UK TV Ads of the 50s and 60s

Some rarer items for your weirdness appraisal. I like the one with Tarzan. The one for Fish Fingers unintentionally resembles a Monty Python skit.

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Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 24, 2023
Category: Television | Advertising | 1950s | 1960s | United Kingdom

Comments

Don't know about "unintentionally". That's Alf Garnett, the working-class Tory dad from sitcom Til Death Us Do Part, the one All in the Family was based on.

Posted by Weaver on 08/24/23 at 10:20 PM

I like the phallic chocolate ad at 8:50 and the ad touting the benefits of coal mining.

Posted by ges on 08/24/23 at 11:34 PM