Ads Infinitum
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| Ads Infinitum | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Victor Lewis-Smith, Paul Sparks |
| Starring | Victor Lewis-Smith |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 15 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 10 min |
| Production company | Associated-Rediffusion |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC Two |
| Release | 19 December 1996 – 30 October 2000 |
Ads Infinitum was a British television comedy sketch/archive series, co-written and presented by Victor Lewis-Smith that originally ran on BBC Two, beginning with a 10-minute pilot episode in December 1996 that focused on adverts for Christmas toys, two series would soon follow. A series of 6 episodes in 1998, and a second series of 8 episodes in 2000. The series would look at old TV and cinema adverts, some footage previously unseen on UK TV, which Lewis-Smith would usually make fun of.
Episodes
[edit]| Series | No. | Episode | Air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pilot | 1 | "Christmas Presents Past" | 19 December 1996 |
| 1 | 2 | "Comics and Magazines" | 26 October 1998 |
| 3 | "Consumer Cack" | 2 November 1998 | |
| 4 | "Public Information Films" | 9 November 1998 | |
| 5 | "Cinema Food Ads" | 16 November 1998 | |
| 6 | "Leominster Local Cinema Ads" | 23 November 1998 | |
| 7 | "Ads Infinitum Awards 1998" | 30 November 1998 | |
| 2 | 8 | "Airlines" | 11 September 2000 |
| 9 | "Holidays in Britain" | 18 September 2000 | |
| 10 | "Holidays Abroad" | 25 September 2000 | |
| 11 | "British Kewzeen" | 2 October 2000 | |
| 12 | "Superheroes" | 9 October 2000 | |
| 13 | "Old-Age Pensioners" | 16 October 2000 | |
| 14 | "Buygones" | 23 October 2000 | |
| 15 | "Ads Infinitum Awards 2000" | 30 October 2000 |
