More Horrifying 80s Ads

Here is an advert break after a thing with Tom Jones on LWT from 1987.

Seems like ads in the 80s were really menacing, as I have said many times before, but still, the idea that the SAS will storm your house if you don’t use Polyfilla seems a bit threatening.

Even the voice over on the AA one is ominous. Very nice man and all that – I’d forgotten that, and the I know a man who does.

Why do I get the impression that the Martini has been poisoned?

The business magazine one is terrifying.

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