Tetley GB Ltd. used Giles cartoons as the basis of an advertising campaign for QuickBrew™ tea in 1986 [I think]. The campaign consisted of a number of TV adverts - at least four, and various other promotional items including a teatowel and a pinafore [image needed]. They also sold posters of the opening shot of each of the TV adverts. All featured the Giles family.

Tea Towel

Posters

Here are, not very good, images of two posters from the campaign. Each features a scene from one of the animated adverts.

Were posters produced from each of the adverts? Could you help by supplying better quality images of the posters?

TV Adverts

The files here are from edited versions used in a television profile of Giles. They seem to have been trimmed and have lost their original soundtrack. If anybody has good copies then I would love to see them.

The following four GIF images each link to an animated GIF version of the advert. These animated files are large and I have given the file sizes underneath each.

The Motorbike [937 KB]
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Here is a very short clip of Grandma getting her motorbike from the shop and riding it away.

Grandma plays golf [6.1 MB]
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Here Grandma takes up golf so Dad and Ernie need to look out!

Dad does the decorating [3.7 MB]
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Dad does some decorating, Oh dear!

The family picnic [2.3 MB]
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Grandma at play again - but I think the trouble all starts with Stinker!

Were there any others in this series? Have you got them on video? Do you know who made them? Or do you own a Quickbrew pinnafore? Any information gratefully received.

With thanks to Nick Moore for creating the AVI files for me.