FabSwingers.com forum: The public information films from the 70s/80's

By *UNCHBOX OP Man
over a year ago

folkestone

Anyone remember those scary public information films they used to show on TV?. I sure i remember Jimmy Saville doing one and the bloke who played Darth Vader.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

I was in the tufty club

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By *ire_bladeMan
over a year ago

Manchester

I remember date. He swam like a fish

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By *ire_bladeMan
over a year ago

Manchester

"I remember date. He swam like a fish

Grrrrrrr dave

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Charley the Cat was always getting into bother, and the wee man who should have called the Coast guard.

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

Charlie says...

Introduced us to stranger danger (and the chance of meeting puppies) but completely missed that children are at more risk with known people.

And Oooooo look he's waving!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ah, the honking of the weaver bird and poem about safety at work. Amazing what the mind recalls. I don't remember what I ate last Thursday but I can recite those adverts.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

the picking up litter one and green cross code one

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By *ire_bladeMan
over a year ago

Manchester

Haha the green cross code. Fantastic

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By *ire_bladeMan
over a year ago

Manchester

"the picking up litter one and green cross code one"

Great minds

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If they had them on again at least some "Jeremy Kyles" would get an amount of education. Certainly seems there's a loss of common sense these days.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"the picking up litter one and green cross code one

Great minds"

Frisby in the sub station...kite/fishing rod in the powerlines....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"the picking up litter one and green cross code one

Great minds

Frisby in the sub station...kite/fishing rod in the powerlines...."

Hang on, I've worked it out. Kids don't play outside anymore so no need for the film's!

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

Think once

Think twice

Think BIKE!

C...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Charlie says...

Introduced us to stranger danger (and the chance of meeting puppies) but completely missed that children are at more risk with known people.

And Oooooo look he's waving!"

Charlie Cat one used to scare me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Donald pleasance doing the very sinister one about gravel pits

And rolf Harris doing one in a swimming pool with kid's

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That one with the grim reaper and the Lake still makes me shiver

Oh and Robbie, the lad who got run over on the train track and his feet chopped off...cue the end shot of his footy boots hung on the back of his bedroom door [sob]

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Noone else in the tufty club?

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By *uperock99Man
over a year ago

Milton Keynes

I remember them, I will describe them in one word "CRAP"

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By *ongtalljonMan
over a year ago

North Wales

Clunk..

Click..

Every trip

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"Clunk..

Click..

Every trip"

You took the words right out of my mouth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Reginald Molehusband

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham

The 'Charley Says' films were awesome. Very odd but awesome. I remember them fondly from my childhood...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2AIB7M3V_j4

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So many in the 80s about chip pan fires! Why did so many people have curtains hanging over chip pan lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nick o teen

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hide in the fridge or freezer anyone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The wombles

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Noone else in the tufty club?

YEP!!! Tuftyite here!!

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By *its_n_piecesCouple
over a year ago

the ones where a hammer splatters a peach at the end

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By *ewnmaturesCouple
over a year ago

fife

"Sir Isaac Newton told us why

An apple falls down from the sky

And from this fact its very plain

All other objects do the same"....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They used to show us strange public information films at school.

A group of kids visiting a farm and one by one they died. In a silo.. drinking chemicals.. crushed by a farm gate...

Ahhh the good old days.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The voice of 'Charlie' in the 'Charlie says' information films was done by Kenny Everett if I recall.

Random factoid.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"They used to show us strange public information films at school.

A group of kids visiting a farm and one by one they died. In a silo.. drinking chemicals.. crushed by a farm gate...

Ahhh the good old days.

We were shown a nightmarish one in primary school about playing on railway lines. Lots of traumatised children!!

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By *ll of a QuiverCouple
over a year ago

Douglas

Anyone remember the one with Augustus Windsock, the worlds oldest living cyclist?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Noone else in the tufty club?

old man (probably wasnt that old ) over the road used to have a tufty puppet - used to go into schools to do the tufty stuff - official not a piss take

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"They used to show us strange public information films at school.

A group of kids visiting a farm and one by one they died. In a silo.. drinking chemicals.. crushed by a farm gate...

Ahhh the good old days.

We were shown a nightmarish one in primary school about playing on railway lines. Lots of traumatised children!!"

That's the Robbie one I was on about with the footy boots

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"the ones where a hammer splatters a peach at the end"

That's the clunk click one

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By *hickgentMan
over a year ago

South East Woop Woop

And now, Rolf Harris would like to talk to you about touching: https://youtu.be/JCZJifxTiTs

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By *each_PittWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

I can remember one that scared me but I don't know what it was warning against.

There was an old lady setting a bear trap for someone coming in the door. Maybe intruders or something, it really frightened me when I was a child.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"They used to show us strange public information films at school.

A group of kids visiting a farm and one by one they died. In a silo.. drinking chemicals.. crushed by a farm gate...

Ahhh the good old days.

Oh my god I remember that. I have an image of blood trickling down something.

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock

"They used to show us strange public information films at school.

A group of kids visiting a farm and one by one they died. In a silo.. drinking chemicals.. crushed by a farm gate...

Ahhh the good old days.

Sounds like an early version of the Final Destination films.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I've loved those films that I've seen on the retro TV shows.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember the coast guard advert "look love it's a sailing dingy"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember seeing some implied gory films.

The farmer climbing over a stile with an unbroken shotgun. You hear the bang and then see him lying in the floor having shot himself in the leg

And another diy'er in the garage, table saw a buzzing and him tripping over stuff and putting a hand out to stop himself

Put me off power tools for many years

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By *he horny kinkstersCouple
over a year ago

North West

Have a look at a website called TV ARK

All the old adverts, public info films and TV shows.

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By *educedWoman
over a year ago

Birmingham

I remember seeing one about taking off a door and leaning it against a wall longways in the event of a nuclear attack.

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By *owboy BebopMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

It was my Dad. In a new car !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wish I brought my brolly. I'll get it grandad. NO wait the green mans flashing

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