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"Supermarionation" was a made up word by Gerry Anderson. In effect it was puppets like no other. Thunderbirds is still popular almost 50 years on. 1965 Thunderbirds was first shown under AP Films. This was later changed to Century 21 Productions. Thunderbirds were amongst his most popular creation with adventures of International Rescue, an organisation created to ...
Bobs your uncle on The Golden Shot. Ah, Bob Monkhouse and the The Golden Shot was a great sunday afternoon family viewing must in the seventies. The Golden Shot was a British television game show produced by ATV for ITV between 1 July 1967 and 16 March 1975, based on the German TV show Der ...
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien time-traveller known as "the Doctor" who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box. With his companions, he explores time ...
Agatha Christie seems to of written more books and plays than anyone can produce. We all have favorites and mine is "Then they were none" renamed because of the original title was politically incorrect. Truth be known, she wrote around 80 books and plays. She is considered the best-selling writer of books of all time ...
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a science fiction film produced and directed by Irwin Allen, released in 1961 by 20th Century Fox. Once again it seems it was a series shown on Sundays afternoons before the "Big Match " or was it "Match of the Day"? Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ...
How can you tell the difference between Pinky and Perky? Pinky wore red clothes and Perky blue, but this distinction was little use on black and white TV, so Perky often wore a hat. Pinky and Perky puppet pigs were a big hit in the 70s and have recently made a comeback in the 21st Century ...
Back to the Future ; Remarkable that all those years ago when Back to the Future came on our screens in 1985 that where as the story was all about going backwards 30 years, we now look back to the movie 30 years or more. This was the movie that after going to the cinema ...
UFO pronounced as a word ("you-foh") is a British television science fiction series created by Gerry "Thunderbirds" Anderson and Sylvia Anderson and produced by Century 21 Productions company. The Andersons had previously made a number of very successful marionette-based children's science fiction series including Stingray, Thunderbirds, and Captain Scarlet. With silver space suits and space girls ...
"Life is the name of the game, and i want to play the game with you" Back in the sweet innocent days of the seventies every Saturday night for a few winter months were graced with Bruce Forsythe and his Generation game. several couples each week normally made up of a family mismatch of mother and son, ...
Remember Kenner's Easy-Show Movie Projector? Back in the 60s and 70s, before video recorders and home video was unavailable, the only way you could watch cartoons in your schools broom cupboard on end of term day was with toys like Kenner's Easy-Show Movie Projector, which used film loops so there was no film threading involved! This was ...
