Does anyone else remember?

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Those awful fire safety and road safety adverts when I was growing up in the early 2000s? I used to have awful nightmares from them and am fairly sure they must have gotten complaints from others as well, because they haven’t been on the TV for years! Yes they told a tough love message but they were just too much.🙁

How many fires or road accidents have you caused though?

The cartoons with Charlie?

I was a 70s child and I remember them very well, including the 'Don't play with fireworks' adverts.

I think they were a great idea and I hope they didn't disappear because a few idiots complained.

I think Charlie Says was the 1970s and 1980s - much too harsh for the 2000s, surely?

More the “Fire Kills” TV campaign - if you look on YouTube you’ll see some were very severe

Still have the car accident ones in Ireland, they're brutal

PIFs and PSAs are my absolute favourite thing.

Look up HelloImAPIzza on Youtube. Best channel for them. I am currently watching a 6 and half hour video of scary ones.

PSAs never really vanished. Lots still get made.

Then you’ll know the ones I mean - particularly the one where the old lady is trapped in the burning house because she can’t find the keys to the front door (it pans out to a street scene where you can see her silhouette pressing against the glass on the inside), awful😕

There was one with the Grim Reaper in it, scared the living daylights out of me.

Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water.
About the dangers of kids playing near lakes etc.

Of course it's awful, given the subject is 'We don't want anyone to burn to death'.

They were hard hitting for a reason.

Me age 21 with David Prowse ( Darth Vader)doing a promotion when l worked for Roas Safety.. ( The Green cross code man... he was on the telly all the time) he lifted me up on one arm .. ( l did only weigh 8 stone then).. he was a wonderful chatty man.. we went for lunch afterwards ( This was the great Yorkshire show)..

2000’s blimey you would have hated the 70’s I have a fear of hammers, peaches, kites and pylons as a result!

Donald Plesence was the narrator.

They had to be so people remembered.

Some modern ones are pretty awful. There is one about gun crime. A family is sat down to a meal and the mum pulls out a gun and shoots her young child in the head, then sinks to the floor. The message being that if you know one of your kids is carrying a gun, then you may as well be carrying it yourself.
Very hard hitting.

There was the car one where the driver died when then back seat passenger wasn’t strapped in and the front passenger was a teenage girl screaming - she was a friend at uni.

Julie Knew Her Killer. About seat belts.

I always remember those terrifying AIDS ads in the 80’s put the fear of God in people

Remember the AIDS adverts? Absolutely terrifying.

I vaguely remember a chip pan fire and man falling asleep in a chair and his cigarette causing a fire… they might have been 70s or 80s though.
We had loads in the 70s. Charlie Says, the coastguard ones with Joe and Petunia and the man “ in his little dinghy” and that really scary one where Jimmy gets his frisbee stuck in a pylon and comes to a nasty end. That one always freaked me out because you never saw exactly what happened to Jimmy… just a flash and a crackling electrical sound and the girl screaming JIMMEEEEEEEE!!!!
😩🤣

Actually, I found the ones about what to do in the event of a nuclear bomb being dropped and subsequent four minute warning absolutely terrifying.
I think one piece of advice was to take shelter under the kitchen table...
Yeah, that'll work.

Protect and Survive.

And painting your windows white while hiding behind a mattress propped at a right angle to an internal wall!

No, I was living overseas at the time, but I'm old enough to remember the ones from the 70s!!🤣

... and one from late years that had the song Que Sera Sera, whatever will be will be.... but I can't remember if that was UK or overseas?!

Aids: Don’t Die of Ignorance. Chiselled on a gravestone.
Between that and the Protect and Survive nuclear war adverts, I’m amazed I got through my teen years without thinking death was imminent.