Public service ads

Davedubh

Not sure if it is the same ad but there a white Hillman Hunter being driven by a man and some guy lets off a toy soldier from a elastic band, hitting the windscreen and causing a crash?[/QUOTE]

Thats right ,it was a sort of action man in a tweed suit.

darkdubh

G Luxel wrote: »

There are a number of these ads I remembered from the eighties or maybe earlier:

There is the one about rabies and shows pictures of a dog jumping from a boat and a man in bed in agony. A similiar ad is a cartoon with a dog left out, running wild with other dogs and killing sheep. The end of the ad said 'running free, he could be a killer'.

There was another ad about sweets and what not to give to children, a big X sign appears over a bottle of lemonade.

A road safety ad featuring cars like a Fiat I28 approaching a bypass junction, probably somewhere in Dublin and the ad quoted something like Indicate Right, move out slowly......

A really scary ad featured a car crash, a body lying on a trolley covered with a sheet and at the end a black Mercedes hearse driving slowly on the road.
Not sure if it is the same ad but there a white Hillman Hunter being driven by a man and some guy lets off a toy soldier from a elastic band, hitting the windscreen and causing a crash?[/QUOTE]

Apologies for bumping a nine year old thread.I'm glad someone else remembers that one other than me.It was a sort of Action Man type figure in civilian clothes and I remember it had a very 70's looking checked jacket of the exact same type that James Garner used to often wear in The Rockford Files (pictured below.)What actually happened in the ad was someone fired the doll figure through the windscreen of a car from the inside with a catapult to demonstrate the dangers of not wearing a seatbelt,I don't recall a car crashing,but I remember bit with the doll figure very clearly.