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Forget worrying about lowering the minimum wage age - Kids will do anything just for the great taste of Dairylea!

Peter Sallis features in one of his less famous voice acting roles - promoting Danish Bacon.

A throwback to the ever-famous scene from The Shining to promote Danish Bacon at the end of the 90s. One of a series of similar campaigns of this era, although less controversial than their Exorcist-based advert.

Ah the cheesy days of the past, its the famous Daz Doorstep Challenge.

A 1990 ad for Diamond White, in which things are not quite what they seem...

One of the most famous Diet Coke adverts from 1995. A group of women take a 'Diet Coke Break' every day at 11.30 so that they can watch a workman remove his shirt.

One of several adverts for Dime Bar from the mid-90s featuring comedian Harry Enfield interview members of the public about their love for Dime Bars, then the name used in the UK. The Dime Bar was renamed as Daim in 2005 to match international naming.

Richard Wilson provides the voiceover this time around for the now defunct DIY chain Do It All.

Big Bad Dom sees a return to screens in 1990. Once again set to 'Big Bad John', but this time coming with a fresh new scent!

It's the 80s, so who wouldn't want to have a giant tub of Double Cream flirting with them?

The Cod Father and a Flamingo Dancer are among more items appearing in another set of Fascinating Combinations to advertise Double Decker. Once again set to Love and Marriage, the airing here dates from October 1990, before the Cadbury triangle was added to the top left of all their advert endboards.

Following the same style, another subtitled advert for Drifter from 1993. This time featuring a pair of surfers.

A watercolour depiction of the famous dog, among other scenes, features. All to promote the vast array of shades of white available from Dulux in 1983.

An advert for Dulux in 1992, with the famous dog interspersed again! This time round showing how a coat of paint can change the mood of almost anything!

The privatisation of the UK's electric network happened in two phases in 1990 and 1991. In the first phase in 1990, the 12 regions of Central Electricity Generating Board was split off into 12 companies in England and Wales, with shares being offered in each by the UK Government. A campaign was launched to promote this, showing a collection of horror movie characters looking at how they could get into the share offer.

Another advert promoting shares for the newly privatised regional electricity companies. This time Frankenstein's Monster is finding the £100 minimum that he needs to invest.

In the second phase of the UK privatisation in 1991, shares were offered for the power generation companies National Power and Powergen by HM Government. This animated advert encourages investors to get their own prospectus for the share offer, reusing the same phone number as had been used in the 1990 share offer.

Antoine de Caunes, of Eurotrash fame, appears in an advert to promote Eurostar in 1996. Extolling the virtues of how quickly you could be enjoying yourself in Paris, rather than suffering in the UK. Watch out for the graphical glitch at 8 seconds, which would normally have been hidden on a TV's overscan area.

From 1992, and the now discontinued Ever Ready Gold Seal line is advertised in another part of the long-running Forever Eddy story. A series of commercials extolling the virtues of how long the brand lasts.

The adverts for Felix catfood, animated in Black and white, have been used to advertise the brand for a very long time now, albeit updated and tweaked in style over the years. This shows a variant from 1998.

The well-remembered advert for Ferrero Rocher from the 90s, where the ambassador is really spoiling everyone. The particular version of this advert was first introduced in 1993 and, although only used for a limited number of years at the time, has been parodied ever since.

A special Ford advert broadcast during the ITV Movie Premiere of Groundhog Day in 1996. Asking the question 'What do you do in yours'... but over and over again.

Richard Wilson (star of One Foot in The Grave) remembers a Golden Childhood as he eats his Flora Buttery.

Mr Hogan again, this time at a Christmas party for this Fosters ad.

A sweet and simple animated advert for Fox's Glacier Mints, where a fox tries to tell us polar bears should not be on mints... to no success! (We sensibly didn't allow polar bears to have donuts back then either...)

In the days before the internet, the UK had the 'Friends' phone service. A pre-recorded premium rate line chat line people could call presumably to cure insomnia or something similar. For the majority of the 90s, this service was one of the few advertisers almost singlehandedly funding the overnight service on ITV.

A man stands by a bar. The opening line not to a joke this time, but to an advert for KP's Frisps from 1991 demonstrating just how much their snack can improve your dancing skills.

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Tony the Tiger is back in another animated adventure, and this time he has to foil the creatively named Tigerman so that he can't get hold of the Frosties secret formula.

Cadburys bring back their famous 'Everyone's a Fruit and Nutcase' song for the mid-90s, this time with added CGI characters.

Another surreal Fruit 'n Fibre advert, this time getting into 1989. Some twins are so difficult to distinguish from one another - unless you can get their mother to send you some boxes of Fruit 'n Fibre.

Still being aired in 1991, although produced the previous year, in this addition to the surreal collection the theme is an Action Holiday.

An alternative edit of the 'You just can't help chewing' advert. The piranha once again features just with different vocals, and this time a ventriloquist's dummy is also involved.

First introduced in the early 80s, this famous commercial for Fry's Turkish Delight ran on both television and cinema for well over a decade. And still I don't think anyone could 100% explain exactly what was going on!

Too disorganised to finish that chocolate bar before all your friends arrive? Fine, just break the lift and make them all walk up flights of stairs instead!

Gino, oh Gino, Ginelli. We're not sure anything else about this ice cream advert was particularly memorable, but the song lives on forever.

Another defunct cereal from Kelloggs in 1991, set to Beethoven's Symphony No 6. This time with a lot of people expressing their shock that you could make a tasty cereal out of oats! Who knows why else they would think the word 'oatmeal' was on the box.

Rutger Hauer has been to the barbers, and now he's going to share a secret with you via telepathy in another surreal Guinness campaign.

More adverts for Guiness, starting with another of the long running strange adverts from the early 90s featuring Rutger Hauer. Once again the point of which is lost on my simple mind!

A 2004 ad with some people lost in the dark, with only moths to guide them towards the light.