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Silly Putty This may sound a silly question, but what was Silly Putty originally called? The answer, Nutty Putty As with most beginnings, they often happen by accident. Silly Putty is marketed today as a toy for children, but was originally created by accident during research into potential rubber substitutes for use by the United States in World ...
Blast from the past today - Hungry Hungry Hippos Hungry Hungry Hippos is a board game made for young children originally designed in 1966 and released by MB in 1978. The purpose of the game is to collect as many marbles as possible with the hungry hippos. The Hippos were in four colours, they were also named! ...
Magpie TV Series One for sorrow Two for joy Three for a girl Four for a boy Five for silver Six for gold Seven for a secret never to be told Ma-a-a-ag-pie was a children's television programme shown on ITV from the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s mainly based on pop-culture of it's day. Magpie was a full on competitor to BBC ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Roobarb and custard Roobarb was a animated television programme for children that first was shown on BBC televison for children back in 1974. It's infamous for being a sketchy jelly like animation from a six year old. Certainly by the end of the 5 minutes i either felt like jelly or had severe case of travel ...
