Collett Dickenson Pearce: advertising

Classic advertising from the heyday of London agency Collett Dickenson Pearce, regarded as the UK's most talented ad agency from the 1960s until the 1980s. Click here for the main CDP page on Adbrands.net.

"Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet, the mild cigar from Benson & Hedges

The Cinzano series with Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins

The Hovis bread series: "As good for you today as it's always been"

Benson & Hedges "Iguana": at the time the most expensive ad ever made

Fiat Strada: Handbuilt by Robots

Birds Eye beefburgers, with Ben

Olympus cameras, with David Bailey and George Cole

Shredded Wheat: "Bet you can't eat three"

From CDP's long-running series for Heineken: Nero

A politically incorrect cinema ad for Silk Cut

From a series of ads for Texaco featuring racing driver
James Hunt and comedy duo Morecambe & Wise

From the Wimbledon series for Robinsons Barley Water