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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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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".
*shouts, screams, generally goes wild for penelope*
Waves tartan scarf in the air then goes home use strimmer on sideburns.
A belated shout out for Space Dust... which I think got taken off the market because it contained carcinogens or something equally charming. Ah, the joys of being ten and not caring about such things...
...has anyone mentioned 'Armchair Thriller'yet?
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