Commercials from your childhood.

[molly bloom]

The Milky Bar kid is strong and tough and the singers can't pronounce 'Nestle's'....

[molly bloom]

Annoyingly I cannot find the footage of an advertisement for Cluedo/Clue with a narration by Valentine Dyall (I think) that was if anything as enjoyable as the game... wonderful sepulchral intonation of 'Who killed Doctor Black'... with creaking doors and chilly draughts all filmed in black and white...

Appointment With Fear

1943 - 1949, & 1955

The Man In Black

1949



Narrator: Valentine Dyall

Appointment With Fear was the British version of Suspense, complete with the same music theme. The host, however, was British actor Valentine Dyall. Other than the different host (referred to as the Man in Black) the series was the same as the American original. Appointment With Fear ran for a total of ten series. Valentine hosted nine of them except the second one (perhaps due to the war?). He was replaced during that series by his father, Franklin Dyall*.

Appointment With Fear ran sporadically from 1943 to 1949 (plus a revival in 1955). Sometime in 1949, the series was renamed The Man In Black, and had a very similar format to Appointment With Fear. (Britishdrama.org)

Dyall starred in various movies in the 1940s and 1960s. He also played the Black Guardian in TV's Dr. Who in the early 1980s. He continued to work in radio, and played in many Halloween broadcasts of the '70s and '80s, sometimes nostalgically recreating "The Man in Black." In 1988, a series of twelve radio shows under the title Fear on Four recreated Dyall's character, but it was voiced by Edward de Souza. (Dyall had died three years earlier at the age of 77.) The program continued sporadically for a 2nd, 3rd and 4th series, ending in December 1992.

http://www.radiohorrorhosts.com/Appointment.html

Dyall appeared in 'The Haunting' (the original directed by Rovert Wise) and 'Horror Hotel' amongst others...

[Al B. Sure!]

mixing up Turks with Arabs (note to ad agencies- Turkey lacks deserts, and men wore the fez, not turbans...)

The fez in Turkey originates from the 1820's:

In 1826 Sultan Mahmud II of the Ottoman Empire suppressed the Janissaries and began sweeping reforms of the military. His modernized military adopted Western style uniforms and, as hats, the fez with a cloth wrapped around it. In 1829 the Sultan ordered his civil officials to wear the plain fez, and also banned the wearing of turbans.[5] The intention was to coerce the populace at large to update to the fez, and the plan was successful.

They wore turbans before then.

And southeast Turkey is a desert.

[Dinner]

Not really. It looks a lot like Northern Iraq. Sure, if it wasn't mountainous it probably would be borderline desert but, no, it is not desert. Let me know when you actually visit the area.

[Al B. Sure!]

Yuvacali, Turkey:

[Ban Kenobi]

Turkey's climate is not officially classified as a desert climate although you're free to define "desert" however you like.

[molly bloom]

The fez in Turkey originates from the 1820's:

Having mentioned that Turks wore the fez, why would you think you need to inform me about them wearing them ?

And southeast Turkey is a desert.

A) It ain't

B) The operative word was 'deserts', that's the plural form of 'desert'. Good luck with that remedial English course.

[Al B. Sure!]

Because they wore turbans before then.

[molly bloom]

Because they wore turbans before then.

No, really ?

Imagine, I'd seen the Bellini portrait of Suleiman the Law Giver and never realised that thing on his head was a turban. I thought he was on his way to the laundry.

Not all Turks (nor indeed non-Turkish inhabitants of the Ottoman Empire wore turbans, even before the fez decree. You can read about it in this book:

'Constantinople' by Philip Mansel. The varieties of distinctive dress in the Ottoman Empire are also mentioned in Simon Winder's 'Danubia' and if I recall correctly, in 'Lords Of The Golden Horn' .

Happy reading.

[Sir Og]

There were no commercials in my childhood. The central planning committee was deciding what our economy should produce and all companies were state owned. So commercials served no purpose.
There was pretty much one kind of each product only.