MNHQ here - wanting to know: which TV Christmas ads can you remember?

[AnnMumsnet]

Hello all

Apologies for the Christmas-related question but we're doing a bit of work on TV Christmas ads (for stores, brands or products) and we want to come up with a good wide-ranging list of all the Christmas ads we can collectively remember.

It would be great if you could post here to list any that occur to you - from recent years or from further back. If you can add the name of the product/shop/brand and any identifying details or YouTube links that would be great.

Thanks
MNHQ

yellow pages

Loved the ones where they surprised the children with Daddy home from the forces at Xmas. Cannot remember who was advertising it.

Woolworths always did a good Xmas commercial too.

The Hamlet cigars one where there's a flake of snow, the turkey looks up, swallows audibly and then there's the bit about having a cigar. Or have I mixed that up with another one?

Oh this one, with the kiss under the mistletoe!

Re. The nurse one ... did I slightly misread that ad? I thought that as the woman was trying to get home (student?) and they were up they were all doing it, maybe it was (she thought) the first Christmas not doing it for the kids? Never thought about maybe she didn't get many Christmases actually awake. It was for Boots wasn't it? Either way as I had my own narrative going on it was a very engaging advert. And I am more scrooge like than some!

From Childhood the Woolworths one, every year we would be excited the first time we saw it for the season and how long it was.

In recent years I loved the Snowman and Penguin ones from John Lewis. M&S sparkle is good too.

In terms of remembering but not necessarily liking:

• Chanel(?) with Nicole Kidman prancing around.
• Some aliens from Argos(?)

I quite liked

• The John Lewis one with the little boy with gift for his parents.
• JL one again with snowman going off to get a gift for snow woman with the power of love in the background. The extended version of that brought a tear to my eye.

I did like last year's penguin one as well but the one with the hibernating bear was a bit meh.

• A coke advert which shows a woman across the years until she's an old lady.

So basically sentimental guff works on me.

The Sainsbury WWI is my modern classic, Coca-Cola, like somebody else said, always heralds the start of the festive season and, for old adverts, I remember the Cockburns port telling you how to pronounce it Co-burns.

For anyone in Northern Ireland in the 1980s the ultimate Christmas ad was for Primark.

"Preeeeemark's got a whole lot of things for Christmas

Got a lot for the family(got a lot of)

Got a lot of gifts for boys and girls

And girls and boys and

Got a lot of somethings and socks and great surprises

Primark's got a whole lot of things for Christmas

Got a lot for the family".

I can only find a radio ad with a short version on YouTube, and a modern, slower version from Penney's.

Always the Coca Cola ads, love them. I also remember the JL hare and bear ad. And the Marks and Spencer ones with celebs at a party from years ago.

Primark song (second ad in):

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ELnuijThhpU

And a more modern, slower Penney's ad.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=HP9hgpj0za4

That's the wonder of Woolworths!
That's the wonder of good old Woolworths!

The yellow pages one which must have been 80s I think. Where a little girl is waiting to be kissed under the mistletoe by a smaller boy who can't reach. So he fetches a yellow pages and stands on it, and then he can reach. Of course now he'd need to fetch half a dozen to get to the same height!

And there was a Fairy Liquid one, which I think was a Christmas one, where the child is waiting for the fairy liquid bottle to finish so they can make a fairy for the Christmas tree out of it. I think it finishes on Christmas eve.

Have a cracking Christmas at Woolworths,
Cracker of a Christmas shopping spree,
Woolworths prices, is it any wonder
At Christmas Woolworths is the place to be!

How sad is it that I can still sing several verses of this 40 years on? Along with the Golden Wonder crisp who met a pickled onion, and watch out there's a Humphrey about (but of course those weren't Christmas). I can still picture Anita Harris in sparkly suit...

The John Lewis penguin ad. Lovely ad and song.
I loved the Asda one from a couple of years ago where the mum is running around getting Christmas ready.
And of course coca cola. Bliss

The Hellmans mayonnaise one -to the tune of the first day of Christmas Carol. That's been around for years and never changes. Loved the Iceland one a few years back which had the Willy Wonka song and all the desserts.

The John Lewis ads of recent years have been lovely but last year the Sainsbury WWII advert won hands down for giving us the feels.

As I live in Ireland, there are a few adverts that always means Christmas is coming:
An Post -
Penneys -
Guinness -

Just thinking about it - the Boots advert from Christmas 2013 to the song "Small Town Boy" by Bronski Beat was just brilliant.

I really liked the boots ad too where the boy gives presents to people which I think is the same one Whatcha. Hate the "here come the girls" ones though.

The Morrison's ad with their huge Xmas spread on the table, old school, and some animated gingerbread or something like that?

Purposely haven't RTFT so I'm not influenced by others.

• John Lewis Monty (although mostly for the Geordie version which DH and I quote on an almost daily basis), Bear & The Hare, The Snowman one (where he goes to get gloves for Mrs Snowman) and the one with Sweet Child of Mine song.
• That God-awful Asda one where the Mum does everything and the Dad still expects her to sort out tea.
• Boots one where the Mum was a nurse (although didn't particularly like it)
• Sky Movies from last year, with the family that get pulled into their TV and into all the films
• Was there a Next one where the clothes kept changing? I just remember a couple getting on a bus and as the woman swung round the pole her outfit changed
• The M&S fairy one and the Alice in Wonderland one
• Classic coca-cola lorry
• Waitrose one with a kid making biscuits, and the assistant helping with ingredients (was that a Christmas one?)
• Sainsburys WW1 one with the chocolate
• Sainsburys one with all the home videos
• Halfords with a Chopper Bike
• And one with lots of children in a department store - possibly Debenhams?

Hmmm think I watch too much Christmas telly!!

The John Lewis ones are memorable. I actually look forward to seeing the John Lewis Christmas advert.

The coca cola adverts aren't morable but the jingle really is 'holidays are coming...'.

The sainsburys WW2 of last year was great.

I cannot recall any of the other major supermarkets or M&S for example.

WW1 sorry.

Dfs ones and b and q boxing day sale ones

Boots was always the 1st ad out .

Irn Bru snowman is my most memorable from recent times. Iceland prawn ring ads - before IACGMOOH, they were always the signifier that Christmas was on its way, along with fragrance ad season. Is there a Keira Knightly one for Chanel where she's prancing around on a clock tower or something, she's wearing a black ballgown and she smiles or giggles or something and it's a bit terrifying (and I like Keira Knightly). I might have merged it in my brain with the Nicole Kidman one.

I like the M&S ones where famous women are all dressed up really nicely and are eating fancy nibbles or dancing or strolling around in lingerie living their best lives. It's like a posh Iceland buffet party with great lighting.

I hate that moment on Christmas Day when all the lovely expensive magical adverts are replaced with cheapo sales ads, and package holiday ads and giving up smoking ads and you're like, oh, Christmas is OVER and I've not even finished the sprouts.

For me it's the Yellow Pages one that I remember most fondly. The wee boy and girl under the mistletoe. That was 1992.