the Des & Mel show.

[@simonhinchliffe4916]

Irony.....skipping the Ads to watch the Ads.

[@patrickrose1221]

" AYUP ! I thought I was avin a flash-back then pal " ! Absolutely unbelievable how many memories this compilation sparked off in me dusty ode noggin : ) Cheers pal and God bless thee and thine x

[@RetroSteveUK]

Nowt doin'! 😀👍

[@gussclark5261]

Great to see these again can people remember the songs that went with the string of adverts for youngers when one guy sings hed walk to pub on both his feet to drink a youngers bitter and the other guys saying theres nowt special about walking

[@RetroSteveUK]

That doesn't ring any bells.

[@johnrider3749]

Adverts were about fun in those days and not about funeral plans like today,

[@stevedickson5853]

A line of Coppers in uniform having an alcoholic drink in the form of Heineken, got to chuckle, definitely wouldn't see that one these days on TV ads

[@aleks8888no]

James Herriot (the famous wet) actually used that commercial in a speech he once held for a former colleague.

[@tsrgoinc]

Days when people could laugh and and take a joke!

[@carolined668]

Celia Imerie Joan Sims and Josie Lawerance all in 1 ad. .cool 👍👍

[@RetroSteveUK]

I know, right?

[@robinbeckford]

I still occasionally like to use the phrase "One instinctively knows when something is right". Also, the flying doctor XXXX ad is brilliant.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I still use that phrase too! 🤣

[@thefrecklepuny]

Fun fact. Lorraine Chase in the Campari ad was often asked to sign the single cover 'Luton Airport' actually sang by the girl band 'Cats'. All because of this ad where she says 'Luton Airport'. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnS8maSPm9hrhtE

[@RetroSteveUK]

Wow! I don't remember that song. I wonder if the advert came first and inspired the song?

[@chuckjjohnston4568]

Great video again, Steve. But... @11:32 what a dreadful thing to do to a P5B...

[@keithnaylor1981]

Great stuff! Griff Rhys Jones made several ads using old film stars. I was just hoping to to see one of the Leonard Rossiter/Joan Collins ads.

[@RetroSteveUK]

There are a few of those on the other volumes. Try browsing the playlists on my channel page.

[@johnfogarty91]

Babycham - a lovely cider

[@ianwhitehead691]

So true 🤣😂

[@AndrewHalliwell]

It's a Perry, not a cider, isn't it? (Pear rather than apple)

[@johnfogarty91]

@@AndrewHalliwell yep. You're correct perry is a pear cider, first cousin of apple cider and no relation at all to champagne but that didn't stop the clever marketing people cheekily representing Babycham as a mini champagne.

[@malcolmpettett5957]

I was told once it was prosecco,apparently they had lots of it they couldn't shift,

[@leshooper4820]

So. Good to see my old days happy time 😊 for me now I old and have bad legs to look back set me free for a bit good on you .

[@1969gawa]

3:19 Is that Ray Knight, played the German barman in Auf Wiedersehen Pet?

[@RetroSteveUK]

I just had a look. Not sure tbh.

[@09weenic]

I think you’re correct - apart from AWP I can only recall seeing him in one episode of The Professionals

[@tsrgoinc]

The Heineken Advert with Josie Lawrence, Joan Sims and Celia Imre, talk about some casting.

[@thomascook578]

Always loved that McEwans lager advert

[@RetroSteveUK]

The one with the balls?

[@thomascook578]

@@RetroSteveUK yeah, it's a classic, as is the Tennents one with Caledonia

[@monkeymanbob]

Don't make ads like the McEwan's one any more - absolute art.

[@RetroSteveUK]

If you mean the one with the big balls, it's the music in that ad that has stayed with me. I remember seeing this in the cinema, too; the music brings back memories of sitting & waiting for the film to start.

[@mrpositronia]

Yeah, the Escher ball ad is one of the best ads ever made. So much production value and originality. Companies would never put that much effort or budget in again.

[@jameseadie7145]

Got a video with all the McEwans ads on it from McEwans think it was a giveaway

[@paulsmith1879]

@@RetroSteveUK it’s by a band called Win and called You’ve got the power, the album is well worth a listen

[@RetroSteveUK]

@@paulsmith1879 Awesome! I Thanks. 'll be checking that out. Never heard of the band. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iou6mWubr96eoa8

[@mrpositronia]

Joan Sims, Celia Imrie and Josie Lawrence. So good, I forget what they are advertising. Hehe. I mean that is a good way, of course! I was just watching them.

[@tsrgoinc]

Where the sodding hell is the Hoffmeister Bear? I’m come on ,after maybe Chinzano and Campari probably the most rememberable booze advert! My ghast has never been so flabbered for at a couple of week! 🤣

[@RetroSteveUK]

Check the other booze compilations. There are a few on those.

[@danbrown7562]

Nice one Steve great way to start the weekend! Wondering if the music on the Copperhead ‘Girl in Crane’ one was done by The Art of Noise? Another one that wouldn’t fly today ..

[@RetroSteveUK]

Not sure about that if I'm honest. It didn't flag up any copyright claims, so I presumed it was a piece made for the advert.

[@davidjones6470]

How I wish beer prices was the same then but Now😊

[@richardcummins5465]

My favourite is still the lovely Lorraine Chase. Innit? ❤

[@Mataharifilms]

Loving these. Any sign of those two singing Budweiser ads based on the Top Gun scene? The Temptations AIN;T TOO PROUD TO BEG was one. Jerome Flynn (from GAME OF THRONES/RIPPER STREET) did the other one, maybe TRACKS OF MY TEARS?

[@RetroSteveUK]

Not yet. It's completely to chance as to what turns up.

[@davidjones6470]

Awesome upload as always Steve 👌

[@davewilson9738]

I remember most of these, and never drank 90% of them xD

[@dennis8196]

Joan Sims, and Josie Lawrence is quite a combination. Joan was probably struggling not to grab the glass and down the lot in one - She was struggling with alcoholism and the only job offers she had was for beer! That had to be tough.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Not ideal for her. I had no idea she was struggling back then. She was legendary.

[@El-Ritmo]

I had been going to comment just this, then I saw you had already done so. In hindsight it’s so uncomfortable to see her in booze adverts (and even more so as the alcoholic character she played in On the Up - “just the one, Mrs Wembley”). Can’t have been easy for her.

[@bigolmemoryhole6944]

E beer would sell itself these days.

[@lianekerr650]

When adverts were good.

[@El-Ritmo]

What is going on with the music in that Kontiki advert? It sounds like it should be in some 1960s sci-fi film. Haven’t seen that McEwan’s ad in years, I really liked the long version of it. And it jogged a memory of the McEwan’s Export ad with the ventriloquist’s dummy: “Look at the head on that!” Hoping I’ll see that in one of your compilations one day.

[@SimonMartin-m9q]

Brill thx, I’m 15 again 👍😀

[@b3ans4eva]

That Croft Original one at 3:44 made me cringe since it wasn’t Fry & Laurie.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yeah, these guys pre-date Fry & Laurie by quite a few years.

[@wernesgruder1]

Heineken used to be 3.4% strength and was considered a cheap lager

[@JamBar1873]

Good grief that Babycham advert was creepy.

[@garethbramley1]

Oh???

[@alzeNL]

was waiting for him to plop some ruthies in there

[@ianwoodrow78]

Interesting they think it's fine to drink out of the can. Nowadays they would emphasise what it looks like poured.

[@robotmad]

Do you have the 'satellite dish' one ? this was where the guy was fed up with flicking through the terrestrial channels and seeing neighbours, home and away etc on the other channels. So he bought a Satellite dish sat in his chair with his beer only to flick through the satellite channels to find the same programs but dubbed in a foreign language not sure what lager it was advertising though but made me chuckle at the time.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Nah, I haven't come across that one yet.

[@strofi100]

The skol hotel room ad at 2.20 a very young Lewis Collins?

[@RetroSteveUK]

Looks a bit like him but I don't think it is.

[@Spookieham]

Not sure why Swan later is being promoted in the UK as being from Sydney when it's local to Perth. They should have advertised Emu Export known here as bush chook.

[@RetroSteveUK]

My guess is they wanted to advertise it as Australian, but thought Sydney might sound more familiar to the Brits than Perth ??

[@El-Ritmo]

I’d guess it’s because if they advertised it as being from Perth viewers would think it was Scottish, not Australian.

[@bigbird6039]

Lorraine and Patrick at their height before they ended up in Emmerdale.

[@ianmckenney9080]

Sadly no Joan Collins/Leonard Rositer classic Martini ads. And wtf was Kontiki. Guinness always made the best ads I reckon 🤪

[@RetroSteveUK]

If you're after those, try the previous volumes of Beer & Booze ads.

[@mattfranks4335]

Pint for me and a Babycham for lady please mate .

[@RetroSteveUK]

... and a packets of crisps please! 🎵

[@mattfranks4335]

@@RetroSteveUK Smith's " Salt and Shake " ( Walkers make them now with hardly any salt ! )

[@jennifersivewright3117]

Police officers on the beat?? More likely in their Peugeot’s, now.

[@chrisbaxter3597]

Skol - always a wide boys drink

[@RIXRADvidz]

11:23, OMG CELIA IMRIE !!!! I'm a HUGE Fan 187cm 23Stone yeah HUGE

[@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe]

Crap Lagers of my Youth. Especially Harp, A Brewery in Manchester called Hydes used to Brew it under licence from the Irish Brewery Guiness?? I once asked a Irish couple if it tasted the same as un Ireland. "YEP IT'S TASTES CRAP OVER THERE ALSO"

[@RetroSteveUK]

🤣

[@alex-E7WHU]

What was the one with two blokes trying to split the atom with a hatchet..🤣

[@RetroSteveUK]

That rings a bell, but it's only a sketchy memory. 🤔

[@alex-E7WHU]

@@RetroSteveUK it had something to do with Romford but I can't remember what beer it was.

[@jwb52z9]

I love commercials where they try to make someone look all posh and then they open their mouths, and they are dead common. I just love phrases like "dead common". American English doesn't have many phrases like that. The Heineken commercial is funny because some people soak their feet in beer now instead of just drinking it. Did that last guy who nearly dropped the glass before the ghost caught it remind anyone else of what Rupert Grint might look like in 25 years? I love the idea of just being able to stick all the annoying people in your life into a cupboard.

[@RetroSteveUK]

The 'dead common' thing reminds me of a scene from Educating Rita where she's says "I'm dead f****d" to shock someone. Great film, that.

[@AndrewHalliwell]

Lorraine Chase's Luton airport predated educating Rita by decades though

[@deanstanley5799]

Rover p5 being stripped for a seat ! Worth a fortune them now !

[@RetroSteveUK]

🤣 Oops!

[@flywheel8541]

My favourite ads aren't here - so I bet he doesn't drink Carling Black Label

[@RetroSteveUK]

😛

[@MirlitronOne]

Gosh, so many awful lagers that I had completely forgotten about.

[@Sjmby95]

Who made their own wine?

[@RetroSteveUK]

A girl called Victoria in our town had a shop. Pretty good wine.

[@vivekraychowdhury4348]

Feeling very thirsty....

[@jjmcrosbie]

That was very good, but where was "Now available in Cannes" and "Nicer than bunny-wunnies"? Where was ^Strewth, these trials must go on longer than I thought!"? Where was "Goons, gweens....2 Usuals!"? Where was "You tell 'im!"? So there's plenty of scope for a sequel video. Please? Signed by Sch....you know who!

[@RetroSteveUK]

This video is number six in a series. Try the search function on my channel page. Failing that, try the search function on KZbin.

[@jjmcrosbie]

Yes.

[@LOrealHardly]

No Caledonia?

[@RetroSteveUK]

I guess not.

[@harri2626]

Great adverts, crap beer. You can sell anything to anyone if the adverts are good.

[@glasgowjohn7831]

Mcewans lager as awful as it was made some good adverts back then

[@RIXRADvidz]

10:10 I remember those girls. only this pair looks like Dragsters, way over the top and wrong body type. guys dressed up as girls. if not, I hope those girls got paid BANK

[@RetroSteveUK]

I suppose they were supposed to look as scary as possible.

[@RIXRADvidz]

@@RetroSteveUK like the girls back then really looked. LOL

[@kingcurry6594]

God, didn't people make absolutely s**t beer in the 1970s and 80s.

[@donwright3427]

Figurative addicts does sketch

[@emperorsnewclothes9405]

pre diversity.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yep. Since then we've learned how to fairly represent our population in the mainstream.