TV Cream Advent Calendar 2016 Day 16: Thames adverts, Christmas Day 1979

Taken from a showing of Goldfinger (not the TV premiere, that was in 1976) The first video starts well with Gorden Kaye and Patrick 'Mickey Pearce' Murray on how the appliance of science apparently exists on another planet, but then devolves into a TWO MINUTE advert for the Co-Op in which the actual St Winifred's School Choir sing slightly lyrically altered (copyright reasons?) versions of traditional festive songs. The Choir's hit would be the following Christmas, so here's your chance to claim you preferred their earlier stuff. And yes, Sally Lindsay appears clearly in shot. Guinness and air fresheners complete the set. In the second pause everywhere has a post-Christmas sale, the barman in the Schweppes advert is clearly reading off an idiot board and both the Country Life Buttermen and the KP friars make welcome appearances. Following that a tiny Bernard Cribbins is sucked into a Hornby train set and the long forgotten Anthony Quinn/Christopher Lee epic Caravans hires Patrick Allen to get its important message across; and finally the trailer for Star Trek The Motion Picture is narrated by Orson Welles, Wogan flogs Vauxhalls and Weetabix is sold as some kind of fitness aid. There was another break, but we posted that last year.