Memories of Childhood

This and the accompanying pictures thread is fast becoming the best non babe threads on the forum. It's great for us more " senior " members to have a strolll down memory lane.

That was my intention with both TB-glad you like them. I have one more idea up my sleeve but that is on hold for now.

Remember when you were sent to,your room for being naughty or the like and it was a punishment not a pleasure ? Today if a child is sent to their room it is seen as being cruel OR they get to play games or go their tablets or mobile phones. We made our own amusements too, we had to, there was nothing around like today; if you had a television in your room then were very lucky although it was likely to be a small portable black and white one. It was years before I had colour and trying to play a colour computer game like Spyhunter in black and white was a bit of a push

Wasn’t just me who had a portable black and white telly in their bedroom then?

My Dad had a habit of commandeering it when my Mam was watching bloody ‘Crossroads’ or ‘Emmerdale Farm’ (as it was once called), he had a passionate hatred of soap operas which I have definitely inherited from him.

The portable served its purpose though, came in handy when the Acorn Electron appeared, and was also used years earlier when I had my first games console in 1977 which was called a Binatone TV Master IV...the games it had on it were pong style football, squash and a couple of others which I can’t recall right now.

I’ll be putting a picture of it up in the images thread a bit later.

My favourite drink in the 80's was undoubtably Slush Puppies & I still remember fondly when I used walk to school with my mates we all used to stop at the nearby sweet-shop (or on the way home) & buy cups of Slush Puppies each mostly the smaller cups but sometimes the medium size & used to have races drinking them down.It was a battle of will even at such a young age (we were about 9-10) as we fought through brain-freeze & headaches just to finish first.From when I was a kid up until present I've always said when I had the money I would buy a Slush Puppy machine but I'm still on the lookout & no Mr Frosty wasn't the same ( I had one of those when I was a kid).

The TV shows in the 80's I remember fondly watching was The Incredible Hulk (with Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno) & I adopted Bixby's favourite quote "Don't make me angry you wouldn't like me when I'm angry!".The A-Team (where they would often make an Armoured Truck from just a couple of sheets of metal & a box of nuts & bolts),Family Fortunes with Max Bygraves (a funny fucker & right piss taker where 'Big Money' was his favourite quote).Worzel Gummidge was my favourite though played by the brilliant Jon Pertwee who had an assorted of heads he would change for different occassions.His love interests were Aunt Sally (Una Stubbs) & Saucy Nancy (Barbara Windsor) & he was shit scared of his maker The Crowman played by by Geoffrey Baydon (who played Catweazle) who would send him out on the field when he was mischievous (which was most of the time) & loved "a cup of tea & a slice of cake".

Wasn’t just me who had a portable black and white telly in their bedroom then?

My Dad had a habit of commandeering it when my Mam was watching bloody ‘Crossroads’ or ‘Emmerdale Farm’ (as it was once called), he had a passionate hatred of soap operas which I have definitely inherited from him.

The portable served its purpose though, came in handy when the Acorn Electron appeared, and was also used years earlier when I had my first games console in 1977 which was called a Binatone TV Master IV...the games it had on it were pong style football, squash and a couple of others which I can’t recall right now.

I’ll be putting a picture of it up in the images thread a bit later.
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Ah yes I remember when Dad bought home a Binatone game-it was great, we plugged it into the television and the blip, bloop sound will stay with me forever. I managed to work out how to control two joysticks and regularly played against myself, but Dad was a good player especially of Tennis game. We used to watch Crossroads but the acting was really wooden and as pointed out by Victoria Wood many years later in her parody 'Acorn Antiques' the set moved and the actors sometimes forgot where they were supposed to be standing - had some great characters though Shoughie McFee the cook(Angus Lennie) Amy Turtle, and Doris Luke(Kathy Staff). Everybody thought Roger Tonge who played Sandy Richardson was really in a wheelchair-just showed how convincing he was.

Some good tv programme Jack, I used watch a few of them. The end of the Incredible Hulk was always that sad piano bit and him walking off into the sunset forever tracked by that journalist Mr McGee. Never really liked Worzel Gummidge as nothing seemed to go right for him and that Aunt Sally was a right stuck up bitch! I often wondered how Banner's trousers never ripped and yet the rest of his clothes were ripped apart by his transformation. It was also interesting to see that in the tv series he was called David Bruce Banner but in the comics and films he was Bruce Banner. I first saw Bill Bixby as The Magician with that strange yet catchy theme music and him driving a very nice Corvette Stingray car.

Was in TESCO a few years ago and I noticed that their checkout was making the same sort of bleeping sounds that the BINATONE TV game used to make-a picture of which has been posted by Carl_HoneyLover.

did any of you get fed up with hearing Paul Hardcastle's '19' when growing up?

NnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnYES! mind you I watched the video for the first time in ages last year when Top Of the Pops did 1985 and it showed a different version I'd not seen before. I also remember Rory Bremner's version which was very good. Hardcastle then moved on to reworking the title theme for Top of the Pops-The Wizard and the producer Michael Hurll was convinced it would do well in the chart and later it was released as a single.