"Space Odyssey" Novon 2000 television commercial

Television commercial (30 seconds) entitled 'Space Odyssey' promoting Sainsbury's Novon 2000 laundry detergent. The advert was filmed on 19 to 21 September 1995 at Shepperton Studios T Stage, recorded on 10th October 1995 and was due to air on television from 15th October 1995. It has a clock number (reference number for the advert) of AMV/SASO355/030.

The advert depicts two female astronauts ('Clarke' played by Sharon Bennett and 'Kubrick' by Laurel Lefkow) on a space station. One is doing the laundry and explains the benefits of the product and the money back guarantee to the other two. A male astronaut 'Boris' (played by Dugald Bruce Lockhart) knocks on the window holding his laundry. Endline "Novon 2000. Now available on Earth". End caption: "Sainsbury's. Everyone's favourite ingredient.". The voiceover was by Paul McGann and background music is the "Thirty Something" theme used in several 1990s Sainsbury's adverts (see audio cassette 607).