CDP Classic ads - Hamlet Cigars (1966 - 1997)

[@dogbaby1]

These made me laugh out loud! A reminder of the time when TV advertising was an art.

[@rubix4195]

Totally forgot 5:08 and I just made me laugh with the musicians immediately switching the iconic Bach tune.

[@smith2781]

I remember when I was a kid my Dad always used to say the adverts are better than the actual tv programmes. Watching these now I’m older I agree with him.

[@evelynwilson1566]

The Launderette one must have inspired the famous Levi's ad😅. I loved the one with the motorbike and the sidecar when I was a kid.

[@rjjcms1]

I was thinking the bowler-hatted gent beat Nick Kamen to it by a couple of decades there.

[@golddiggerdave]

I grew up watching these....and never smoked a day in my life. The adds were better than the programs. Thanks for the up load

[@d.k.1394]

Lol

[@jamessalem2825]

5:00 The piano player's look of empathy and final insult 'match light' on, truly brilliant!

[@TheThetube1970]

This is great. All the Hamlet Cigar Adverts in one. Bach's Air on G String..What a beautiful piece of music that they all had in common.

[@DavidRahmanMoreno]

These commercials, woke up my interest for classical music when I was just ten years old specially for the theme played, Bach's Air on the G String, its also about a philosophy of life, if everything is going wrong, just relax and think about the positive part of the situation.

[@williamsmith752]

The one i remember....going way back to the 70's....is a man checking the football results listening to the radio.......and marking his pools coupon....sees he has 8 draws..gets excited....goes to his jacket to get the cigars out of the pocket...and as he pulls them out...the pools envelope meant to be mailed in....falls out on the floor!!.... I just found it on "more hamlet cigar adverts"....hilarious!

[@AnthonyCodringtonTopCat]

I grew up watching these ads. Love it

[@adriancahill4440]

Thanks for posting this. A great 9mins well spent.

[@indiantinamorals5791]

Thank you CDP, aww the memories of the good old days, thanks again, love from Ireland

[@NEWMICROMAN]

Nobody can make better adverts than these. Thank you for posting this great collection.

[@alanb4857]

I'm 58 and born in Canada. My first time to ever hear about or see these adverts. Not sure how I missed seeing these growing up. Funny as heck - especially the golfer!

[@0SDAmico0]

I WANT A HAMLET RIGHT NOW !!!

[@rjjcms1]

As I'm battling a pipes burst induced flood in my home at the moment,I think I qualify for one too. Think I might break the non-habit of the more recent part of a lifteime,even though I gave up smoking in 1995.

[@dreadster0]

I still haven't found the one where its close to xmas and the turkeys see the first snowflake and they all retreat back into their coop (they know whats coming!) and seconds later the cigar smoke appears from within. Classic!!

[@dawnfinch9935]

unforgettable adverts I think it was the music thanks for the memories

[@englishrose47]

Thanks to Johann Sebastian Bach

[@slobodanreka1088]

Heh, that last one is just 20 years old. Imagine the outcry today :D

[@englishrose47]

I wonder what J S Bach would think of his beautiful music being used in comedy ads three hundred years later. I’m sure he would have approved

[@andreseperezl]

Ufff muy bueno me costo mucho encontrar estas publicidades no las veía de cuando era chico en argentina en un programa dedicado a las mejores publicidades, gracias :)

[@johncrawfordpiano]

The bald guy one is hilarious! I love how the pianist of the trio stops his song inmediately upon seeing the man's wig fall off, looks briefly at the bass player, and without any words, they launch straight into the Air- a kind a musical acknowledgement that this guy's evening has just been ruined. genius!

[@hashchief664]

The 'Robot' is way funnier now than it was when I originally saw it. Brilliant.

[@tommillard4193]

I like a cigar from time to time very relaxing

[@rjjcms1]

My Dad used to light one up at the end of a family dinner out at a restaurant,filling the air with mellow clouds of smoke,when I was a teen or younger.

[@geoffcrabbe4323]

I Loved watching this.. laughed while thinking of good times enjoying a Hamlet after a nice dinner with a good pint and good friends...happy times..

[@shornsparks20005]

very enjoyable thanks for putting them on

[@alexlyons5856]

The music is beautiful the advert is masterpiece 😃😃😃😃😃

[@jiji6787]

HILARIOUS!! The flourescent condom was hysterical!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Man, they just dont make them like this anymore! ( yes I know tobacco is banned from adverts! )

[@robhollywood647]

Was never shown on tv, only cinemas

[@samaraisnt]

@@robhollywood647 I didn't know that!! Makes sense, though the older ones probably were.

[@rjjcms1]

@@samaraisnt That must be why I haven't seen that last one before. Must have gone to the cinema at the wrong times to catch it.

[@samcash123]

The good old days

[@hulsfamcalcan]

Ahhh: the Hair on a G string, as my Dad used to call it.

[@graememorrison333]

A jazzed-up version too. Nice 👌

[@davidrule385]

They don't make adverts like these anymore.

[@bookwormmaddy]

Yeah it's illegal to advertise cigs now

[@rubix4195]

@@bookwormmaddy Even illegal - 3/4 of the adverting crew nowadays couldn't pitch an advert that can hold my attention for 30 secs (freaking meerkats, go compare, funeral plans)

[@markgoldspink5109]

@@rubix4195 I'd watch a meerkat compare funeral plan.

[@Mr___X]

@@rubix4195 marketing is much more effective now.

[@rjjcms1]

@@rubix4195I can live with Go Compare and the Meerkats but I routinely switch over the TV channel if an advert for funeral plans or so-called equity release comes on. I do not wish to be bombarded with that stuff.

[@AfkaSound]

I used to have all these on an official Hamlet VHS in the early 90s. I used to watch it like it was a Disney film. so weird now i think about it. Growing up in the north in the 90s i guess. At least i dont smoke.

[@daveharrison9107]

I had that VHS too!

[@Richard_Straker]

The last two were shown in cinemas, not on TV. Cigar ads were banned from TV in 1991.

[@frankdenardo8684]

Twenty years since cigarette commercials were banned from TV and radio.

[@frosksdeadteeth5163]

Cinema ads were often more raunchy/X-rated than TV

[@rjjcms1]

It certainly looks that way,judging by the last two of this lot.

[@beakf1]

Even old averts have more of a story line than today's movies.The hangman ones good.

[@noddyholder79]

60s 70s happier, more liberated days (sighs, lights up a Hamlet)

[@ceili]

Pink shiny dome - when the band stopped playing, looked at him, then broke into air on a g string - I was done 😆😆😆

[@tomd185y]

Brilliant set of ads. The last one was the best by far, but the Wall was pretty good too.

[@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391]

The photo booth is comic genius. Plus I miss a good comb-over.

[@jeneparlepa]

I'm French and I like Hamlet Cigars adverts. They are the most creative ads in advertising history ^^.

[@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391]

I never thought of that, because there's no speech they can be broadcast in any country.

[@ameena_q90]

LOL I remember watching all of these adverts in a tape my father brought. He was obsessed with that cigar at the time and I was about 6, I'm 20 now haha

[@АдамБреннан]

Happy 30th birthday

[@hashchief664]

My dad has the same tape. Remember watching as a kid and crying with laughter.

[@DaynJo]

Without a doubt... 4:55 "Pink shiny dome" was the best every part. The way he looks at the camera. And the pianist looks at him.. and the final insult strikes the match on his bean.😂 Honourable mention to "Phone booth." 🤭

[@inmylifeivelovedthemall]

I finally found the cigar ads that inspired that scene from Yellow Submarine!

[@prinkipo1917]

Love these. Always preferred Castella Classics as the slightly better 'out the back' quick cigar (and still do) but the Hamlet ads really were in a class of their own and drove the sales well I think.

[@kezadrone]

Miss that theme and tagline from the TV, another one I loved was the intercity train one, with the yawning slippers and chess piece.

[@seratheeducatedfeline4227]

The Venus de Milo one though 🤣

[@Blondejam]

Nothing like sock suspenders and possible cancer...What a time. I remembers these and was a smoker for years. I gave up a few years ago but still remember the no regard to the dangers of smoking in adverts at the time. Well the tobacco companies enjoyed the sales and the government needed the tax revenue. Can't say much more about smoking as I enjoyed it and wanted to carry on smoking but it was ruining my health. I gave up but feel a lot of damage has been done. The ads are a blast from the past but a curse for the future. Much love, C

[@HenryMcGuinnessGuitar]

Sorry but you've missed the one with the wooden privy - a golden labrador puppy runs out from under the door (in reference to Andrew adverts of the time, which also featured such a dog) with all the toilet roll. The beleaguered occupant sighs and the music starts, that mild smoke drifts through the gap at the top of the door....Lovely stuff

[@rjjcms1]

That's the one that I was waiting for that wasn't in this collection.

[@Cogniscent1]

They omit one of the best, from 1987, at the time of the Stock Market Crash on 'Black Monday' that led to days of panic. It showed a line plummeting down a graph..

[@aNEMESYS]

J'adore les pubs Hamlet! flegme Britannique oblige. Super!

[@Turinas]

Great memories. The best campaign ever. Photobooth is my alltime favorite ad

[@Bopeliano]

J.S. Bach - Air on the G String ... Such a thrilling tune !!!

[@elvisuk]

great seeing these again..ty for sharing

[@soundman5392]

Good collection and its funny how your mind plays tricks as I swear the Photo Booth one was earlier than 1988! Also the last two were scraping the barrel a bit and no where near as good as the earlier ones.

[@BigDon62]

My first Hamlet turned me a little green, but am happy to say I'm now a larger shade of blue thanks to my continued patronage. Hamlet The Smoke They Can't Revoke.

[@Kapricorn1]

Loving the Venus De Milo and the Photobooth ads, brilliant

[@MrDaiseymay]

Absolutely Brilliant !! from a happier time in our history, when we were free of those utter piss for blood arse holes who now control our lives.

[@tonywebb799]

Oh yes instead of those salt of the earth marketing people using comedy to encourage us to part with our hard earned money to buy a product that would probably give us cancer and kill us. Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet!?

[@callumhardy5098]

Tony Webb Yes but who gives a shit about all that anyway?

[@RobinYork123]

They were always there controlling our lives, it is coming to a head now.

[@THEMilkSHAIKH]

Tony Webb Everything will kill you nowadays. What’s the point of living life if you haven’t lived.

[@Natashahoneypot]

One of these ads to get us through lockdown would have been good. 🚬

[@centrevezgaming4862]

advertisments back in the day that felt like short films and the cigar ones were showcased at short film festivals back then and some won awards for creative short films like the gregor fisher one in which he went on to star as rab c nesbitt and some of them ended up being shown at cinemas but in the 70's it was an bizzare time on television like using robots to advertise instant mash and cigars and roll on to the 80's with blue print guy advertising toshiba tv's and an animated skeleton going on about the wonders of piracy by recording anything you want including video nasties oh mi times have changed .

[@gallafey]

I remeber the advert where man taking his car through the car wash I think either forgot close the widow or window got stuck, he light a cigur

[@neilpearson357]

Interesting to see the health warnings appear in the later ads. We're missing Carlos Fandango wheels on the Anglia too. Good ads though

[@leepodstar]

Pure class...Photobooth & Glowworn

[@gavinpowers1217]

Wimbledon and cigarettes goes together like Raducanu and breathlessness!

[@ObiWanCannabi]

the prices go from fractions to needing mortgages

[@olliedann]

I have a fantastic VHS tape that covers the best ads to come out of the Collett Dickenson Pearce agency.

[@anonymouse740]

These adverts are fucking good, I don't really understand what modern adverts are even trying to sell me half the time. I want a Hamlet cigar after watching this and I don't even smoke.

[@mrmel321]

This could be my next piano tutorial

[@tommillard4193]

4:25 now that's a mood

[@hectorsmith6680]

...Amazing ads...when life was free...and smoking was a way to happiness...

[@davebanting876]

Oh God!!!!!... the match strike on the bald head...... I just collapsed.....😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@MarktgInnovation2Day]

great classic ad!

[@Yakovlievich]

There is a scene from Yellow Submarine which suddenly makes a lot more sense after watching this.

[@davids736]

Brilliant - thanks for that upload. I grew up watching these, some are funny as fuck...........

[@englishrose47]

Where would the world be without Johann Sebastian Bach

[@RosanaDavies]

Love the one in the Photo Booth. 😂😂😂❤

[@meadroad]

The ‘98 one at the end, with the ‘hangman’.. 🤣🤣 Bolux 🤣🤣🤣

[@NWIPrepper19113]

I used to smoke Benson & Hedges in high school. Cool commercials. Liked.

[@lympia3]

love the tennis one,did you see the way he pops the cigar in his mouth?also at 5.10 the way he strickes the match and the look on the piono player says it all.

[@coolersmoke]

Rab C Nesbitt gets me every time :)

[@Synthematix]

banning tv adverts wont stop people from smoking lol

[@cutebuttt]

beautiful

[@PassiveSmoking]

The second one wasn't the inspiration for that Levis ad, was it?

[@agfagaevart]

There was also one where a street artists' chalk drawings are washed off the pavement by rain.

[@CrypticalK]

hehe I like the last one... a horse indeed! Although at least it shows that smoking makes you loose wood.. didn't think they'd want to advertise that detail :P

[@itsjemmabond]

I think I've seen one of them - the one where Kenny imitates the golf advert trying to get the ball out of that massive hole. In the background a jazz band plays the Hamlet theme, and Kenny shouts at them, telling them to stop playing that bloody music; I have that version at home. And yes, Sid Snot used to throw the ciggies into his mouth in the exact same way.

[@cbraunsteins]

Sometimes I need a Hamlet cigar and the Air' on G String from Bach playing...

[@chuckabutty888]

Brilliant posting, yes smoking bad for you but these ads were hilarious.

[@davepukem]

At 2:20 the guy throws the cigar into his mouth, exactly like the Kenny Everett character Sid Snott with his cigarettes. Kenny Everett also used to parody these adverts (e.g. the Man With No Name getting shot full of holes and lighting up a Hamlet, the smoke coming out of the bullet holes). Coincidence? Or massive conspiracy spanning decades?!? (Er, coincidence...)

[@Tedtalking23]

Oi grew up watching them from. Late 70s on so funny 😁

[@stnicholas54]

Brilliant ads. Never failed to raise a laugh. Before smoking ranked alongside incest on the social barometric scale, that is.

[@tobiasvandepeer5468]

old Saville got the double whammy there!

[@compulsivecommenter990]

That's an overstatement

[@mechengr1731]

The narrator made the commericals for me

[@kevt31]

Oh I miss those Halycon days when cigars didnt give you cancer.

[@letmegoletmego]

You can clearly see the change of drug use in ad agencies from cannabis to cocaine from the 60s to the 90s. And the resulting drop of quality in the quality of output..

[@Malaka57]

I remember two: one with a fellow from the Renaissance (da Vinci?) trying to fly a plane, and another one with a man who orders a "chest wig" and then embraces a gorgeous woman on a beach, but the chest wig "changes sides". ... The latter with music by Wagner (from Tristan)... They were hilarious ads, but I assume they were in the movies, as I had no TV.

[@christiner302]

Classics, I remember so many of them, but the horseracing one is missing.

[@dawnfinch8232]

Ha ha ha loved the hamlet ads

[@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391]

Ok, I admit it, yes I modelled for the horse in the last one.

[@maryade]

@ChemtrallsEire. He lit it with an oil lamp - the romans used pottery lamps, filled with olive oil and a wick coming out the spout. Back to the second ad - so Nick Kamen in the Levi 501 ad wasn't the first to do it?!? I recognise the actor, I think he had a scene in The Beatles Hard Days Night.

[@MImlac]

Almost gave this a thumbs up. All of them up through 80s were great but the 90s one was a truly reflection of how crass the culture had become. Too bad.

[@PirateCaptainRehanGames_Fucoff]

I remember seeing this in my science class

[@mrmel321]

love the piano theme tune

[@DerEchteBold]

Oh my, the car wash scene really made me laugh and I almost didn't notice that the guy in the car played the murderer in the first episode of 'Agatha Christie's Poirot', if you planned to watch that ...sorry for the spoiler!

[@lemmydingo]

Magnifiquement Bouddha

[@stuartjohnson7967]

Back in the day hey.! When the adverts where better than the tele 📺. Number 1 for me though is. Smash Mash Potatoes 🥔. Classic Absolutely Brilliant. Earthlings Ha Ha Ha Ha.! ♥️

[@alexanderheath2765]

You mist the one with the souped up Ford Angela crashing into the barn full of straw. Mid 80s I think it was.