Doctor Who Adverts Are Wild... 

Great video, but so much fun to hear you mentioning about how 'I didn't need anything like the internet as a child', remembering playing with my electronic toys in the 70's and having my dad say 'we made our own fun when I was a boy, I made things out of wood for myself'. I imagine this will echo through time (and relative dimensions..etc) , todays child will say 'we didn't have the holographic interface when I was young, we made do with the internet!' and so on.

The Dalek smoking a cigar , this was a very long series of different characters meeting adverse circumstances then instead of getting angry they just relax and have a Hamlet ( the mild cigar from Benson and Hedges .) Taken alone is ok but taken in context , hilarious ;-)

So strange that young men in 2023 played with Daleks and a toy Tardis as kids, just like an old fogey like me did nearly 60 years ago!

Well, Jon was a sailor in his younger days. 😂 It was produced to be shown to executive's at a marketing event, and back in the 80s, it would have probably been all men, and they'd probably have had a few drinks and had a laugh. I'm not defending it, but at the end of the day, Jon was just doing a job and he probably didn't think it would be seen by a wider audience and certainly not analysed over a decade after he died.

Jon Pertwee was a man of culture 😂

1:35 Worth noting that sixpence (in old money) was the equivalent of only 2½ pence when we went decimal. 17:59 Not only Mickey Pearce from "Only Fools & Horses", but René Artois from "'Allo 'Allo"

My reaction to hearing the Third Doctors last line... "What?" "What?" "WHAT?"

The Pertwee ad is Canon (he had to support himself while exiled on Earth somehow), his hand gestures simply activate a pre programmed product teleport.😁

The Peter Davison advert was on heavy rotation during breakfast TV. Even now, I think of Davison's pan handle when I eat muesli.

I've got a set of those saucepans advertised by Peter Davidson, and they're still going strong after 35 years (although I did have to refit one of handles of the pan lids with araldite a few years ago).

That Prestige one must have done something. For years my mum remembered the 'Put the dinner on, I'll be home in twenty minutes', in a Cod American accent.

Oh Jon. You cheeky old devil... 😅

I'm not sure this counts as a Doctor Who advert but in the 80s there was a Doctor Who Easter egg box. It's the Tardis & has two flaps for the door to open. Left flap has an Dalek right flap it's laser firing & inside is the 5th Doctor Peter Davison. So if you just open the left flap it looks like the laser is coming out of Peter Davison Crotch. 😂😂

Stainless steel bodies, solid copper bottoms. I remember that one.

I actually started working with Jon Pertwee around this time and I never knew this existed! Wow. This is such a surreal experience for me. As a fan in the U.S. during the first wave of Doctor Who fandom, we pretty much got the leftovers from the late 70's merchandising. I had one of the first Doctor Who specific dealer's tables at SF conventions in 1981 & 1982 and all I could get were some of the Tom Baker action figures, a talking K-9 that I wish I still had and this weird thing called a TARDIS Tuner. It was an AM radio that had a bunch of flashing lights and made a lot of sounds, all of them loud and annoying. The ads for the toys after the relaunch is like watching my childhood from an alternate Universe. Seeing ads on TV for Doctor Who toys the way we were marketed for G.I. Joe's is the childhood I wish I grew up in. As for the end, well, nobody rides for free!😂 As an old friend of mine likes to say, it was another time.

19:31 now we know why Jo passed nude with a Dalek!

The Peter Davidson pan TV advert was on regular rotation during the early 1980s.

Doctor who adverts were always the best. Great video 👍🏻

I was expecting Prime Computer, maybe next time!

"Isn't that Mickey Pierce?" Isn't that Rene off Allo Allo?

@ 2:30 I had the Tardis, 4th Doctor and Palitoy Dalek. If i remember rightly, the Doctor's head was a re-used Mego Starsky sculpt.

Great video ! I still have that Tom baker action figure but I lost his sonic screwdriver 24 years ago!

Baahahaaha, man the the dalek cig one was funny. Looks like we took a puff his eye stalk opened wide like he was on something- far out man🤣

I can still remember the lollies at what is now 2 1/2 P and used to get my TV21 comic at the same time, although that was mainly Gerry Anderson stuff. For those that are surprised at that last Jon Pertwee advert', I think they should take a look at some of Jon's comedy offerings prior to Dr Who?

For me the smoking dalek has a hidden message, "Daleks are bad/evil and so is smoking".

Good Lord... Trisha McMillan!

Loved this! These were hilarious. More please!

My favourite ice cream from the 70s was the darlek ice cream Lilly it was chocolate and mint..amazing and I can still remember eating them on a family holiday as a kid🎉

did anyone recognize Renee, from ello ello in the zanussi ad ?

For what it's worth Paul Darrow was in an advert for those cigars when he was still in "Blake's 7".

Post-watershed gonna post-watershed.

Great commentary, lads! It might have been mentioned by someone else already, but I think the Hamlet cigar bit was actually a skit from a comedy programme in the early 80s, as I have vague memories of it - something like Alas Smith & Jones (Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones from Not The Nine O'Clock News). My mum actually used to work for Zanussi, although not until the early 90s. Presumably the sales team in the 80s were all male... 🙄 And indeed that was Mickey Pearce from Only Fools And Horses, alongside the late Gordon Kaye aka René Artois from 'Allo 'Allo.

At the time I was working at a particular supermarket not mentioned which one, had series 4 figures reduced I noticed that got new series 5 figures still boxed but not out on the shelves I grabbed it and at the till got them sale price plus a extra 10 % staff discount. Forget what I paid them now but wasn't much at the time...

You missed the classic Tom Baker and Prime Computers.

NJN stands for New Jersey Network - the PBS affiliate in New Jersey (USA). NJN used to show Doctor Who and had a huge following. Patrick Troughton coming out of the Tardis and being scared of the CGI flying saucer was one of the ads created to ask viewers for contributions. There were lots of other ads created with other cast members, and one of the sponsored conventions featured Colin Baker in person.

Disappointed that you spoiled the Pertwee ending in the thumbnail!

I'm so glad I found this channel xD I subbed

A Dalek smoking a cigar. Now I've seen it all

I remember that prestige saucepans ad!

One ad that I remembered fondly was the Tom Baker and lalla ward Prime computer ads in the early 80's. It was ironic my traineeship when I left high school in 86 was with a firm that used a mini Prime computer :D

I'm pretty sure those were the 'Day of the Daleks' voices at the start of the Hamlet commercial

I remember the SkyRay ice lollies, the free card inside the packet was always sticky and picked up the fluff and detritus from your pocket.

"Show us your tits and I'll tell you." 🤣 That's SO not the Doctor LMFAO. I'm surprised Jon ever agreed to say that, even in a corporate ad! Thanks guys, that was an awesome video. I'm old enough to remember a lot of those lol. Subbed ;)

Funny to see the later series stuff being advertised. Over here in the States, only on Amazon, and in Barnes & Noble (bookstores) and specialty shops (comics and games shops) would have this stuff. Usually in specific displays. No advertising that I was ever aware of (certainly not on TV). Those who sought such things just found them put into their paths, really. The mix-and-match sonic screwdriver thing was a hilarious find. No one EVER asked for this, but there it was. Cash grab! Fun.

The Hamlet adverts were ace!

I still have the Cyberman voucher change helmet

Oh my... I lived through the 70's so I remember that would have been considered 'a laugh' at the time, but that hasn't kept well.

3rd Doctor used ‘transmigration of object’ in Ambassadors Of Death which was a similar effect of making things disappear and reappear. As to the ending I’m not convinced, the sound seems off and Jon Pertwee had a lisp.

You laughed, so it did its job.

I remember the Peter Davison one. And that definitely aired in prime time

i had the tardis with tom baker and a K-9 too, lots of fun

Did the guy on the left stick his hand into an electrical socket? Looks absolutely absurd.

Cards in stuff was basically our internet back then.....it's all we had.....

Skyray lollies we’re great . I got a few when I was a kid just for the cards. FAB lollies had Thunderbird cards in them

I'm curious when that first one is from. Pre-decimal currency puts it pre-February 1971. Although the Doctor being Troughton would put it in the late 60s. It's in colour though, and ITV I believe only went colour in November 1969, which was months after Troughton's last episode, and when they'd have been starting to promote the Pertwee era. Although I guess in the minds of the kids, Troughton was still the Doctor. Interesting that he was wearing that hat though, considering he only wore that in his early stuff, in 66/67.

OMG I recognized the robot in the Jon Pertwee ad at the end of this video. It was a toy from my childhood called Sir. Galaxy. No wonder it looked so bad in that ad, lol

Here in Canada we never got any of the toys from back in the day, for that matter the newer stuff either .

Honestly I think Smoking Daleks would have worked well as a scene in Victory of the Daleks

That couldn't have been the one they went with, with the third Doctor. There must have been a definitive one they went with. That must have been an outtake that Pertwee said for a joke. Something he made up on the spot for a laugh then they did the real line.

"I vill say this only once!"

How have you never seen a rocket lolly? You can still buy them. I had a battery powered dalek at one point, no idea what happened to it. And yeah, I remember the Peter Davison one with Sandra Dickenson. And I remember the Mickey Pierce Zanussi ad, that bit was on TV a lot at the time.

I still have my Eleven Sonic. Its in a drawer now because the kids play too rough with it. It still looks brand new.

Weird having Jon Pertwee as Dr Who in the early 80s - but I do recall that at that point in time there was a huge push to return to the earlier permissive society circa 1970 - 74 ish. And he was still famous due to Worzel Gummidge. Lots of TV programs and films featured nakedness at the time. Streaking in public was a thing. And sex was being normalized - rather than hidden in the background like the 1950s. Live shows like OTT had multiple late night breasts and more on show. Pubs began putting on live strip shows in the afternoon. Sex comedies had been a thing since the late 60s. So it might seem dated now. But at the time it was deemed perfectly normal - for better or worse. Edit; OTT was the late night adult version of Tiswas.

I read a short biography about Jon Pertwee. That last bit, which was hysterical, is pretty on par with him!😁

Worzel Gummidge requesting a t*t flash! Mickey Pierce and Gordon Kay from the 80s sitcom Allo Allo! 😂

Gorden Kaye from 'Allo 'Allo in that Pertwee "Zanussi" video, as well...

Bought a couple of these Dr. Who toys here stateside via my local comic shop. I have all the screwdrivers, Capt. Jacks Vortex Manipulator, ect..

Kinda surprised the Terry Nation estate ever let that smoking ad occur.

I already have most of the 11th doctor action figures back in the day

I actually bought the build your own sonic kit, I think they must have had a warehouse unearthed lol. The batteries leaked but they’re fixable. Less than USD 50 online!

I got the personalise sonic screwdriver set (no box) for my son at Em-Con Nottingham this month for £20.

_"This isn't like the 40's or 50's or anything"_ - Not sure what you think the 40's / 50's were like... but it wasn't that...

I remember the pan advert with Peter Davidson

I had the tardis, it had velcro inside to hold the Dr on, you span the top and the Dr would vanish. I literally searched everywhere in my grandma's house trying to find the Dr, was proper panicking. On a side note, we had 3 of the tardis' as the spin top kept breaking, in fact in the end we sent it back for a refund as they were so poorly made

I remember the Peter pans adverts lol

Wasn't there one with Tom Baker and either Mary Tamm or Lalla Ward for some computer system?

Recon in 40 years this will happen again but with our current ads

He said WHAT?

My brother had one of those Tardis!!

yes very early Mickey pearce (patrick murray) with Rene Artois (gorden kaye) from Allo Allo

16:50 "Boris" was a toy remote control robot that I had as a kid. It was advertised like a real robot but pretty disappointing once I had it.

I think the pertwee was an company in house video. I don’t think it was televised ever.

Thought the Finale of the Zanussi Ad was hilarious! But you forgot one ad campaign that I remember from my teens - Sugar Smacks.

I've got that second advert TARDIS, and the Tom Baker figure. I'd never seen the weird-haired Leela figure.

Well, THAT came from NOWHERE! It was SO tame up until THAT point! Marketing ruined!

At the time of the Peter Davison pans advert he would probably have been married to Sandra Dickinson in real life... and if you think that outfit of his was odd then check him out in the Tomorrow People in 1975's "A Man For Emily" (Emily being played by Sandra Dickinson!). There were a whole string of Hamlet cigar adverts where the payoff was always having the cigar was the answer to relaxing when faced but a bad event... the famous one is the golfer taking loads of strokes tring to get out of a bunker and you just hear the music come up and the cigar smoke rising from inside the bunker. The original Dalek helmet/suit was available in the Hartnel 60s era and had a plastic floor length PVC cape hanging down from it - according to an interview where Toyah Wilcox first developed her love of PVC. That last line certainly was a surprise even for 1981!

I had one of the Dalek "voice changer" helmets. I thought I'd be able to actually do a Dalek voice but nope, barely a warble. Very disappointing.

I'm guessing Jon Pertwee only agreed to say that line because it was a corporate video, never intended to be seen outside of Zanussi corporate training sessions. No-one in that era foresaw corporate videos being shared for ironic laughs over "the interwebs" decades later :) And, no, that kind of thing wasn't acceptable, not even in the 80s. We had "alternative comedy" by then, which took the piss out of that kind of "working man's club" humour - all casual sexism and racism - as a relic of the previous decade. It was already seen as "your dad's comedy."

Was any kid really scared of the Doctor Who creatures?! I certainly wasn’t‼️

I'd hate to think Terry Nation signed off on a cigar smoking Dalek (though being the 1960s he was probably a smoker himself).

6d. Ahhhh.... The joys of pre 1971 pricing. That would be something like 5p in todays money.

The thing with pertwee spawning stuff from thin air actually appears in the show alot was meant to be a joke but don't look into the Canon explanation its so weird

Do you mean the iron side not the paradim

The John pertwee advert was never shown on public TV it was a private corporate advert, it would never have got through the censors back in the 80s, be a different story now when you see what Dr who has turned into.

First three series, didnt see William, Patrick or Jon in the advert.

Lol.. I remember watching the Darleks from behind the Sofa. I dont remember the Darlek and the Hamlet Cigar.. I thought that Ad was Great.

Whatever happened to *Zanussi?*

I have the Tom Baker and K1 Robot toys as well as a (not now) talking K9 from Denys Fisher. Tom even advertised computers with then wife Lalla Wrd in Australia. Where is Zanusi?

Sorry, but the Hamlet Dalek Ad was shown on UK T.V.

I honestly thought it was click bait. Shocking!