Young Vila lies about margarine

[vilakins]

Look what thetisonline found for me: a young and cute Michael Keating! Just watch the first ad (or more if you're British and nostalgic). Awww, he's adorable! He looks as if he's just come in from a game. Which team does her support? Not Aston Villa anyway; wrong colours.

The ad was shown in 1977 on LWT, pre Blake's 7. I remember Michael saying he'd got his hair cut very short just before filming on B7 started and being worried they'd fire him. I suppose they cast him looking like this--and Goudy in The Sunmakers. I wish he'd kept it longer for the role of Vila. More, I dunno, roguish. :-)

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[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is rather adorable. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It is! :-D Even though that amount of marge on an innocent muffin is just disgusting.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

I thought that was a euphemism for just a moment.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

[snigger] Either way.

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Aw, sweet! (I had a mad moment when I thought he was the baby). Didn't recognise the green & white. The Villa's claret and blue is one of the few I do know, due to accidentally having been born near their ground.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Really? You were born in England?

Perhaps they chose colours that don't match any team. That would make sense.

[sorsha-khan.livejournal.com]

Awwww, cute Vila :-D

The colours match Scottish footie team Celtic (pronounced for some reason cell-tic).

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Isn't he!

I used to live in Celtic Crescent, and it was said that way, perhaps because of them.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I have a book of Soccer Club Colours published in 1976, not long before the ad was made. According to that, green and white could be Celtic, Hibs, Plymouth Argyle, Shamrock Rovers, or either of the Irish national teams.

Celtic are the obvious side, but that would have been a quick way to ensure no Scottish Protestant ever ate Stork again. Actually, looking at the list of teams does suggest that the advertisers were targetting the Catholic market!

[sorsha-khan.livejournal.com]

Argyle? D'oh! & I live in Plymouth too.... *facepalm*

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have thought of it! And looking at the club site, that appears to be a dark and greyish sort of green (can't quite tell from the 1976 book, then they were white with very thin green trimmings).

[hafren.livejournal.com]

I was. Birmingham; my parents were both teachers and had left Wales to work in the English education system - missionaries, you might say. But they didn't stay long in Brum, thank god.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

teachers and had left Wales to work in the English education system

When I was a teaching in Handsworth in the early 70s (only 2 terms supply) so many of the other teachers were Welsh that descriptions always included if they were north or south Walian. :~)

So it's obviously a tradition to come out of Wales and try to civilise the Brummies.

[hafren.livejournal.com]

My parents taught in Handsworth in the 50s! I think the reason for the many Welsh exiles was that Welsh school boards then, spoilt for choice with returners from the forces trying to stay out of the mines, wouldn't employ first-jobbers - they told them to go off and get experience elsewhere first.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That must be an embarrassment on your bio! ;-) But still, you have an excuse for supporting Vil[l]a.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Oh lovely, boyish - radiating and making me smile. One happy Vila...
Thank you!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It made me very happy too. :-D

[vandonovan.livejournal.com]

Oh goodness me, I think he's slain me with cute! And he got dialogue and all sorts of things. Awwww. *watches it again* He's so cute!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I've watched it about seven times now. <3

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed that! I prefer long hair full stop.
The only one of those ads I really remember is the Operation one

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I wish he'd kept the long hair. He looks so cute with it.

[trixieleitz]

Aww, bless 'is little cotton socks :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Seconded. :-D

[marah-sarie.livejournal.com]

OMG, he is just too cute with the longer hair. I love it!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Have you seen The Sunmakers? He's quite gorgeous and sexy in that.

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks for the link.

As already suggested, I think it's just supposed to be 'generic football colours', not a particular team. As Celtic is a Glasgow team, seems unlikely to be representing them. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I agree. A well known team would alienate a lot of viewers and put them right off their marge. (Ghastly stuff anyway.)

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

My Mum always used to scoff, "Margarine's for cooking!"

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Not even that here. It's olive oil in this house. :-)

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

In a cake??

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You did say cooking, not baking, but it depends on the cake. It's butter in most, but olive oil in carrot cake and a yummy Greek Lent one vegan friends love. I always use extra-virgin oil too, and you can never taste it.

It's never margarine. [shudder]

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

Oh, OK then, it's a fine distinction. I'd never use margarine in place of olive oil.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, he does cute and sweet very well :)

(Then again, he still managed it right up to S4 when he wanted to...)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Like when he met Pella, one of the few watchable bits in "Power"? True Vila smiles are sadly rare though.

[wolfma.livejournal.com]

He does look darling.

Are you going to be trying to find a pattern for his scarf and hat now? ;)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I don't think so (Slytherin colours anyway!). If I wanted a football scarf and hat, I'd go for claret and blue stripes (Aston Villa).

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

I believe claret and blue were the colours of the wall tiles in the pub where they were founded.

It's strange how green is not used as a football colour except for the Catholic teams. (And then Everton don't use it.)

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Hah! That's adorable. I've used snap n' drag to capture a few shots. I may have a go at making an icon from it.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Tell you what, change the colours of his scarf and hat to claret and pale blue (google "Aston Villa" to see the right colours) and that would be really funny!

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I'll bear that in mind... *googles*... Ok, burgundy and sky. :^)

[pet-lunatic.livejournal.com]

Oh, cute! :D

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

He so is!

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

Aw, he is cute.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

He is! [cuddles him]

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Aww he looks so young!

Watched to the end and was amused at spotting a much younger Alun Armstrong in police uniformin the "Vicks" advert!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

He was about a year younger than at the start of B7 at a guess, but the longer hair looks so good on him. He still looks almost dewy in S1 before the shooting schedule and RL got to him.

Brian as a young copper! There was a young Alun Armstrong in "Enemy At the Door" which was made about that time, guest starring in one ep as a barber dealing in the black market. And instantly recognisable!

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

I have just seen this, and he is SO GORGEOUS! ♥ Thankyouthankyouthankyou for the link. I LOVE HIM SO. That longer hair really suited him. I just want to grab him by the scarf and hug him stupid.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Me too! He's just so lovable! I wish he'd left his hair like that for B7, but then Vila would have been even more adorable and made my brain explode. ;-)