Crackerjack

Crackerjack

Can you say Crackerjack without saying Crack-er-Jack? "It's Friday, it's five to five... it's Crackerjack" "CRACKERJACK!" As the time and place suggested, it was going to be 45 minutes of games, comedy and music. Whether Jack Douglas, Ronnie Corbet, Don Maclean, Peter Glaze and The Krankies or Leslie Crowther, Michael Aspel, Ed Stewart or that weird Stu Francis, ...

Revealed Gerry Anderson Top 10 – Supermarionation

Gerry Anderson  MBE, sadly died December 26, 2012. Today we reveal our Gerry Anderson MBE top 10. Lest we forget Thunderbirds became so popular the British toy manufacturer Matchbox were unable to keep up with the demand for the Tracy Island playset and needed Blue Peter to come to the rescue with double sided sticky tape! So here are our memories of some ...

Dungarees

Dungarees

Dungarees or "overalls" actually became fashionable for a time in the eighties. Originally a few hundred years ago "overalls" or "overall trousers or "bib-and-braces" were used to avoid messing up your shirt and trousers at work.   The one-piece work overall arrived in the early 20th century, in tough cotton or in linen, to fit over a shirt ...

Live and let die

Live and let die 1970s movie

I see even X-factor uses the Live and let die theme music these days. Understandably so as this 40 year old Bond theme just never dates and sounds as powerful now as it did back in 1973. Of all the Bond films I've watched, Sean Connery is in my opinion the best Bond, closely followed by Pierce ...

10 toys your parents had

Etch-A-Sketch

Below is a list of the type of toys your parents played with. Before the days of batteries and electronics, they were more likely to rely on rubberband powered toys and dice games. So enjoy our greatest 10 toys from yesteryear 1. Battling Tops From the late 60's to the early 80's battling tops was the  family favorite in many ...

Prime Time in the 90s

Prime Time in the 90s

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  J  K  L  M  N  P  Q  R  S  T  V  W  X  Y  2   // // They're underachievers and proud of it. Bart, Homer and the rest of the Simpsons put the "nuclear" in the nuclear family sitcom, while Jerry Seinfeld scores with a show about "nothing." Six Friends make twentysomething coffee talk chic, teens turn on to Buffy, Dawson, and the kids from 90210, something weird this way ...

Fashion in the 80s

80s fashion

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  Z  8  // // Fashion in the 80s was full of colour as new wave washes away the fashion debris left by disco. Neon is the newest color of the rainbow, designers get crazy with jeans, and legs everywhere are getting warmer. Put on a headband and get physical, 'cause the metal is getting heavy and the spandex ...

1970s Fashion Icons

1970s Fashion Icons

So when the seventies hit the high street, who was it having the big fashion input. Which seventies icon effected your fashion sense? Here are some famous fashion icons we think you may remember from the groovy decade Farrah Fawcett The seventies fashion icon Farrah Fawcett defined a generation of beauty queens with her bouffon beach-blond hair has to ...

Camberwick Green or Trumpton?

Camberwick Green or Trumpton

Hard to distinguish, are the fireman from Trumpton, or Camberwick Green? Now name the firemen CAPTAIN FLACK & Firemen PUGH,PUGH,BARNEY McGREW, CUTHBERT,DIBBLE AND GRUBB Camberwick Green or Trumpton back in 1966 The series was written and produced by Gordon Murray and animated by Bob Bura, John Hardwick and Pasquale Ferrari. Music was by Freddie Phillips, and narration and song vocals ...