Hello there. I was wondering if you could help me 4 my curiousity (me being a history, antique & corporate history buff), if you could tell me or remember if the "Player's Navy Cut" cigarette brand had advertisements or commercials shown on the British commercial channel ITV from the channel's birth, i.e. 22nd September 1955-1 August 1965 (all television commercials for cigarettes were banned on 1 August 1965 in the UK) I presume the well known slogans of the brand were used on the advertisements such as "Player's Please" & "It's the tobacco that Counts" with the famous trademark of a lifebuoy around the sailor's head? What were the advertisements like? Did they often show an actor playing the part of the bearded sailor or a well-dressed professional male or female smoking the brand? Do you remember?
Plse let me know 4 my interest as I've searched online & nothing has come up & I don't know that any ppl who lived during that era, many thanx.

F. Talukder

faizeuk1@hotmail.co.uk