You can't beat telly from the 70s and 80s, ....brings back some great memories for me, of growing up in these wonderful and more simpler times......where have all those years gone
I have a "temporary" Mosque right outside my window! When I complained about the noise, they told me to "move"! They called me a "prick" and told me to "f*** o**"! Religion of "peace"? You decide!
It was a rushed product. I think they spent 6 weeks developing it in a hurry to get it out to retail in time for Xmas 1982. It sold well too until millions of unhappy customers returned it to Atari for a refund.
I've heard of people pausing video recordings to skip the adverts but Won ton ton must have been a truly crap film to pause the film and record the adverts. :-)
"Tron... at a cinema near you, from this weekend!" It must have been a re-release of sorts, as it opened in the U.K on 21 October 1982 according to IMDb. They were probably giving it an extra push over the Christmas hollidays, as Tron wasn't a big box office hit.
If I remember rightly, cinemas would have a particular "slot" in which they good have the film (s). In Kent, the ABC and Odean in Canterbury, had the films a month before Dover and 6 weeks before Deal/Folkestone.
Back then, films could take up to a year to be shown across the whole of the UK. I lived in an outlying area of Greater Manchester, and our now defunct local cinema would get new releases about 6 months after they had been shown in central Manchester.
Liquafruta! Who knew that was a thing?! Though the advert is fresh for 1982; could imagine this as a later 80's ad, but by then,the product will of well and truly gone I bet...
Funny there should be an advert for Denmark, because I literally just ate a whole tub of Philadelphia, which is produced in Denmark! It was so cool and creamy! I just can't help myself! 😂
@@StormadoMan It was a European thing not American. Europe had Snickers and raider. We had marathon and twix. We lost marathon for snickers, they lost raider for twix.
I remember many of these like instant recall. For instance, that Skoll and Bold ad straight in there, and that girl babe biting the apple at 12:25, yum. 09:47, coal, the fuel of the future, 2020, er, er...
Seeing this now as an adult is truly sobering. It was almost a kind of a fantastical blur aged 9 then - especially the adverts for gifts we never recieved yet perhaps would have liked - a taunting reality that consumer society leapt way ahead of the biblical choirs that rarely appealed to dysfunctional lower-class families if you get my meaning and nutty chocolate bars.
'Won Ton Ton' makes for staggering viewing these days (and probably even in 1982). Put simply, a Rin Tin Tin semi-biopic with the odd rape joke and doggy suicide attempt. That, and if my memory serves me right, looks suspiciously like it was shot on the leftover sets from 'The Day of the Locust'. Directed by Michael Winner, naturally.
Most of these wonderful ads would now be seen as racist, sexist, non-inclusive, politically incorrect and all the other crap that’s been dumped onto society!
I also say no to a cigarette . A bottle of whiskey though is another story. My mother , thought Hinge and Bracket were really women. And nothing sparkled like my mother after 20 Babycham
