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Guinness - Take home Rain (1970) :30 (UK)

A husband asks his wife if she can fetch him a Guinness, and she walks through the rain to the pub in order to do so. 

Birds Eye Desserts - Princess - (1970) :30 (UK)

Once upon a time there was a princess who had three suitors.

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

Birdseye Pies - Vicar's Wife - (1970) :30 (UK)

It'll make a dishonest woman out of you.

Birds Eye Pies - Temptress - (1970) :30 (UK)

The seductive lady serves birds eye pie as if she had made it.

Benson & Hedges Mellow Virginia - Bridge Table - (1970) :30 (UK)

At a chatty bridge table, a man lights up his pipe. The hostess seems quite annoyed by this until she smells the scent.

British Eggs "E for B, and be your best!" / George Best (1970) :40 (UK)

British Eggs E For B ad starring George Best - by O&M (1970)

Cresta - Bear does Elvis / Teddy Bear - (1970) :30

It's frothy man!

Cresta - Bear goes ice skating - (1970) :30

Cresta - Bear meets Blackcurrant - (1970) :30

Inspired by Jack Nicholson's reactions in easy rider, the Cresta bear reacts to Blackcurrent.

Birds Eye desserts - Rule Britannia (1969) :30 (UK)

Trifle, the cornerstone of the British Empire. When the people stopped bothering to make trifle, the Empire started to crumble. Coincidence perhaps.

Harvey's Bristol Cream - Taster - (1969) :30 (UK)

The taster who works for the foreign man in the Fez doesn't want to give up the sherry.

Benson & Hedges Mellow Virginia - Ballroom (1969) :30 (UK)

A man stuffs his pipe and isn't quite prepared for the lady asking him to dance.

Things happen after a Badedas bath - helicopter dame 1969 (UK)

(They say it's got something to do with the horse chestnuts.)

Harvey's Bristol Cream - Off-License - (1968) :60 (UK)

The man in the off license tries to convince the customer to buy anything but Harvey's Bristol Cream.

Hamlet - Launderette - (1968) :45 (UK)

A man strips off all of his clothes down to his skivvies, socks, and hat, in the laundrette.

Chemstrand Acrilan - Bus Stop - (1967) :30 (UK)

"The relentless gale crashed against Rodney's steel set brow"

Hepworths - A Hardy Ames man / 'man of action' (1967) :60 (UK)

Trousers for the man of action, trousers for the man of taste. Trousers for the man of fashion, Hardy Amos sets the pace.

Beanz Meanz Heinz - "Johnny's going off around the world" (1967) 30 (UK)

Little brother is determined to travel the world and has packed everything, ready to go.

Chunky Dog Food - Nose - (1966) :30 (UK)

Sir Clement Raphael Freud was a British broadcaster, writer, politician, and chef. 

Chunky Dog Food - Gourmet - (1966) :40 (UK)

Clement Freud explains that today is the second anniversary of his operation, so he's prepared a gourmet meal for his best friend.

Hamlet - Music Teacher - (1966) :30 (UK)

As soon as the music teacher lights up the cigar, the atrocious playing suddenly is in tune and the Hamlet jingle to boot.

Volkswagen - Old Volkswagen Station Wagons never die. (1966) printad (USA)

The things some people can do with an old box.

Schweppes - The secret of / Demolish / William - Franklyn (1965) :30 (UK)

William Franklyn strolls through a house that is in the process of being demolished while sharing the secret of SHH - you know who.

Whitbread Mackeson - Ol' Gran Hardy (1965) :30 (UK)

It looks good, it tastes good, and it certainly does you good.

Volkswagen - You're missing a lot when you own a Volkswagen. (1965) printad (USA)

A VW has fewer parts than other cars because it needs fewer parts.

Egg - Wedding Day - (1964) :30 (UK)

Cadbury's Flake - Waterfall - (1964) :30 (UK

Way back in the 1960s, a very pretty young lady was enlisted to carefully roll the wrapper off a cadbury's Flake, and then stick it in her mouth.
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Rolling Stones Rice Crispies ad from 1964 - Snap! Crackle! Beat!

Brian Jones co-wrote this jingle with the J. Walter Thompson ad agency in 1964.

Fairy - Leslie Ash / bowling with bottles - (1964) :60 (UK)

Leslie Ash is the little girl in the 1964 Fairy advert

Benson & Hedges - Burglar - (1963) :30 (UK)

The burglar is after a diamond necklace, but after a single puff of the Benson & Hedges in shiny gold packaging, he decides he needs to burglar th

Eggs - Tony Hancock in France (1962) :30 (UK)

Tony Hancock goes on holiday and starves himself because he believes that the French don't eat eggs for breakfast. Silly Tony!

Guinness - after work we all agree, Guinness is what we need (1961) :45 (UK)

Guinness focuses her on having the drink after work, as a well-deserved treat.

Volkswagen - Volkswagen overdoes it again: 4 coats of paint. (1961) printad (USA)

Why four coats of paint when three would be more than enough?
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Shell - Wonderful time on Shell / Bing Crosby (1960) :60 (UK)

Bing Crosby sings a catchy jingle as he travels around in the UK, as you can have a wonderful time when you go on Shell Shell Shell. 

Cape Fruit - Juicy Cape Pears / Tommy Cooper (1959) :30 (UK)

Tommy Cooper shills pears for Cape Fruit.

HP Sauce - Haggis / Everything goes with HP sauce (1959) :15 (UK)

HP Sauce - Haggis ad from 1959

Egg - Tony Hancock and Patricia Hayes crossword puzzle (1957) :30 (UK)

"Go to work on an egg" Tony Hancock and Patricia Hayes try to solve a crossword puzzle, they argue over eggs vs eel and pig vs pie. 

Guinness - Tango Time - Ostrich (1957) :30 (UK)

The Ostrich first appeared on a Guinness poster in 1936 - "My goodness! My Guinness!"

Guinness - Kangaroo prompting (1956) :30 (UK)

Another Gilroy poster animal comes to life, this time it's the kangaroo that first appeared in a poster in 1947.

Guinness RAF Toucans - My Goodness! My Guinness! (1955) :30 (UK)

Attention! Attention!

Guinness - My goodness! My Guinness! Sealion (1955) :30 (UK)

This is the first Guinness commercial, and it was based on Gilroy's 1935 "Sealion" poster.

Gibbs S.R. Toothpaste - Tingling Fresh! (1955) :60 (UK)

This is the first TV commercial to be broadcast in the United Kingdom.

Batchelors Wonderful Peas Peas (1950s) (UK)

Batchelors Wonderful Peas Peas ad from the late 1950s

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