Who’d have thought watching free-to-air TV in Australia and Sweden would be so different? To be honest I still don’t entirely understand it… Here’s me trying to make sense of it.
More importantly though… New episodes of VHS Revue coming soon!
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Hey I wrote a thing for Guardian Australia about how much better Subway was in the early 2000s. Read it here!
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Highlights from a 1984 VHS tape of the 1943 film ‘Northern Pursuit’ partially taped over with the 1976 film ‘Network’. Presented by David M. Green.
Featuring:
– An interlude with Bill Collins promoting upcoming films and a preview of ‘Cry Wolf’
– Cleo Magazine TVC badly distorted
– Kmart TVC featuring mostly items they no longer sell
– SoluElastin anti-wrinkle cream TVC poorly acted and directed
– Network breaker
– Nissan Pulsar TVC “Real True Blue”
– Does It Jingle segment
– Foster’s Lager TVC Los Angeles
– 1984-themed General Pants TVC
– Kraft Singles Cheese Slices TVC
– A similar Bega Cheese TVC (1992) featuring a young Roz Hammond
– Money Wise Account State Building Society TVC
– Channel Ten Olympic rings Ident
– Don’t Drink and Drive “Guardian Angel” TVC with impressive chroma key effect
– Bill Collins outro
Footage recorded from Sydney’s Channel Ten in 1984 and used here for review, parody and satirical purposes.
Special thanks to Alexis Kotlowy, John Hnatowych, Dan Ilic, Hannah Green, Nick Henrys, Annika Samuelsson, Carolyn Lawlor-Smith, Nigel Charman, Zoe Charman and our generous supporters on Patreon.
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Highlights from a 1992 VHS tape of “Yogi’s First Christmas”. Presented by David M. Green.
Featuring:
– Seven’s Family Christmas message from Mike Smithson & Dixie Marshall
– Wallis Cinemas TVC with seat belts
– Beyond 2000 promo with primitive CGI Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe “actors being brought back to life for the movies of the future”
– Beyond 2000 promo with a man in one of those spinning sphere things
– Sony Handycam from City International Duty Free TVC
– The 1992 Carols Celebration at Campbelltown Oval TVC with “BBQ tea” (special guest appearance by TV’s Andrew Maj)
– Whitehouse Furniture TVC with a “I’m a Lumberjack-esque” jingle
– Green’s groceries TVC
– Seven Promo for Bony and Pacific Power’s Carols in the Domain
– Clarksons glass repair TVC
– Super Seal plastic bag sealer infomercial from Demtel
Footage recorded from Adelaide’s Channel Seven in December 1992 and used here for review, parody and satirical purposes.
Special thanks to Alexis Kotlowy, John Hnatowych, Andrew Maj, Jason Evans, Hannah Green, Annika Samuelsson, Carolyn Lawlor-Smith, Nigel Charman, Zoe Charman and our generous supporters on Patreon.
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