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Sabrina the Animated Series Who remembers Sabrina: The Animated Series. This cartoon was based on the Archie Comics character Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. It was produced by DIC Entertainment, which was owned by Disney at the time. Characters included Sabrina Spellman, Salem, Uncle Quigley, Chloe Flan, Harvey Dwight Kinkle, Gemini "Gem" Stone, Hilda and Zelda. Sabrina Spellman has ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
School rubbers or erasers serverd two purposes at school, to smell and to be used as characters rolling around the desk when bored in a lesson. Oh yes and to erase any wrong pencil marks so that makes 3. Most of the characters were made by drawing faces on the rubber itself and naming it. Erasers came ...
Now lego was probably my favourite toy when growing up as it had such major flexibility and rewarded imagination.Like Mechanno lego was also a construction toy though Lego was invented in Denmark. The original lego seemed to have few colours compared to the current colorful interlocking plastic bricks available today with all sorts of built in ...
