Category: Adverts
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Betty White Commercials
Let’s have a look at some of the commercials made by the late, great Betty White. Here she is explaining the new Kodacolor film from Kodak. Here’s an Uncle Ben one from 1979, that smacks of its time. A proper old-fashioned presentation here for Geritol and ‘tired blood’. Just a few years later, and Betty…
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Gary, Sam, And Natwest
In July of 1996 Bartle Bogle Hegarty and Motive announced a new advertising campaign for Natwest. With a ten million pound budget, they hoped their creation would run for five years. It featured Gary Olsen and Samantha Beckinsale as the Cannings, a family who move to the country. The idea was to have them find…
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Bob Says Sekonda Tick Tocks
Some more Sekonda ads, this time with Bob Monkhouse. He really reminds me of Rik Mayall in the first two for some reason.
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Loadsasekonda
I like the different people Sekonda have used to flog us their watches. Here’s Harry Enfield as Loadsamoney.
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The Madness Of Ronnie, Sekonda, And The Honda City
I have an ear worm, and sometimes the best way to exorcise those burrowing nuisances is to share them. So, this is what’s eating into my cerebral cortex right now – Madness, only it’s Madness flogging us a watch. Which reminded me that Ronnie Barker once tried to flog us the same thing. It’s not…
