{"id":434,"date":"2013-11-12T19:05:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T19:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2013-11-12T19:05:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T19:05:59","slug":"ian-mcculloch-in-1979-xmas-tv-ad-for-harveys-bristol-cream-sherry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/12\/ian-mcculloch-in-1979-xmas-tv-ad-for-harveys-bristol-cream-sherry\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McCulloch in 1979 Xmas TV ad for Harveys Bristol Cream Sherry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An archive off-air recording of Ian McCulloch (Greg Preston) appearing in a 1979 Xmas TV ad for Harveys Bristol Cream Sherry has been unearthed on YouTube by Adrian H.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LkMFUTANQf4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=116&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Uploaded to YouTube from a 30-plus-year-old VHS recording, the advert (which also features Christopher Neame [<em>Colditz<\/em>, <em>Secret Army<\/em>]) does briefly break-up at 2m28s, but is otherwise in reasonable shape sound-and-vision wise.<\/p>\n<p>Also featuring in the same advert break are Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal (<em>The Good Life<\/em>) promoting the then state-of-the-art Polaroid &#8216;instant&#8217; camera (not something the low-tech embracing, consumerism-rejecting Goods might have had much time for&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An archive off-air recording of Ian McCulloch (Greg Preston) appearing in a 1979 Xmas TV ad for Harveys Bristol Cream Sherry has been unearthed on YouTube by Adrian H. Uploaded to YouTube from a 30-plus-year-old VHS recording, the advert (which also features Christopher Neame [Colditz, Secret Army]) does briefly break-up at 2m28s, but is otherwise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/12\/ian-mcculloch-in-1979-xmas-tv-ad-for-harveys-bristol-cream-sherry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ian McCulloch in 1979 Xmas TV ad for Harveys Bristol Cream Sherry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-and-crew","category-events","category-media-coverage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9n8B4-70","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}