ITV Carlton Commercial Breaks, Easter Monday 1993 (1)

[Applemask]

Interesting. I just uploaded the exact same commercial breaks from the Westcountry region and they're not the same. Obviously, regional ITV still existed back then in a worthwhile sense, so the regional companies sold their own I wonder if they're sold nationwide now.

[CNash85]

@Applemask I very rarely watch ITV or C4/5 nowadays, so I'm not sure whether regional advertising still survives, but it was very much alive all the way through the 90s. The loss of regional identity caused by the Carlton/Granada buyout of ITV means that any such regional ads would be the last bastion of the original regional setup...

[oliverd8888]

I remember the 'D' advert from then. I know there were probably other ones in the series? Is 'D' even sold anymore?

[CNash85]

@oliverd8888 According to some reports I've seen, you can still find Brooke Bond D if you look hard enough, though I can't recall seeing it recently. There were other ads in the series; there's one somewhere on YouTube from the late 80s which used the same basic tune as this one with a different actress and scenes.

[rags015]

@CNash85 Both Brooke Bond D and Choicest blend are available at the Typhoo online shop

[djruggad]

simple

[djscpuresoundz]

haha! wicked, im the little boy with the bowl haircut on the last Ad (Brooke Bond D) makes me laugh everytime i watch this!

[rodjames98]

I always thought the woman in the brooke bond D ad at 2.54 was a real honey, and still do! thank you for uploading this.

[BoonyBanny]

No-one seems to have the original "I could do with a 'D' ad from 1987.

[rodjames98]

Boonybanny,

was there another one then ? I do'nt remember that ?

[BoonyBanny]

Yes - circa 1987 - a traffic warden, a woman commuter and a builder all singing that they could "do with a 'D'"... which my friends made a tad ruder...

[Applemask]

@BoonyBanny Try tinyurl slash yhuc2d8 - it's definitely older.

[WorldRecords]

BTW you uploaded this on my b'day!

[WorldRecords]

Do you have any more ITV adverts from around the easter period of 1993?

Cos i had these on a video myself with Mary Poppins and Winnie the Pooh and the tape has gone walkabouts and it's great to see these again?

[CNash85]

Indeed I do; I still have the remaining ad breaks from Mary Poppins to encode, and I promise I'll get around to doing them soon! One of them has the Carlton Easter ident in it...

[Meanmanmartin2007]

@WorldRecords I used to have a recording of Winnie The Pooh from around that time and some of these adverts were included on there.

[WillTube1990]

@Meanmanmartin2007 Cool, do you still have it? If possible could the adverts be put on Youtube?

[Meanmanmartin2007]

@WillTube1990 Sorry I don't. Got rid of it yonks ago

I do have various bits of continuity from 1980s and 1990s which will be going up in due course so watch this space

[uhegbu]

So the D product was still available in 1993 and I remember one of the many Burger King Kids Club advert. My best memory of it was while watching CITV programmes such as Woof, How 2 and Fun House.