Tetley Bitter

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The one I'm thinking of was on in the early 70s. It featured a man at the bar drinking a pint of Tetley bitter. He spots a good-looking lady heading towards him - bit of eye contact - but, as she gets near him, he just picks up his pint and carries on drinking. Tetley Bitter Men - if you can't beat 'em. The last advertisement was done using the slogan Smoothly Does It, featuring a man in his twenties, usually coming up with an unusual yet successful solution to a common problem. Perhaps the most repeated advert featured the man in question on a crowded beach seeing a bar at the other end advertising Tetley's. The man then threw a stick towards the bar, attracting a wet dog to run across the beach to the bar, parting the crowd to allow him through.

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[Tracker1960]

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I remember the Tetley advert with the guy at the bar when a woman across the room stands and walks towards him. The bar is quite full if memory serves me right and she is wearing a white polo neck jumper. The Tetley Bitterman music builds up in the background while she walks towards him and past him while he takes a swig of his drink. A real man .

I would love to see that advert again, it's one of my favourites. Wouldn't mind a copy of the music as well. Do you know where I could find either?

Take it easy,

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[georgesmiley]

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Does anyone know the name of the actor in the Tetley Mild advert circa 1981 who says "Ready when you are, Bob"?

[George 1978]

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Didn't the late Jim Bowen appear in the Tetley adverts, or am I confusing them with the John Smith's bitter ones.


No, I am not confusing Tetley Bitter with Tetley tea bags, but the irony was that Brian Glover also voiced the bitter adverts, didn't he? For a short time anyway.

[tex]

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Who remembers party seven, 7 pints of beer in one tin ?...Watneys i think, it tasted like nat pee and was flat as a ironing board within 5 minutes

[lea007]

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The one I'm thinking of was on in the early 70s. It featured a man at the bar drinking a pint of Tetley bitter. He spots a good-looking lady heading towards him - bit of eye contact - but, as she gets near him, he just picks up his pint and carries on drinking. Tetley Bitter Men - if you can't beat 'em. The last advertisement was done using the slogan Smoothly Does It, featuring a man in his twenties, usually coming up with an unusual yet successful solution to a common problem. Perhaps the most repeated advert featured the man in question on a crowded beach seeing a bar at the other end advertising Tetley's. The man then threw a stick towards the bar, attracting a wet dog to run across the beach to the bar, parting the crowd to allow him through.

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My boss is the guy who is the actor in the tetley adverts. His name is shaun Cranston

[George 1978]

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I am certain that Philip "Des Barnes" Middlemiss appeared in a Tetley Bitter advert in the late 1980s just before he joined Coronation Street - I saw a 1988 ad break a few years ago, which had Tetley Bitter advert on, and it featured a party at someone's house and a policewoman comes to the door saying there have been some burglaries in the area, and the Middlemiss character thought she was a strippergram or a kissagram or something like that - and someone in a gorilla costume also appears as well.

Another one from around that time was that "thank you very much, Doctor" - "Doctor?" - "Sorry, I thought you meant Docker" one set in a pub. And those 1990s ones which had "smoothley,[sic] gentley ,[sic] Tetley" in them.

[tex]

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My boss is the guy who is the actor in the tetley adverts. His name is shaun Cranston

Really?..does he still act?...any relation to Bryan cranston of breaking bad fame?

[George 1978]

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Who remembers party seven, 7 pints of beer in one tin ?...Watneys i think, it tasted like nat pee and was flat as a ironing board within 5 minutes

Only those who remained sober could remember it.

[tex]

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Only those who remained sober could remember it.

So weak you would have to supp all seven pints to induce amnesia

[George 1978]

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Really?..does he still act?...any relation to Bryan cranston of breaking bad fame?

Does he have an IMDB page?