Re: Forgotten Public Panics
Originally Posted by
MyNameIsTerry
Anyone remember the old public safety adverts that would probably terrify many a millenial? The railway lines, electricity pilon and the knife, the man mowing over his cable (until manufacturers worked out how to prevent the worst of it by getting rid of DC current in the things), and the creepy one about kids drowning.
I took a stroll down public safety advert lane not so long ago...
Things started 'tamely' enough with Willy Weasel sitting up in the road having been knocked down by a car. (It's ok cockers, Willy was ok, but his ice cream was a write off) then I graduated to Charlie Says and the one where the cat prevents child abduction episode, then a montage of about 50 old public safety adverts...
My eleven year old walked in during the 'death by pylon' one, and I think he's scarred for life - so he definitely isn't ready for creepy-reaper-dude who looks on (chuffed) while kids are drowning!
TV horror aside, I think that our near-nuking crisis of the 80s stays with me the most. I was terrified. Everybody was terrified. A year later, we were grooving to FGTH's Two Tribes 12" - handbags in the middle of the dancefloor and enough Shockwaves hairspray to obliterate the ozone: "We got the bomb, we got the bomb, yeeeaaaaaaahhhhh"
Speaking of Ronnie Reagan etc...
Spitting Image IS BACK on the 3rd Oct (I think?) and all the oldies are available to watch.
I, for one, can't wait to see what they've done with Boris, Camilla Parker Bowels (intentional typo) and Katie Hopkins.
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