When TV makers gather in hushed, reverent groups to discuss their latest project, they never think that their masterpiece might be outlived by the ads the television station wraps around it.

Nevertheless, that’s exactly what’s happened in the past. Nowhere is that more true than in the UK, where the antics of the PG Tips chimps (pictured), or the aliens from the Smash advert have burned their way into the nation’s collective psyche.

It’s these classic ads from the past which constantly pop up in conversations in the pub, or around the dinner table, demonstrating that whatever else, nostalgia IS what it used to be!

Now there’s a chance to relive these golden days of television on the web, at a site which brings together video clips of so many of those classics you remember from your childhood.

Here’s you’ll find both the televisual icons mentioned above, as well as Milk Tray’s Man In Black and the Country Life butter men.

Simply point your browser at http://www.classictvads.co.uk/ and get ready to wallow in all that nostalgia.