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If anyone knows of watermark-less versions of any of these I'll replace them within the week.

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hsrugby

This is "hsrugby" by Bob the Fish Productions on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Gryph Lane

Sadly not, but I'd be happy to index these if you want me to. I spend a lot of time on Excel so it shouldn't be too difficult.

Andrew Coldrick

I remember way back when when you did the first tea episode owing to the fact that there were seemingly vanishingly few rugby ads available.

Joseph Adams

Oh, you got here first. Lol. Let me know if you wanna collaborate

Daniel James Webb

I've been meaning to start compiling an index of the Hard Sell too. Maybe we could start it as a wiki (as long as Applemask and BobtheFish Productions are ok with basic data about each video being wiki). Or maybe some other collaborative platform?

Gryph Lane

Either way works for me. Being the data completist and nerd that I am (I'm sorry - 16 years a civil engineer here!) would you consider uploading the first 61 or so videos to YouTube, if you're still able to do so? I maintain an unlisted playlist of episodes 62-197 and it would be cool if the rest were on there too, if at all possible? https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiKvpaL9Na1O7EZrEP4mi0NpsvChNBzc0 (That and Vimeo took the Android TV app away and I had to reset my TV a few weeks ago - first world problems...)

Chris Oakley

The same rugby player actor in the All Clear advert as in the Campari advert.

Bob the Fish Productions

I wasn't certain so I didn't mention it, but yeah, probably. I know who he is as well but I can't get his name.

Chris Oakley

I don't know who he is, but he was a common sight on TV during the late 1970s / early 1980s.

Andy Taylor

95% certain the late Peter Armitage is the actor. Starred in the LWT comedy Lucky Feller in '76 and had a stint on Coronation Street.

Paul

Gryph - have you found a way reformatting the ether so as to recover The Hard Sell’s “Teeth” episode from it, I wonder? If not, I would be happy to send you the copy that’s sitting on my HD if you want it but I would have to do that via WeTransfer as it’s too large to attach to an email.

Gryph Lane

Hi Paul, I don't have anything to do with the uploading - Matthew would probably have a better answer for you?

Paul

Ah, yes, I’d forgotten to apply for his permission to do so. How remiss of me!

Craig Thurston

I think the wiki is an excellent idea. I've just done a spreadsheet with all the titles/run lengths and have more to add so can use that. Does anyone know the title/run time of the missing episode 10?

Paul

Very quickly, The Hard Sell's “Teeth” episode runs at 22 minutes and 49 seconds. The closing credits run as follows: "Created with Movie Storm Props, Costumes and Set Design: Shortfuze Titles: Roly the Non-Wonder Dog Clips from: Various commercials, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Marathon Man, Breaking Bad, Madness Featured Music: Lady Gaga Title Music: ‘The Resurrection Men’ composed and performed by Thea Gilmore from the album ‘The Lipstick Conspiracies’ Associate Producers: Peter Beeston, Paul Daniel, Nicolas Higgins, Christopher Lyons, Craig McLeod Executive Producers: Steven Bride, Alexis Carpenter, Maxim Grunewald, Neil Murton, Sarah Sea Ultimate Producer of Glory: Patrick Stratford Produced & Directed by John Wirstam-Harte" The adverts featured therein appear in the following order: Gibbs SR [Ice Block] 1955 https://www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/record/c26c3934-8fc4-4f55-aa50-6886e26ef75d Elida Gibbs SR Commercial: Maggie https://www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/record/2b1807b6-c7e6-471e-a4ab-0153c9b7d8d9 Mentadent P Toothpaste Commercial: Beach https://www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/record/ccec5ca3-6b26-409b-9628-a506f9d5a7a8 Crest - Cavity Creeps & Our Beloved Wall of Teeth! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaf2_2WiSOY Signal Toothpaste Commercial: Teeth Wars https://www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/record/b758185b-4bc8-40bb-9560-70f82eb55ed0 Signal Toothpaste: Dragon Decay https://www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/record/5e660bd6-255d-47a5-beab-351e4a9c873f Crest toothpaste Commercial: [Average eight year old] https://www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/record/8e1668fb-cd28-4658-8d34-58186cd6b853 Madness “Colgate Blue Minty Gel” Advert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSW6_vUfQpE Colgate – Aiming for Colgate instead of cavities (proving darn difficult to find on YouTube) Ultrabrite - Air Hostess - 1978 UK Advert:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvSywajilsE Benefit - Una famiglia, un dentifricio (Google is no help with this one either)

Craig Thurston

You are a gentleman and a squire. Thank you

Andrew Coldrick

This is extraordinarily thorough. Did you write this up a while beforehand?

Paul

Absolutely my pleasure, Craig!

Paul

It only represents roughly 20 minutes of my afternoon today. Tracking down the url for such adverts as I was able to find on the list was simply a case of hatads.org.uk and YouTube moving in mysterious ways their wonders to perform. Always a pleasure to be of service!