Safety ads from the 70's and 80's,which ones would you like to see again?

darkdubh · 29-11-2012 10:20pm #1

With the unexpected reappeareance of the Where's Grandad? public safety ad I wonder are there any more long lost gems that people might have recorded on their vcrs and are waiting to be rediscovered?Some ones that I'd like to see again are.

The one with the fella using a powerdrill who electrocutes himself.His buddy rushes to help him and gets fried himself when he touches him.

The one about hearing protection at work where Yer man is watching a standup comedian in a pub and all he can hear is high pitched squeaking.

Big John,"Oh me achin back!" An all time classic.

I'm not sure if I dreamed this one as no one else I've spoken to remembers it but it had fellas in forklift trucks having all kinds of dramatic accidents.Driving them off piers,through walls etc.Anyone else remember it?

Admitedly the ads that came out in the late 70's are probably likely to remain unseen as very few people in Ireland probably had vcrs then.

trad · 29-11-2012 10:22pm

Brendan Grace doing "The Safe Cross Code"

or the time the roll bars came in for the tractors and poor Tom overturned his tractor on the Riordan's, Well Holy God.

chakotha · 30-11-2012 5:42pm

The one about car seat belts and there this bad tempered middle aged guy in the front seat of a car straining and bursting trying to reach the seat belt (old fashioned ones) that's right in under his seat.

My old man used to break his hole laughing at it.

Dr Turk Turkelton · 30-11-2012 5:44pm

Get out

Stay out

And get the fire brigade out.

Niles · 30-11-2012 7:43pm

Before by time but you don't see these kind of dangers highlighted much... kids these days are to busy with their fancy ipadstationphones to be playin' with fridges...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuwp7x_IiZ4

vektarman · 30-11-2012 10:16pm

trad wrote: »

Brendan Grace doing "The Safe Cross Code"

All together now.....

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

Rovi · 30-11-2012 11:18pm

The one about the nun shouting "BAH!" at the deaf child!

fricatus · 30-11-2012 11:21pm

"John, did you put the cat out?"

"The tongs, the tongs!!!"

^^Meaningless to the younger generation, but anyone about 40 will be cracking their hole thinking about it!

fricatus · 30-11-2012 11:25pm

This is a great thread! Just thought of a few others:

- one about how two cars turning right at a junction are supposed to pass one another. There was a phrase they used, which escapes me.

- another about electricity where two youngfellas are playing frisbee and it gets stuck in a pylon. Predictably one of them goes to retrieve it...

- and another with some young mother from Dublin warning about the dangers of her daughter's nightie going up in flames. You had to look out on the label for IS 148 - "now I know that sounds like a robot!"

fricatus · 30-11-2012 11:29pm

darkdubh wrote: »

I'm not sure if I dreamed this one as no one else I've spoken to remembers it but it had fellas in forklift trucks having all kinds of dramatic accidents.Driving them off piers,through walls etc.Anyone else remember it?

Vaguely! I don't think you dreamed it...

And there was another one for using electricity safely on the farm, which showed various appliances being "plugged in" by shoving wires into the socket and either "securing" it with another plug, or else matchsticks. I remember my father and uncles doing that all the time. :eek: How the hell did I survive my childhood?

Badly Drunk Boy · 30-11-2012 11:31pm

A few years ago, I bought the Charley Says DVD which has 280 public information films. They're all English ones but some are hilarious (and some aren't).

I got it mainly for the short Charley Says ads, which The Prodigy sampled in their song of the same name.

Charley Says "Don't Talk To Strangers"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3FnCiRpdQ4

Charley Says "Always Tell Your Mummy" (This is the one The Prodigy got the sample from.)

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

And here's The Prodigy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5sCKCN6Uw4

darkdubh · 01-12-2012 1:02am

chakotha wrote: »

The one about car seat belts and there this bad tempered middle aged guy in the front seat of a car straining and bursting trying to reach the seat belt (old fashioned ones) that's right in under his seat.

My old man used to break his hole laughing at it.

I'd forgotten that one it's all coming back to me now ha ha.There was another one about seatbelts where they had this kind of action man type puppet being fired through a windscreen via a catapult.

Badly Drunk Boy · 01-12-2012 12:15pm

Here are few more that I found.

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3e4TSk5fYE

These ones are longer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JzXLYfvYSo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtsS84yFKiA

"Don't give the victim anything to drink, not even brandy."

kitakyushu · 01-12-2012 9:46pm

It says 1979 but it must have run for years and years cos I think I saw it in the mid 80's

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

BlaasForRafa · 02-12-2012 3:19am

The one with the kids playing with a kite near electricity pylons and of course gets electrocuted. Watch out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT_wwkCoBL8

This old nuclear attack psa might be interesting to put on during prime time tv lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Jall2P84s

BlaasForRafa · 02-12-2012 3:23am

fricatus wrote: »

Vaguely! I don't think you dreamed it...

And there was another one for using electricity safely on the farm, which showed various appliances being "plugged in" by shoving wires into the socket and either "securing" it with another plug, or else matchsticks. I remember my father and uncles doing that all the time. :eek: How the hell did I survive my childhood?

I remember my father messing about with an electric socket and being flung across a room after hitting the wrong wire, lucky he touched the wire with rubber handled pliers.

fryup · 02-12-2012 10:42am

vektarman wrote: »

All together now.....

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

here's a bit of trivia.........its sung by none other than....Brendan Grace

fricatus · 02-12-2012 12:45pm

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

This old nuclear attack psa might be interesting to put on during prime time tv lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Jall2P84s

:eek:

God that's horrible! I'm glad I never saw that when I was a kid - I'd have been terrified.

The creepy note around 1.15 is especially appropriate.

nlgbbbblth · 02-12-2012 3:27pm

chakotha wrote: »

The one about car seat belts and there this bad tempered middle aged guy in the front seat of a car straining and bursting trying to reach the seat belt (old fashioned ones) that's right in under his seat.

My old man used to break his hole laughing at it.

Tim was his name.

TIM HAS A NEW A CAR.

Fiat Mirafiori.

nlgbbbblth · 02-12-2012 3:33pm

Aside from Charley Says the following are also great collections of PIFs.

COI Collection Volume 4 - Stop, Look, Listen!

COI Collection Volume 6 - Worth The Risk?

The rules are simple

UK PIF = archived properly. Numerous off-air recordings. DVD releases. State broadcasters care about their archive.

Irish PIF = not archived. Hardly any off-air recordings. No DVD releases. State broadcaster doesn't give a f*ck.

washiskin · 03-12-2012 12:32am

fricatus wrote: »

"John, did you put the cat out?"

"The tongs, the tongs!!!"

^^Meaningless to the younger generation, but anyone about 40 will be cracking their hole thinking about it!

I've been looking for that one for years. Just priceless!

:D

I loved the one that started "If you had the only car in the world, you could drive as you like. But you haven't and you can't."

There was also a one where the fella who plays Charlie Kelly in FC was walking home and replaying conversations in his head, culminating in him getting to the front door of the house and saying "12 Months" to his distraught Mrs. Turns out it was the length of time he got banned from driving after being breathilised.
There was also one where the voice over said "Driving while drunk is like putting a loaded gun in the hands of a madman" or something like that.

And then of course there was this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZWD2sDRESk

03-12-2012 1:17am

darkdubh wrote: »

The one with the fella using a powerdrill who electrocutes himself.His buddy rushes to help him and gets fried himself when he touches him.

Here ya go:

03-12-2012 1:25am

Cuchulainn1. wrote: »

Get out

Stay out

And get the fire brigade out.

I remember this was a three part advert on UTV, late 80s or early 90s. Would love to see it again.

kitakyushu · 03-12-2012 11:11am

Niles wrote: »

Before by time but you don't see these kind of dangers highlighted much... kids these days are to busy with their fancy ipadstationphones to be playin' with fridges...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuwp7x_IiZ4

Piece of useless retro trivia. The DeLorean time-machine in Back to the Future was originally intended to be a refrigerator that you got inside of. The producers were worried that kids would copy the movie and end up getting locked inside real fridges so they changed the script so to make the time machine a car instead of a fridge. I think they made a good decision there.

darkdubh · 03-12-2012 11:40am

Karsini wrote: »

Here ya go:

It was a different ad that was on RTE but followed the same formula virtually frame for frame.This seems to be the British version.

Niles · 03-12-2012 2:04pm

kitakyushu wrote: »

Piece of useless retro trivia. The DeLorean time-machine in Back to the Future was originally intended to be a refrigerator that you got inside of. The producers were worried that kids would copy the movie and end up getting locked inside real fridges so they changed the script so to make the time machine a car instead of a fridge. I think they made a good decision there.

Cool, never knew that. I don't know why but a timetravelling fridge would seem more like a cheap parody of the Tardis from Doctor Who, must be the shape or something.

03-12-2012 10:38pm

darkdubh wrote: »

It was a different ad that was on RTE but followed the same formula virtually frame for frame.This seems to be the British version.

Yeah it is the British version, that was just what popped into my head when you said it.

gobnaitolunacy · 03-12-2012 11:29pm

Niles wrote: »

Cool, never knew that. I don't know why but a timetravelling fridge would seem more like a cheap parody of the Tardis from Doctor Who, must be the shape or something.

I think Nighthawks went for the fridge angle, a skit called 'De Valera in my Fridge'.

Not sure if he was cryogenically frozen or if the fridge was a time portal of some sort.

Re the nuclear war ad, remember watching a docu on it once as a kid, frightened the living crap out of me.

FatherTed · 04-12-2012 4:24pm

Does anyone remember the PSA on RTE with the lad in a leather jacket talking about going out every weekend with his mates and getting locked with a flagon of cider? Early 80's I think.

kitakyushu · 04-12-2012 4:39pm

Anyone remember the PSA (animated) with the cute family dog who (the instant he's put out for the night) turns into a wild rabid hunter killing the farmers sheep?

I'd love to see a video of that one again.

darkdubh · 04-12-2012 10:46pm

kitakyushu wrote: »

Anyone remember the PSA (animated) with the cute family dog who (the instant he's put out for the night) turns into a wild rabid hunter killing the farmers sheep?

I'd love to see a video of that one again.

Yes,"roaming free he can be a killer".At the the end of the ad he returns home and sits in front of the fire where he turns to the viewers with a look on his face as if butter woulden't melt in his mouth.

FatherTed · 04-12-2012 10:54pm

kitakyushu wrote: »

Anyone remember the PSA (animated) with the cute family dog who (the instant he's put out for the night) turns into a wild rabid hunter killing the farmers sheep?

I'd love to see a video of that one again.

Wasn't there another rabies one where they showed the dog coming across to rabies-free Ireland inside a car on a ferry from presumably UK or France?

gobnaitolunacy · 04-12-2012 10:58pm

FatherTed wrote: »

Wasn't there another rabies one where they showed the dog coming across to rabies-free Ireland inside a car on a ferry from presumably UK or France?

Rabies kills. Agonisingly.

I think it was a Border Collie leaping off a fishing boat in a still pic.

FatherTed · 04-12-2012 10:59pm

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Rabies kills. Agonisingly.

I think it was a Border Collie leaping off a fishing boat in a still pic.

Thats it.

04-12-2012 11:03pm

I'd love to see some of these ads myself. The British ones are on TV Ark but reading about the Irish ones has me curious.

darkdubh · 04-12-2012 11:04pm

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Rabies kills. Agonisingly.

I think it was a Border Collie leaping off a fishing boat in a still pic.

Yes.I remember that well.They also showed a still of (presumably)someone with rabies in a hospital bed.

gobnaitolunacy · 04-12-2012 11:04pm

Hold on it's all coming back now.

Rabies kills. Agonisingly.
How we prevent it reaching Ireland?
When going abroad, leave family pets with friends.
Alert Customs, if you suspect an animal has been smuggled in or coming ashore illegally.
Keep Rabies out of Ireland.

Cienciano · 04-12-2012 11:19pm

Not on Irish tv, and teaching kids something important, but I can't help but find this one hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5gNSqJyzn8

gobnaitolunacy · 04-12-2012 11:24pm

Cienciano wrote: »

Not on Irish tv, and teaching kids something important, but I can't help but find this one hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5gNSqJyzn8

or your Minister or Rabbi....the Catholic faith has been left out, hmmm?!

Did He Man know something we didn't?

fricatus · 05-12-2012 10:06am

darkdubh wrote: »

Yes,"roaming free he can be a killer".At the the end of the ad he returns home and sits in front of the fire where he turns to the viewers with a look on his face as if butter woulden't melt in his mouth.

Yeah, and weren't there still shots of poor savaged sheep in that one?

bodhrandude · 08-12-2012 3:26pm

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

The one with the kids playing with a kite near electricity pylons and of course gets electrocuted. Watch out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT_wwkCoBL8

This old nuclear attack psa might be interesting to put on during prime time tv lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Jall2P84s

When is that from (2nd video clip)? Is that the original music or did you add this, the music is from the Aphex Twin 1994 album, Selected Ambient Works II. The advert itself seems like its from the 1970s with music from 1994, weird!

fatbhoy · 09-12-2012 11:43am

Here's a repository of Public Information Films from England.... brings back some memories.

http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/pifs/index.html

LiamMc · 09-12-2012 1:34pm

The ones about Northern Ireland were very alien to me.
One had a woman with a pram not been able to pass a parked car, that was unfamiliar to her.
Because I am from Dublin I took for granted she couldn't pass it because she would end up robbing it instead.

The ones about farm safety was huge and pretty tragic for afternoon viewing. The suggestion of kids drowning in uncovered barrels.

The message that dogs attack sheep should really still be broadcast. The threat hasn't stopped. I grew up in West Dublin in 1970'sand 1980's and there was a huge increase in incidents as the number of homes increased in housing estates.
The same problems would have arisen at other countryside-new development areas since then.

fricatus · 09-12-2012 1:35pm

Pity we don't have something similar for Ireland.

Another good public information film that came to mind (they're flooding back now) is the one telling people how to use the yellow boxes at junctions. Remember Michaelangelo flinging his yellow paintbrush in disgust at the drivers blocking up the junctions? And skipping merrily away once they'd got it?

A classic!

Ann22 · 10-12-2012 12:55am

Does anyone else remember one about the dangers of plastic bags??? It shows from the child's point of view, a creepy man handing the child a doll in a plastic bag,then something about about putting it over your head

. There was also one about the dangers of grain. Big piles of it. I remember a doll sinking into it....I remember a yard of sorts near my nanny's where there was a market. We used to pass a big pile of stuff..think it was sand or some sort of grain. I used to be terrified passing it.

The most memorable safety ad for me though was the British one about the child falling into a river with Donald Pleasance, as death doing the voice over...'I will be back, back, back':eek:

earlyevening · 10-12-2012 3:28pm

Remember this one?

An Riabhach · 01-07-2013 1:51am

Cuchulainn1. wrote: »

Get out

Stay out

And get the fire brigade out.

Wasn't that a hard-hitting fire safety ad from Northern Irish TV?

An Riabhach · 01-07-2013 1:58am

fricatus wrote: »

- and another with some young mother from Dublin warning about the dangers of her daughter's nightie going up in flames. You had to look out on the label for IS 148 - "now I know that sounds like a robot!"

"Children are devils....but sure wouldn't ya die if anythin happened to them!"

An Riabhach · 01-07-2013 11:16am

Here are 3 PSAs-all from the same time,all about the same thing,all very scary. From both Irish and British television.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ghQVJ3qAcAU

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=fErrB8NfARE

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iJexHVklwKI

An Riabhach · 01-07-2013 9:32pm

Karsini wrote: »

I remember this was a three part advert on UTV, late 80s or early 90s. Would love to see it again.

Yep-I remember it now.The original ad was actually a one-part ad with those three warnings being delivered at the end;before then being split into a three-part commercial.During the original ad,a man is waiting frantically at the water tap for a bucket to fill while the blaze is rapidly spreading through the house...the voice-over says something like "....do not waste time filling a bucket of water,it may be your last act".And then the ad finishes with the screen going black and the the words of the closing lines appear as the voice-over says them loudly and with meaning:
GET OUT
GET THE FIRE BRIGADE OUT
and
STAY OUT

Ruu · 03-07-2013 2:48am

Playing hide and seek on the farm and the young lad falls into the slurry pit, scares the hell out of me still.

Safety ads from the 70's and 80's,which ones would you like to see again?

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