Retro Commercials

Cadbury ran a 1974 TV advertising campaign featuring the now famous Smash Martians, a family of Martian robots who would watch humans laboriously preparing mashed potato the traditional way on television. The robots would laugh as they heard how the “Earth people peeled their own potatoes, boiled them for 20 of their Earth minutes, then smashed them all to bits”, instead of using Smash. The catchphrase ‘For Mash Get Smash’ is still an iconic and memorable advertising image within the UK. The 1970s adverts were voted TV ad of the century by Campaign Magazine, and 2nd best television advert of all time in a 2000 poll conducted by The Sunday Times and Channel 4.

I’vemade commercial videos in the past, but this is the official installment of my commercial volumes. I’ll take you through the journey of 90s commercial from 1991-1996. Here we go. Here are a string of commercials that aired on Fox 25 in November ’91: 1. Dimetapp 2. Tarn-X 3. GNC 4. Wendy’s (with Dave Thomas) 5. Boston Celtics Basketball (Boston Celtics vs. Atlanta Hawks) 6. Ex-cla-mation 7. Stetson (the unforgettable christmas classic) 8. GamePro Magazine (that was tha best video game …