PG Tips

[zabadak]

Last of the Planet Of The Chimps :cry:

[Mulletino]

Re: PG Tips

They're all free at last.

[staffslad]

Re: PG Tips

That's a shame. The PG Tips chimps ads were so popular back in the day.

[Semi42]

I recall a chimps ad where they’re on a plane going on holiday and one is crying missing her boyfriend,
“Marbella’s full of fellas”
”not like my Frankie”
I’ve looked at a good few old chimps adverts but not seen this one or did I imagine it and it wasn’t a chimps ad?

[Heather74]

[Semi42]

Thanks…..

[George 1978]

I know that on the back of the Mr Shifter and the Tour de France adverts, PG Tips released an LP called Mr Shifter and His Removal Men (I started a thread a few years back about it), with Bernard Cribbins reading the story of Cyril the Cyclist and Mr Shifter and his Removal Men, along with various nursery rhyme-type songs sung by John Junkin, and was presumably aimed at children and it came out in the late 1970s or early 1980s.

Did you know that Mr Shifter's first name was Arnold? That Shifter advert broke records for a British TV ads as it was the most shown advert on British TV - over 2,000 times in over 20 years when they kept bringing it back for anniversaries and the like.

When I was at Infant School back in 1984 (well, I wasn't actually "in" the school on that particular day for obvious reasons, but still...), my class went on a day trip to Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire where the chimpanzees who found fame in the PG Tips advert, lived, and I believe that the zoo sent them from their place to star in the TV ads from the 1950s to the 1990s. They even made zookeeper, the late Molly Badham, a household name as a result. Mind you, as a tea drinker, I have always sided with the late Brian Glover's Gaffer as I usually drank Tetley if not supermarket own brands.