Old TV ads.

rubadub · 04-08-2018 5:57pm

The Crowman wrote: »

Some gems here, I especially remember the Biactol one, "John's soaps got a fancy name".

seemed there were lots of spot cream ads, don't notice them being on anymore, maybe fancy ads for pore strips. But no teens with faces full of angry red spots.

Remember "my sisters a greaser" which was Patsy "RICKKKYYY" Palmer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukjxQ1JrrTw

Try_harder · 04-08-2018 6:17pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

Can anyone remember what series of ads had the line at the end
"You'll be glad you called"??

One Direct

The Crowman · 04-08-2018 7:53pm

rubadub wrote: »

seemed there were lots of spot cream ads, don't notice them being on anymore, maybe fancy ads for pore strips. But no teens with faces full of angry red spots.

Remember "my sisters a greaser" which was Patsy "RICKKKYYY" Palmer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukjxQ1JrrTw

Lol, I remember that one, first time seeing it in years. Now that you mention it there were an awful lot of ads for spot creams in the 80's.

An Riabhach · 05-08-2018 7:00am

The Crowman wrote: »

Yes I remember that, would it have been late 80's/early 90's? Imagine it must have been a road safety advert.

That would make sense.
I had a feeling twas for something like that,but the voiceover and the bloodsoaked hands are the best things I remember about it.

The Crowman · 18-09-2018 5:53pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

You catchin me drift??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRk9WQ7ySKg

I can remember another one which I can't find,where the same fella is jive-talkin to a woman on the radio who's tellin him how to ask for a bar of chocolate in proper English.

The follow up Drifter ad is at the start here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SJCOWIRrcE

The Crowman · 23-09-2018 4:08pm

darkdubh wrote: »

One from the mid 80s for Miracle Whip.A grumpy fella serving in an American fast food diner.There was a big queue of people at the counter including a guy who looked like a Hare Krishna impatiently jogging on the spot while he was waiting behind someone else.This Bette Midler type woman was flirting with yer man serving and delivers the line "heavy on the Miracle Whip Harry!"

An Riabhach wrote: »

I remember that one well enough.
The original ad was actually,i think,when the product was just called Miracle,and then they changed the name to Miracle Whip.I remember one of them saying ".....hold the pickle,and heavy on the Miracle." And then the last one said "....fix me a chicken salad to go and make it a Miracle" in a raunchy voice.And of course,she says "heavy on the Miracle,Harry...!!"

darkdubh wrote: »

Yes there was a cop ordering first and then the Hare Krishna(or was he a punk/skinhead?Not sure) who I'm sure said the "hold the pickle "line while the guy serving wearily repeats his order.

It's here at the 2.30 mark. Also the second ad features Tastee Nastee, remember him?

https://youtu.be/uJbvoAO4GwA

chucknorris · 15-01-2019 10:57am

Does anyone remember an advertisement on the TV from the 80s where a bloke is driving down a dark road and there are monsters or demons or statues or something coming to life on both sides of the road as he tries to get home.

Somehow he manages to get past them all?

Either the Ad existed or I've lost the plot.

Amalgam · 15-01-2019 11:27pm

Scotch VHS tapes.
Tape what you want, both night and day, then re-record, not fade away!

The plant growing in the background..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJzRpgXvM2I

Agent Smith · 15-01-2019 11:32pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

Anybody remember an ad for PMPA,which had a really bad revamp of the song "....it's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A...",which instead had the words:

"You should stay with the P.M.P.A".....

An Riabhach wrote: »

We used to call it the "Private Mickey Pullin Association".
We never did find out what it really stood for!!

Private Motorists Protection Association

Up Donegal · 18-01-2019 12:13am

"Make yourself a dish a day with Knorr Stock Cubes!"

realitykeeper · 18-01-2019 12:18am

simu wrote: »

The father in the baby ad was a cop in Glenroe (remember that?!) too.

Was that him?

Up Donegal · 18-01-2019 12:20am

There was an ad for Datsun which went
"Nobody demands more from a Datsun...than Datsun; we are driven!"

Up Donegal · 18-01-2019 12:22am

"They said it couldn't be done, done, done (fading away)
But it HAS been done, done, done...!"

Guinness Light.

Up Donegal · 18-01-2019 12:27am

There was an ad for the Fiat Ritmo which was filmed, I believe, at Slieve League in Co. Donegal and the jingle went: "The time is right; the time is now; the time is right for Ritmo!"

The Crowman · 18-01-2019 9:11am

My name is Rashers, see!
I've had these flashes, see!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IdRMZPPULw

DoozerT6 · 23-01-2019 8:23pm

"STAMP OUT SCOUR!!!!"

Tammy! · 27-06-2019 4:46pm

Ariston had a great little advertising jingle...

George White · 28-06-2019 1:01pm

The Crowman wrote: »

It's here at the 2.30 mark. Also the second ad features Tastee Nastee, remember him?

https://youtu.be/uJbvoAO4GwA

Clearly shot at Pinewood or Elstree. The cop is Lou Hirsch, Baby Herman in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and a reliable American face in various UK films and TV shows.

is_that_so · 28-06-2019 1:08pm

TV ad is just weird but PR campaign in advance of the launch was brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dPz4-F85V8

As for old ads one word - Hamlet!

Hangdogroad · 28-06-2019 1:24pm

George White wrote: »

Clearly shot at Pinewood or Elstree. The cop is Lou Hirsch, Baby Herman in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and a reliable American face in various UK films and TV shows.

Also featuring Jim Carter as the guy serving behind the counter.

Hangdogroad · 28-06-2019 1:26pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

I remembered this one while I was watching The Curse Of Frankenstein last night.

This milk ad was a few years before the "Them Bones,them bones need...calci-umm" ad....
There's this "dead" woman lying in a bed in a horror-type dark setting,with thunder and lightning and there are two people trying to bring her back to life,and the "mad" doctor says: "Her body is lifeless-lacking vitality."
Then all of a sudden,a huge bang of thunder,a huge flash of lightning,the door creaks open slowly and you see a hand dropping two bottles of milk in the door.The doctor pours a glass of milk,the "dead" woman sits up and takes the glass of milk,and squeals excitedly in a funny east London accent:
"Milk!! What more could a body ask for?!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agrL2JO7pcI

Hangdogroad · 29-06-2019 11:56am

chucknorris wrote: »

Does anyone remember an advertisement on the TV from the 80s where a bloke is driving down a dark road and there are monsters or demons or statues or something coming to life on both sides of the road as he tries to get home.

Somehow he manages to get past them all?

Either the Ad existed or I've lost the plot.

It could be this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1hMJXkFCss

branie2 · 29-06-2019 11:58am

Music in the ad is almost like the theme from The Omen

George White · 30-06-2019 10:50am

John Hurt voiceover.
A young pre-Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Tim Healy

Hangdogroad · 30-06-2019 3:53pm

is_that_so wrote: »

TV ad is just weird but PR campaign in advance of the launch was brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dPz4-F85V8

As for old ads one word - Hamlet!

That's the redubbed Apre Match p!ss take. This is the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz1ehU5qpww

Hangdogroad · 30-06-2019 8:30pm

Remember this animated one for Limara bodyspray? Pretty steamy even considering its a cartoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL7GOVoA2_o

branie2 · 30-06-2019 9:37pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Remember this animated one for Limara bodyspray? Pretty steamy even considering its a cartoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL7GOVoA2_o

I haven't seen that in years!

An Riabhach · 01-07-2019 2:33pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agrL2JO7pcI

You bloody legend how did you find that one (•‿•)(•‿•)(•‿•)

An Riabhach · 01-07-2019 2:36pm

George White wrote: »

John Hurt voiceover.
A young pre-Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Tim Healy

John Hurt,a.k.a. "the voice of AIDS."
He could really send chills up your spine.

George White · 01-07-2019 7:45pm

Yes, the chef is Jim Carter, c.Top Secret.
I thought it might be him but on a mobile screen, couldn't tell if it was him or Chris Malcolm.

Up Donegal · 01-07-2019 10:28pm

"D-U-dash-T-E-R" (Du-ter Potato Spray)

"Dithane 945 - Spray with it, stay with it!" (Dithane 945 Poptato Spray)

"It's a quare name but great stuff!" (Cheno Unction ointment)

Hangdogroad · 03-07-2019 9:25pm

Remember those medieval themed Yoplait yogurt ads? The first one had these suiters seeking a kings daughters hand in marriage. I think they were presenting him with yougurt and when he'd taste it he'd angrilly pull a lever and the guy would fall down a trapdoor. There was another one with the line "dodgy, very suspect" and the king I think is poisoned by something.

branie2 · 03-07-2019 9:37pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Remember those medieval themed Yoplait yogurt ads? The first one had these suiters seeking a kings daughters hand in marriage. I think they were presenting him with yougurt and when he'd taste it he'd angrilly pull a lever and the guy would fall down a trapdoor. There was another one with the line "dodgy, very suspect" and the king I think is poisoned by something.

The king was poisoned by an apple, and his food taster had suggested the apple. The taster was eating the yogurt.

NewbridgeIR · 03-07-2019 9:39pm

Petit Filous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA4pbt38y34

Hangdogroad · 03-07-2019 9:50pm

Nice one! /\/\/\/\/.

I can't find the trapdoor one. It ended with the successful guy presenting the king with Petit Filous and he gets to marry his daughter but she turns out to be a big fat wan.

chucknorris · 04-07-2019 8:57am

Hangdogroad wrote: »

It could be this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1hMJXkFCss

similar, but the fella in the ad i remember managed to drive home but not too disimilar. i'm actually questioning whether the ad ever existed and have looked everywhere. thanks for the effort.

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 17-07-2019 1:40pm

Does anyone remember the Irish ad for either Heinz or Batchelors, and it was a young girl and a boy, and the girl is making beans and asking the boy if he likes things, and the boy thinks he is getting the beans and in the end she hoodwinks him and says no chance?

branie2 · 17-07-2019 1:42pm

I remember it well ; It was Batchelors.

Tammy! · 17-07-2019 1:46pm

Here....Jimmy, I've made you some sandwiches...

branie2 · 17-07-2019 2:05pm

JeanL wrote: »

Here....Jimmy, I've made you some sandwiches...

He'll need the energy to send some rockers into the middle of next week!

Hangdogroad · 17-07-2019 4:22pm

Steyr 556 wrote: »

Does anyone remember the Irish ad for either Heinz or Batchelors, and it was a young girl and a boy, and the girl is making beans and asking the boy if he likes things, and the boy thinks he is getting the beans and in the end she hoodwinks him and says no chance?

Yes. The girl was black or mixed race which was unusual for an irish ad at the time (mid 90s?)

branie2 · 17-07-2019 4:52pm

The 7up ads with Fido Dido, and he's just come back again.

branie2 · 17-07-2019 5:27pm

Playtex Secrets

Hangdogroad · 06-02-2021 10:22am

George White wrote: »

One weird thing I've noticed is British sitcom actors coming over and doing ads. Lost in Translation-style.
Sometimes, they're riffing on their known image or doing it as themselves.
Patrick Cargill - https://ifiplayer.ie/kosangas-demonstration-man/
Frank "The Vicar of Dad's Army" Williams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QyuFhugzEs (David Kelly also did this campaign)

Buut other times, they got Brits to play Irish.
Obviously, Vicki Michelle as Sally O'Brien. A friend was astonished that everyone presumed she was Irish, because although she hadn't yet done 'Allo 'Allo, she'd been doing numerous bit parts in various sketch shows and films, obviously perhaps not long enough to register, but she had had a regular role in Les Dawson's shows at that time.
Another odd one is this ad - with Christopher Blake either dubbed or doing a creditable accent. Blake is one of those actors who though now forgotten, worked consistently. Best known for his turn as Mollie Sugden's titular biological son in That's My Boy, but he had turns in various Sunday Classics, was the lead in another popular-though-derided 'com, Mixed Blessings. But here he is advertising Carling for Ireland.

I wonder how many of these Irish ads were made in the UK. Sally O'Brien was done in Ardmore and in the Harbour Bar, but one ad features London-based Dublin actor Paul Antrim, who had roles in quite a few films, Man Who Would Be King, a turn as a sort of poor man's Fulton Mackay in Wild Geese 2, but I know him as IRA man Dermot in mental BBC Brummie-Pakistani pulp crime series Gangsters

And most of the voiceovers were done by Fergus O'Kelly alias Father Barty Dunne, the laughing priest, whose career has mostly been based in England, and mostly in radio. Only 6 TV/film credits over a forty year period.
I think Kevin Flood, another Irish actor at the time in Britain did quite a few too.