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Time to reach into your grab bag of 70s nostalgia with a fab new concept in MC. Get from Fingerbobs to Slade without passing blaxploitation or The Winter of Discontent. Punk Scores double but has nothing to do with the Mystery winning move.
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[BtD] I consider myself trounced by your last move - this is one of the most one-upmanshippish games in the Morniverse! I move paper mice and bearded presenters...Fingerbobs!
Magpie... sing alon now...

One For Sorrow,
Two For Joy,
Three for a Girl and
Four for a boy,
Five for Silver,
Six for Gold,
Seven is a secret never to be told,
Eight's a wish and
Nine's a kiss,
Ten is a bird that you must not miss

Flowery Twats, er, I think I meant Fawlty Towers.
Corny jokes to the fore! It's Rentaghost.
I reckon it's about time for a Rock Against Racism concert.
Last of the Summer Wine with the original trio of Peter Sallis as Norman Clegg, The late Bill Owen as Compo Simmonite and the very late Michael Bates as Cyril Blamire. Started 4th January 1973 latest series is currently running each Sunday on BBC1, that's the 24th Series.
[Puckoon] Yes, you really would have thought they'd have put it to bed by now, wouldn't you. Meanwhile Dad's Army.
Steptoe & Son, or its American cousin, Sanford & Son
Bzzzt! I don't think either of the last two moves really qualifies. I mean, yes, they were on in the seventies, but by that token you might as well claim, say, The Bible as a 70s book.

Pending adjudication on that, I'll go for Ken Russell's Tommy.

[matt] I kind of see your point, but do you really mean we have to abandon things that were created in the 70's but are still around? And was the bible written in the 70's? I think we should be told.
I'm sure someone's translation was written in the 1970s. Anyhoo...toning it down with Billy Joel's Piano Man.
Blowping BJPM with Up Town Top Rankin' Ting!
Is Kraftwerk authentically 70's enough?
[rab] No, I mean we have to abandon things that were created before the 70s -- the 60s in the case of Steptoe and Dad's Army. Although both shows continued to be made in the 70s, there's nothing really 70s about them, to me anyway. Others clearly disagree. I shouldn't think there'll be much argument about on Bolan's TV show Marc, though.
[matt] Ah, understand now.
if not Dad's Army try M*A*S*H there's the 1970 Film followed by the TV series, 11 in all. If you like that sort of thing you can get the first three TV series on DVD (Region 1 only though).
Richard Baker News Broadcasts [Matt] How about Dad's Army and Steptoe and Son in colour? That makes it distinctly 1970s.
This'll shock you. Alien.
Jim Fixed it For Me
The Moon Shot Fraud. Conclusive proof!
Playing football on the road without getting run over
Those 10" plastic hoops with a 12" string and small ball fastened to them. You put your foot through and swung the ball round to sort of half-hula, half skip... I have no idea what they were called!
Blakes 7 with Blake in.
Getting your first colour television delivered
[Thos] *BZZZT* Mum's place got theirs in 1967. No cricket references yet, so: "The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey." (1976)
Well, in that case Thos being born - certainly a 1970s occurance.
[Thos] Jeez. I started school in the 60s!. So I have to move replacing white streetlights with orange sodium lamps.. Night has never been the same colour since.
Charlie Daniels' Band - The Devil Went Down To Georgia
[Penelope] You surprise me genuinely...but your should take solace from the fact that I look old enough to be your father! :) Ed "Stewpot" Stewart on Crackerjack
[Thos] I am comforted, thank you. But I only just started school in 1969 :o)
Thos/Pen] I can't work out when I started school - I fink it must have neen 1969 too. It was probably the same year that Boolbar started so I'll ask him - he has a better memory than me.
Progressive Rock with home at Supper's Ready.
The real Milky Bar Kid.
Being able to remember things, like when you started school - now, where did I leave my keys!!
Being able to remember the names of most people on your nursery school photo and still saying hello to them when you see them out shopping with their teenage kids on a Saturday in your home town *groogh* About 7 years ago when I worked on a local paper, I had to visit my old Nursery School do a story - and they remembered me! And it was bloody odd to re-visit a place when you're three times the height you were when you last went there.
OK, its time for the first "mystery winning move" clue. If you don't want to know it, don't highlight the following..."Something to do with Arthur Scargill?"
The Sweeney, declaring Shut it!
How about lost in space for the 70's Space: 1999 another classic series for Gerry Anderson.
Its time to call Pugh, Pugh, Barley, Mcgrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub.
One of Mrs Honeybun's pekes is stuck up a tree in Camberwick Green...
Tom Baker battles a Giant Robot. Can I come out from behind the sofa yet?
Kelloggs 'Rise and Shine' orange juice granules. Used to come in a sachet. Just add water. I bet you think I'm kidding...
No moves for a while . . . is everyone out on strike?
Boolbar] Don't mention the 'S' word it may force three day week.
The Likely Lads are regarded as funny and attractive young fellows.
Chopper bicycles and that awkwardly placed gearstick just awaiting an emergency brake. Don't forget to stick your Bubblegum cards in through the spokes though
[Pogle] Are you Mr, Mrs, Pippin or Tog?
A 1978 Chevy Impala in avacado green, with matching child seat.
Pogle] Or Plant? And what was Tog? Some sort of psycodelic squirrel I suppose. Oliver Postgate has much to answer for.
Bay City Rollers!
Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch
[Norma] I thought for a moment you were referring to the gorgeous 1959 Impala. The thing is that the 1959 Impala (scroll down) looks a lot better to us now than it did then. Then, it was fairly extreme in the fin department. Now, it's totally over the top in all departments. And compared to which, the 1978 Impala was a big disappointment.
Why are my ears burning ?
[Vlad] Someone with a short attention span is using you as a candelabra for earwax candles?
Aztec bars.
Just popped in for a can of Quatro and a Nutty bar. Mmm, lunch...
This is great stuff - Phil Bennett covering, chased by Alistair Scown - Brilliant! Oh that's brilliant! John Williams! Pullin! John Dawes! Great dummy!! Tom David at the half-way line! Brilliant by Quinnell!! THIS IS GARETH EDWARDS. A TERRIFIC START - WHAT A SCORE!!!!
I can't believe noone has chimed in with Star Wars yet.
Star Wars *chime*
Very lame toy light sabres with various modes of disfunction, and a very irritating sound effect.
Jonathan King singing Everyone's gone to the jail, or something like that.
Terry Wogan singing (if that's the word, which, come to think of it, it isn't) The Floral Dance
Hey Baby, I'm your Telephone Man
Uh huh. Oh no you don't! (Naughty, naughty, naughty!)
Yes sir! I can boogie!
Silver Lady. (Whatever happened to David Soul?)
There's no one quite like grandma
Gimmie Dat Ding!
Control, this is 6-7 here, I can hear you loud and and I can hear you clear, yeah
Mahna mahna
(ba dee bedebe)
mahna mahna
(ba debe dee)
mahna mahna
(ba dee bedebe badebe badebe dee dee de-de de-de-de)
You get a shiver in the dark, It's raining in the park but meantime...
...South of the river, you stop and you hold everything.
Just get me a Chrysler Cordoba, you know, with the Rich Corinthian Leather
Or a vivid marine blue Chrysler Alpine. That's A L P I N E, not Alpeeen as in the rather smart cultish Renaults. :o)
Free Milk at mid-morning playtime. (Bitch.)
A quick visit to Rumbelows or Timothy White's
I like Demis Roussos, Catherine likes Demis Roussos, Reg likes him, and Sue would like to hear him. Can we have Demis Roussos, Laurence?
Dial 0-1 if you're calling from outside London...
Playing my Joker - It's a Knockout!
Shudder - MF! You are Alison Steadman, and I claim my Abigail's Party Souvenir Programme.
[gil] I thought long and hard for a classic British 70s film, and it was either that or The Children's Film Foundation
Anything from Play for Today... such as The Elephants' Graveyard, Just A Boy's Game, Scum - not forgetting Martha's nomination of Abigail's Party.
And, of corse, Saturday mornings would not be the same without Space: 1999, followed by World of Sport (with Dickie Davies at the helm), and the wrestling at 12.00. Of course, all of this is to be enjoyed whilst lying on the sofa, consuming chutney flavour Outer Spacers.
Anyone remember that crazy programme called Bookroom? Went out about ten to three or ten past three on winter afternoons on BBC1. had I think Tim Preece in it somewhere. Was set in a staff room type dreary room, orange sofa, and the three presenters kind of acted it in a sort of Tony Hart/ Mr Bennett way, bantering ansd bitching a little with each other and discussing books. It was totally strange and only viewed when you were off sick so i have no idea who it was supposed to appeal to. In factI had totally forgotten about it since the Seventies until I dreamt about it the otehr night. asked a few of my colleagues who vaguely remember it too. here's the weird bit...i've now checked and find it never existed! ow bizarre to dream a memory...
You don't mean The Book Tower, do you?
TVs and games consoles with a Real Wood Finish!
No, the Book Tower was dear old Tom and scasry Lloyd Webber theme! Book Room was it seems just my own weird mind dreaming it up. Some dream of winning the lottery...I dream of the Seventies!
Mmmm, Pye!
Weebls wobble but they don't fall down...
The Sweeney and I'm sure it's "Weebles"
Testing out rusty HTML skills Hawaii 5-0 Book 'im Dano
Christmas crackers containing WhimsiesTM. Much better than Weebles. Or even Blimpy pens.
[Pye] Yes, me too. Dreaming of being trapped in my cot with that scary clown on the curtains grinning down at me, and dribbling on Woolly Sheep.... ah, the 70s!
Enduring memories of Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky also known as The Banana Splits although the site says "originally broadcast 1968-1969" - not where I grew up it wasn't.
And if the lips move when no sound is coming out, and vice versa, it must be Monkey.
Or The Water Margin!
I see your Water Margin and raise you a Flashing Blade
Cannon, Kojak, Charlies Angels, Chips, and dare I say it, Starsky and Hutch?
Richard O'Sullivan in ITV's Dick Turpin on Saturday evenings (when it didn't clash with Doctor Who of course!).
Who the hell was it in Man About The House and Robin's Nest, apart from Paula Wossername and Sally Thingummy, the toothy one out of The Railway Children??
That was Richard O'Sullivan, was it not?
[rab] Yup, I think you're right. I'll nominate poor old Yootha Joyce in George and Mildred instead.
Cliff Michelmore, Richard Whitmore, Michael Aspel, Richard Baker et al doing There Is Nothing You Can Name, that is anything like a Dame...
Nationwide with Michael Barratt!
Aha! those Barratt Homes adverts with the guy with the big chopper.
I refuse to make any more TV references, go to TV Cream instead and relive those childhood telly moments.
OK maybe On the Moov aids to literasy.
La la la la la,
La la la la la,
La la la la la, la la la la la,
Do do do do-dooo, Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Give us a clue No, that's not a 70s telly reference, I really WOULD like to know what that la la etc. is about :-D
Sounds like "Lovin' You", as memorably performed by Linda Smith in Pick Up Song. (emphasis on "memorably" :)
This'll bring back a few memories. Mind, you, the Belle and Sebastian theme isn't the one I'd expected (Lonley solo boy sings whistfully... )
Horribly Ugly Sports Jacket. With leather patches.
Incredibly long and colourfully hooped socks with individual toes
70's nostalgia, is it, how about Manchester United getting relegated to the Second Division
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home
Screen Test with Michael Rod, who I always found was indistinguishable from John Craven...
Phew - What a Scorcha! The Summer of '76 drought.
Yes, what a good time for a Bicentennial Dollar
No, scratch that. I'll go for Nostalgia for the Fifties (Happy Days, American Graffiti, Last Picture Show...)
[MF] Do you include Showaddywaddy and Shakin' Stephens in that?
Eating hotdogs outside the the back of Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham during the outside recording of Showaddywaddy's and Paul Nicholas's set... Grandma's Party? Ahhhh, I remember it well!!
[Pen] In Brum in the 70's! Snap. I never made it onto Tizwas but me best mate Jo did...
I thought Shaky was later than that. But I certainly included The cast of Grease, with a special appearance by Richard Gere
[ISP] And while we're at it, York City beating Manchester United while in the Second Division.
The Railway Children the film directed by Lionel Jeffries with Jenny Agutter as Bobbie, and Bernard Cribbins as Perks, Filmed on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.
Would anyone with knowledge of the rules and origins of Mornington Crescent like to contribute to this site? All contributions welcome. Mornington Crescent Rules.
[Mike] What a throwback! I remember people asking about the little-known rulesets to the great game back in the seventies when I was a nipper in hotpants, before the great archive was discovered by Mrs Trellis in 1977, the year of the Silver Jubilee. What triumph that was. First Hillary conquered Everest on the eve of the Coronation, then Mrs Trellis found the long-lost handbook on the the eve of the Silver Jubilee. Its as if the game has a Royal mandate. We should be honoured to be playing. ;o)
Oliver Postgate whistling all the way to the bank with The Clangers (where Major Clanger was heard to swear at least once "The bloody doors have stuck"
*struts and primps afro* wocka-chocka-wocka-chocka-chocka-wocka-wocka... the sound of soaring strings.... and then the coloured girls sing "Shaft".
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