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New faces from 1973 UK Prime Time Television Go back to the early seventies and Britains Got Talent existed in a very different form, New Faces. After a long and successsful reign from Hughie Green and Opportunity Knocks, this ATV show came into the popular viewing figures of the seventies with its very own Simon Cowell. ...
It seems that retro sweets and nostalgic candy are making a big comeback these days and popcorn is no exception. There are several very good retro style popcorn makers on the market and some are so good they look identical to the originals. Nostalgic popcorn makers are a great addition to an evening in watching an ...
Sabrina the Animated Series Who remembers Sabrina: The Animated Series. This cartoon was based on the Archie Comics character Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. It was produced by DIC Entertainment, which was owned by Disney at the time. Characters included Sabrina Spellman, Salem, Uncle Quigley, Chloe Flan, Harvey Dwight Kinkle, Gemini "Gem" Stone, Hilda and Zelda. Sabrina Spellman has ...
Mister Magoo, a nearsighted grumpy old duffer, who turned up on our screens in 1949. His first name is Quincy. Quincy Magoo was patterned after several real-life people. It seems the main inspiration for the character was the screen presence of comedian W. C. Fields, though it's claimed the character was the collaborative efforts of the ...
1970 series, Gold Key Comics Gold Key Comics were a very colourful compilation of Hanna-Barbera characters from the 1970. Each Comic was jam-packed with several stories from all the characters kids loved on TV. Characters included Dick Dastardly & Muttley, Penelope Pitstop, It's The Wolf stories, Cattanooga Cats, MotorMouse & AutoCat all under the "Fun-In" title. These ...
"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 ...
Trumpton came in 1967 after the success of Camberwick Green and its musical box device at the start of each episode. Trumpton was narrated by Brian Cant and shown on the BBC from the 3 January 1967. There was only ever 13 episodes made each around 10 minutes long. Soon after the team made a ...
It's often said that Men are like dogs and women like cats, and the French programme Hectors house put it one step further by including a french frog! It started out as La Maison de Toutou, and with severe dubbing the French puppet show soon became a big hit in the early seventies. I think ...
Hong Kong Phooey - "Henriffic" or is it Penriffic! - i think that's what they would say at the end of the opening credits, certainly he was a a guy who had no power without the brainy cat. Can you believe there was only 16-episodes though there were 2 cartoon per episode which irons out to ...
"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, ...
