It's funny how we always skip through ad's, but are now happy to sit down and watch 20 minutes of them in a row ; )

I’m having a really big problem in which the world is heading and hence why I adore these old nostalgic ads and other footage from the past.

All the ads seemed to be full of smiles, optimism and catchy jingles back then. I miss that.

This brought back so many happy moments spent with my family, and more importantly the Australia I want to remember, not the current one that wants to cancel it.

I still say "Arugh Chum - it's so chunky you can carve it" Haha

As an 80s kid I really thought my adult hood would involve more windsurfing and Sara Lee. I don’t think I’ve experienced either!

Holy fuuu...how different was the tone and feel of advertising. No wonder everyone now is depressed. Makes you perk up a bit watching all again. Great content thanks for sharing.

A little window into what was a more innocent, happier and more hopeful time.

Thanks. This ought to be screened in a museum exhibit, put in a time capsule; to be opened in 50 years...

Ah yes, the good' 'ol days. I was a 70's and 80's kid. I remember all these ads. Kinda trippy seeing these again after so long. In my brain these memories are associated with the anxiety of not doing my school homework lol.

I remember all these. Man, I feel old.

Looking at a simpler time through experienced eyes. wow. Brings back emotions and feelings of the day. Many older people i knew were still young then and now gone.

Marketing was so different back then. Drinks were targeted for young adults by always having them at a beach or out door event in large groups. Food was targeted for families by using a farm setting and etc. Very cliche and simple but I love it

I miss this australia so much.

5:12 Good old Ron E. Sparx. I used to listen to him deliver the entire Top 40 every Sunday evening on 2UW when I was a kid.

Oh wow, all this went to air in Sydney back in February 1983. This is just so mesmerizing, right in the heart of my childhood. I would give everything to jump inside my monitor, and go back to the time these ads aired, the world back in February 1983 was such a wonderful place. Even hearing all those old voice overs like Mike Grayson and Holger Brockmen when they were much younger is an absolute intense flashback, oh how nice it was to be 14 years old back then. Lots of laughs, good times, lots of adventures, lots of pretty girls and hormones.

The only ad i remember from the 80's was the 'Ants Pants' , sick em rex commercial.

It's refreshing to see commercials that aren't about life/death insurance and bloody lawyers.

This was at a time if you watched telly you would expect only three or four ads during an ad break. Fast forward to 2000's and you can get up when the ad break starts, have a shower, get changed and make yourself a cup of tea or coffee, then sit down just in time for the show to start again. Seriously, who would watch free to air today and sit through 12 to 15 ads?

I was a paper boy back then and used to get complained about because there were never any mirror bingo cards in the papers. There "were" but somehow they found their way to my home.😂. My mum never could understand why " "people didn't want their bingo cards" 😉😉 . Obviously I never told her they never had a choice 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

The St George lady, more iconic than the dragon. Lol

WOW !!!!!....Great to watch these adds without a MOBILE PHONE to be seen !!

I remember EVERY one of those ads that had a jingle! 😹

I miss that old Australian accent...

Fantastic! I was 6 years old and remember many of these clearly!

Everyone looks so young and fresh. You don't appreciate what you have until it's gone forever. Whatever you do, just keep them coming.

5:56 joke is on liberal party Bob Hawke became prime minister

Great clip! So important from an historic perspective to save these old ads....a snapshot of the 80s:)

This is better than the so called entertainment dished up to us now by the tv networks! :)

I love the chum scoooootlund add. Chum, so chunky you can carve it.

that vhs vcr for $769 in today's money it would be $2500

Well done finding the tape. Old TV recordings are worth their weight in gold. Thanks for sharing. February 1983 would be just under two years after I moved from Sydney to Melbourne. I actually remember seeing TEN 10 Sydney first come to air way back in 1965.

OMG ! ! 12% interest on deposited money ! ! Now they were the good ol' days ! $800 for a VCR, no wonder we were the last kids on the block to own one

Thanks for putting this up its really good. Took me back. It’s amazing how much has changed. The prices of those video recorders was so expensive hehe.

The only thing that doesn’t date is nostalgia. That ice-cream ad with the whistling old bloke works just as well in 2021 as in 1980, or 1930 even. Same with the Sara Lee ad.

Notice how happy the ads where back then .I can't think of one happy ad today ?😴😝🤤🤔

It's funny, haven't seen a lot of these ads for 40 years and yet was singing along as if it was only yesterday.

When the banks paid up to 13% interest rate P/A in savings accounts those days :-D

13% on term deposits

I miss these catchy advertising jingles.

The jingles omg

Brings back memories of the good days . Thanks 👍🍻

Judging by the movie Nightshift:- Australia/Night Shift/Release date 30 December 1982 - Australia

that made me recall the country I grew up in. What have we done to it ?

Love the 80s. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

The 80's was the last 'great decade' IMO. Everything since is a cheap knock-off.

It’s amazing how many of the junk food and drink ads were full of young and slim actors. We were so gullible back then.

OMG - Malcolm Fraser & Bob Hawke.... that takes me back.

I rang every phone number in this compilation and no one answered! Who am I going to give my money to now?

🤯 This is doing my bloody head In 🤣 TIME CAPSULE much! Crazy to remember all these relics haha $770 vcr 😮🤣🤣🤣 childhood right there in all these ads. Paper notes too! 1812 overture army reserves! No wonder I got into classical music !

Wow Ansett... I always Loved the chum ad, i still use that line today, so chumpy you could carve it 😄

TX Date: 20 February 1983 (Source: Sydney Morning Herald Archives)

I grew up in Qld but remember heaps of these. Such different times!

Wow man after seeing this I feel so happy, calm and carefree almost?! You feel it just after watching all of this...The old Australia that I miss so much, not a day that I don't long and pine for this but I was only a child back then...What's happened to this Australia, it seemed to all disappear then less than over 30 years ago...This was the Australia that was self sufficient, somewhat nationalist or maybe even isolationist and free from the world's problems. All until the early 90's all of this would be undone and we end a part of the Globalist elite which would cost us our identity and way of life back then....Sigh very sad...

14:30 Finally one I know and then the unforgettable, the legendary Chum. I was only 11 in 1983 and my parents mostly watched the ABC.

Sadly, I have to admit to doing the post work on a few of those ! (@VTC Sydney) I won’t say which ones, but suffice to say, the tools were less advanced than they are today ! It was a blast, and we had fun working, not just a job.

I remember these some of these TV commercials.

I cant drink Pepsi, eat white bread, drink full cream milk, or look at red meat. But I love these old ads.

bought some juicy fruit the other day, packet has barely changed!

excelent great stuff post more..brings back so many memories

If they put these ads on TV, I will watch it.

Milky way 20c, that was so good days

Give me a time machine to go back to the 80s when interest rates were the best for investing your money. 2021 sucks.

that was the good old days

Love the MBF ad with the Valiant

Wow and Wow this really gave me a real kick. Man I remember most of these old adds and australia was good then.

Blimey almost $800 for a basic VHS. You can get an entire, basic, HTPC for that now, or even a smart TV and forget the physical recording medium.

People in 2050s will look back on our ads today like how we look back in these 1980s ads

Look at all of the things celebrated in these loveable old commercials: happy family life, beach culture, farms and farming, sports, heterosexual males who aren't made to feel ashamed because they're white, homemakers who are enjoying their families, kind mothers in the kitchen, garden and laundry, people who look clean, with normal hair styles and no tattoos, Australian culture that used to provide inspiration, a sense of having a future and something to look forward to. Yes, even the ads have a sense of joy and hope in them that is now GONE, to be replaced with depression and hopelessness, and a sense that heterosexuality and family life is somehow "embarrassing", in a culture that forces everyday people to embrace ideologies that don't help them to live their best life in a happy, unified society.

LOL I remember that Nescafe ad with the vet helping horse owner giving birth to foal 🥰😍 (11:26)

0:34 that song ohh good it is just amazing love these 80s commercials

Man that coke ad was quite inspirational 😄

Oh my God! I found an old Stick Up air freshener in a box on my shed a few weeks ago!

I wasn’t born till the 90’s but I feel like I knew some off these adds 😂

That Prima advert is very wholesome.

Used to get upset at seeing all of these lovey, happy, “nuclear family” type of TV commercials, ostensibly because my family were nothing like those depicted.

These ads are very well written, and are just good. The ads that we see on the internet are bad

7.30 - Those interest rates for savers !!

This ad for Fraser's Libs is a master class in what not to do.

Seinfeld has a bit on the coke ad: “soda, soda we have soda! Laughing jumping flying through the air! “Maybe I need ice in mine?”

Saying to myself, this cant be that old - I remember them too well. wow VCRs were so expensive. and tvs so small! Yet, we were just as happy without smartphones and hi tech.....probably happier I reckon.

Wow, when you got 11 to 12% on your savings. 2019: lucky to get 1%.

The good old days when positive marketing was alive and kicking this was another reason why my childhood was so colourful there are too many pathetic regulations with advertising every single product now these days!

My sister was a Prima girl. I was a Fruit Box girl! My poor mum had to buy both!

Look at these ads, just trying to show how good the product is. This all changed by the time I was watching TV in the late 90's and early 00's. (They changed to wanting to entertain you while vaguely mentioning the product, or they even tried to freak you out just to get attention)

and just imagine, the population has almost DOUBLED again since then…

12:25 tell him to wash his own damn clothes then!

Thanks.

Soo many memories.

Hilarious. What a trip.

I could never dispense juicy fruit out of the packet like that as a kid :/

I remember taking a Prima for school. What happenned to them?

Aussies are the most beautiful people on the planet! 💁🏼👨🏻👱🏻

I did over 50 featured adds. and I haven't seen one yet or maybe i did and didn't regognised myself.

those stick ups look like a damn good idea 🤣🤔

14:19 "If you can't see the fir sign, it means it went out of business 38 years ago."

Yes, in those heady days of the early 80’s there was 1 haircut for men, and 1 for women which was the same, but about 2 inches longer.

Perennial club favourite Sandy Scott doing the Norman Ross ad 😅😅😅

Brought back from wnderful memories, is Angus and Coote still around?

Is that Moyra Fraser in the fish finger ad (3rd ad from the beginning). Sure looks like her. She played “Aunt Penny” in “As Time Goes By” with Judy Dench.