10 Funniest UK ads of the 70s 

That's a very good point!

I agree completely. Effective advertising!

Only if you buy the product!

Lorraine Chase isn't a national treasure

we used to get a few of these in new zealand{when there weren't enough businesses advertising on the tele TVNZ ould insert some scots/ irish/ english adverts to make up the time.} I particularly remember the PG tips one.

I remember her from Blankety Blank when I was a kid.

@susanpilling8849 definately

@@jonobrien1339 Lorraine Chase I think

A golden age before "tattOOOHS, trans madness, anti-social media...

To this day the words "Luton Airport" still associated with this advert

♥️ Lorraine Chase!

@@winsomehaxI was born in Luton , now live in Australia. Brought a smile to my face.

@@youngbess1 Oh dear. You wouldn't recognise Luton now. But I remember it from the 60s and 70s when it was much nicer.

Love her.

I love the fact that the pupil's name was Felicity

@@lanslater to the lower orders obviously LOL

​@@TishanfasI wonder if this was before or after The Good Life.

Or To the Manor Born.

As do the programmes...

How true!!

You are correct Sir.

They're allowed as much as 20 mins of ads in every hour now. Urghhh.

Not allowed to say why.

Joan Collins has said that they tried to turn the unlikely pairing into a film but couldn't find a script that explained how they came to be together. Pity.

@@Adfanatico Not that Frances de la Tour wasn't perfect, but imagine Rising Damp with Joan Collins!

@@Tishanfas Hilarious!! Alternatively, Leonard Rossiter in 'Dynasty'.

@@Adfanatico 🤣🤣🤣

Happily, I think, as we didn't know anything else ! Now of course the products all seem so basic and unsophisticated and the voiceovers very staid but I have fond memories of that simpler time. Natural of course, it was my childhood!

And Tetly had a brewery in Leeds! Goodness knows if and where it is brewed now!!!

They were often better than the TV programmes.

Now, both the programmes and adverts are equally appalling.

@@Hannari-xt6nr oh bore off.

If not better.

Spike Milligan inspired.

PG Tips ♥we used to get a few of these in new zealand{when there weren't enough businesses advertising on the tele TVNZ would insert some scots/ irish/ english adverts to make up the time.} I particularly remember the PG tips one.

"Bred"- so easy to make typos. As to the ads- see my comment.

​@@SiliconBong Same .. Loved the pg tips one when in NZ 😂

There was a brilliant Irish ad of the 70s for Baxter's Soups. A chicken fails to answer the question, what is 2 plus 2? "At Baxter's we choose only the thickest chickens..."

@@kevinwhelan9607 Ha ha, I think that was autocorrect - well I hope it was 🤣

Loved all the Benson & Hedges ads, and the PG chimps. "More Tea, Mr Shifter?"

That's exactly what l used to say 😂

You're damn right

@@deemdoubleu Thank you.

Somebody asked me recently, was it really better in the old days? And I wished I didn't have to say yup. It was.

@@Adfanatico It has it's faults, but I still believe it was better than now.

@@Adfanatico It depends. Life was simple and straightforward. The music, films, TV programs and adverts were much better, but if you were poor, life was a struggle especially for the working class. Nowadays, there are so any opportunities and information is at our disposal. You're only a few clicks away. Social media is exhausting, but it's how you manage it. I like the fact you can access retro programs and escape from modern life for a few minutes or more.

A camp Caesar too 🤣

Hilarious ad 🤣

They've just returned from taking Caesar water skiing. Fantastic. :))

He was a brilliant actor. See him in this Olympus ad with David Bailey: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ckSm10LZauA.html

@@Adfanatico : “Are you still with The Tremoloes “ 😂😂😂😂….. Brilliant. Thanks.

Yes indeed. With so many things banned from advertising all we seem to get are ads about life insurance and funeral plans. Depressing

There just ticking boxes these days.

@@sh-ig9fm They're...

Just like modern life itself.

Not a very PC comment.😂

Black or white or tea.

Ye, and it was total instant crap. I remember asking in a cafe if the coffee was fresh or instant, I was told to f@ck off and asked to leave. The irony of it was a few yrs later they went bankrupt and the unit is now a Costa. Nothing wrong with being given a choice and if all you want is a plain coffee just ask for a 'white coffee' you still can!

And you'd get a tasteless cup of hot milky water

I disagree because there has always been 'word salad' attached to coffee, in Britain at any rate. Cafés were an incredibly important place for the youth of Britain after the second world war. The Allies may have won WW2 but Britain was devastated and the new youth culture coming through the ranks in the 50's, on the back of 'American Rockabilly', then the 60's with the help of 'British Beat' they all congregated in Coffee shops and Milk Bars. The Drink of choice was coffee and all its varieties. It wasn't until continual grinding poverty of the 70's & early 80's that no one could afford coffee out anymore, or indeed wanted it as youth culture (which I was very much part of) had moved on to the 'discotheque' and pre disco pub. With the mass closure of Milk Bars and Italian Coffee shops and the Wimpy style cafe taking over through the 1970's. It's then that coffee became this awful 'bland milky, made with cheap 'chicory' infused instant dust for the quick stop off in a Wimpy bar while you were out shopping'. This then gave Brits the impression that coffee was dreadful, which it truly was and it stayed on the back burner until money became more abundant and we could afford a couple of quid for a drink! So, if your getting thin weak milky coffee, then my advise would be change you café. As in most places a white coffee, or coffee with milk usually means a splash of or topped off with milk. Here in the UK back in the 1980's if you asked for a milky coffee in a café what you got was a coffee made with hot milk and a 'big beautiful spoonful of instant Nescafé' mixed into the milk. A kind of throw back to 50's & 60's British Milk Bars and Italian Coffee shops that every town had a number of as alcohol use was very strictly controlled and only served in licenced bars. So, a 'milky coffee' was a 70's & 80's cheap ass British version of the French Café Au Láit. As.my generation (late Boomer of '62) had lost the taste for either filter/drip coffee, or an espresso based drink all we knew was instant, and Nescafé was the first and best (objective). However, the second you experienced a Rombouts individual mini one cup filter drink the game was over for instant coffee, well it was for me at any rate! The very first time I had a cup of Rombouts drip coffee was in the summer of 1978 in Burkett's bakery cafe in Penrith. I had just left school and had my first job, so I had money of my own for the first time, so a Rombouts drip coffee was a treat on a weekend, also you got a little caramelised 'Biscoff' biscuit on the side, heaven 😎 So, good coffee, or at least a beverage of an improved quality over instant is part of my journey, a small part but still part of my narrative. Having and enjoying a good coffee has been part of my life now for over 50 yrs and this will continue until the day I take my last breath.

Well done to him

Sing something simple-loved that programme! Sunday bathtime!

@@fionaterry-chandler8056 unfortunately my memories of that programme are not so favourable. I went to boarding school and my old man would listen to it as he was dropping me off at school on a Sunday evening!

Oh, my! I hated that program on a Sunday evening before the Archers.

Loved it. Sunday late afternoon, all of us doing jigsaw puzzles and singing along.

I loved the SMASH adverts

@@enkisdaughter4795 such fun, lets hope one day they may return kind regards.

My favourites 😅. Is "Smash" still a current product anywhere, I wonder?

@@lynnegee6814 you need adverts like this again. They were great.

@@lynnegee6814 Smash is currently still in production in Leeds, but its no longer a Cadbury`s brand

You need to look up, Tour de France That’s another classic There were lots of them.

I tell you, the ads were brilliant. But the US also produced some brilliant ads back in the day.

@@Hannari-xt6nrI agree with you but stop your nastiness against "white Brits" do something for the the tea picker ladies who have lost their farms and homes instead .......

@@Hannari-xt6nr my god, what is wrong with you, you did not have to watch any of this, as I can see you are easily triggered, I suggest you go and find a safe space, along with your safety blanket and have good cry. You are what is wrong in todays society.

Posting the same comment three times is just embarrassing yourself. You're just assuming those monkeys were badly treated when all that will have happened is that they were filmed playing with those props and were painstakingly edited afterwards. As for the comment about the lady carrying the tea. What point are you trying to make with that?

You're right, it's a rigmarole!

Yes I noticed that in the John Smiths Advert, and there were two clubland comedians, my dad Peter Russell, and Joe Belcher

Nice little Louis Negin cameo at the end too

Yes I thought Margo Leadbetter too.

… nd mixed race families?

Bloody expensive pens as well. It was always either a Parker or a Papermate, which was more affordable.

And even they were usually a gift from your nan.

Eh? Adverts are hardly complicated today

And Angel Delight for pud ... no wonder we're all dying of cancer

For my family it was all black and white 'til the mid 80's when my dad could afford a colour telly box from radio rentals, still had to go for a walk to change channel or volume though but no more replacing blown valves thankfully. 🤣😂👍

Miss, is pence spelt with an S or a C? I don’t think you'll ever have to worry about that. Classic. £10 for a pen was a lot of money. Definitely a luxury item.

@@fridayschild Indeed it was. One wanted to say Ya darling! 🤣🤣

They were the best of times, they were the worst of times...

Yes, it was the lovely Linda.

Darn ?

Yes, I had to do a double take when I realised it was her.

They also pop up regularly on Channel 5 TV shows about 'Best Ads Ever' so if you feel you've seen some of these ads recently, you probably have!

Oh yeah. I didn't realise it was based on Laurel and Hardy

@@Hannari-xt6nr You said that once already.

@@Hannari-xt6nr 50 years after the fact? Rather like preaching to the choir, don't you think. We all moved on Hannari.

Have you? And you think they're all being badly treated, do you? Don't forget most ads these days are done with green screens and A.I. What you're looking at is not what is actually happening.

@@fridayschild In fairness, that particular ad was done with real chimps. Were they mistreated? Only in the sense that when they hit adolescence and retired, they had no small difficulty adjusting to life with other chimps. They used a lot of chimps. I understand the last one died around 2014. Adolescent chimps are, even in the wild, prone to extreme violence and, in my opinion, only a fool would adopt one. Some animals cannot be trained. If you are old enough to remember Skippy, the bush kangaroo, you might recall we only got to see scenes of him running off or just running. No cooperation beyond that. There were a lot of Skippies, just as there were a lot of Lassie(s) the wonder dog. These days, you don't include animals because people disapprove and legislation makes it very difficult. Those animals generated a lot of money for the advertisers. Mistreatment would have been counterproductive though I have to qualify, it was the money and not love of animals that motivated the businesses involved. Having said that, Unilever did use revenue to set up a chimp sanctuary. Long live green screens and AI.

Loved that one. Always made us smile even though you knew it was coming.

It's a classic

Definitely .

Indeed - as children we were enthralled by the alien robots laughing at humans for peeling and boiling potatoes!!!

ThEy PeEl ThEm WiTh ThEiR kNiVeS HWAHWAHWAHWA 😂

The ad was written by a very quiet, bespectacled man who sat in an office on his own called 'The Potting Shed' because he pottered in there. He was called John Webster and he produced ads people LIKED. Even if they never bought the product, they understood that someone was being courteous enough to entertain them while interrupting the programmes they really wanted to see.

😆

You been drinking Heineken again?😅

I thought she was very Margo Leadbetter.

You’re a perv!!!

Glad I wasn't Penelope Keith's only admirer.😅

That was probably the equivalent of how much you'd expect to pay for a rolled gold pen now. Very much a luxury item.

It wasn't

It was shite. Petrol shortages. 3 day weeks. Rubbish piling up in the streets. Terrible food. Everyone smoking. You were younger, that was all.

IGNORANCE was bliss

@@Cheradanine exactly. and sexism and racism were too often encountered

@@user-te1hi9rx7bso here is the crazy liberal turning an innocent video about adverts into a virtue signalling exercise. You lot just can’t stop can you, absolutely embarrassing.

It used to come in at Number 1 in all the Best Ads of All Time TV shows...until Guinness 'Surfer' crept up on it. Four guys in Speedos sit on a beach. Then they rush out into the ocean and end up hugging on a beach. What's that all about? Give me tin men from the edge of the cosmos any day...

Or maybe you're just a troll

@@th8257 Thanks for that, thnumbers. Very intelligent and thoughtful reply. I don't like cliches and 'troll' is definitely not a cliche. Take care.

Her lovely delivery of that line was perfect.

Who's Cath?

Thank you for your thank you!

@@Adfanatico Hello, Do you know who played Trevor in the Dry Cane advert please?

@@tiggy4750 That was Royce Mills, one of the nicest actors I ever got to work with.

@@Adfanatico Thankyou for this information.

Arthur Well-'Ard.😄

Do you have dementia?

And there it is Rigby and martini.. Luton airport, 😂😂😂

You've just reminded me of the wonderful campaign of ads for Phileas Fogg, "Medomsley Road, Consett, Country Durham." I feel another compilation coming on...

@@Adfanatico I'll be looking forward to that.

Those were the days, eh?!!

@@thecaplesawards I was born in 85 but I remember when it was still good. It seems this country is slowly dying by a thousand cuts since the 70’s

I have still have their A Summer Song on vinyl, I inherited it from my older sister. They also appeared on the Patty Duke Show.

Campari

Oh shut up

​@carolinebennett5615 You shut up, Caroline. You're part of the problem.

Pathetic.

Says who?… i grew up in the seventies with these adds too.. remember the “ only the crumbliest flakiest chocolate… taste like chocolate never tasted before “… well ?… & i’m of Indian origin

That kind of talk only gets you placed in the 'old man's ' home. But we all understand the sentiment.

Oh get over it, you reactionary whiner

Grumpy old man alert

They were not tasteless. The 70’s were fantastic. I wish I could go back. What is tasteless is the trashy way people dress and act these days.

Yeah, there's a lot of "taste" around today, isn't there?

@@harpersmythe658 I think you've got selective memory! A lot of the 70s were awful. Endless strikes, winter of discontent, 3 channels on TV but the music and movies were great.

There may only have been 3 tv channels but as we didn't know any different, that wasn't a problem. If there was nothing on that you fancied then you read a book or listened to the radio.

I guess it’s a case of we “didn’t know we were badly off until we were told “ 😅

@anthonyguillver2880, Dad Do You Know The Piano On Me Foot, "! You Himm It And I'll Play It, !!!!!!!,.😆♥️👋,.

😝

That's because people knew how to laugh at themselves, a life skill that is lost these days sadly

shows how brainwashed you are. the mainstream media now outlines isolated cases and makes people like you think they are widespread. IGNORANCE WAS BLISS

Really? My memory was that it involved a lot of laughing at other people. Particularly those hilarious little tinted chappies...​@@minecraftmum3436

People don't get offended any more than they do now. That far-right propaganda to keep right-of-centre people scared.

And Jimmy saville and Rolf Harris