My brothers and I used to love this for some reason - and kept going around saying - ‘That’s handy Harry - stick it in the oven’
VW alert 
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Hi @londonstripe - you must have left just before I joined. I remember Walshy being in charge, then Gary Leih (he was great fun - an old-fashioned adman who liked a good three-bottle lunch). I left in 2011 but it started to go downhill in about 2009 and the quality of work really declined. I too made some wonderful friends there – but virtually everyone I knew there has now gone. The offices in Sea Containers are swanky but very corporate and utterly lacking in atmosphere.
What department were you in – creative, planning or a/c management?
Hi @TheKevster - I left in March '99 to go somewhere smaller & more creative.
I met Gary a few times through friends who were still there - always great fun and very boozy.
I was (and still am) an account man. Had a 30 year reunion with my year group of Ogilvy mates last year. I’m the only one still in advertising.
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Now that is “Laugh out loud”, absolutely.
Best one yet. 
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You can even hear the hiss on this one
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This series were my favourites:
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Stuff of nightmares. 
Pygmalion inspired ad by Heineken:
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Hamlet did some good ads. There’s a very risqué one from the 90s featuring luminous condoms!
There were a couple of banned Peugeot 205 GTI adverts (on YouTube) and I also like the Land Rover up the dam and the Range Rover adverts, Chanel No5 which featured a Merc SL, which suggests a theme, the FIAT Strada advert for the music not the car but on the whole preferred the comedic like Hamlet, Holsten Pils.
We still do!
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The mighty Dunlop
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This ad was very big here in North America:
Where’s the beef?!
And in 1993 Dunlop did thi:
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The Smash aliens have in numerous TV polls has come it at the UK’s No 1 Favourite ads
with the OXO family and the Gold Blend neighbours saga also highly liked
Speaking of the will they won’t they Gold Blend saga (which just sneaks in to the time limits (1987-1993).
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The Castro GTX advert I remember the most was this one from 1984.
I always wonder how they did it. It was years later when I finally heard Mahler 7th Symphony (Mvt2) I discovered what the music was
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Final one from me this one led to my life long love of rock / metal amongst other genres of music as well as Lucozade
From 1985 Daly Thompson and Lucozade
Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera