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Post by Nightfly on May 15, 2021 12:23:56 GMT
I'm sure many regions had their own versions of ads where the budget didn't stretch to getting pro performers in to do them. In the Yorkshire region, we had these two which kind of fall into the "so bad they're good" category.
This one looks like a case of "I'm not paying for Redvers Kyle to voice this. Gran can do it. She can even star in the ad!". By the way, do you remember on some old TV sets you would get "caption buzz" - a buzzing sound when a caption faded up ? This ad used to make our telly buzz like nobody's business during the last few seconds.
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Post by Sparky on May 15, 2021 12:50:20 GMT
I'm sure many regions had their own versions of ads where the budget didn't stretch to getting pro performers in to do them. In the Yorkshire region, we had these two which kind of fall into the "so bad they're good" category. This one looks like a case of "I'm not paying for Redvers Kyle to voice this. Gran can do it. She can even star in the ad!". By the way, do you remember on some old TV sets you would get "caption buzz" - a buzzing sound when a caption faded up ? This ad used to make our telly buzz like nobody's business during the last few seconds. Oh my goodness.....
Local Yorkshire Television adverts!
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Post by Nightfly on May 15, 2021 13:19:02 GMT
Oh my goodness.....
Local Yorkshire Television adverts! There used to be an ad in the 70s and early 80s which must have been YTV only for "March The Tailors". It was a professional ad with a catchy tune "March the Tailors dress you well, impress you well" and featured a speeded up scene of a businessman in just string vest, underpants, bowler hat, briefcase and brolly who walks into the shop and exits seconds later in a full suit. I've never been able to find this on Youtube. There was another "cheapo" Yorkshire only one for some guy who had a chain of hair salons around Yorkshire who would end each ad with "Remember ladies, if you're not becoming to him...you should be coming to me", spoken so creepily that you imagined every bloke watching would think "I'm NOT sending the wife to him to have her hair done". Ah ha - just found the ad, complete with VT clocks !
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Post by Nightfly on May 15, 2021 21:48:43 GMT
Boxing Day would always release the floodgates for the holiday adverts and you could always get up to four free brochures by dialling....etc. Fred Pontin would appear at the end of his adverts giving the thumbs up and telling you to "book early". If you wanted to go to the Isle of Man, you could get some blurb by writing to Mr T.V Kelly or Mr T.V. Bond at the I.O.M. Tourist Board (funny how the Board's employees who dealt with enquiries from the TV ads just happened to have the initials T.V.)
However, being a huge Kenneth Williams fan, my favourite has to be this one for North Sea Ferries.
Whilst on the subject of the Christmas season, there used to be an ad for Famous Names Chocolate Liqueurs in the 70s where Terry Thomas asked the shopkeeper "I'd like some Famous Names, please" and the shopkeeper replies with a continuous string of actual names "Michelangelo, Dennis Compton, Robin Hood....". The shopkeeper was Ray Mort who appeared in "Ringer". Anyone remember it ? A quick search found several forums with members all asking the same thing.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on May 15, 2021 23:24:53 GMT
According to their website Philips Hair Salons were the first hairdressers in the country to have a tv ad. The hairdresser with the permed mullet & moustache His line at the end sounds more like a threat than an invitation!
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Post by Nightfly on May 15, 2021 23:47:28 GMT
The hairdresser with the permed mullet & moustache I think that guy must have been resting from his gig on Brookside. Whenever anyone cites the 70s as the decade for bad fashion, flares etc - nah - they should watch the Philip's Hair Salon ad from the 80s. Don't even get me started on that 80s trend of the shaved sides with the palm tree mop on top vis-a-vis Terry Hall, The Thompson Twins, Flock of Seagulls etc. I'm grateful I stuck with the scruffy student in a Parka look in the 80s.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2021 0:52:49 GMT
This ran for just over 10 years from 1980.
And I think they did a refreshed version of it in 2010 for the '30th anniversary'.
How many adverts have celebrated a 30th anniversary?
Story time. I was always obsessed with adverts as a kid, I don't know why, they just fascinated me and I thought they were fun, mainly, because back then they were. A lot of children are influenced by things they see in programmes, and try to copy them, but me, I was influenced by what I saw in adverts. I once copied this advert by using an alternative powder. My late grandmother never bought anything like Shake N Vac because we had a dog then and she said it was not good for him to be exposed to that stuff in case it did harm, as some of it may not have been completely sucked up. I thought the ad was fun and wanted to give it a go so I got my nan's talcum powder from the bathroom and brought it down into the living room and jumped around sprinkling it everywhere. I then got my toy hoover out, which was a miniature of a real Hoover Junior cleaner, which made a noise and lit a light when you pushed it across the floor. I thought because it did that, that it really sucked stuff up (I was only about 4 at the time) and tried to then suck up the talc and it stayed in the carpet. I almost shit myself and had a panic moment knowing that my nan would be so cross. I tried to push the toy hoover all over the talc again and it just mushed into the carpet even more. Then the dog walked in, had a sniff about and lay down on it and I desperately tried to get him to sit on another part of the floor but he liked where he was. Then nan came in and saw what happened and smiled and then she saw the dog biting at his underside and put 2 and 2 together and looked down at me and I knew that I was in trouble. She just asked me what it was that I sprinkled on the floor and I told her it was talc and she was OK with that, she just said she was glad it wasn't flour! We also had to give the dog a bath because he wouldn't stop scratching himself and I felt so awful and Nan knew that that was enough to make me realise what I did and to not do it again, I never did. Por dog, he was really itching himself and almost to the point where he was nearly injuring himself but the bath helped. I also copied that McVities advert for the chocolate homewheat biscuits where the kids and the mum hide them around the living room. I hid one behind my nan's best pale blue satin sofa cushion and didn't tell her. She then sat on the chair with the cushion behind her and then the ad came on tv and I shouted out 'I just did that!' and she asked what I meant and I told her I hid a biscuit for her to find, as a game, and she just looked horrified. She asked me where it was and I said behind the blue cushion and she lifted it up and it had melted to the cover. She told me I was banned from watching adverts after that, but only in a joke way, but that I must not copy them anymore because I cause too much trouble when I do. I miss my nan. She was a great gal and never minded me doing stupid things like that. We always laughed about those years later, and about that time I tried to saw the leg off the kitchen table, and when I broke the Yale knob off the inside of the front door lock. Ah, happy days. Sorry for the long post. I don't blame any of you for just scrolling by it! :)
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Post by Nightfly on May 16, 2021 11:21:21 GMT
A lot of children are influenced by things they see in programmes, and try to copy them, but me, I was influenced by what I saw in adverts. Great story @thepeoplespoet ! As for children being influenced by adverts, I recall that the Tango Orange Man commercial had to be changed as kids were copying the Tango "slap" in playgrounds. I think they had to change it to the Tango Man giving the lad a kiss rather than a slap. This was the original.
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Post by Sparky on May 16, 2021 13:22:23 GMT
A lot of children are influenced by things they see in programmes, and try to copy them, but me, I was influenced by what I saw in adverts. Great story @thepeoplespoet ! As for children being influenced by adverts, I recall that the Tango Orange Man commercial had to be changed as kids were copying the Tango "slap" in playgrounds. I think they had to change it to the Tango Man giving the lad a kiss rather than a slap. This was the original. I'd forgotten about this.
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Post by Sparky on May 17, 2021 7:51:57 GMT
When chocolate went a bit "Bond". We always used to say - "All because the lady loves broken, soggy chocolates"
He didn't leave the sillhouetted photograph on the box.
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