Memories of Childhood

(20-01-2019 01:23 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Loved HOW! I liked to watch Blue Peter-I wanted a BP badge-still do as I collect badges and it would crown my collection. Michael Bentine's Potty Time, ah yes that I have a memory sitting in a friends' kitchen and my sister and I, just before we had to go off to Hebrew Classes on a Wednesday afternoon, would watch that and Time Tunnel sipping chocolate milkshake(I preferred strawberry myself) Bentine would record the voices(same as Ken Dodd did with the Diddy Men) and then it would be synched with the puppets and he would interact with them. Got some on DVD.

I dipped into MAGPIE-rather fancied ex-Bond girl (OHMSS)Jenny Hanley.
The song if I remember correctly went:
1 for sorrow, 2 for joy, 3 for a girl and 4 for a boy, 5 for silver 6 for gold 7 for a secret never to be told - the rest of it was 8's a wish, 9's a kiss, 10 is a bird you must not miss(repeat) Maaaaagggggggggggggggggggggggggggggpieeeeeeeee!

Jenny Hanley was gorgeous mate - wonder what she vis like now?

Well she has obviously aged, but Imshoildnt think too badly. A few years ago some of the Bond girls were invited to a lunch and some even Eunice Gayson and Shirley Eaton looked pretty good, even one of the hottest women around Valerie Leon was still very attractive.

I used to like Salt nShake crisps but there were others like Rancheros, Chipsticks, Ringos(my personal favourites) and Horror Bags, plus those odd one Outer Spacers which were Beefburger, Pickled Onion and one other flavour. Any of those ring a bell?

Salt and shake crisps are still around, but for me they’re not the same somehow as they used to be. Ringos yes I remember them. There was also a brand of crisps which I was a massive fan of in the late 70s called Tudor (deliver these and I’ll give ya a canny bag a crisps...) they were the absolute dog’s bollocks...

I also remember a sweet that were called Pacers, they were like Opal Fruits but instead were green and white striped (peppermint and spearmint).

I am convinced that in the days when what are now Snickers bars were called ‘Marathon’ that the bars of chocolate were bigger. I have recollections of struggling to finish eating a Mars bar on more than one occasion, I’m certain they were a lot bigger, as were the Twix and the bags of Maltesers..thinking here of the Selection Boxes that were in the shape of a Christmas stocking, which I used to get as a present at the end of the Christmas parties I used to go to every year in the mid 70s which were for all the kids of the local coal miners...God, going down another part of memory lane there...

(20-01-2019 10:53 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Well she has obviously aged, but Imshoildnt think too badly. A few years ago some of the Bond girls were invited to a lunch and some even Eunice Gayson and Shirley Eaton looked pretty good, even one of the hottest women around Valerie Leon was still very attractive.

I used to like Salt nShake crisps but there were others like Rancheros, Chipsticks, Ringos(my personal favourites) and Horror Bags, plus those odd one Outer Spacers which were Beefburger, Pickled Onion and one other flavour. Any of those ring a bell?

remember most of them but not the horror bags. i remember the flying saucers with sherbet in them, they were cool and loved those cola bottles sweets!! What was the bubble gum called that had that cartoon strip in them - was it Hubba Bubba and the character was Joe Cool or something?

I know Hubba Bubba and Bubblicious but the one you refer to, and astoundingly is kosher for Jewish kids to eat was/is Bazooka Joe

I remember other Saturday morning programmes
Marine Boy
Outer Space(only met one other person who remembers this)-it showed two Autocat and Motormouse cartoons(Hanna-Barbera) and a saga called "The Ice Dragon"-anyone else? circa 1974/5
White Horses-foreign programme about erm horses.
Belle and Sebastian-I think it was a kid and a dog
Three's Company(foreign kids show about two boys and a girl with a whistled theme tune)
Multi-coloured Swap Shop
TISWAS
Hey! Its' the Wolf!(Hanna-Barbera shorts)
The Singing Ringing Tree - bizarre kids fairy stories(parodied by the Fast Show years later)
Later there were other foreign imports including The Flashing Blade(brilliantly parodied years later by the On The Waterfront team overdubbing it with funny voices-one of which was Frankie Howerd!) but a very catchy theme tune.

Here come the Banana Splits another Saturday and holiday morning show-god that was weird! but it was the cartoons that stuck in my mind such as "The Three Musketeers," "Micro Adventures," (Professor and his children miniaturised in a buggy and exploring inner space) and "Arabian Knights,"-my favourite was Bez, the magician ("size of a...")-silliest one was that donkey Zazzoom, you always knew if someone pulled his tail that was their downfall-this also spawned two catchphrases in American schools "Uh oh, Jungo!" and "Hold the Bus!" There was also a live-action series called "Danger Island"(which is where that first catchphrase came from) and starred a young Jan-Michael Vincent (Stringfellow Hawke-in Airwolf)

The weirdest of the lot though had to be "HR Pufnstuf" starring British kid Jack Wild(Artful Dodger in film 'Oliver') and his talking flute Jimmy-that whole series must have been thought up while someone was smoking something they shouldn't have.

Bicycles did you have any of these?
Chopper, little brother Chipper(I had that and managed to fold the brake cables under the handlebars motorbike-like and was heavily influenced by cartoon DEVLIN, a daredevil motorcycle stuntman) the sister Tomahawk(my sister had that) later you might have had a GRIFTER, STRIKER or BOXER. Or maybe you had a racing bike.

TOYS-did you have the British version of G.I.Joe called here ACTION MAN? If you did, what accessories did you have or vehicles, uniforms etc.

(20-01-2019 14:52 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Here come the Banana Splits another Saturday and holiday morning show-god that was weird! but it was the cartoons that stuck in my mind such as "The Three Musketeers," "Micro Adventures," (Professor and his children miniaturised in a buggy and exploring inner space) and "Arabian Knights,"-my favourite was Bez, the magician ("size of a...")-silliest one was that donkey Zazzoom, you always knew if someone pulled his tail that was their downfall-this also spawned two catchphrases in American schools "Uh oh, Jungo!" and "Hold the Bus!" There was also a live-action series called "Danger Island"(which is where that first catchphrase came from) and starred a young Jan-Michael Vincent (Stringfellow Hawke-in Airwolf)

The weirdest of the lot though had to be "HR Pufnstuf" starring British kid Jack Wild(Artful Dodger in film 'Oliver') and his talking flute Jimmy-that whole series must have been thought up while someone was smoking something they shouldn't have.

I seem to remember watching a programme on BBC called ‘The Flashing Blade’, would have been on Saturday mornings in the early to mid 70s, basically the plot revolved around the adventures of a dashing French spy during the War of Mantuan Succession between Spain and France during the 1600’s...sword fighting and swashbuckling a plenty...

BBC2 was also the channel of choice for two fondly remembered programmes which had a real Oriental flavour...first ‘The Water Margin’ which was dubbed into English from Japanese by Burt Kwouk (Kato from the Pink Panther movies) from 1976 to 1978. The plot revolved around Lin Chung, and his repeated clashes with local government officials during the Song Dynasty. The show was best known for its philosophical quotes ‘Do not despise the snake for having no horns, for who’s to say it will not become a dragon’

Then came Monkey..’born from an egg on a mountain top’

First shown in 1979 I think on BBC 2, the main character had a magic staff which he frequently used as a weapon during the many fight scenes which went on. He was accompanied by a pig monster (Pigsy), a water monster (Sandy) and a monk who was clearly a girl (one who I thought was as fit as anything). Monkey had the ability to summon his own cloud by blowing at speed through his fast moving fingers...

Loved those shows...

(20-01-2019 15:06 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Bicycles did you have any of these?
Chopper, little brother Chipper(I had that and managed to fold the brake cables under the handlebars motorbike-like and was heavily influenced by cartoon DEVLIN, a daredevil motorcycle stuntman) the sister Tomahawk(my sister had that) later you might have had a GRIFTER, STRIKER or BOXER. Or maybe you had a racing bike.

TOYS-did you have the British version of G.I.Joe called here ACTION MAN? If you did, what accessories did you have or vehicles, uniforms etc.

I had the Chopper bike..Christmas present in 1975, a purple one...my kid brother had the chipper...jeez I’d forgotten about that...Funny how reading the right words can trigger memories you thought were lost..I can also remember my brother having a Six Million Dollar Man action figure, you could look through the back of its head through the ‘bionic eye’.

Speaking of the Six Million Dollar Man, I’m in no doubt that adults in 1976 must have been bewildered at the sight of kids of a certain age running around in slow motion doing the theme tune ‘der der de derrrr’..and jumping off things while doing the ‘eh eh eh eh eh’ sound effects. Mate of mine jumped from a tree about 10 feet up..going ‘eh eh eh eh eh’..,landed wrong and broke his ankle, the soft git.