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"La-le-la-le-la Look-in". Look-in was a long running children's magazine centred around ITV's television programmes in the UK, and subtitled the "Junior TV Times". The first Look-in magazine came of the presses in January 1971 and ran for 23 years until March 1994.It was full of interviews, crosswords and competitions, and it had pictures and pin-ups of ...
Ah, now the Hillman Imp is a car I'm very fond of as it was among my earliest cars i owned. It was quite unique as it had a rear engine. It was in production from 1963 to 1976. Known internally as the "Apex", the Imp was intended as a rival to the Mini. A key ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Z Cars was a British television Police drama series in Lancashire. In January 1962 the BBC produced the first series and ran for 16 years until September, 1978. For many at the time, the title music was as memorable as anything else. It was the type of tune you could whistle or hum to quite happily ...
"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, ...
For those that grew up in the UK and Ireland a strange change took place in every kids lunch box in the late eighties and early nineties. The Marathon bar was renamed to Snickers. Why Snickers? Why would anyone choose a name that rhymed with knickers? Apparently it was named after a horse owned by a ...
When it came to a serious fashion statement in the classroom, nothing stood out more than white socks sandwiched between the black trousers and black shoes of the school uniform. Most schools never dreamt of including the colour of the socks as it was a foregone conclusion from the previous centuries that all school boys would ...
