Couldn’t remember a thing at school when it came to exams but 40 years later I remember every word to these adverts 🤷‍♂️

80s ads were worth watching and catchy and full of meaning. Not like today's shake and bake ads

Can't believe nobody has mentioned Ross McManus, the composer and singer of the R Whites Lemonade Drinker song asked his son Declan to record backing vocals. Declan later became better known as Elvis Costello...

The adverts from the 70's & 80's are timeless and genuis thinking.. Unlike the dreadful forgettable ads of today.. Thank you for posting such great ads from happier times, love your channel. Love Sassy 😍👍❤ xxx

What a lovely treat & walk down memory lane for a lazy rainy/windy Wednesday night. Much appreciated & thank you.

God I miss the 80s so much ...what a decade ..I know its probably cliche now but It really was a simpler time...people used to actually talk to each other face to face instead of walking around looking at screens in their hands... if you wanted to see your friends you walked to their house if they weren't in they were out playing and you had to go and find them and people were just nicer but the world was nicer place then to ...we had great music and films Rambo ,Rocky , Predator , The Goonies ,Back to the future ,E.T. and music was awesome Queen , A-ha, Duran Duran ,Big country ,Adam Ant , Shaking Stevens amoung thousands of others ..the charts meant something and you actually cared who was no1

Classic memories…brilliant ❤

That was brilliant, thank you for the composition... If only they made the ads now like we had then - sometimes we waited for the adverts more than the TV programmes we watched!

Bring back those days 😊

Does anybody remember the Paxo stuffing advert? That one always stands out for me it was brilliant. This is a great trip down memory lane. These were the good old days when adverts were fun and entertaining. Now it's all just funerals, insurance and charities! Thanks for sharing this with us❤👍🙂

I remember Cliff Adams, the man who put music to "For mash; get Smash" on a documentary. He wrote loads of music & jingles. He said the advertising agency had created the words & asked him to create a jingle. He sat at the piano & played some chords, then said "something like that?". "Yes! That's perfect" the ad guys said. Cliff was embarrassed & said, "no, that's just an example - I can work on it" but they insisted it was exactly right as it was. Fastest fee he ever earned, he said!

Great compilation Steve! Nice to see most of these products still exist. I remember Smash being in tiny cubes, now it's just powder. My Mum always got a tin of it in her Xmas hamper. Adverts were so much better back then as most were just for the UK market. Nowadays they're international. Oh and the guy that sings the Cornetto song was Renato Pagliari, famous for "save your love" song

Beautiful memories❤more please😊

I remembered all of them but the 60's and 70's was the best decades.

Ah the memories 😁😁

Those Smash potato Aliens and their distinctive voices will Always be burnt into my memories, they win for me, Cadburys flake comes second, Trio with her big gob third ,cadburys finger a fudge ad at 4th...Walls cornetto give it to meee.... 5th for me.

Loved these, don't remember the Whole Nut advert though, as a kid I loved making up alternative versions of popular songs and advert songs, and I used to sing "Do the Shake n Vac cover it with white cack, wish it came in a shade of black, and everytime you vacumm remember do a poo" 😂 Yes I was a weird kid😂

4:33 Jenny Logan is the actress & said she had a terrible migraine & was sick whilst shooting the advert (not helped by the product's strong, pine smell!). Shot in 1979, but the ad ran from 1980-86! I hope she got paid per broadcast, not just a one-off fee. I know the words off by heart - how sad...😊

It's not by accident that a lot of these are, (originally), from the 70's. Mind you, there's a fair few from the 80's as well that instantly spring to mind. Just one Cornetto, give it to me. Not flippin' likely, they're 50p! (Which, back when first aired, was a significant chunk of most kids' pocket-money!)

Nice one using the Thames Ident at the start 👍👍👍

Americans who grew up in the 80s watching PBS, educational TV, will recognize the Thames opening as it would play between some of the British sitcoms once in a while. Bird's Eye is a popular US frozen vegetable brand in the US, but we never got any of their other products like the potato waffles, which actually don't look half bad. I love that Trio commercial because there's literally nothing like it that I've seen.

I suppose the mitigating factor of you having just dumped these earworms into my brain is that there are so many of them, so I might get some shuffle play variety. (Or some unholy medley: "Do the Flake n Vac" or "Just one Jacob's Trio, give it to me, delicious whole nuts, from Cadbury!")

R Whites lemonade, Fantastic!!

Adverts were a big part of British culture in the 70's, 80's and even the 90's. Thanks to the memorable catch phrases and jingles, at any moment in time up to 20 million Brits would be watching the same advert. We'd throw catch phrases and lyrics into conversations at school, home and work because everyone else would get the joke or join in. It's practically impossible to do that today because people are watching too many different things on 100 channels and streaming services. Today's adverts are bland and devoid of humour. Our society has been fragmented into too many different groups resulting in common bonds that tied people together across towns and cities becoming lost. I cherish those bygone decades when we were truly a United Kingdom. Also remembering all those dear family members and friends from back then. These adverts hold memories for us way beyond what the script writers and composers ever thought were possible. Thank you RetroSteveUK for helping to preserve these treasures.

When I saw and heard the Thames TV ident, I was reminded of 'The Tomorrow People','Man About The House','The Sweeney', and 'Minder'. That Fruit & Nut choc looks darker than it does now. Was it higher in cocoa back then? . Here's an idea for nearer Halloween... the creepiest ads or theme tunes. The Tomorrow People (Thames TV) had scary music... Children of the Stones was possibly the eeriest of the lot.

Every time I opened the fridge for whatever reason I would start singing RWhites .

Excellent !!!

In the supermarket yesterday we were bemoaning the size of the Mars bars being so small nowadays. Seeing it in the advert here makes me remember when they were actually a good size.

I wonder where that little runt with the big ears from the fudge advert is now .

Loved these, and the memories. Don’t make them like that anymore. I feel old singing along to them tho 😂. Thanks Chris

I also recall Cadbury chocolate being sung by members of what sounded like Madeline Bell and Blue Mink

Thames Bring Me Memories For My Childhood memories 😉

There's a blast from the past !

Even when I was a child the finger of fudge song seemed sort of dodgy! But thanks for these. I still eat potato waffles (my oven is broken and you can put them in a toaster) and I have large lips and when I was a teenager my friends would say "go on, do the Flake advert". Happy days indeed.

I thought that the Smash characters were robotic versions of Zippy from Rainbow. The face, mouth and laugh seem to make it so.

Love it!

I never saw any R Whites lemonade for sale in my area ,would've tried it if I could .Recent ads have never tempted me to buy anything ,even if I could understand them !

The Flake advert, did it for me😉😉😉

These adverts are genius!

So many memories

Thanks for putting these together, great selection. I would have liked to have seen the Courage Bitter ads with Chas n Dave that were catchy, also John Smiths bitter with 'Arkright

Am i the only person stuck in the past im only happy ehen reminising wish i could gi back best movies best music need i say more xx

The guy in the kwik fit ad who was standing on right when the other 3 jumped was one of the wardens in 'Scum'.

Had to skip the waffle ad as it would’ve been stuck in my head all…..oh damn it’s too late🤨😳😵‍💫😂😂😂

Julian Chagrin was the man in the R whites lemonade, Frank Muir ( call my bluff) in the Fruit and Nut case Advert

I’m just at the intro and wondering if it was ever actually possible to see a reflection in the Thames 😂

Darn, these are good 👍

Eveytime I see that smash potatoes give me a fright

AAAAAAH!!! FROM, U.K. (2024).

Also not forgetting the Thames ident in the beginning

I would have included "Birds eye steakhouse grills" ['Ope it's chips it's chips...] and the Weetabix proper breakfast crew [When they where Breakdancers, shaking off there Bovver boys image] I can sing both still, from memory ...

They should (re) name this video: "It's sing-a-long time" 😊!!

The secretary in the Whole Nut ad looked familiar...

the ads were frequently more entertaining than the programs, but you have missed one of the classics, the gorilla playing the drums on the cadbury CDM ad

Buitoni ravioli, Don't talk eat, if you remember the gag.

Look at the size of that mars bar, fills the whole hand, not today sits in a baby's hand.

Wot no Ki'Ora'?!

That R Whites ad has the updated 80’s bottle on it? Was it shown a decade later with that design pasted over it or something??

As a child I remember that If remember I could would switch over or off from the ads from for both the ads for Fudge and Club. Bare in mind that at home I mainly watched BBC whereas where when staying with my late nan we watched mainly ITV meaning when I saw ads mainly when in school holiday and staying with my late nan I add that from the age of 7/8o I often wasn't home in time to watch children's TV the Bran . I loved the ad for Bran Flakes and Radox ads. I never ever had Smash. I also liked F for products like Bounty and Fry' s Turkish Delight I liked the ads but I did not like dark chocolate or coconut. Anyone remember the ad for Chambourcy Real Chocolate? It had the slogan Ssh just don't tell the children.

"They don't make commercials like this anymore" No sir,they don't.

Do they still Trio! Trio! Trios? I want a Trio and I want one in the foreseeable future if possible.

Did you notice the R Whites lemonade was just water? No fizz!

Is it 3pm on a Friday??

Someone has been to see Peter Kay I recon

Far sight older than 14 years

Classics Thanks for the content Love that nostalgia feeling What about a compilation of old risqué ads you could not do today without the new cancel culture club asking why do you really want to hurt them...... Examples... .....scampi fries...nik naks....tango.....rik mayals Nintendo ads.....the pepperami ads Wait i just worked out that im pretty sure ive already seen all these ads in amongst your content... nevermind lol

Elizabeth Hurley? (Cornetto)

FOR MASH GET SMASH!

Inflation up. . . Portions down.

Those were real ads not like today,too much going on,too complicated, complete trash.