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Blue Peter TV Series Blue Peter from the BBC television Centre is a programme for children that ran since 1964. Shows such as Magpie have come and gone as competitors during that time.The programme is a voyage of adventure and discovery for the viewers, constantly covering new topics and thus named Blue Peter. Blue Peter was shown ...
Ben hur Ben-Hur has to be one of the greatest epic films ever made. Made in 1959 the Ben-Hur movie was based on the 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Ben-Hur won a record breaking eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture Judah Ben-Hur is played by Charlton Heston and is a wealthy merchant of noble blood ...
Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators Moving on from the Enid blyton famous five and Find-Outers, The Three Investigators was an American detective book series written for youths first published as "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators." It was created by Robert Arthur, Jr., who believed using a famous figure like movie director Hitchcock would attract attention. ...
One grey Saturday morning at a jumble sale i came across Railroader board game.Lets be honest it was so big i struggled to get it out the door. Based on a map of America and the need to grow railroads across the states, the map consisted of loads of plastic tracks and small model trains. The ...
How exciting it is if tyou find the key to your old toy chest trunk. My toy chest was an old rusty trunk. After spending many years in our summer house, it was cleaned up and became the toy trunk for many years. It did have a lockable area but we never knew of a key. You ...
Marble tracks Whether wooden or plastic, these were a great toy to have as a kid. I can remember making all sorts of contraptions and automated processes with the gravity of one marble. I'm sure we were the original Wallace and Grommit at school me and my mate as we could almost enable the marble trach ...
Meccano had the tag line - "your hobby is for a lifetime" and for many it was. It was always rewarding, but a lot more work than Lego - Today we take a nostalgic look at Meccano. For over 100 years it's been around pleasing sons and fathers alike. But how did it all start. ...
"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 ...
LUDO means "I play" in Latin and thus is a great board game for all the family to play together. Ludo is made for 2 to 4 players and the aim is to race their four tokens from start to finish according to dice rolls round the board and home first. Traditionally Red, Blue, Green ...
Any one remeber the great Zoom ice-lolly of the seventies by Lyons Maid? Or how about the Strawberry and Vanilla ice-lolly caled Fab. Remember Jubilee lollies or the Space 1999 ones? If you were a boy and you wanted to be a man, then you would opt for the Cider Quench a real mans ice-lolly, ...
