Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
*Otherwise known as Easter Sunday 1999.
Usually I'd top these descriptions with a "Now in 50fps!" but...funny thing about this and the upcoming upload that's similar to this...I *did* upload these long, long ago. But at the time, the rights holder of the 1998 "Merlin" mini-series starring Sam Neill was...VERY weirdly territorial with even a small slither of that stuff being in any user-uploaded video at all. How territorial? I got a Copyright Strike so serious that I was told that if I got another Copyright Strike at that time, the channel would shut. So I panicked and deleted the videos and that immediately put my account back into clean standing. Since then, there are people who've uploaded the entire mini-series in fan remasters that seem to have okay chances of not being nuked and getting nothing as bad as getting the music tagged...but, due to that experience I had (and due to the 15-minute limit of these uploads somewhat, it turns out), I've hugely lessened the chances I'd have of anybody detecting loose "Merlin" footage, barring a section of the end credits, and trying to put a hammer to the channel again. Fingers crossed!
Anyhoo, CONTENTS!:
00:00 Channel 4 ID slide for "Merlin" / Channel 4 ID sting
00:03 McDonalds ad
00:43 Ford Fiesta ad
01:14 Currys ad
01:44 Halifax ad
02:15 Compaq ad
02:55 Gillette Mach3
03:26 Ford Fiesta ad
03:42 Channel 4 ID slide for "Merlin" / Channel 4 ID sting
03:46 Lilt ad (Fanta Pineapple and Grapefruit)
04:16 British Beef ad
04:57 Tiny Computers ad
05:27 British Beef ad
05:38 Mercedez-Benz A-Class ad
06:08 KitKat ad
06:19 Homebase ad
06:49 McDonalds ad w/ McRib and Potato Wedges ad
07:24 Channel 4 ID slide for "Merlin" / Channel 4 ID sting
07:29 Audi ad
08:09 Nescafe ad
08:39 L'Oreal Rouge Virtuale ad
09:10 Alpen ad
09:41 Bosch Maxx ad
10:11 Sky Digital ad
10:52 Nescafe ad
11:08 Channel 4 ID slide for "Merlin" / Channel 4 ID sting
11:14 Diet Coke ad
11:44 Brita ad
12:15 Direct Line ad
12:55 Yellow Pages ad
13:46 McCain OvenChips ad
14:16 Nissan Primera ad
14:53 Channel 4 ID slide for "Merlin" / Announcement during End Credits of "Merlin" (1998)
*Otherwise known as Easter Sunday 1999.
Usually I'd top these descriptions with a "Now in 50fps!" but...funny thing about this and the upcoming upload that's similar to this...I *did* upload these long, long ago. But at the time, the rights holder of the 1998 "Merlin" mini-series starring Sam Neill was...VERY weirdly territorial with even a small slither of that stuff being in any user-uploaded video at all. How territorial? I got a Copyright Strike so serious that I was told that if I got another Copyright Strike at that time, the channel would shut. So I panicked and deleted the videos and that immediately put my account back into clean standing. Since then, there are people who've uploaded the entire mini-series in fan remasters that seem to have okay chances of not being nuked and getting nothing as bad as getting the music tagged...but, due to that experience I had (and due to the 15-minute limit of these uploads somewhat, it turns out), I've hugely lessened the chances I'd have of anybody detecting loose "Merlin" footage, barring a section of the end credits, and trying to put a hammer to the channel again. Fingers crossed!
Anyhoo, CONTENTS!:
00:00 Channel 4 ID slide for "Merlin" / Channel 4 ID sting
00:03 McDonalds ad
00:43 Ford Fiesta ad
01:14 Currys ad
01:44 Halifax ad
02:15 Compaq ad
02:55 Gillette Mach3
03:26 Ford Fiesta ad
03:42 Channel 4 ID slide for "Merlin" / Channel 4 ID sting
03:46 Lilt ad (Fanta Pineapple and Grapefruit)
04:16 British Beef ad
04:57 Tiny Computers ad
05:27 British Beef ad
05:38 Mercedez-Benz A-Class ad
06:08 KitKat ad
06:19 Homebase ad
06:49 McDonalds ad w/ McRib and Potato Wedges ad
07:24 Channel 4 ID slide for "Merlin" / Channel 4 ID sting
07:29 Audi ad
08:09 Nescafe ad
08:39 L'Oreal Rouge Virtuale ad
09:10 Alpen ad
09:41 Bosch Maxx ad
10:11 Sky Digital ad
10:52 Nescafe ad
11:08 Channel 4 ID slide for "Merlin" / Channel 4 ID sting
11:14 Diet Coke ad
11:44 Brita ad
12:15 Direct Line ad
12:55 Yellow Pages ad
13:46 McCain OvenChips ad
14:16 Nissan Primera ad
14:53 Channel 4 ID slide for "Merlin" / Announcement during End Credits of "Merlin" (1998)
![(2/2) Channel 4 - Ads and Continuity (10th November 2024) [VHS]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vSFHTs5CNRk/mqdefault.jpg "(2/2) Channel 4 - Ads and Continuity (10th November 2024) [VHS]
Part 1: https://youtu.be/cED6G8VrrhY
Surprise! I did some more tests cause I felt like it and I was buzzing over the ability to do this with my very current-day TiVO (automatically set to 720p, rather than the 4K max it can do) sooooo, have more of this ridiculousness. Join me in feeling strange seeing references to modern tech through the lens of VHS, which again up until this day was something I didnt record broadcast TV with in 19 years!! What is my life??!!!! (Note: Some ads were scrubbed because I got impatient and rewound/fast-forward through them on the TiVo box. Again, this isnt so much preservation as more flagrant experimentation so enjoy. ;D Also a nice accompanyment to the 20-years-before uploads Im doing lately, but I blather...)
CONTENTS:
00:00 Sponsered by Bumper from Beaverbrooks / Channel 4 ID sting
00:17 Vinterior ad
00:47 AutoTrader ad
01:17 Ricola ad
01:47 M&S ad
01:57 Very ad
02:17 HiSense Smart TVs ad
02:47 Lidl ad
03:47 Channel 4 ID sting / All Aboard! Scotlands Poshest Train Promo
04:08 Sponsered by Bumpers from Beaverbrooks
04:46 Channel 4 ID sting / Taskmaster Promo
04:57 EE ad (Broadband Deals)
05:27 Riviera Travel ad
05:37 Matalan ad
06:07 EE ad (Game Store)
06:37 Channel 4 ID sting / Junior Taskmaster Promo
06:48 Sponsered by Bumper from Beaverbrooks")
