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Any one remeber the great Zoom ice-lolly of the seventies by Lyons Maid? Or how about the Strawberry and Vanilla ice-lolly caled Fab. Remember Jubilee lollies or the Space 1999 ones? If you were a boy and you wanted to be a man, then you would opt for the Cider Quench a real mans ice-lolly, ...
Trumpton came in 1967 after the success of Camberwick Green and its musical box device at the start of each episode. Trumpton was narrated by Brian Cant and shown on the BBC from the 3 January 1967. There was only ever 13 episodes made each around 10 minutes long. Soon after the team made a ...
The Game of JAWS was made by ideal 1978 as a spin off from the well known cinema smash Jaws by Spielberg in 1977. The advert by Ideal claimed: “It’s you against the great white shark… One wrong move… and the JAWS go snap!” The game promised "Out of the depths of the sea comes the ...
In 1981 one game that had all atmosphere in a world of zero graphics was Catacombs by J.K. Greye. John K. Greye and Malcolm Evans set up a British software company after they met at a classical guitar club in Bristol in 1981. They produced computer games for the Sinclair ZX81 and ZX Spectrum home ...
The fun fair in your home! That was Tin Can Alley is an inexpensive electronic shooting game for kids and your dad. It was quite ahead of its time as it was one of the first toys to use infrared technology embedded inside a small plastic pistol or rifle. Of course it wasn't long before everyone was ...
Eureka! was an exciting 1984 computer game for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers, developed by Ian Livingstone (famous for the Warlock of Fire top Mountain series of roll playing books) and published by Domark in 1984. Eureka! is a text adventure set in European history. It consists of five parts, each of which has ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Agatha Christie seems to of written more books and plays than anyone can produce. We all have favorites and mine is "Then they were none" renamed because of the original title was politically incorrect. Truth be known, she wrote around 80 books and plays. She is considered the best-selling writer of books of all time ...
