Tesco: The Kings of Christmas | 1978-2025 Christmas ads | Festive Vibes

The story of Tesco's Christmas adverts. Subscribe, Like and Comment! We'll be producing more videos like this soon! Follow us on social media! Bluesky: FestiveVibes.bsky.social Would you like to buy us a coffee as a thank you? https://ko-fi.com/christmasuk TIMINGS 00:18 1978 - Simple price list ads 00:53 1979 01:27 1981 - A little Christmas magic 02:01 1982 - Back to price lists 02:35 1983 - The Celebrity Chef 03:19 1984 - Butler and maid 04:23 1985 - Hinting about Santa 05:48 1986 - Billy Connolly 06:52 1988 - Tomy toys 07:26 1989 - Scattergun ads era 08:23 1991 09:29 1992 10:17 1993 - Disappointments at Christmas 10:51 1994 - Did you win the Lottery? 11:24 1996 11:48 1997 - The Age Of Dotty begins, starring Prunella Scales 12:32 1999 13:16 2000 14:00 2001 14:44 2002 15:49 2003 - Fab Dotty finale, with Roger Moore 17:03 2004 - Scattergun active price lists, with celebrity voiceovers 18:47 2005 19:33 2006 - Present-hunting 20:17 2007 - Spice Girls 22:12 2008 - Des O'Connor 23:15 2009 - Fay Ripley and Mark Addy... 24:09 2010 - ...and Amanda Holden 25:43 2011 - The start of the Silver Age - Pogues instrumental 26:37 2012 - Scattergun ads 29:11 2013 - Nostalgic home videos over the years 30:45 2014 - Lights on - and then some... 33:55 2015 - Awful "gluten free" sketch 34:39 2016 - Dreading Christmas - Bring It On 35:43 2017 - The humanity around Christmas 38:17 2018 - Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without... 39:21 2019 - The start of the Golden Age - Time Traveller 40:54 2020 - Covid Year 1 - No Naughty List 41:58 2021 - Covid Year 2 - Don't Stop Me Now 43:32 2022 - Covid Year 3 - The Christmas Party 44:36 2023 - Be More Christmas 47:10 2024 - Gingerbread world 50:14 2025 - Christmas grumbles With thanks to Tesco for making every Christmas beautiful! All ownerships recognised and respected. All ads shown under Fair Use. MUSIC CREDITS "Keys To The Car" by Aaron Lieberman "Lagos" by Quincas Moreira "Feel The Funk" by Jimmy Fontanez All tracks released under Public Domain, and are available from the YouTube Music Library Original material © 2025 Festive Vibes