For me, the 1990's was the decade when tv began to go down the toilet, with the introduction of Reality shows. And it was the decade that filled the airwaves with that aweful Rave, Techno and Hip Hop Rap Crap.
@signoguns ...and prison's too good for all them law breaking commies, it's like bed and breakfast so it is, bleedin' snowflake millllennnials with their PC brigade culture, send em off to an island, that's what I say ...simples. They should read the Daily Mail, it's all there in black and white like it was in the good old days, it's also on the interwebs. They should listen to Our Katie and Our Nige, they know what to do ...beggars belief.
Wow! That Phillips Teletext TV was an amazing piece of technology for 1980. It was almost a precursor to the app-laden, web-ready TVs that are sold today. I don't recall there being any equivalent to it here in the U.S. back then.
The other really noticeable thing is that almost all VOs from that period were done by people with exceedingly middle-class southern accents, even if the product was being marketed to the working classes.
I love the fact that when the Fiesta does the emergency stop she's not wearing her seat belt. But what's even funnier is that the production team didn't even get her to wear it before they filmed it.
The Princess advert sums up the 70's & 80's for me, 4 kids and a dog and no seatbelts.... ours was an Avenger estate, the original people carrier, as you could fit an extra 2 in the boot with optional cushions from the sofa
I remember as a very young child sitting on the rear wheel arch of my dad's Reliant Robin (think blue version of Only Fools And Horses van!), and clinging on for dear life as I was thrown around the back of it. Sitting on the rear wheel arch was so hard and uncomfortable, that I had to keep standing up to give my bum some relief! I was so glad when he got rid of that heap of crap, and then bought a Vauxhall Viva. After that he bought only VW Passatt cars, one of which our neighbour's son at the time crashed into their garage door! Sadly that was a really nice semi sporty model too.
Not quite, I would say the Prestel BBS service using the same text and graphics was the pre-cursor. It was however VERY EXPENSIVE! I'd ask my uncle if I could download a very simple game into my Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, and he would visibly sweat at how much money a few minutes cost him!
Yeah, I was going to say that Prestel was closer in concept, but Teletext was certainly more widely available, and pretty cool when one considers few countries had anything similar.
"Compact CASSettes": the bane of my teenage years. I was very excited when I got my first Walkman and my Dad bought our first "damped eject" Dolby B cassette based music centre. Chrome dioxide tapes, oh yes! metal tapes HELL yes: the wonderful and expensive TDK MA-R with its metal tape and metal chassis. Then I discovered the truth: tapes chewing up, having to spend ages re-winding, mucked up and magnetised pickup heads, fucking about with a jewellers screwdriver to bring the tracking back, cleaning pinch-capstans with an alcohol-soaked cotton bud. I developed a violent hatred of cassettes, both audio and video. One day I remember (prob mid/late 80s) thinking "I wonder if anyone will invent audio/video devices with no moving parts "solid state" "digital" and OH BOY was I delighted when the first MP3 players appeared. Bollocks to those days and bollocks to people getting dewy-eyed over OLD technology. Mankind progresses. Sure, there's nothing wrong with dabbling in old technology for the sake of the nuances that old stuff possessed and can't be replicated digitally, but hanging onto stuff like this for dear life is illogical and retrograde. PROGRESS! Don't regress, you Daily Mail worshipping luddites!
Remember the Elastoplast ad so well, must have been around 1978. Don't think a plastic would have helped much with a saw or chopper tho!! There, there, there lol
It would be strange if an advertisement for a new car featured a car which was registered in the previous year. I'm certain that 'V was for cars registered in 1980: 'T' was the letter for 1979. This advert may have been recorded as early as 1978.
I think these adverts are actually from late 1978/early 1979. The Elastoplast advert was running when I was at school. I left in 1979. The Austin Princess has a August 1978 number plate. But that's just me being pedantic. ;)
You're possibly right, if only because the Fiesta advertised elsewhere is an "S" reg (i.e. 77-78). That would be a couple of years out of date if they were still showing it in 1980.
I love audio books, used them for years you can listen and still get stuff done.old ads short and to the point to sell a product, now to long and silly or trying to hard.
"The Princess has a bigger than average boot!"...except you'd have to wait a couple of years for the Ambassador to come along to access that boot. Putting those suitcases in is like trying to fit a stack of letters through the letterbox.
The princess was a comfortably car, but that's about all it had going for it,I can remember having to get the front suspension pumped up weekly until I got rid of it.
Sunny Days that same year my mother bought her house for £11, 000 it is now selling for £250,000. If the same thing happened with cars,that £3000 would be nearer £70,000.Its no fucking wonder no one but the rich can afford to buy their own homes.What a fucked up world.
One of the reasons that the costs of houses have gone up is precisely because the costs of other goods have gone down. If the average person has more income to spare after buying regular goods, the excess will be absorbed by rents and property prices.
It was never called the "Austin Princess"* It was launched as an Austin/Morris or Wolesley 1800/2000/2200 but the rebranded as a Princess 1800(later1700)/2000 part way through it's life, rather confusingly making "Princess" a brand when only a few years earlier "Princess" was a model from Vanden Plas for the high-spec Austin/Morris 1100/1300. Vanden Plas itself became a trim level for the Rover SD1 & 213/216, Austin Metro, Maestro & Montego & Jaguar/Daimler saloons. That's not all either. It's all so confusing ! *Except in NZ
I don't think these adverts are from 1980, I'd say they were more 1978 or possibly 1979, judging by the fact the Fiesta is an S reg which is 1977-78 and the Princess is a T Reg which is 1978-79.
1:41 Nice implication that the Princess engine was better than average without saying any such thing. "Nothing average about the engine" probably meant it was worse than average :)
Oh yeah? So when was the last time you saw a Lancia Beta, a Datsun Cherry or a Fiat Mirafiori? Well I can tell you because I just checked with the Dept of Transport online stats. Let's take the Lancia Beta 1300 - just 12 left on British roads. Twelve! All the others rotted to dust or fell apart.
Harold-Sweat-Head considering there was only a few thousand of each of them sold in the haveign 20 or so of each is not that bad compared to the 200.000 princesses sold and only a few hundred are left ... Fiat Mirafiori or 131 is made in lots of guise
Yep my uncle started out in the 60s with old English cars that were very troublesome. From the 1970s through to the present day March 2015 he has driven an unbroken succession of Japanese cars. A Datsun Cherry, a Toyota Corolla, Starlet, and then three Yaris. He admits none of them were particularly sporty or head turning, but they all have been bullet proof reliable and cheap to run and nice to drive.
Love the car ad! ......but you couldn't use the phrase 'not the car for Mr Average' now! .....language has to be more subtle now, but in being so it's lost something aswell. Trying to think of a decent car ad now, but they're few and far between though that Honda 'nuts n bolt's syncronised ad from a few yrs back was pretty good. Oh, the days when TV's were made with wooden panelling!! ...my parents used to have a Sony Trinitron which had wooden pannelling.....the TV lasted til 1999!
The late 70's early 80's what a time to be young in and I was, it was GREAT!!!!!!
In a word PUNK ROCK followed by post punk experimental music ?
Me too. Born in 1971. Happy days - then the 90s happened and everything went tits up :(
I couldn't agree more.
The early 70's through to the early 80's were the BEST for me.
For me, the 1990's was the decade when tv began to go down the toilet, with the introduction of Reality shows. And it was the decade that filled the airwaves with that aweful Rave, Techno and Hip Hop Rap Crap.
The opening ad was filmed in Dover my brother was an extra. The 70s and early 80s the best decade ever
A time when adverts were not depressing , unlike now.
At least there were no ads for injury lawyers 4U back in 1980.
Or 1000% APR loan shark ads!
Yeah and no Companies offering you quick money at extortionate interest rates.
No, you could get C120 tapes aswell, but they were very prone to chewing up and wrecking your cassette deck.
Keith Martin oh those were the days , four kids and a dog in the back of a princess with no belts memories
Have you had an accident that wasn't your fault?
My dad had one of these VOM233S the reg he took us everywhere miss dad so much and his loved princess
Damn, I wonder where it is now.
vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/VehicleFound?locale=en
Love the Princess, good looking cars, haven't seen one for years now.
Last time i saw one was on top gear, full of water...lol
I used to love playing Bamboozle on teletext
I had an Austin Princess! Took about twenty years to get over it.
Teletext! That all changed fast. Fun to see products sold both in the US and in the UK simultaneously. Who didn't love Books on Tape?
Thanks !! Ive been lookin for the "Average Princess" advert for ages!!
Its amazing that particular princess was on the road for 13 years. Last taxed in '92. Owner must have spent a fortune on it.
I remember that Fiesta ad. It was the first time I saw computer graphics like that. It was unreal.
It was most likely a simple animation (cartoon) executed in a futuristic style.
4 unrestrained kids in the back of that Princess, you'd get six points and a summons for that now.
I remember my mum used to put our friends in the boot. Admittedly it was a hatchback estate, but still...
Also for driving a heap of rubbish
And don't forget the dog too!
Rust is standard equipment
@signoguns ...and prison's too good for all them law breaking commies, it's like bed and breakfast so it is, bleedin' snowflake millllennnials with their PC brigade culture, send em off to an island, that's what I say ...simples. They should read the Daily Mail, it's all there in black and white like it was in the good old days, it's also on the interwebs. They should listen to Our Katie and Our Nige, they know what to do ...beggars belief.
Loved the Teletext TV advert the most.
Wow! Used to see quite a few Princess's around my village growing up in the 80s! They're that rare now I'd forgotten they even existed!
Wow! That Phillips Teletext TV was an amazing piece of technology for 1980. It was almost a precursor to the app-laden, web-ready TVs that are sold today. I don't recall there being any equivalent to it here in the U.S. back then.
We had a princess. Loved that car!
Love how the Vo's are so much more gentle and relaxing. People didn't complain about being 'stressed out' then.
The other really noticeable thing is that almost all VOs from that period were done by people with exceedingly middle-class southern accents, even if the product was being marketed to the working classes.
What's vo plz?
@@eyebrowman1 voice over
1980 was a special year for me. I knicked my first fanny mag from Preedy's
The hot and bothered add is a master piece
I love the fact that when the Fiesta does the emergency stop she's not wearing her seat belt. But what's even funnier is that the production team didn't even get her to wear it before they filmed it.
The Princess advert sums up the 70's & 80's for me, 4 kids and a dog and no seatbelts.... ours was an Avenger estate, the original people carrier, as you could fit an extra 2 in the boot with optional cushions from the sofa
I remember as a very young child sitting on the rear wheel arch of my dad's Reliant Robin (think blue version of Only Fools And Horses van!), and clinging on for dear life as I was thrown around the back of it. Sitting on the rear wheel arch was so hard and uncomfortable, that I had to keep standing up to give my bum some relief! I was so glad when he got rid of that heap of crap, and then bought a Vauxhall Viva. After that he bought only VW Passatt cars, one of which our neighbour's son at the time crashed into their garage door! Sadly that was a really nice semi sporty model too.
The Ford Fiesta was on the road for 20 years in total. Last taxed in '97
What about the Puma?
Gimme the old tv sets with the old tv shows and ads anyday. Much Better than now.
Teletext - Precursor to the world wide web!
Not quite, I would say the Prestel BBS service using the same text and graphics was the pre-cursor. It was however VERY EXPENSIVE! I'd ask my uncle if I could download a very simple game into my Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, and he would visibly sweat at how much money a few minutes cost him!
Except, Teletext is the truth, whereas Internet is lies.
minitel - 1978 - interactive too!
Yeah, I was going to say that Prestel was closer in concept, but Teletext was certainly more widely available, and pretty cool when one considers few countries had anything similar.
I still have my book cassets up in my loft - they were brilliant!
"No baby ever held the road better" LMAO
I love the plaster advert...there there there :)
If I could drive, I would love a Princess, apparently, there are only 45 of them deemed legally roadworthy in the whole of the UK now!
$%!! I'm amazed that many still go. Austin Paininthea**
Cheaper way take the train.... oh the good old days!!! Not cheap now haha
"Compact CASSettes": the bane of my teenage years. I was very excited when I got my first Walkman and my Dad bought our first "damped eject" Dolby B cassette based music centre. Chrome dioxide tapes, oh yes! metal tapes HELL yes: the wonderful and expensive TDK MA-R with its metal tape and metal chassis. Then I discovered the truth: tapes chewing up, having to spend ages re-winding, mucked up and magnetised pickup heads, fucking about with a jewellers screwdriver to bring the tracking back, cleaning pinch-capstans with an alcohol-soaked cotton bud. I developed a violent hatred of cassettes, both audio and video. One day I remember (prob mid/late 80s) thinking "I wonder if anyone will invent audio/video devices with no moving parts "solid state" "digital" and OH BOY was I delighted when the first MP3 players appeared. Bollocks to those days and bollocks to people getting dewy-eyed over OLD technology. Mankind progresses. Sure, there's nothing wrong with dabbling in old technology for the sake of the nuances that old stuff possessed and can't be replicated digitally, but hanging onto stuff like this for dear life is illogical and retrograde. PROGRESS! Don't regress, you Daily Mail worshipping luddites!
The new ford fiesta with a 'pleasant airy interior'. How could one resist?
It also had a place for a map!
That ad for Elastoplast, was one of about three being shown at the time, IIRC. The Fiesta ad is just hilarious!!
Love your channel name : )
I have a Phillips Home cinema system, and it gives incredible sound. Much to the next door neighbours annoyance.
Remember the Elastoplast ad so well, must have been around 1978. Don't think a plastic would have helped much with a saw or chopper tho!! There, there, there lol
What the hell are those grey blocks on wheels in the Princess ad??
It would be strange if an advertisement for a new car featured a car which was registered in the previous year. I'm certain that 'V was for cars registered in 1980: 'T' was the letter for 1979. This advert may have been recorded as early as 1978.
To be fair, seeing someone in flairs showing off the beginning of what in essence is the internet was quite impressive for the time.
I think these adverts are actually from late 1978/early 1979. The Elastoplast advert was running when I was at school. I left in 1979. The Austin Princess has a August 1978 number plate. But that's just me being pedantic. ;)
You're possibly right, if only because the Fiesta advertised elsewhere is an "S" reg (i.e. 77-78). That would be a couple of years out of date if they were still showing it in 1980.
Terry TheRetroJukeBoxUK You're spot on. I had a VW Polo T reg, made in 1978.
The guy in the Princess advert was in MEN BEHAVING BADLY....bizzarely, he was called "George" in that as well !
I love those 1980s ads
Teletext haha, was like super slow internet with only about 200 pages, and yeah that lifelike picture man on that massive 21" screen!! :D
I love audio books, used them for years you can listen and still get stuff done.old ads short and to the point to sell a product, now to long and silly or trying to hard.
Wow that TVs amazing. You can get teletext with just a click of a button.
That's Daniel Massey in the Philips Telerexz ad, just wanted to give him a name check.
Weird....the guy in the Princess advert was also in MEN BEHAVING BADLY,,,,and he was called "George" in that as well !
why can't my tv receive ceefax.
"The Princess has a bigger than average boot!"...except you'd have to wait a couple of years for the Ambassador to come along to access that boot. Putting those suitcases in is like trying to fit a stack of letters through the letterbox.
I can remember one or two of these adverts. Oh so fun. Unlike the PC rubbish of todayx
Howay the ad's
Teletext was my internet when i was a kid :)
A great era
I want a TV with Ceefax.
The MK 1 Fiesta has advanced engineering.
The princess was a comfortably car, but that's about all it had going for it,I can remember having to get the front suspension pumped up weekly until I got rid of it.
It was so innocent back then.
The Princess holds water pretty well, as demonstrated on Top Gear!
I miss teletext, I'm not sure why but I do.
It's all so innocent back in the day
+t1000eg Which is why Jimmy and Rolf could get away with it.
+Stratoszero you talk too much.....
1:08 How did having teletext bring you closer to the video age? Bit like HD Ready lol!
That guy with the average car - wasn't he the bloke in the office with Gary on Men Behaving Badly?
£3K for a new car? Is the offer still on?!
Sunny Days that same year my mother bought her house for £11, 000 it is now selling for £250,000. If the same thing happened with cars,that £3000 would be nearer £70,000.Its no fucking wonder no one but the rich can afford to buy their own homes.What a fucked up world.
Yes and it's still not worth it
One of the reasons that the costs of houses have gone up is precisely because the costs of other goods have gone down. If the average person has more income to spare after buying regular goods, the excess will be absorbed by rents and property prices.
3k for a new car, but my take home pay was £60 a week! No such thing as top up benefits either.
It's all relative.
@@madeinuk68 I've got my own home and I'm far from 'rich'.
It was never called the "Austin Princess"*
It was launched as an Austin/Morris or Wolesley 1800/2000/2200 but the rebranded as a Princess 1800(later1700)/2000 part way through it's life, rather confusingly making "Princess" a brand when only a few years earlier "Princess" was a model from Vanden Plas for the high-spec Austin/Morris 1100/1300.
Vanden Plas itself became a trim level for the Rover SD1 & 213/216, Austin Metro, Maestro & Montego & Jaguar/Daimler saloons.
That's not all either. It's all so confusing !
*Except in NZ
Best fiesta design .they are too big nowadays
!980's UK Management/Sales company car choices: Austin Princess, Ford Cortina or Vauxhall Cavalier with three trim choices - so you knew your place.
who the hell ever wanted to check out the FT or the share prices on Ceefax?
People with shares.
My dad did
fatwalletboy2 My mum still does it today.
"The Ford Fiesta. It's a very advanced baby"..
Paddy allen, Angela crow, the guy that worked with Clunesy in mbb, enjoyable trip back in time. Old adverts........
Smsl. The Elastoplast advert was hysterical.
Wouldn't it be nice if books could read to you?
Even room for the kitchen sink, the Ford Fiesta
+Jordan Thomas Its a very advanced baby!
That Austin Princess ad was accurate, you couldn't go anywhere in one of those without fiddling under the bonnet first.
I don't think these adverts are from 1980, I'd say they were more 1978 or possibly 1979, judging by the fact the Fiesta is an S reg which is 1977-78 and the Princess is a T Reg which is 1978-79.
As they used to say in that Smash potatoes adverts, In 1980, we were clearly very primitive people.'
The rectangular cars looked better than that monstrous Princess. Probably more reliable too.
3:26 made my day
So the err train idea worked then lol
Adverts not meant to scare you into buying shit you don't need !
The first one lol. Now and then you wouldn't want to rely on a train to get you anywhere. Constant engineering works.
How many kids and a dog in the back of the princess!!??
Wasn't that the Beta? Or the Mk1 Astra?
"Booked it, packed it, fucked off" #TeletextHolidays
Is that Daniel Massey?
Is that an exploding ice cream 0:17 or a very cold one ?
lol
1:41 Nice implication that the Princess engine was better than average without saying any such thing. "Nothing average about the engine" probably meant it was worse than average :)
To balance the argument, most cars were poorly built back then - Datsun, Fiat, Alfa Romeo etc.
Harold-Sweat-Head THE fact you listed cars that there is still alot of around from the 80s says alot
Oh yeah? So when was the last time you saw a Lancia Beta, a Datsun Cherry or a Fiat Mirafiori? Well I can tell you because I just checked with the Dept of Transport online stats. Let's take the Lancia Beta 1300 - just 12 left on British roads. Twelve! All the others rotted to dust or fell apart.
Harold-Sweat-Head considering there was only a few thousand of each of them sold in the haveign 20 or so of each is not that bad compared to the 200.000 princesses sold and only a few hundred are left ... Fiat Mirafiori or 131 is made in lots of guise
Harold-Sweat-Head to be fair though i should have origanly said brands thare are alot of late 70s early 80s Lancia Datsun/nissan or Fiat
Judging by the number plates I would have said this was 1978/9?
page the oracle!
1978 I reckon - S and T registration plates.
Because it's been switched off...along with analogue telly.
The Box on wheels lasted longer than the BL Princess I bet
Holy crap, my first car was a 1980 Fiesta.... but I had it in 1995 !!
Amateur Flyer ha my was a 1989 Vauxhall Nova in 2000!
Yup Mr Average bought japanese instead because Mr Average got fed up breaking down on his way to work :) Teletext and Ceefax... welcome to the future!
Yep my uncle started out in the 60s with old English cars that were very troublesome. From the 1970s through to the present day March 2015 he has driven an unbroken succession of Japanese cars. A Datsun Cherry, a Toyota Corolla, Starlet, and then three Yaris. He admits none of them were particularly sporty or head turning, but they all have been bullet proof reliable and cheap to run and nice to drive.
TELE 📺 TEXT LOL 👏🏼
"Princess. Not the car for Mr. Average."
Nope. It was the car for Mr. Crap.
..or Terry and June ;-)
Voices seemed posher back then
Was from 1979 actually. Who could mistake those Feu Oranges?
there are still parts of britain in these ads !!
"...and he's bought a piece of cheese."
Austin Princess = utter pile of crap. Had to push one once after it had packed in.
'... and now, selected pages from Ceefax', ah midweek afternoon telly before it was ruined by Murder She Wrote and Matlock ;)
Love the car ad! ......but you couldn't use the phrase 'not the car for Mr Average' now! .....language has to be more subtle now, but in being so it's lost something aswell. Trying to think of a decent car ad now, but they're few and far between though that Honda 'nuts n bolt's syncronised ad from a few yrs back was pretty good.
Oh, the days when TV's were made with wooden panelling!! ...my parents used to have a Sony Trinitron which had wooden pannelling.....the TV lasted til 1999!