1980s UK Christmas Adverts Compilation vol. 2 (2017)
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- Опубликовано: 30 ноя 2017
- New for 2017 another compilation of UK TV Christmas adverts from the 1980s
Includes adverts for:
Woolworths (1980)
Brut (1982)
Crockett's (1982)
Hornby (1982)
Ronco (1982)
Sionon (1982)
Green's at Debenhams (1982)
Harp Heating (1982)
Asda (1983)
Andrex (1984)
Cannon & Ball in Panto (1985)
Boots (1986)
Croft Original Sherry (1986)
Newsforce Newsagents (1986)
Old England Sherry (1986)
Presto (1986)
Hamlet (1986)
Paxo (1986)
Dixons (1986)
Heineken (1986)
Oxo (1987)
Whitbread Trophy (1987)
American Express (1988)
Colibri Pens (1988)
Mandate (1988)
WH Smith (1988) 
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I'm the tuba player in the Woolworth's commercial (short guy, left of shot) that opens this compilation. The group of musicians walking slowly towards the camera. If memory serves, the commercial was shot at the Arndale Centre, Luton. It was made by Abacus Productions. Look out for the 'Disneyesque' castle over the store name... a beautiful, hand-painted matte, the like of which would probably never be attached to the front of a film camera these days.
Cool, was Roy Castle singing on that too?.
I’m the compact turbo £8.99
@@charliesilverman1132 Thank you - that was bugging the hell out of me.....
I've been trying to find out who that tuba player was for years.
@@Riaz000Ali Hahaha
I loved it as a kid when the shops used to be shut for the whole over Xmas time no shops was open and the quality street tins. Looked like heaven when you opened them
I miss Woolworths 😢 remember when we did our complete Xmas shop in our local city centres !!! It was much more fun that way 👍🏻
It's was a great shop but more expensive, so I used to look around for an idea of what to buy and shop around for better prices. Their Pick a Mix was extortion but fond memories. When we had a child we took her to Woolies and brought her a £250 electronic horse. Good times.
The Grinch stole xmas *Shopaholic really did at Woolworths*
Unsure how u managed to steal everything from Woolies, but good on ya 😂
I think 🤔😐
@Scott S but the comment read
"was more fun that way"
😂 left open to interpretation 😂
The hustle and bustle, bumping into old friends, the cold bite of the air? A simpler time!
Didn't realise just how happy I was. I miss going to Woolies, HMV, Virgin Megastores, and so many of the shops that I grew up going to and have now gone. Truly breaks my heart
Back then probably the only major crisis at Christmas was seeing the dreaded words "batteries not included"
Yep had to wait over a week for batteries for my remote control car 😭my mum and dad forgot the batteries , they didn’t blame santa though 😂
Only petrol stations were open a few hours here and there and the odd shop that was open didn’t sell batteries 😩
@@Dazza5007
And if they did sell them they'd be crap 'Soopapowaa' types which would last approximately 90 minutes and cost as much as the toy 😂
Not a huge issue..there was not much to put batteries in. Almost all toys were non electronic in nature...And the battery based toys usually wound up in the cupboard never to be played with again (due to batteries being expensive). Thank god we now have rechargeable batteries on most things these days or the decent batteries come in huge cheap packs.
After watching the Hornby Ad, I bit the bullet and bought a train set. Unfortunately I opted for the Southern Rail edition; when I opened the box all it contained was two buses, one of which was broken
😂😂 Lmao
Be lucky you didn't get the Northern Rail edition where they're forever going on strike (I'm sympathetic to the cause of the real Northern Rail workers), an emergency timetable is in place and the rolling stock is at least 30 years old and overcrowded.
GInger Virus you want to try the Northern Rail version? Just vast expanses of empty track and pickets selling Socialist Worker on the desolate windswept platforms. Totally ruined my Xmas, what a total bunch of cnuts! 😂😂😂
Ba dum Tish!!
I ordered a British Rail Hornby set, it never arrived.
Just feel upset and old , god time went fast
fukoff u r not old, im only 34, young asf bru
Yeah, zoe, I know what you mean. Where did all those years go? Nostalgia is nice to revel in sometimes but you're right, it can bring a lump to the throat.
true dat
@@miked4377 lmao may good time to come dont worry you old git :P
I know where your at Zoe ... what would i give for just 1 more 80`s xmas ... times seemed so much happier then .. all of my family have now passed on ... just happy memories remain ..
Of all the high street stores that have closed I miss Woolworth's the most
woolworths had noting but sweets
We had a huge on in Wolverhampton, one of the best shops I've ever been in.
@@keithpovall9996 It was so good everyone stopped shopping there and it went bust.
@@keithpovall9996 There was also one in Wednesfield, Keith.
anyone else wish they could hop into a time machine and head back to the 80's...
Indieshack yep every day. This modern world is cold, chaotic and empty
If only we had a time machine.
Do I ever....! Yes, please!
Oh me !
Yep count me in!
Very bittersweet, especially the Woolworths advert featuring so many celebs who are no longer with us. Even good old Woolies itself is gone! I'd forgotten just how expensive electronics were back then though. I remember my aunt and uncle buying me one of those Disco Dollys for Christmas one year though...once my record collection outgrew it, I used it as a bedside table! 😊
Even the adverts from the 80s are charming. Wish I grew up in such a grand time.
It was a great time you did miss out
It wasn't "grand" it was a time of mass unemployment and inequality.
life was good less complicated and our children didnt have the pressures they have today
It's quite depressing in that 30 year old adverts have more entertainment value than the tv programmes that are broadcast now.
Couldn't agree more. Oh jeeves! Croft original one of my favourites. still makes me laugh.
Richard Goodwin - 30? 40 years old in 9 months time!
Too true - depressing to see what is available now - there is even a dedicated channel _CHANNEL_ to sewing?! Cup cake wars, body paint, Ru Paul, tree house creations, have they finally killed Big Brother? What ever happened to the Krypton Factor (I think it started in 1977 though, but it still counts in my book!) ?
The reason people like these old adverts is nostalgia ...... and the PRICES!
Don’t tell me, things aren’t as great as they used to be when you were a lad, in the good old days etc *yawn*
7:03 nobody remembers Whizzer and Chips but I do. It was my favourite comic back then!
Mine too, and the Topper :)
Don't forget desperate Dan and the beano.
I do! Whizzer and Chips, Topper, Beezer, Beano, Dandy. They were all good, I think I liked Beezer the most.
I do, but I was growing beyond comics by then.....
yup!
Bless Kenny Everett, a TV legend.
And that ET game for the Atari console. Oh dear, that went bad VERY quickly.
Back when we used to do our Christmas shopping on the high street
We never did get stores decorated over-the-top American style, although there is a local nursery (yes, a garden centre!) that spends a ridiculous amount each year turning itself into one of those movie sets - they even had Santa arrive by helicopter!
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yes...good old "woolworth" etc...sadly "gone". an old fav for "years".
You can if you still want too
Alison Laing like WARDS in the US.
...... because Tim Berners Lee hadn't invented the Internet yet!
Certainly brings back great memories from the 80's. So much better than the crap we have to deal with today.
The best days of my life.. I Remember all these adverts. My beloved Nan was spoiling us rotten bless her.. Anyone got a time machine??????
I miss Woolworths. Great adverts. Also worked for them for 11 years. Best job I ever had. Knew how to look after their staff
I’m glad to hear that, wouldn’t like to think they were arseholes cos I have such fond memories of them
Free pick n mix 😁
Shame they didn’t look after their business strategy.....
@@simonmoore2380 yes. Didn't move with the times.
@@garyowens1517 Or they fot out earlier than anyone else seeing what was going to happen ... even more relevant in 2020. Though they may have been able to stay open as B AND M are the new Woolworths ... never bothered to look to see of they have connections
Seems like life on another planet.
It was ..
"The past is a different country. They do things differently there."
Love it at 4:00 when they say they have the "fantastic" E.T.😂😂
The 80s were both tough and wonderful at the same time. Money was tight and many of those gifts were way beyond our price range. But the people seemed 'brighter' or way more fun and friendly back then. It's not just nostalgia, people and their attitudes really were better. It's a pity we had to lose our naivety and comraderie. Everything seems so cold, soulless, flat and drab now. Hopefully we'll get our shine back someday.
4:01 "the fabulous ET" for atari..... oh dear
Those were the days a lol
Ahh, ET. The game that sunk Atari.
It truly is a History
Later ended up in the landfill
Send this to the angry video game nerd
There was still a lot of Christmas Spirit around back then, I wish it would come back, we all need some.
Aged 31 I can't help but feel that past times are the best times...
Oh this Christmas I want a time machine i miss them days
What about now?.
I used to love getting blank video recording tapes as a stocking filler as a kid,weird or what
Beta or VHS?
Both and video 2000 too
If you call recording your favourite TV shows "weird", then yes, you're weird! 😂😂😂
Definitely not, i got a single Betamax tape which i think were £10 at the time, which was a perfect.
Check out this amazing animation called "blank vhs covers were kinda beautiful" ruclips.net/video/e9DfSCk-6Ko/видео.html
Anybody else spend the duration of this video saying "S/He's dead, so's s/he" and "That company is no longer in business". Ah, for the cosy days of yore.
That's exactly what iv just been doing. And it's a tad depressing. Brut 33 aftershave the great smell of the 70s.
I do and it makes me feel very old!!
Yes, and I still have a dozen perpax 12" cases full of vynil
@@mgpowis me too.
I did, OXO adverts (Lynda Bellingham) especially because they were the adverts that everyone waited for at Christmas, a bit like we do now for Sainsburys or John Lewis.
Is that Liz Fraser from the Carry on team at 11:29 ? we just lost her recently, she was amazingly sexy in her day, beauty.
The best times.. You had to go to your shops to get your Christmas presents, things felt more like Christmas and the current age has made it lose all that feeling.
Yes I remember a lot of presents hanging from the pushchair 😂
Guess what? You're not a kid anymore and you're not looking at the world through the eyes of a kid. Nobody forced people to order things online and get them delivered. They started doing it because they PREFERRED it to going to the shops and buying stuff.
R.I.P. Bobby Ball. Him passing was is just another kick in the teeth for 2020. Who would have imagined back then that COVID-19 would come along one day and change the world as we know it. Condolences to anyone who’s lost loved ones this tragic year and here’s hoping 2021 will be a trouble free year.
Rose tinted glasses are a wonderful thing.
Especially with Christmas holly the sides of them!
😎 🤓
Lovely, lovely Linda Bellingham - much missed.
One of the cheapest items advertised - the Millennium Falcon - is probably now the most valuable.
Great collection, Neil - thanks.
It was 1980 me and my brother got the Millenium Falcon for Christmas. I was so excited!! Subsequently bought the Snow Speeder with my Christmas money from Argos just after boxing day. I was in Star Wars heaven. Still got the Falcon and speeder, and restored them both back to their former glory about 15 years ago. Wish I'd had the foresight to keep the boxes though.
These old Christmas adverts from the 80s and 90s were so much better. Really made you feel 'Christmassy'. 🎄🎅
Watching this makes me think “oh shit, I’m 43 already” 😢
When Christmas really was Christmas.
`Because you were a child? It all still looks the same bullshit for me these days. Which is why I fucking hate it. Same tired, reused songs in your ear. Same bullshit. As U2 famously said in a song once, nothing changes on new years day. Well, its the same thing, really.
paul nesbitt you think. Nostalgia is basic human psychology. Christmas has always been about consumerism.
People seem to miss the point . These are the Christmas adverts I remember as a very young boy... many years ago
Part of Christmas for us was going Christmas shopping with my parents. I dont know what the world has came to when you carnt have a memory of Christmas as a child.
Didn't ebenezer scrooge say in Charles Dickens famous Christmas tale..... something like you celebrate Christmas your way.....and I will celebrate it my way. And o yeah... merry Christmas to one and all.
Personally I start to celebrate Christmas on the 1st of December. I'm certainly not a child anymore but Christmas was a fantastic time for me. I have 2 grandsons....the youngest is 5 and to see the joy and excitement on those children's faces around Christmas is for me what it is all about. Why on earth would anybody want to take Christmas away from children ? It's a very troubling world we live in at the moment.... let children be children.
Those were the days.
When Xmas was great
Make Xmas Great Again! Oh, hang on a minute, my bad, I'm thinking of Trump's America! 😂😂😂
My mum was the entertainment manager at the Luton Arndale, she worked on organizing some of the adds in the 80’s, I remember meeting Windsor Davies, John Inman , June Whitfield among others
Haven’t since seen those adds.
Some of these products I would still consider expensive today.
On the other hand, most of it was made in the West, as opposed to being imported from China. Back to the first hand, automation probably would have taken a lot of jobs eventually anyway, especially in the West.
smallbluemachine We were in the era of Made in Japan, the predecessor to Made in China, when Japan stood for quality and technological innovation rather than cheap goods produced in low wage economies. In the race for growth we consigned ethical considerations to the waste bin as a moral vanity. Now we're paying the price. Halcyon days where children played together even on electronic games. Odd that life is now so insular. Can that really be a human advance?
@@brynleytalbot778 i love chinese products, and their engines are fantastic too.
They are more expensive than nowadays
Dixons: £500 for a photo camera!!wow
The 80s was the peak of civilisation. Technology was at the perfect level where it was still physical and you needed to use your imagination in computer games.
On reflection I'm confident you are correct - as it was also the best decade for music, I mean how many different genres came out of the 80s? You also had to visit a library to do research, no internet to look up. BMX was a thing as well!
Isnt it amazing how the past gets better and better the older we get?
Stop living in the past and technology is actually better than in the 80s
I had a iPhone 6 in 1983
@@pyeltd.5457 Nice Joke lol
I was just dazzled by all the 'TV personalities' in that Woolworth's advert when I realised it was Roy Castle singing! Telly royalty indeed.
Never would today's celebs would all get together to make an advert...loved the Woolworths ad...great days !
Was basically a who's who of the entertainment industry.
Yes -only to promote their boring 'slebdom'😑
I remember seeing the cannon and ball panto at Bristol hippodrome as a child on a school trip.
ah the wonderful voices of Robert Powell, Joss Ackland, Michael Jayston, Richard Briers - they did most of the voices for 80's adverts.
Yes, proper cakey voices 😉
Love all these compilations Neil, really take me back, simpler days when I was young . Great stuff.
Fabulous memories, thank you for sharing
Brilliant Neil... thank you so much for the upload... what flash backs to my 80's as a teenager :-)
The advert with the ladies tights 2:45 is where the tape is worn out.... anything you need to admit 🤔
Yeah many fond memories on VHS wearing the tapes out or is that just me
Ha ha that's slimmer pickings than the lingerie section in Mum's Grattans catalogue 😄
If we all wish hard enough I'm sure we could transport back to these fantastic golden days! Todays world is an absolute nightmare in comparison.
It was Easter by the time that Woolworths ad finished.
RIP, Linda Bellingham!
And now RIP Michael Redfern
"If you're still in the cold ring us next week, happy new year"
I take it Harp heating aren't around anymore lol
Harp heating - it was all over in 2006.
Oh heck I've got the brut advert jingle in my head now.
brut single handedly burnt a hole in the ozone layer
ha ha ha
Brut - the great smell of the 70's. But not a bad as Denim or Hai karate.
It burnt a hole in your armpit as well, if you used too much!
Life comes at you fast, eh. This is the video I didn’t know I needed to watch today. X
Simon Says for £20!.... no wonder I never got one.
Yes but I got the Atari. I felt really lucky!
R.I.P Woolworths :(
When life was great and you appreciate the simple things in life.
I agree
Cheers for this mate.
🙌🙌🎧🔥🔥🔥🥰🥰🙏🏻🇬🇧
thanks for making me feel old
It all seemed better then, frightening now looking back how many years ago this was, yet still strong memories. The dam internet, makes you wonder what’s in store later in life 😦😳😳. Wish I could take the dam battery out the clocks and stop time ........ sigh 😔
Blimey, I spotted Harry Worth. Loved him when I was a child in the 60s
...or was it Count Arthur Strong? 🙂
RIP Lynda Bellingham & Michael Redfern.
God Rest Their Souls, Always.
I love that BMX , especially with its “ Wheelie Good Price “
Thanks for sharing :D
I remember. and a beautiful white Christmas back then
Took the words out of my mouth. A lovely white Christmas indeed.
......the irony is that the ‘white’ Christmas is held in honour of a marginalised Jew....Go figure!
racialist
how is that racist. playing the race card. I was talking about snow.
@@toneskill oh sorry, I thought you meant christmas was nicer when there we're more whites.
4:02 this is the only time I've ever seen an advert for ET on Atari. It was a legendary flop and ended up in landfill. They're so rare they're worth a fortune now...
I got an Atari in 1982 I think, it was possibly the best present I ever received as a child. I loved that console and sometimes I'd get home from school and find mum and dad playing Asteroids on it and looking guilty :)
I remember doing Christmas shopping at the Woolco “superstore” at Cumbernauld. Even the part of Cumbernauld Town Centre where Woolco stood is gone.
I think the 1980s was the last time I saw a Sherry Advert!
Old England; as dead as the country.
Or cigars...
So true.Harveys Bristol cream was another one.
@@rickewilde yes, a lad at my school used to call me that and it wound me up his name was Chris White so I sang the R White's lemonade song back in retaliation! Happy days..
@@markharvey7284 lol.the secret lemonade drinker.
8:50 *Love the **_'Paxo'_** advert, especially the ending ! LOL*
Aaaaahhhhh! The Bisto adds with the lovely Linda Bellingham! 😘
I thought the whole nearly 13 mins was going to be the Woolworths ad 😂
Sad to see woolworth go ... I remember my first mobile phone I bought in 2000 .
Before the internet turned us into savages and a virus locked us away
Are you seriously trying to argue that things were more civilized back then??? The UK had the highest violent crime in Europe. Mass unemployment. AIDS. The threat of impending nuclear war. I suggest you wipe down those rose tinted glasses.
We left the UK in 87 - these certainly bring back memories- although I skipped some parts - who remembers the original Toys-R-Us ad?
Roy Castle singing there on the Woolworths advert.
So many faces there now lost to time.
And Bobby Ball only yesterday..... RIP
I loved Woolworths. Bring it back.
I still have my Atari 2600 console.. It still works in 2019
Box Gold from Ronco! How much did you not want one of those.
AY GREAT TIMES GREW UP IN THE EIGHTIES LONG BEFORE POUND SHOPS AND KEBAB SHOPS... TAKES ME BACK BEFORE RETAIL SELF DESTRUCTED AND THE HIGH STREET AND MARKETS DIED
Peaceful times...
All good innocent appeal to the masses that went to work with no other agenda than to feed there familys, teach then right from wrong and treat everine with respect todays youngsters habe mussed out on all the fun, plesdure in giving and genuine love by all to all....why have we allowed this country to ve where it is now..😪
RIP..Woolworths....got my SW AT AT there in 81.......best xmas ever ...
Wonderful
The modern world is so cold, cynical and calculating by comparison. Simpler times.
Couldn't agree more I still prefer the gulf rather yhsn the day over your quick
Simpler because you were young. It's the same for every young person in every era. Human nature hasn't changed - all that's happened is that you've got old and the stars have fallen from your eyes.
T H That is the most beautifully sad thing I’ve ever read on RUclips, because it’s true. 🙏🏼
@@TomAlter1000 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 I think he's had a christmas tipple a little early 😉
Painbow - it was a crazy place back then in Thatchers Britain and the Cold War etc
Mum forgot the paxo and ruined our Christmas dinner so this year we reminded her by leaving a massive paxo boxin the front garden!! It would’ve been a lot easier to buy it yourself you lazy sods 🤦♂️😂
Get stuffed! 😂😂😂
They wouldn't get away with that advert now!
Much ado about stuffing! I😋
Brilliant. Got several belly laughs.
If times and attitudes towards different things were more like they were today, I would’ve loved to live back then.
Brut 33 - the great smell of the 70s. And the cause of the Ozone hole.
I think you'll find it was CFC's from aerosols that caused the hole in the ozone layer, not Brut 33! 😂😂😂
Lol
That tights advert has been watched so many times the tape has worn out 🤣
The stars really did come out for Woolworths!
Oh my good God, HALCYON DAYS!! Haven't had a sherry and lime in years. Going to be a rather unusual Christmas this year in 2020!
When you factor in inflation things were pretty expensive back then
Flipping heck, some of that stuff, is a darn sight cheaper now.
Thanks China!
Windsor Davies and kenny Everett wow what a great Woolies ad loving it
Love the Oxo advert
I like looking at these ads and thinking "not around any more". ;)
You like it? Makes me sad to see all the faces and brands we’ve lost.
On the face of todays day and age, these were much happier times in general - down with technical evolution, bahhhh humbug.
Ps. Continue on the time machine project tho - and hurry up, god damit 💪
Blimey, no wonder Woolworth went skint...they were still trying to raise the money to pay all those celebs who appeared on that 1980 Xmas ad
That's the wonder of Woolies!
They were bought, asset stripped and forced to rent buildings back that they used to simply own. Same as BHS.
Just fell behind the times, can't continue to trade as you did 20 years ago.
@@kevinhoughton9134 They managed fine until suddenly they were left with no assets and giant rents. Asset Stripped.
@@G-ra-ha-m Did they not own the buildings they were in then? Other than the buildings what possible assets could they own apart from pick ' n ' mix?
jeeeeez if we tried to send my mum out for the paxo like that at xmas we' d be picking the peanuts out of our skulls for the rest of the year.
Mandate aftershave loved that stuff. Many a Saturday night out drowned in it
Ivor Biggun blue stratos that was a good one as well
Woolworth Christmas adverts were always the best
How is it possible that I can still remember some of these ads? Clearly.