RTE ads from the 80s...

nlgbbbblth · 21-04-2012 11:28am

The woman was Laurie Morton, wife of the late David Kelly.

She always played old crones.

FishHook · 23-04-2012 4:15pm

Smeggy wrote: »

I've been trying to think of this ad all week.. I think it was for Fanta or some fizzy drink, load of students leaving school, coming down steps to the sound of Dont Stop me Now by Queen (I think) could be early 90s....

Was I hallucinating??

I remember that ad. A bloke in my class in school claimed to be one of the school kids in it. He must have been near the back, cos I never saw him!! It was earlier than the early 90s though, around 1986/87.

clappyhappy · 26-04-2012 11:32am

http://youtu.be/mlXwumQxrRw

The old Safe Cross Code ad, love the clothes and the car. My kids are being taught it in school now, some things stand the test of time.

Kerrydude1981 · 26-04-2012 9:49pm

clappyhappy wrote: »

http://youtu.be/mlXwumQxrRw

The old Safe Cross Code ad, love the clothes and the car. My kids are being taught it in school now, some things stand the test of time.

I remember having a safe cross code badge

HeidiHeidi · 26-04-2012 9:54pm

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

I remember having a safe cross code badge

Did anyone else go to the "traffic school" (I think that's what it was called) in Fairview? You got to go in the pedal cars (cool) or on bikes (Triumph 20, deeply uncool and no fun at all) around mock roads to learn the rules of the road.

What a fantastic day out of school

Kerrydude1981 · 26-04-2012 10:00pm

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Did anyone else go to the "traffic school" (I think that's what it was called) in Fairview? You got to go in the pedal cars (cool) or on bikes (Triumph 20, deeply uncool and no fun at all) around mock roads to learn the rules of the road.

What a fantastic day out of school

Had noting like that down here in Kerry,we were just happy out with our badges

delw · 27-04-2012 1:46am

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Did anyone else go to the "traffic school" (I think that's what it was called) in Fairview? You got to go in the pedal cars (cool) or on bikes (Triumph 20, deeply uncool and no fun at all) around mock roads to learn the rules of the road.

What a fantastic day out of school

Yes,lived up the road from it,used to be able to go in on our bikes at the weekends
Good times

An Riabhach · 18-09-2012 9:38pm

I can remember an ad for Kelloggs Cornflakes with Enya's "Book Of Days" song playing in it,but would I be right in saying that another one of her songs was used for another commercial for a car?? I'm thinking maybe early 90s here.

ongarboy · 21-09-2012 2:46pm

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

The woman was Laurie Morton, wife of the late David Kelly.

She always played old crones.

I believe that actress also played the Whirlygig Witch on Fortycoats. I remember making the connection at the time. Oddly, I just checked IMDB.com (tv/film credits website and it shows a list of TV/film credits for that actress but not Fortycoats yet it is definitely her from googling her image. There is no mention of the children's tv show Fortycoats at all on imdb..!

ongarboy · 21-09-2012 2:54pm

Another good way of finding 80s ads off Youtube is if you search for programs from that era. If someone taped them off RTE and uploaded them to youtube you'll often find they include the ad breaks in whatever programme they uploaded. I was looking for some documentaries on Dublin in the 1980s so by inputting Dublin 1988, I got some shows about the Dublin millenium etc which had a number of ads I remembered from back in the day.

I might be going back to the 70s now but does anyone remember an ad for Rolos where a giant rolo tube filled with loads of packets of Rolos rolled down the street with everyone (in their flares:D) running after it. It had a theme of "Roll out the Rolo" which was a take of the song Roll out the Barrel. I remember as a kid thinking those people in the ad were so lucky to be getting all those Rolos! I'd love to see that ad again for pure nostalgia!

Another ad I liked was for Cookeen (cooking fat) where everyone floated into the air after eating food (scones etc) with Cookeen in them (Give em a lift ooh ooh with Cookeen!)

nlgbbbblth · 21-09-2012 7:36pm

ongarboy wrote: »

I believe that actress also played the Whirlygig Witch on Fortycoats. I remember making the connection at the time. Oddly, I just checked IMDB.com (tv/film credits website and it shows a list of TV/film credits for that actress but not Fortycoats yet it is definitely her from googling her image. There is no mention of the children's tv show Fortycoats at all on imdb..!

That's correct - she was in Fortycoats and Co.

IMDB for Irish shows is sketchy.

She features in A Week In The Life Of Martin Cluxton too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfVz0H39k88

gammygils · 23-09-2012 2:01am

Anyone remember the Smithwicks ads from the 90's?

'Everyone was in that night - Freddy Forecast (It's definitely goin to rain)
Whispering Jack - (A pint of Smithwicks please)
Glasses - (Two glasses please) etc.

Can't find it on You Tube

telecinesk · 27-09-2012 1:12pm

speaking of ads. This file is cringeworthy. Go straight to 19min36 and let it run to the end.A mix of Irelands equiv of the xfactor & shoulderpads with 80s ads thrown in at the end. Also note those jackets your school teacher would wear.. nuff said. Seems the uploader has a pile of 80s video tapes being purged. Reminds me how awful tv was back then.
Also it appears to be recorded on a V2000 machine (how early 80s) which is the videorecorder that you could flip over the tapes like an audio tape. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_2000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iio1Z_8Q_zo&feature=plcp

An Riabhach · 07-07-2013 3:16pm

And now for some cheesy soundtracks:

"The sun's so fine as the day begins
And it won't be long till I'm drinkin it in
Drinkin in the su-u-u-un
Sunkist is the one"

"Smog smog smog smog
Gotta stop that smog and we gotta know how
We gotta switch to smokeless fuels right now......We are the Smogbusters!!!"

"First time,first love
O the feelin is this
Electricity flows....
Something new has begun
You can tell the pieces are starting to fit........(Pepsi ad I think)

"Fifty fifty cashback,fifty fifty cashback
Is half price gas
It's half price gas!"

darkdubh · 19-07-2013 7:49am

ongarboy wrote: »

Another good way of finding 80s ads off Youtube is if you search for programs from that era. If someone taped them off RTE and uploaded them to youtube you'll often find they include the ad breaks in whatever programme they uploaded. I was looking for some documentaries on Dublin in the 1980s so by inputting Dublin 1988, I got some shows about the Dublin millenium etc which had a number of ads I remembered from back in the day.

I might be going back to the 70s now but does anyone remember an ad for Rolos where a giant rolo tube filled with loads of packets of Rolos rolled down the street with everyone (in their flares:D) running after it. It had a theme of "Roll out the Rolo" which was a take of the song Roll out the Barrel. I remember as a kid thinking those people in the ad were so lucky to be getting all those Rolos! I'd love to see that ad again for pure nostalgia!

Another ad I liked was for Cookeen (cooking fat) where everyone floated into the air after eating food (scones etc) with Cookeen in them (Give em a lift ooh ooh with Cookeen!)

I very vaguely remember that Rolo ad.

Aglomerado · 19-07-2013 10:49am

ongarboy wrote: »

Another ad I liked was for Cookeen (cooking fat) where everyone floated into the air after eating food (scones etc) with Cookeen in them (Give em a lift ooh ooh with Cookeen!)

I liked that one too! Nice little jingle.

An Riabhach · 19-07-2013 11:57pm

Can anybody help me with this one.......tis probably not a far back as the 80s,or even the 90s,but I still don't have much to go by and all I can remember is that it was about something serious-there was a woman talking to the camera but her face couldn't be seen because it was blanked out and her voice was a bit autotuned or distorted,and she said something like:
"I shiver whenever I think of the word 'picnic' "

Can anyone remember what that ad was about?

Skid X · 21-07-2013 8:03pm

Seasan wrote: »

Can anybody help me with this one.......tis probably not a far back as the 80s,or even the 90s,but I still don't have much to go by and all I can remember is that it was about something serious-there was a woman talking to the camera but her face couldn't be seen because it was blanked out and her voice was a bit autotuned or distorted,and she said something like:
"I shiver whenever I think of the word 'picnic' "

Can anyone remember what that ad was about?

Here you go ...

HAVE you seen those ridiculous Food safety Promotion Board ads?

They show several different people whose faces are blurred out to conceal their identify and their voices altered.

Their crime? They didn't cook food properly.

We are told that these bold people let their friends and family suffer after they ended up with sore tummies.

The way these ads go on you'd think it was murder they'd committed.

My favourite line is when the women, her faced blurred and her voice distorted says, 'I shiver when I hear the word PICNIC'.

How any ad agency can be making ads like these in 2003 is beyond me.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Clare+McKeon%3A+TV+ad+hard+to+swallow.-a0103897298

22-07-2013 2:37pm

does anyone remember this car advert from the 80's about a man asleep in bed with his wife dreaming about his car( cant remember the make) but the car was called 'sarah' and he dreamed that the car door was opened while it was reversing and it was about to hit a column, and he woke up from the nightmare calling 'sarah and hus wife asks ' whos sarah?'

An Riabhach · 22-07-2013 9:52pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

does anyone remember this car advert from the 80's about a man asleep in bed with his wife dreaming about his car( cant remember the make) but the car was called 'sarah' and he dreamed that the car door was opened while it was reversing and it was about to hit a column, and he woke up from the nightmare calling 'sarah and hus wife asks ' whos sarah?'

I'm afraid I havent a clue about that one-but earlier on in this thread you were looking for the Bonzo the dog killing sheep ad,so I just thought I'd let you know that it is actually on another thread here called "RTE dogs killing sheep advert sometime in the 80s".Twas great to watch it again

An Riabhach · 22-07-2013 10:15pm

A few more which flooded back into me head while I was buffing floors this evening:

"The queen of hearts,she baked some tarts,all on a summers day.
The knave of hearts,stole all those tarts,but then he threw them away!
She should have used Odlums....."

"Hello Dave.
I am sorry to disturb you,but I feel we do need to talk."
(creepy but funny TV licence ad where the TV starts talking to Dave the viewer)

Marty Whelan:"Are you happy with your washing powder?"
Woman in supermarket:"Oh god you sound the same as the telly!"

And does anybody remember those ads for toilet paper,with Bernie and Rose-Violet the housemaids in them?

darkdubh · 23-07-2013 9:41am

And the TV license ad about TV spongers featuring a talking sponge and a hand reaching out and grabbing him

Aglomerado · 23-07-2013 9:43am

Seasan wrote: »

And does anybody remember those ads for toilet paper,with Bernie and Rose-Violet the housemaids in them?

"His lordship's loo is in need of some Jumbos!"

Yer wan Twink again, god she was everywhere!

An Riabhach · 23-07-2013 10:35am

darkdubh wrote: »

And the TV license ad about TV spongers featuring a talking sponge and a hand reaching out and grabbing him

They used to frighten the crap outa me-one of them had the sponge hanging on the clothes line,and the V.O.,scary as ever,saying "TV SPONGERS BEWARE-THE SQUEEZE IS ON!!" and then the sponge hanging on the line screamed ".....and tis not nice!!!"

An Riabhach · 23-07-2013 2:58pm

Now as I'm remembering,RTÉ did use scaremongering when it came to TV licensing....after the TV Sponger ads(which weren't actually scary-twas just me that was scared of them),then came the ads with "real life" people,their faces blanked out,in darkened rooms talkin to the cameras,sayin stuff like ".....I couldn't answer my little daughter when she asked me why did I have to go to court-I couldn't even look her in the eye..."
And then the threatening closing line:
"The inspectors are calling.
Make sure YOU have a TV Licence when they call."

HeidiHeidi · 24-07-2013 12:28am

What about the Lucozade ad from back then (not entirely sure it was the 80's, might have been even earlier :eek:)

Hello!
Your Peter's better then??

I've tried and tried to find a video of that ad - there's something that kicks off the memory of the "your Peter's better, then?" line in my mind, in my best English accent, but I have finally lost the memory of every single word of the ad, which I had for a worryingly long time.

Skid X · 24-07-2013 12:42am

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

What about the Lucozade ad from back then (not entirely sure it was the 80's, might have been even earlier :eek:)

Hello!
Your Peter's better then??

I've tried and tried to find a video of that ad - there's something that kicks off the memory of the "your Peter's better, then?" line in my mind, in my best English accent, but I have finally lost the memory of every single word of the ad, which I had for a worryingly long time.

Not quite what you described, but it sounds similar to this one ...

http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie_vintage.php?filename=VA0473

HeidiHeidi · 24-07-2013 12:46am

Skid X wrote: »

Not quite what you described, but it sounds similar to this one ...

http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie_vintage.php?filename=VA0473

Not the one I'm thinking of - looks a lot older! But along the same lines alright.

HeidiHeidi · 24-07-2013 10:58am

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

What about the Lucozade ad from back then (not entirely sure it was the 80's, might have been even earlier :eek:)

Hello!
Your Peter's better then??

I've tried and tried to find a video of that ad - there's something that kicks off the memory of the "your Peter's better, then?" line in my mind, in my best English accent, but I have finally lost the memory of every single word of the ad, which I had for a worryingly long time.

I've remembered what it was!!

"It's only me.... your Peter's better then?"

Every time I hear "it's only me" I think of that ad, even all these years later.

Phew.

nlgbbbblth · 24-07-2013 11:02am

TV Ark have a number of old Lucozade adverts.
http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/adverts/l.html

Unfortunately the bouncing Peter is not among them.

I think that particular one dates from 1979 or so.

An Riabhach · 28-07-2013 9:34pm

"Woke up in the mornin,lots of hot water,Nightsaver electricity's been workin all night.........Ohhhhhh the Night-saver"

"Ve have come becauz ve heardz aboutz dze Harp........no no no shtrrringz-dziz iz vat ve vantz!"

"When sleepy heads get outa bed-Fruice,the juice..
When you've ran from A to Z-Fruice,the juice..."

And does anybody remember a beer ad which had different clips of different people in different places talking about different things-but the clips were all blended in to make one conversation?Twas a good ad-for some Swedish beer;Fürstenberg I think.....

darkdubh · 29-07-2013 10:14am

Seasan wrote: »

"Woke up in the mornin,lots of hot water,Nightsaver electricity's been workin all night.........Ohhhhhh the Night-saver"

"Ve have come becauz ve heardz aboutz dze Harp........no no no shtrrringz-dziz iz vat ve vantz!"

"When sleepy heads get outa bed-Fruice,the juice..
When you've ran from A to Z-Fruice,the juice..."

And does anybody remember a beer ad which had different clips of different people in different places talking about different things-but the clips were all blended in to make one conversation?Twas a good ad-for some Swedish beer;Fürstenberg I think.....

Barmans attractive daughter "I think they're gorgeous" barman "Tourists!".

An Riabhach · 29-07-2013 11:22am

darkdubh wrote: »

Barmans attractive daughter "I think they're gorgeous" barman "Tourists!".

Was the daughter the one playing the harp? Or it could have been his wife :-) :-D

An Riabhach · 29-07-2013 12:56pm

"Do the Shake And Vac and put the freshness back,when your carpet smells fresh your home does too...."

"On his way to the airport he got a puncture-only to find that his spare tyre was also flat.By the time he had managed to hitch a lift to the airport,his flight had gone.So why is he smiling?
He's having a Hoffmans".

"Good evening.I'm sorry to bother you but I'm actually having a dinner party and...unfortunately I've run out of coffee!"
"Do come in."
"Thank you."
"Would Nescafé be adequate for your party?It does have a very sophisticated taste."
"We are very sophisticated people."
"Oooh yes........"
"Certainly...............well,I really should be getting back."

(and the love story begins...)

darkdubh · 31-07-2013 11:57am

Seasan wrote: »

Was the daughter the one playing the harp? Or it could have been his wife :-) :-D

Not too sure on that.BTW does anyone remember an RTE documentary from the same time that used an edited version of this ad for the title sequence?It was called The Viking Terror and they used the bit from the start with the Vikings coming in on their longboat waving their weapons and all the locals fleeing in terror.

An Riabhach · 05-08-2013 9:48pm

I'm gone into rewind again with ads.....here's another one which came to me head-one which scared me even though twas about somethin harmless but I just can't remember what twas about.What I found scary was in the background there was exciting music and the sound of thunder,and a couple of times there was the sound of a fella singing the words:

"LIGHTNING WHITENING!!!!"

in a really loud high-pitched voice.

Can anybody remember what that ad was about?
Could it have been washing powder or something??

darkdubh · 10-08-2013 9:56am

Tom did ye put the cat out?Its on here at 40:00.Actually the guys name is John but everyone,myself included rememberd him as Tom for some reason..

http://youtu.be/bWVamrSbgus

An Riabhach · 10-08-2013 10:06am

darkdubh wrote: »

Tom did ye put the cat out?Its on here at 40:00.Actually the guys name is John but everyone,myself included rememberd him as Tom for some reason..

http://youtu.be/bWVamrSbgus

You're a legend!!!

Antenna · 10-08-2013 8:03pm

darkdubh wrote: »

Tom did ye put the cat out?Its on here at 40:00.

And I see at the end of that ad a phone number appears on screen for the Fire Prevention Council

"Phone: 714070 "

i.e. WITHOUT the (01) area code, as if they were only broadcasting to Dublin !

Skid X · 10-08-2013 8:10pm

darkdubh wrote: »

Tom did ye put the cat out?Its on here at 40:00.Actually the guys name is John but everyone,myself included rememberd him as Tom for some reason..

http://youtu.be/bWVamrSbgus

That one is class, well found. I haven't seen it on years.

Tom John should have won an Oscar - "The tongs! The tongs!"

darkdubh · 10-08-2013 10:46pm

Was having a sconce through some more of the content on that vid.I remember that series Raic that was half in Irish and half in English.The bit where yer man says "You can have your bomb back,the hens don't want to **** on it anymore" brought it back to me.

An Riabhach · 14-08-2013 11:24pm

I'm a divil for these ads.....
What was the beer ad where an Irishman goes into a pub but he can't think of the name of the beer he wants and the barman is trying to guess which one it is,and then the Irishman says ".....you know,the one that sounds like a Russian sneeze?" but the barman still hasn't a clue,and says ".....from Albania,the crest of King Zog".

Am I ringin any bells?

ferretone · 25-08-2013 11:36pm

clappyhappy wrote: »

Do ye remember the ad about fire safety where the little girl is standing in front of the fire in her night dress and it catches fire, the "mum" then says "sure wouldn't you be lost without them" or words to that effect. Used to terrify me wouldn't go near sitting room when I was ready for bed, guess it worked!!!!

"Kids are divils; but sure, wouldn't you just die if anything happened to them?"

nlgbbbblth · 25-08-2013 11:38pm

ferretone wrote: »

"Kids are divils; but sure, wouldn't you just die if anything happened to them?"

Spoken by Laurie Morton (wife of David Kelly).

Always played middle-aged or old crones.

An Riabhach · 26-08-2013 1:46pm

ferretone wrote: »

"Kids are divils; but sure, wouldn't you just die if anything happened to them?"

Can this ad be found anywhere?
Many Irish ads which we thought we'd never see again are re-appearing lately.....

darkdubh · 27-08-2013 10:39am

Seasan wrote: »

Can this ad be found anywhere?
Many Irish ads which we thought we'd never see again are re-appearing lately.....

Almost all the ads that have reappeared lately were as a result of people recording them directly off the telly to a VHS tape when they were originally shown.I suspect that ad may have been a bit before VHS recorders becoming common but you never know,it and a lot of other ads might be out there in attics on old dusty tapes.

An Riabhach · 08-09-2013 6:55pm

Was listening to the local radio station(Tipp FM) at work this morning and twas the classical,opera and chant slot,and they played 2 songs which immediately made me remember 2 ads-one of them was used in an old Ragu ad,where he comes home and asks his wife in the kitchen "...so what are we having tonight then?" and she bursts into the song and sings....

"Iiiit's aaa spagheeeettti sauce,it's beauuuutiful for paaasta,
Siiiit down,it won't be long,it couldn't be much fasterrr.."
And at the end of the ad,he sings:
"How about an...early night then..."
and she sings:
"Noot in frrrooooont of the kids."

And the other one was "O Fortuna",the one used for the old ads for Old Spice....the ones with the surfer in the water

An Riabhach · 23-09-2013 1:50pm

"Does your hair poop at parties?
Does it fall apart at get-togethers?
Does it die at the disco?
At the party...VO5
At the restaurant...VO5
At the nightclub...VO5"

"You can tell a Wella woman by the way she wears her hair,
You can tell a Wella woman anywhere."

"St-St-St-Studio Line from Loreal,
Who's lookin good today,who's lookin good in every way,start your hair..."

They could nearly make a cd soundtrack of retro hair ads for women!! :-) :-)

branie · 23-09-2013 3:05pm

"Hello Dave.
I am sorry to disturb you, but I feel we do need to talk."

The voice of the tv in that ad reminded of HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey

An Riabhach · 23-09-2013 3:57pm

Does anybody remember the Cray or Crea family,who did their own TV ad for Radion washing powder in the late 80s?It was shown a lot on RTÉ television.

RTE ads from the 80s...

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