Tosh the Hippo Tosh From Backyard Again
Business firm and Garden
Allied Carpets (ane)
Nice and like shooting fish in a barrel does information technology at Allied!
(Based on Frank Sinatra's vocal "Nice and Easy")
Centrolineal Carpets (two): 1970s
Allied carpets (3): 1985
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Ariston: New year'due south Eve, 1985
Its guarantee is 5 years long,
That's nineteen 90-one!
Ariston!
And-on-and-on-and-on-and-on.
One million French think they're très bon,
Half a million Germans can't be incorrect,
From Italia to Bri-ton,
Ariston!
And-on-and-on-and-on-and-on.
Tune: Da-Da-Da past Trio
Axminster and Wilton carpets: 1970s
"Rug'southward eye view" of a pair of shoe soles walking along it, followed by this slogan:
Axminster and Wilton. Carpets with life woven into them.
Belling electric fires
The fire glows in a dark living room, with the background musicThis evening you're mine completely. A bulldog waddles in and sits down facing the burn, and the camera angle switches betwixt the side back view and front on from the glow of the fire. Then a cat walks in and they kiss noses and sit downward. Then a white mouse scampers in and kisses the cat on the nose, and they all sit together looking at the fire.
Bendix washing machine: early 1960s
If you can beget a washing machine, you tin can beget a Bendix!
Bendix Appliances
We'll do the homework!
Berger paints (one)
(Woman says "I don't know")
Who makes the paint for the Clifton Span
Or the ships that sail so far, then far away?
Berger — Who? — Exist-e-erger
Own't information technology quaint:
Nobody wants to know your proper name
But everybody loves your paint!
(Sung by Georgie Fame)
Berger paints (ii)
It's the paint the merchandise uses.
Black & Decker Workmate
Get him a Black & Decker for Christmas
BMK carpets: Late 1950s
Out in front! [Sheep mascot leading guardsmen]
Brentford Nylons (one): 1960s
All right? Stay bright!
[Alan Freeman]
Brentford Nylons (2): 1960s
Brentford Nylons — open Banking company Holiday Monday … all right?
[Alan Freeman]
Bush television: c.1970
[Scene: old-style railway wagon of smart commuters]
Commuter 1: The wife and I got a new Bush at the weekend.
Driver 2 pictures it, and with every annotate a new picture of what he is imagining appears on the screen, starting with a topiary bush.
Wonderful colour!
The aforementioned topiary ball now has lots of brightly coloured flowers on it.
Fantastic design!
The next picture is of a topiary cockerel.
Commuter 1 (settling down in his seat): Ah, you can't beat a Bush!
[Journalist makes reference to the product.]
Driver 2: We've got a tree in our bath…
Cantors furniture: 1970s
Turn your house into a home!
Coal: 1988
Come up home to a existent burn down.
Coalite: 1984
More —
More from Coalite
More —
More from Coalite
More than fuel, more glow, more fires to show from Coalite!
Buy Coalite — yous get a lot more burn for your coin!
Cyril Lord carpets
Squash it, and it but springs back,
Launder it, and the colour stays fast,,
Give it the treatment, the family unit treatment,
Enkalon is made to last for years and years and years and years….
This is luxury you lot can beget by Cyril Lord!
Dulux Paint (1): 1963
(With old English sheepdog, Digby) [What were the words?]
Dulux Paint (ii): 1972
Morecambe and Wise (you only saw their legs and heard their voices)
Dulux paint (iii): 1985
May the windowsills of Winchester shine,
May the doors of Wales
Dry out hard as nails,
The loos of Looe exist smooth and fine.
May Derby's halls dry even,
Ceilings cover well
In Motherwell,
The walls of Birmingham
Wipe clean of pea and ham,
And the skirting boards of Fife
Have a long life.
So brush in manus
Decorate this land
With the best paint!
Dulux — there's no better paint.
Electrolux vacuum cleaner: 1960s
Nothing sucks
Like Electrolux!
ELS furniture stores(c.1980)
Dum, de-dum dum, yes, yes.
Esso Blue paraffin (1): 1958
Cartoon human being wearing bowler hat in office answers the telephone four times
Male caller: Hello — Joe?
Dealer: No, I'yard the Esso Bluish dealer — yous know, the people that deliver to your door.
Some other male person caller: Hullo — Joe?
Dealer: No, this is the Esso Blue dealer — the stuff that gives extra warmth.
Female caller: Joe, darling….
Dealer: no, it's the Esso Blee Dooler — you know, information technology burns without aroma.
Joe: Hello, is that the Esso Bluish Dealer? This is Joe. Whatsoever calls for me?
Esso Blue paraffin (two)
It was Esso Blue,
I of course replied
With lower grades one buys
Smoke gets in your eyes.
Everest Double Glazing
You only fit double glazing in one case.
So fit the best — fit Everest.
(with Ted Moult, who dropped a feather to the ground in the highest pub in England, the Tan Loma Inn on the North Yorkshire/Durham border.)
Flatley Dryer: c.1960
Our mum's got a Flatley!
Flymo: 1982
If you find mowing the lawn an uphill struggle — you don't know Flymo!
All Flymo mowers glide effortlessly along, and make brusque work of long grass — fifty-fifty when it'due south wet!
Easy to handle, this Flymo mower collects grass — packing the cuttings in tight so information technology holds more.
And this one, with its extra-light Kawasaki engine, will get you into and out of the tightest spots!
For a dandy and tidy lawn….
Formica (1): early on 1960s
Jack Warner (Dixon of Dock Green): Yous know some people think Formica Decor … (phwoo) Formica Decorative Laminate is difficult to apply … in fact, it's easier to apply than to say! Your Handyman shop has it, and they'll cut it to size for you — then you glue it on and cease it off.
Just look at this (hands seen covering a damaged occasional tabular array with Formica in i second flat!) — there, what a divergence! And you lot can do lots of things around the business firm just equally easily with Formica Decorative Laminate. And this is the sign to await for.
Formica
These days not everything that looks like Formica is actually Formica.
Hadrian Pigment
The deep gloss paint!
For a really professional finish, use Hadrian.
Hoover vacuum cleaner (1)
Hoover beats as information technology sweeps every bit information technology cleans!
Hoover vacuum cleaner (2): mid-1960s
Petty boy to his mates: Nosotros've got a Hoover 65!
Hotpoint kettle
Expect! Watch it! Hither comes the steam,
It'southward the Hotpoint Hullo-Speed kettle,
It'south the fastest boiling kettle you can buy
Now boils a pint of water, in nether one minute
Hotpoint washing machine
Will not, will not, tangle clothes.
Kingfisher Profile (tiling on a roll)
If it looks every bit good every bit this,
It can only exist Kingfisher Contour.
Kingfisher Profile!
Kosset carpets (c.1970)
To the tune of "Thousand – Chiliad – K – Katie"
Thou-Tel gadgets
The Betty Ann Knitter — the ideal Christmas gift!
This knife is really dull! G-Tel Majestic Sharpener sharpens your knives this fast and easy mode!
A new multi-purpose opener — hands adjusts to open all size jar tops!
Terminate littering! Some of those empty bottles tin be valuable! The K-Tel Bottle Cutter!
This is the K-Tel Hair Magician! By just combing it will trim and taper longer pilus, cut and taper shorter hair … quickly and safely. You can at present get the latest cuts in only minutes with M-Tel Pilus Magician!
Exercise y'all find brushing apparel slow? Well Here's your answer! The K-Tel brush cleans upholstery in the home and machine quickly! To clean the castor simply brush backwards. Lasts for years!
Marley Homecare: mid-1970s
Oh, come up to Marley Homecare, Number one in D – I – Y.
Maunders
Homes for skilful living!
Mazda calorie-free bulbs: 1950s
A light-seedling (trying to get into the light socket) shatters
Voiceover: Impuissant!
Mazda light bulbs (2)
(Two nightshift workers are taking their break. One of them is reading a book)
Worker 1: 'ey, 'ere … mind … listen to this!
Lord Clemston gazed upon Lucretia's loveliness. Her milky white shoulders were ablaze in the moonlight. Lord Clemston wrapped his thickly muscled arms around her delicate waist and whispered in her ear … (the lite bulb pops) … I can't see!
Worker 2: Lord Clemston was blind?
Voice-over: It's fourth dimension y'all changed your bulbs to Mazda! Mazda longer-life bulbs concluding 33 per cent longer than ordinary bulbs!
Morphy Richards toaster: 1977
You lot wouldn't buy a teapot with out a spout, so why buy a toaster without a plug?! Get yourself the simply complete toaster — with a fitted rubber plug and deeper, wider slot to have thick and thin bread. Morphy Richards — the one with the plug on!
Moulinex, c.1980)
Moulinex makes things nice,
Moulinex makes things uncomplicated,
And that includes the price!
Philips washing machine: 1985
The new Philips washing auto is so reliable that for a single payment of £10 Philips are offer a free lifetime parts guarantee!
Seems they've idea of just nigh everything!
The Philips washing machine — its hereafter's guaranteed!
Pilkington Drinking glass: 1970s
Amazingly pays in your glazing!
Pink Alkane
Man sits on floor confronting paraffin heater, and a vox answers his questions to a jingling petty tune
I've got a cold firm.
Why don't you oestrus it?
My heater's empty – I think.
Why don't you make full it then?
I'm out of paraffin.
Hither's the answer so, ring for Pink.
Can I afford it?
Most economic! But one penny, per hour.
Now can you tell me, who will deliver it?
Ring this number, right at present:
[Deep over voice] Band Hunter 1234 for your local Pink Stockist. [London surface area]
The dealer where y'all run into this sign, see this sign, encounter this sign [elsewhere]
Polycell: c.1973
Pye electric goods: 1973
to build you lot improve things …
Qualcast lawn mower: 1978
Hover cutter commercial — Accept 19. Action!
Extra: It's then easy to mow the lawn with my Hover cutter.
Director: Fine, lovely …
House-possessor: Alibi me! I hope yous're not leaving all those grass cuttings on my lawn (oh, no of grade not!) they can encourage weeds you know!
Director: Fred! rake-up those lawn mowings before you exit would yous?
Voice-over: As y'all've just seen, this lawn has been cut with one of those mowers that hover.
Fred: Well er — I'll be off and so.
Business firm-possessor: Oh, simply a infinitesimal — I've got something for y'all …
Fred: Er … give thanks you lot.
House-owner: Just run over it with that will you lot?
Voice-over: Now Fred'due south cutting it over again with a Qualcast Concorde. Every bit you lot can see the Concorde cuts lower than a hover, it'due south tidier than a hover….
House-owner: Ah! that's more like it!
Fred: Yeah! It's a lot less bovver than an 'over.
Vocalism-over: The Qualcast Concorde — for a perfect backyard … It's a lot less carp than a hover!
[This was an advertisement aimed confronting Flymo, just in the terminate Qualcast gave in and fabricated its own hover mowers]
Queensway carpet and article of furniture warehouses: 1978/9
Hit by Hot Chocolate
RCA Victor portable radio: 1955
Run into these ii portable radios? Well, watch this. Let her go, Betty!
(Wife drops a new portable while husband drops an old one.)
Pitiful friend, you old-style portables have to become.
Only look at our new RCA Victor portable radio!
Came through without a chip!
RCA Victor's non-breakable impact example means no chipping,
no not bad, no breaking. And hear that tone!
It'due south RCA Victor's great gilded throat sound.
Come across the globe'southward only portable with the not-brittle bear on case.
As depression as £27–19s. at your RCA Victor dealers!
Ronseal varnish
It does exactly what it says on the can.
Russell Hobbs automatic electrical kettle
The Forgettle!
Silentnight beds (i)
Silentnight beds (2)
Hippo mum (to her hippo children): Eat upwards your dinner if you want to become to bed early!
Snappies: 1974
Snappies – bags with bags of uses.
SodaStream: 1970
And so become busy with the fizzy,
SodaStream.
Large or minor,
Go busy with the fizzy,
Brusque or alpine,
You lot become a fizzy season with water from the tap,
Press the magic button,
And shake it like that.
Fix a little mixture
And add a trivial dash,
No trouble with the bubbles,
Splish a piddling splash.
It's a fizzy stream,
So get busy with the fizzy.
SodaStream: that's fizzy!
SodaStream (2): belatedly 1970s?
I got the hippy hippy shake,
Yeah I got the milkshake,
I got the hippy hippy shake,
Ooh — the hippy hippy milk shake,
Ooh — the hippy hippy milk shake,
Ooh — the hippy hippy milkshake.
SodaStream — get busy with the fizzy!
[Tune: The Hippy Hippy Shake by the Beatles: 1962]
Spear & Jackson tools, c.1970)
Spear and Jackson
The tools to trust
(stiff rhythm music)
dede dede
dede dede
dededede!!
Spearwell tools
Voice over accompanying footage of DIY chap successfully completing diverse tasks:
Well washed … Spearwell washed."
Swan kettles (1): c.1970
(3½ min kettle eddy)
Swan beats the clock!
Swan kettles (2): c.1970
Workmen, hinting at a cup of tea, asked the lady of the house:
Is that i of them fast-boiling Swan kettles, missus?
Tefal cookware: c.1973
Tefal for cookability!
Toshiba Hi-Fi: 1980s
'Ello, tosh, got a Toshiba?
'Ello, tosh, got a Toshiba?
Similar your howdy-fi system!
Like your hello-fi system!
It'south got a fair old bit of power!
Information technology's got a fair old bit of ability!
We are talking quality!
We are talking quality!
Class, every Toshiba component is stronger to last longer —
Know what I mean?
Become your ears circular that!
Get your ears circular that!
'Ello, tosh, got a Toshiba?
'Ello, tosh, got a Toshiba?
[Parody of Alexei Sayle'south " 'Ello, John, got a new motor?"]
Vono beds
Vono bedszzz … for a good nighttime's sleep.
Vymura wall coverings
As easy to hang as a painting.
Waterford crystal glassware
(1) Built-in in fire, blown by mouth and cut past hand with middle.
(2) Fifty-fifty when a slice of Waterford is dated, it's timeless.
(3) Every piece is a piece of work of art.
Westclox: 1955
Clocks dorsum Westclox, Clocks back Westclox …
[repeated to the rhythm of a ticking clock at the end of British Summer Time]
WL MagiCan: Christmas 1984
A WL MagiCan opens any shape of can, removes the entire chapeau, then ejects it automatically!
The MagiCan from WL — the home of bright ideas!
(WL stood for William Leverne Ltd)
Zanussi: June 1980
Scene: A warehouse. A large wooden crate falls through the roof; the crate (labelled The Planet Zanussi) falls autonomously to reveal a refrigerator freezer.
Brian (in charge): Right, where's this lot from then Colin?
Colin (the new boy): The Planet Zanussi!
Brian: Oh yes, aye, Zanussi freezers, washing machines, tumble dryers, dishwashers….
Colin: … Brian!
Brian: … Ah — now take this refrigerator freezer — how often practise you get craftsmanship like that then down here, eh?
Colinorth: Non very often!
Brian: And they're all reliable, economical — expect at this dishwasher — no flight saucers in there eh?
Colin: I don't know how they do it!
Brian: Well you see Colin — it's the apparatus of science, isn't it?
Colin: Oh! is that what it is?
Brian: Yes!
(Another apparatus falls through the roof)
Brian: Right, take it away lads.
Distant unearthly phonation-over: From Zanussi — the appliance of scientific discipline!
Bex Bissell carpet sweeper
Brentford Nylons (with Alan Freeman)
Breville sandwich toaster
Brolac pigment
Continental quilts
Crown wallpaper and paint
Dunlopillo
Fison'south fertilizer/weed-killer
Flymo
Fridges
Hotpoint twin tubs
Hoover Keymatic washing machine
Kenwood food mixers and blenders
Kossett carpets (with white true cat)
Microwave ovens
Ronco gadgets
Rowenta irons
Rufflette tape
Sanderson'due south curtains and matching wallpaper
Swish curtain track
Trimphone
Television sets
Walpamur paint
Fibreglass defunction.
And was it Tintawn carpets that could withstand a rhinoceros, and what was the slogan?
The following appliances were advertised in magazines.
Were there likewise television advertisements?
AEG Lavalux, 1960
Creda Zeromatic 65, 1962
Creda Carefree, 1963
Easiclene twin-tub, 1961
HMV vacuum cleaner, 1962
Hoover Keymatic (brochure), 1966
Hotpoint Countess, 1960
Kenwood Dishmaster, 1961
Kenwood dishwasher, 1965
Kenwood Chef, 1965
Moulinex, 1960
Parnall Vibra-Beat, 1960
Prestcold Packaway, 1961
Rolls Starmatic, 1961
Rolls-Colston dishwasher, 1962
Rolls twin-tubs (brochure), 1962
Colston Turbo-Jet, 1969
Colston Commodore, 1973
Colston Jetstream, 1974
Twin 5 twin-tub, 1960
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