Adverts

Does anyone remember an advert that ended with a girl dashing out of the house after saying 'that'll be Barry' ? It's driving us all nuts! ...

Can anyone remember the ad, it may have been for cigars(?), which had a guy learning from a foreign language tape and included the above sentence? Thanks ...

All adverts in the 80s and 90s being loads better than the boring trash we get now. Many so iconic and to be fair memorable (which is, I suppose their point). For example, remember the McCaine oven chips advert from ...

This followed the standard formula of featuring numerous lucky people who had saved money as a result of shopping at Asda patting their pockets to make the change tinkle, though the '96 version took it to the ultimate level. The quick ...

A bunch of Mexican bandits steal a consignment of Bandit bars only to be apprehended by the federale. "I can't stand it with Bandit" was the catchphrase at the end of a particulary cheesy ad. ...

1983 - Cue a van with some workers in it wondering what's for tea, with each of them offering an accompaniment to said faux steaks to the tune of Que Sera: # Will it be chips or jacket spuds? Will it ...

This was an advertising angle for Birds Eye in the 1980's In the ad - the lyrics of the song were ...''we're sorry you can't join our club'' . I used to cry my eyes out everytime the ad came on ...

The advert showed a guy strumming a guitar and singing (out of tune)... #I've got those, can't get enough of those Blue Riband blues... Blue Riband's the wafer I really love. I've got those... can't get enough of those Bluuuuuueeeeeeeeee..... # ...

This was an advert I remember from circa 1985 for the BMW 5-series, where an ordinary BMW 520 enters the pits and the pit crew turn it into an M535i and it races off. -here was a kind of choral ...

  The Breakaway chocoalte biscuit bar is still around today, but I remember the advert word by word.... He was the meanest geezer in the city, uh huh real rough stuff, not too pretty uh huh, but he still remembers the fateful ...

In the old British Rail adverts I remember the voice of a choirboy singing, "This is the age of the train, this is the age..." and Jimmy Saville would promptly say, "...of the train". Can't really remember much of the ...

Butlins holiday camps have been advertised on TV ever since the late '50s, and produced a number of memorable commercials. But their main advertising campaign in the late '70s featured two blue aliens called Toot and Ploot, who arrived on ...

Post Office Telephones, as they were before privatisation (can you remember the green Morris 1000 vans they used??), used to advertise using Buzby - a big fat yellow cartoon bird who would encourage us to 'Make someone happy with a ...

In this advert there is a little boy in his bedroom eating the fingers as a celebration for "Harry the Spiders Coming-out party". At the end of the advert he waves a match box in front of the camera in a ...

Do you remember the Advert for Cadbury's fruit and nut which was animated and had "Hunky chunky almonds" "They're the secret of my beauty"? There were various other ingredients that all danced around an office desk. ...

Cadbury's Fudge was (is) a stick of fudge, covered in chocolate. Very simple and very tasty. The ad I recall involved kids coming out of school, and one is met by his mum who gives him a Fudge bar. The ...

I’m not sure what it says about a nation when peeling and chopping a few potatoes before dropping them into a saucepan of water is considered too onerous a task but for some people it obviously is, judging by the ...

I think it was in the 80s and always appeared in the run up to winter. It was for Campbells Soup and was on a farm. It featured a tractor and trailer, with this cute cartoon type turnip that had ...

"I bet he drinks Carling Black Label" was the slogan to this 80's advertising campaign for lager.  ...

Castella Classic Mild Cigars Advert starring David Jason. ...

Perhaps it was just because there were far fewer children’s programmes on when I was a child, and within that, fewer programmes preaching about how to keep yourself safe than there are today, but watching television in the 1970s and ...

The Chef's Square Shape Soup advert had a tongue twister jingle. Chef's Square Shape Soup was boxed soup in powder form which of course, was added to water. It was advertised with the jingle - "Chef's square shaped soups, shows ...

"A mans gotta chew.." was the Texan bar advert. Chewits had a plasticine Godzilla rip-off. The advert began with a couple of lab-coated scientists watching the monster on a monitor. The guy says "Someone's got to stop it!" and heads ...

This was on so often from around 1979 up until the late '80s that most people may well recall it. It was highlighting the dangers of leaving the front door open when there are young children in the house, and ...

I remember when I was a kid watching this advert for Clarks Shoes and there was a little girl wearing shoes looking very much like a princess. I would love to see this advert again - does anyone else remember ...

It might not be impressive these days, but back in the 80's Clarks had the most high-tech advertisements around! A kid gets out of bed, puts on his shoes and he is transported to a strange computer land, like an ...

This was a very famous advert at the time. One of the iconic adverts of the 1980's really. It featured an animated dragon, voiced by Willie Rushton. He was a Dragon, you see, with terrible breath (as you would imagine a ...

"Give em a lift,...ahah, with Cookeen". I'm not sure what Cookeen actually was but I remember it was used for baking. In the advert the perfect housewife/mother had baked the cakes or scones and then once the kids/Dad had eaten ...

#Just one Cornetto, give it to me, delicious ice cream, from Italy# Gondaliers, ice cream, Venice. For me it was a treat to have a Cornetto as they were classed as an "expensive ice-cream". They don't seem as big today ! ...

The advert always had an animated polar bear trying to look cool while sipping his Cresta. I remember Cresta being much more frothy than fizzy, and it was a staple drink for kids when I was young. The advert went something ...

Does anybody anywhere remember the Crown Paint advert that had a song written to accompany the visuals? The song was done by a choir with a soloist singing about all the towns across the UK using the paint . I ...

There have been many ads marketing eggs over the decades, both on TV, in magazines and on hoardings (one of the most famous being 'Go to work on an egg' from the 1960s, a slogan that was devised by none ...

Does anybody remember the escalator safety advert where the rag doll was dragged underneath the bottom step? I still jump off the end at 32 yrs old! ...

This was a telly ad sung to the tune of the Platters hit, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes. It went something like this...They asked me how I knew It was Esso Blue I of course replied With lower grades one ...

This was basically saying that Fairy liquid was kind to your hands as well as your washing up, in a bid to make you want to do more washing up. The song went....'For hands that do dishes to be as ...

These used to terrify me as a child! An ominous male voice would say things like "Fire Kills. Think about it" whilst on the screen, Christmas trees burned to the ground, etc. I would run screaming from the room whenever ...

Cute little Frito Bandito man who held two pistols and made quite an impact through his adverts in the 70s. The fact that he was a stereotyped Mexican character in the adverts, who spoke broken english, meant a lot of ...

I remember a lovely, sunny advert which I thought was for Kodak but have since found out it was for Fujifilm. It features a nice soundtrack of a woman singing Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World'. The only bit ...

I remember TV adverts for St Ivel Gold Spinner Cheese Spread. It came in triangles and the theme of the adverts was poor Roderick, who could never open his triangle. Meanwhile the girl whose name I can't remember never had ...

"Tock followed tick followed tock...", this ad has been widely acclaimed as one of the best ever modern adverts. A man on a beach waits for the perfect wave to surf. The wave arrives along with giant white horses on ...

This popular men's toiletry from the mid-'70s, Hai Karate was advertised as releasing the wild passion in everybody, and the adverts for it were hilarious. The suggestion was that it only had to be applied to send gents wild with ...

They were the best adverts around. My favourite Hamlet Cigar ad was the 2 naked lovers at the beach running towards each other in slow motion. When they finally got to embrace the woman had her lovers 'hairy chest' stuck ...

This was probably on TV around 1974, filmed in a children's playschool. The children were given Happy Faces biscuits to play with. It ended on one of the children looking at the sun through one of the biscuits. I know ...

I still remember the song lines to the advert for harmony Hair Colour: "Do you dream in colour? What colour do you dream? Is it mirror or mirage? Are things what they seem? Cue a fantastic array of pecock-like hairdos. ...

"Is she... isn't she?" was the catchline from the 70's advert for Harmony Hairspray which featured a girl with big hair walking down a road and two macho type guys saying, "Is she or isn't she?". Apparently they were trying to ...

Person 1 - "I didn't know you had dandruff." Person 2 - "I DON'T!" The ads for this iconic anti-dandruff shampoo have more or less passed into British folklore by now. Launched in the late '70s, Head & Shoulders was the ...

Heineken 'Majorca' advert from 1985 ...

Heineken adverts from the 1980s including Sir Norman Wisdom Heineken advert from the mid-80s.  ...

A wonderful advert showing an elderly gentleman and a donkey. Every answer given by the donkey was "thistles" as he chewed, a bit like the Thats Life dog saying "sausages". But the donkey was enchanting and I obtained their photograph ...

For great lager - follow the bear! These ads featured an laddish bear that was kinda like the honey monster but for adults. Instead of downing a bowl of healthy cereal, this bear would swig lager (and probably smoked 60 ...