Vintage UK Public Information Films (Vol.4)

[@centrevezgaming4862]

Protect and survive was the most terrifying Psa in living history and the height of the moral panic about an nuclear disaster even there was two films in the 80’s about it one’s called the day after and Threads with Reese Dinsdale from home to roost.

[@stevedickson5853]

"When you see the diamond sign..look out for 2 chatting women with startled expressions on their faces " 🤣

[@JontyMaster]

That Green Cross Code is such a banger!

[@AndreiTupolev]

10:30Bloody hell, the BBC trying the Stasi approach to getting you to cough up the extortion fee 😂

[@koiyune]

"pay for our fučking channel!" bbc

[@MrDirkles]

I was very little when I saw these ads and I have never forgotten them. Only this week , when I saw my wife put a rug on a polished floor, I went off on one!

[@anjkovo2138]

LOL...I always loved the Joe & Petunia Characters👍👍

[@mgthestrange9098]

Me too, there were a few adverts with them. The last one about bald tyres actually killed them off. I wasn’t aware of it until I found it here on YT, the final image of Petunia’s face before they crash was horrifying! Although, there was an updated version of the original made circa 2012, petunia has an iPod, Joe uses a mobile and the guy in the coastguard uses a computer.

[@anjkovo2138]

@@mgthestrange9098 Yeah i remember the last one where the died in a crash. 👍👍

[@london19657]

I'm 60 and when my first girlfriends' parents got their first VCR, they hated that it could not be unplugged at night.(to make the clock right) It might have burst into flames. Omg. Happy times, cheers.

[@JJMCB26]

I like the coastguard one, "lovely day, int it?" LOL!!! 😆😆😆

[@RetroSteveUK]

That's what they call them you know - sailing dinjies!! 🤣

[@Inaflap]

Petunia needed to ease off the ice-creams.

[@RetroSteveUK]

😆

[@garyfaulkner1480]

Coal fire..classic..my grandad always had one on the go..god bless him❤

[@AndreiTupolev]

4:38And how's that for conveying the message "if you have to use public transport you're a second class citizen"

[@pepsioverlord]

I have just spent the last hour watching this whole series

[@garrylawless3550]

Great collection of adverts Steve. It took years of convincing my mother-in-law to stop unplugging her TV and video, after she'd seen those adverts from the days when TV's used to break down a lot (I know, as I remember the Granada man coming to fix ours back in the 70's.) It also saved me re-tuning her TV and video every week! 😀

[@RetroSteveUK]

I think these days it's turning off at the plug without putting the TV into standby first that's likely to cause damage. Remember when stuff had physical on/off switches instead of a standby button?

[@thefrecklepuny]

I remember many, if not most of these. Amazing how just like old dramas, soaps, movies and comedies, the depiction of smoking is now one more thing which clearly dates them.

[@BenPanced]

I knew a woman whose mother unplugged the TV every night not because of concerns about overheating but so that the electricity could safely drain out of the plug. I could repeat it but it still wouldn't make any sense.

[@RetroSteveUK]

🤣 True dat! There is a TINY bit of logic there I suppose. I've had devices that blip on briefly if you press the on button after unplugging. That's often a little troubling.

[@El-Ritmo]

Updating Green Cross Code ads to use Grandmaster Flash's _The Message_ seems a good idea for kids the time (it actually works pretty well with the re-worked lyrics), but as an adult it just doesn't have the low-rent, corny charm of David Prowse and a plastic robot. I find those fire prevention films a bit odd, though, partly because more or less no-one unplugs their TV nowadays, but mostly because both specifically highlight irons. I'm sure we've all forgotten to unplug one at least once in our lives, but they're not things you leave switched on - strange to suggest it as part of a nightly routine.

[@LukePayton-g8d]

Comment of your still jamming to the fire prevention jazz tune XD

[@AndreiTupolev]

4:18How's that for a convenient cop, roaring into action in their Mk 3 Cortina jam sandwich 🚔

[@thefrecklepuny]

Dunno why, but I always found the 'Bedtime Routine' public information ad just a bit spooky as a kid. I think it's because it was the last thing I'd see before going to bed.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Funny now, but I feel it's just a little bit too long by today's standards.

[@richardsonkinnear8031]

Geez! @6:53 15 pence for a pint of milk???😮

[@Matty112uk]

Great set, and some one's I've never seen before. Calming down those coal fires and clearing those ash trays lol!

[@stopwearingwatches]

Never seen that Drink Driving one before

[@LukePayton-g8d]

I’ve just realized that Jo and petunia’s last pif was worn three kill because they died

[@glenjarnold]

"HELP" @1:05 Poor bugger would probably get robbed nowadays...!

[@jwb52z9]

I find the UK electrical grid really scary. I don't remember any PSAs in the US about unplugging things because of a fire risk.

[@RetroSteveUK]

These days it's not mentioned. We have so many appliances that stay on at the wall on standby, 24/7, it's just not a thing anymore. Probably over-cautious in the 70s & 80s. Electricity was only a handful of decades old in homes. I think we were all paranoid, especially as safety standards were much less .. 'rigorous'.

[@manlikegraham3003]

The second public information video would be Ted Bundys wet dream😅😅😅

[@RetroSteveUK]

😱

[@chriswaring5565]

THE KNIGHT CLIMBING THE LADDER WAS HORRIBLE HARRIS FROM PORRIDGE

[@XMizzTuraX]

My grandma had a bedtime routine and I picked it up so quickly but then my parents didn’t have one so it was always my bedroom only that had a routine because I copied off my grandma

[@El-Ritmo]

I'm not sure that _Diamonds Are for Danger_ film actually works - the James Bond-esque music it uses suggests excitement to me, not danger. I'm minded to go and look for the stuff now 😄 I've never seen (nor even heard of - if they're in the Highway Code I 100% don't remember them) one of those help signs from the _Pass the Message_ on film before - presumably they've been obviated by mobile phones nowadays. I wonder if they still exist?

[@AndreiTupolev]

Besides, what were you expected to do? Run and take cover the moment you saw one? Talk about spreading fear unnecessarily

[@El-Ritmo]

@@AndreiTupolev Indeed. I'd have thought those symbols were there mostly for people working with the materials and transporters, and the emergency services. It's not like a tanker crashes and members of the public are sticking their hands in it, or thinking, "ooh, yummy, I'll just have a little taste... oh no, wait, a diamond sign, best not."

[@AndreiTupolev]

My gosh, you'd be begging for that third one to finish wouldn't you. The same message as #1, only more irritating x 100.

[@RetroSteveUK]

First one was class.

[@db111]

When did all this common sense disappear?

[@RetroSteveUK]

Might have been somewhere between when we went from four TV channels to 300.

[@peterpumpkineater68plus1]

Sup

[@RetroSteveUK]

Dude