Memories of Childhood...Images only please

I went to one local one we had, The Golden Egg for meals as kid, made £2.50 go along way back then.

Do you remember these?



I had something similar to this once.

Speaking of the Golden Egg:

Not for getting the famous Wimpy bars.

And now...it's time for quizzes! Remember any of these?
In order: 3-2-1(Caroline Munro-Bond babe and Lambs Navy rum pin up on right)
Blankety Blank with the late, great Terry Wogan.
Blockbusters with the late Bob Holness.
Call My Bluff-intellectual quiz with Frank Muir and Arthur Marshall and Robert Robinson also quizmaster on Ask the Family.
Play Your Cards Right-Bruce Forsyth.
A Question of Sport with David Coleman, left Bill Beaumont, right Ian Botham.
Bob's Full House-late great Bob Monkhouse.

Never understood why Blankety Blank had to have that (very slow!) rotating set - what was the point ?
And who can forget Kenny Everett stealing Sir Terence's of Wogan silly "wand" microphone off him and bending it in two ?
What would the unsuccessful contestants receive now as a consolation prize ?
Most of them wouldn't know what the hell a chequebook and pen is supposed to be.
I guess you could have a replica mobile with a Quick Quid logo engraved on the pretend screen or summat.

I always used to like Les Dawson saying "let's see what can be gleaned tonight from the contents of a recent fire sale" I think it was just a device to maybe give the man inside a chance to change the word cards. Oh yes that Kenny Everett grabbing his long microphone "GOT IT!" was hilarious - the look on Wogan's face was a picture, but he and Kenny were old friends so he was probably ready for something unpredictable. Contestants don't get any consolation prizes these days, not even a Crackerjack pencil. In 3-2-1 they used to get a brand new dustbin, but later inside Dusty Bin might be a small portable television, so they never actually went home with nothing and don't forget they used to get ceramic Dusty Bin's as well. In the Spanish version Un Dos Trés they would have STRIPPERS!!

"Life is the name of the game, and I want to play the game with you" so sang Bruce Forsyth in the opening titles of his show The Generation Game which as you know spawned countless catchphrases like "Didn't he/she do well?", "good game, good game!" and "nice to see you, to see you..."(at which the audience would shout "NICE!" Of course most of us younger lads fancied Anthea Redfern rotten but then she was a hot blonde beauty, who wasn't always that clever. Contestants played silly games or had some craft they had to master and then they had to memorise all the prizes to be won on a conveyor belt within 90 seconds. When Bruce left it was taken over by camp comedian Larry Grayson, who bought his own inimitable style to the show and the lovely assistant Isla St Clair. When he left the show died...only to be resurrected by one of its biggest fans, Jim Davidson, who prompt put his own spin on it and had several girls to help including page 3 girl (and his girlfriend) Deborah(Debbie) Corrigan.
Here though is the original, the master of game shows himself.

TV presenters Dr Magnus Pyke and Dr Miriam Stoppard who co-presented with now MP Austin Mitchell a science programme called Don't Ask Me.


And this man was an absolute genius with his programmes for the BBC(he had been involved with the Moon landing in 1969) and his name was James Burke.

And the legend that was Professor Heinz 'Great Egg Race' Wolff

(05-03-2019 17:03 )GreenMachine Wrote:  "Life is the name of the game, and I want to play the game with you" so sang Bruce Forsyth in the opening titles of his show The Generation Game which as you know spawned countless catchphrases like "Didn't he/she do well?", "good game, good game!" and "nice to see you, to see you..."(at which the audience would shout "NICE!" Of course most of us younger lads fancied Anthea Redfern rotten but then she was a hot blonde beauty, who wasn't always that clever. Contestants played silly games or had some craft they had to master and then they had to memorise all the prizes to be won on a conveyor belt within 90 seconds. When Bruce left it was taken over by camp comedian Larry Grayson, who bought his own inimitable style to the show and the lovely assistant Isla St Clair. When he left the show died...only to be resurrected by one of its biggest fans, Jim Davidson, who prompt put his own spin on it and had several girls to help including page 3 girl (and his girlfriend) Deborah(Debbie) Corrigan.
Here though is the original, the master of game shows himself.

Biggest mistake Bruce Forsyth ever made was moving to ITV to do that ‘Big Night’ show. The fact that it was a flop was bad enough, but the fact that it was getting thrashed in the ratings by Larry Grayson’s Generation Game (which was getting up to 25 million viewers) was something that irked Bruce big time.

(04-03-2019 19:37 )GreenMachine Wrote:  And now...it's time for quizzes! Remember any of these?
In order: 3-2-1(Caroline Munro-Bond babe and Lambs Navy rum pin up on right)
Blankety Blank with the late, great Terry Wogan.
Blockbusters with the late Bob Holness.
Call My Bluff-intellectual quiz with Frank Muir and Arthur Marshall and Robert Robinson also quizmaster on Ask the Family.
Play Your Cards Right-Bruce Forsyth.
A Question of Sport with David Coleman, left Bill Beaumont, right Ian Botham.
Bob's Full House-late great Bob Monkhouse.

3-2-1 gave rise to people trying to do that 3-2-1 thing that Ted Rogers did, I was certainly one of them...and got closer to getting my fingers in a knot than managing to do it...

A common sight in cars..