Old Health and safety RTE Ads

pork99

Originally posted by pete
I think that should be

1, look for a safe place
2, don't hurry, stop and wait
3, look all around and listen, before you cross the road remember
4, let all the traffic pass you
5, then walking straight across, you
6, keep watching... that's the safe cross code...keep watching, that's the safe cross code.

Know. The. Safe. Cross. Code.

KNOW THE CODE!

Wasn't there one with characters from Wanderly Wagon? It had Eugene Lambert and that dog puppet, I think it was in the early 70s so it's a very vague early childhood memory, or maybe I just dreamt it :dunno:

nlgbbbblth

Originally posted by pork99
Wasn't there one with characters from Wanderly Wagon? It had Eugene Lambert and that dog puppet, I think it was in the early 70s so it's a very vague early childhood memory, or maybe I just dreamt it :dunno:

yes Judge from Wanderly Wagon appeared in the Safe Cross Code ad - originally broadcast in 1975

pork99

Originally posted by nlgbbbblth
yes Judge from Wanderly Wagon appeared in the Safe Cross Code ad - originally broadcast in 1975

that's a relief - not going mental after all

telecinesk

I have a horrible feeling that safecross code ad is somewhere on a philips N1500 tape in a box in my house, pity Ive no machine for these tapes. Or it could be on a betamax too....
Anyone out there got it on VHS???

PBC_1966

It sounds as though you may have imported quite a few of the British films that I grew up with as a kid in England. I would think that almost every Brit of my age group can recall Tufty explaining road safety, and Charley saying "Never go with men or ladies you don't know."

best ESB ads were the Play Safe ones - 7 mins approx in length
show twice - in the summer of 1979 and 1980
saw them both times when holidaying in West Cork both years

There was a whole series of these on British TV in the 1970s, all ending with the image of a huge arc over the words "Play Safe."

guy throws frisbee into power station and climbs up pylon etc

Really threatening-sounding background music if that's the same British version. You can find the frisbee film along with many others here:

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/pifs/pif_a-f.html

aerialhead

Jesuz,

The electricity ad with the kid with the frizbie scared the hell out of me.

There was him (all in his dodgy 70's flares and anorak) and his little sister, and one of them (probably the sister cause girls can't throw) threw it into the electricity sub-station with pylons and towers and stuff.

And the plonker goes in and climbs up a tower trying to reach his frizbie which is jammed between two other red frizbie looking discs, but actually carry thousands of volts........and they fry him.

Cut away shot to his flared jeans and shoots of flame, and his sister screaming!
She was a big help. Though I hated the ad as a kid.

Must have worked - I stayed away from sub-stations...still do, and I'm 32 now!

PBC_1966

Three others that I remember from the "Play Safe" series were:

1. Some people pushing a boat down to a river on a trailer. The tall mast hits overhead lines.

2. Somebody sitting by the river (probably the same one!) with a very long fishing pole. He casts back, then looks up just in time to see the tip of the rod nearly onto the lines. As I recall, in this one he pulls it back just in time, disaster averted.

3. Kids flying a kite near to HV lines (there was a big kite craze here around 1976/77). Somebody calls out to watch the lines, one of them tries to pull it away but a gust of wind takes the string onto a line -- Cut to a shot of the child laying on the ground with the grass in flames all around him.

Must have worked - I stayed away from sub-stations...still do, and I'm 32 now!

Hasn't kept me from playing around with high voltages. But then I became an electronics engineer.....

nlgbbbblth

so has anyone got any of the Charley Says DVDs?

alienhead

how about the rolf harris teach your kids to swim add, gas.

PBC_1966

Youngsters Learn to Swim

kirb78

hi, yes i remember both adds. ive been trying to find them! you have any luck?
in the "where grandad" advert was there a young boy with a stick hitting an tin can and then looks in a big barrel of water and there is a radio on in the background?

deadl0ck

No - I never found them. They are probably on an old RTE archive somewhere...

nlgbbbblth

RTE don't own the rights to those adverts - the Health Education Bureau do. I imagine they are held in either the archives of the IFI or TCD.

BluesBerry

Remember the ad of a woman putting her child into a bath and the phone rings and she goes downstairs to answer it and the child gets into difficulty and drowns that used to freak me out

I remember always calling my mam when I was in the bath just to make sure I wasn't going to drown
I remember the pylon ad too and the kids getting electrocuted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEssgMQ1O_k

BluesBerry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2ocXmuwYU8

nlgbbbblth

Thanks Bluesberry - not seen that for a while. The UK PIF re-dubbed.

Ann22

I clearly remember the 'bedtime routine' one 'check and make sure, you close every door, we mean..your life could depend on your bedtime routiiiine!'.
I also remember one where it warns folk not to put plastic bags over their heads....it shows a kindly (creepy) man handing a doll to a child and discarding a plastic bag carelessly..
I also remember one were a doll sinks into some sort of grain. That really disturbed me.
Anyone remember the scary Uk one where the little lad is trying to reach something on a tree branch hanging over a river? He tries to reach it but falls in and drowns:(. During the ad a cloaked figure warns of danger and at the end he says 'I will be back, back, back' (Donald Pleasant's voice btw)

darkdubh

Does anyone remember these safety ad's that featured liftforks crashing ?No one ive spoken to remembers them but i vivedly recall them .They were all set on docks and warehouses and showed guys driving liftforks crashing through walls ,driving off a pier etc

paddyland

The lady combing her daughter's hair and warning us all to make sure we always used a 'spark guard' was Laurie Morton, wife of David Kelly, the well-loved actor.



By the way, well done Kirb78 on resurrecting a thread from 2004...

bullets

There was a whole series of UK ones invloved with a farm place where the actors/kids got killed off episiode after episode acting like Cowboys and Indians style on the farm.
I watched the whole series on youtube about a month or two ago but cant remember where I got the links.

The Irish Ad with the Kid that got fried retrieving the frisbie was called "Daren" there was a long and short version of the ad. The short version you had a Kid that watched Daren break past some chain link/chicken wire trying to retrieve a frisbie with him shoutinging Daren, Daren! Darennnnnn!!!!!! as he fried.

The longer version of the ad tried to give a flash scare where you see this Daren character fiddle with a spark plug on his motor bike but lives! before he goes into the ESB station and foolishly gets killed.

~B

nlgbbbblth

bullets wrote: »

There was a whole series of UK ones invloved with a farm place where the actors/kids got killed off episiode after episode acting like Cowboys and Indians style on the farm.
I watched the whole series on youtube about a month or two ago but cant remember where I got the links.

Apaches.

Posted a thread about it here a few weeks ago.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056005335

bullets

Ah cheers for that! knew it must have been here that I picked those links up!

I remember two other ones. One was a mother inside a Kitchen being distracted while the Kid drowns in just a few inches of water in an inflateable swiming pool.

Ther other was some farm where a Kid maybe called Brian
drowns in a barrell of water where the father (who looks more like a grandfather) calls his name out.

There was also an ad where some old person drowns while getting off their deck chair going towards
a lake while children play in the background. for some reason I keep thinking a few years later Mr. Kipling Bramley apple
pie ad featured a similar scene being humerous.
~B

Mike 1972

Ive always wondered about those ads
1) The way they went onnnn and onnnn for five minutes or more. Did RTE get any money for running them (must have cost a fortune :eek:) or did they carry them for free (if so they muct have lost a shipload of cash by not using the time to carry real (paying) ads instead :P
2) Whatever happened to them. They seemed to come to an abrupt halt sometime around the mid eighties ?
3) How come since then there hasnt been a spate of kids getting fried while retrieving frisbees (or whatever passes for a frisbee these days) from substations and suchlike since then.

Then there were the ads telling people how to drive on dual carriageways and there was one about the importance of checking ones lights/brakes/steering/tyres. Some of this stuff might seem to be blindingly obvious but then these ware the days when there was no NCT and The roads were full of drivers who never had to take a test (and that was just the ones on full licences)

okee

How come since then there hasnt been a spate of kids getting fried while retrieving frisbees (or whatever passes for a frisbee these days) from substations and suchlike since then.

Probably because very few kids are allowed to wander off on their own for
hours at a time due to the constant threat of paedophiles, whereas paedophiles
didn't exist pre 1990

byhookorbycrook

Hairy baby do a "where's granda" t-shirt

Bearhunter

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Then there were the ads telling people how to drive on dual carriageways and there was one about the importance of checking ones lights/brakes/steering/tyres. Some of this stuff might seem to be blindingly obvious but then these ware the days when there was no NCT and The roads were full of drivers who never had to take a test (and that was just the ones on full licences)

And the ones about wearing a bright coat and a reflective armband while cycling home from the pub of an evening on country roads.

Jordan 199

Hi, there are two ads that I remember a bit from the 80's.

The first one I remember had to do with cyclists, and where they left their bikes when they were going to the shop etc. In that ad I can remember there was a man delivering bread to a shop and he tripped/fell over a bicycle and all the bread ended up on the ground and people came out from the shop to help the bread man.

The second ad had to do with heart disease or something along those lines, and I remember a lady running to catch a bus, and she just managed to make it if I recall also, she managed to sit on a bench seat on the bus and I think she was quite heavily breathing then. I think the bus was an orange double decker one with blue or black vinyl seat coverings.

I don't remember those ad's exactly 100% so please forgive me

darkdubh

Ther was an ad for drink driving which juxtposed images of a shotgun being loaded with someone starting a car.There was a driver point of view shot of a pedestrian being mowed down and the last image was the shotgun sliding across a bar counter and knocking over some glases.Anyone else remember it?

nlgbbbblth

darkdubh wrote: »

Ther was an ad for drink driving which juxtposed images of a shotgun being loaded with someone starting a car.There was a driver point of view shot of a pedestrian being mowed down and the last image was the shotgun sliding across a bar counter and knocking over some glases.Anyone else remember it?

yes - vividly remember the cartridges and the glasses. A Health Education Bureau classic - think from 1977 or 1978.

Dudess

I remember so very well the ad about the danger of going up in flames if you wore a synthetic nightie close to the fire, and the really stern woman (the Whirligig Witch in Fortycoats) brushing the girl's super-long hair. I totally identified with the kid as I was her age, had the very long hair and the penchant for synthetic nighties (mother of god they were awful things - flashes of light emanated from them in the dark, and they'd prick your skin! :eek:) - not the witch-like mother though (that I remember anyway :pac:).

I think those ads scarred for life those of us who were young kiddies in the 70s/80s.
They really were very scary - the one of the boy climbing up on the pylon to retrieve his ball here, frisbee in the UK (as far as I know) and being electrocuted really haunted me. The animated one of the nice, serene family dog sitting by the fire after ravaging a bunch of lambs whose bloodied carcasses are strewn across the landscape - hard-hitting stuff.

The ones from Britain were scarier. Saw the Apache one on a similar thread here a few years ago: feckin' terrifying! :eek:
And Dark & Lonely Water...
And the one that would have petrified me the most had I been aware of it at the time (thank Christ I wasn't): Protect & Survive