'It Can Take 16 Episodes of Crossroads - If You Can!'

Those highly cheeky 1980s magazine ads for a video recorder made me smile, but I wouldn't have minded the 16 episodes of Crossroads at all. In the mid-1980s, with the VCR becoming affordable and an object of desire to the masses, this kind of 'slick' humour was bound to appeal.

But I didn't realise that the ads were also appearing large-sized on the London Underground, as revealed in this newspaper synopsis for Crossroads from the Express and Star, November 21, 1985.

A bit much really.

Pour me a sherry, darling.