Hectors House

Hectors House

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 ...

The Golden Shot

The Golden Shot

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

Doctor Who

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 ...

Stylophone

Stylophone

Back in the seventies, When Rolf Harris appeared for several years as the Stylophone's advertising spokesman in the United Kingdom, everyone seemed to think there were a new found musician. Match of the day was being played by everyone on a Stylophone! The Stylophone was invented by Brian Jarvis in 1967. It was a stylus-operated synthesizer ...

Coppit

Coppit

This game is a great generation glue as it fun to play no matter what your age is. Its ludo gone mad and just when you think you're about to win it can all change! i thoroughly miss playing this game and expect it's still about in the toy shops on the high street. It all ...

Tufty

Tufty

Back in 1961 before the Green Cross Code man was a squirrel named Tufty. Created by the UK National Road Safety Committee to raise awareness of pedestrian road safety in the UK for children on there way to school.   Tufty was part of a series of puppet animation public information films. Tufty the Fluffytail squirrel was ...

UFO series

UFO series

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 ...