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Compilation of television commercials for Texas Homecare.

Contents:
1. Advert promoting the ‘Big Sale’ – Pacman themed advert, with computer animation.
2. Advert with ‘Texas magic’ jingle, and featuring a woman and man tap dancing around a home. Special offers on various products are promoted.
3. Advert for Texas Homecare sale. The commercial is animated with a pound (£) shaped character, which wants to raise prices but is defeated by Texas.
4. Advert with ‘Price Power’ line (Polytex, Tetrion Filler etc version).
5. Advert promoting showhouses in Texas stores. With ‘Just look...’ jingle and slogan ‘Everything looks better at Texas’.
6. Texas Super Sale advert. Begins with caption “A quick word about the Texas Super Sale” and ends with line “It’s all down at the Texas Super Sale”. The voiceover is possibly by actor Peter Egan). Features a jingle “Down, down, prices are down...” (based on “Down Down” by Status Quo”).
7. Texas 7 Day Bank Holiday Bonanza advert. Mentions new store at Rotherham in end caption.
8. Texas Bargain Hunt ‘87 advert. Features a large wooden crate which breaks loose and bursts open, followed by images of products available in the sale. The voiceover seems to be by actor Tom Baker.
9. Summer Sale advert. Features a pair of animated singing lips with sunglasses and a jingle based on ‘Summertime Blues’ by Eddie Cochrane. Ends with strapline “’Cos Texas has the cure for the Summertime Blues”.
10 Texas Blockbuster Sale advert. Features an image of a Texas store with text “Blockbuster Sale” above it. The sale started on New Year’s Day.
11. ‘Texas Tom’ advert, featuring a couple who are stressed about the state of their home and then go to Texas to improve it. With a country music style jingle. Ends with image depicted a member of staff and caption “Just ask for Tom”.
12. Advert promoting Minworth, Sutton Coldfield and Solihull stores for the May Bank Holiday. Features silhouette image of ‘Texas Tom’ working through the night moving various items eg ladders. An instrumental version of the Texas Tom jingle is included in the background. The advert states the stores were open till 8pm every bank holiday.
13. Texas End of Year Sell Out (boxing day sale) advert. Begins with on-screen text “It’s bigger than a sale! It only happens once a year! It starts 10am Boxing Day!”.
14. Advert for the reopened Texas store at Mallings Industrial Estate, Lewes and the Texas winter sale. The advert shows a train of trolleys, with train sounds. End caption text “Texas Sale. Open New Year’s Day” and voiceover “Well good news always travels fast”. Voiceover seems to be by actor Tom Baker.
15. Texas Sale advert, showing a train of trolleys. End caption text “Texas Sale. Open New Year’s Day” and voiceover “Well good news always travels fast”. Similar to 14, but not mentioning any specific stores. Voiceover seems to be by actor Tom Baker.

Duration: 8 minutes.