Christmas Bargain | Quirky Christmas Presents | 1970s Christmas | Good Afternoon | 1973
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- Thames TV 'Afternoon show' takes a look at how to grab a bargain during the festive season, and how not to be fooled by fancy packaging.
Presenter: Joan Shenton
First shown: 21/12/1973
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None more 70s Britain than the announcer having an ashtray next to her for a quick puff at the break.
This is so amazingly 1970's that it seems unreal.
I'm here because of the thumbnail. I know this will be frowned upon but...Joan Shenton was a really beautiful looking young lady.
That is the truth.
That's exactly what I was thinking and that's why I clicked,
She is like the working Man's crumpet
I hate to say this but if I had been living in that Era I probably would have become obsessed with her However there was always some producer / Other tv presenter, Who was her a lover boyfriend in the background Wasn't there,
Put it this way she wouldn't have been married or in a relationship With a minor From down pit or factory worker
They never were
@@jamesbomd3503 I read a bit about Joan Shenton on google and learnt nothing about any marriage or relationships she might have had. Not a clue.
I wish I could go back to the 70s England.
Much more civilised back then.
I just end up spellbound watching these. like a form of hypnotism lol
Ironically it’s still better than This Morning and Loose Women….
I just like hearing them speak. Nobody speaks that way in America.
When I saw that silver tensile and Bell On that package my eyes lit up as the flash of nostalgia from my childhood Transported me me into a bygone world
God be with the days.
That's a smashing blouse you're wearing
I can almost smell the 70s toiletries.
I'd watch this version of the shopping channel! I'm so sick of them peddling bad deals under the impression of good deals
It's a bit more brutal than QVC isn't it? Scolding me for not buying 37p talcum powder.
OldSoulMillennial
I can vaguely remember my mum going to do the weekly shop with a solitary pound note, and returning home with change. Mind you that was way back in the mid 60's .
If Tony had a slightly more positive attitude he would almost be like a retro Alan Partridge with those frankly awful presents
Christmas shopping indeed! Nothing's really changed since 1973...🤣 🤣
I think I bought all the above items from Woolworths etc. in Christmas 1973.
Tony's 'big bird' yellow wool roll neck looks really itchy.He had to wear it though, his mum took 2 years knitting it and if he'd refused , they'd have been no tea when he got home.
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Nothing much changes, electricity shortages and how cheap things now seem. Loved buying those toiletry sets for my nan.
That's one hell of a sweater
what about the hair?
Well this brought back bad memories of me smashing my grans 1970s Pifco facial sauna a couple of years ago 😫 we were clearing out cupboards and she pulled this pristine Pifco box out with the facial sauna in it. Never been used, my mum said she had bought her it as a Mother’s Day present in something like 1978 lol. So I took it and it worked perfectly until I dropped it :( price went up a bit by 78 as I am sure I remember the price tag saying £10.99 from boots 🤓
Facial Sauna , remember it well and the plug in heated rollers , my mum had those 👍🏻
Love the good old days.
When people spoke English and you could understand what they were saying.
True
English has constantly evolved, should we have presenters talk like Shakespearean actors as that is also English. I think you mean you love the good old days when everyone had to speak on TV like they had a plum in their mouth because it was a much more snobby society.
That’s wikkid bro innit, know what am sayin dude?
Oh you mean when TV pretended that no one in the country existed unless they spoke BBC English.
When everyone changed their accent to RP ?
At current rate, you can times all the prices on this clip by 12 to get the UK equivalent today. So that amazing Pifco Saunatronic at £6.75 is actually £81 😲
I looked it up, in 2021 (when you wrote the comment) it was about nine times, and now in 2024 it's over 10 times. Still a lot though.
I see how Victoria Wood got the idea for McConomy .
Soap, talc, stinky sprays was what I bought my parents every year... it's Christmas tradition! Apparently it was always "just what they wanted!" 😍
They seem to forget what the point of 'Christmas gift wrap package' means! You pay extra for the fancy box.. shocking! 😱 Instead of expensive Turkey this Christmas, why not buy Spam, it's much cheaper and you don't even have to waste gas to cook it! 🤓👍
I love they include Political awareness ... "These are made abroad, don't buy them - remember the Nations Financial Debt" 😳
Yes but isn't it nice to see those items popping up there and how we all loved the smell. Some are still around too!
@@americanmanhood 😆wow, talking about missing the point... not even worth going into 😅🤣😂
Oh gawd, I can hear it in my mum's voice "You're paying for the packaging.", "You're using expensive electricity.", "I wish you'd never been born.", etc
What kind of quick, quirky gift can we get for Basshead 🐟💀for always being first?
"Where was it made? Switzerland , where else?" Many things have changed!!
Joan Shenton & Tony Bastable
The lovely Tony Bastable. I used to like watching him on Tv. Looked up and he died young. I do remember watching Joan but not so much. OH the Good old days of the 70's - i remember buying these Yardley gift sets as presents for my relatives. I was only 8
For those talking about the electricity I'm guessing this was 1973 when we had powercuts for 3 days a week.
A lesson from history we forgot: Don't let essential workers wages stagnate.
I think you're conflating power cuts with the three day working week. I remember the power cuts but they didn't last for three days, at least not in my neck of the woods.
Quality content.
Amazing presents!
"Oh no! I'm spending thirteen pence too much!!!"
remember there were many issues in the 70s so every penny counts
I got paid £1 a day on my little weekend job in a bakery.
I remember having a telephone just like,.. now let me ?........ Tony Bastable that's him, well I half cheated I saw Tony below but amazingly remembered his sir name, now it's time for a rest.
Well of course you pay more at Xmas that never changes. You pay for the packaging.
On another note, I had the Sea Jade from Yardley and bath cubes.
I can still smell it.
I think ill go back and buy some!
I've really loved to hear there comments in 2024 on how Bread is shot up to £10 a loaf and milk to £5 a bottle Since COVID
I actually remember the presenters wow the prices 😳
The prices are outrageous!
Earn today's wages pay 1970s prices - live on £5 per week
Lol I can’t get my head round the context of the prices since I was only a few months old Xmas 73 so it seems like a send up them disclosing you’re being diddled by paying 14p for the convenience of a gift box 😅
I've just done some calculations
The bath cubes bath soap and talc would cost £1.03 as separate items in 1973, and £1.16 as a gift pack
Today they would cost £12.55/£14.13 respectively (or thereabouts)
The electric hairbrush costing £4.50 in 1973 would cost £54.83 or so today
(Note)
You can find the bank of England inflation calculator online and then create a shortcut to the home screen on your smartphone
@Taskmaster I was only 4 then so had poor understanding of what was going on
@@Keithbarber thanks!
To live in a world where everything was so cheap again.
£1.16 for the talc and bath salts etc was like spending £14.35 in 2020, so not particularly cheap, and to be fair, none of those presents look particularly exciting today! The electric hairbrush looked like something Mr Harman would introduce to Mrs Slocombe on Are You Being Served! 😀
Joanie you look great! That was one of your 'being nice to people' in comparison with some of your other work on snapping at someone' s heels. I am going to search through your draw to see which 'staying young' things you are eating! Who knew then that there would come a time when a friend would get you into a pan yard and panorama playing a double guitar with Glissando. I will also be looking in the cupboard for the bolero you were wearing, I know it is lurking there too¬
Peek Freans! There’s a name a haven’t seen since I was a tiny kid!
I got a Mark 2 Chopper bike for 73 Xmas . One of the best presents I ever got ❤.
How they got away calling it a chopper when we all but the kids knew what that meant, or did they!
You're a day out, the actual tx date of this is 21 December 1973, according to the TV Times from 15 December 1973
I like Alan Partridges yellow jumper
Alan Partridge was probably wearing a yellow jumpsuit and in a pram, not sure if he is old enough! I can't see the the similarities between Tony and Alan but looks like a lot do.
@penelopewelch831 yes many do .they are right.
Cheers for the VT clock.
...looks like a Smiths darkroom timer clock. One straight lever on the left, one curved on the right, all in a lovely Aga cream colour.
"Mr Heath's balance of payments crisis" 😂
Its the same now and always will be, for instance in my shop they have one of those large cadbury fruit and nut easter egg where you get a bar and then the egg is fruit and nut...£12 yet the big bars of fruit and nut are only £2 each and 3 of those makes you have more choc than the £12 egg and it only costs £6
I always bought my dad old spice and mum 4711 cologne 🤣🤣
Tony would have made an awesome customer service assistant. I can see it now "Ah madam, I understand you have a problem with the item you bought from us. I understand that you feel it's not very well made and want to know what we're going to do about it? Well not to worry, if you don't mind waiting while I go and find somebody WHO GIVES A SH1T!!".
Herewith the reality behind Black Friday. 49 years ago.
Serious stuff
Sweet!
18 pence..
What an absolute disgrace
£2.19 given inflation over the last 47 years
@@Keithbarber the strange thing is, 47 years ago, gold cost £2 per gram, now it's around £45. This means 18p should actually be worth £4.05 (22.5x .18) :(
@@Keithbarber funny, I remember maybe my mother having things like that, they were seen to be a bit fancy but I don't remember them seeming to be expensive and I only got £13.50p a week at work. Mind you have you looked at some of the prices of some stuff in the shops? They are shocking and cold cream can often be just as good it's said!
Now I know that it was the early 70s that the Bruce Lee hairstyle, with ears covered all to the neck, was in vogue. Which in the mid and late 70s was cut short only to cover the whole of ears but not the neck.
talc!
precious electricity lol
£6.75p for a face steamer! ..... they sell at an average of £25 today!..... they never had it so good ! .....
Got to factor in the average weekly wage - which was around £37 in 1983, so £6.25 was near a days salary
Hope she didn’ t go near a naked flame in that outfit
i like the hanker-chiefs
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It's like the opposite of Blue Peter.
The lady is Anna Raeburn who was a major part of the women’s lib movement back in the day.
No it isnt.
@@hopesprings7812 Who is she then?
@@MrDavey2010 Joan Shenton
@@hopesprings7812 Thanx a lot.
Basshead never appears in the comments of a clip whenever he is not 1st; for his diction does not go beyond this word, nor does he love lying.
He was here 9 hours ago already lol
Balance of payments haha, we are way way past even thinking about that these days, spend spend spend, then....bust
Do you realise what "balance of payments" actually means? it's the money going out of the country compared to the money coming in. Back then, a hell of a lot more was going out of the country than we had coming in. The economy was a million times worse back then than it is now. We were constantly under threat of going bust.
Have a look at todays nation debt figure old chap
Precious electricity!
It was- the power used to go off at regular intervals and all telly shut down at 9.30 or 10 at night. Cant imagine that happening now.
What happened to bath cubes?
They mutated into bath bombs. And people got showers instead.
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OMG can anyone remember these names??? I know they’re in my brain somewhere
Tony Bastable and Joan Shenton
Oh, thank you! Gawd, Tony Bastable, I wonder what happened to him?
reminds me of Willy Wonka for some reason...
Economic crisis? thank goodness these are a thing of the past.
Weird political swerve into 'forrin' products and balance of payments.
I'm using 'precious electricity' to type this nonsense
We have to remember though, that in the early 1970s there was, believe it or not, an electricity shortage. Mad, I know
@@cadillac9000 Electricity was actually heavier before we joined the Common Market.
@@markofsaltburn u mean in weight😉
3 day week. Powercuts went on all winter.
The country was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy through a lot of the 60s and 70s. They mention the balance of payments as it was a real problem. The balance of payments is basically the amount of money leaving the country compared to the amount coming in. In short, a huge amount was leaving the UK (largely due to us buying imports) and not much was coming in (largely because not many people wanted to buy what we produced). "Buying British" was seen as one of the ways we could try and tackle the problem, otherwise it was bankruptcy for the country.
" We counted all the cheeselets" 😂😂😂😂 Can they get any more boring?
We need shows like this now to teach the hordes of people who claim they can't live without food banks how to manage money better.
Also it could appeal if they throw in a few "don't buy this it's made by Jonny foreigner" comments after showing some junk made in china. If they told people to buy British now they would be ripped apart on social media then hauled into the bosses office and fired never to be seen on TV again for such anti globalisation comments.
We have plenty of our own junk made and sold in this country it seems to me know and at high prices, and yes to above!
Can't tell if that was a joke. If you're not joking, you aren't actually from this planet.