90's UK TV Adverts - Defunct Brands/Discontinued items.
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- Опубликовано: 2 фев 2019
- Something a bit different. I have shedloads of adverts on old VHS tapes. So I thought I'd do some compilations. This is a compilation of ads from the 1990's of brands and items which no longer exist.
Adverts featured:
Tandy
Office World
Goldfish
One 2 One
Powerhouse
Cellnet
Kellogg's Apple Wheats
McVities Ace
Pet City
Dolland and Aitchenson
Petsmart
People's Phone
IBM Aptiva
Radion
Birds Eye Hungry Joe's
Somerfield
Index
Texas Homecare
Midland Bank
Abbey National
Comet
MFI 
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I have been through some more tapes and created a part 2 to this compilation ruclips.net/video/QlN534QsaQM/видео.html
Hah that’s crazy that you’ve commented on this two year old video just 5 mins before I watched it. Great compilation! Just off to watch the next one now.
@@dan8716 Well I noticed the views on this were shooting up like crazy and part 2 wasn't doing as well so perfect time to promote :) thanks!
Billy Connelly 😂 1:01
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I love this, so nostalgic. I assume you get them from VHS tape onto a computer, how do you do it?
These RUclips ads are getting ridiculous now. 10 mins and no opportunity to skip ads
I could forgive all that if they offered products you could actually get!
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@@DJSwezzleMusic woosh
@@DJSwezzleMusic
You do realise the original post was tongue-in-cheek / sarcastic, right??
Update: somebody deleted his/her comment...
I see what you did there and I liked it. I fear this humour is too advanced for most of the 3Heads that populate RUclips comments sections.
The 90s were a great time for being a child
The last great time..
so were the early 2000s
The 80s were even better.
70s were even better
Everyone says that because everyone was a kid.
I get annoyed by even 5 second ads on RUclips.
Yet I just watched 10 minutes of adverts from the 90s without skipping.
Because there was no box tickers in the 90s. Now we are force fed diversity
@@BlowinFree
Couldn’t have put it better myself.
Lol Pet City became defunct during the video 😂
I thought pet city became pets at home
@@NoddyAlba it did you're correct
Slight irony in that technology we are using to watch this video is responsible for the demise of these brands.
Yup, everything bar the remote control car on the Tandy ad we use our phones for.
not really, im watching this on a cardboard box with a less than keen hamster in it running on a wheel to power it... i threaten him to keep him going.
Only in some cases though because the cleaner wasn't competitive enough even if people do buy online.
@@livelongandprosper70 Out of curiosity, what brand of hamster do you use?
@@frankbrown4780 Realistic..an old Tandy brand.. weirdly enough 🤔
When the world felt like it was doing okay .. I'd go back to the 90s if I could
So would I. Back to the days of school,TFI Friday, Red Dwarf, Mr Bean and I would be able to do my life over again
I'd love to be able to go on holidays to different time periods, the same way you can hop on a plane and go to France or Spain.
I'd quite like a two-week break in the 90s or 00s
Now we're in Africa.... Everywhere like Africa.... Great Africa....
Just ignore the news and noise that's meant to make you scared. For good or bad, the world is as ok as it was 30 years ago.
Tandy was basically RadioShack UK.
Cellnet was bought by BT who then spun it off a few years later and that became O2.
One2One was bought by Deutsche Telekom who renamed it TMobile and then merged with Orange to become EE which was then bought by BT.
Somerfield was gobbled up by the Co-op Group.
Midland was gobbled up by HSBC.
Abbey National was gobbled up by Santander.
PetCity became Petsmart which then became Pets at Home.
MFI and Comet went bust and disappeared.
I still have my nans cassette deck from Tandy. Still works too!
TEXAS became Do-It-All and then my local one became Homebase - which itself is currently being demolished for housing.
There is still an MFI showroom in Gloucester. Kitchens I think.
Tandy was bought by carphone warehouse which is now owned by currys.
@@nazbazal70 I get the feeling comet and dixons became part of currys too
Tandy was Alan Partridge’s favourite electrical retailer... famously giving him after hours viewing sessions. “Nice action”.
Classic Partridge.
I used to get this service too, my uncle was Barry on Eastenders and he used to take us with him!
He wasn’t a big fan of Dixon’s as the staff didn’t have basic grasp of Latin, and what with the pedestrianisation of Norwich city centre it’s no wonder they went bust n all
"good action, quality action"
I’m not buying a Mini Metro, I’m not buying a Mini Metro, I’m not buying a Mini Metro.
The most depressing 3 words - Back To School.
Unless you are a parent.
@@chefexcellence322 Its the hard work of getting then up and getting them to school lol
Close. - Back To Work.
@@theshakter then they wake up really early on the weekend when you want a lie in.
@@chefexcellence322 Ironic
I'd give up anything and everything if I could go back to being a kid in the 90s 😢
Amen... :(
I'd fix the mistakes of my past and be a superior version of myself now
I remember my Dad taking me around Office World, I wasn't as enthusiastic as those kids as i remember.
My dad used to drag me round Staples (they sold stationery, office furniture and printers) but I loved it cause they had a rack of video games, and I could try out the spinning office chairs 😅
@@charlielouise2428 Staples still exists doesn't it?
@@bangerbangerbro not in the UK, it got sold in 2016 and now it's only online
@@charlielouise2428 oh ok.
This made my sad. Took me back to living at home in my teens, when everything was innocent. I was born in the early 80s, so I can remember most of that decade and the 90s.
Not a stupid hashtag to be seen anywhere, love it!
1980's: Hi-Fi
2021: Wi-Fi
The 90s in the UK was the best place on earth
Why
Funny but I have to agree. The new millennium came and everything just turned to shit.
100%
@@rebekahgummer8302 The rise of Cool Britannia, New Labor (before they went to you know what) Oasis, The Spice Girls, Madchester etc etc. Everyone was optimistic, the economy was booming but you could still afford to buy a decent house on a modest wage. Life was good, then the 2000s happened.
@@rebekahgummer8302 No twitter or Facebook.
I briefly worked for One2One in 1998. I started packing the boxes the phones came in as my first ever job after leaving school for a company called Gemini, then switched to in store which I did for about 3 days before I was then moved to an outside kiosk where all I did all day was sell 'pay as you go' top up cards, the old ones where you scratched off the strip on the back to reveal your top up code. Easiest job I ever had until i was .. errm.. let go.. let's just say I never paid to top up my mobile phone whilst I worked on that kiosk. Perfect for a then 16 year old me, good times lol
One2One were my first mobile network, I had a very stubby little black Siemens C25 - which was my first mobile. Ah, memories.....One2One was a decent network I seem to recall, but it ended up getting crowded out by bigger rivals with bigger marketing budgets. Since then I've been with Orange, 3, EE, and now Smarty!
@@robtyman4281 Fun fact, EE is what one2one has ended up as.
@@DukeDudeston nope it's T-Mobile not EE
@@rachelward3486 T-Mobile was in between. One2One became T-Mobile, then T-Mobile and Orange merged to form EE.
@@DukeDudeston t mobile and orange joined which made ee
WTF was Office World doing trying to sell ring binders to 6 year olds? 😂 No great mystery why they went the way of the pear!
The 90s were a great time to be at uni and a young adult.
That was both happy to reminisce but sad at what is no more too.
Agree hun. Quite sad watching it with all these now gone pretty good shops/brands
They are shit brands and closed because we didn't use them anymore 😅
@@deanwoodford2017 There's always one idiot that over simplifies things, and get's it totally wrong. Don't bother to reply. I'll only block.
Least you lived through it and remember it
Bittersweet
Did you know that they used to close the Tandy store in Norwich at Christmas for one night so a certain big name could get first dibs on the equipment in there. Jurassic Park
Nice action......!
Did they do CASHBACK?!
@@broccoliface4501 nah, just Jurrasic Park things. Back of the net
Then straight back home afterwards for some ‘classic intercourse’
@@musicgarryj already got one though
I’m come to RUclips to hope I don’t get hit with an ad then I end up watching a video about ads from the 90s what am I doing 😂 nice to feel the nostalgia
I’d even live in a box if I could go back to these days.
Agreed. I miss the nineties....
I agree. Great days. I miss places like Tandy. Also Radio Shack where I could buy all my electronic bits. Also People’s Phone is where I got my first mobile!
We'd be able to afford a box in the nineties
@@20thcenturygamer22 Not as easily as today.
I remember 98 very well, I was in love with someone from college(uk) i managed to buy my first car which was a 1988 Bmw. Epic times
A great big sloopy christmas........ woah woah woah, steady on there missus
This has a Billy Connolly advert made my night! So many gems I had forgotten about!
I remember index they were like a rival to argos, they must have been linked to littlewoods because there were always loads of catalogues in the littlewoods cafe.
Omg they where like the cheaper version of argos lol.
Yes, they were basically Littlewoods trading under the name Index. They lost money every single year of the 20 years they traded. Argos brought the company, just to eradicate the main competitor, then closed them all down immediately.
Still using my bedroom light from index works fine
@@sukiesoya take it back and get a refund lol.... :)
The ACE chocolate biscuit advert - first time I've seen it in 20 years - still makes me laugh! And I'm sure that's Mike Reid voicing the potato in the Hungry Joe's ad. Thanks for preserving and uploading!
Yes it was Mike Reid
My first ever mobile telephone was Cellnet (BT). I still have the exact same telephone number to this very day! Managed to port it over the years lol
I have my "One To One" mobile number from 1999. The same mobile number for 20 years!
@@marcse7en Ah but have you had the same sim for that long? I had a sim I used for 14 years!
@@KiyokaMakibi old is gold
RichJW so you don't use 4g or 5g?
Ditto... I still have the exact same telephone!
I wondered how Dollond & Aitchison got Burt Reynolds to do an ad for them and now as an adult I realise how much alimony he had to pay at the time.
Also Rob Brydon must have been raking it in with voice-over work
Hollywood star to Dollond & Aitchison and then Boogie Nights. Really confusing for pre-teen me.
Was better than Cop and a Half
Used to hate watching these adverts as a kid.
Here I am at nearly 30 years old actively choosing to watch the same adverts I hated all those years ago - watching via RUclips on my xbox and 4k TV, using my smartphone to write this comment. How times change...
Worked at Somerfield from 1996-2000....great times.... some awesome memories.....
My woodwork teacher always said mfi stood for 'made for idiots'. 😂😂
...and DFS is damn f*cking straight
We used to call it "Miffy" as a kid then Mega fire institute as ours burnt down and then was turned into an argos 😅😅
@@antman5474 I thought it was Dodgy F**King sofas lol
We used to say MFI stood for ‘My Furniture’s Incomplete’ cos it was all flat pack crap & there was always a piece missing 😂😂
@@darksidecowboy2383 these are great 🤣🤣🤣
These adverts bring back memories, I used to work for Tandy, it was my first ever job. I loved it
It's amazing how many brands have disappeared
maybe in 40 years time ..."do you remember ordering from that amazon website"?
@@xsm5525 'there were sites other than amazon?'
@@xsm5525 Amazon will probably be everything we own lol
Globalisation
One2One phones had such an awful connection problem that they were commonly referred to as One2No one!
And now they are EE, the best network in the UK
haha, don't forget waiting until after 7pm for the free calls lol
@@pazman2007 ironically BT cellnet became o2 after BT demerged their mobile division and later sold it to telefonica, and now BT own EE who used to be their competition when it was two networks Orange and One2One/T-Mobile
Well when one2one was still a thing, I had the best service than any other company I was with lol
Imagine, I normally skip ads on RUclips where I can, and I've just sat and watched a whole video that was nothing but ads!! 😂🤣😂
Texas is now Homebase, Cellnet is now o2, one2one is now T-Mobile and Abbey National is now Santander.
One2one is EE
Sainsburys homebase bought rival Texas stores
Tandy got acquired by Carphone Warehouse I think.?
Why do all Ads now have to have a soundtrack? ....most of the Ads here had no background music - just a funny script. Midland Bank were never the same once they'd been swallowed up by HSBC. The same can be said about Abbey National, and the awful Santander.
My mum used to work at index as her first job, she said it was an amazing place to work and she remembers it lots 👍
I sometimes watch these compilations and think “wow, that was expensive!”
Ads in the 90s will never be matched again,
They was fun and non serious
Man, I actually remember some of these and I don't even feel that old, but some of these look ancient!
I love the Dollond &Aichinson ad “Mr Humperdinck” lol
I wondered what happened because there was a branch where I lived but then I read that they were bought up by Boots Opticians.
The dog from Pet City sounds like Jay's dad from The Inbetweeners 🤔
3:44 - Burt Reynolds's acting is on point in this retro opticians Ad. I wonder if Donald & Aitchinson became Specsavers or the like of today?
Boots Opticians took them over
I thought that same thing, brilliant
I wasn’t born until 2000, but watching things like this makes me wish I was born in the 70’s so I could experience the 80’s and 90’s. They look so much more fun than what I grew up with
You didn't miss that much. Life on dial-up internet isn't worth going back to.
@@riaz8783 lmao dial up internet existed when I was a kid
I was born in 84, I remember the late 80s but I remember the 90s the most! Much better days. Give me my megadrive back
the 70's stunk like cigarette smoke and leaded exhaust fumes and pedo's were running the show.
@@antman5474 same as now then?
I basically lived off Somerfield ready meals for a while when I moved in with my gf and we had no cooker for a while. The chicken biryani was amazing.
It was a petrol station but the shop was big (just small enough to open on Sunday). It pretty much sold everything you could need. It then became co-op and became a typical petrol station shop selling only snacks and alcohol.
I bought my Sega Mega Drive from Tandy. My first ever games console in 1992.
Same here. Still got mine.
@@nakedcris u wanna sell it mate dm me realtalk_uk Instagram cheers mate
Did they seel a Dreamcast there
I had a SNES. Nobody could beat me on Mario Cart. Street Fighter 2 Turbo was some game as well.
I got my MegaDrive from Index lol
Thank you so much for this.... I'm 36 and going through so much nostalgia it's ridiculous. I'm looking for this cake/ dessert called Tortina or something. It was in a red box and the ad said it's gonna be a great day. Just want to be sure I'm not making it up.
Search "a load of ads from 1995" by LufthansaTerminal at 11.52 is I think what you're looking for. Tortella?
Hey there fellow mid-30s person! 🖖 I get you haha. Did you find the advert? I'm looking for a Special K(?) ad where the dad is staying a healthy exercise routine and no one believes him - he sets off for a jog to the news agent's and as he approaches his car, he stops, and smiles, "One step at a time, Martin." And gets in his car 😄 can't find it anywhere, but at this point I'd be happy to meet people who remember that ad lol!
@@BollywoodBonanzaB Hey. Yeah I found the tortella advert and I definitely came across that advert you're talking about while I was searching and remembered it from when I was young. I'll see if I can find it again..
@@grannyweatherwax9666 Thank you!!!! Yes it was tortella the cake hahaha I found it but it wasn't as amazing as I remembered. But I had fun on the search!! It's like back then foreign things were a much bigger deal!
@@BollywoodBonanzaB I don't know if you found the ad you were looking for already, but I happened to see the one you're talking about in a similar clip recently. Pretty sure it was Bran Flakes
Why do all these adverts look like they were made by the contestants on The Apprentice doing the advertising task 😂😂
Aw man Ace biscuits.
Just a forgotten snack that just filled my nostalgia vibes.
gosh i love the 90's voice overs posh and deep
Wtf
@@tourzrap cellnet...one to one.. radion...index extra....texas homecare, midland bank..abbey national. all these voice overs have a rich deep comforting eloquent voices.. But now we have loud gobby Chavs that voice over everything.. a sad day indeed... I hate u Gen Z's womp womp :(
@Modern Classic Collectables Well as a black woman with African decent, I find your comment offensive. Accents are apart of where people come from, so that shouldn't be your concern. Do you also have a problem with Ant and Decs Accent? or perhaps an Australian or Indian? Im more concerned that Todays adverts are so loud and jarring, uneloquent , unpolished and so far from the 90's.
One of my first jobs after immigrating to the U.S. over 20 years ago was at Radioshack. Their adverts had the same slogan " You got questions, we got answers." Learned while working at Radioshack that they were owned by Tandy Corp. Makes sense.
Watching this makes me both happy and sad.
Oh and the phone numbers don't work anymore..
Did you try them ? 🤣
@@scotthopkins7711 now yes just to see if it still works lol plus also I was a kid back then.. 😂
Love the Texas adverts and Do-It-Yourself adverts when I was younger. And Comet - I got out before they folded. I think they still owe me 1 day's overtime! XD
I used to be on One 2 One. It was called One 2 No One cos you never got a signal and could rarely make a call out..
There was a good reason they gave you unlimited minutes! 😂
5:10 loving that little piano riff! Good times 👍
9:19 and 9:21 - haha that's a better kitchen in 1993 than my own now in 2019 lol
I remember being with one2one, and a guy I knew was telling me he didn't go with them because he had more than one friend. He was being serious.
0:48 that single frame is meme-worthy.
Cellnet the woman saying she's in Redruth on an escalator, having lived in Redruth I can tell you there are no escalators there.
Can watch these for hours. Absolute nostalgia
Are you planning on doing another of these defunct brand compilations because I thought this was very interesting and would love to see another!
I'd like to but this is all I could find on my tapes. If there's anything else I come across then maybe I can.
@@RewindTV I seriously got lost into this video. It was like going back in time. Fabulous upload :)
@@RewindTV Thanks!
Your wish has come true!
ruclips.net/video/QlN534QsaQM/видео.html
@@RewindTV Wow, that's awesome! Thank you!
Loving all these ,been looking good for a few adverts myself and still no luck !
OMG, the nostalgia flashback!!😮😮....Thank you so much for this!! 👍
I miss Tandy in Australia too.
Remember so fondly going to local one in 90s to check out new computers
Texas at 8.00. Don’t you just love the guitar twangs and Johnny cash voice? So relaxing.
I had some MFI black ash furniture for 25 years. You put it together right and it lasted years. It didn't break I just lost it when I moved.
Mad how much the world has changed it just 18-20 years
Back in simpler days.....
It's mental that I haven't seen these in years but remember them as if their current. 🤣
If only that woman had known that interest rates would never be that high again
Holy crow that one2one music! Oh god this takes me back!
It's called Telephone and Rubber Band by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
@@thomasknowler2582 yes! Thankyou! I've always wondered what it was called!
Been looking for the cell net one for years. Thanks
the nostalgia is strong with this video.
That's COMET sense. Thanks RUclips for this recommended 🤣
£6.29 for a calculator? That's expensive!
Casio ones are at least a tenner now, they sell some for £30!
Got to remember money had a bit more spending power then as well. If I remember correctly, £20 in the year I was born (1998) had the spending power of £35 in today’s rates
@@JonnyBoiii8991 Crazy to think it I know.
i can remember my dad proudly bringing home the latest pocket calculator in '74 which was the size of a modern 6inch screen smartphone and he'd bought it new for a bargain £100! Nobody else had one for months till the price began to fall.
Not really, thats the FX82, the FX83GTX they currently sell on amazon is £10.99, and if you want to buy a basic Casio desk calculator you will still be paying over £5 - whereas back in the early 00's, and maybe before, you could get calculators for £1. But who BUYS a calculator in 2021? you have one on your phone, and if you need a scientific one then you just get an app - probably free. So demand has gone down so they can't make the same volume savings.
£6.29 in 1998 (not sure when the ad is from) would be £11.32 now, so fairly close. They havent gone up because the only people who buy those calculators (in large numbers) are school kids - and they still NEED to buy them, as they can't take a phone into the exam room.
I can’t describe how watching this makes me feel. I was born early 90s and it just feels normal 😳
0:05 Jesus a SCART cable, not seen one of them in a while.
And NOT how to connect a HI-FI to a TV. xD
@@HeyLaserLips - Yes I thought so too. Good luck finding a scart socket on a hifi amp!
Last time I remember using those was on my PS2 and my Windows 98 computer with a Voodo graphics card with SLI and a Pentium 3 CPU.
I still have one and use it. I transfer vhs to either dvd or mp4
I have a box in the garage full of them, you never know😁😁
I knew the first advert was Tandy instinctively.
I had a mobile with BT Cellnet. lol
Was born in 89 so don't remember all of these but so many of them rang bells in my memory even though I can't always place them.
0:30 seconds in I swear that guy was the inventor of the "Dab"
6:09 - I distinctly remember this segment at the end of the Birds Eye Hungry Joes
Really tempted to ring some these old telephone numbers
The one2one one doesn't work lol only on payphones
Great to see all these memorable actors too.
Makes me fill at home...and warm inside!!🤗❤
Tandy, now that was a store for the tech head. There was even a Tandy outlet store nearby me, which was totally awesome.
Oh my god I can remember one2one but only now I've seen it & I remember my mam being on it!
I still have my One2One number from 20 years ago!
@@marcse7en does it work?
@@marcse7en am I right in thinking it became t mobile who then linked with orange to become EE, or was it o2 that took over?
@@lolnamelollastname9788 Yes!
@@kabes9288 I actually hate mobile phones, or cellphones if you're in the US!
My first PC was an IBM Aptiva
One 2 One! Throwback
4:21 Rodneys finally broke away from del & got a new job
This is the video I never knew I needed ❤️
So many memories. So many brands no longer with us.
God these must be real early 90s...I'm 29 and can't remember hardly any of these lol
34 and I'm getting about 40-50%
Animals talking to each other. So 90s.
0:45 when you get baked instantly off the first hit
Imagine paying for RUclips Premium only to then get this video recommended to you...
All I can remember from this were One 2 One, Somerfield, Abbey National and Comet.
Despite being born in 1994, I can't either remember or know of the others.
Regardless however, this was an interesting video.
HSBC used to be called midland bank
If you were born in 1994 then its unlikely you would remember any of these adverts surely? You would have been too young. I was born in the early 80s but remember very few 80s adverts, but recognise most of the 90s on here.
@@laurenwhite7367 I was just talking about the brands themselves, not the adverts.
@@jasonworth6776 Ahhhh I get you.
You're not old enough.
It was a nicer time, reflected in the more gentle, funny adverts, it was technologically advanced enough but not dominated by it, I lived then, not now, I feel dead. Although I do now live in the South.
Who's watching this during the coronavirus? 🤔