Your favourite TV commercial(s) from the 70's & 80's - no modern junk!

[PAC-MAN]

Just interested to know which TV ads are ingrained in your head from the good old days.

I did a quick search to see if this had been covered before and didn't find anything.

Back then, the TV ads were better that a lot of the programmes.

I'm not sure this will take off but it's worth a try. Wake up you lot!

Here are a few, there are loads more but it's a decent start.

Here is one for Oliver M... it's a pretty catchy jingle you can't deny that!

One for the road!

 

[big10p]

Hamlet cigars and Smash instant spud ads spring to mind. 😃

 

[PAC-MAN]

Hamlet cigars and Smash instant spud ads sprin]]g to mind. 😃

Yes! Good man, you know it makes sense!

This one!

and this one!!

 

[qjuk]

I instantly thought of the Hamlet Cigars adverts which has already been mentioned, however here’s a few more that stick in my mind from the 80’s:-
The British Gas share sale “If you see Sid, tell him”
Toshiba, Hello Tosh.
Yellow Pages, HR Hartley

 

[Mr20to5]

Surely the government safety adverts have got to be right up there.

I certainly never climbed into an electricity sub station to recover my lost frisbee; always listened to my cat tell me about the dangers of strangers; and only ever crossed the road when Darth Vader told me it was safe.....

 

[John Bennett]

Ok, possibly the opposite of 'favourite' as a kid, but with that and the AIDS adverts, they knew how to induce nightmares in kids, whether they intended to or not.

 

[PAC-MAN]

Nice one guys.

The Hamlet ads were superb, my old man used to smoke the odd Hamlet at Christmas, he enjoyed those ads also.
Neil - Wasn't the Cat called Charlie? I'd forgotten about the government safety ads! Scary!

 

[PAC-MAN]

Hello Tosh....

J.R Hartley

 

[PAC-MAN]

Ok, possibly the opposite of 'favourite' as a kid, but with that and the AIDS adverts, they knew how to induce nightmares in kids, whether they intended to or not.

I'd completely forgotten about that!! I remember the AIDS ads.

 

[PAC-MAN]

A couple more

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

Ray Winstone in Bran Flakes ad

Lol, there's loads of them 🤣

There's the Ross Kemp Fruit n Fibre one too 🤣⛳

 

[PAC-MAN]

Ray Winstone in Bran Flakes ad......

Absolutely effing marvellous!!

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

Anybody remember that Budweiser ad that was like five ads in one. Some guy being dragged by a horse through a supermarket? 🤣

 

[John Bennett]

Neil - Wasn't the Cat called Charlie?

Yeah. His rave years were his finest.

 

[PAC-MAN]

Yeah. His rave years were his finest.

Yeah but I think we all had a bit of that going on. White gloves and a whistle anybody? Or a glow stick and a bottle of water!🤣 And who didn't like the Prodigy's Charly?!!

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

Pylons and kites and boats

 

[PAC-MAN]

Anybody remember that Budweiser ad that was like five ads in one. Some guy being dragged by a horse through a supermarket? 🤣

No I don't remember that one, but I remember all those knobs used to follow the Hofmeister Bear!

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

My mum had a t-shirt that said "I've got a bear behind" 🤣

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

This plus quicksand and rabies

 

[PAC-MAN]

.....
This plus quicksand and rabies

Wow shit, I don't remember that but if that doesn't hit home there isn't much that will!