Everything 80's

(11-10-2018 18:22 )robert.f4 Wrote:  Duran Duran - New Romantics, I'm thinking ... White Crepe suit with the sleeves rolled half way up your forearm, White canvas shoes and no socks. Big wavy hair do and mustache (Guys)

Big wavy hair do and outfits with big padded shoulders (Girls)

That was our ice-cream man, yam talkin about.

My best friend tried the Miami Vice/Don Johnson look, he looked ridiculous but he wore short socks which defeated the whole point. I didn't follow the fashions basically because I couldn't afford most of what people wore and I wouldn't put my parents through that anyway. The 80's was all about excess and later those hated yuppies, standing around with their brick phones and braces like Gordon Gecko(Wall Street) and driving their expensive cars around -so when Live Aid came along it shook them out of their complacency and eventually led to the crash which cost them a lot-boy did I laugh when those morons lost all their money and were forced to come into the real world. The next decade would prove people could be nicer to each other and out family, health etc before material wealth.

Being born in 1982 I think of the TV shows and toys that I grew up watching and playing with in that decade.He-Man,M.A.S.K,Transformers,BraveStarr etc.Despite being the decade of Reagonomics I can vividly recall all the moral lessons that those shows tried to teach and how as time went on all that substance seemed to fade away and it just be became an exercise in product placement.Especially throughout the 90s.

I remember HE-Man and Transformers but I was mostly into Thunderbirds, Joe 90, Captain Scarlet & the Mysterons and Terrahawks which were all shown in the 80's but I also liked Saturday morning tv like Multi-coloured Swap Shop and Going Live(I think that was late 80's) and of course that mad programme which someone on speed may well have created The Banana Splits. They say Children's TV was the best back then I think they were right, the programme makers seemed to understand us more especially in early teens and Blue Peter was one programme that(celebrating 60 years next week) not only had some good presenters(and some sexy girls) but became part of each generation's childhood. I would add something about one of my childhood heroes Rolf Harris but as his name is now mud I won't bother. My other idol which fired my imagination with art was Tony Hart, an absolute genius and his programmes were fun and informative. From Vision On to Take Hart he brought pictures to life and of course introduced us to his plasticine friend Morph.

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Yow talkin about Tony Hart, made me remember that mathematical genius Johny Ball; for somebody like me that was an absolute duffer at sums he made maths and science so interesting.

Another legend of children's tv Johnny Ball's programmes were genius and taught us maths and other things better than at school. Think Of A Number, Think Again, Think Backwards and other stuff.


Remember The Great Egg Race with Heinz Wolff? The original series was to create a vehicle to carry an egg from a to b in the quickest time. Later it branched out into problem solving like building a mechanism to measure time. mostly out of bits of wood, plastic and other materials even kitchen tools. Here is a full episode for you to enjoy-a later one it seems.

Here is a selection of The Great Egg Race, from the BBC Archive.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/great_egg_race/

Here is Heinz Wolff presenting the 1975 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/w...e-interior

Bliss! Heaven! Can't wait to watch a load of those, cheers andyjb. Watched the one I posted last night, didn't recognise the female host but it was great to see three teams trying to work out how to fling rings onto pegs a la hoopla.

Of course the biggest thing of the 80's for us once callow youths was the rise and rise of the Page 3 Girl(without which Babestation wouldn't exist today) with such wonderful beauties like Samantha Fox, Linda Lusardi, Maria Whittaker, Melanie Appleby etc and newspapers like The Sun and The Star knew this was what the general male public wanted to see, a beautiful girl across the breakfast table. Thanks to that they also managed to further their careers with some like Sam and Melanie becoming pop stars- (Melanie was one half of Mel and Kim with her sister) signed up by Stock Aitken and Waterman. Linda Lusardi became an actress as DC Maggie Lines in the long-running police drama The Bill. Samantha Fox was a BIG media star appearing on television here and in the US and some page three girls appeared in The James Bind films like Janine Andrews, Sian Adey-Jones and Vanya Seager(once married to Robson Greene) I will provide a list of who was in which Bond film soon.

As promised here is a list of which Page 3 girls appeared in which Bond films-the Roger Moore era.
For Your Eyes Only:
Lalla Dean, Kim Mills, Caroline Cossey(Tula), Vanya, Viva(Pool girls)

A View To A Kill:
Carole Ashby, Caroline Hallett, Helen Smith, Nike Clarke, Sian Adey-Jones, Toni White.

Octopussy(Troupe)
Carole Ashby, Gillian De Terville, Janine Andrews, Joni Flynn, Helene Hunt.
A golden age for Page 3 and linked to James Bond for quite some time.

Sian Adey-Jones was a Miss Wales winner, Gillian De Terville was featured in the video for Temptation by Heaven 17, but its not her singing, Janine Andrews married John Taylor of Duran Duran, Carole Ashby(along with another girl Karen Loughlin) was a hostess on Sale of the Century and later a resistance fighter in wartime comedy series 'Allo, Allo. Karen incidentally married the Scottish and Liverpool/Newcastle/Rangers footballer Graham Souness.

Here is a video I made once of all the Bond girls in FYEO.
https://jmp.sh/pPIRTk1
Enjoy