Vintage UK Nostalgic & Memorable Adverts (Vol.3)

[@alanoliver5378]

Looking back, the adverts were more entertaining than today's TV.

[@AllOuttaBubblegum123]

Really choked me up seeing some of these classics. Reminds me of when I had my whole life ahead of me. How time flies.

[@SeekTruth300]

What age are you now sir?

[@TheFreshSpam]

@@SeekTruth300 in his late fiftys or early sixties I'd say.

[@ianmasters4225]

Really makes you feel old.

[@MissFeline]

Awww memories, stirs me up upside, loved it back then, compared to now bliss☺️❤️ take me back😫😂

[@electriclightlynnetrex6346]

Yep, life was happier and safer back then, that life has gone forever.

[@peakyblinder777]

This was a great era of time to be living in . Life was simpler and more authentic 😢

[@hlnr4817]

Loved watching this. Reminds me of when I lived at home with mum and dad watching TV in the evening; both of them gone now. These were commercials the whole family could watch and enjoy. Not racially motivated, not political.

[@cherylclarke927]

Absolutely spot on there

[@user-qw8ti5uf3r]

The best decades ever :1970s&1980s.wish can go back to those years..Screw the modern technology.

[@koogle5410]

How lucky were we to have experienced the greatest decade in history!!!! ♥️

[@dawnfinch2836]

Indeed we were

[@darrendewar2222]

Back when you didnt mind whatching adverts brilliant

[@jimcraig2541]

What I love about these ads is that all the people in them are regular folks who could live down your street. Yes, I know they’re actors but you get my drift.

[@desertrose1226]

Unlike today where everyone’s a bloody Instagram model

[@electriclightlynnetrex6346]

There are no natives in any of todays ad's

[@jamesjameson4566]

@@desertrose1226 I think you're missing the point entirely, it's nothing to do with Instagram

[@zippy_uk1046]

1. Frank Muir an ordinary guy? 2. In the 1970s/80s - everybody was slim, including the "FAT" people...

[@angelamary9493]

Agree 👍

[@roncatton7101]

If these adverts were on telly now, who would want to watch the garbage in between them..😂🤣👍

[@deedeedodo8092]

So true Ron 😂😂😊

[@theymusthatetesla3186]

Ah! The Good old days, when adverts weren't making you want to gouge out your own eyes! Think THOSE things'll be remembered in thirty or forty years?

[@jayaybe1]

I literally can't bear them these days. They're less about the product than the obvious agenda being pushed by the ad agencies.

[@Ricksta66]

Back in the day when I used to love watching the old box and the wonderful adverts.

[@AndreiTupolev]

I gotta admit, the Yellow Pages 🚲 👨‍🌾 ads bring a tear to the eye 😢

[@BritishGaz1]

Ah the 80's.. possibly the last great decade of our lives. Great to relive some absolute classics from that era 👌🏼 thanks for that!

[@paulfuray8557]

Back in the day when adverts were actually great. Amazing how I remembered a lot of these. Shows you how good they were etc. 👍🏻

[@bobholyoake7790]

💯❤️

[@stephentrudgeon2646]

Agree, loved growing up in the 80s,really loathed the 90s,TV was poor and music was mainly awful!

[@richardmoores]

@@stephentrudgeon2646 I think the 90’s was the last great decade. And the music was amazing, not all, but enough.

[@stephentrudgeon2646]

@@richardmoores Good that we all have our different opinions.

[@StrawberrySunday212]

Reminds me of good times, not a care in the world, both my parents and I watching these adverts with my whole life ahead of me, then BOOM it's 40 years later, my parents are gone. Time sure does fly folks.

[@daviebevan]

Memories of these ads has welled me up

[@bobholyoake7790]

this brings back memories miss my dad

[@garyowens1517]

When adverts were about products not funeral plans and mobile phones.

[@cherylreznor181]

Or. Diets

[@chriswaring5565]

HEAR HEAR! I AGREE WITH THAT GET FED UP WITH AD,S BEGGING FOR BONGO BONGO LAND AS WELL!

[@garyowens1517]

@@willnicholson18 yep

[@dawnfinch8232]

Couldn't agree more Gary

[@johnfrancis2215]

Nailed it 💯👌

[@chrismorris8825]

Wow I felt like a young lad again fighting for the TV control with my brother and sister how times fly and how times change .Really nostalgic viewing them old adverts life was so much easier then .

[@RetroSteveUK]

Furthest back my memory takes me is to when my lazy dad used to ask me to get up and change the channel - before TV remotes were common .. I guess I WAS the remote! 😐

[@shakz86]

Fantastic compilation. I just discovered this channel and described. It's crazy I can't bare 2 minutes of modern adverts but will happily sit and watch 20 minutes of nostalgic adverts for products I can no longer buy.

[@labradormcgraw]

So true.

[@jcs3330]

The Maureen Lipman and her BT ads....(probably the best thing that came out of BT!), got to be one of the best that decade .Thanks for taking the time and putting these great ads together.

[@julianlyons711]

Great stuff and as a man in my late 50s a great kick of nostalgia for those family nights watching the box as a family … how times have changed … and where did the years go

[@tonyrodd6348]

They disappeared like your question mark.

[@johnfrancis2215]

Yes, it's absolute garbage now the MSM not worth a watch

[@denisesiddon7241]

80s had the best ads. This was when i was a kid. Remember the dancing cows fondly 😂

[@RetroSteveUK]

We went mental for the Anchor Butter cows at the time.

[@user-qw8ti5uf3r]

The whole life was better in 1980s. And back 1970s.

[@adrianbradley8513]

The phrases"Like sitting on a razor blade"; from the Yellow Pages and "You've got an ology, you're a scientist" from British Telecom have been rattling around my brain since the eighties and I'll be 50 in June 2022. Also the expression on the Grandson's face when he thinks that only passing pottery and Sociology isn't that bad is priceless. I always thought that the ad where the old gardener thought that his boss was going to "let him go" and then getting a ride on mower was sweet.Always knew that the actor who played the father buying his son a bike also played Kevin Webster's Dad in Coronation Street. Also interesting to see Bill Teacher(Arthur Fowler in EastEnders) in the Colgate and. It's kinda sad to see that services such as Yellow Pages and reserving something by phone are things of the past because of the Internet.

[@beakytzw]

Thanks the colgate ad it was doing my head in trying to remember what i saw the Chemist in. Arthur Fowler. Brilliant.

[@michaelayliffe1413]

Hi, same thoughts here and I’m also 50 on 30th June 22, it’s all gone way too quick 😮happy birthday to you for June 👍👍👍👍

[@adrianbradley8513]

@@michaelayliffe1413 A very early and VERY happy 50th birthday Michael to you also. Hopefully both of us won't set of any smoke alarms with our birthday candles 😅😅😅🎂🎂 Here's to the next 100 years,God willing.

[@RobWoodhouse46]

Buy KZbin premium for no ads, and then watch a 20 minute video full of adverts 😂😂😂 love the memories 👍

[@labradormcgraw]

Yes, but these are proper adverts, not the utter shit you get on YT's platform.

[@mattabouttrails]

Ironic init..

[@DarrenHarrison7160]

These adverts really hit home to me, I'm 51 so these were on when I was indoors especially on a rainy Sunday staring out the window looking at my bmx and watching the box!

[@angelalynch9584]

Wow! a blast from the past. Adverts seemed less serious and more light hearted back then. Thank you. 😜

[@angelamary9493]

Yes ..no diversity shoved in.our faces

[@470danadidas]

Oh the good old days. BT advert with Maureen Lipman and Mrs Jones had me in stitches. Great memories 😂😂😂

[@youthere7327]

we had less but times were so much better then

[@labradormcgraw]

Such wonderful memories. Better days; simpler times. Thank you.

[@AERIEDM]

Back when adverts weren't shouting at you.

[@deezmemes126]

My God! Frank Muir. Call My Bluff was one of my favourite TV shows.

[@mard7021]

Love the yellow pages advert , properly takes me back

[@MissFeline]

Same! ☺️

[@antispindr8613]

Good old Yellow Pages!

[@jaymac7203]

I have a vivid memory of my sisters crying with laughter when the dancing cows on the Anchor advert came on and the guy at the end went "muuuurrr" lol 😭🤣

[@RetroSteveUK]

That was always one of my family's favourites as a kid, too. 🐮

[@alexday5892]

The Yellow Pages ads were fantastic. Quite emotional when I watch them now. Maureen Lipman BT ads were just brilliant. You got an ology, you’re a scientist. Very clever writing. This was an era when some of the ad agencies really put some effort into their adverts. Victor Kiam learnt his tagline in loads of different languages for a global campaign. Who couldn’t love the Oxo family !? Great post Steve 👍🏻

[@desertrose1226]

My fave is the one with the little boy , his mum, and the signal box he buys for his dad.

[@spleeeen4it]

proper tv,unlike todays utter crap

[@giuseppe397]

I agree. I wanna go back,I hate todays world even though some things may have improved. Bigger TVs,safer cars,the internet to buy things at the click of a button but at what cost. Life is unbearable. Can't even drive down the road without being blinded by headlamps on modern cars,let alone drivers just pulling out much of the time. It's crazy now. The convenient era but often a lack of quality. I'd rather go back. Just these ads alone show how different it was. I can't even bear 99% of modern tv,especially ads,even radio ads,they get switched off.

[@harold6863]

@British First full of coloured people just for the sake of it.

[@jazzman1626]

No men being portrayed as stupid. Can’t think of any likeable ads nowadays.

[@equinox4938]

@OLD ADS UK 📺 Ads from the past were the best, today we have nothing but Funeral, Life insurance, Charity ads etc.. The world's a miserable place today..

[@equinox4938]

@OLD ADS UK 📺 🙂👍

[@phantomracer1050]

I rember most of these ads as if was only yesterday!

[@Nick_Turpin]

Too true ….

[@labradormcgraw]

So, so true.

[@imeka222]

Oh these made me cry.... It reminded me of my childhood in the 70s...superb times. X

[@debbierichens3910]

I loved watching this and remembered most of these ads, which were far cleverer and interesting than today’s ones. I’d completely forgotten about phone cards though! Absolutely loved seeing the old £5 notes again too! Thanks so much for this.

[@pershorefoodbanktrusselltr3632]

That Spar song is my childhood! It was always on in the 80s! I still sing it occasionally today 😄

[@RetroSteveUK]

So Near So Spaaar!! 🎶

[@50337andy]

How come I remember every one of these and none of today's. Andy 51 and three quarters.

[@sophieboult310]

When life was normal

[@tsrgoinc]

Jesus that took me back! If you told me after 70’s there was worse to come I wouldn’t have believed you, I would now!

[@jilumiah]

It’s amazing how I remember some of these adverts even though I was probably around 5-6 years old at the time, and fast forward to now I can’t tell you of one single advert as every thing I watch is online KZbin, Netflix, prime and adverts that do pop up I just skip

[@sharontonks3192]

Wow! What a great blast from the past, absolutely brilliant. Thoroughly enjoyed seeing these again, it's really made my day 😄. When bars of chocolate were bigger and actually had more than a scraping of chocolate on, when starburst were properly called opal fruits and had the lime one, when spangles and trio were around. I'm in my early fifties and was a teenager then. Great music, fashion, adverts and decent telly programmes. Thanks so much for the nostalgia

[@RetroSteveUK]

My mouth started watering when you said lime one. I'd forgotten about those!

[@tonyrodd6348]

Remember opal mints too before they became pacers?

[@elaineglendinning9297]

I love the BT adverts especially the one about Mrs Jones . Some of the adverts are more like short stories. Great stuff.

[@iwasglad122]

My entire childhood!

[@thunderwarrior1759]

Watch out,watch out,watch out there’s a Humphrey about! Love that advert

[@Jay-zc7iq]

Leave me alone I’m not 45 anymore right now I’m 12 just home from school eating crisps and watching tele 📺 again x

[@RetroSteveUK]

I always like to have a bowl of cereal when I come home from school.

[@Jay-zc7iq]

@@RetroSteveUK lmfao 🤣 me too yay I wasn’t alone 👍😂🤣

[@deejay5224]

You've done a fantastic job putting these together. Great memories especially the first yellow pages ad.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Thanks. It's a pleasure.

[@pearljam619]

I didn’t press the skip button for any of these beloved classics.

[@jasonjordan1936]

great old days

[@JonathanCheeseman]

That country used to exist.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Which country?

[@JonathanCheeseman]

@@RetroSteveUK The past. The past is a different country.

[@chrisblay]

Great compilation. Brings back so many memories.

[@juliethompson1786]

Yellow Pages made wonderful ads. I haven’t seen that father-son bike ad in decades. Like stepping in a time machine and going back to my childhood, thank you! I forgot about those Heinz “Haunted House” noodles! I begged my mum relentlessly to get those after that ad. Brilliant, brilliant times 😢

[@RetroSteveUK]

Those Heinz pasta shapes in a can all tasted the same, but we still wanted them! It's all good fun. 😁

[@patcom1013]

Most of these old ads were better than the TV shows themselves !!!

[@Cuebix]

Either these adverts were on for ages or I just watched a lot of Tv. Either way this is just great to watch again.

[@nickgodfrey1148]

Why do these ads make me smile now? Nostalgia maybe? Or the longing for simpler, happier times? Perhaps, but the ads were definitely less annoying.

[@dshe8637]

Maureen Lipman one was supremely annoying

[@darrelltregear3571]

This is the Britain I am missing

[@labradormcgraw]

So true.

[@johnfrancis2215]

I totally agree, I remember when they always finished the news with a funny story, now it's just doom gloom and properganda

[@nickgodfrey1148]

@@johnfrancis2215 and the adverts. Half the time I have no idea what the product is they are trying to sell because the message overshadows it. Just advertise your product. I don’t want a lecture when I turn on the tv.

[@soylentgreennewdealtimeshare]

Chocolate tasted much better back then, and the bars were proper bars.

[@jaykaye7025]

So very true

[@beakytzw]

They are tiny bars today and mostly cocoa flavouring rather than real chocolate.

[@fathershaun4126]

They're not smaller your hands are bigger 😂

[@manosparavida3551]

@@fathershaun4126 I used to think that too. But if you check the weight, they've all been reduced. One product particularly reduced is Pepperami. Which is now virtually half its original size.

[@MissFeline]

My Nan used to say dairy milk don’t taste like it used to, bars are definitely smaller and I hate the packaging most come in, I remember when a dairy milk use to come wrapped in purple foil in a paper sleeve, it felt more luxurious and special, like a real treat,

[@ginagina9720]

Thank you for sharing this it takes me back I’ve got some happy 😃 memories

[@user-gb1tc6ws8n]

Bring them back

[@faithmapstone9982]

Those were the days!!! ♥️

[@chrysta9057]

You get an 'ology, you're a scientist! I was hoping that advert would come up. And the oxo family... it was a mini series in its own right. Took me home.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Some of those are on the other volumes of compilations. Also, unfortunately, some of the classics draw copyright claims and have to be removed before publishing. It'll always be a mixed bag for various reasons. Thanks for watching, though. 👍

[@dwilliams6346]

Wow thanks for these Steve, honestly. I could watch over and over and over and still feel the same nostalgic sentiment. I've seen practically all of them on your channel now and each time I'm catapulted to a specific time, place, age and sometimes get choked up because they remind me of times long gone, back when I was an imaginative, happy and optimistic boy, and of course with those who are no longer alive. Most of these adverts were works of art, especially the Yellow Pages. It says a lot about the writing and productions back then, when so many slogans made their way into our own English vocabulary and still used 30 or even 40 years later with the same jingle. That said, it also reminds me how bloody good us kids had it back then! Our parents though, probably not so much. All gone down the toilet in comparison to today eh?

[@RetroSteveUK]

Totally .. and sorry I missed your comment last week. It went into a 'held for review' folder for some reason and I missed it.

[@ianholmes3761]

All these adverts were happy day's most of today's adverts are life cover 😢

[@AllOuttaBubblegum123]

That bloody one where the nosey neighbour comes round. "IT'S JUNE DAD" Drives me mad.

[@ianholmes3761]

@@AllOuttaBubblegum123 I'd have said no it's bleeding February isn't it 😄

[@jazzman1626]

@@AllOuttaBubblegum123 Ha ha I usually say “ That’s a funny name June-dad” probably Emily June-dad. Trying to make kicking the bucket sound great the number of smiley happy people talking about funerals 😂. Another advert type that annoys me is the ads about equity “release”. “My home helped pay for it”. They are crafty. The word “release” sounds like the money is trapped and needs released. “It’s a loan!, one that’ll cost you your house when you’re gaga or you have kicked the bucket” is what I shout at the telly lol. The houses will be worth a lot more by the time it’s to be paid back too. Very crafty con-job indeed!

[@desertrose1226]

People are obsessed with death these days miserable sods 😆

[@colinjennings3661]

I love the Humphrey adverts

[@DavidLee-df888]

I don't know if I should praise you or curse you! I just clicked on this out of curiosity and ended up watching all 20 minutes reliving childhood memories.

[@davegadge1]

When adverts were great!

[@Winston.Smith101]

Thank you ... I remember all of them 🤗❤️😊

[@desertrose1226]

Awwww! Good old days. No covid, no war no mad bastard Putin. Just peace and freedom. Miss you 1980/90s!

[@RetroSteveUK]

✌️🕊️

[@iancarpenter6298]

fantastic memories..the ads then where better than the total xhit on t v today.....and didnt insult peoples intelligence...thankyou...great post.❤

[@npr1300A8]

Thank you SO much for allowing us to relive our youth again. I have a 65" TV with a superb screen but no character, but when your videos are on, my TV has STYLE!! Thankyou.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Brilliant! 😆

[@shanditta1018]

A great era

[@stevewilkinson8433]

The Gardner yellow pages I remembered .touching

[@scottscott232]

The very beautiful and much valued Maureen Lipman.

[@11carbuff19572011]

Peter Armitage in the first one for Yellow Pages. He was Bill Webster (Kevin & Debbie's dad) in Coronation Street. Mike Batt wrote & sung the advertising jingle for the Humphreys, of which Frank Muir talks about in the second one, even Benny Hill appears as Ernie the milkman who traded in his old horse & cart for an electric vehicle.

[@mrpropergander6800]

What! No Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins, The aliens in the Smash ad or the bald guy in the photo booth for Benson and Hedges 🤣🤣

[@RetroSteveUK]

You need to check the booze compilations and the other volumes for those, & Baldyman is in storage for an upcoming tobacco collection. 😏👍

[@greigs9384]

Lot of well known names starring in these ads. 👍

[@keifereef9673]

Brilliant, brings back those great days

[@MsObsidian1]

Thanks Steve. That was lovely.

[@darrentribe6851]

Really 😂 enjoyed the vlog 🎉you are getting better and better. My goodness it looked rainy. We love watching your adventures. Lots of love Gayle and Darren

[@RetroSteveUK]

Your comment may have been posted on the wrong video. Heads-up .. 👍

[@dawnfinch8232]

Thankyou for this no mobile phones adverts

[@fr1day2]

Anyone else immediately think of The Fast Show at the name of the Yellow Pages gardener's name being Ted?

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yeah, definite parallels. 😆

[@adailydaughter6196]

Absolutely LOVED this. Fantastic. Thank you for making my day 😊

[@jonathonrowley3535]

I saw the thumbnail and said to myself “ I were right about that saddle though” and I haven’t seen that ad in damn near 35 years. Holy crap was that Alan “Bricktop” ford in the Geldof milk ad ??

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yeah, Alan Ford. I spotted him straight away.

[@InAMinMaths]

I heard the music from the thumbnail!

[@Lamby1010]

The times when adverts were fun and part of tv and not fast forwarded like now !

[@hideouslyugly]

I remember all these....and the 1970s ones. " Vicks Sinex nasal spray, oh mum!" Malcolm, it clears your nose really fast! The " Milk Tray bar" advert, with little black guys rowing a chocolate bar in a chocolate river, and singing about the different chocolate centres!

[@RetroSteveUK]

I've been longing to find the Vicks Sinex 'Malcomb' advert for ages. Just haven't come across it yet. That one's really memorable for some reason.

[@kerrylester8437]

Great old adverts, somehow much nicer than today's ones, great to see the legendary Mr Benny Hill, fancy a pint of milk now, obviously out of a glass bottle!

[@davidbowie2046]

That noodle doodle man song! Not heard that in donkeys years. How modern sounding was that Kittekat advert when it was first out! Some great memories. Thanks Steve for all these great moments in time :)

[@RetroSteveUK]

The Noodle Doodle song was a special one for me. Always remembered it, but nobody else seemed to know what I was talking about. We went mad for it in middle school when it originally came out.

[@wepif]

Thanks this was a really nice blast from the past

[@myles1976jm]

Bloody hell. That yellow pages advert choking me up here.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I were right about that saddle though!

[@waldorf3]

Brilliant memories makes me so glad to be British we do it best have no doubts .

[@FishpondsLady]

As always, RetroSteve, you came up with the goods. I actually cried at the Yellow Pages advert (I've had an emotional past 24 hours so that is possibly why). The Anchor butter one too - it definitely is the best tasting butter in my opinion. Not baked beans though. I'm phobic if them (it is a thing, I always think they look like alien beings from Dr Who). So I had to close my eyes for that bit. But otherwise - brilliant 😁😺

[@RetroSteveUK]

That's funny! 😆 Glad you're liking the collections.

[@jazzman1626]

Hope you’re well, Amy.

[@geoffcoulson3237]

How come I remember all of those as if it was only last week ?? Yet last week I really can't remember what I had for breakfast.

[@labradormcgraw]

So true.

[@AndreiTupolev]

I think my favourite part of these is the sheer emotion the session singers put into singing the jingles. The Kit e Kat one "Getting the most out of li-i-i-ife!!!" was worthy of a West End production

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yeah, I thought that one was a bit .. impressive .. for an advert.

[@MiLLwallpaul231258]

Memories came flooding back… thanks for posting

[@Nick_Turpin]

our TV looked like this one .. Thanks for uploading.

[@shaunlaws5551]

Boy o Boy do I miss these commercials takes me back to the good old days I miss those days so much I really love TV commercials so much I love feeling nostalgic about these time with great fondness so much better than the total and utter crap no no doubt about it

[@garrywitcomb2334]

Very good Steve,another great selection. Thank you 😆👍 Benny Hill,another master of his time The Yellow Pages Ads always stuck in my mind as a lad Some 'real' celebs doing Ads,the fantastic Linda Bellingham 💖 I remember havin a Phone Card 😊

[@RetroSteveUK]

I wasn't sure about this compilation; a couple of ropey ones on there. Improved, but there's only so much you can do when something is really poor quality to start with. Glad you're enjoying them. 👍

[@tonyrodd6348]

'My name? Oh yes, it's J R Hartley.'

[@eileenlocke7877]

Great memories

[@michailokeefeMooMoo]

Ad’s were a lot better back then