http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgduIknGejU

In addition, we have the lovely ‘Bob Monkhouse‘ for The Prostate Cancer Research Foundation, Levi’s ‘Dangerous Liaisons‘, VW ‘Toy Story‘, Big Yellow Storage ‘Wave‘, VW ‘Night Drive‘, Carling ‘Space‘, Sony ‘Play-Doh‘, Lurpak ‘Bread‘, Vodaphone ‘Time Theft‘ and Brylcreem ‘Effortless‘.

Sorry. Missed this year. Disneyland really takes it out of you…

DETR ‘The one where the teenagers get run over while messing about on a mobile’ (not online), Think! ‘Run Over Girl‘, Honda ‘Thought Bubbles’ (can’t find online), Orange ‘Dance‘, Orange ‘Blackout‘, AOL ‘Internet Good‘, AOL ‘Internet Bad‘, 3 ‘Tupperzik‘, Vodaphone ‘Mayfly‘, Lastminute.com ‘A Life and a Half’ (can’t find), VW ‘School‘, VW ‘Boot‘, Orange ‘Rio‘, Stella ‘Priests‘ and Skoda ‘Gymnast‘.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEYFMHFTNec

Others of the year: Honda ‘Choir‘, Sky ‘Come Home To The Simpsons‘, Audi ‘Satellite‘ and  DETR ‘The Day You Went To Work‘.

Slim Pickins, and I only put ‘Choir’ in because everyone else seems to like it.

And I’m not sure ‘Paint’ would be a classic in other years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpuSaGJ8E24

Travelocity ‘Moustache’ (not online), Guardian ‘Wimbledon’ (couldn’t find it online), VW ‘Life In A Day’, (ditto), Kleenex Velvet ‘Factory’ (why will no fucker put their ads online?), Observer ‘From Abba to Zappa‘, Levi’s ‘Bike‘, Playstation ‘Golfers vs Pornstars‘, Citroen ‘Transformer‘, Orange ‘Swayze‘, Orange ‘Astin‘ and John Smiths ‘Showstopper‘.

Good year, huh? I could also have included other ads from Orange, Levi’s and Life on The Playstation, but that’s fifteen corkers already, and with the high quality of the HoFers, it could be the best year overall.

Here are the best UK ads from 2003:

Other very good ones include Tango ‘Postman‘ and ‘Factory‘, Tesco Cherokee ‘Starbursts‘, Sony ‘Thank You’ (can’t find it online), Johnnie Walker ‘Fish‘, VW ‘Bollocks’, London Film Festival ‘Director’ (couldn’t find it online), Honda ‘Sense‘ and Wrigley’s ‘Dogbreath‘.

This was on at 5:30 PM during a screening of Turner and Hooch on the Comedy Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7oMY6sC7wQ

Here are the Hall of Famers from 2002:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCi6YWpbgNk

And the Radio One Extra ad where people around a council estate make sounds in time to urban records. Can’t find it online.

Others include Pot Noodle ‘Slag of all snacks’, Tango ‘Postman’, Audi ‘Hendrix’, The Times ‘Banana’, Nike ‘Enjoy The Weather’, The other X-Box ad, Mercedes ‘Lucky Star’, Think ‘Two Things at Once’, and Barclay’s ‘Samuel L. Jackson’.

Good year for BBH and Danny Kleinman, eh?

Hmmm…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-6njVFEq2A&feature=player_embedded

Here are the Hall of Famers from 2001 (remember this is UK only).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfYmwaf89UE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc4gwCVT4F4

Others of that year include Durex ‘Square’, VW Passat ‘Ice Cream’, VW Lupo ‘Baby’, Kick Racism Out Of Football ‘Dear White Fella’, Paedophiles Online ‘You Never Know’, Stella ‘Plague’, Playstation ‘Wolfman’,  and Cup-a-Soup ‘Marathon’, which I couldn’t find online.

I know the anti smoking one seems pretty straight but I’ve seen it about fifty times and I cry every single time I see it, so it goes in the HoF (this is a benign dictatorship, not a democracy).

The Hall of Famers from 2000:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wj-D5iF0oc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOeS9K4-7C0

Other greats include the QTV ‘Danster’ campaign, Heinz ‘Two Minutes’, Lynx ‘Shaver‘, Monster.co.uk ‘Voices’, Stella ‘Hero’s Return’, Audi ‘Wakeboarder’, Skoda ‘Factory’, Weetabix ‘Black Beauty’, Aristoc ‘Subtitles’, Metz ‘Judderman’, VW ‘Smile‘ and Reebok ‘Belly’.

I think that 2000 was the greatest ever year for British TV advertising. Several of the ‘greats’ could also be classics, depending on your opinion, but there’s 18 ads up there and they’re all exceptionally good.