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.🙁

There was a stop speeding one in N.Ireland where the car crashed either through or over a wall into primary school children having a picnic

i can remember tufty and the ant who caused a fire playing with matches

Tbf the drunk bloke falling asleep with a fag did actually happen to my dad, only burnt the side of the armchair tho twat.

I remember the Green Cross Code Man in the 1970s. He was played be David Prowse who was later Darth Vader. He came to my school and that had a big impact. I don't remember the ads.

Peaches??

I think many of the Public Information Films in the UK were commissioned by the Central Office for Information and employed teams from horror film production to give them the shock factor.

They were scary, but the fact that many of the audience who watched these films still remember them, shows they were effective at some level.

The ones I remember in particular were 'Julie knew her killer...' and 'Apaches' (about dangers on farms). Later, there were adverts about smoke detectors and keeping to the 30 MPH limit.

Barnardos also have a history of producing quite 'shocking' awareness raising adverts.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-SFqgiYVo

I had a fear of escalators for a long time after watching the little girls foot get sucked in because she stood too close to the edge

And was there ever a big push about not playing in discarded fridges or did I dream that one?

The ever present perils of an 80s childhood!

There was an awful scalded toddler one in the 80s.

Northern Ireland early 90s had anti paramilitary ones. A very long one with Cats in the Cradle as soundtrack featuring a son growing up like his dad.

Did anyone have to regularly watch the "don't play in quarrys" videos in school?
I think they tempted some of us rather than deterred us though as we played in the quicksand in the quarry near us! It's a miracle we didn't die 😂

The amount of trains delayed due to trespassers on the line these days is ridiculous. They should definitely bring back the safety film about children playing on the tracks and one boy getting his feet cut off when he couldn’t get out of the way of a train quickly enough.

'The Finishing Line' (teachers cheering their pupils on as they are maimed and killed during a grotesque sports event set on a railway line) is a true classic.

Ooft! Had forgotten that one.
i Thought it might have been a typo for beaches and this one

There are some about. They just don't get shown on TV. The British Transport Police have some. All real footage.
Trigger warning - one clip shows someone getting pulled under a train. They lived though but can no longer walk.

I tried to post a link but it wont work.

On YouTube search for British Transport Police Real Tracks

Protect and Survive IS terrifying but they were never shown on TV as adverts as they were meant for use only in the immediate risk of a nuclear war, which luckily we never got to. That’s why they’re on the TV and radio in Threads, but you will never have seen one on TV on the normal run of things.

My "favourite" was called "The Finishing Line" I think. The purpose being to dissuade children from playing on railway lines, the film was a school sports day being carried out on a live train track, with the children getting killled left right and centre as they took part in the egg and spoon race and suchlike. (My memory might be playing tricks with me on the egg and spoon race, it's been a while since I watched it but you get the idea.)

I actually bought the bluray of "Captured" specifically because this film was one of the extras.

We watched the railway film (and others - I remember the pylons one too) at primary school in the early 80s, rather than on TV.

Once a year, at the end of the summer term we’d all go into the hall, watch the horrific safety films, and then be treated to some woody the woodpecker cartoons. Happy days!

When I was teaching, we used the Julie knew her Killer one in our Physics classes. This wasn't a nice leafy Grammar school... it actually did get the science through to them (and hopefully a bit of safety advice!)

Maybe those is what is needed... an old style pubic safety film for patents about on line dangers for their children!

The chip pan fire terrified me as a child to the extent that I was in my mid 20's before I dared to fry anything.

I saw them too (also an 80s kid).
One time the local fire brigade came in and showed us how to put our self out if we were on fire.

In secondary school, we had a whole year assembly and a travelling theatre came and did a play about friendship and partying. Good music and it was fun. Ended up actually being about drug driving, and deaths were portrayed. We had no idea it was going to be about that!

We watched a horrible one at school called 'building sites bite". Awful graphic images of children getting seriously hurt playing on building sites. I had nightmares about that for ages and still remember it 50 years on. There was another one about playing on railways that was really sinister too.

The whole point is that they're well remembered and it caused you fear of doing those things.

Yes I remember them, and I think we should still have them.

The Irish ones were terrifying, especially the farm safety ones. And one promoting IS148 nightdresses (flame-retardant fabric) featuring a child whose nightdress goes on fire when she goes to get her hairbrush from the mantelpiece.

There was also a particularly horrible one raising awareness of rabies, which wasn't even film footage, just a photo of a bemused-looking spaniel being taken out of a car boot and a man fastened to a hospital bed foaming at the mouth.

Oh yes I’d forgotten that one!

Me too , I’m still afraid of pans of oil.
Would love to make home made donuts / deep fry tempura etc but no way …

I don't think I'm going back quite as far as some of these but that one where the man has killed a kid by speeding and he sees his mangled body everywhere he goes, that terrified me!