I would come as no surprise to anyone spending any amount of time on this website to learn that I absolutely love old TV adverts. There is something truly nostalgic for me about them and find they are an extremely interesting and useful view into the recent past.
Around the start of 2010 I began my personal collection, taking digital copies of old VHS tapes and carefully editing out the adverts to keep. For years I toyed with different ideas and projects (one being named Advertopia) but simply found I did not have the time with everything else in my life to dedicate to the cause, however I felt a bit sad knowing that I had these little relics with no way of sharing them. Which is where this page comes in!
On this page you will find links to posts for various TV adverts that I have archived. On each page there will be a table of essential information about the advert such as when the record was broadcast, duration, products advertised and slogan used as well as a video clip of the advert (hosted on Archive.org) plus a description of the advert.
The adverts are listed below and arranged by year of broadcast, you can use the Find command in your web browser to search for specific brands or companies.
Adverts
1987
1988
- British Airways Club World ‘International Business Meeting’
- Bupa Healthcare ‘Mark and Sue’
- Carlsberg ‘Complaints Department’
- Gillette Contour Plus ‘High Tech’
- Legal and General ‘Subway Umbrella’
- Renault 21 ‘You’ve Got the North’
- Sealink Doubletake
- TWA ‘Improvements’
- Vauxhall Cavalier ‘Stuck in Traffic’
1989
- Commodore Amiga 500 ‘Computers Don’t Need To Be Glum’
- Commodore Business Machines Starter Pack ‘Marching’
1991
- Benylin Cough Medicine
- Birdseye Potato Waffles “Make A Meal Out of It”
- Citroen XM ‘Tribeswoman’
- Courts Winter Sale
- Daz Ultra “Boil-wash?”
- Daz Ultra ‘Sam’s Wheelbarrow’
- Fiat Tempra ‘Designed For Life’
- Flash Liquid Cleaner
- Ford Fiesta ‘Big in France’
- Ford Fiesta ‘Big in Italy’
- Ford Fiesta Finance
- Head and Shoulders ‘New 2-in-1’
- Hogg Robinson Travel ‘Hotel and Resort Inspection’
- Lever Radion Micro ‘Garage Clean-Up’
1994
1996
1997
- AHF Winter Half Price Sale
- Allders Winter Sale
- B&Q Christmas Sale
- BT ‘1998’
- Comet Teletext Christmas Sale
- Courts Winter Sale
- Currys Christmas Sale
- Debenhams Christmas Sale
- DFS Double Discount Sale
- Lunn Poly ‘A Better Way To Get Away’
- Magnet Half Price Christmas Sale
- MFI Homeworks Britain’s Biggest Bedroom Sale
- Nissan 3-2-1- Offer
- Nissan Micra Passion ‘The Glory of Love’
- Nytol Herbal ‘Good Nytol’
- One2One Ian Wright and Martin Luther King
- PC World Christmas Sale
- Sony SuperTrinitron Wide ‘Be Careful What You Watch’
- Volkswagen Polo ‘Queens Guard’