This helps me sleep, takes me back to going to bed as a kid and listening to the telly downstairs

JR Hartley will never be forgotten

@NOTODIVERSITY

4 ай бұрын

One of my favourite ads ever .so peaceful quiet and mellow ... lovely times

@davidboyce8683

2 ай бұрын

Lovely, that was .

I love watching TV commercials from this era. They are soft, well spoken, not rushed, not in your face, relaxing, warm and comforting adverts. They seem less *cold* than adverts today which are hard, common (some times more ghetto sounding announcers due to diversity quotas) fast paced, slap bang wallop editing, in your face, tense, rushed and as a result just so so so *cold* just like today's world. So I switch these on for some comfort and reassurance.

That Yellow Pages JR Hartley ad is by far the ad that I best remember. It is on a different emotive level than the rest of the ad crap.

Wow I was 8 at the time but I remember so many of these. Happy care free days of childhood.

Disturbing fact, after 36 years I still remember some of these word for word...

@dududu5189

2 жыл бұрын

There was only *ITV* and from mid 80s *Channel 4* showing adverts

Those Hofmeister ads were class. Follow the bear.. LOL..

Fosters ads with Paul Hogan.. still funny!

These days you don't tend to see ads for individual home appliances, like Rowenta irons. It's all folded into the retailers' ads, like Argos or Currys's instead. It gives these older ads a real sense of age.

The Old Adverts 😊 📺😊📺

that old guy JR Hartley if he was around today and had internet access hed get his book for shure off Ebay or Amazon without leaving his armchair

I was 5 yrs old when these ads were being aired ..good times 😀

1983 Ads of these highlights. Weetabix, Creme eggs, MFI Crappy furniture sale!.JR Hartley and his fly fishing book.And the stylish VW Polo

1.03,,, fly fishing by J,R,Hartley, This is the advertisement that I remember most from my childhood, it was on a hell of a lot back then..happy memories, Thanks for the upload.

Congratulations to Harry The Spider for coming out in the 80’s. Times were hard, people were judgemental, well done young spider.

@paulgriffiths6344

5 жыл бұрын

Yes and that was before we all had the webb.

@Agnethatheredhairkid

5 жыл бұрын

@@paulgriffiths6344 Get outta here, our Paul! :)

@cymaz100

4 жыл бұрын

How old is the owner of Harry now? What’s he doing?

@fst-timer7107

4 жыл бұрын

Before social justice was even a thing.

@NOTODIVERSITY

4 ай бұрын

​@@cymaz100 Probably a crack head on some council estate on p.i.p...

Nostalgia + the hyper nice world the advertisers created = a powerful combination. You can get lost into thinking 1983 was a much better place than it was... wonderful entertainment and social history!

@MancstaSam

6 жыл бұрын

Paul Oliver T there's no getting lost here..IT WAS A BETTER PLACE &that's a fact ..

@cameronbeattie3087

6 жыл бұрын

BrexitCub 38 are you sure mr brexit? Surely it was impossible to be good when we were part of the EU? (Although it wasn’t called EU back then)

@gpo746

4 жыл бұрын

@@cameronbeattie3087 Yes, it was a MUCH better , simpler, less PC'ed time and yes, it wasn't called the EU ...it wasnt such a Frankenstiens monster as it is now.

@williamrobinson8151

Жыл бұрын

Why are they all southerners?

@williamrobinson8151

Жыл бұрын

Its outstanding tho. Well put togethet

Nothing's changed the world over, only newer technology. It's great we all have remote controls now or the button would be broken quickly on the TV, especially with these James Corden ads!

Wow, the Weetabix adverts bring back memories! I bet that VW Polo manhandled by Geoff Capes didn't have an engine in it!

@NOTODIVERSITY

4 ай бұрын

Weetabix.... OKAY.....lol

geoff capes, what a legend! anyone notice the wingmirror was made of rubber?

Awesome trip down memory lane, cheers!

Input was wicked, used to love programing in Basic on my Atari 800XL.

@dududu5189

2 жыл бұрын

I had an MSX before getting a C64. The Konami carts on the Japanese system were graphically superior to Commodore!

TSW (formerly Westward Television) was used as a testing site for advertising campaigns before they were either deployed nationwide or scrapped.

I had one of those Barclays super savers packs.

@clare7535

4 жыл бұрын

preachercaine me to takes me back to the good old days

@dududu5189

2 жыл бұрын

Me too

Can't believe I'm watching the adverts :).

@paulgriffiths6344

5 жыл бұрын

Yes and i'm doing it 4 years on.

@ronaldcustard4636

5 жыл бұрын

Paul Griffiths Iam too brings back many memories

When life was more like LIFE !!!

@whatshisname3304

4 жыл бұрын

strange, but i think i know what you mean. i m in my 50s, and something has changed, perhaps its my age.

@marcse7en

4 жыл бұрын

For many people, since 1983, LIFE is now like DEATH! .👍💀😂

@dududu5189

2 жыл бұрын

What comes after 1983..? *1984* Thank you, George Orwell.

I remember as a kid I was more into watching the ads than the programme! Now thanks to Sky I hardly watch an ad.

@Tomi_janet15

5 жыл бұрын

🤣😂

Whoa! She's really enjoying that Bailey's a little too much for television ha ha! I miss living in the U.K. ..

@Scripture-Man

4 жыл бұрын

8:15 11:39 :-) :-)

I was exactly 4 weeks old . Wish my family was still here 😪

Haven't seen most of these since 1983, lots of memories, and yes I had the Barclays Supersaver account as well :)

@mrsmoothivpositive2178

7 жыл бұрын

Did your super saver account work? How was the 2008 depression for a super saver?

Regional adverts are always worth a good laugh!

My foster mum had a Polo when I started to stay with her in 1989 😀😀😀😀😀😀😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

Whenever Cadbury's Creme Eggs weren't available, a Walnut Whip was the next best thing.

@Fifury161

5 жыл бұрын

Is it me or did the creme egg get much smaller (especially after seeing this ad!). Walnut whips seem to be about the same size though - although I reckon they got a reduction somewhere...

@dududu5189

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fifury161 I get a 3 pack of "Whips" from Poundland. They don't have a walnut on top.

They'd never get away with that Cadbury's Flake commercial today!

Love seeing these ,thank god for you tube and for you kind people sharing these gems ❤️

Good ol' J.R. Hartley! He'd be about 115 now.I wonder if he's still casting his rod?

@dududu5189

2 жыл бұрын

Not even with Viagra...

Love the mickey take of Jona Lewies Stop the Cavalry on the Smiths advert!

Those of you doubting the year, play from 3:33 . This is definitely just after Xmas 1983.

Wow. Is it me or did that crime egg look huge compared to today?! And isn’t it lovely no constant sale adverts and buy buy buy now!

@AtheistOrphan

5 жыл бұрын

Lou Lou - ‘Crime egg’ - Love it!

Ads were quality in the 80s...except they were bloody awful of course, but in a well thought-out and professional way. That Yellow Pages ad ran from 1983-91. Can you imagine an ad running that long these days?

Fella in the Courts ad was the killer in the the first story in the anthology horror The House That Dripped Blood

@dududu5189

2 жыл бұрын

He was not a killer... It was the step daughter

Proof, if we needed it, that Cadbury's Creme Eggs were much bigger back then.

@dududu5189

2 жыл бұрын

They were bigger, the women were much smaller. I'd gladly swap our British land Whales for a bigger Cadbury's creme egg!

@evieblessed

2 жыл бұрын

@@dududu5189 , maybe that's exactly the reason they're reducing portion sizes!

The yellow pges ad "J.R Heartly" bloody depressed me as kid.

@MrRorySteel

7 жыл бұрын

Why does Mr Heartly have to buy his own book? Has he lost the manuscript, or is he craving that recognition when he orders it.. hmm

@marcse7en

4 жыл бұрын

Hartley!

@dududu5189

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrRorySteel I always thought he wanted it for nostalgic reasons.

Yellow pages advert brings back memories things are so different now . Andy England

@paulgriffiths6344

5 жыл бұрын

Yellow pages just stopped being printed last month.

@dududu5189

2 жыл бұрын

They're doing a remake with JR Hartley recast as a 300lb black lesbian...

Love these 1980's adds😊

Should make a television series about old adverts.

@uhegbu

8 жыл бұрын

+Scott Fowler Channel 4 did the 100 Greatest Adverts and also another similar programme from 2005. ITV did an adverts programme as part of its 50th birthday.

I think they actually published a book fly fishing by jr hartley after so many people were asking for it thinking it was a real book

@dududu5189

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I had a copy. It was a witty "spoof" of his adventures more than a fisherman's guide.

@carlesq.

2 жыл бұрын

@@dududu5189 good stuff

yep so true and its still going on today 31 years later the ad was on like 10 mins ago lol

Lol @ the Sanyo HiFi with its window shattering bass of 20w per channel :D

@Fifury161

5 жыл бұрын

RMS or PMPO?

Dam Butlins holidays went on alot of them as a kid good times go that polo car lol

And the MFI sale STILL hasn't ended

This was also the year of the holiday we had when I was little which actually was an OSL holiday!

the geoff capes ad!

i love that Hi Fi !!!

I met the Hoffmeister bear when he came to the Childrens club at Chesil Beach Holiday camp in Weymouth in 1985. Come to think of it, Children and a bear that advertised alcohol wasn't exactly a great tie in.

A nice mix of professional nationwide ads and local Westcountry crappy ads for combine arvesters

FYI: Multiply by about 3.2 to get 2018 equivalent price.

@dududu5189

2 жыл бұрын

Multiply women's weight by 3.2 to get 2022 equivalent weight...

14:08 13% VAT? Those were the days!

@fst-timer7107

4 жыл бұрын

'Get this kitchen for £89' Can't even get someone to come and give you a quote for that these days!

Not a sunlife advert to be seen anywhere! Ahhhhhh the halcyon days of the eighties

I never knew that there was a John Smiths lager!

Bloody brilliant

The first Superman film (the ad break bumper that we can see at 3:45) was the post-Queen's Christmas Message film on ITV on Christmas Day 1983. Possible date for Superman II ad breaks are Friday 4th January 1985, although I cannot see any 1983 or 1984 transmissions. Ironic that the John Smiths lager advert used the tune of Stop the Cavalary - a Christmas song - in a Christmas Day break at the 5:22 (not the one at 12:40). They used that tune in their adverts all year round back then.

An independent furniture retailers still trades in Lucius Street - it's now called Charltons Buswells is now H&P Buswell

I'd forgotten the Hofmeister bear for 30 years - freaky experience...

My mother worked for Wings holidays once.

This train don`t stop at Camborne !

Good collection of adverts including the 1983 classic Yellow Pages one that ran for eight years. It was brought back to life recently in the same format when a man asked for a record called Dave-V-Lately. Is that Lynda Bellingham in the Baileys advert? Caught a glimpse of Mark Arden in the Budget Electric advert, one of two guys from the old Carling Black Label adverts between 1986 and 1992.

The guard was Arthur Mullard.

17.15 Systematic kitchen under 90 quid. Wonder if there's any left

"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be"

Flake add was very provocative.. 15:25 wow a car with rubber wing mirrors.. whatever next?

@Fifury161

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, the flake ad was soft porn - along with the 1985 Timotei shampoo ad - kzread.info/dash/bejne/h2uWw82spJXHo84.html

Strange to see adverts that don't ridicule men in some way.

@anythingbootneck

7 жыл бұрын

pigknickers So very true! It' s just getting worse,.......Feminazi's 😫

@MancstaSam

6 жыл бұрын

before government mandated political correctness infected and destroyed the UK

@blazer666del

6 жыл бұрын

Please get back in your cave...

@jusb1066

5 жыл бұрын

they do, they just insult the intelligence of everybody

@MyCharlesgreen

5 жыл бұрын

@@MancstaSam weirdo alert

Roberts of Truro ... Waterstone's bookshop now.

8:21 Skin heads pushing weetabix love it !!!!

@whatshisname3304

4 жыл бұрын

Bob Hoskins, not just any skinhead.

that was why the IBA forced them to get rid of the ads.

great book ,

I like the Hofmeister advert

@mrsmoothivpositive2178

7 жыл бұрын

Follow the bear. Has a rather gay slang ring to it.

Sanyo at currys, Dixons and rumbelowes. only one left nowadays, shame!

@TheKonga88

6 жыл бұрын

Lucario Gamer3000 And Tandy's 😃😃😃😃😃

TSW, greatly missed.

04.54. £279 for a stereo in 1983!!??!! You could tell it was the 80's Lots of rich bankers to buy them :-)

I'd forgot about the wheetabix men and the wheetabix lady lol I don't remember any of these adverts as I was only four lol

@Hellwyck

8 жыл бұрын

+anthony daniels They were WEETABIX, not WHEETABIX

Robert Powell (Jesus) had a good gig with voiceover work 😊

What strikes me most is all the posh accents. The regional ones only seem to be used in the funny ads.

"INPUT"

Foster's Ad at around 10 minutes. Check it out against the"new" ones currently on the tellybox. Hmmm

Ah, I remember all these. I don't remember them looking so old-fashioned though! LOL I always used to love the Hoffmeister and Weetabix ones, and would sing along to that "OK" jingle :) I don't watch adverts any more. I stopped watching in 2004. Modern adverts are vile!

Harry the Spider's coming out party!

Harry the Spider's coming out party? :D

Weetabix like a bunch of skin heads, genius! :D

@TheKonga88

6 жыл бұрын

Ben G OK 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@craiggilchrist4223

4 жыл бұрын

I was suffering with Cancer treatment in 83 and I lost my hair due to the treatment and I used to get called the Weetabix kid. I was 7 then, im 44 now.

@LeoHodges

3 жыл бұрын

If you know what's good for you, you do! OK!

was 15 , back then,, northern ireland,, but dont know all them,,!

J,R Hartley,,classic!! OSL holidays,That's Mr Spooner from Are you being served?! Anchor butter when it was from New Zealand and not Denmark like it is now!! hahaha!! Weetabix ad,jeez I remember the crew Bixie,Dunk,Brains,Crunch and Brian! Christmas Turkey,,,you can stuff it! The Nescafe shuffle before it became common parlance for a similar sign! Get a little extra help,to knacker the UK finances in 2008! Texas diy,that'll be homebase now! Was that Doyle from the Professionals in the persil ad? VW Polo with squishy wing mirrors! Fast forward to 2015 and your electric bill is way too expensive and confusing with all those tarrifs. great to see the network ads again though!

@mollyowens5862

8 жыл бұрын

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@uhegbu

7 жыл бұрын

You are correct that Anchor, a famous brand of butter originated from New Zealand. You mentioned Denmark with Lurpak leading the way. There was a brand called Krona.

Learn to program for fun and the future!

@differentname8051

9 жыл бұрын

I remember that very magazine, I had the Dragon32. Hours of typing in a program only to never get it to run, Syntax error message appearing on the screen. I was convinced that there was printing error in the magazine, never did get it to work. Wow 31 years later and I can still recognise the pages from a crumby mag.

@GEricG

8 жыл бұрын

+wayne murphy The Dragon 32: wow there were so many home computer options in the early 80s: Dragon, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum etc.

@carpincrackers4395

5 жыл бұрын

I used to get the same magazine,, I had a Commodore 64 as a kid and remember well the syntax errors that were a constant pain in the back side, the main thing this magazine taught me was the use of “ poke “ commands that I used to activate cheat codes etc, Happy memories.

@dududu5189

2 жыл бұрын

I had an MSX. Same errors. Bought a C64 2 years later. Couldn't give a fig about BASIC by then and just played games on tapes.

good old Geoff Capes @14:52

A time when we all had money to spend - now we are all skint!

TSW remember all these ads,lol

UK TV Adverts from Xmas 1983 ITV (TSW Region)

I want a creme egg NOW.

So he put cheaper coffee into the jar? It makes me wonder what happened to the coffee that was already there.

Published on 9 May 2016

Cadburys flake, pornography for the masses, I remember those ads along with the manakin ones, hot hot hot.

Was that David Troughton (Bob Buzzard in A Very Peculiar Practice and the headmaster in Outnumbered) in the Haze ad?