Adverts D-G
Daewoo - 1996
Car maker of the time Daewoo use sharks swimming through the streets to promote their vehicle showrooms as not filled with salesmen on commission, allowing you to pop in and out in peace. After growing their car business in the UK throughout the 80s and 90s, Daewoo ran into financial difficulties and sold the car division to General Motors in 2001. Over the years that followed the brand was phased out completely.
Daily Star - 1993
Dairylea - 1993
Danish Bacon - 1988
Danish Bacon - 1993
Danepak - 1996
Danish Bacon - 1999
Daz - 1994
Daz - 1995
Debenhams - Christmas 1992
Del Monte - 1990
Diamond White - 1991
Diet Coke - 1992
Diet Coke - 1995
Diet Coke - 1997
Digital Equipment Corporation - 1996
Early visions of what the still unknown internet could become from 1996. Digital was then the trademark of the large Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), who would only continue through until 1998 before merging with Compaq. Ultimately ending up as part of HP when Compaq also fell into difficulty in the early 2000s.
Dime Bar - 1994
Dime Bar - 1995
Do It All - 1992
Domestos - 1987
Domestos - 1990
Doritos - 1995
Double Cream - 1986
Double Decker - 1991
Double Decker - 1991
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.
Drifter - 1992
Drifter - 1993
Drink Drive - 1993
Dulux - 1983
Dulux - 1991
Dulux - 1992
Dulux - 2001
Electricity Shares (Regional) - 1990
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.
Electricity Shares (Regional) - 1990
Electricity Shares (Regional) - 1990
Electricity Shares (Regional) - 1990
Electricity Shares (Powergen/National Power) - 1991
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.
Electrolux Power System - 1997
Epson - 1997
Epson - 1997
Eurostar - 1996
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.
Ever Ready Gold Seal - 1991
Ever Ready Gold Seal - 1992
Fairy - 1992
Fanta - 1990
Felix - 1998
Ferrero Rocher - 1990
Ferrero Rocher - 1994
Ford - 1992
Ford Escort (Groundhog Day Special) - 1996
Ford - 2001
Flora - 1998
Fosters - 1984
Fosters - Xmas 1987
Fosters - 1997
Fox's Glacier Mints - 1983
Freepages - 1997
Friends - 1995
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.
Friends in Space - 1995
Frisps - 1991
Frosties - 1989
Frosties - 1990
Frosties - 1995
Fruit & Nut - 1994
Fruit 'n Fibre - 1986
Fruit 'n Fibre (Twins) - 1989
Fruit 'n Fibre - 1990
Fruit 'n Fibre - 1991
Fruit Pastilles - 1991
Fruit Pastilles - 1990
Fruit Pastil-Lolly - 1995
Fry's Turkish Delight - 1990
Galaxy - 1992
Galaxy - 1997
Gateway - 1988
An advert from the late 80s promoting the Gateway chain. Gateway was a well known chain of supermarkets which expanded throughout the 70s and 80s to much of the UK. Many of the stores were subsequently sold off in the early 90s, and what remained was then rebranded as Somerfield. A chain which itself was eventually subsumed into The Co-operative Group.
Gino Ginelli - 1990
Golden Crackles - 1991
Two adverts here for Kellogg's cereals in 1991, that have since been dropped from the market in the UK. Both of them with the word 'Golden' in the name. This first one is for Golden Crackles, and possibly is meant to present a harsh dystopian vision of the terribly localised impacts of climate change!
Golden Oatmeal Crisp - 1991
Granada Rentals - 1998
A young Jeremy Clarkson in one of his less well remembered roles. As the face of Granada Rentals in their latter days of 1998, promoting 'TV 2000' - an upcoming deal for digital television equipment, what with the impending launch of DTT later that year. With the rapidly declining TV rental market, Granada Rentals was merged with Radio Rentals in 2000 to form Boxclever, before the original operation fell into administration in 2003, nowadays having been sold on and existing as an online-only brand. A dormant business from the Granada Rentals operation remains registered at ITV plc's headquarters in London to this day.