The Second Doctor Who Ad Break of Death 

"I have just disrupted your day by video conferencing with you, only to immediately tell you that I'm putting you on hold, with a hint of brusque annoyance as if you were the one calling me in the middle of my important monologue"

Lol

Grew up in metro Boston and they started with Baker and then flipped back to Pertwee for some reason, in the mid-late 70s...

And Gambit from The New Avengers too.

Aunt Sally. Mrs Hudson my arse. That series has NO redeeming qualities whatsoever. Sorry.

There was going to be an all 'Who' Nescafe ad but Tom scuppered it by loudly mentioning that he hated coffee. I DO remember a Volkswagen billboard ad with some of the Doctors staring into the back of a VW estate amazed at how big it was on the inside!

Una Stubbs. Check it on IMDB. It's her alright.

Leroy Jenkins is it possible Peter Davison was also still doing All creatures great and small at the time?

Yes, the audio is excellent

Word....incredible...no degradation whatsoever....BBC...probably kept them in vacuum sealed vaults...lol...so British ; )

Well somebody did, but not the BBC. The BBC doesn't run adverts...

@@ambroseshepherd6861 no way. There’s always been promotional photos either for adverts or magazines. Maybe not tv bumpers

I was thinking that. Amazing quality

Alexander Newton it still hasn't for the landline. Mobile devices, and desktops at best.

I thought I recognized them....and yes it was emotional for me as well seeing them.

Careful, Romana! It's the curry of a thousand trips to the loo!

Basically it should be a special episode with Patrick Troughton.

@@socialcommentary1014 😂

That Jon Pertwee the third Doctor

@Julian MacFarlane maaaybe not, it sounds little like it was going to be somewhat... _racist..._

Yes, but the landline is basically dead. It had a good go though.

Really, I had no idea.

I'm 49...my 11 year old daughter wants me to FaceTime her...but I still just think it's wierd...her voice paints the picture of her face in my mind as I should imagine mine would too...had a Skype meeting with my band once...yep...still wierd...lol...can't get used to it I'm afraid...even if my hero Tom Baker was endorsing it all those years ago...lol

@@smakdoubt look up the Muppets covering Bohemian Raposy. A very unproductive teleconference call as Kermit put it.

@@gorillaau I think I vaguely remember it. Definately share Kermit's perspective on that track. It's an audiosonic and lyrical anxiety wave for me and I simply cannot handle it. Regardless of it's musical genius and groundbreaking studio engineering. I miss The Muppets just the same though mate.

Chris McWilliams Troughton was also a priest in the Exorcist

I remember that, is part is my favorite.

I think you're thinking of The Omen.

Yeah, you're right. I realized it right after my post. :)

Patrick Troughton was also in 'Jason and the Argonauts', which was another film from the great Ray Harryhausen.

The fifth Doctor would be going all 'Campion'...

Shanethefilmmaker Maybe this is what the doctors regenerations do after going to Trenzalore, working on advertisements 😂

Like all the Hollywood stars who went to Japan to do adverts, hoping they would never be seen by their domestic audiences!

Do pardon me for being rude but I simply must interject, you see a spokes person and an inventor are slightly different things.

Facetime is like the last in a vast array of video call systems. Even ISDN videophones predate facetime...

Nobody gets jokes these days, I actually laughed at this comment

amstrad79b - True, but Facetime was the first commercially successful implementation of video calling.

No the 4th Doctor invented Facetime and traveled spacetime.

That commercial would be considered racist now and not be shown.

@@sovietonion72 it would be, but it's still funny as hell

And he was Arak in 'Planet of the Spiders'.

And also the originator of the best cockney rhyming slang term, at least until that politician called Jeremy stole the title from him!

I don't believe that telephone call was real as the person on the other end still had all of their clothes on.

errr ...

Yeah, I KNEW he looked familiar.

what TV show was he in again?

i did.

I thought it was the kid that was inside K9!

If you're lying to your boss/spouse you don't really want them to see your face...

One of the reasons was it was very choppy. The frames did not update very often, I think there was less than one frame a second. They were also expensive.

what I remember seeing of it didn't look to bed but obviously the technology would have been expensive given when they tried to launch it. Almost nobody realizes the Apple iPad is way older than they think as an example it actually dates back to the days of Windows 3.1 and is rebranding of some very old technology that back in the 90s was very expensive and never caught on.the i pod is actually when you break it down a Nintendo Game Boy lol. the i pad started of as a digital assistant notepad like device they were crazy expensive and people didn't see the point because it seemed like an overly expansive laptop copout. There's been a few pieces of abandoned technology over the years that eventually got rebranded and reused;). I guess in this day and age nobody cares about the videophone. It's the same as the amount of interest there is in the vR and yet it's still having trouble getting a actual foothold

It's out next year I believe.

in fairness that word (Not using it incase YT delete this comment) is now more known as a slur than an Item of food. So I don't blame anyone one gets mistaken by it.

David Stevens ...yes that was Liz Sladen. :)

​@@R.M.MacFru That's what I thought. Is that Elisabeth, also, in the Nescafe commercial, or was that Melanie Bush?

Screen have bigger and smaller (mobile phones) at the same time.

bmhedgehog2 he's the one presenting

Check out the channel's other videos!

BlueSoulJim indeed

Yes

It kind of works to set up expectations of the product though - faux Indian advertising faux-British-made curry

John Bluthal, playing the Indian, was born in Poland. Isn't it racist to pretend a Polish actor can't portray a different nationality?

William Russell

My family had a late-70s Mitsubishi TV that had a headphone jack.

Did the Panasonic comes with headphones?

Noodle Doodle surely - I remember Record Collector's Bicker Man column calling them something along the lines of Alphabeti Spaghetti for illiterates & attacking the song.

Yes

Oh and were Elisabeth Sladen or Tom Baker or Peter Davison in Doctor Who when their commercials came out.

You can still get Brain's Faggots. It's just a meatball made of offal and they're delicious.

@Liam Unruly Don't be pointless. This is neither the time nor the place to discuss vegan philosophy. However, I will say I don't appreciate being called a murderer just because I eat different things than you. That's like me calling you a carrot assassin. It's just silly.

@Liam Unruly I will eventually die, that's true. I plan to be cremated when that happens, so I'm not sure who or what I'll be eaten by; microbes, probably. Unless of course you're threatening to kill and eat me, which would be a peculiar twist - a cannibalistic vegan.

@Liam Unruly Seeing as how karma is a man-made construct with no basis of fact behind it, I struggle to see your point. If you're on some kind of religious bent then please be aware that I don't share your beliefs, so your threat is utterly meaningless to me. Having said that, I hope you have a nice Christmas and a joyous new year.

Sorry but The TV Museum is an archive so unsurprisingly we like our recordings in the original format. The fact that RU-vid re-encodes is unfortunate but since they're all taken from domestic recordings and all ads are shot on film, you're not losing any interlace structure and there's not a huge quality dip. It could be worse ... we don't put DOGs on the screen after all.

I understand but at least if you upscale them first youtube doesn't re-encode the HD versions. Yes, the upscaling won't improve anything but at least it helps you bypass their re-encoding of non-HD material.

We understand that. But it takes time and we're busy. We have 752 videos up on YT. If we took the time to upscale every one, there would probably only be 250.

Jeees Arthur get a life

StormMedia 17 Early Wholock! 😁

Mrs hudson worked with jon pertwee (the third doctor) as well as aunt sally in Worzel Gummidge

What the heck is a shirt lifter?

whatever.

I know Pertwee should really stop mocking that poor Indian actor working with him. 3...........2.............1.

Robert Payne I'm pretty certain that's the actor who played the lead Indian character in 'It Ain't Harf Hot, Mum'. He was born and raised in India, knew the people well and was fluent in Urdu. His portrayals were based in reality and the mannerisms were recognised as familiar by Indian immigrants to the UK. An actual Indian actor would have been better, but he was well known for playing the role of long-suffering Indian dealing with English men, so would be familiar to audiences, which advertisers want.

Yep. Good thing this changed

No, that was Michael Bates. This was John Bluthal who did the 'Q' series with Spike Milligan amongst other things. Spike also played the odd Indian as his father was stationed there & he grew-up with the voice in his ears. He did a whole series 'browned-up'-'Curry and Chips'. This sort of thing is a relic from a past age and sensibility now...

The Simpsons have been doing it for 30 years.

It's not. It's some other guy in blackface.

@@Quirderph I dunno. Still looks like him.

But one even comes with a headphone jack! *A headphone jack* !!

The Third Beast Mrs. Hudson with the fifth doctor

That was William Russell (Ian Chesterton), not William Hartnell.

I remember a kids TV show having a good save with that though. Person rang into the show (it was live question & answer kinda show) anyway they said to the lead singer of a band "You look like a Faggot". Band member quickly replied back "I do not look like mincemeat!". Caller was obviously quickly disconnected and because of that quick reaction the host of the show didn't have to apologise - Kids at home hopefully wouldn't have known the other meaning of term.

In the Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman book 'Good Omens' (Currently being made with David Tennant) one of the last of the order of the Witch-Finders has crashed a US Army base and shows them his official papers, What's this," asks the security guard, "...why do we have to provide you with faggots?" "We burn them." "RIGHT ON!" Don't know if that will be in the TV version...

Those deep-set eyes. I always think Milton Jones looks like a satanic Peter Davison.

Yeah, I was thinking it looked like bad dog food.

Yep was even the wrong shade of shit for a bad korma.

No.

No

Yes, most television of that time was casually racist.

In which case you please explain to me what specifically about it you deemed to be racist?

I was more astounded how his outfit looked very like a dr who outfit

England is still England mate, by all means reminisce about the past and express your memories and fondness but don't get hung up on 'anti woke' nostalgic clap trap that never existed

You sound like a freshman.@@nialldavidson197

IM British Indian born here trust me it wasn’t so nice in the early 80s as we found out on school trips to outside London

@@amandeepv What was wrong with England outside of London back then?

What does that even mean?

They were bigger on the inside though.