Imperial Leather Advert

[George 1978]

The advert from 1984 which I have just referred to and linked to feels a lot older than that, almost like the one which you have just linked to - they could have been made in the same year, although I know that yours was from a 1976 off-air. In the 1984 advert, the 1970s alike music with the train going by and the brown leather satchel containing the Imperial Leather soap dropping down feels 1970s to me, even though it was seen in the 1980s.

Watching that advert, it made me think: "was that really Roger Moore telephoning from the bath for his Imperial Leather?" (Ordinary telephones should not be used in bathrooms or near baths full of water as we already know, and it was a landline and not a mobile phone used in the advert). Either Moore or Nigel Havers, methinks, although I would put my two and six on Moore as it has a heavy James Bond-alike influence in those 30 seconds.

This is why adverts like this feel well-suited being scheduled during commercial breaks of evening showings of films on ITV back in the mid 1980s and I do remember a showing of that during one film ad break probably in May 1984 as I mentioned earlier. It would certainly be great scheduled during the ad break of a James Bond film at the time - the same theme and surroundings.

[Cartimand]

There were a few variations on the theme.
This one, featuring a privately chartered Concorde was a classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLibirXsrkg&t=6s

[George 1978]

Further to Post 10 when I was referring to an old Imperial Leather advert from around 1984 - this is the one which I was referring to. (1:33 in this video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbaYGSLYiKE&t=92s

[George 1978]

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Too many beans?

Not if it was for charity.

[tex]

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With the bath full of foam bubbles for obvious reasons of course.

Too many beans?

[George 1978]

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I seem to recall a beautiful woman relaxing in a bath ... maybe false memory syndrome ( vivid imagination)

With the bath full of foam bubbles for obvious reasons of course.

[Zincubus]

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I seem to recall a beautiful woman relaxing in a bath ... maybe false memory syndrome ( vivid imagination)





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[George 1978]

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There was this advert for Imperial Leather circa 1984-1985 with a family having a bath together - the only privacy they have is that they have separate compartments for their baths. I vaguely remember some train they were on passing very quickly from the outside and the family were inside it. To quote the old TV Cream website circa 1999: "this was done without a whiff of the Social Services being called". Could it be the same one?

For some reason, I have memories of a showing of it being on during a commercial break of a Tuesday evening film in the Central TV region just before I had a bath myself - it might have been 1984 because I associate the memory with a day trip to Skegness with school which was probably the next day or next week.

And of course, there was that star-studded Julie Walters in a white bathrobe doing one or more Imperial Leather adverts from around 1990-1992 with that "things have never been worse" or what the lyrics were. Saw a YT ad break the other day with that on it.

[Polly at folkestone]

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Omg I can't believe this ,my daughter was in this ad filmed at sheperton studios 1980 she was the little girl in the bath called Nicola Ramsey she made lots of tv commerials Mary Tamm was in it too ,the butler was called Simon but I can't find a copy of it anywhere .

[scotchmist]

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I remember one of these ads where the family are residing in a luxurious alpine lodge. As the man of the house is reclining in his bath with his IL lather his wife exclaims "isn't it getting a bit chilly dear?", he picks up the phone and calls the butler to put another log on the fire. Through the window of the villa you see a couple of large fir trees being felled.

[branny]

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I remember the earlier one in the private jet.

[Heather74]

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Have you heard how clean it gets you?? pass it on, pass it on Though I thought it was Palmolive? either way its from the sliding soap ad.

[culnara]

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I remember this ad too
nothing on youtube tho

[mjcmjc]

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I remember the same or similar add

where the label of the soap was shown off because it stopped the soap sliding about (the imperial Leather label was in the centre of the bar)

[SpiralCoolStuff]

I never saw that one but it sounds good heh