As much as I love sharing old commercials on this blog, something I enjoy even more is finding obscure commercials from countries outside the United States. The Hanna-Barbera characters have been used to sell all kinds of stuff all around the world, leading to some truly odd promotions. Take this series of Scottish adverts for the Royal Bank of Scotland, featuring Top Cat and the rest of his gang! Interestingly enough, this was one of the few Top Cat productions that released over there with the original title. For years, the show was referred to as Boss Cat in the U.K., as Top Cat was already the name of a cat food brand. Animation duties for all three ads were handled by Hanna-Barbera themselves. Check them out down below!
Wow, these capture the spirit of the series quite nicely. Knowing Eighties-era H-B was capable of pulling this off makes one wonder why Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats from a few years later missed the mark so badly.
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