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These adverts come from a broadcast of It'll Be Alright on the Night 3 from Christmas Day 1981. There are a number of famous faces, from Spike Milligan, Windsor Davies and Paul Hogan (pre-Crocodile Dundee), plus nostalgia in thew adverts and shops on show no longer here. The adverts are as follows:
1st Break: TV ads for Boxing Day for Metal Mickey, celebrity Family Fortunes, Russ Abbott's Madhouse and the premiere of the Robert Powell 39 Steps version. Then the adverts, which are Beechams Powder Hot Lemon (Wife & Hubby shopping); British Tourism (with Spike Milligan!); Queensway furniture sale; Mars bar, Butlins Holiday Camp; Fosters lager (Paul Hogan - Drought is over); Woolworths sale (Windsor Davies); TCP antiseptic (cartoon) and Argos sale before going to LWT announcer Sue Peacock to introduce the start of It'll Be Alright on the Night 3.
2nd break: Thomas Cook holidays, Texas homecare sale, Coalite (Country Estate elderly couple try to keep warm); Tennents Extra lager (Couple in desert) and Pharmacin headache pills (Schoolteacher talks in playground).
3rd break: Selfridges sale, Beechams Powder Hot Lemon (Shopping couple); Jamaica tourism (twinned with Air Florida); MFI half price sale, Carlsberg beer (rows of pints convention) and WH Smith travel holidays.

By the way, if you want to see the actual programme these adverts are from, it can be found on Youtube posted by dunebasher1971 and can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYyCSuNnxp0.

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00:00Boxing Day at five past five, Metal Mickey's producing a panto.
00:22You could become an Amos actor.
00:24Oh, no. Don't catch me prancing around like an idiot.
00:27Oh, but, dear, you do it so well.
00:31It's a special edition of Family Fortunes at 5.45,
00:34as Michael Aspel leads the Give Us a Clue team
00:36against Windsor Davis and his It Ain't Our Hot Fun mates.
00:39And at 6.30...
00:40Was it?
00:41Damn, damn, driving.
00:44Do you know, all the pilots in my airfix kits have ejected.
00:48We've got a riding head.
00:50Fuck, and we've got no we've got a riding up russian, who is it?
00:53I've got a present in here somewhere, little boy.
00:56What's up, Swag?
00:57Swag is a robot.
00:59It's a robot, eh?
01:00It's a theater, Swag.
01:01It's in here somewhere.
01:02Barber, you didn't see what the academy was going to do.
01:04I don't know where to look.
01:04I don't know where to look.
01:05I don't know where to look.
01:05I don't know where to look.
01:05I don't know where to look.
01:06And at 7.15...
01:07What do you know of the 39 steps?
01:15Someone's fainted.
01:16Oh, no.
01:17Oh.
01:18Oh.
01:20Well, he's not down there.
01:22Well, he will still be able to...
01:22Robert Powell stars as the classic British hero pursued by his enemies while he desperately
01:27fights to save his country's secret.
01:29The 39 steps.
01:30Highlight Boxing Day Evening on ITV.
01:35Whoops.
01:37Well, Dennis Norden presents a new collection of outtakes in It'll Be All Right on the Night
01:413 in just a moment.
01:43Oh, that cold.
01:49You want a hot lemon drink.
01:51Which one, though?
01:52The one with the Beecham's Powders formula.
01:54Beecham's Powders Hot Lemon comforts at once.
01:57Then that trusted formula goes on working.
01:59Relieves headache, shivers, aching limbs, sore throat.
02:03Beecham's Powders Hot Lemon.
02:04That's the one to choose.
02:06Right, now switch off these television sets and watch my telemologue, operator.
02:16Whoops, that's me, walking, or rather fell walking, in England's North Country.
02:19Naturally, I took a guide.
02:21Ah, Roaring Hills, how serene.
02:23Sorry, I'm rambling.
02:25Bed and board for around six pounds with breakfast thrown in.
02:28People are so genuine, definitely genuine.
02:31Plenty of kids brought up north.
02:33Luckily, I had my sea legs with me.
02:35He's making sure the coast is clear, and it is so peaceful.
02:39Turn that off!
02:40No, it's Sandy Shaw.
02:42The English tourist boards say there's 400 miles of Sandy Shaw around the North Country.
02:50Welcome to Queensway's Super Sail 82.
02:53Starts Saturday, Boxing Day.
02:55Massive reductions on the most amazing range of furniture and carpets.
02:59Exclusive dining furniture.
03:01Blenheim Wall Unit $299.95.
03:03Half price.
03:05200 pounds off these luxury suites, and there's hundreds more in stock.
03:09Carpet of 15 by 12 foot room for under 40 pounds.
03:12Bedroom furniture, half price.
03:14Vyka double-draud of an $99.95.
03:17And free fitting on giant carpet stocks.
03:20Super choice.
03:21Super value.
03:22Super stock.
03:23Queensway's Super Sail 82 starts Boxing Day, 9 a.m.
03:31Weigh it up.
03:32What else gives you such value?
03:35Mars.
03:36With all the goodness of milk, glucose, sugar, and thick, thick chocolate.
03:40Big bar enjoyment.
03:42And big bar value.
03:44Weigh it up.
03:44A Mars a day helps you work, rest, and play.
03:53If you like a bit of this, and quite a lot of that, enjoy a touch of food, and we'll show you where it's at.
03:59Buckland's makes it fun.
04:02Buckland's is the one.
04:03Buckland's let you know that your holiday's begun.
04:06We'll give you a...
04:08You can do a...
04:10And it's true that we make everything free.
04:13If you like a touch of this, and quite a lot of that.
04:17Take a Buckland's holiday for months of this and that.
04:19Get the brochure now.
04:25G'day.
04:26You know, I can't help thinking of Oz and that dry, thirsty outback.
04:30We'd sit there month after month, praying for rain.
04:34When the drought finally broke, we had our own special way of celebrating.
04:38With a drop or two of the amber nectar.
04:41And now Foster's draft is here, you too can celebrate.
04:45Now that the drought's finally broken...
04:48Good.
04:48Foster's, the Australian for lager.
04:53There are hundreds of reductions and special buys in the Woolworth sale.
04:59Starts Monday.
05:04Sore throat, soothe it with TCP antiseptic.
05:08Gargling with TCP?
05:10Soothes your sore throat.
05:12Fast.
05:14At Argus, this Jones lightweight free-arm sewing machine
05:17with flatbed extension down to 69.99.
05:20The Argus colossal sale starts Monday.
05:23Well, with the weather as it is,
05:28the best place to be this evening
05:29is in front of the television enjoying our programmes.
05:32And that goes for tomorrow night as well.
05:34And at half past six,
05:35you can see Christmas as only Russ Abbott
05:37can present it to you
05:38in Russ Abbott's Christmas Madhouse.
05:41Right now, Dennis Norden presents us with a collection of things
05:44that you weren't supposed to see.
05:45It's a lovely day.
06:03Good morning, signora.
06:04Because we've always been famous
06:08for offering holidaymakers more,
06:10many people are amazed to find
06:11that prices for our holidays
06:12are just like other package holidays.
06:16Thomas Cook Holidays.
06:18Only our prices are like other holidays
06:20from good travel agents everywhere.
06:22Deal yourself a big saving hand
06:30at the Texas Ace of Sales.
06:35Save on genuine crown-white textured wall covering.
06:38Ace sale price only 59p a roll.
06:4135% off Conti-Bort mahogany.
06:43Full range of sizes available.
06:46Save over 80 pounds
06:48on a live-in-luxury majestic bathroom suite.
06:50Ace sale price only 99 pounds.
06:52Deal yourself a big saving hand
06:54at Texas Home Care now.
07:14Did you know that
07:15Colite is specially made
07:17to give you up to a third more heat?
07:23Colite.
07:24Less smoke,
07:25more heat.
07:30This is a truly extraordinary lager.
07:36Tenant's Extra.
07:40Brewed that extra bit longer.
07:43For extra flavor.
07:45extra strength
07:48and extra taste.
07:54Tenant's Extra.
07:55The Extraordinary Lager.
07:57If you've got a headache
08:01and one child to look after,
08:02can you imagine what it's like with 20?
08:05James, put Sarah down.
08:06But there's something I can do for my headache
08:08that doesn't mean I leave the children for a second.
08:10Pharmacine.
08:11I've got some here.
08:12They're capsules,
08:13so they're easy to swallow,
08:14even without water.
08:16But the real point of Pharmacine
08:17is that I can take them absolutely anywhere.
08:19I'll get on with my life
08:22while Pharmacine gets on with my headache.
08:24Pharmacine.
08:25Fast relief from pain
08:26you can take anywhere.
08:27Save your money for Selfridges Sale.
08:50Interest-free credit at Selfridges Sale.
08:54Save your money for Selfridges Sale.
08:56Save more money at Selfridges Sale.
08:59Selfridges Sale starts Tuesday.
09:01Open all day Monday.
09:06That cold, you want a hot lemon drink.
09:09Which one, though?
09:10The one with the Beecham's Powders formula.
09:12Beecham's Powders Hot Lemon
09:14comforts at once.
09:15Then that trusted formula goes on working.
09:18Relieves headache, shivers,
09:19aching limbs,
09:20sore throat.
09:21Beecham's Powders Hot Lemon.
09:23That's the one to choose.
09:26Discover Jamaica.
09:31We'll show you a paradise fantasy.
09:33What's old is what's new.
09:35We'll gather you with turquoise.
09:37We want you to join us.
09:39We'll intoxicate you with hibiscus.
09:41We made it for you.
09:43We tempted our bounty.
09:46We'll surround you with elegance.
09:49We'll drench you with sunshine.
09:51Discover Jamaica.
09:54Make it your own.
09:56And we'll fly you there.
09:58Air Florida to Montego Bay.
10:01Tours from £370 for five nights.
10:04Just ask your travel agent.
10:05It's our biggest ever sale.
10:12With more at half price than ever before.
10:14Thousands of sensational wall units.
10:16These are all half price.
10:18Thousands of three-drawer chests at only £11.95.
10:21That's half price.
10:22Thousands of chrome and glass coffee tables.
10:24Nest of three, £8.95.
10:25Thousands of high-gloss kitchen units.
10:27Sink base is only £39.95.
10:29That's half price.
10:30Wall units just £26.95.
10:32That's half price.
10:33And thousands of other bargains, too.
10:36Sales starts Boxing Day this Saturday.
10:40Every week, a group of Danes meet at the Carlsberg Brewery.
10:45Every week, they ask themselves the same, but nonetheless, very important question.
10:51Is the lager they have brewed deserving of the Carlsberg name?
10:57Every week, the same question.
10:58And every week, the same answer.
11:04Carlsberg, probably the best lager in the world.
11:07W.H. Smith travel.
11:14Where better holidays begin.
11:16W.H. Smith travel.
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11:39W.H. Smith travel.

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