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Joe the Gadget Man (real name, Joe Sandow) used to appear on Australian TV every Saturday morning after 11 am for Nock and Kirby: “and…
I Didn’t Know You Cared had been a popular sitcom since 1975 about life with a dour Yorkshire family. Ad man John Webster was a…
One of the funniest British TV adverts of the late 20th century was inspired by one of the dourest rock music icons. In 1965, Bob…
In the 1980s, television soap operas were everywhere. But one of the best-known soap romances of the eighties wasn’t taking place in Brookside Close, Albert…
For 18 years, we were captivated by a couple whose main interests seemed to be casseroles and gravy. For in 1958, married bliss Oxo-style appeared…
Radio Luxembourg DJ Emperor Rosko was the inspiration behind this advertising campaign. Seeing a pretty young blonde woman by a swimming pool, a young nerd…
R Whites was established in 1845 by Robert and Mary White, who sold home-brewed ginger beer from a barrow in Camberwell. But it took another…
William Franklyn, whose suavity of voice matched his appearance in the series of “Ssschhh . . . you know who” adverts by Ogilvy & Mather,…
An ingenious commercial from Cadbury’s was launched in 1968, advertising Smash instant mashed potato. The first commercial showed the ordinary potato as a rival, but…
One British television advertising campaign which flopped disastrously was the 1960 commercial for Strand cigarettes. Based on the Frank Sinatra film, Pal Joey, the advert…
The inspiration for the Sugar Puffs Honey Monster was a TV series called The Andy Williams Show, which featured a character called the Cookie Monster who…
This early 1980s TV advertising campaign for the British Meat Marketing Board (who were clearly worried about the encroaching trend towards vegetarianism) presented cheeky cockney…