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Intercity - Back and fourth - (1981) :30 (UK)

Hellman's - Home grown spud - (1981) :30 (UK)

Hellman's - Ham Frisbee - (1981) :20 (UK)

Hellman's - Carboard chicken - (1981) :30 (UK)

Heinz - Thistles? - (1981) :30 (UK)

Heinz - Golden soup - (1981) :30 (UK)

Haze - Roll Fresh - (1981) :30 (UK)

Harpic Bleach - Gems move in - (1981) :10 (UK)

Old Spice - For Xmas - (1981) :10 (UK)

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PAL - Catch up - (1981) :30 (UK)

PAL - Husband's away - (1981) :30 (UK)

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Pampers - Piano lessons - (1981) 1:00 (UK)

Panama - Six appeal - (1981) :30 (UK)

Quick Brew - Motorcycle granny - (1981) :30 (UK)

South West Gas - Gas Fires - (1981) :30 (UK)

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Fresh Cream Cake - Photo Album - (1981) :15 (UK)

Our drag queen comedians are back having tea, and looking at photo albums. Because Fresh Cream Cake's are "naughty but nice".

Fresh Cream Cake - Tea Party - (1981) :15 (UK)

Fosters - Fishing - (1981) :30 (UK)

Fosters - Scotland tourist - (1981) :15 (UK)

Everest - Kite Mark - (1981) :40 (UK)

Erinmore cigars - Secret - (1981) :10 (UK)

English Cheddar - Quality mark - (1981) :30 (UK)

Dulux - Solid Emulsion - (1981) :40 (UK)

Cadbury's Wispa - Just a wispa - (1981) :40 (UK)

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John Smith's - French Lessons - (1981) 0:30 (UK)

Tres bien! Oui oui.

Wrigleys - Buzz - (1981) 0:20 (UK)

Worthington Best Bitter - Pub - (1981) 0:20 (UK)

This ad is basically twenty seconds of watching a pint being poured. But oh doesn't it make you want a pint?

Vision - Visibly Superior - (1981) 0:20 (UK)

The Woolwich - untie money - (1981) 0:30 (UK)

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Tetley's Bitter - Miami - (1981) 0:60 (UK)

Tetley - Perforations - (1981) 0:30 (UK)

Tennants - Evolution - (1981) 0:40 (UK)

Shield - shower stripes - (1981) 0:10 (UK)

LEGO - Kipper / Dragon / Mouse / Elephant (1980)

In the advert, Lego bricks are transformed into a series of monsters and missile-eating machines.

Air Canada - Niagra Falls (1980) :30 (UK)

"I don't think I'll ever forget it"

Raleigh - The boxer, the striker, and the grifter (1980) :30 (UK)

Raleigh introduces new bikes

Marathon - Comes up peanuts! (1980) :30 (UK)

A cute jingle for Marathon - knowns as "Snickers" everywhere else.

Fiat Supermirafiori - Train - (1980) 90 (UK)

The Italian man's beloved mamma forgot her suitcase at the train station.

SodaStream - Get busy with the fizzy - (1980) :30 (UK)

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Colgate Pump - Madness (Baggy Trousers) - (1980) :30 (UK)

These kids do their best Madness impressions. See also Colgate Blue Minty Gel.
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Colgate - Madness Blue Minty Gel (baggy trousers) - (1980) :30 (UK)

This one is for you, Alex. The kids sing along to Madness' "Baggy trouses" except they're singing about cool blue minty gel.

Courage Best Bitter - "Gercha" (1980) :50 (UK)

Courage Gercha Commercial
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Swan Vesta - Train ride - (1980) 0:30 (UK)

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Lamot - The lager of Lamot - (1980) :40 (UK)

Tradition tells of a pils lager, and a man who rode a panther to work.

Odor Eaters - here boy - (1980) :30 (UK)

Oxo - Chicken or cube? - (1980) :20 (UK)

Penguin - p-p-p-pick up a - (1980) :30 (UK)

BT - Phone instead - (1980) :30 (UK)

Alpen - cheaper? - (1980) :30 (UK)

Barclays - Barclaycard - / Punk record shop (1980) :30 (UK)

So a punk goes to a record store and finds he can't afford anything because he's out of money, something a Barclaycard can fix right up.

Smash - Baby Robot - (1980) :30 (UK)

Cinzano Dry - Vacation - (1980)

Leonard Rossiter stars as his usual drink spilling character while Joan Collins stays out of the way, but still manages to get wet.
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Benson and Hedges - Iguana / Swimming pool - (1979) 0:60 (UK) Classic

Directed by Hugh Hudson The diver gets the cigarettes as they are dropped via helicopter into a pool in the middle of the desert with only lizards as

Parker Pens - Mr Price and his boat (1979) :45 (UK)

"This is a true story about a Parker Pen. It seems that about six years ago, a Mister Price lost one of our pens, onboard the yacht parler.
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Guinness - FA Cup Toucan talk (1979) :30 (UK)

Using a live Toucan that could take to promote take-home Guinness.

Walls Sausages - Grandad babysitter / Porkie-workie (1979) :30 (UK)

Walls Sausages, made with prime porkie-workie.

Hovis - Runaway (1979) :45 (UK)

I was no more than knee-high to a grasshopper when I ran off from home.

Heineken - Galley / Caesar water skiing (1979) :60 (UK)

Because Heineken refreshes the parts other beers can not reach, tested on a slave ship. "Stop! Stop! We're going around in circles!"

Hamlet - Golf / Bunker - (1979) :30 (UK)

As it turns out, there is no getting out of that bunker. But Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet.

Birds Eye pie - Mrs. Shakespeare (1979) :30 (UK)

June Whitfield plays Shakespeare's wife, and passes the Cod in Sauce pie off as her own.

Benson & Hedges - Salvage (1979) 2:00 (UK)

"Salvage"

Barclaycard - Tumble dryer (1979) :30 (UK)

"My wife wants a tumble dryer, this one."

Benson & Hedges Silk Cut - Mbongoland 1879 / Garrison - (1979) :30 (UK)

This utterly weird ad shows a garrison under siege where the UK soldiers smoked silk cut for two weeks and then refuse to switch back.

Fiat Strada - Designed with a computer - Built by a robot - print, 1979

Designed with a computer. Silenced by a laser. Built by a robot.

Cinzano - "Airliner" - (1979) :30 (UK)

Joan Collins & Leonard Rossiter are on a flight, and order Cinzano, naturally. 

Cinzano - "Aeroplane" - (1979) (UK)

It's official, no matter what Joan Collins does, she cannot escape Leonard Rossiter's drink-spilling powers.

Cinzano - Ski Lodge - (1979)

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Fiat Strada - Handbuilt by robots - (1979) 0:60 (UK) Classic

One of my absolute fave adverts. Ever.

Bovril - Terry Wogan (1978) :30 (UK)

1978 Terry Wogan

Clarks Shoes - Blueprint (1978) :430 (UK)

This little foot will get corns and bunions if the shoe is too tight.

Heineken - The Most Successful Man (1978) :60 (UK)

The man who has everything is bored and his butler brings him a Heineken.

Fiat 127 - Giorgio the butler (1978) :60 (UK)

For the count and contessa too this is a day to remember.

Fiat Supermirafiori - Lion / Cage (1978) :30 (UK)

"morning guv, here are the keys"
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Labour isn't working - billboard 1978

This poster is often cited as being instrumental in the fall of James Callaghan's Labour administration, and certainly changed the way political

Bovril - Terry Wogan & Bovril Cubes - (1978) :30 (UK)

Cinzano - Bar - (1978)

Arnold - WheatBerry in Paris (1978) :30 (USA)

"MMm, we respect you Americans"

Coty L'Aimant "French Lesson" (1978) :45 (UK)

Coty LAimant Commercial

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