Old New Zealand TV Ads (From the 80s)

Let's take a stroll down memory lane and look at some old New Zealand TV ads from the 80s!
Maybe you're old enough to remember some of these ads on TV, maybe you're not, but even if you're viewing these old New Zealand TV ads for the first time , you might notice that TV ads used to be a big deal and ad agencies would spend A LOT of money producing ads for . In this compilation alone you'll see one particular ad that was on screen in New Zealand in the late 80s that featured Stevie Ray Vaughan.
This compilation features some ads that ran from the mid to late 80s. I would put some up from the earlier 80s but I was too young to remember much from that era.
0:00 - Cadbury Creme Eggs
0:30 - Give em a taste of kiwi!
01:00 - New Zealand Insurance
0:2:00 - ATARI ST "SUPER COMPUTER"
02:30 - L&P Heatwave
03:30 - Cadbury Moro
04:02 - Melancholic Toyota Corolla Ad
05:01 - Aussies with pimples
05:30 - Video Shops?
06:15 - Emotional Georgie Pie Ad
07:15 - Europa Petrol Stations - "Travellin On" with Stevie Ray Vaughan
10:02 - Sprite
10:33 - Cadbury Crunchie - The Great Train Robbery

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  • @lilmama7040
    @lilmama70402 жыл бұрын

    First time in ages I didn't have to skip the ads.

  • @bayosborn8099

    @bayosborn8099

    Жыл бұрын

    Milky bar kid,👍fave💯🤜🤛

  • @paultreadaway102

    @paultreadaway102

    Жыл бұрын

    Who would have thought it's hard to describe when or what u were doing in the 80s thinking these ads sux nope they beat today the last 10,20 even 30years since the 80s left so many emotions now even these ads are so catchy like theme tunes to everything that was around just before and after with entertainment Music,Cartoons and TV Shows of all things

  • @paultreadaway102

    @paultreadaway102

    Жыл бұрын

    I hate watching Ads now on our so call pay tv with way too many Channels that being Sky watching Wrestling just constant Ads all the way if it's 3hours it be only 2 lucky just record and fast forward oh the days like a VCR would do for us in the 80s.I watch Basketball timeout Ads spans over 2 and a half hours for 48mins Time Stops amazing how u can lose 2mins easy where it goes

  • @MaTtRoSiTy
    @MaTtRoSiTy14 күн бұрын

    Wow... amazing how much they instantly come back to you after not seeing them for literally decades

  • @relax_youre_fine3112
    @relax_youre_fine3112 Жыл бұрын

    It's been 20 some odd years since I've seen that crunchie add but I sung it almost word for word. Memories.

  • @chokethewoke746
    @chokethewoke74611 күн бұрын

    Wow that Crunchie bar ad, that brings back memories a damn good ad for an ad so catchy.

  • @DaniellaQueenB651
    @DaniellaQueenB65111 күн бұрын

    So happy to see all these ads from my childhood🥺🥺😅😅sooo much memories brought tears to my eyes seeing this video...😢❤

  • @muppetb.lansing8374
    @muppetb.lansing8374 Жыл бұрын

    Great to see Margaret Urlich in the L&P ad. RIP

  • @aleonflux1138

    @aleonflux1138

    10 ай бұрын

    Lots of wonderful Kiwi talent in that ad - Margaret Urlich, Erana Clarke, Betty-Anne & Ryan Monga, Annie Crummer...

  • @dflagah2288
    @dflagah2288 Жыл бұрын

    first time not sick of seeing ads🤣

  • @edwardmcgill1640
    @edwardmcgill164010 ай бұрын

    Without a doubt the Crunchie Train robbery is the best ad ever produced in NZ!

  • @quasarsphere

    @quasarsphere

    Ай бұрын

    Murray Grindlay wrote the Crunchie song. He was also responsible for the "Travellin' On" song with SRV. His other claim to fame was the classic "Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang".

  • @creativechik

    @creativechik

    5 күн бұрын

    That ad lasted for years.

  • @missjtrep
    @missjtrep2 жыл бұрын

    Miss these dsys

  • @paultreadaway102

    @paultreadaway102

    Жыл бұрын

    When Chocolate was chocolate a million times better than it's become now like most food aswell packaging quite pricy.Remember Creme Eggs taste so good the yolk was flowing it was my favorite part of the year Easter as a kid in New Zealand

  • @paultreadaway102
    @paultreadaway102 Жыл бұрын

    To be blessed and part of the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s

  • @maxdiggler
    @maxdiggler2 жыл бұрын

    I always remember the pixie caramel adds where the guy in prison would eat the bar so long and the guards would fall asleep . Then they would say the longer lasting chew . Good memories :)

  • @paultreadaway102

    @paultreadaway102

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes any last requests a Pixie Caramel should be here he makes the guards fall asleep by chewing gets out.Moro Creme Egg memories when Chocolate rocked never be beaten forever this decade it's on another dimension world the list is endless to go on how classy the 80s are

  • @paultreadaway102

    @paultreadaway102

    Жыл бұрын

    Georgie Pie when we dine in was cool likewise Pizza Hut had it we went many times.Give Em A Taste Of Kiwi and Heatwave were hits on the NZ Charts i have the Charts crazy what a Song can do at that exact time era

  • @drewlovelyhell4892

    @drewlovelyhell4892

    8 күн бұрын

    I feel like that was an Australian advert, hence it wasn't included.

  • @carlmanvers5009
    @carlmanvers50099 күн бұрын

    I literally knew all these ads word for word. Wow.

  • @groovedohg

    @groovedohg

    20 сағат бұрын

    I lived in NZ this July 87. Only one I half heartedly remember was the Crunchie one. Ads like Chesdale cheese were more memorable, and the Toyota (Bugger) ads were by far the best

  • @Outdoorcookwarereviews
    @Outdoorcookwarereviews2 жыл бұрын

    Crunchie ad was my favorite growing up in Nz. 52 now been living in Canada for last 17 years

  • @legacyrsme

    @legacyrsme

    14 күн бұрын

    80s kid here from NZ living in Canada as well drive for Carlile Transportation Alaska Fairbanks, Ice road trucker for life

  • @ACDZ123

    @ACDZ123

    13 күн бұрын

    Who's more "woke"...Canada or NZ??

  • @legacyrsme

    @legacyrsme

    12 күн бұрын

    @@ACDZ123 NZ maybe for now since we got rid of Ardern which is Canadas Trudeaus good friend but I love alaska its nice and cold where as NZ has too much sun lol

  • @ACDZ123

    @ACDZ123

    12 күн бұрын

    @@legacyrsme ahh Alaska .you're brave 🥶

  • @legacyrsme

    @legacyrsme

    11 күн бұрын

    @@ACDZ123 Yea cheers my parents did say I was an odd kid growing up swimming in pools in winter time lol but here in Alaska is a different cold to NZ, I mean NZ is like -4 at the most, Alaska is like -30 sometimes -40 but I love it like that

  • @bryanpalmer9660
    @bryanpalmer9660 Жыл бұрын

    Loved the Europa ads they were GREAT!! ,miss the 80s

  • @BoneBullet
    @BoneBullet7 ай бұрын

    I don't remember the Europa commercial being so long, but the quality is still really good. And i never knew that was Stevie Ray

  • @glasser0020
    @glasser002011 күн бұрын

    Back wen ads were so good u were excited to see wich ones were gonna come on.😊 also i loved Georgie pie. $1 pies. Epic.

  • @mannydavis7708
    @mannydavis77082 ай бұрын

    Could do a whole video of the Toyota HiLux ads with Crumpie & Scottie. Including the one that got quickly banned featuring Scottie driving in the city.

  • @Sirlagalot378
    @Sirlagalot37811 күн бұрын

    So much more creative and soulful than any of the ads on Kiwi T.V. (KZread) today which look and feel like bottom-of-the barrel, cheap, race-to-the-bottom garbage!

  • @nzfalcon6578
    @nzfalcon6578 Жыл бұрын

    Watching these ads is like looking back at my youth when i was in my teen years

  • @shereerihari2691
    @shereerihari26917 күн бұрын

    Awesome! So many great memories.

  • @moxgirl5
    @moxgirl52 жыл бұрын

    They def showed that Creme Egg advert after the 80s, I remember it clearly even though I was only a baby in the late 80's.

  • @newzealandstories5621

    @newzealandstories5621

    2 жыл бұрын

    It ran for a long time.

  • @eyonfrankston1344

    @eyonfrankston1344

    Жыл бұрын

    that went for years - they recycled it in the 90s and early 2000s and it disappeared from our screens.

  • @clannard1

    @clannard1

    2 ай бұрын

    I remember first seeing it about 1985.

  • @sethlinnell2514
    @sethlinnell25147 ай бұрын

    It sounds odd to say but the quality of ads were better in the 80's, not dumbing them down and treating the audience like children.

  • @donnybrascocoliogne819
    @donnybrascocoliogne81911 күн бұрын

    ❤ CADBURY CRUNCHY IS A CLASSICK N.Z LEGENDARY ADD ❤

  • @eoinc9511
    @eoinc951122 күн бұрын

    People forget that Murray was basically the voice of NZ commercials for 25 years +

  • @ACDZ123

    @ACDZ123

    13 күн бұрын

    Half of these were Australian adds ..Cadbury egg, sprite, topex

  • @pedtrog6443
    @pedtrog64438 ай бұрын

    4:10 Those early to mid 80s Corollas were one of the best small cars Toyota made. The suspension was tuned for the New Zealand market by race car driver Chris Amon and subsequently adopted for their global market, I believe. Beautiful handling fun car to drive.

  • @clintadams8451

    @clintadams8451

    5 ай бұрын

    That was the Corona by Amon, not the Corolla.

  • @bronwynsearle2117
    @bronwynsearle211710 күн бұрын

    Awesome 👍 these were the best 😄🇳🇿

  • @taromanharris172
    @taromanharris1722 жыл бұрын

    SRV and Midge Marsden and the Mudsharks, traveling on

  • @chrisbasham2800

    @chrisbasham2800

    Жыл бұрын

    A real classic. Long as ad too. Europa fuel

  • @robosborne5489
    @robosborne54892 жыл бұрын

    'Dont get caught with shit on your face'

  • @ksianoedwards7732
    @ksianoedwards7732 Жыл бұрын

    GENERATION X! 🥲💖🙏🏾☝🏾

  • @drewlovelyhell4892
    @drewlovelyhell48928 күн бұрын

    I don't remember most of these, but the first and last ads (Creme egg and Crunchie) are bonafide classics. They also played for years because they were so iconic, so I saw them both literally over 100 times. Another example is the Pixie Caramel ad where the guy in front of a firing squad is asked "any last requests?", but that may be Australian. They were all made in the very early eighties, but were still shown well into the 1990s.

  • @taniasouth
    @taniasouth10 күн бұрын

    My childhood memory!! *Georgie Pie.*

  • @MiKeMiDNiTe-77
    @MiKeMiDNiTe-77 Жыл бұрын

    These bring back memories I especially liked that Corolla ad

  • @RachelPaora
    @RachelPaora9 ай бұрын

    Bring back the l&p ad

  • @millsyinnz
    @millsyinnz Жыл бұрын

    Been a while since I saw the Crunchie ad. I think last time it was on TV was 2010 or something.

  • @jayconroy8715
    @jayconroy87159 ай бұрын

    The old computer ad .far owt memory s ,I want go back in time.

  • @thromboid
    @thromboid10 ай бұрын

    Damn, we had some slick big-budget ads back in the day..that Europa one, the L&P one...one-minute (and longer!) timeslots. Great compilation. 👍

  • @danieleyre8913

    @danieleyre8913

    10 ай бұрын

    Yeah it’s crazy how much NZ television has degraded in the last decade.

  • @mahenonz

    @mahenonz

    4 ай бұрын

    That Europa one must have cost a fortune! Maybe that’s why they went bust.

  • @stretchlong6001
    @stretchlong60012 ай бұрын

    Liked the orginal Spieghts ad, " with the box seat at eden park" not sure when it came out but it was a goody.

  • @eyonfrankston1344
    @eyonfrankston1344 Жыл бұрын

    mid to late 1987 - i remember that l&p ad was from that year - the jingle actually became a hit song.

  • @chrisbasham2800

    @chrisbasham2800

    Жыл бұрын

    Rip Margaret Urlich

  • @straightfacts5352
    @straightfacts535223 сағат бұрын

    First ad was filmed in a classroom at Saint Patricks College, Silverstream.

  • @maxdiggler
    @maxdiggler2 жыл бұрын

    So funny that they used to advertise Moro bars like they are a health food bar lol . Chocolate , fudge , and caramel , and we all believed it was so good for us lol

  • @ctakitimu

    @ctakitimu

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah but there were hardly any fat kids back then either, we burned it off real quick just trying to find where your mates were

  • @DoubleMonoLR

    @DoubleMonoLR

    Жыл бұрын

    It's a stretch to claim it's being advertised as a health bar, unlike the plethora of bars *now* that present themselves as healthy, which are still very high energy intake and ultimately contain large amounts of sugar & fat. There's only a single word that could be taken to mean that - 'goodness', which I'd take to be in relation to natural ingredients perceived as higher quality and more enjoyable. Nobody then considered them as 'healthy'(though like any bar they're not going to do any harm eaten occasionally), but naturally they do supply energy and eating them around the time of playing rugby as shown is appropriate.

  • @danieleyre8913

    @danieleyre8913

    10 ай бұрын

    I knew as a kid that they weren’t good for you in excess. But I also knew that they would give you a big boost of energy. Of course that only really applies to kids LOL…

  • @Awakeninghumanzombies247
    @Awakeninghumanzombies247 Жыл бұрын

    Give em a taste of kiwi 🥝👍🎬👏👏

  • @AdamB9866
    @AdamB986613 күн бұрын

    Love the crunchie one

  • @user-wv8xs3rt8s
    @user-wv8xs3rt8s8 күн бұрын

    I have a Toyota Corolla today,,,wow 1990 model

  • @majesticgurl8606
    @majesticgurl86062 жыл бұрын

    😊BRING BACK GEORGIE PIES👍👌

  • @eyonfrankston1344

    @eyonfrankston1344

    Жыл бұрын

    i miss the $1, $2, $3 and $4 value meals

  • @frankfigota5286
    @frankfigota5286 Жыл бұрын

    I like old times

  • @frankfigota5286

    @frankfigota5286

    Жыл бұрын

    Good afternoon sir Frank

  • @frankfigota5286

    @frankfigota5286

    Жыл бұрын

    Good night brother

  • @frankfigota5286

    @frankfigota5286

    Жыл бұрын

    Good old days

  • @jeffsimon9594
    @jeffsimon95942 ай бұрын

    "Would you mind if I washed down this Kahuna Burger with some of your tasty beverage? Sprite! THAT HIT THE SPOT"

  • @iancurtis1152
    @iancurtis11522 жыл бұрын

    Saved the best till last. Where’s the Milky Bar kid?

  • @maakeklein4073

    @maakeklein4073

    11 ай бұрын

    My God I was thinking exactly same thing!

  • @hillaryclinton7091
    @hillaryclinton709114 күн бұрын

    Stevie ray Vaughan, legend.

  • @christinaandrews9392
    @christinaandrews9392 Жыл бұрын

    With all these ads for chocolate and fuzzy no wonder people growing up in the 80s have bad teeth now😅

  • @phillvallace
    @phillvallace3 ай бұрын

    RIP Georgie Pie :(

  • @taniasouth

    @taniasouth

    10 күн бұрын

    Miss it.

  • @clannard1
    @clannard12 ай бұрын

    The Cadbury Crunchie Great Train Robbery ad is certainly well made and memorable, but not an 80s ad; it was made in 1975.

  • @MXRiderFiftyTwo
    @MXRiderFiftyTwo10 күн бұрын

    2.52 Margaret urlich

  • @reignofuriel6090
    @reignofuriel609012 күн бұрын

    Where is the Milky Bar Kid ... lol

  • @newzealandstories5621

    @newzealandstories5621

    11 күн бұрын

    My little bro once auditioned for the Milky Bar Kid.

  • @zakksscifilogs7458
    @zakksscifilogs7458 Жыл бұрын

    New Pink Lotion Swirl was a great ad - Keans for Jeans that ended with a white outline bulldog face on black the Norge & HMV fridge ads set on an island with a castaway ??? - the Chesdale Cheese broz - Fruju - Trumpet on a bus with a kid calling out a bully - Spongy Puds ad 'crybabying" - the Tips tea bag ads with the monkeys - Even the cigarette ads promoting their poison were memorable New Car ads were always expansive

  • @VKM33
    @VKM3313 күн бұрын

    Where’s Carlos’s toffee pop ad?

  • @rhysduncan8763
    @rhysduncan8763 Жыл бұрын

    have been trying to find old big ben pie

  • @L.O.K-Soul-Reaver
    @L.O.K-Soul-Reaver8 күн бұрын

    Born in 87 i only know the 1st and last adds

  • @Mike-ni6ot
    @Mike-ni6ot4 ай бұрын

    Feeling like only yesterday 😪

  • @mitseraffej5812

    @mitseraffej5812

    3 ай бұрын

    You must be old like me.

  • @mrceleb2006
    @mrceleb2006 Жыл бұрын

    There's a mistake in the description...0:2:00 - ATARI ST "SUPER COMPUTER" should be 02:00 - ATARI ST "SUPER COMPUTER", OK?

  • @Druguaer12345
    @Druguaer12345Күн бұрын

    Oh m8! How did you not have Barry crump and his hilux ads 😢

  • @Awakeninghumanzombies247
    @Awakeninghumanzombies247 Жыл бұрын

    Heat wave 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO YEAHHHHH BOYYYEEEEEE

  • @unvaxxeddoomerlife6788
    @unvaxxeddoomerlife67887 ай бұрын

    Send me back.

  • @aratneerg3699
    @aratneerg36993 күн бұрын

    Ads work better when they are musical.

  • @Mike-ni6ot
    @Mike-ni6ot10 ай бұрын

    Remember that 💯

  • @canterburyfishingadventures
    @canterburyfishingadventuresАй бұрын

    There were ads between the ads

  • @mrpants6337
    @mrpants63372 жыл бұрын

    The Cadbury creme egg add sounds like a split enz song.

  • @newzealandstories5621

    @newzealandstories5621

    13 күн бұрын

    Nope.

  • @ACDZ123

    @ACDZ123

    13 күн бұрын

    ​@newzealandstories5621 I'm pretty sure that was an Australian add ...

  • @newzealandstories5621

    @newzealandstories5621

    13 күн бұрын

    @@ACDZ123 It was produced by Colenso NZ in 1985. Cast and crew were local too. Music written by Murray Grindlay, a NZ singer songwriter who wrote music for many NZ ads in the 80s and 90s including NZ film and TV productions.

  • @ACDZ123

    @ACDZ123

    13 күн бұрын

    @@newzealandstories5621 ha ha sh.. they don't sound kiwi 🤦‍♂️

  • @newzealandstories5621

    @newzealandstories5621

    13 күн бұрын

    @@ACDZ123 Uh...ok. Maybe to you they don't. Doesn't change the fact that it's a NZ ad.

  • @chrisgoffe5048
    @chrisgoffe504811 күн бұрын

    ..instat kiwi trout fishing

  • @HerbAlexanderjnr2909
    @HerbAlexanderjnr290916 күн бұрын

    Heatwave..Erana Clark awesome❤

  • @traceymars
    @traceymars15 күн бұрын

    What does it say about me that the only two ads I recognize are for Cadbury chocolate 😅

  • @knowahnosenothing4862
    @knowahnosenothing48629 күн бұрын

    Lemon & Paeroa!

  • @Mike-ni6ot
    @Mike-ni6ot4 ай бұрын

    SRV ❤ R I P

  • @jamesmccann1449
    @jamesmccann14492 жыл бұрын

    Does anyone know where to find "Pink bike shop " TV commercial in late 80s?

  • @newzealandstories5621

    @newzealandstories5621

    2 жыл бұрын

    "Pink Bike Shop"? I'm not familiar with that one, but maybe I'd recognize it if I see it. Was it a regional ad maybe?

  • @jamesmccann1449

    @jamesmccann1449

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@newzealandstories5621 it might have been regional actually, Invercargill Southland

  • @nzfalcon8698

    @nzfalcon8698

    2 жыл бұрын

    it was known as a druggies shop as well

  • @nzfalcon8698

    @nzfalcon8698

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jamesmccann1449 Mike Hughes was the owner

  • @mrchaotiq

    @mrchaotiq

    Жыл бұрын

    Mike Hughes? That pink bike shop? Yeah it was only for us Southlanders.

  • @arrivingone
    @arrivingone5 ай бұрын

    Vaguely remember the europa ad but certainly wasn't that long

  • @mahenonz

    @mahenonz

    4 ай бұрын

    It probably only ran at that length for a handful of times. Certainly seems longer than anything we see today though.

  • @bayosborn8099
    @bayosborn8099 Жыл бұрын

    I remember,❤️🤜🤛💯proud as fuck

  • @jasontoki5291
    @jasontoki529111 ай бұрын

    We have good adds. In those days, some were fu

  • @musicbill101
    @musicbill101 Жыл бұрын

    I’m guessing circa 1989

  • @danieleyre8913

    @danieleyre8913

    10 ай бұрын

    It must be 1987. Because of the “heatwave” ad, which was actually released as a single “40 in the shade”. And also because of the Atari ST advert with a teenaged Simon Barnett.

  • @TwoBuddiesFabrication
    @TwoBuddiesFabrication Жыл бұрын

    I wonder if that generation of young add watcher got a bit plump in there middle ages because of these adds ( just look down ) lol

  • @zolochnaya
    @zolochnaya2 жыл бұрын

    cOUNTRY road

  • @Black_Beard
    @Black_Beard Жыл бұрын

    Back when kiwi ads were kiwi people! Now days it's show's your average kiwi family being a Indian husband with a absolutely gorgeous kiwi woman! Whats up with that?

  • @zakksscifilogs7458

    @zakksscifilogs7458

    Жыл бұрын

    Kiwis are multicultural now - the white supremacist days are over, gratefully - we now have an awesome diversity - we're all people after all

  • @GhostOfArtBell0935

    @GhostOfArtBell0935

    7 ай бұрын

    Boomers opened the floodgates. Hopefully our young people can learn how to ask "Can I rent it please?" in Mandarin

  • @stevensmith8876

    @stevensmith8876

    4 ай бұрын

    Wait till it's African on Eskimo. Then you'll know the Jews have won.

  • @stevensmith8876

    @stevensmith8876

    4 ай бұрын

    Wait till it's African on Eskimo. Then you'll know the Jews have won.

  • @fluffycakes7921

    @fluffycakes7921

    28 күн бұрын

    The 2nd ad was Kiwis dressed up as Egyptians...

  • @Awakeninghumanzombies247
    @Awakeninghumanzombies247 Жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂😂😂😂👋⌛🐸🐸🤡🤡🤠🕳️🤠👋🕳️🐸👋😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Tom-os4hy
    @Tom-os4hy13 күн бұрын

    These ads must be from 3 yrs ago being new zealand

  • @mitseraffej5812
    @mitseraffej58123 ай бұрын

    11:35 I doubt if the crazed Arab with a long knife would pass the PC police these days.

  • @hartley9958
    @hartley99589 ай бұрын

    Don't make adds like that anymore they were dam entertaining not like the soft as crap they pump out today...

  • @JohnSmith-fp8il
    @JohnSmith-fp8il13 күн бұрын

    Much better than the weak, insipid, woke, soy-boy crap ads we have nowadays.

  • @chokethewoke746
    @chokethewoke74611 күн бұрын

    Wow Georgie pie. Went there a lot with the munchies when me and the fellas went on drives up mt Eden mountain ect for a smoke sesh. 1 dollar for a pie, got 3 or 4 each.

  • @chokethewoke746
    @chokethewoke74611 күн бұрын

    Such good times, so sad the world sucks now.