Old health and safety adverts.

darkdubh

Remember these?

Bonzo wants to go out dear.

Oh me achin back.

Tom did ya put the cat out?

Rabies kills, agonisingly.

darkdubh

And of course "Where's Grandad?"

SEPT 23 1989

stimpson

darkdubh

Outlaw Pete

Grindhouse played this one before a recent screening and it got more laughs than the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0xmSV6aq0g

Tabnabs

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

With Brendan Grace doing his best Johnny Cash impression.

maudgonner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac89JFWESH8

I'd say he still hasn't put the bloody cat out.

Outlaw Pete

The Prodigy's Charly was based on a character in a series of these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDu7yYHxZr0

Riskymove

SEX = DEATH

https://youtu.be/TMnb536WuC0

Ralf and Florian

Bonzo was one badass lab.

Wibbs

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Grindhouse played this one before a recent screening and it got more laughs than the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0xmSV6aq0g

I remember the first one when I was a kid and it was current and it gave the the heebie jeebies. Donald Pleasance did the voiceover and creepy as fook was his voice.

donegaLroad

I remember the spooky water safety one alright, plus the Frisbee electrocution one..

this used to be on regularly when I was young

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT-Wga_7wvI

nullzero

I remember UTV having a fair number of those type of ad's centered around "chip pon fires" must have been a serious epidemic of the same up there.

donegaLroad

nullzero wrote: »

I remember UTV having a fair number of those type of ad's centered around "chip pon fires" must have been a serious epidemic of the same up there.

large amount of potato growers up north I suppose

dreamers75

Anyone who has done a forks course knows Klaus......

poor bastard what a 1st day

darkdubh

Atoms for Peace

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

The Prodigy's Charly was based on a character in a series of these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDu7yYHxZr0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSTBFZ-To2E

dasdog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbIB0xcOl8Q

11.25% interest on deposit accounts!! Take me back to jumper wearing, drunken heroin addled introspective catholic rogue state now.

darkdubh

A few more that popped into my head.

That very scary woman who gives out to her daughter for standing too close to the fireplace. "Kid's, wouldn't ye die if anything happened to them?"

One with POV shots of small children pulling pans of boiling water down on top of themselves from the cooker, followed by a scream.

Drink driving advert that juxtaposed a shotgun being loaded and fired with a pedestrian being mowed down by a speeding car down a dark country road. Ended with shotgun sliding down a bar counter and knocking over a load of pints.

One on wearing earplugs at work where this fella finishes his factory shift and goes to a pub where the camera zooms in on a standup comedian and we hear what yer man is hearing, an incomprehensible high pitched squeaking.

ToddyDoody

There was one in particular I was terrified of as a child. Jt ended with a doll's face melting. I think it was a fire safety ad. I'd always hide when the ads were on in the evenings for a time just to avoid it. Would have been late 80s, early 90s.

ToddyDoody

There was one in particular I was terrified of as a child. Jt ended with a doll's face melting. I think it was a fire safety ad. I'd always hide when the ads were on in the evenings for a time just to avoid it. Would have been late 80s, early 90s.

ToddyDoody

There was one in particular I was terrified of as a child. Jt ended with a doll's face melting. I think it was a fire safety ad. I'd always hide when the ads were on in the evenings for a time just to avoid it. Would have been late 80s, early 90s.

ToddyDoody

There was one in particular I was terrified of as a child. Jt ended with a doll's face melting. I think it was a fire safety ad. I'd always hide when the ads were on in the evenings for a time just to avoid it. Would have been late 80s, early 90s.

ToddyDoody

There was one in particular I was terrified of as a child. Jt ended with a doll's face melting. I think it was a fire safety ad. I'd always hide when the ads were on in the evenings for a time just to avoid it. Would have been late 80s, early 90s.

Cubik

I can't think of much in the line of public safety ads in more recent years (well since the 90s). The 70s and 80s ones couldn't be outdone in the scary stakes. I don't know what it was about them that made them so especially scary looking - maybe it was the dreariness of everything.

The little boys drowning in the paddling pool and barrel haunted me. Probably caused a generation to be afraid of water. The kid climbing up on the pylon was another iconic one.

The stern woman in the ad about the danger of standing too close to the fire or gas heater was also the actress who played the witch in Fortycoats.

The most terrifying of all (don't think it got aired ultimately) was the Protect & Survive series of info films in the UK... on what to do if there was a nuclear attack.

YouTube it - it's on another level of frightening!