Birds Eye Roast Beef Dinner for One - Brief Encounter -(1970)

"I'm going to say goodbye." 
"No, don't say goodbye, it sounds, so permanent."

"It's only for a very short time."

"Look after yourself!"
"I will."

As the man wanders home, film noir style, he finds a birds eye roast beef dinner for one on the table. The VO explains that the Birds Eye Roast Beef Dinner for One is especially handy for people who are not used to being on their own. The entire premise and look of thhis ad is based off Brief Encounter, a 1945 British romantic drama film.

Ad Agency: Collett Dickenson Pearce & Partners (CDP) 
Director: Alan Parker
Creatives: Geoff Seymour and Clive Holmes