This ad brings a tear to my eye whenever i watch it. My childhood comes flooding back. I miss the simpler times in life

@daniellilley3599

2 жыл бұрын

I know exactly how you feel

@sabbathrbest2655

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! I’m getting soft in my old age. So heartwarming, innocent and nostalgic

@DJEonT1

2 жыл бұрын

Me too !

@williamkelly5130

Жыл бұрын

Loved it

@cnafyi

Жыл бұрын

Same 😭

I woke from a dream last night. I had just been introduced to JR Hartley, he was old and frail, I embraced him and said, "It's like you are my grandfather coming back to me", and wept. Rather bemusing to me.

I love this advert, very touching storyline and fine acting, you can’t help but love the character and from the days of my youth, top marks.

God this brings back my childhood.. and this advert was well known ., rip JR Hartley.

The legendary David Abbott was the creative genius behind this campaign - back in the days when many TV ads used warmth and humour to engage with viewers on an emotional level. These days most ads seem to be charmless, cynical exercises in attracting people to gambling websites and other complete wastes of time. R.I.P JR Hartley and David Abbott. You are both greatly missed.

@DanceySteveYNWA

2 жыл бұрын

Legendary? You must mean his brother Russ..

@frantrictantric

Жыл бұрын

@@DanceySteveYNWA Well it's certainly not Diane Abbott haha

@TheSmart-CasualGamer

Жыл бұрын

If the three were actually related, I wouldn't be particularly surprised honestly. That would make Christmas Dinners interesting at the very least.

@NoFormalTraining

Жыл бұрын

I've always been curious about where this advert was filmed. That street seemingly full of bookshops for example makes me wonder if it really did look like that, or if it was just dressed up for filming. It almost feels like being in another world now.

Awwwwww! Still gets me all these years later... seems like the world was a nicer place back then

@ek8710

2 жыл бұрын

It was, it really really was.

@Picnicl

Жыл бұрын

Because the self-appointedly 'cool' people's egos were kept in check by having to exist in the real world rather than on the internet.

@kellyb0279

Жыл бұрын

It wasn't believe me! I'm still waiting for my R186 signal box!

@davewilliams174

11 ай бұрын

​@@kellyb0279😂😂

@TransportationAdventures

8 ай бұрын

The world was

They don’t make adverts like this anymore. Gentle and wistful.

After watching it again 30 years later it only occured to me now that he was J R Hartley himself. Had a lump in my throat aswell.

@Tismesue

2 жыл бұрын

Haha and how many times did you see it! Probably hundreds! I have a fridge magnet with a design of the book. Love that advert. 😊

Voted 5th best advertisement by the good old British people!! Old fella died in 2001 aged 95, very sad being that he'd never caught a wild brown trout on the fly in his life! Surely no1 advert must have been a Hamlet one? Rest well Norman.

Quitessentially English at its core, J R Hartley. I kept copies of the Yellow Pages as a momento I don’t suppose they are still in the attic, which I don’t have anymore. Like the tsunami of Internet advertising, my copies have gone with the wind but I remember Mr Hartley and his heart warming enquiries, presumably for a copy of his own book, Fly Fishing by J R Hartley. You may glean nuance of language and a dying mannerism, which is unique to the English - now a dying breed swallowed by the vulgar and the impatient.

Genius advert and I have never forgotten this touching ad from my childhood!

@mshellfields77

7 ай бұрын

Isn't it just ✨️

Who's still watching this banger in 2020 ?

@deldia

3 жыл бұрын

Pre or post Covid?

@MI-lm1kz

3 жыл бұрын

@@deldia there will never be Post Covid

@rsouth454

3 жыл бұрын

this one been in my head today .. had to look it up . great ad , dunno why i liked as a kid and now but its class

@andyrharris

3 жыл бұрын

I’m loving that you call it a banger 😆

@joannedixon-jackson7348

2 жыл бұрын

Still watching it in 2021!

This heartwarming advert was shown so many times in the UK in the 1980s, a vertical commercial classic!

@andrewlee7228

2 жыл бұрын

vertical or veritable?

This is one of the best British tv ad, very touching with thoughtful story line

When i watched this as a 12 year old in 1983 i was thinking how old the daughter looked, now all these years later watching this again i'm thinking crikey, she's gorgeous.

I grew up on Hartley St so whenever we had to give out our address the answer was always "Oh! Spelled like the book?". Yep.

Wonderful bit of acting from the old geezer, he really makes my heart go out to him.

@Zerbey

3 жыл бұрын

That's Norman Lumsden.

JR Hartley, not just a spin bowler but a great at fly fishing too! Absolute legend!

My sons school teachers used to have a giggle to themselves when they seen jr Hartley on the school register!!

A wholesome time that I miss beyond words.

Lovely advert. Very well acted (especially by the old boy) and lovingly put together. Adverts today seem more about the noise than substance, so You Tube is needed more than ever.

Nostalgia overload!!! Nothing beats a trip back in time on KZread! Always puts a smile on my face forgotten vids like this! Bliss!!

Here from the Triforce Podcast.

I am watching something on the internet which makes me hanker after a world without the internet!

@nicolaiqbal6823

3 жыл бұрын

@James Cricket If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything.

This is arguably the most iconic ad ever if not the most iconic of the 80's. I'm surprised it has so few views.

Who can forget this advert.

After this, Fly Fishing by J. R. Hhhhartley was the punchline to countless gags

😪This is quite simply the best advert ever made. IMO.

Have you got "fly fishing" by JR Hartley? You haven't? Oh bother! Well have you got " the joy of sex" instead?

Fond memories of this advert - from better days when adverts like this were well written and quality acting.

Just been talking about this advert ..Good old KZread. Thanks for putting this on ..

Bygone era. I'm so glad I got to experience this way of life during my childhood. Not a smart phone or internet browser in sight. Yesteryear.

Very possibly the greatest advert ever made.

You have to give credit to the librarian and bookshop workers in this advert. They all knew in an instant that the book wasn't on the premises.

For some reason I became very emotional seeing this advert again after so many years.

What a magic advert!

A favourite ad from many years ago 🙂, thanks for posting it

My childhood right there!!!!!!👍🏾

I LOVED this tune 😔😔😔

Loved these adds,golden memories😊

The beutiful days before social media and when having an opinion hurt no one.

Aww I was only about 8 when this advert was on telly & even then.. It used to make me feel really sad. What a lovely advert. Adverts aren't even the same anymore. I'm glad he found his book 💚🙈☺️❤️

I have a fridge magnet of a book cover design... Fly Fishing by J.R. Hartley. I love it!

JR, what a gentleman

My fav advert of all time

Best ad ever. Hands down.

I Use say that JR Hartley was my great grandad as although ive shortned my name on my channel im a Hartley. 😅😂

Always warms my heart this advert...

Nostalgia personified.

This music played on my head, when Jill was calling Ritchie"s mother while he was on his sick bed x

Remember this advert good one.

I like this advert! Especially the twist at the end where it turns out that he has the same name as the author! Haha! Brilliant! I love irony 👌

I almost forgot what this add quote was about! I love this add

Who's ended up here after watching the Mr Dilkington's ad

i just wanna know why he never had a copy of his own book in the first place

@adelucas4824

Жыл бұрын

Probably got lost or destroyed.

@DCI-Frank-Burnside

10 ай бұрын

Mans probably used up the papers to make "reefer blunts", to use the jive talk of Hartley's day.

Did anyone as a kid think JR Hartley was a real author 🙈

@zebedep

2 жыл бұрын

Yes and I think the book was published as a result of the popularity of this advert!

@derekhart3308

10 ай бұрын

​@@zebedepthere is 2 actual books oh my name is Derek Hartley great grandson of JR Hartley as I got at school.

When this ad was on the telly I thought he said the title of the book was flight machine😂

A really nice touching advert. They don't make them like this anymore...

I’m here because this was a pub quiz question last night

Fun fact: The actor who played JR Hartley was given the role for Rambo. He turned it down for religious reasons.

@johnwilson3918

2 жыл бұрын

Don't be so naive , Robin! He had already committed himself to the **Die Hard, The Prequel** TV series. Don't believe everything you read in the Entertainment Press.

Great memories 😁

Genius advert

Triforce??

It's time to start Running!

I just did this to track down a foreign edition of one of my books. :)

The woman he visits first was in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads as Terry’s dole officer

The inspiration for Amazon

When this advert came out the daughters of the UK were writing into yellow pages and ITV to get this shown again and again. The yellow pages has been replaced by google but the problem here is that the yellow pages didn't give a good service.

I always wondered who J.R Hartley was!

This ad is my childhood lol

Norman Lumsden and a fine performance too

I remember that the actor was in high demand after this advert and did another one where he was dressed up like a b boy, backward baseball cap and all.. cant remember what it was advertising though. Yellow pages did some cracking adverts. Yellow pages (French Polishers), Pg Tips and the Air Canada Adverts are the ones i remember the most kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZKqqj9Szd6eqdsY.html

RIP Joss Ackland

@loopyallie

23 күн бұрын

Looks nothing like Joss Ackland! 😂

@LordGeorgeRodney

20 күн бұрын

@@loopyallie the voice at the end.

Did you ever see the J.R Hartley sequel? In true Hollywood fashion the sequel was bigger budget, higher production values, custom sets, main characters return, albeit older and more personally developed with emotional and intellectual links to the characters past (plus tea as a plot device to engage the return of a central character) there is the same need for suspension of disbelief when super powers are in evidence (to wit he opens the great book on exactly the correct page again) but it is an acceptable suspension in the overall story as he must hurry to the final act where in this sequel (spoiler alert) we actually meet the titular character whose equivalent was mythical and mute in the first instalment. There is a slight plot twist in the dying seconds and you may think it is a Kaiser Soze esque reveal but I think it concluded with reverence to the first instalment and as such the true origins of the character. In short if I ever wrote a book I would be sure to keep it safe because there is no yellow pages to save us now!!! 😂 kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z2F2rLeGgMjafpc.html

@paddy_wax

4 жыл бұрын

hahaha amazing

Classic advert.

Predicted the end of books.

Back when you didn’t have to hover over the “skip” button on KZread and you actually had the bible of all adverts next to the phone

Notice how none of the beginning lot even look before saying no

Fly tipping by J.R Hartley

@danw1374

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@Markycarandbikestuff

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, a comprehensive guide to dead end roads and quiet industrial areas with no cctv.

Tears

Why was he looking for his own book? He wrote it so he should know the ending. And why didn't he keep a first edition for himself!?

Fly-Fishing was actually Hartley's obscure, analogous title for his tract on the extermination of "inferior races".

Old Copies of yellow pages, were always in red phone boxes in industrial amounts, you then couldn't make a call as phone had been vandalised😐.

All for jr Hartley..?!

He's sitting in a book-lined library, but has no copy of his own book?

Oh you do have a copy of the report? Oh that's wonderful. My name is Sue Grey.

Then Amazon came along so much time saved!!

Acted by the great Norman Lumsden

They should redo this woth someone trying to find a copy of the yellow pages. And having the same difficulty.

Awesome ad, but I seem to remember his daughter brought him a cup of tea? Is there another version?

@SpyrosKoronis

Жыл бұрын

Yes, there is another ad, ten years later, where he looks up golfing lessons in the Yellow Pages.

What year is this ad from?

What year was this ad maid

Reminds me of bottom live

What year was this released?

@MG-bs5mr

4 жыл бұрын

Oh blimey, I remember it from my childhood, 80s I think. I'm gonna guess late 80s.

@MI-lm1kz

3 жыл бұрын

early 80s I reckon

@MG-bs5mr

3 жыл бұрын

@@MI-lm1kz I did eventually check, 1983, I could have sworn I was older than that when I saw it. God, I'm old 🤪

Hilarious!

For some odd reason I asked my mother do they still do the yellow pages yes she said then I remembered this great advert lovely old man. mind you in real life he could be a shit you never know lol

I only just got the advert

What's the tune in the back round ?

@user-dk4gm3xm6h

3 жыл бұрын

Sandstorm by darude

@il9237

3 жыл бұрын

Tiger Feet by Mud

Why doesn’t he put the phone down at the end ?

Great nostalgic ad, but what kind of person doesn’t have a copy of his own book!!!??? 🙄

@pilates21

3 жыл бұрын

He'd recently moved in with his daughter and it got lost in the move. The removal men had missed one of their boxes. What we didn't see was the replacing of the other items.