My brother had the Steve Austin figure. You guys are correct about the simpler, happier times. It was the greedy Yuppie culture of the 1980s that started the rot.
When adverts were simple and did what they said on the tin. No subliminal messaging, no woke nonsense. I miss the more innocent times, bought back memories of childhood into my teens! Remember Unigate milk floats and Humphrey as in ' watch out watch out there's a Humphrey about.'
6:04 That hoover... my parents had one, I thought as a kid It was technology beyond time... my dad used to push the thing about not my mum, I used to enjoy the little bag full indicator and It just reminded me of a Thunderbirds machine... lovely 70's brown, filled with cat hair and biscuit crumbs
Anyone notice how it's the jeans adverts that are the most dynamic and stylistically cool of adverts and probably many directed by the likes of Ridley Scott who did the famous Hovis ad and went on to direct Alien in 79? Love to know the names of some of the directors who did the same and went on to become big names in cinema.
And don't forget Cancer. Not one hour will go by without a cancer ad. Makes you wonder why, think it, believe it, make it happen. Mind is a powerful thing in the wrong hands
I liked some adverts, I was only a little girl then but I can remember my friends mom trying to dance like the woman on the Shake'n Vak advert, then my dad sung the song to R,White's lemonade advert saying he was a secret lemonade drinker! You can't do the Shake'n Vak and put the freshness back anymore now can you?
Yes we think technology is new when it's been around for years! These new Audis on which the LED lights for the rear indicators start near the number plate and then sequentially light up to the edge of the car. They were first used on the 1970's Ford Thunderbird! ...And retractable convertible hardtops were first used on the Ford Skyliner in 1958!
Back then it did... 20 years later, it seemed like nothing to me. And now, 20-odd years after that, £4.99 makes me think "Cripes, I could eat for three days on that, I can't afford to waste it on toys!" =:o\
Ahhhhhhh memories back in the day when men were men and women were grateful lol children’s toys were powered by children’s imagination and not WiFi. Yes I would go back in a heartbeat
I used to love watching Six Million Dollar Man so in 1977 my mam bought me all the toys for Christmas.My mam was weird That's a clever advert for Fosters too. Goods old K-Tel...they don't make useless rubbish as good as that anymore
Jesus Christ, they spent six million dollars rebuilding Steve Austin, but couldn't afford to give him a decent haircut? Well, that was the Seventies for you
Walter Murphy's "Emergency" was used for this ad for _The Six Million Dollar Man._ Back here in America, it was best known for an animation on _Sesame Street_ about crossing the street.
What a great little trip down memory lane. I had the bionic man toy and the lone ranger figure. Sadly the kids of today have no real interest in these types of toys anymore. Its computers phones and iPods. There childhood has been taken away .
@@Eleventhearlofmars Yeah, slip a couple fingers through the scratchy brambles, and you find what feels like a pocket full of warm slugs. You jump a bit, pull your hand back. "What is it?" she says . . . . . "Fucked if I know" you reply. "But If you pass me that hammer there, I'll help you kill it!"
A Toblerone for the bright spark who can recall the actors who's deep baritone voices were used so often... Wrangler and Brutus ads etc? Anyone spot the voice for the Tic Tac adverts? Stanley Baxter!
was a kid back then,!! born 1968,!! getten pocket money back then , was like most 50p !! if lucky !! so could not get some of the toys was like 4.99, etc : ! lol,, not like are kids now ,
I'm wondering if a lot of these were cinema ads as I really don't remember them on tv, and I used to watch a lot of tv back then. Cavalier trrousers ???!
Patrick Mower with Babycham and a couple of birds. Carole Augustine in the Manikin ad. Maybe the worst of the series. What I'd give for those K-Tel LPs nowadays - great compilations. Don't recall 'Hamilton's Hotshots' at all. Warwick were a part of CBS.
N Gauge England: Why? Are you concerned that you are unable to drink in moderation? I drink alcohol in such a way that I am in complete control so what gives you the right to control my alcohol consumption?
K-Tel, you have to love 'em! I still own and use their Back of the Knee viewer: £2.59 in 1978. Love Wogan's trousers - tho they come a poor second to those in the Hoover ad. The Mowerman was a pussy magnet, advertising Babycham he should have been smoking a Maniken.
toys for us kids back then, was £4.99, etc,, & as a kid only got like 50p as pocket money if some times a week if lucky , born 1968,! so as a kid could not get some toys back then,!! but was great times,,! not like are kids now,!!!
I grew up in the 70s hated them fashions horrible😝😝 hated awful flared trousers everyone was racist and homophobic and naive no ..80s 90s much better .
Don't be rude. She was just acting as she was told in these ads and she was beautiful. Her name was Carole Augustine. She was murdered in 1975 aged 22.
70's were great apart from that dam carpet grit..i recall Mum screaming at Dad over it..so glad we dont have it today..imagine self isolation with carpet grit as well
Ooh such simpler, happier times. When Jimmy Saville could prey on children undetected and people were hawked cheap tat for their hard-earned wage on TV every night.
@@Witheredgoogie wait, are you actually trying to defend Jimmy Savile just to keep the illusion of your childhood nostalgia alive? Perverse and desperate.
@@carlcarlson983 Every time I come across a clip from the TV past there is somebody tut tutting and virtue signaling about Jimmy Savile.He has been dead for a decade FFS.We were promised proof (ie evidence) of what he was supposed to have done 10 years ago..so far absolutely nothing. All this conspiracy stuff about the BBC turning a blind eye to their presenters' behaviour when sports star Frank Bough (who has just died) was fired from the BBC after being found in a whore house snorting cocaine.So where is the Savile smoking gun?
