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Adverts in the 70s
What were the most famous adverts in the 70s?
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here are a few....
Smash martians are probably the most famous
Cilla Black advertising Cadburys Dairy Milk
Unigate milk -with the slogan 'watch out there's a humphrey about'
Coca Cola - the one where they sang 'i'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony'
The ones that started the series of 'all because the lady loves' Milk Tray ads
The OXO and Bisto families
PG Tips chimps (especially the one where they're trying to move the piano. Classic!)
They're just some i recall....sorry if you wanted an actual official top ten (if there is one) or something
Buzby the amusing pre-BT telephone advertising canary.
American Express "That'll do nicely" (or was that the early 80s ?)
Cadbury's Flake: woman getting wet in a field of poppies.
"Johnny's going to be a footballer when he grows up, Billy's going to be a (something else), and according to Mummy I'm going to be a proper little madam" (Start-Rite shoes ?) (well I remember it anyway)
public information films - Joe and Petunia calling the coastguard (he's having a lot of fun out there in his little dingy), dropping litter in farmers' fields.
Sugar Puffs (Tell 'em about the honey Mummy) With the Honey Monster and that bloke from the Benny Hill Show who died not long ago !
And the Shake N Vac woman (again, was that the 80s?)
And Everyone's a Fruit and Nut case - Frank Muir singing to the Nutcracker Suite.
Andrex puppy - Tetley Tea Folk: do they go back to the 70s? The decades are just a blur to me ...