Adverts

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 ...