Vintage UK Christmas TV Adverts (Vol.4)

[@pcwizardman]

Wasn’t it great when Christmas adverts were about Christmas and families

[@Matty112uk]

Watched some programs on TV today it didn't feel very Christmassy at all. It was so much more festive back then in the day.

[@scootymcfloof]

So wonderful to wake up to a 4th volume of these warm and merry commercials. Thank you for compiling these. Gonna curl up with a cuppa tea and pretend I’m a kid again. Merry Christmas! 🎄

[@RetroSteveUK]

Thanks for watching, and here's to Volume Five, next year!

[@Justinian-IV]

I miss the days when the Christmas adverts did not start on November 1st.

[@juliethompson5301]

Linda Bellingham,lovely lady loved the Oxo ads

[@ticketyboo2456]

I remember when the Woolworths Christmas adverts were as eagerly awaited as the John Lewis ads have been in more recent times.😂❤ Thanks for the memories.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I do remember in our household we used to watch the ad breaks intently, hoping to see the new Woolies advert.

[@mgthestrange9098]

They were better too, they just showed you what you could buy.

[@julieb5707]

Wow memories unlocked. Loved these, thank you.

[@killbotone6210]

Just found and subscribed to your channel. I put these on in the backround when im cleaning the house. Incredibly therapeutic. Thanks a million.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Welcome aboard!

[@roywilson4514]

Brilliant

[@cheezycatnip8352]

Wonderful...Thankyou.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

I thought, "hang on, Chicken Run was a recent movie!" I checked, it was twenty-four years ago. 😳

[@rafiqadarr6217]

The excitement of Christmas was so rich and magical in those days, I loved it. I still do love it, but I don’t like (like many people) having to go out to buy all the bits, pressies, wrapping paper, endless other items - making sure you had this, that and the other!! it is intensely stressful, trying to co-ordinate everything, especially food-wise!! but I love the magic of Christmas and the wonderful food and atmosphere. Nothing beats a good roast dinner for me, starving thinking about it, salivating!!

[@RetroSteveUK]

We often go for roast beef in our house on Christmas day. Not very traditional but we feel it's better than dry turkey meat.

[@rafiqadarr6217]

I don’t eat meat, I haven’t eaten it for over 20 years, but I still love a roast dinner at my sister’s with a Quorn Roast, all the vegetables, stuffing, (sometimes Yorkshire pudding which I also love, although it is meant to be served with beef, isn’t it? although it doesn’t matter in my case) and a jug of vegetable gravy - and I adore mint sauce as well, delicious stirred into the gravy on your plate. I also love cranberry sauce at Christmas. Hoping to try Quorn Ham Roast, but might be difficult to get it, they are so popular, the original roast and the variations. A roast dinner is delicious when you are really hungry.

[@sarahfoster6765]

Ham Quorn roast is amazing I have that Boxing Day cold with mash & pickles. I have that normal Quorn Christmas Day with all the veggie trimmings, I’ve been a vegetarian for 40 years & things have certainly changed since then, you could only get nut cutlets from the health food shops. By the way I have just bought my ham Quorn from Tesco’s.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I'm not vegetarian, but those Quorn roasts sound delicious with all the embellishments.

[@garrylawless3550]

Brilliant Steve, you've awoken my Christmas spirit with these adverts, but also tinged with sadness, Woolworths a fantastic one stop shop - I miss it.👍🏻

[@jamiegoddard562]

Great slice of nostalgia love it better times

[@cgarby]

Brilliant. Thx.

[@RetroSteveUK]

You're welcome!

[@El-Ritmo]

Georgie Fame, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Stirling Moss, Tony Blackburn (with the hair of a Lego Minifigure) and Leslie Crowther, plus a pre-BT telephone mascot called Buzby - all those well-known faces of the time in one 45-second advert: Woolies really were huge, and then... gone. I don't have the emotional connection to Woolies so many do (pick 'n' mix aside 😆), but it still feels weird it's not around any more it was so ubiquitous.

[@gwheregwhizz]

10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 12, 8, 9, 10. If you know what that is, you got the Bontempi organ for £36.95 from Woolies and remember how to play Jingle Bells.

[@RetroSteveUK]

🤣🤣 My God, the useless stuff we remember! 01 811 8055

[@ronaldo190172]

Great memories, thank you so much x

[@focusmicro]

buy, buy, , buy consume, consume! Somethings never change (be it KZbin adverts now).

[@eddievanbasten1751]

Gravy on kebabs? Wow, hadn’t heard of that.

[@darkvader7231]

Well they were turkish not turkey kebabs😆

[@skiveman]

Just how did Woolworths go bust? I miss Woolies the most at this time of the year.

[@julialan7494]

Probably greedy shareholders and bad management at the head office

[@Sharky1966]

The main reason woolworth went bust was because when they went bankrupt they never own any of they stores. So had to close them all. Apparently.

[@skiveman]

@@Sharky1966 Yeah, I looked it up as I couldn't remember why they all disappeared. What happened was that the financial crash of 2008 happened and Woolworths was asset rich and cash poor. Their situation wasn't helped when their payment insurance was revoked and they had to pay for all their deliveries as they received them and seeing as cash flow wasn't that great things got quite somber. Woolworths had sold their store buildings to recover some money but had to rent them back at a fairly high rent. All of this together meant that when the financial crash happened that Woolworths couldn't cope and they were wound up and all stores closed.

[@paulskehan693]

We had a few Woolworths in Ireland,I used to love going in there with my mum at Christmas 😊

[@leon-o4m7k]

the good days of xmas ' fake snow ' glitter everywhere ' lights ' & in town centres they made it feel like xmas ' the cheesy adverts on tv ' good times even in my 20s money was tight ' it still is ' but we made the most of it ' now xmas has almost become a long boring bank holiday to alot of people ' i miss these days ' but ive got alot of good memories though ' the shops were always full of xmas ' seems to be abit lost this day & age ' a real shame ' o well ' il say it happy christmas everyone🥳 2024 🎄🎁🍻

[@dawnfinch2836]

I still miss Woolies to this day 😢

[@El-Ritmo]

I started typing my last comment before the end of the Woolies ad and wasn't really looking at the video: had to go back to double then triple check that the lyrics at 1:20 weren't, as I first heard them, "and some Shabba Ranks cassettes for very little lolly" 😁😆 I was very thrown by that seeming anachronism.

[@mgthestrange9098]

Shabba!

[@aala7337]

Tv programs were better back then not the crap we have now on Christmas Day

[@carolinewaite7185]

In the OXO advert what did they order an ostrich ? Our Turkey only lasted until the day after boxing day! 😂

[@mgthestrange9098]

And after that, it goes out for the foxes.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I've always thought that. That does look like a lot of leftover meals.

[@jwb52z9]

@@RetroSteveUK That's literally true in the US. Americans often skip the turkey at Christmas because we're all sick of it by then as we have an extra holiday, along with Canada but for different reasons and at different times. Turkeys have to be huge when you have 16 people every year as my family did. No one would usually take the leftovers home, so my immediate family would eat it for weeks.

[@jwb52z9]

One of the ads here shows something I've always thought was an interesting, but small, linguistic difference between US and UK English. British people say the first syllable of the word "issue" as in the word "hiss", while Americans pronounce it as in the word "fish". Is the jarred cranberry sauce very popular in the UK? Most Americans either buy the canned form of the same brand or make it from scratch. I know it still exists in some US states, but I haven't seen a Safeway where I live in decades. I always get a chuckle hearing about mince pies because they're mostly a thing Americans learn about in a nursery rhyme or history. I know you can get anything online now if you're willing to pay the crazy delivery cost, though, or you live near a specialty food shop. Tandy's another brand that I haven't thought about in ages.

[@RetroSteveUK]

To be fair, the pronunciation changes depending on local accents. I've heard both over here. Cranberry Sauce does indeed come in jars, and I can confirm, mince pies are delicious - just don't make the mistake of confusing the sweet, fruity filling with the mince we buy from the butcher.

[@stevedickson5853]

That looked like Ronnie Barker sat in the passenger side of the Robin dressed as his wife in the BP ad..could be wrong.

[@janwong9437]

I thought that too

[@Ruribitz]

You built a time machine... out of a DeLorean wood panelled TV?!

[@RetroSteveUK]

The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a TV why not do with some style?

[@ElijahRetro1982]

👍🏽😎👍🏽🧑🏽‍🎄🎄

[@anjkovo2138]

👍👍🎄🎅❄

[@RetroSteveUK]

📺🎁

[@kerrymetcalfe2737]

I wonder where they got the electric from on a desert island 🤦‍♀️😂

[@RetroSteveUK]

Apparently they ran an extension cable to the McDonalds just beyond the treeline.

[@kerrymetcalfe2737]

@RetroSteveUK 😆

[@magicmagicman]

It looks like Harrods was closed on a Sunday back then. I wonder when that changed and why.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Might have been the change in Sunday trading laws.

[@MotherOfVincentLePew]

Shops were closed from lunchtime Saturday until Monday morning- when I was a kid.... Sundays used to take forever!

[@martinwalsh3228]

It's Oxo Cubes no Bisto gravy advert in this clip.

[@russ-r1e]

How come wh smiths is still on the high street and boots , but Woolworths want bust?

[@RetroSteveUK]

Mainly due to bad business choices made in a changing commercial climate of supermarket expansions and internet shopping.

[@Kampala_Harris]

Never ever bought tv times,was a rip off.

[@peterskegness3204]

It (and Radio Times) were handy in the days pre EPG, ensuring you didn't miss anything good on tv. Now, for free, the EPG can tell us we're not missing anything worth watching 😂

[@RetroSteveUK]

Totally this ^^ Back then we had no other way of knowing what was on with analogue TV.

[@rafiqadarr6217]

Kampala_Harris - I actually preferred the Radio Times, it had all the TV listings as well as what was on Radio 4, etc., I used to love getting that bumper mag and circling all the programmes on TV and radio that I wanted to watch, so exciting!!

[@peterskegness3204]

@@rafiqadarr6217 For a long time, it meant getting both, as TV Times would only show ITV programmes, whilst Radio Times only listed BBC tv and radio. Can't remember when that changed, but seem to recall they had a monopoly on tv listings between them 🤔

[@RepublicIcon]

I miss the days when christmas adverts were trying to sell you something rather than have a load on men in scary makeup and lingerie dancing around just because it's good for the virtue signalling department 🤦

[@RetroSteveUK]

You'll hate this, then: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIHXlpl5p7KGd9U

[@davidattwell2574]

Tv ⏲️ times is nearly 3 pound 😊😮