Channel 4 Adverts & Continuity | 26th January 1985
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- Saturday night and Channel 4 has the Hill Street Blues
Adverts:
20/20 by George Benson at Our Price
Cellnet
The International Swimming Pool & Leisure Show
Ericsson
Ulster Television
Post-it Notes
Trail: Relative Strangers
Slide: Da Doo Ron Ron
Adverts:
British Telecom
Compass Services
Give My Regards to Broad Street by Paul McCartney
Milton Keynes
PAL
Trail: An Almost Perfect Affair
Channel 4 ident into Da Doo Ron Ron
Adverts:
Maxell
Cinzano
American Express
Give My Regards to Broad Street by Paul McCartney
Vauxhall Carlton CD
Tixylix
PAL
Maxell
Maxell
The International Swimming Pool & Leisure Show
Duracell
Wendy's
Post-it Notes
Lovely memories! "Get down to Our Price" I'd something I sing to this day. I remember that Ulster Television commercial with Frank Carson.
Hill Street Blues aired that night at 10pm on Channel 4 and was followed at 11pm by Da Doo Ron Ron followed at 12.25am until 1am by Scotland Yard: The Silent Weapon.
Interesting juxtaposition to see the Paul McCartney ad during a programme about Phil Spector, given his much-publicised objections to the arrangements Spector added to the Let It Be album. Mind you, I’m listening to the Broad Street version of the Long And Winding Road as I type this, you certainly wouldn’t describe it as raw or underproduced.
Also notable about that ad are that it’s not sponsored by a retailer like most ads for albums, and that it conspicuously doesn’t promote the album as a soundtrack, perhaps wisely as the film had been so poorly received. Also it cuts off abruptly in the word “record” (both times).
Otherwise it’s a very “executive” set of ads, particularly for non-business programming.
Back in 1985, I don't think supermarkets like Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda etc were available in Northern Ireland, I think not until the peace process of the mid 1990s before they came to Northern Ireland, so other products such as Macleans, Lucozade were valuable adverts for Ulster Television back then, and perfect cheap advertising fees for the companies.