How about the head checking for nits nurse, you six stand well away in the corner from everyone else or even worse the fluoride nurse once a month watching you rinse your mouth with fluoride/cadmium mix drink in a plastic beaker
Starski and Hutch! (Car keys and clutch as we called them)
I'm pretty sure the Tories were already trying to bring back the 70's
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/28/boris-johnson-set-to-bring-back-imperial-measurements-to-mark-platinum-jubilee
We had SMP boxes. I completed them all a year or two(?) early.
Oh gods, yes! That's why a google image search didn't ring a bell, they were like big index cards. You got one, completed it, put it back and got another. I seem to remember running out also.
SMP Maths -I was quite a bright kid and nailed the whole set by the end of Jr2 - literally didn't have another maths lesson in primary after that. Instead I was was told to go an do 'project work' in our 'natural history' museum (small room with a few dusty fossils, stuffed animals and old books.) Ahhhh, the pre-national curriculum days... (this was the mid eighties BTW.)
Instead I was was told to go an do ‘project work’ in our ‘natural history’ museum (small room with a few dusty fossils, stuffed animals and old books.) Ahhhh, the pre-national curriculum days… (this was the mid eighties BTW.)
Haha, yes - I vaguely remember having to find other stuff to do, can't remember what though
Starski and Hutch! (Car keys and clutch as we called them)
Wasn't every pet rabbit in the late 70s called Starsky?
Ah the other Steve Austin -The six million dollar man.
How come he never ripped his arm off ?
And I’m surprised no one’s mentioned flares in space - Space 1999 , even today those eagles are stunning and er mumble Blake’s 7.
And er although I still don’t think much of 70’s cars, No ones mentioned the Lotus Espirit - especially the one in that 70’s classic The spy who loved me.
I still love the driving scenes and off the jetty, you just weren’t expecting it.
The Lotus mechanic who was supposed to be out for a few weeks complained the stunt drivers weren’t driving the cars as well as they could be driven and after a quick well show us then , ended up doing all the driving for waay more than the expected 2 weeks as they added more driving scenes.
Space 1999 was great was there a character called Myah?? a shapeshifter??. I had one of the eagles (Corgi made?). The original Batman and Star Trek.
Any cartoon by Hanna Barbera - Hongkong Phooey, Hair Bear Bunch, Scooby Doo and Battle of the Planets!!
Space 1999 is being rerun on Horror channel at 7pm and Blake’s 7 is on Forces TV 9.15pm just now
The original Batman and Star Trek.
Very obviously 60s, although on endless repeat in the 70s, as were Laurel and Hardy , Zorro, Flash Gordon.
Hong Kong Phooey - only 16 episodes were ever made. i think they must have been split into chunks for British TV. I loved HKP!
Hongkong Phooey
Hong Kong phooey, the number one super guy
I was a fan 😂
You lot with your family cars in the 70's, when mum crashed the Austin 1100 we got a Vespa 90.
3.1HP and an obese mother driving the thing made for steady performance.
Haircuts done at home, corduroy trousers, it was shite.
Being born in 1974 means that I've sparse memories of the 1970s. My mum was anxious for me to get a "head start", so I was packed off to primary school in Autumn 1978 much to my chagrin. My dad, being the ever helpful soul that he was made sure to instruct my teachers and headmaster to wallop me for the slightest misdemeanour. Not a great morale booster on your first day, it pretty much set the tone for the rest of my junior education. Corporal punishment was very much still a thing in those days.
My dad quite liked Fatcha at first, too.
I remember my dad took me on my first ever trip to London in 1975 & being incredulous that a can of coke cost 35p! They were only 10p at home in the Midlands!
Headline today.
Anyone remember 'Man in a Suitcase'?
Any cartoon by Hanna Barbera... Battle of the Planets!!
Objection!
Battle of the Planets was originally a Japanese anime called Gatchaman. Nothing to do with HB, it was brought to the West by Sandy Frank (it said "Sandy Frank Presents" in the opening crawl) as an attempt to cash-in on Star Wars mania.
The original is... well, it's anime. The obvious-even-to-a-child, differently animated, out-of-place interludes with 7-Zark-7 in Centre Neptune were inserted to provide some form of continuity for the bits they had to chop out.
Like, the #2 character Jason, is erratic. In BotP it's handwaved by 7-Zark-7, it's OK kids, he just felt a bit tired so needed an early night and was fine today. In the original he's suffering from a brain aneurysm which is sending him progressively more demented and ill as the show progresses.
The spy who was found dead stuff in a suitcase? Either murder or some S&M/kink thing gone wrong? Wasn't that only about 10 years ago?
cake - don't know what you've been watching but you're referring to a real life event; man in a suitcase was actually 1968!
No kink or S&M involved.
I am not a number - The Prisoner.
Yeah, I meant this guy:
Man In A Suitcase Bradford Dillman from the 60s not 70s
The 70's. When it was normal to buy candles in packs of 40.
Not four?
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The 70’s. When it was normal to buy candles in packs of 40.
I don't know how much of my memory is correct or a memory of a memory sort of thing but power cuts did seem to be a thing as a kid. To this day I always make sure we have a small stash of candles in the kitchen... just in case.
We lived in a fairly rural area though so I don't know of it was strikes or just knackered infrastructure?
1979 saw Erin Gray grace our screens as Colonel Wilma Deering - I was an 8yr old boy in love....
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*edit - wasn't aired until August 1980 in the UK
corduroy trousers, it was shite
Did you have to wear those elasticated ties as well 🙂
I don’t know how much of my memory is correct or a memory of a memory sort of thing but power cuts did seem to be a thing as a kid. To this day I always make sure we have a small stash of candles in the kitchen… just in case.
Yep there were a ‘few’ strikes then 🙂
By fluke we just had a generator in the garden that would get fired up for a while but other than that everyone in the street was on candles x many hours
I also remember the bbc repeating complete episodes of doctor who one after another - the green death - (they never really used to do that )due to strikes
but power cuts did seem to be a thing as a kid
I have the same recollections (early 70’s iirc), but it was more of an adventure than anything. We only had about 4 electrical appliances.
We had SMP boxes. I completed them all a year or two(?) early.
Oh gods, yes! That’s why a google image search didn’t ring a bell, they were like big index cards. You got one, completed it, put it back and got another. I seem to remember running out also.
I used to complete the class work and the teacher’s backup work, so she’d grumpily go off to print something else. The work would still be wet and bright purple ink. What sort of printer was that - I forget?
Things that I recall from the late 60’s early 70’s:
Lots of excitement in the playground about boxing - Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Bugner
The Bay City Rollers and all the girls wearing tartan.
Those clacker balls that kids would bang together.
Playing in the streets, nowhere near your house, until you had to go in to bed.
Kids smoking from a very early age.
I don’t know how much of my memory is correct or a memory of a memory sort of thing but power cuts did seem to be a thing as a kid.
There were loads of power cuts. I still get a few now, had a 4 hour one just last week - but then living in the New Forest feels like the 70's anyway.
Not four?
No, "O"s.
There were loads of power cuts.
Living in 'deepest rural' Whitley Bay ( 😉 )I remember we used to have lots of candles that mum would buy from Maughans (its still there and going) and we had a coal fire so used to toast crumpets on the fire. I was too young to remember the downside to that period**, but memories like that stick with you.
** Well apart from the hand-me-down bottle green cords, blue navy jumper, faded hand-me-down purple cord jacket and brown leather Clarks sandals...I've got a picture somewhere, but don't worry, I'll not share 🙂
Abandoned cars just going to rust, there were about 5 or 6 I went past on the roughly 1 mile walk to primary school (by myself).
And scrap ground (I don't know what else to call it) just unused land that has now all been mainly built on with a few bits landscaped.
And of course any building sites became playgrounds after the builders left for the night/weekend.
Grandad had some sort of funky maestro with a red electronic speedo. Dad was into his cars, was a bit too young to remember but he had a white mk1 escort which he had put a big engine in with his brother, blower out the bonnet, massive wheels on the back. I think he had a jensen interceptor for a bit, then he got into making chops, got divorced and disappeared....oh he had an RS4 cosworth at some point as well, I remember thinking the little graphic in the middle showing open doors was very cool
I remember pavements melting and treading tar into carpets, more than once
Used to have a pretty long walk to school which I was doing alone or with mates from a young age
Getting a kicking from teenagers, dad asked what I'd done (thrown a stone which vaguely landed near them). He said serves you right, stupid boy.
Oh and jumping up and down on a frozen canal to see if I could break the ice....
Was tomorrows world a thing, or was that a bit later?
The work would still be wet and bright purple ink. What sort of printer was that – I forget?
A Banda machine. The fluid used had a distinct odour too.
Kids smoking from a very early age.
Lots of this, not to mention candy sticks that looked a lot like roll ups and chocolate cigarettes wrapped in rice paper.
In front of every house there would be a large oil stain on the road from where the car owner habitually parked. Walking down the road on a Saturday morning at least one of said owners would be peering under the bonnet.
Papier mache to make a mask, Blue Peter one afternoon Magpie the next took up 4 days
Jackanory was dire or is it just me as I never read fiction
I don’t know how much of my memory is correct or a memory of a memory sort of thing but power cuts did seem to be a thing as a kid.
Supply outages were commonplace in the 70s. I vaguely remember having a coin-operated electricity meter also, the house would suddenly go dark and my parents would scrabble around for a 50p to put in it.
To this day I always make sure we have a small stash of candles in the kitchen… just in case.
You're aware of torches, yes? (-:
corduroy trousers, it was shite
But corduroy pillows were making headlines.
The work would still be wet and bright purple ink. What sort of printer was that – I forget?
As PJM said, https://www.1900s.org.uk/banda.htm
There was also mimeographs, which were similar but different.
And scrap ground (I don’t know what else to call it)
We called it catland. I have no idea why (never saw any cats) or how common a term that was.
This picture sums up a lot of my 70's.
Itchy jumpers/cardi's
Brown everywhere
'Jacko' the monkey
Tonka toys
It must have been a good Christmas
The smell of four star petrol fumes
Loose dogs everywhere. I needed to plan my route to school when I was younger to avoid the barkier ones.
Pigeon lofts.