Thames Adverts 1989 (5)

Adverts for Midland Orchard, Hob-Nob Bars, Fruit 'n' Fibre, another of those 0898 things, Boots, Guinness, Wrigley's, plus a trail, slide, in-vision continuity where the announcer Sally McClaren reveals an interesting fact about herself and an ident.

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• Thames
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• 1989

[col2006ie]

And the announcer is Sally McLaren...

[TVajb]

@col2006ie Thanks for the date and identifying the announcer. If I remember, going from that date this must be from only the second day that Thames had used the ITV corporate look.

[RobinCarmody]

@TVajb Yes. They'd used the 'Thames XXI' ident during August, when the classic ident was finally retired.

The England World Cup match was live on BBC2 - the BBC at that time had exclusive England rights (well, shared with BSB, but they hadn't launched yet), but ITV covered the other home nations plus the Republic of Ireland's qualifiers and friendlies in the two years up to the World Cup that changed everything, and still had the UK rights for the RoI's home games until 1994.

[col2006ie]

This is Tuesday 5th September 1989.

[uhegbu]

This Midland advert from 1989 had a similar effect with Barclays in 2002 when the bank launched 'Openplan'. Remember the Mcvities Hob Nob bars one quite well and tasted them too. Whatever happened to them? 'Here's some I made earlier'. Of course, Jane Asher used the quote in some of the Mcvities adverts during the 1990s.