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Does anyone remember sandcastle flags? When visiting the beach, there were several shops on the beach front selling buckets spades and of course the set of flags. Normally the sandcastle flags came in a set of six. Today we discover why were these flags of a certain design in the Uk. Maybe your flags that you purchased were ...
// // In the 80s popping plastic bubble wrap and having computers were hip and cool. You knew who metal mickey was and you could identify who shot JR but not the person who kidnapped Shergar. With the Rubiks cube being the toy of the decade the 80s will always be popular and fondly remembered.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U W X // // E.T.phones home and the Spielberg era continues with Raiders of the Lost Ark, Goonies, Gremlins, Explorers and Back to the Future. The Care Bears and Rainbow Brite land movie deals, Masters of the Universe goes live-action, and the Transformers duke it out on the silver screen. John Hughes becomes the voice of a ...
// // In the 1980s you were treated to repeats of all the usual classics like Road Runner, Tom and Jerry, Wacky Races, Jonny Quest, Captain Caveman, Defenders of the Earth and Rainbow Brite. No excuses there were an avalanche of great cartoon animation in the eighties.
A B C D E F G H I K M P R S T V W // // The ban on metal lunchboxes goes national, and in 1985, Rambo is the last metal lunchbox ever produced. Character licensing is still riding high, and any television show that appeals to children is fair game for fodder - lunch, that is. The Dukes of Hazzard, The A-Team and Knight Rider all get the ...
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 1 // // Blondie, Devo and Duran Duran usher in the new wave with electronic sounds and pop hooks. In the stadiums, Foreigner, Van Halen and Journey forge a combination of power chords and sweet melodies that will soon be known as arena-rock. For those with dancing feet, Pop King Michael Jackson and Material Girl Madonna ...
Top of the Form was produced bt the BBC in the UK. Its a programme that began on Saturday 1 May 1948, as a radio series and eventually made it onto the television as a childrens programme. The Childrens quiz series ran from 1962 to 1986 with various presenters including Bob Holness famous for his quiz Blockbusters ...
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z 2 3 // // Video games (Pac-Man), toys that became cartoons and other fads (Smurfs, G.I.Joe, Transformers), as well as a wave of "regressed" characters as children, or having children of their own.(Muppet Babies, Pink Panther and Sons) all pointed toward an uncertain future. The proliferation of weekday afternoon syndicated original programming coupled with the arrival of ...
Whether a ZX Spectrum 16K or 48k it was cutting edge technology once upon a time. I remember reading a readers digest once in 1982 where it said they would give £100 to the best story. I so wanted a ZX Spectrum and guess what, they were priced at £99 at the time. I so ...
Steampipe Alley review by Kevin Butler Local: WWOR TV Ch.9 Sunday Mornings: Sunday February 7,1988-April,1993 Host/Performer: Mario Cantone "Rosita The wise cracking lady dragon puppet"(Voiced and manipulated by the show's director:Judy Katsheka) In the winter of 1987..WOR TV Ch.9 moved it's tv studios to The Seacaucus, New Jersey area and built a new state of the arts studio and changed it's call letters to WWOR. They also began ...
