Runtime: | 10 min |
Creator: | Victor Lewis-Smith, Paul Sparks |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Num Episodes: | 15 |
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.
Series | No. | Episode | Air date |
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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 |