Favourite TV Adverts as a child ?

[moonshadow]

Following on from zzxxee's fav tv programmes what were your fav tv adverts ? Can you remember The Brook Bond chimps or the original Katie in the OXO advert or even Joe the paraffin salesman in the Esso Blue advert ?

[tonymclark]

My younger sister and I used to race to the TV when the end of the Smartie advert saw the screen fill up with Smarties. We used to imagine taking great hand fulls of them ( this must have been in the late 1960's).

In the 1990's a friend worked on a Smartie ad and one of the "tests" for the kids auditioning was for them to draw round their hand. It was actually to see who had the smallest hands to make the Smarties look bigger!

[Scragend]

For mash eat Smash!

And, I don't know if it's counted or not, but the 'Charlie Says' public info ads too.

[souldriver]

milky way

'the red car and the blue car had a race.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoXJL2hL6kI

and the milk ad with the Acrington Stanley joke in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxHN2FaiTy0

[crisgal]

i liked the rowntree fruit pastel ad.
Whoever thought that up was an advertising genius
Pass those pastels round ma, pass those pastels round -
Pastel Picking mama - (instead of pistol packing mama!)

I too liked the Acrington stanley one.

[beejay1124]

theres bags more jellytots in the jellytots bag

[Buenchico]

I hardly ever saw any TV ads because my mother regarded ITV as being 'common' and normally refused to have it on. However, she did have a weakness for Coronation Street and the muscular males taking part in the Saturday afternoon wrestling, so I got to see a few ads.

I vaguely remember Katie and the Oxo family, the Milky Bar kid (who, even at that age, I regarded as incredibly irritating), Esso Blue, the Mars ads which claimed that 'a Mars a day helps you work, rest and play', Mackeson which 'looks good, tastes good and by golly it does you good' and 2001 which 'cleans a big, big carpet for less than half a crown'. My favourite (as far as I can remember) though, might have been Esso's 'tiger in your tank' ads.

Chris

[1955]

The Pilsbury Dough Man - where he used to get his belly pushed in

[ELVIS68]

There was an ad for Gypsy Creams that always baffled me

A woman and her daughter doing yoga in her front room

WTF that had to do with biscuits I`ll never know

[trt]

The Hovis bread kid on a bike walking up the cobbled street, used to love that add.

[ChuckFickens]

I don't know about favourite, but the ones that tend to stick in the mind a the most irritating.

Domestos bleach.... It's big bad Dom

Shake and vac.... Enough said!

Studio Line hair mouse... or should that be stu stu stu stu studio line!

cadbury's caramel..... hey Mr beaver, why are you beavering around

And lets not forget the original body form adverts.... Whhhoooaaa bodyform for you!


Arrrrrggghhh, some of them really were dreadful!

[Buenchico]

Hair 'mouse', Chuck?

Would that be Mickey or Minnie?
;-)

[moonshadow]

Thank's for all the replies they bring back lots of memories. I can't remember that Smartie ad tonynclark but typical of advertising trying to make things look bigger. Someone was talking about Curly Wurlys a few days ago, they are actually three times smaller today than the original ones. The Smash ads with the metal martians were very quirky scragend. Souldriver they showed the Accrington Stanley ad on tele yesterday I wonder if Ian Rush cringed.I agree the Rowntree ad was very catchy Crisgal. Petunia and Joe wouldn't be very PC today No.knowledge.There seemed to be an awful lot of sweet ads Beejay. Buenchico my boyfriend had one of the Esso tiger tails hanging from the rear view mirror for years.The Pilsbury Dough Man was very cute 1955. Again I can't remember that ad Elvis. trt that Hovis ad will go on forever. Chuck don't get me going !!that Shake and Vac ad was probably the most hated ad ever.