Vintage UK Nostalgic & Memorable Adverts (Vol.2)

[@simonphelpsgardiner8413]

The yellow pages ad instantly took me back 3 decades love these vids and the milk ad just fantastic

[@darkvader7231]

I remember when bog rolls would come in different colours😁😁

[@pyewackett5]

People seem terrified of colours these days. The more bland the better. I love coloured bathroom suites too 😊

[@Pythonaria]

Have you seen the size of the Andrex toilet rolls now? Skinny things with huge cardboard centres. I'm surprised at the rip-off prices they're charging for them that they haven't gone bust yet.

[@janwong9437]

Yep and me , they stopped the colour because of the production expense and it caused irritation to some people 😬

[@janwong9437]

@@pyewackett5in the 60s 70s my parents had an aqua green bathroom and my friends was yellow

[@Gingerprince521]

I remember the Heinz tomato sauce and but never realised it was Matt Le Blanc.

[@garrywitcomb2334]

Another great selection from easier days,thanks Steve A time of real Celebs,before modern game shows and terrible dating programmes have had to scrape together the dross that appears on our screens now . . . I remember phoning Toy shops and Hobbie shops,to see if the latest Scalextric Cars had arrived. Brilliant Thing is . . That's how you used to learn how to converse with people,how to interact and become an adult . . . Pressing a button teaches nothing . . Apart from contempt. Coloured Toilet Rolls are still used in my house. . . Keep up the good work 😆👍👍👍

[@OllieTattersall]

Nice touch with the Back to the Future 88mph on the side of the TV.

[@bob-sb2zu]

The original Smash ad is a treasure ,not so sure about the product ! JR Hartley & Yellow pages , Petunia & the sailing dingy unforgettable too .

[@AtheistOrphan]

Influenced by the advertisement, I bought some sexy underwear for my niece. My case comes up next week.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Lol .. 😂

[@LIVERNIL723]

I was so glad to have been brought up in this particular generation. I see some youth now and they lack basic skills such as being able to speak English properly, pick up the Telephone and be able to make calls and inquire. I really don't know what the schools are teaching them, but them they themselves have Teachers in their now 20s. I rest my case.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Everything's gone/going online. I guess when that's the predominant form of communication it's easy to default to that & alternative forms of communication become rarer skills. We probably take our own skillsets for granted.

[@onimacleod]

Yeah, I knew some folk way back then who couldn't do those things either, that's a human thing, not generational

[@LIVERNIL723]

@@onimacleod I think it's perhaps a mixture of both. The society we know exist in lacks basic human values. This has lost it's way through the plethora of technology we have, but humans through younger generations haven't carried that through.

[@lotuseater7247]

​@@LIVERNIL723 You sound old. "The young these days" kind of comment. You should be careful about that.

[@maccagrabme]

Being taught CRT and how to be a victim.

[@juliethompson1786]

The days when toilet tissue paper came in different colours to match the bathroom suites! I feel ancient remembering that😂

[@makara80]

Ronseal: ‘does exactly what it says on the tin’… that so many still remember that slogan (and the brand/product it was conceived for) today is proof of good, effective advertising!

[@RetroSteveUK]

My thoughts exactly.

[@davidjones6470]

Excellent upload Steve 👍

[@somegeorgedownthehall9392]

Wow we were all so receptive to the advertisers claims! Margarine is better for you than butter! Hilarious 😂, and what was that all about with the access card ad and the skimpy lingerie for the niece!!!

[@RetroSteveUK]

Gotta wonder about that. Makes for uncomfortable viewing.

[@peterolley7159]

Brilliant Thankyou. Great memories

[@stevedickson5853]

Those Homepride Fred flour shakers used to be in nearly every kitchen I walked into when I was a kid

[@RetroSteveUK]

My sister used to have the full set. Don't know what happened to them.

[@HelloImNik]

Good memories these, they were margarine mad in the 80s tho eh 😂

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yeah, that was definitely a thing! 🤣

[@garethbramley1]

John Hewer played Captain Birdseye from 1967 to 1998. Terry Wogan (Flora) / Roy Hudd (Stork). 'For Mash Get Smash' jingle was composed by Cliff Adams. Great Milk commercial at 8:33. The Public Information Film (PIF) at the end is a 'classic'. It was shown endlessly at the time.

[@lotuseater7247]

Vitalite, I recall watching at 8 years old and making my own lyrics for it to impress a girl in my class. It was 'X Rated', something terribly naughty like; 'wake up in the morning, watch the tele, do a big fart up my bellyyyy'. Little did I know then, that it was a reappropriation of a Reggae song by-and-for white middle Englanders (like nearly all these ads). To me it was just the Vitalite song.

[@paulshepherd1348]

Ahh such happy days. I loved the Hornby Railways one with the boy phoning around for tge signal box... then shows the local model shop with brown paper bags... all that has gone now, with soulless faceless online stuff. Sad.

[@leeoasis1982]

2:02 Access advert “present for the niece”. Holds up erotic underwear , different times 😂

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yes. Awkward. 😬

[@neilgilbert6798]

ohh ohh OHH vatalite brilliant

[@eopal-uk265]

Thanks Steve!!!!!!

[@LIVERNIL723]

Yellow Pages Advert is like Yesteryear.

[@mick0846]

The access card advert. " 🎁 for the niece " wtf? 🤣 how times change

[@RetroSteveUK]

I know! So dodgy. I considered leaving this one out, but decided to keep it in to show how dodgy things were back then, even in the mainstream media.

[@mick0846]

@@RetroSteveUK ha no interesting to see just how un PC things where back then.

[@handle-with-care63]

Though i can see why you included it as it highlighted the kind of times we were in but i felt it marred what was otherwise a wonderful collection of nostalgic adverts & the effort that went in to making them, which can't be said of the advert i refer namely the "0898 50 50 50" one.

[@Inaflap]

Hey that looks like a young Matt Le Blanc in that Heinz Ketchup advert! @9:08 Deffo him... but they've dubbed another actor over his voice.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yeah, spot on. Early in his career, I guess he'd take whatever work he could get.

[@psvyme48paulh13]

Nice to see

[@intellex551]

50! 50! 50!

[@RIXRADvidz]

Allinson Wholemeal Bread : John Cooper Clark ?? LOL yeah, Matt LeBlanc voiced over with a brit accent LOL DvD

[@TheOnjLouis]

I’m that person who was more interested in the ads than the TV shows themselves, and grew up in the 80’s/90’s, so this whole channel feels tailor-made for me. I’m very at home here. Thanks so much for the content. Curious though if anyone knows what the music used in the ‘Andrex Puppy (Toilet Roll Thief)’ ad is? I’ve been trying to find out since I was a kid, never had any luck. Was it made specifically for the ad? Thanks.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Not sure what piece of music it is. I've definitely never heard it anywhere else before, so I'd presume it was written for the ad, maybe.

[@maccagrabme]

The days when it was worth paying for a tv license and celebs were talented, werent up their own asses and getting paid like gods. All these ads are better than any show on tv nowadays although I wouldnt know as I dont have a license and wont be returning.

[@El-Ritmo]

The Vitalite advert was always great, really stuck in your head, though I much preferred the Maxell ad which used Desmond Dekker's original song but had a guy not being able to understand the lyrics (have you put that in one of your compilations yet, Steve?) - "Oh, oh, my ears are alight!" 😄 The Ragu ad caused me a slight moment of panic when it began with someone saying, "calm down, dear", and I'm desperately thinking to myself, "oh god, no, please not Michael Winner!" 😅

[@RetroSteveUK]

I clearly remember that misheard lyric ad, but I don't think it's on a compilation yet. It's going on one though, if it ever shows up. It's one of my favourites too. 😁

[@El-Ritmo]

@@RetroSteveUK Not that I doubt your ability to find such things, but I found a good quality version last night because I needed to see it again myself. Here’s the link in case it’s useful to you: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZ2nZ31vhNKegKs

[@RetroSteveUK]

@@El-Ritmo Thanks. That'll probably end up on a compilation - as long as the music doesn't trigger a copyright block on the video.

[@AndreiTupolev]

I rather sadly suspect that old Cap'n Birdseye would be viewed with suspicion today.

[@garrymathers9]

Matt Le Blanc in the heinze ketchup ad

[@Inaflap]

Acrington Stanley? Who are they? Exactly! That conversation has popped into my head occasionally, ever since seeing this advert decades ago. Though, I'd forgotten it was promoting milk.

[@RetroSteveUK]

The young lad was Carl Rice. He went on to play Colin in the TV sitcom, Trolleyed. www.google.co.uk/search?q=Carl+Rice

[@debbierichens3910]

I’ve always remembered the milk ad with the line “Accrington Stanley? Who are they?!” …..and much to my husband’s annoyance, can’t help reciting it regularly - because Accrington Stanley are in the same league as his team! 🤣

[@scottbutcher9093]

Joey in the tomato sauce add 😆

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yeah, and with a British accent for some reason. 🤣

[@johnny5805]

"Exacccccccccttttttttttttly"

[@FishpondsLady]

If I ever see a boat in distress, I will dial 999 and ask for the coastguard. They're volunteers, aren't they?

[@AndreiTupolev]

I wonder what was the relationship between the Country Life Butter men (they all seemed to be men). Were they related, or were they just sharing a house?

[@RetroSteveUK]

Mates from down the pub I reckon.

[@Sjmby95]

What about the Hovis advert?

[@andrewbriggs6083]

Hey steve,how you doing still have not seen a walnut whip ad. Can you give it a try. Cheers mate.

[@RetroSteveUK]

There's one on one of the Sweets & Snacks compilations. Can't remember which one right now, but you can use the search function from my channel page (only works on the web page - not in the app) and it'll bring up any videos containing walnut whip in the chapter markers.

[@andrewbriggs6083]

@@RetroSteveUK Thanks mate.

[@Inaflap]

How can that couple sat on the cliff, enjoy a balmy afternoon with ice-cream, whilst the man in his dinghy, just off the coast, experiences a gale? There was another public info cartoon that looked similar to this... Meet Mike, he swims like a fish. Learn to Swim!

[@grimTales1]

Why is he buying underwear for his neice in the Access ad? WTF?

[@RetroSteveUK]

He was probably a nonce. It was joked about and not taken seriously back then, which is why people like Saville got away with it for so long. Seeing it in this advert is a good reminder of how far we've come.

[@Sjmby95]

Who owned a CB radio

[@mickmackem1479]

How you doing

[@RetroSteveUK]

Peachy

[@jackiechan8840]

Poor Neville

[@jwb52z9]

Why did they dub Matt LeBlanc's voice in the ketchup commercial?

[@RetroSteveUK]

I always presumed it was for the British audience.

[@richardallen8239]

I was born in 1982 when he started challenge come no

[@lanaprowse3269]

Awwww the days when adverts actually advertised something useful and you would enjoy watching them not like these days when they the only thing's you see on tv is iPhones and tablets and smartphones and not to mention all the horrible reality tv shows that are so far from real life its ridiculous