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UK TV Ads from 1980

Dan Gale

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UK TV Commercials Adverts from 1980 from ITV just before a showing of Hammer House of Horror

Fresh Cream Cakes (Naughty But Nice Outtakes) Tommy Cooper, Willie Rushton
Vidal Sassoon Shampoo
American Express (Edward de Souza, Cassandra Harris, Robert Powell)
Tefal Deep Fat Fryer (Gasmask)
Airlanka (Sri Lanka airways)
ESP lipstick, Yardley
Tic Tac
Anchor Butter (Didn't we have a lovely time?)
Sunday Times (Crisis, Burning Map)
Sainsburys German Lager (Tom Baker voiceover)
McVities Digestives (This is your captain)
The Shining TV spot
Hammer House of Horror intro by Hilary Osborn ATV logo

20 Comments

@georgefiddler1742 13 years ago

My uncle Richard wrote the naughty but nice adverts, also the scotch not fade away adverts, among others!

@DuncanCraig-q8d9c 7 months ago

Salman Rushdie came up with the naughty but nice slogan

@Creighton-Jones 15 years ago

It doesn't feel like 30 years ago to me when I remember 1980.

@dangale123 Creator 10 years ago

Robert Powell is narrating the American Express advert.

@GoForGold256 14 years ago

Hehe, I like how they advertise 'in colour' at the end. We all take that for granted these days!

@X-Max-Quordlepleen-X 14 years ago

Watching these adverts gives me a warm feeling of being 13 again, sitting in a comfortable front room with my mum and dad, thinking of happy things. Until my happy thoughts would suddenly transform to dark stabbing visions of foreboding and horrific teeth rattling shakes whilst I contemplated the following morning on the school bus and having my face kicked in by a gang of psychopathic lunatics from the council flats. Good times.

@trueplayer367 15 years ago

i am roaring laughing as i remember these shows as a young one, they dont make ad's like this now days !!!!

@jakedp100 15 years ago

Anchor Butter is my favourite classic advert.

@RobTaylorMedia 13 years ago

That spot for The Shining is priceless.

@klisher 13 years ago

american express ad with paul darrow, edward de souza and larry lamb

@Superfuzz1989 14 years ago

The music in the Yardley ESP advert is fantastic

@tabeccaletford408 3 years ago

I remember seeing that trailer for The Shining when I was about 7,it absolutely terrified me 😱

@PopeLando 13 years ago

Paul Darrow's interlocutor is William Hootkins, briefly famous as the face (all we could see in the X-Fighter) to match the name, Red Six aka "Porkins" in Star Wars IV ANH.