That's Richard Briers doing the 'Baby Alive', 'Merry-Go Zoo' & 'Strawberry Shortcake' ads. Patrick Allen voicing the Action Man one from 1974. Arthur Mullard in the Skirrid ad - that's a good one. Sounds like it might be Kenny Everett on the 'Makin' faces' commercial. I'm afraid I didn't have any of these games / toys - a bit too late for me.
Everything was expensive back then. If you use the Bank of England historic inflation calculator, that Tomytronic 3D game equates to £85 today. There’s old Argos catalogues you can read online from the 70’s and the prices are mind blowing.
I became chums with Richard whom lived at the expensive end of our village - my eyes were opened to a new world of electronic games plus a real high-wire from one tree to another & his mum baked her own bread !
@@davidjones6470 lol .. Years of collecting. You'd be surprised how affordable some of those old toys are. I got an old LCD game recently, was expecting it to be £100+ but found a listing on eBay for £30.
@RetroSteveUK .. Could I suggest you show the year of the advert/toy in the blank part of the TV panel top right? I remember most of these first time around, BUT .. your video compilations are a history-lesson for younger folk !!
I intended to include the years of broadcast originally, but the research was taking way too long (time I just don't have to spare), so I decided to go with presenting them as-is. The year was going to go on the TV LED display, where it currently says "88mph" (which is a time travel reference).
Omg just had an awful flashback...my brother lost his action man in summer of 81..my mam went nuts at him...but It was me ...I sold it for 60p to a boy at school, bought myself loads of sweets on the way home and ate them in the park. Sorry Colin.
0:49 can we just appreciate the quality of the adverts that when in the Lone Ranger ad the toy fell out of the canoe and into the water they left it in the final edit, clearly saying, “F it, that’ll do” Also, Aurora AFX was awesome! I still have the two cars somewhere
I got a massive black eye from Swingball. I was so upset my Dad took it away! By the way I do think 70s clothes and style are so cool. Always have done. When I was a teenager late 80s/early 90s I used to wear my mother's, and even my father's (maroon leather flares) clothes. I thought I was the business, probably looked very silly!
The girl in the ad for Knock Your Block Off - 13:06 - now plays Linda Carter on Eastenders, (Kellie Bright). No idea how I recognized her other than that I was watching this right after watching Eastenders but I Googled it and sure enough it's her.
Quite honestly, I would rather watch that brilliantly conceived Scalextric advert - generating such excitement from a toy- than all the tedious CGI films peddled today.
Are those Palitoy Star Wars figures from the original movie? They'd be worth a bit now (although a lot more if still boxed, which means they'd never been played with, which is sad)
I was never allowed to watch Saturday morning TV and was always shooed out of the house to go play with my friends. Years later I discovered that with dad working shifts, Saturday mornings were the only time my parents could enjoy ‘private time’!
@@AtheistOrphan lol, my parents was probably doing that too. I was always sent to my grandparents on a Friday until Sunday evening, so I was able to watch Saturday morning kids tv until it finished at about 12:30. Then I had half an hour to get to football practice. 😂
@@RetroSteveUK I don't even know what's in it's place these day's, but whatever it is it won't anything half as good, lol. ITV and the BBC should do reruns of those shows on a Saturday morning. I'd tune in for that. They must still have them in the archives. I wonder if they allow people access to that kinda stuff.🤔
@@TheRetroManRandySavage We see clips used on documentary shows so they must be getting them from somewhere. I suspect some of those old live shows probably haven't aged well.
Does anyone know why, when they show the prices of toys in these advertisements that they say "about" or "around" a certain price? I've also never seen an ad say "or less" after the price of something. The Barbie ad is interesting. The US version of these ads would say "Hey there, Barbie girl", closer to the Georgie Girl song. I love seeing a Toys R Us commercial. I never got to go to one of their stores before they went out of business in most places, other than Canada.
Back when is kids had imaginations. I had a few of these toys. Tomy 3D the red one. Millennium Falcon, Starbird. But don’t put the wet the bed doll in your sisters bed. You have to sleep in it 😂
We all new some 1 who was lucky enough to have all the Star Wars toys. Usually parents split up. As kids never saw the connection. We were all round his house wanting to play with them.
Still got a fair bit of my Star Wars stuff, including the Falcon, Snowspeeder, X-Wing and the original white Tie Fighter. They were great toys. I was also a big fan of the Mattel Battlestar Galactic stuff. Not easy to come by now, so I'm glad I've still got that too. Anyone remember the Entex handheld Space Invaders game? Got one of those for Christmas in 1980. Certainly got through some batteries with that! Re: the Cyborgs vs Androids. Was that a precursor of the Micronauts range as they look very similar?
Some great old adverts there. I had aurora and Scalextric I much preferred Aurora, they were a betted size and stayed on the track better. Had plenty of Star Wars figures and other bits, toys were quite expensive then compared to today.
Knock Your Block Off was a great game and the must have board game of 1986 for more than most after being on TX on Saturday Mornings. And the girl in the ad was none other than Kellie Bright.
Yeah, she was recognisable straight away! I have this memory of the game; I remember wondering why the TV show wasn't mentioned in the game's advertising. I think the two might have been unrelated - like there might have been no licensing deal. I haven't been able to uncover any info on that yet.
"My Dog Has Fleas" looks pretty good and I have no recollection of it from my late 80s childhood of reading the Argos and Index catalogue toy sections inside-out. Did anyone here have it?
Insurance adverts have been going in the 'Banks & Finance' folder. There's one compilation on the channel already .. It's about five or six videos down the list on my channel's video tab currently.
I’ve never played Swingball but can anyone who has, if you’re both ‘righties’ isn’t one of you always on the backhand? From my childhood in the 60’s I think I remember there was a pop-up device to indicate the winner? I thought it unfair that one player was at a disadvantage having to play backhand all the time. Mind you - this Is the same kid who thought Morticia Addams was hot!
I've come across this problem with Swingball. We solved it by swapping directions each round. You're right about the pop-up indicator. Older sets used to have that.
@@RetroSteveUK Ahh! Rounds! I thought you just played till you dropped, (or until that bloody thing popped up!). P.S. I mentioned your onscreen surround looked like the 25” DeccaColour set I desired. Works out as 37” on my 55” Hisense - Bonus!!
Some I capture from VHS when I can get hold of tapes, but most of them are already out there on the internet. I use those, but fix up the sound and picture quality as much as possible before presenting them in these themed collections.
@@AtheistOrphan - Yeah, I remember my sister collecting them. She had a load of them lined up above the door frame in our shared bedroom when I was very young.
