70s ad breaks

Firetrap

Back when I was a kid, ad breaks were things of two halves. The best part was the moving ads but after a few of them, there would be a load of static ones where all you'd see was a photo on the screen and a voiceover. I think those ads lasted into the mid 80....or did they?

Don't UTV still do these?

Firetrap

Maybe they do. I tend to change channels when an ad break comes on :rolleyes:

FatherTed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUxZq_eJRPA

I remember so many ads and have a collection of quite a few but the one I'm missing, and the one that's driving me mad trying to find, is the Irish Club Milk ad from the 80s.

Holmer

I remember these, they did last into the 80s. If you were waiting for something cool to come on, you knew it was coming close to the end of the ads when these came on. They were usually for furniture sales or Banaghans of Cloughjordan

kelle

FatherTed wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUxZq_eJRPA

Thanks for the link, FatherTed. It's amazing to watch. I remember Lucozade coming in the bottle with the "goosebumps".

Firetrap

Yeah, the dimply bottle was an icon. It also used to have a label on it for years saying it had 20% extra or something. Ironic really that it's being portrayed in that ad as golden goodness and just the thing to give a sick kid in hospital. I've heard it referred to as "diabetes in a bottle" these days because of all the sugar in it

WindSock

Wasn't the Ballymena Hi Ad a still one?

Moro23

I remember alot of the ads back then were aimed at farmers . I used to enjoy the public service ones , about going deaf and all sorts,

Sandwich

Until recently, or maybe still, they used to have them during all Ireland finals breaks, even though you wouldnt see them for another year.
They had the side effect of making whatever counties were 'up for the final' look like they were still stuck in the seventies - kind of "this is how we still do adds down in Kerry" or wherever.