Here is an advert break after a thing with Tom Jones on LWT from 1987.
Seems like ads in the 80s were really menacing, as I have said many times before, but still, the idea that the SAS will storm your house if you don’t use Polyfilla seems a bit threatening.
Even the voice over on the AA one is ominous. Very nice man and all that – I’d forgotten that, and the I know a man who does.
Why do I get the impression that the Martini has been poisoned?
The business magazine one is terrifying.
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