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RTE ads from the 80s...

Rockee

Hey all! Would any of you guys know where I could get my grubby little mits on some old RTE tv ads from the 80s?? Is there anywhere on the net even?? Theres so many ads from the 80s I can remember, I'd love to see them again for a laugh/bit of nostalgia!!:) Thanks...

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darkdubh

This one was I think circa 1990/91 and for Jacobs. It was cartoon animation with this punkish girl going around on a moped and kind of acid house type song that went "where is the jam?". Would like to see that one again.

An Riabhach

Can anyone remember an ad,I dunno whether it was from the 80s or not,but it had the abandoned Marie Celeste ship afloat in the water? I think it might have been about chocolate or something.
I know that there was a funny Weetabix ad about the Marie Celeste, but the one I am talking about was long before this and seemed rather bleak.

branie2

Den14 wrote: »

I remember that girl giving her mother the dirtiest of looks!

But she was all smiles at the end of the school day and ran into her mother's arms

An Riabhach

I heard Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" on the radio today and remembered this ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aepxsl2lcsM

Den14

me_right_one wrote:

This is the one, premier dairies:

I remember that girl giving her mother the dirtiest of looks!

Den14

Day Lewin wrote:

favourite ad of all time.

It's just amazing how you recognize and remember those old ads as they play yet you could never recall or remember them by your own devices. Those memories locked away in brain cells for 30 odd years in your mind somewhere, suddenly awoken.

Day Lewin

favourite ad of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB6gUdOoVic

An Riabhach

I remember this one as being one of the worst ads I'd ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRrWFhB39HE

An Riabhach

I remember asking about this Telecom Éireann ad a while back on this thread,"Cén chaoi a bhfuil d'iníon Máire?? "
Here it is at 2mins 45sec.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HtyGlLLW_0

An Riabhach

FintanRyan wrote: »

Yep,the freeze frame-I remember that part very well!!
As soon as me man says "....well I don't give a damn!!..." he turns to walk away but immediately the picture freezes,and then the V.O. abruptly delivers the closing line something to the effect of ".....the man who doesn't(or 'didn't') give a damn.Known(or 'know him') for what he is."

Jeez I wish I could remember more....

In my memory, it goes: 'The NEIGHBOUR who doesn't give a damn, know for what he is'. The big problem the complainant farmer had was 'You're cattle were on my land again...[and this was the real problem] You're buying in cattle from God knows where...'. So this bad neighbour was not only letting his cattle stray onto the other guy's farm, he was buying in untested livestock. It was all about spreading bovine TB. The freeze frame was a very big deal at the time.
This and an ad for Maverick, which I think was a feed for calves and featured cowboys and branding, gave me a view of Irish agriculture which upped the macho stakes in a way I couldn't reconcile with my uncle Michael's farm.

"Ah mind your own business".
"But this IS my business!! TB spreading on my land is my business".
"I don't want them bloody reactors".

A few other lines I remember clearly from that ad.
You never know,so many other ads have reappeared outa nowhere,so maybe one day.........

An Riabhach

Now this one here really is a blast from the past.
I remember mentioning this one a long time ago on this thread,and I never thought I'd see it again.This was around the same time,if not before,the TV Spongers Beware ads.One of a series of ads with "real people" with their faces blanked out, hopefully the others will also show up. (volume really needs to be turned up with this one)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA0mPvLdkTo

An Riabhach

darkdubh wrote: »

Yes, it was for AIB. Ann Glynn advert here at 2.47. For some reason everyone working for AIB, with the exception of Ann Glynn herself and the first "cracked it" guy have English accents.

There was another one of those ads where the line everybody was saying to each other and passing on to everyone else was "Dave Malone thinks he's gone through the roof".

darkdubh

branie wrote: »

I can remember the ad with "Anne Glynn thinks she's cracked it"; it was an ad for a bank.

Eeden wrote: »

I vaguely remember this one, but not what it was for or what they thought they had cracked. You've got me wondering now!

Aglomerado wrote: »

I think it was AIB, not certain though.

Yes, it was for AIB. Ann Glynn advert here at 2.47. For some reason everyone working for AIB, with the exception of Ann Glynn herself and the first "cracked it" guy have English accents.

darkdubh

If you go to the 0.22 second mark there's an ad for Sure Deodorant which was one of the strangest things on the telly, guy in the desert being chased by rednecks with trucks and dogs. Surprised how they got away with this as it kind of violent and disturbing, one shot where it looks like one of the rednecks is pointing a gun at him but it's edited in such a way you can't be sure. I'll always remember the reaction shot of the angry bald, sweaty guy.

DoozerT6

^^ now I feel old!!

darkdubh

Some classics here.

darkdubh

This one was late 70's, I can't rightly remember what it was for but it had the feel of a PIF albeit a comic one. There were all these clips of random people at work or doing day to day stuff and suddenly something they had or were working with would disappear into thin air. There was a farmer walking across a muddy field in wellies when one of his wellies vanishes causing him to lose his balance and fall over into the mud. Another I think a guy is changing a tyre on his car and the tyre vanishes. Another was some sort of Rose Of Tralee type beauty contest with these women up on a catwalk and most of their clothes disappear leaving them in their underwear, they all then rush off embarrassed covering themselves up. The whole thing felt very Benny Hill-ish. There was a voiceover throughout the ad for whatever it was about. I have a funny feeling it was about tax returns, does anyone else remember it?

FintanRyan

Yep,the freeze frame-I remember that part very well!!
As soon as me man says "....well I don't give a damn!!..." he turns to walk away but immediately the picture freezes,and then the V.O. abruptly delivers the closing line something to the effect of ".....the man who doesn't(or 'didn't') give a damn.Known(or 'know him') for what he is."

Jeez I wish I could remember more....

In my memory, it goes: 'The NEIGHBOUR who doesn't give a damn, know for what he is'. The big problem the complainant farmer had was 'You're cattle were on my land again...[and this was the real problem] You're buying in cattle from God knows where...'. So this bad neighbour was not only letting his cattle stray onto the other guy's farm, he was buying in untested livestock. It was all about spreading bovine TB. The freeze frame was a very big deal at the time.
This and an ad for Maverick, which I think was a feed for calves and featured cowboys and branding, gave me a view of Irish agriculture which upped the macho stakes in a way I couldn't reconcile with my uncle Michael's farm.

me_right_one

An Riabhach wrote: »

Lads does anyone know what this ad was for-a mother is dropping her little girl off at school-presumably her first day-and they both look sad,and in the background there's a woman singing a song which goes "...take good care of yourself,I worry about you when you're gone...." ??

This is the one, premier dairies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6LbFr65KaQ

telecinesk

Heres a handfull of random offair from 1982. Thre appears to be a lot more continuity on the other uploads, interesting. https://youtu.be/dvzccLRLj-M?t=1m35s Oliver Tobias!

Enjoy.. Its all fabulous quality.

OU812

Theres a guy on youtube has load of old ads, It was linked on the sidebar, but I never thought of bookmarking (after spending 45 mins down the rabbit hole)

darkdubh

Staying with John Little, he often used to do reviews of tv adverts in his column and I remember what he wrote about the Smithwicks ad that appears here at 5.35, he said something along the lines of "the "hero" of the new Smithwicks advert is an unshaven thug who looks like he spent the night sleeping in a ditch". That always stuck in my head for some reason.

darkdubh

Just came across an advert I haven't seen in years. The one for Planters with the Dr Jeckyll type mad scientist turning into a chimpanzee starting at the 0.41 mark. I used to be bursting my hole laughing at that one

darkdubh

An Riabhach wrote: »

Your memory is excellent.
That was one of my favourite ads from the 90s and yet I can't remember the long version of that advert.
A lot different about it, including the music being slightly different.
Not to mention the barman's reflection changing in the mirror,and me man's reflection changing in the water.I'd love to know what the idea was there.

I remember the late John Little writing about this ad in his TV review column in The Sunday World and wondering what it was supposed to be all about. He also said that the barman was miscast as he was "too young and too polite"

An Riabhach

darkdubh wrote: »

Might have been on another thread, can't find it but there was a discussion of the Bass ad where yer man goes walking across fields and mountains to deliver a pint to his buddy who's building a stone wall. It starts here at the 4.05 mark. Very strange ad especially the opening sequence in the pub with the reflection changing in the mirror and the barman getting freaked out.

Your memory is excellent.
That was one of my favourite ads from the 90s and yet I can't remember the long version of that advert.
A lot different about it, including the music being slightly different.
Not to mention the barman's reflection changing in the mirror,and me man's reflection changing in the water.I'd love to know what the idea was there.

darkdubh

Might have been on another thread, can't find it but there was a discussion of the Bass ad where yer man goes walking across fields and mountains to deliver a pint to his buddy who's building a stone wall. It starts here at the 4.05 mark. Very strange ad especially the opening sequence in the pub with the reflection changing in the mirror and the barman getting freaked out.

An Riabhach

I'm not too sure if this is the right thread but I do remember somebody was looking for this one a long time ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY9ofqJuBcQ

darkdubh

An Riabhach wrote: »

Was there somebody on here a while back looking for an ad with a woman talkin about headaches and stuff?
Tis in here with this lot...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL-CtTuGgCE

The Anadin ad,think I'd posted about that a good while back.Nice one.

An Riabhach

Was there somebody on here a while back looking for an ad with a woman talkin about headaches and stuff?
Tis in here with this lot...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL-CtTuGgCE

darkdubh

An Riabhach wrote: »

Thanks to Darkdubh and www.ifi.ie

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

Which begs the question I asked in the thread about retro Irish celebrities.Whatever happened to Eanna Macliam,who plays the phone vandal in this?