Boddington and Carling were always great pieces of advertising art. That subtle mix of stunning cinematography with sharp comedy writing and perfect timing. By eck, golden times
The dam busters ad was the last Carling Black Label ad I remember seeing, featuring the Oblivion Boys. The next ad Carling made was full of chiseled English Tommies getting one over on German stereotypes. I assume the viewing public found the dam busters ad unpatriotic, so Carling was going all nationalistic.
V2! Metz! Takes me back to my clubbing days in the late 90's. I remember another advert for Metz with The Judderman. I'd forgotten how good the Boddingtons adverts were. I'm really enjoying these compilations 😀👍
"Beware the Judderman, my dear, when the moon is fat!" There were also the Metz adverts with Julian Baratt (of The Mighty Boosh and Nathan Barley fame), who explained the judder in his role as a "freelance scientist" 😄
The Boddington's ads with an ice cream van in the desert seem to echo the atmosphere of the end of the world that could be made easier with cold drinks.
In the couple of years I've been doing these videos, precisely two people have complained about the frame. I suspect you're among the majority who like it. 📺😎
The Budweiser one is absolutely diabolical. IMO this spoils a very nice collection. The Boddingtons ad is quite good - the girl looks familiar - it's Melanie Sykes!! These ads are too late for me to know many of the actors - except the Cinzano and Jack Dee ones. I have details of the Martini Rosso ad on file including the name of the actress - great commercial - music by Chris Gunning. The same actress appears in the other Boddingtons (ice cream van) ad @ 9:20. Can't recall the name of the guy in the Carling Black Label laundrette ad. Those Lou Tennant ads ring a bell - there were a few of them and sure they had something to do with Gerry Anderson - like he produced them. Griff Rhys-Jones in the Holsten Pils ad. Of course, Jeff Goldblum (in the Holsten Pils ads) was originally in 'The Fly' (1986) - his first film appearance was a small role in 'Death Wish' (1974).😀
Just how a random you tube pop up, get's you watching tons of uploads from RetroSteve. New sub here :) A youtuber wouldn't give a Castlemaine XXXX about anything else.
Melanie Sykes was my dream girl. Absolutely stunning woman. I loved the Carling Black Label adverts, they had a running theme that saw them build on each advert.
I'd forgotten the Treasure Hunt Carling ad.... ......thanks for the reminder!🤣🤣 Used to love the Carling ad that rolled into about four different adverts...
Clive Anderson as the Superquiz compere in the one for what just had to be Carling Black Label. Messrs. Arden & Frost had to turn up at the end. Boddingtons did similar gimmickry when Melanie Sykes starred in their adverts in the late 80s. The same agency made them all, J. Walter Thompson.
I've been searching high and low to no avail for an advert that me and my best friend at the time saw at the cinema before a film came on in the early to mid 90's in Wales. It was a Castlemaine XXXX ad where a bunch of Aussie outback types are shooting empty cans of 4X, one bloke doesn't miss and when he shoots the last can of 4X he discovers it was a full can and just loudly shouts in a thick Aussie accent "OH BOLLOCKS!" I remember that ad clearly but can't remember what film followed it
@@RetroSteveUK yep more than likely cinema only as you couldn't shout bollocks on an ad, even back then. You could say f*ggots as long as it was swiftly accompanied by "in a rich west country sauce"
I remember most of these Ads. The bouncing bombs Carling one is a particular classic, but the one that made me LOL was Gryff and Marilyn Monroe! I'd forgotten that one.
The gondola boddingtons advert was an parody on the famous cornetto advert this was filmed in Manchester in which both versions was an parody on now and forever by Luciano Pavarotti.
Your channel is a godsend for my insomnia, Steve (it's 04:39 right now) 😃 - sorry I'm repaying your efforts by seemingly spamming you with comments 😜 That Bud ad itself wasn't so bad (unlike the beer, hehehe), because you could ignore it, but the problem was it instantly becoming insufferable because everyone knew at least one person, often more, who just would not shut up with saying, "Wassup!". Angus Deayton's instantly-recognisable voice as the Mastermind host. Pretty sure I'd never seen any of these Carling Black Label ads before your compilations - that Dambusters one is fun.
Miss these days. Any luck on those late night music compilations with the line "you can't buy these in the shops". Remember one with a woman in leather riding a bike. God only knows why I recall this 😗 *innocently whistles*
I'm pretty sure there are one or two of those late night music ads on the Music Adverts collections. Here's the playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLg0PM8ISWkuzncYp49bY1xZw496AL5udk
Just a shame that all the beer ads were better than the actual beer. Just about every beer brewed under license in the UK is not a patch on the real thing.
Carling, Boddingtons and John Smiths were/are basically dish water. We have some terrible megabrewery beers here in the UK, include Fosters, Carlsburg, bud etc in that. Further to your point about UK licensed beers, I live in Spain for 6 years in the 2010s so partook in plenty of Spanish beer tasting! Living in Catalonia region, I often drank the Barcelona Estrella Damm (the red can), as well as San Miguel, Estrella Galicia and Cruzcampo, plus some of the fantastic German style double malts like Voll Damm (a 7.8% brew by the Estrella Damm brewery). The UK licensed equivalents are a weak tasteless shadow of those Spanish beers. For a start the strength of the Spanish lagers are high and they give them a good strong taste: 5.4% Estrella Damm, 5.5% Estrella Galicia, San Miguel 5.3% (I think), whereas the UK equivalent are all almost a full 1% lower!! It completely ruins the taste of the beers! Which brings me on to another point: why has all British canned and bottled alcohol been reduced in strength the past 10 or so years?! A proper nanny state of affairs now where you have to buy a £3 per can craft ale to get anything over 5% in strength! I used to drink 5% Strongbow cider but even that has been reduced to 4.5%!
@@leod-sigefast the reduction in strength is down to the duty paid. Basically the weaker the beer the brewery pays less tax. My retailer of choice currently for beer is of all places Home Bargains. They have an often changing line of imported beers from around the world. Do read the labelling though as they do also sell beer brewed under license here. Recently had some Quilmes Argentinian lager (4.9%) which i enjoyed and Innis and Gunn Scottish Golden beer (6.6%) which has a unique flavour. Generally a good well made bottled lager beer will have plenty of carbonation of very small bubbles that seem never ending. Hurlimann, a Swiss lager brewed under license in the UK by Sheperd Neame is a decent drink though even that has changed from the days of my youth. Essentially i think that breweries keep the alcohol lower as well as your average drinker will quaff more.
I think Carling is only as popular because of the funny adverts that people still remember, it’s the worst tasteless pißwasser. I drank Boding tons pretty much as I liked Mel Sykes, and my brother named his hamster Widget
I've pretty much gone off beer completely these days. I'm mostly on whiskey/coke now. If I have a beer I do like a Kronenbourg though, or some of the weird and wonderful bottled ales with the fancy labels.
I live in a popular real ale pub so get to taste a lot of beer, for professional reasons… I also like craft beer and my fridge freezer is covered in the labels from all of the different ones I’ve tried. Back to the old stuff though, the adverts were legendary, was great to see some of the old classics.
To think i use to hate tv ads because they interrupted the tv show I was watching yet these adverts are more memorable than those tv shows, and i would rather watch these adverts than the utter sh!te that is on tv today.
Molson coors brewing company own stones bitter, you can still find it in the odd pub in Sheffield and surrounding areas, bit weak at 3.7%. But recently true north brewery have collaborated with Molson and reinvented it using old recipes. 4.1 I think.
@@RetroSteveUK Well you know what yank beer is don't you! I don't know whether its Gnats or Cats. Get a couple of gallons of Yorkshire best bitter down their throat that, ll sort em out
The first ad is very cringe. It would most likely never have aired in the US because the various feminist groups would have been outraged. The one with the man running in the desert is kind of odd. Americans wouldn't know whether the commercial is for a candy bar or beer until they looked Boddington's up. I can understand putting a Flake in something like ice cream, but why beer?
It's uniquely British humour, which has a tendency to take the mickey out of itself. The ad is a parody of those 'artsy' adverts for running shoes that were big at the time. The joke was that he was running after the ice cream van like a big kid. The Flake was a spin on the way ice cream van drivers often asked if you'd like a flake in your ice cream.
The wassup one did get spoofed in American movie comedies so likely it did due to the Uk often get imported advert’s from other countries with Uk voice dubbing.
These bring back such good memories. From a time when the adverts were the best thing on TV!! ;-)
Boddington and Carling were always great pieces of advertising art. That subtle mix of stunning cinematography with sharp comedy writing and perfect timing. By eck, golden times
The adverts were much better than the product Both are undrinkable these days. (Don't get me started on Budweiser.....FFS.)
Watch a bank of adverts from the seventies or eighties and then sit through a advert break today and see how far backwards we've gone.
@@leftmono1016yep it's insane as 4% of the population is black.
The Dambusters one with the goalie German guard, total classic 👌.
The dam busters ad was the last Carling Black Label ad I remember seeing, featuring the Oblivion Boys. The next ad Carling made was full of chiseled English Tommies getting one over on German stereotypes. I assume the viewing public found the dam busters ad unpatriotic, so Carling was going all nationalistic.
@@cb361 I wondered if all the poppy bashers would melt down if they saw this now.
The wokies would have to let it be shown first @straylightc4b
@@juliantheapostate8295 Do you need a hug or a new poppy? How soft are you? Suck it up, buttercup.
Fantastic compilation of old beer ads. And I remembered them all. Cheers!!!
Who's that guy in the Cinzano ads? .. sure he was in Barry Lyndon .. (edt: and 2001: A Space Odyssey)
@@SiliconBong Leonard Rossiter
@@jaycarrUK Thank you.
Let's be real these ads are better than some of the actual dross they call shows now.
VINTAGE 😮
Most of these are less than 30 years ago !!!
I'm only 44 and never felt so old 😂😂😂
V2! Metz! Takes me back to my clubbing days in the late 90's. I remember another advert for Metz with The Judderman. I'd forgotten how good the Boddingtons adverts were. I'm really enjoying these compilations 😀👍
With you on that brother. Would love a Metz now. Happy days.
"Beware the Judderman, my dear, when the moon is fat!" There were also the Metz adverts with Julian Baratt (of The Mighty Boosh and Nathan Barley fame), who explained the judder in his role as a "freelance scientist" 😄
The adverts worth watching ,and Carling Black Label ,the first drink i managed to get hold of at 14 and got absolutely plastered on ,happy days🤣😁
The Boddington's ads with an ice cream van in the desert seem to echo the atmosphere of the end of the world that could be made easier with cold drinks.
When adverts still had a sense of humour.
From the US....was living in UK at the time of the Boddingtons Add with the fish. Loved it.
Great compilation.....
......Worth it just for the Boddi's and Carling Dambusters ads...🤣🤣
I forgot about the jack Dee one 😂 My favourite growing up was the Hoffmeister follow the bear 🐻
There's a Follow The Bear ad on Beer & Booze Vol.1: ruclips.net/video/0o_UcqHjBqE/видео.html
@@RetroSteveUK oh cool thanks
The bear was called George, so big lads often got George as a nickname.
That's the best of cultural entertainment available on RUclips.
The guy with the fish on his head was and remains a work of genius
Enjoyed all 15:00mins of classic ads and happy days. Thanks. Still drink Holsten to this day.
Love all these old adverts, especially the Carling Black Label & cinzano ones
Loved a bit of Mel Sykes in the 90s.
Mel & Des .. great TV show.
Remember most of these... Not seen an advert is nearly a decade now as cancelled hated Licence Tax because BBC is woke drivel and just stream
Classic ads. Brings back memories.
Love the old wooden telly frame 😂
In the couple of years I've been doing these videos, precisely two people have complained about the frame. I suspect you're among the majority who like it. 📺😎
Dam busters - brilliant
Reminds me how good the Boddingtons adverts were, shame the beer didn’t travel very well from Manchester!!
Great video thx, took me back to being a teenager 👍🇬🇧
The Budweiser one is absolutely diabolical. IMO this spoils a very nice collection.
The Boddingtons ad is quite good - the girl looks familiar - it's Melanie Sykes!!
These ads are too late for me to know many of the actors - except the Cinzano and Jack Dee ones.
I have details of the Martini Rosso ad on file including the name of the actress - great commercial - music by Chris Gunning.
The same actress appears in the other Boddingtons (ice cream van) ad @ 9:20.
Can't recall the name of the guy in the Carling Black Label laundrette ad.
Those Lou Tennant ads ring a bell - there were a few of them and sure they had something to do with Gerry Anderson - like he produced them.
Griff Rhys-Jones in the Holsten Pils ad.
Of course, Jeff Goldblum (in the Holsten Pils ads) was originally in 'The Fly' (1986) - his first film appearance was a small role in 'Death Wish' (1974).😀
That Budweiser ad campaign was very popular in the US, since it was American in the first place.
"That Gladys Althorpe" is the lovely Anna (Duckface) Chancellor
Absolutely agree about the Budweiser add. Not amusing at all.
Tennents did very nice advertising on their super strength cans.
3:40 The hidden humour here is the Ad was parodying another Ad for Cornetto Ice cream cones.
When ads were a laugh and worth watching!. Nuff said!. 🤣
That first add would never be allowed these days. Hilarious though
The person who put a similar idea forward an advert nowadays would be sacked instantly. 🇬🇧👍
XXXX because Australians don’t know how to spell BEER.
I remember stones bitter was everywhere in the 90s... Not seen it for years.
Left out the Rudger Haughr Guinness advert. fkin brilliant 🤣🤪😂
He shows up on a coup,e of the other Beer & Booze compilations. He was pretty prolific. ruclips.net/video/I0SVJbdWCYA/видео.html
Just how a random you tube pop up, get's you watching tons of uploads from RetroSteve. New sub here :)
A youtuber wouldn't give a Castlemaine XXXX about anything else.
Sweet! Thanks for the sub! 😁👍
Melanie Sykes was my dream girl. Absolutely stunning woman. I loved the Carling Black Label adverts, they had a running theme that saw them build on each advert.
Yesss love the cinzano with Joan Collins. With all the carling black label ads am hoping the treasure hunt carling advert makes it into vol 4
I'd forgotten the Treasure Hunt Carling ad....
......thanks for the reminder!🤣🤣
Used to love the Carling ad that rolled into about four different adverts...
Found it!😉
ruclips.net/video/T_EpyRJYcJo/видео.html
And Leonard Rossiter
Clive Anderson as the Superquiz compere in the one for what just had to be Carling Black Label. Messrs. Arden & Frost had to turn up at the end. Boddingtons did similar gimmickry when Melanie Sykes starred in their adverts in the late 80s. The same agency made them all, J. Walter Thompson.
I've been searching high and low to no avail for an advert that me and my best friend at the time saw at the cinema before a film came on in the early to mid 90's in Wales.
It was a Castlemaine XXXX ad where a bunch of Aussie outback types are shooting empty cans of 4X, one bloke doesn't miss and when he shoots the last can of 4X he discovers it was a full can and just loudly shouts in a thick Aussie accent
"OH BOLLOCKS!"
I remember that ad clearly but can't remember what film followed it
That rings a bell, but I'm not 100% sure. If it was in cinemas only, it may not show up on YT. It's usually VHS captures that save these old ads.
@@RetroSteveUK yep more than likely cinema only as you couldn't shout bollocks on an ad, even back then.
You could say f*ggots as long as it was swiftly accompanied by "in a rich west country sauce"
Haven't ever tasted Boddington's, but I remember the Melanie Sykes ad so well, wonder why 😂
you need to add the boddingtons "by 'eck ye smell gorgeous notight petal"
Volume One: ruclips.net/video/0o_UcqHjBqE/видео.html
I remember most of these Ads. The bouncing bombs Carling one is a particular classic, but the one that made me LOL was Gryff and Marilyn Monroe! I'd forgotten that one.
Great, loved it! 👏👍👌🤘🍻
I only don't remeber one of those. We'd all have a flake from Mel.
ah, life was so .... uncomplicated back then.
Good show old man !
Bye eck love boddingtons
I bet steve drinks carling black label 😂😂😂👌 Superb
Good advertising and funny, just freaks on now in freaking times
Fantastic 👏 true master piece s i so funny 😅
Subscribed 😎
The gondola boddingtons advert was an parody on the famous cornetto advert this was filmed in Manchester in which both versions was an parody on now and forever by Luciano Pavarotti.
That’s the lass from Smack the Pony in the boddintons ad. She’s tastier than the beer.
Remember most of them 👍
Someone take me back there.....
was the music for the Boddingtons in the desert advert by Prodigy?
Sounds like it, but I'm not sure. It didn't trigger a copyright claim when I uploaded the video.
So many great and inventive adverts for terrible drinks- advertising at its best.
Your channel is a godsend for my insomnia, Steve (it's 04:39 right now) 😃 - sorry I'm repaying your efforts by seemingly spamming you with comments 😜
That Bud ad itself wasn't so bad (unlike the beer, hehehe), because you could ignore it, but the problem was it instantly becoming insufferable because everyone knew at least one person, often more, who just would not shut up with saying, "Wassup!".
Angus Deayton's instantly-recognisable voice as the Mastermind host. Pretty sure I'd never seen any of these Carling Black Label ads before your compilations - that Dambusters one is fun.
I was helping out at a youth club when that Budweiser advert dropped. Most of the kids were definitely into blurting that out at every opportunity. 🤣
@@RetroSteveUK Yeah, got old quick, didn’t it?
Melanie Sykes presented the big breakfast following by Des and Mel an afternoon daytime show .
Miss these days.
Any luck on those late night music compilations with the line
"you can't buy these in the shops".
Remember one with a woman in leather riding a bike. God only knows why I recall this
😗 *innocently whistles*
I'm pretty sure there are one or two of those late night music ads on the Music Adverts collections. Here's the playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLg0PM8ISWkuzncYp49bY1xZw496AL5udk
@@RetroSteveUK I'll have another mooch but definitely no leather! I seem to remember these things. 🫣
God I need a drink
God, I need to stay off the drink. 🥴
The adverts were better than the show’s
Super nice
Oh boddingtons
Oh mel
I remember this
For some reason I feel like Martini has been missing from my life...
Just a shame that all the beer ads were better than the actual beer. Just about every beer brewed under license in the UK is not a patch on the real thing.
Carling, Boddingtons and John Smiths were/are basically dish water. We have some terrible megabrewery beers here in the UK, include Fosters, Carlsburg, bud etc in that.
Further to your point about UK licensed beers, I live in Spain for 6 years in the 2010s so partook in plenty of Spanish beer tasting! Living in Catalonia region, I often drank the Barcelona Estrella Damm (the red can), as well as San Miguel, Estrella Galicia and Cruzcampo, plus some of the fantastic German style double malts like Voll Damm (a 7.8% brew by the Estrella Damm brewery). The UK licensed equivalents are a weak tasteless shadow of those Spanish beers. For a start the strength of the Spanish lagers are high and they give them a good strong taste: 5.4% Estrella Damm, 5.5% Estrella Galicia, San Miguel 5.3% (I think), whereas the UK equivalent are all almost a full 1% lower!! It completely ruins the taste of the beers!
Which brings me on to another point: why has all British canned and bottled alcohol been reduced in strength the past 10 or so years?! A proper nanny state of affairs now where you have to buy a £3 per can craft ale to get anything over 5% in strength! I used to drink 5% Strongbow cider but even that has been reduced to 4.5%!
@@leod-sigefast the reduction in strength is down to the duty paid. Basically the weaker the beer the brewery pays less tax.
My retailer of choice currently for beer is of all places Home Bargains. They have an often changing line of imported beers from around the world. Do read the labelling though as they do also sell beer brewed under license here.
Recently had some Quilmes Argentinian lager (4.9%) which i enjoyed and Innis and Gunn Scottish Golden beer (6.6%) which has a unique flavour.
Generally a good well made bottled lager beer will have plenty of carbonation of very small bubbles that seem never ending.
Hurlimann, a Swiss lager brewed under license in the UK by Sheperd Neame is a decent drink though even that has changed from the days of my youth.
Essentially i think that breweries keep the alcohol lower as well as your average drinker will quaff more.
Boddies from the van served by the working mans tottie can't for the life of me remember her name......It'll come 2 me.....wait!
Widgets and Stones, some things are best not remembered. :)
I think Carling is only as popular because of the funny adverts that people still remember, it’s the worst tasteless pißwasser. I drank Boding tons pretty much as I liked Mel Sykes, and my brother named his hamster Widget
I've pretty much gone off beer completely these days. I'm mostly on whiskey/coke now. If I have a beer I do like a Kronenbourg though, or some of the weird and wonderful bottled ales with the fancy labels.
I live in a popular real ale pub so get to taste a lot of beer, for professional reasons… I also like craft beer and my fridge freezer is covered in the labels from all of the different ones I’ve tried. Back to the old stuff though, the adverts were legendary, was great to see some of the old classics.
they are all watered down pish theses days.
Mel Sykes 💛
No way that in Venice any one would sing the neapolitan song O' sole mio.
Or "Just One Cornetto" either, I suppose.
Whose in the boddingtons gold advert apart from Mel Sykes and the 2nd boss atd after the Mel Sykes one
Not a clue.
Melanie Sykes 😍
Jack Dee? the Hard Man of Comedy. oh kay ....
To think i use to hate tv ads because they interrupted the tv show I was watching yet these adverts are more memorable than those tv shows, and i would rather watch these adverts than the utter sh!te that is on tv today.
The adverts were better than the programs
Who remembers the piano is on my foot
You hum it I will play it ?
thats tetley tea bags, chimps.
Is that Rob Bryden at 12:22 with Marilyn Monroe?
It's Griff Rhys Jones.
@@RetroSteveUK That's even better. I want to watch some Alas Smith and Jones now. Thanks for clearing that up.
From the days when bin men did proper work lifting proper bins and took away washing machines
I spent a few years as a binman .. back in the late 90s.
@@RetroSteveUK common as muck
@@zaftra Yeah. I re-watched that about a year ago. Still a good programme.
wasssssss up
Ooooo Webster bitter. Gone! Stones beer, Gone! Home Bitter, Gone! Mansfield bitter, Gone! Shipstones bitter, Gone! No wonder I'm Bitter & twisted. Peace be unto you.
Molson coors brewing company own stones bitter, you can still find it in the odd pub in Sheffield and surrounding areas, bit weak at 3.7%. But recently true north brewery have collaborated with Molson and reinvented it using old recipes. 4.1 I think.
@@pipmcg1 Cheers for that snippet, I will look out for it. But, that's only one out of my list....so sad. Peace be unto you.
Those were the days, when we had a sense of humour and didn't get offended by humor 🙄
I’m old enough to remember that some people are always offended by stuff
When we didn't know when we were being exploited or facing prejudice... 😘
When adverts were funny and lifted your spirits! Now in 2024 I refuse to buy anything advertised as it's all politicised
and sanitised drivel!!
Fratty !
As in, the type of material that would originate from people who frequent fraternity houses?
I think it's a reference to the infamous Heinerscheid.
Melani Sykes.......fwwoaaaaar!
That's the one!
First one is Australian
@@stelthtenau Cool 😎
Those Bud adverts are truly woeful and so annoying
Yep 😏
@@RetroSteveUK Well you know what yank beer is don't you! I don't know whether its Gnats or Cats. Get a couple of gallons of Yorkshire best bitter down their throat that, ll sort em out
Just like the "beer" then. Truth in advertising!
Might be "watchin' the game".......
But they're not "havin' a Bud" anymore..!
I had a few complaints from commenters when I included that advert. It still makes me giggle, though.
Is that Lucy Lawless in the first ad?
I don't think so, but I guess there is a resemblance.
All the sugar is turned to alcohol..................duh, this is how we make beer!
Advertising used to be intelligent and often very funny. How times have changed......it's all Jackson Pollocks these days!
The Haribo ads are good tho'
What’s Martini and Stones doing in here. Crap.
If I were to guess; they're just chillin' with their feet up, taking the p*ss out of the other drinks.
The first ad is very cringe. It would most likely never have aired in the US because the various feminist groups would have been outraged. The one with the man running in the desert is kind of odd. Americans wouldn't know whether the commercial is for a candy bar or beer until they looked Boddington's up. I can understand putting a Flake in something like ice cream, but why beer?
It's uniquely British humour, which has a tendency to take the mickey out of itself. The ad is a parody of those 'artsy' adverts for running shoes that were big at the time. The joke was that he was running after the ice cream van like a big kid. The Flake was a spin on the way ice cream van drivers often asked if you'd like a flake in your ice cream.
Talk about someone not getting a joke.
The first ad is hilarious!!! The only cringe one is the American one.
The wassup one did get spoofed in American movie comedies so likely it did due to the Uk often get imported advert’s from other countries with Uk voice dubbing.
spot Deanna Troy from Startrek NG - in the Joan collins advert. Cinzano. Martini ad Girl also went onto doing tv movies and soap operas.
Daamn, that's a good spot! I never noticed that!
@@RetroSteveUK - she was in Sherlock Holmes too, Jeremy Brett. Six napoleons. started out in Britain.
Superbly written, acted, hot women, muscles, hilarious. Nowadays.....pffff!