Of all the brilliant adverts we got to enjoy in the 80s, the Scotch video tape one sticks in my mind pretty much above all others. Um Bongo and Kia-Ora come close though!
@Stroppy Paws I know the Gold Blend ads went on for years...and we enjoyed the entire Renault Clio saga with Nicole & Papa. They were adverts people actually got invested in. You just can't do that with a Bet Fred advert 🤷♀️.
@Stroppy Paws same here, I was 5 and used to hide behind the sofa, made me scared of skeletons until I was 9 when I accidentally watched The Terminator on TV one night, suddenly bone made men didn't seem as terrifying compared to the possibility of a metal killing machine! 😂
I remember back then the "One Day Capital Card" (or Travelcard as it's known now) cost just £1.10 for Adults and 90p for Children, all of London, which means it really has gone up faster than the rate of inflation.
Its amazing watching this wonderful collection of 1980s adverts in 2022. One is struck by just *how white* (& heterosexual!) these adverts are! All the voices have 'easy-on-ear' indigenous British accents. (not a foreign sounding lilt or argot in sight or sound!) The pace of these is gentler. What a contrast to today's over aggressive, over cosmopolitan, multi culti, aggressive ghettoised drose we now have to endure!
@@jeremymerrifield7244 Ah here we go (I suppose I should have expected this sort of thing from some silly penis head commenter to crawl out the woodwork) another *Cold Cold Cold Packed Faced Cultural Marxist Anti White Anti Male Anti Christian Anti Heterosexual Agenda Lefty* I'm afraid of how standards in *our* society* have plummeted so much along with standards in broadcast TV have also fallen in the intervening years. I worry about where *our* once *GREAT* and *CIVILISED* country and society are now headed. Watching British TV now is like being in Nigeria or some other third world country or a ghetto rather than Britain. Sad. That's why I love watching these old clips preserved on RU-vid. It gives me comfort, solace and a much-deserved escape form this crazy ghettoised world which is now being hoisted upon us indigenous.
It's more complicated than that. Most adverts were voiced in deep RP accents by a small entourage of people, I think Hywel Bennett did the most. Companies and marketeers in the 80s believed am RP accent gave more gravitas and substance to a product, but this viewpoint changed leading into better connection with the consumers lifestyle so you'll find through the 90s accents became regionalised and the voices younger, this fitted a new generation of kids having TVs in their bedrooms to sell too. Just saying it's to do with immigration is a very basic argument that doesn't explore the changes in society in general at the time. I was 10 in 1987 and no one in my class had their own TV in their bedroom. Curry's brought out a cheap brand of TV called Matsui / Saisho and made second TV ownership a real thing when most houses just had one. By 1990 suddenly all my friends had second TVs. Overnight advertisers started to direct ads to niche sections of a family instead of aiming at the big box in the living room.
Most products in these ads where made in the UK - then China happened and the EU was exploited for cheap labour. Cadbury was sold to a multinational food corp. and shipped to Poland, its just cheap and nasty now. Folks, buy local, buy British - it will really help. Boycott foreign products where you can. We can make anything, sure it may cost a bit more but will do so much for our nation. We also need to grow more fruit and vegetables. Fucking new Zealand apples we have here wtf - we can easily grow our own apple orchards right here.
I had almost forgotten just how white British TV was back in the day. it was so white that we used to call each other up if there was a black person on TV
Wow....what a woke and enlightened comment...imagine...adverts targeted towards people in a country with a majority white Caucasian demographic...how strange...
That's BS for a start, I was 10 when these adverts aired and I clearly remember black people on adverts and TV back then, stop trying to sound controversial.
