Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 19 February 2016, 07:56:01 AM
Kung Fu with Grasshopper

Or no 42 as well call it at our local takeaway.

Did anyone else have a lemonade man that delivered fizzy drinks? Corona.

Mission Impossible, the TV series not the film versions with the midget.

"The Singing Ringing Tree" - creepy German TV series with the man-bear.

The Flashing Blade, Robinson Crusoe, White Horses

Sony Walkman cassette players

Chicken in a basket

Political parties that were actually different

Red Smarties

Newspaper leaving ink on your fingers

Doing the football pools

Trains without corridors

Petrol caps without locks

Quote from: fsn on 19 February 2016, 09:05:39 AM
White Horses

As a punishment for reminding me of that ......



.... apart from horses, still don't have a clue what it was all about. 

btw: "The Singing Ringing Tree" was creepy - was there not a dwarf and a big fish as well?

I'll see your White Horses and I'll raise you ...

I knew it! There was a fish! 

B@st@rd!

Time to phone the Therapist (the rapist?) Phsykia Shrink again ....

.. although I quite liked Robinson Crusoe but felt let down by The Flashing Blade.

Quote from: fsn on 19 February 2016, 09:29:09 AM
I'll see your White Horses and I'll raise you ...

I never ever saw the end of Robinson Crusoe, I was back at school before the series finished, every year it seemed.  Some white horses brings back memories and listen with mother on the radio

Face stuck against the radio watching the valves warm up!!!!

The wooden tops

After church going to my grandads to read the eagle (relative did the art work after frank hampton - PC99 with scenes from Normanby)

On good days going up eston hills and my mother showing us crators from crashed aircraft etc from the war

We didn't get a colour TV and fridge until 72!!! first programme in colour war tweety pie!!!!

Dave

The first programme on our first colour TV was in black & white.  


btw: I like the "thinking time" between the explosion and the stunt man doing his somersault at the start of The Flashing Blade video. Brilliantly bad!

I've got a piece of the Berlin Wall, too. Probably the only thing I do have that's worth saving.

Back in the 90's we had a 'Pop man' come around in his van and deliver lemonades and other fizzy drinks - used to collect the empties for re-use. The company was based at Darlington, and a neighbour who's son I used to play Action Force (British G.I. Joe) with used to receive 'Pop' from them.

There used to also be another company based out of Darlington that did home deliveries; Rington's Tea. Selling Tea (unsurprisingly) and chocolate wafer biscuits and chocolate marshmellow biscuits (they were probably just Tunnocks but in different wrappers ).

Too young for JFK. But I was rudely woken up one Sunday morning to be informed that Lady Diana Spencer was dead.

I was also shouted to come downstairs and see the TV on the afternoon of September 11th, 2001.

On a more positive note:

Sylvester McCoy as Doctor Who.
Timothy Dalton as OO7, James Bond.
The UK winning Eurovision with Catrina and The Waves - Love Shine A Light.
Israel winning Eurovision with Dana International - can't remember if Dana was a cross-dresser, or a transsexual. Either way, first time I'd heard of the gender swapping operation.

Going on holiday to Yugoslavia.

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Forgot to say, after reading FierceKitty's posts before that it brought back memories of my childhood and hearing the South African name F. W. de Klerk.

Hearing the newsreaders mention "President de Klerk" on the News always sounded so exotic to my young mind.

Newsreels, and sometimes serials, before the main movie.

Quote from: FierceKitty on 19 February 2016, 11:06:23 AM
Newsreels, and sometimes serials, before the main movie.

What a about a feature film before the main film

The milkman delivering the milk......By horse and cart.

Cheers  - Phil

Quote from: fsn on 19 February 2016, 09:05:39 AM
Sony Walkman cassette players

I bought one of those lately to record my Goons Show cassettes ino mp3...  I no longer owned any casset players!

..over 24 hours of Goons Shows, Hancock's Half Hour, etc...

Bannana Splits Show

Marine Boy
The Three Musketeers


I remember waking up to the death of Diana, but I was working and my first thought was " If they make her Funeral a Bank Holiday I might get Double Time and a Half"  Sadly her funeral was on a Saturday.

Eagerly awaiting "Military Modelling " magazine as this was the only magazine with  wargame content.

Telephones with dials.
Little illuminated arms that flipped out on the side of early VWs and a few other cars to show a turn.
Dreadful filter coffee.
Having a choice of cabbages, peas, carrots, and onions in the vegetable section of the supermarket.
All night "Goodbye, Elvis" parties for a week.
Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan.

Does anyone else remember a TV show about jet fighter pilots, screened in the 1970's I think it was called The Aeronaughts, it was one of those French shows British TV showed that had poor overdubs.

Also the 1970's was when the BBC used to have some decent "propaganda" films with Raymond Baxter narrating, Air Attack on Salisbury Plain was one that I remember. They also used to have a program  about the Farnborough air show every year

Always regretted Dalton didn't make more Bonds. That man was mouth-watering.