Vintage UK Christmas TV Adverts (Vol.1)
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Күн бұрынVintage Christmas adverts from British TV, hand-picked for this compilation with cleaned-up audio & video. Check out the playlists on my channel page for more vintage ad compilations: / retrosteveuk
Enjoy the Christmas nostalgia!
Chapter Markers:
00:00 Hellmans Mayonnaise (Big Turkey)
00:21 Quality Street (Marching Band)
00:52 "It's Christmas" Album
01:03 Just Brazils
01:14 Woolworths (Spectacular Christmas)
01:55 Heineken (Partridge)
02:35 WH Smith (Sue Pollard)
03:06 Brut 33
03:31 TV Times
03:37 Cadbury Roses
03:47 Hollywood Nites
04:18 Fosters Lager (Christmas Carol)
04:30 OXO Family (Leftover Turkey)
05:11 Heineken (Reindeer TV)
05:31 Woolworths (Hidden Chocolates)
05:52 Yardley Perfumes
06:22 Harrods
06:33 Whiskas Cat
07:04 Paxo Stuffing
07:44 Heineken Snowglobe
08:25 News Force Newsagents
08:57 Pizza Hut (Leftover Turkey)
09:28 Neeb Electricals
09:58 Kwik Save (Liquor Saver)
10:29 Rumbelows
10:40 Long Life Beer (Snowmen)
11:11 Family Circle Biscuits
11:42 Argos (It's So Easy)
12:02 Milk Tray
12:13 Corn Flakes (Girl Meets Santa)
13:14 Quality Street (Magic Moments)
13:44 Accurist Watches
14:05 Asda (Jingle in Your Pocket)
14:36 BBC (Videos, Records & Books.)
15:21 Ronco Music Collections
15:54 Woolworths (A Time For Giving)
17:40 Safeway (Girl & Boy Gift Giving)
18:01 Boots (Big Present)
18:22 Cellnet (Don't Open It)
19:13 Old Spice Aftershave
19:23 Black & Decker (Wrong Gifts)
19:54 Dairy Milk
20:27 Thorntons Chocolates
20:47 Gamleys Toy Shop
21:18 Dixons Deals
21:48 Hoffmeister (Follow The Bear)
21:59 H Samuel (It's a Cracker)
22:30 PG Tips Chimps
22:40 Polaroid Cameras (Muppets)
23:10 Currys Deals
23:41 Woolworths VHS Videos
24:12 Oil of Ulay
24:41 Lentheric Perfumes (Terry Wogan)
25:11 Boots (All Wrapped Up)
25:52 Hellmans Mayonnaise (A Jar of)
26:03 Country Life Butter Men Songs
@terrortorn 2 жыл бұрын
We have got to the stage where 30 yr old TV adverts have more entertainment value than current TV programmes.
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
I can't argue with that! 🤣
@daviddarrington3267 2 жыл бұрын
It's more likely that they hold good memories of growing up around family where as now family time is hardly about with 24 hours working.
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
@@daviddarrington3267 .. and faces buried in phones half the time, too.
@janmargaret7972 2 жыл бұрын
Very true. 👍
@scarfaceTWIY. 2 жыл бұрын
Yep 👍
@doeharris5363 Жыл бұрын
My heart longs for the days when life was worth living and Christmas was all about family time and enjoying anything that you received from Santa for Christmas. To all the people who feel the same may l wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year when it arrives. Xx
@osiris7800 Жыл бұрын
Me too Doe, me too.
@rongablue Жыл бұрын
God bless you Doe. There are many of us feeling exactly as you do. 🎄
@DJ-GOLD-TRIGGER-81 Жыл бұрын
Happy Xmas Doe. My heart longs for thoes days also.
@keithfrmcov Жыл бұрын
Thank you, and the same to you and your family.
@MoistMoments Жыл бұрын
I feel the same, but life really is still worth living x
@JgreatSoul 2 жыл бұрын
The absolute pang of nostalgia it hurts. Great memories
@aubreyheartburn 2 жыл бұрын
It does. Actually bought a tear to my eye. Magical times growing up. No family left now. I always feel tearful at Christmas time, remembering how it used to be 😢
@birdsaloud7590 2 жыл бұрын
@@aubreyheartburn Your name made me laugh out loud! X
@lynnedavies5884 2 жыл бұрын
@@aubreyheartburn I feel that started to cry the other day when out shopping realised no one left to wrap or buy presents for all gone only my husband and we don't bother for each other its so sad.
@Butterflies_daisy 2 жыл бұрын
@@lynnedavies5884 awww that's so sad, 😪
@vmm5163 Жыл бұрын
@@lynnedavies5884 you can make homemade presents and wrap them for your local church Christmas fair. I'm not religious but I love doing that 😁👍
@JohnSmith-uc4ku 2 жыл бұрын
Young people will never know how happy we were no internet, no phones if only I could go back I would never grow up,
@sshms414 2 жыл бұрын
I loved tv in the 70s. 3 tv stations were better than the 100s we have now.
@milliewilkie1969 Жыл бұрын
my daughter has a Sky T.V package 100s channels when i scroll 89% is rubbish
@cantagiousca5220 Жыл бұрын
I've got the internet,basically any channel from around the world for free you can find 100 percent
@benzo9059 Жыл бұрын
They really weren't though were they. They were shit, there were barely any shows and virtually none of them are remembered fondly or have aged well. It's an absolute insult to shows like The Bear, Succession, Ted Lasso, Derry Girls, The Boys, Veep, The Last of Us, Line of Duty, Twin Peaks: The Return, The Umbrella Academy, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Cobra Kai, Happy Valley, to name but a few, all this incredible television that's been created in what's been a golden age for it in recent times, shows that will go down as all time greats, for you to be comparing them unfavourably to limited hours TV and badly acted soaps. Ditch the nostalgia bias for christ sake, the only good thing to come out of 70s TV was Fawlty Towers.
@th8257 8 ай бұрын
TV was just as bad then - people whined about it just as much back then too.
@beverlygannon4141 8 ай бұрын
Agree
@darrengrimmer8541 2 жыл бұрын
The best and happiest days of my life.. I loved Christmas back then.I remember all these adverts… great memories for me especially of my Nan.. She spoiled us rotten!! Bless her
@michelles2299 Жыл бұрын
Me too I loved Christmas now I dread it
@darrengrimmer8541 Жыл бұрын
@@michelles2299 Michelle I do to… always politics and drama in our family at Christmas.. anyway best wishes to you take care
@rugbydazz2264 Жыл бұрын
Well if Putin carries on we might not be here this Christmas!
@RHR-221b Жыл бұрын
@@rugbydazz2264 Worry not. These 'people' cannot exist without us ... And they know it. Stay free, R. Rab 🍻 😎 💚
@wallybazoom5697 Жыл бұрын
Nan hated you back then, you were an awful kid.
@marclaw4511 2 жыл бұрын
The build up to xmas was so exciting back then.You could feel the atmosphere in the air.
@TumbleTower Жыл бұрын
Well I think back in the 1970s / early 1980s, Christmas stuff appeared on shop / supermarket shelves in November (after Bonfire Night, possibly as late as after Remembrance Sunday), not September / October like now.
@alisong5272 Жыл бұрын
Very true.
@mr_reborn Жыл бұрын
You could. Christmas mattered. Nowadays you can hardly wish someone a merry christmas, the cops will come round and arrest you for offending someones foreign religion, won't they? Anyway, it's all about selling stuff now, isnt it. Practically begin marketing the bloody stuff in august.
@NicholasBerry-ku9rd 11 ай бұрын
Christmas Day felt a bit flat after the presents had been unwrapped and dinner was over. Especially when the sun was out and it was a really mild day, no snow like the Christmas cards promised us! Boxing Day just felt a bit depressing and there was the thought that it would be another year, which felt like 5 years does when you get to 50. I've always preferred Christmas Eve when the atmosphere you mention was still thick in the air. The journey's better than the destination.
@NicholasBerry-ku9rd 11 ай бұрын
@@TumbleTower Last year I saw some Christmas stuff in a shop mid-August. I was horrified!
@mattfisher694 2 жыл бұрын
Making me cry watching this, so many memories of stores and by-gone traditions. I remember all of these adverts and having only 4 channels. Yet life was better, Wish I could go back.
@samanthacampbell5048 Жыл бұрын
Me tooo
@jodiehughes1299 Жыл бұрын
I was only 5 back in 1989 but I remember how much better times was then even the early 90s so much better than now
@moominmay 2 жыл бұрын
I wish I could go back in time to pick up a tin of QS and Roses when they actually tasted good!!
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and directly compare them to how they are now.
@joannedixon-jackson7348 2 жыл бұрын
And when the tins were massive, not the little tubs they have now!
@Leoviliti1 2 жыл бұрын
@@joannedixon-jackson7348 I've still got a 2kg Tin ..which I keep my sewing stuff in.. Now they range from 640 grams to 860 grams.. But they expect us to pay a similar high price !!
@marcusphoenixish 2 жыл бұрын
They're a disgrace to what they were in the 80s They're all cheap crap now
@birdsaloud7590 2 жыл бұрын
And all the plastic in today’s tubs.
@stevenc1718 2 жыл бұрын
Brought back some great memories, I would go back to the 80’s tomorrow. Growing up Christmas adverts were great
@stephenguppy8886 2 жыл бұрын
I would go back even further, to the 60's, just to be with Grandma & Grandad and my dear old Dad, safe in the knowledge that life then was good and I hadn't a care in the world.
@daveslife9486 2 жыл бұрын
Me too there's so many people I'd like to see again 👍
@Butterflies_daisy 2 жыл бұрын
Me too, best years of my life, 3 of my children growing up in the 80's 🎅🤶
@2345bcde 2 жыл бұрын
I'll second that
@OofusTwillip 2 жыл бұрын
I loved the 80s too. They seem so idyllic because we were kids at that time, without the responsibilities we have now, and to us, our futures were full of possibilities and promise. If we'd been a bit older and struggling to find a job, or if our dad had been a miner, our memories would be much less rosy.
@edwardsp1916 2 жыл бұрын
Nearly 40 years ago our family was delighted with our first VCR. Amongst it's many talents was to fast forward through adverts. Skip forward to now and I have just spent 30 minutes watching those adverts. Time is a funny thing!
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
Humans. We're so weird, right? 😂
@RetroReminiscing Жыл бұрын
ha ha So true and i remember my parents first VHS player, it was in 1984 and it was on rental ...i used to be so excited going to choose a video form the video shop to loan for the weekend 👌📼😁
@firestarter1888 Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@gemini802 7 ай бұрын
So much nostalgia for me here ...seems a long time ago
@MartinFarrell1972 7 ай бұрын
Pity we can't fast forward through KZfaq ads
@catwoman7462 2 жыл бұрын
Look at the size of those Quality Street and Roses tins - enormous! The ones these days look about a third of the size. We used to get a tin of Quality Street every Christmas and there were plenty of sweets for a family of six to last for a couple of weeks.
@onetech3984 Жыл бұрын
and many visiting the dentist in january!!
@michelles2299 Жыл бұрын
They never ended 🙏
@catwoman7462 Жыл бұрын
@@michelles2299 Particularly the coconut and the coffee creams - my brother had to eat those because nobody else would eat them. I was an adult before I could try a green triangle as mum banned us from eating any of them!
@vmm5163 Жыл бұрын
@@catwoman7462 Lol. I hate coffee and my kids used to wrap the coffee ones up in the different wrappers and watch me run to the bin choking and gagging and swearing my head off
@rugbydazz2264 Жыл бұрын
@@catwoman7462 Oh I know! My Grandad always bought his 3 daughters a 2lb box of Milktray and if any of us went in and took a turkish delight it would cause WW3 and my mum was the nuclear bomb.
@servicekid7453 2 жыл бұрын
OMG so much nostalgia. It was a kinder, simpler and more magical world in the 70s & 80s
@DTM93 Жыл бұрын
The 90s early 00s beat it for me.
@BHALT0S Жыл бұрын
well apart from the vicious child abuse it was alright
@servicekid7453 Жыл бұрын
@@BHALT0S sadly that’s still with us today, not everything has changed for the better 😢
@servicekid7453 Жыл бұрын
@@DTM93 Mike Reid disagrees! 🤣 Runaround……. NOOOWWWWW 🤣🤣
@DTM93 Жыл бұрын
@@servicekid7453 Well yeah what do you take me for a banana or something? I was in my prime in the 90s early 00s, i had Peggy and Pat on the go at the same time me old mucka, it just can't be beaten can it now?. 😏😂😂
@Michelle-qd9gm Жыл бұрын
When the shops used to be shut over Xmas and the shops shut every Sunday
@susanbrown2909 2 жыл бұрын
I’d go back to Thoses times..when life as we knew it was normal. Now we live greedy ,wicked,crazy world.
@jager896 2 жыл бұрын
You are so right about greed and wickedness did you know that the Bible speaks of this time we are all living in Timothy second C3v1 says that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here for men women will be lovers of money and that there will be no natural affection when ever I read that it makes me think of the news Eileen
@zamiadams4343 2 жыл бұрын
I remember mum buying the Radio Times and TV times for christmas and looking forward to all the films over Christmas, great video!
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
We still buy a TV mag at Christmas but it's just for display on the coffee table. Nostalgic & traditional, really.
@martinwilliams2556 2 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK That's it! Radio Times for BBC and TV Times for ITV and Channel 4.
@duncancurtis1758 2 жыл бұрын
Barely anything on now. Christmas Day tv sucks.
@illuminatedgalaxies7777. 2 жыл бұрын
Yes I remember I still keep that tradition up today 🎄💜
@bethanhamer.8669 2 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK same here ! My hubby bought in other day , we don’t even watch tv I cancelled my license and sent virgin box back . 😂😂 daft sod spending a fiver to sit next to a derelict tv 😂😂😂😂😂 I suppose Netflix is in mag ! 😂😂😂
@wolvesaywe1155 2 жыл бұрын
What great happy times and when adverts were trying to sell us stuff not trying to tell us how to live our lives.
@lynnedavies5884 2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@stuartsteel1 2 жыл бұрын
Big time.
@friedchicken372 2 жыл бұрын
Yess👏👏👏
@th8257 8 ай бұрын
You for real mate? your memory is clearly going. Advertising hasn't changed.
@VL-qy4fc 8 ай бұрын
Exactly this!
@zaftra 2 жыл бұрын
The more you watch this, the stronger the nostalgia and the stronger the depression looking at all the celebs that have died and the business that no longer exist, mum dive bombing the woolworths post Christmas sales.
@aubreyheartburn 2 жыл бұрын
How I'd love to go back to those days, when Christmas still felt magical 💕
@trupype3028 2 жыл бұрын
When Christmas wasn't cancelled every year!
@aubreyheartburn 2 жыл бұрын
@@trupype3028 mine still isn't 👍🏻
@davidhall7648 2 жыл бұрын
Thatcher ruined everything
@blazer666del 2 жыл бұрын
They felt magical because you were a Kid.. much like christmas today will feel magical to kids now.
@philipmcdonagh1094 Жыл бұрын
We have the Victorians to thank for all the Christmas crap, buying a pile of shit you don't need and cant afford, then spending January broke. Should have just left it a church holiday instead of turning it into a month long spending spree.
@julieelcock8477 2 жыл бұрын
Wish I could go back to the 70s and early 80s. These bring so many happy memories back to me ❤️
@lynnedavies5884 2 жыл бұрын
If only
@Steampunksaly 2 жыл бұрын
You missing the sexism, racism, high unemployment, strikes, power cuts, food poverty- you go back ill stay right where I am. They were dark times
@lynnedavies5884 2 жыл бұрын
@@Steampunksaly it depends on what life you had them times for my friends and family brilliant.
@julieelcock8477 2 жыл бұрын
@@Steampunksaly I think you're talking about now aren't you.
@angel_on_the_edge8084 2 жыл бұрын
Hang around for a bit because we'll get to experience them all over again. Yay!!!!!
@gaggymott9159 2 жыл бұрын
Just shows you the POWER of the vintage advertisements, that we still remember them word for word, 30+ years later. Nowadays, adverts are INSTANTLY FORGETTABLE! 😫😫😫
@philipmcdonagh1094 Жыл бұрын
When yo think about it like that its scary. You couldn't learn a short poem off by heart in school in an entire year, yet after the Christmas holidays you'd know 10 adds of by heart.
@milliewilkie1969 Жыл бұрын
true I record everthing to skip them
@Michelle-qd9gm Жыл бұрын
When all the family used to sit in one room together watching tv laughing
@silvergirl2847 Жыл бұрын
We still do.that 😊
@paradisebreeze1705 Жыл бұрын
@silvergirl2847 no we don’t, we sit in different rooms like brain dead zombies on social media. Or if we do sit in same room we are on our phones ignoring each other.
@th8257 8 ай бұрын
Because there was no central heating or double glazing
@th8257 8 ай бұрын
@@paradisebreeze1705 said the man commenting on youtube. If you hate it that much, get off youtube.
@gemini802 7 ай бұрын
@@paradisebreeze1705😅 lol.that comment has made my day on this lonely late Saturday on 17th November 2023.
@bethanhamer.8669 2 жыл бұрын
Woolworths was Christmas , I had a Saturday job in woolies great times
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
Totally. Felt like we were losing part of our childhood when Woolies went under.
@susanbrown2909 2 жыл бұрын
I worked in Woolies years ago ..had some great times in that store.
@bethanhamer.8669 2 жыл бұрын
@@susanbrown2909 I worked on record and video section , was fab ! Only down side was mr blobby was number one 😂😂😂 we were only allowed to play top 40 . I remember, give it away now by red hot chilli peppers was in charts so I put it on . The poor manager nearly died lol he said we can’t have this on it’s a family store 😂😂😂😂 I loved it there 😂❤️
@duncancurtis1758 2 жыл бұрын
No banking no gambling no betting ads just happy fun at Christmas in the 80s.
@RetroReminiscing Жыл бұрын
Absolutley 👌👌😊
@lindaraccoon Жыл бұрын
My thoughts exactly 💯
@jennifersivewright3117 Жыл бұрын
No annoying man talking about his funeral plan and his hard partying family (switch to a dreary bunch of people). Then he appears on two other adverts one for bullion, the other Verisure alarms.
@mrjohn.whereyoufrom 2 жыл бұрын
I miss Woolworths and it’s Christmas adverts.
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
They were usually epic. They used to take up an entire ad break! We always used to look forward to them.
@susanbrown2909 2 жыл бұрын
So do l...I miss Thoses times..they were heaven ..now we live in hell.
@stephenguppy8886 2 жыл бұрын
I bought my first Christmas tree in Woolworths. It was silver with red tinsel. Also the Hallmark Top of the Pops LP's. And their Pick 'n' Mix was second to none. I wish time travel was possible.
@elainesimmons8711 Жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK oh yes Steve me to luv.
@linpollitt8950 Жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK the wonder of Woolwortns
@geraldinemallon1043 Жыл бұрын
All this nostalgia is giving me the feels. It took me right back to a time when everything was so much simpler and Christmas meant real family time. I’d go back in a heartbeat.
@janeforrest6838 Жыл бұрын
Gosh took me right back to a wonderful time where everyone was grateful for not very much and the world seemed so much safer
@jasonwindebank5455 Жыл бұрын
I am 51 now who remembers the toffee with the hammer to break it and the tray of nut you had to crack open .Great childhood and fond memories
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I remember toffee hammers. 😁
@sallyedwards2400 9 ай бұрын
Bluebird toffee!
@jtlampsu2 7 ай бұрын
I still have a hammer!! 🤗
@SisterDogmata 7 ай бұрын
You can still buy them in the UK!
@donna1420 6 ай бұрын
Got myself some on Amazon today. Used to share it with my late Dad happy memories
@sianedwards7493 2 жыл бұрын
Well this took me back...I was a small child in the 80s and I recognised most of the companies and the products being sold. They don't make adverts like these nowadays!
@gemini802 7 ай бұрын
No its all awareness adverts now insurance funerals, ect
@lindzy39 2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant thanks for the memories I loved the adverts when I was a kid through the 70's&80's. Who remembers the excitement of getting the Argos catalogue, we were skint, but I could dream going through the toy section with my pen marking off what I would love
@lindawilliamson4245 Жыл бұрын
So true we were skint to but I used fantasise about those toys loved those days
@lylahale5284 2 жыл бұрын
to think that you were overjoyed when you opened a present on Christmas morning and it was a 5 or 10 pack of BLANK cassettes....seems weird now !
@kerryastbury8834 Жыл бұрын
Made me realise how much I miss Woolworths
@annalewis5443 2 жыл бұрын
As a child I would buy all the ladies a Yardley bath cube and the men a comb from the local chemist. Back in the days whena small gift was all that was expected, and it really was the thought that counted. I loved watching this, I'm in my 60s now, and my children were all young in the 80s, such lovely heartwarming memories. Thank you x
@andrewtongue7084 Жыл бұрын
You & I are from the same generation, Anna; indeed, it was the thought that counted (& appreciated by the recipient), not the begrudgery that is so evident now....salad days.....
@wallybazoom5697 Жыл бұрын
Everyone hated your gifts back then, you were a stingy kid.
@silvergirl2847 Жыл бұрын
I rember getting Yardley bath cubes when iwas 14 iwas so happy 😂 and the excitement of getting Yardley lace perfume.were definitely happy with less.
@petalguru5432 8 ай бұрын
When we were happy to get a gift from the Argos catalogue. Now it has to be a phone worth £100s 🤷♀️
@taraelizabethdensley9475 7 ай бұрын
I'm generation X and small gifts were just as appreciated as big ones, and we didn't leave mum to do all the baking, but would help. Happy memories
@Bisheebarniebee71 2 жыл бұрын
Note the size of the Quality Street tin, wow
@lindabiggs3905 2 жыл бұрын
Hadn't had milk tray in years, had a box recently, no way they the same as years ago, so sweet,,
@DerekDogsforSentience 2 жыл бұрын
@@lindabiggs3905 that’s because the Americans have bought most of our confectionery businesses. Have you have ever tasted the American stuff ? Shockingly similar, and it’s been done a little at a time so we don’t notice the change 😞
@lindabiggs3905 2 жыл бұрын
@@DerekDogsforSentience yes I was born in Birmingham so sad we lost Cadbury
@regd.2263 2 жыл бұрын
You used get value for money then but now they're a bunch of cheapskate's making stuff smaller, that tin shown was seven pound in weight. I still got one had it since the seventies used to use it to hold our artificial xmas tree covered it with decorative paper. Ah those were the days memories
@shanekneeshaw3483 2 жыл бұрын
They cost around £8 then
@michellekeeling3392 2 жыл бұрын
Ahhh Linda Bellingham, the OXO/Bisto Mum and such a lovely lady. ❤️❤️
@cmdfarsight 2 жыл бұрын
Adverts were much better back in the day. Today's ads for the most part are pretentious and seldom clear as to what they're advertising. Thanks for uploading.
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
I've felt the same lately, but I've been trying to work out if it's just my perception. Now I'm more cynical as an adult but wasn't so much as a kid, maybe I was just 'taken in' more easily back then. It's very rare these days for an advert to win me over.
@spmoran4703 2 жыл бұрын
And it's usually too expensive anyway
@paradisebreeze1705 Жыл бұрын
We used to talk about adverts in school playground.
@bethanhamer.8669 2 жыл бұрын
When you watched adverts , I don’t even watch tv anymore 😂
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
Just old TV via KZfaq, right? I can lose hours just browsing old TV commercials.
@bethanhamer.8669 2 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK yes lol I’m always on you tube ! We were playing guess the old theme tunes at work yesterday 😂😂 call my bluff had us for a while 😂😂 you should do something like that 👍🤣
@Dad-Gad 2 жыл бұрын
80s Xmas , watching wrestling on ITV , Darts at the Lakeside , Tinsel , Radio Times and lots of great classic films to watch .
@michelles2299 Жыл бұрын
Oil of Ulay and the tweed perfume ad remind me of my mum who left us in 2013 hope you are somewhere mum somewhere nice thanks for all the Christmas times we shared 🙏
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
My mum always used to have Oil of Ulay. Hold on to those happy memories! 🤗
@juliepollard8332 2 жыл бұрын
Not much makes me smile these days but this did!😁
@DerekDogsforSentience 2 жыл бұрын
I’ve got LOADS of the sweet tins. Use them to store Christmas decorations in 😂 and my Moulinex electric knife is still going strong after all these years. They really don’t make thinks like they used to.
@user-qi5vj9zy9t 2 жыл бұрын
Ah life was better back then. When you had to buy a magazine to find out what was on Tele, when chocolate tins were a decent size, when lager could be advertised as a cartoon, cassettes were on sale, Oxo adverts, Woolworths, Rudolph drinking booze, Yardley rose talc, televisions made of timber... Easier times and much more real than the shite of today.
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. I second that! 👍
@lindabiggs3905 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah and if tele broke you had it fixed, not chuck it, and none of this reality crap,,
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
@@lindabiggs3905 We always used to rent our telly. If anything went wrong someone from the shop would come round and mend or replace it.
@adrianfox9431 2 жыл бұрын
spot on
@linzbarber 2 жыл бұрын
@@lindabiggs3905 my grandads method for fixing the telly was to give it a good thump on the top 🤣
@nickgodfrey1148 2 жыл бұрын
Love these old ads. Probably a bout of nostalgia creeping in but tv stations don’t seem to make any effort regarding Christmas over the past 10 -15 years. Getting the Radio and TV Times was a big thing in my house and we’d scour through it, circling all the films and shows we were going to watch and tape. Modern tv now consists of a BBC version of A Christmas Carol featuring swearing and nudity. I have no idea why it’s gone this way but these little clips, lovingly put together, are what Christmas is meant to be about.
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
I couldn't have put it better myself! 🤗
@nickgodfrey1148 2 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK you’re very welcome. Keep up the good work! New subscriber here. 👍
@jcs3330 Жыл бұрын
I remember how 'tall' the Quality Street tins where back then (before the food agency advised chocolate makers to 'shrink' the tin sizes....but increase the prices!). Christmas back in the day seemed simpler with more gratitude, unlike the spoilt ones we see today.
@th8257 8 ай бұрын
Old people have been saying that since the dawn of history. The older generation said it about us kids back in the 70s and 80s. Their parents said it about them. And so on and so on. Some people just get bitter as they get older.
@jcs3330 8 ай бұрын
@@th8257 Your comment (in two parts) are both true and incorrect. 1- food production size shrinkage and price with regards to the food agency - True. 2- 'Old Age Generation & Bitterness' Different generations will always look back on a previous one with comparisons - True. Bitterness?....False. 'Gratitude vs Spoilt' This is reflected in the todays generations dependency on instant access and gratification and lack of value and the ability and skills of 'face-on' interaction skills due to both technology and bad parenting to correct this through their growth. So, your last comment was....False.
@joannehunter8475 2 жыл бұрын
I used to think myself quite sophisticated sipping on my Babycham with a cocktail cherry in it, back in the day! 😂😂😂😂
@lindabiggs3905 2 жыл бұрын
Remember cherry b?
@joannehunter8475 2 жыл бұрын
@@lindabiggs3905 Yes! 😂😂😂
@linzbarber 2 жыл бұрын
Babycham in those fancy glasses and snowballs were my favourites 😋
@Michelle-qd9gm Жыл бұрын
This was when Xmas was not 3 months early and the tins of chocs of full to the brim it felt like magic every Xmas back then
@stephenguppy8886 2 жыл бұрын
Ah. Yardley, Linda Bellingham, Woolies...such lovely memories.
@jimjiminy5836 Жыл бұрын
This makes me cry. I find it highly emotive.
@jimjiminy5836 Жыл бұрын
They’ll never be a Christmas like an 80’s Christmas. Nothing could ever beat opening up a Star Wars/he man figure on the big day.
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
Oh yes indeed! 🤗
@deannalynne197 Жыл бұрын
I love these old adverts as I did when they were 1st aired. What I hated as a kid was on boxing days was the sale adverts and the holiday adverts cos it meant Christmas was over
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
I remember feeling the same on boxing day, too. Still get a bit of it now as an adult.
@pam14321 Жыл бұрын
With what’s going on in the country at the minute I’d gladly go back to the 80’s That size tin of quality street now would cost about £20! Great compilation, throughly enjoyed them.😊
@th8257 8 ай бұрын
Chocolates now are substantially cheaper in real terms than they were then. In fact, most consumer goods were massively more expensive back then. A tin of Quality Street that size back then would have cost the equivalent of around £40 in 2023 money.
@kimsmith9545 Жыл бұрын
Those were the day’s, Woolworths was a great store. We didn’t have much in the 70s but we were happy and Christmas was such a happy family time. 😢
@craigsutton1686 2 жыл бұрын
The best days are gone.
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
Here's hoping we can make new ones.
@ok2760 2 жыл бұрын
Surely "My"?
@Steampunksaly 2 жыл бұрын
No they are not , it’s your youth that’s gone , the best days of your life. Our country has moved on and young people have it so good. I would inflict our 1970s on them.
@ok2760 2 жыл бұрын
@@Steampunksaly C'mon, this is KZfaq comments, everything was better in the good ol days before the WOKE elites blah blah blah
@julieelcock8477 2 жыл бұрын
@@Steampunksaly for some reason you're a very bitter person
@caroledullaghan3143 Жыл бұрын
I miss my Mum and Dad!
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
🫂
@taraelizabethdensley9475 7 ай бұрын
I to miss my parents
@jacqueline8559 7 ай бұрын
@@taraelizabethdensley9475 Me too. My dad died in 1997, but mum only died 2 years ago. Although that's not 'recent' it's still so painful. I think "oh, I must tell my mum that..." Then it hits home, again, and I feel like a lost Child. Sadly, it's the same for all of us, at some time. Being the oldest Generation in the Family, with nobody to turn to for advice, or a few words of Wisdom when needed, sucks 😢 I treasure so many happy memories, but these Adverts made me feel happy, AND sad, at the same time
@donna1420 6 ай бұрын
@@jacqueline8559it be two years in February since I lost my mum. Trust me two years is still very raw so be kind to yourself. Have a lovely Christmas
@trupype3028 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great nostalgia watching these in the frankly horrific early 2020s
@hughoxford8735 Жыл бұрын
There’s something really sinister about modern advertising, and that’s before the sense of alienation that they cause to the indigenous people of the country.
@vmm5163 Жыл бұрын
@@hughoxford8735 I don't watch my telly now due to the adverts, I get really angry tbh. Last time I watched TV was Easter Sunday 2021 for the church hymns (even though I'm not religious). I cannot bear the adverts anymore because there's hardly any of my own countrymen in them
@gemini802 7 ай бұрын
@@vmm5163sadly our old country has disappeared for ever.
@rufustfirefly7389 2 жыл бұрын
Oh to go back to the 80s. I had the rest of my life in front of me and it was great. Happy days.
@Copolia Жыл бұрын
Once it got to the Magic Moments advert, I burst into tears! Such a stroll down memory lane! Thank you RetroSteveUK
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
That's nice to hear. 🤗 Thanks for watching.
@the_even_toed_ungulate. 8 ай бұрын
Remember the night, you fell in the shite with your very best suit on. The one that you got, through saving a lot of embassy coupons... Magic moments
@gemini802 7 ай бұрын
I love the old school.posh accents
@williamdavies6241 Жыл бұрын
Christmas Adverts were brilliant back in the 80s they ran for months, only thing was , on Christmas morning they gave way for Adverts for Summer Holidays and I remember it made people mad. . . . .
@Wench64 Ай бұрын
I hated that even as a kid, holiday adverts at Christmas please wait till January
@wellywelly100 Жыл бұрын
Seeing the Yardley ad made me tear up a little. My late mum loved Yardley and was our go to gift every Christmas. Thank you for sharing these memories and wow those tins of sweets were huge!
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
Thank you .. lovely story. 🤗
@andyholmes6380 2 жыл бұрын
Back when Christmas was CHRISTMAS, not the rubbish we have now and not just because im a grownup now, it was........better!
@ENGLISHISBEST Жыл бұрын
Hi I worked in the Woolworths store in Luton where most of their videos were made late 70's & early 80's I met & spoke to many of those entertainers, Tim Brooke Taylor dressed as Elvis spoke to me & biggest shock was a massive Uncle Bulgaria from the wombles giving me high five as we went opposite direction on the escalator. Great day amazing store, I also bought my first record deck from there, sad woolies is no more. Thanks for returning those memories.
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
Wow. What an amazing story and memories to have. I used to visit Luton regularly with my family as a boy, for occasional shopping trips.
@dawnhall7235 2 жыл бұрын
This is brilliant. I love the retro tv frame too. Thanks for sharing and bringing back memories of Christmas pasts .
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome, and Merry Christmas! :)
@taraelizabethdensley9475 7 ай бұрын
Reminds me of the tv we had - a rental
@8-bitsteve500 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome, quite frankly if I could go back to the 80's right now, I certainly would. better times
@ok2760 2 жыл бұрын
No, things definitely better now. But you're not a kid anymore.
@8-bitsteve500 2 жыл бұрын
@@ok2760 in some ways yes but in many ways nope.
@ok2760 2 жыл бұрын
@@AlexM-ui8me there's a pandemic on Alex if you hadn't noticed
@aubreyheartburn 2 жыл бұрын
@@ok2760 There actually isn't. Please turn off your TV, open your eyes and do some independent research.
@ok2760 2 жыл бұрын
@@aubreyheartburn you mean on Facebook of course. Of course you do.
@melanienagy6389 2 жыл бұрын
I remember alot of these adverts. That's pretty sad. It's good to take a stroll down memory lane. From a Brit that's living in the US. Merry Christmas to everyone. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
@lisafernley3810 Жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas
@gemini802 7 ай бұрын
Come back to the uk.
@jacqueline8559 7 ай бұрын
@@gemini802Why would she ever do that?
@Ghhft33 2 жыл бұрын
I sat through all that with a grin and a smile, brought back some wonderful family xmas memories. thank you
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, pretty much the same here when we sat and watched the finished video in our house. Glad it brought you some joy. 🙂
@Amy-iy6sy 2 жыл бұрын
Bring woolworths back. Brilliant adverts and we got more chocolate in tins. Merry Christmas everyone x
@tarantulagirl Жыл бұрын
This was like a warm hug. I was recently thinking has the world really changed that much, or is it just because I’m not a child anymore. The answer is yes, it has. I don’t even recognise the world anymore and I’m only 42.
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
Yes indeed, it has.
@katec9893 Жыл бұрын
I'm 39 and feel the same. It has changed so much, my city is now totally different to how it was growing up. Its hard not to feel totally lost.
@taraelizabethdensley9475 Жыл бұрын
The world has definitely changed, and not for the better, and i'm 44
@katec9893 Жыл бұрын
I used to love going to Woolworths as a teenager in the 90s. I'd usually buy Christmas presents there with my friends and I think it was where my mum bought our Christmas chocolate.
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
It was just as good in the 70s & 80s too. Such a great all-purpose shop, particularly good at Christmas time. A shop I grew up with. So sad it's gone forever.
@gemini802 7 ай бұрын
@@RetroSteveUKits online these days.
@BJ-rd2ih Жыл бұрын
Watching these brings a year to my eye remind me of such wonderful times when Christmas's were so much more exciting.
@windowken Жыл бұрын
The good old days were the best 😁
@prbsnoop1974 2 жыл бұрын
So many fabulous memories - the 80's were so wonderful, I'd go back now if I could - Christmas was so magical
@th8257 8 ай бұрын
You're describing being a child. If you were an adult, the 80s were far from wonderful.
@prbsnoop1974 8 ай бұрын
@@th8257 My parents tell me they liked them - but we live in South Devon - probably a lot more sheltered and easier than inner cities
@carolynbarnes4317 2 жыл бұрын
I actually remember every single one of these - what a trip down memory lane! Had to explain the joys of shopping at Woolworth's to my 20yr old....and he couldn't get over the size of the tins of QS and roses!x
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! Hard to convey to those who didn't live through it.
@scootymcfloof 7 ай бұрын
This was compilation was made with love and care. As someone from America who loves retro 'anything' from just about anywhere, the Whiskas Cat commercial feels so warm and cozy - absolutely precious, too. I love how simple and magical commercials used to be and this one made me think of my late kitty Pip, and I teared up a little. This was her favorite time of year. Greetings and warm wishes this holiday season. 🎄❤🌟
@RetroSteveUK 7 ай бұрын
That's lovely, thanks. Good to from you over there. Have a lovely Christmas! 😸🎄
@bobbybates2614 2 жыл бұрын
Remember all these ads it's a pity they dont do this any more
@dontgivamonkeyz 2 жыл бұрын
The adverts seemed to be so much more organic in those days and represented the feeling of Christmas in a more wholesome kind of way. Nowadays so many seem to be contrived and have another subliminal message they're trying to brainwash us with and over do it to be inclusive. Plus the size of those selection tins 😮 forgotten how much they'd shrunk.
@shirleydale2699 2 жыл бұрын
Oh boy just brilliant, with adverts like these we wouldn’t want to keep fast forwarding.
@CourtneyLachiver 9 ай бұрын
I’m not even from the UK and these commercials give me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
@RetroSteveUK 9 ай бұрын
🎄🌟😁
@davidpollard4051 10 ай бұрын
The days when Christmas built up from about two weeks before the 25 December instead of the beginning of September like it is now. Lots of good memories here.
@RetroSteveUK 10 ай бұрын
I work as a postie. We just saw the first of the Christmas promos / catalogues coming through last week. Late August! 😔
@lesleygrant3248 Жыл бұрын
I just wanted to THANK YOU Steve for your quality upload! Warm, nostalgic and it just made me feel happy. I was left with a serious longing to step back in time to the 1980's. Woolco, coloured Christmas lights, cards on a string in the living room and all round magic. Cheers! Lesley 😊🎄🎉💝
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
My pleasure! 🙂👍
@gemini802 7 ай бұрын
@@RetroSteveUKyou put a good video together here well done.
@FallenAngelEnemy 2 жыл бұрын
Also, the excitement of writing your Christmas list by circling what you wanted out of the Argos catalogue for Santa to bring you 🙈☺️happy memories 🎄
@victoriafinnin1215 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this. All of a sudden I was a kid again!! They don't make them like this anymore. 🇬🇧
@michailokeefeMooMoo 2 жыл бұрын
Woolworths was always had the best Christmas Adds
@TherymasterWidnes 2 жыл бұрын
Give me the 80's over this things we have to put up with these days
@mistybreezeselentiak1766 2 жыл бұрын
The best Christmas adverts were in the 80's thanks for bringing back some good memories of my youth :D
@judgeberry6071 Жыл бұрын
We can't ever go back. Why is it so depressing? Nostalgia used to be fun. I am old now. Good compilation. Thanks.
@pearlharbour3300 10 ай бұрын
made me emotional that,,carnt go back....the years that have flown by and the people we have lost
@judgeberry6071 10 ай бұрын
@pearlharbour3300 Yeah life can be quite cruel and unforgiving. It's hard to look forwards sometimes.
@marcusphoenixish 2 жыл бұрын
Aw that little girl in the kellogs advert was so sweet reminded me of when my daughter was that young
@Pelefan1970 Жыл бұрын
If only we knew back then it was as good as it was going to get. Happy days. 🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻
@simonevans6664 Жыл бұрын
Remember most of these adverts. Thankfully there was no Ant n Dec, Mrs brown's boys and Simon Cowell in them days
@Naughtybaz 2 жыл бұрын
Born in 1973 and remember happy times,watching entertaining adverts between entertaining programmes. I looked forward to getting the TV and radio times and getting exited about what was going to be on. Now I don't even think I've even watched Mstv for over a decade. Its too brainwashing and brain dead these days. TV used to be an escape But its too pc now Even Christmas is becoming offensive. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, great video
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking maybe with more channels and viewing options now and more competition for viewers, creativity may have taken a back seat to corporate targets and guidelines.
@maximusvr46 Жыл бұрын
a totally different world, wish i could go back.
@spotthedogaye2921 Жыл бұрын
Wow! The shrinkflation is clear as day with those roses and quality street. Also, when animated butter characters singing a medley to thank viewers for their custom through the year is a lot less cynical and greedy and more fun than a 10 million quid John Lewis ad you realise it's not just because you're older now, Christmas was just more christmasy, then than it is now. Also also, not sure why KZfaq thought to show me this vid in October, but it did and I'm happy, it was nice : )
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
It is strange .. this video did well last year when I relesed it four weeks before Christmas day, but it's been on the rise again for about the last week this year. There'll be a Volume 2 of Christmas ads this year, so watch out for that.
@sisterblissuk9253 2 жыл бұрын
I worked at kwiksave for almost 20 years some of the best Working years of my life! no other company like them since. Lol the liquor save adverts,I remember watching them smiling, and I did now! Ty 😊
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
That Liquor Save at Kwik Save jingle has stayed in my head for decades. Evey time I hear the work 'liquor' it immediately comes to mind.
@tombridge1225 2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic, the days when ads were entertaining, amusing and funny. These days, doom and gloom, life insurance and charities...end of story!
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
Ads feel more patronising these days to me, and a lot more irritating in some cases. Could be I'm getting more cynical as I get older.
@spmoran4703 2 жыл бұрын
And those sick sentimental ads featuring children and a living teddy bear or a space alien . Yuck pass me the sick bag.
@edwardowen4488 9 ай бұрын
I long for those days when life was magic and you had to get off your backside to change the channels on the TV!by far my biggest childhood memories were of how special Xmas was,the build up of excitement to the big day and not being able to sleep on Xmas eve because of the excitement! My dad worked hard all year to give us the best Xmas ever and to see him on Xmas morning watching us open our presents and smile at all of us is a special memory that's as strong now as it was back then!seeing this video brings back memories of the wonderful and caring dad he was! Rip dad 😢❤
@RetroSteveUK 9 ай бұрын
Lovely! Very similar memories for me. Also, we had a remote for the TV; it was me! - "Go switch the telly over to ITV, Steve!" 🤣
@christinepage1523 Жыл бұрын
I would love to go back to those times, it's like we are on a different world now, and living a nightmare. Adverts were brilliant, tins of sweets were bigger, bars of chocolates were bigger, now everything we buy gets much smaller and more costly. Hate today's days.
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
I can't argue with that. A little "looking back" does us the world of good, especially right now. 😔
@christinepage1523 Жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK I think I just deleted something that I didn't mean to do, is there something I can do to get it back?
@RetroSteveUK Жыл бұрын
@@christinepage1523 In the comments section? Or something else?
@dsd310580 7 ай бұрын
I’m 43. I’ve always loved Christmas and telly. This is the first Christmas without my Mum. This compilation got me all Christmassy and nostalgic. And it made me cry. I remember many of these. I’d go back to the 1980s in a heartbeat. Even the 1990s. Thank you for this.
@RetroSteveUK 7 ай бұрын
🤗🎄
@5mastodon 10 ай бұрын
Seeing these again bring back so many wonderful memories. Christmas was so much more special back then. TV channels used to make much more effort,we still got great new Christmas songs and we lived at a time when we didnt have treats and gifts all through the year,so you appreciated everything so much more at Christmas. I remember the buzz of recording the movies and Christmas specials that were on over the festive period onto video. Simpler but better times. I miss those days.
@RetroSteveUK 10 ай бұрын
Choosing what you were going to watch and record on VHS was definitely part of the appeal. These days in our household we either set stuff to record on the TV box, or just watch on demand. It isn't quite the same, but we do get more quality time together, ironically.
@5mastodon 10 ай бұрын
@@RetroSteveUK I think that's the main thing about those old Christmases,the quality time spent with family and its still the most important thing.
@Agnethatheredhairkid 2 жыл бұрын
28 of the best minutes I have ever spent, Steve!
@RetroSteveUK 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! You just made my day. 🤗
@Cloken100 Жыл бұрын
Christmas just felt so more magical back in the 90s 😢
@Michelle-qd9gm Жыл бұрын
In the 80s that was when tv was a joy to watch loved it buying the tv mag to circle what films you want to watch 😂 it was full stop entertainment on a sat night for all the family and I loved listening to the top 40 on the radio it was fun and getting paid every week not monthly
@dr.t. 2 жыл бұрын
Love this remember these from the 80's, I'm now 53 please take me back cos the world we live in now is crazy and not nice, society has gone backwards unfortunately!
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