Adverts

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 ...

This German lager had two very entertaining ad campaigns to promote it during the '80s and early '90s. The first series of ads, which began c.1986, showed people stranded in dire situations and singing about their plight- they included astronauts stuck ...

I remember the advert. "He were a great baker were our dad." Classic Advert. The music comes from Dvorak's 9th Symphony, The New World. ...