Old Finances (back in the day)

Butterfly_Brain

70's TV seemed so much better
Follyfoot
Catweazle
The Flockton flyer
pitkins
hectors house
the herbs
the clangers
bagpuss
knight rider
the A team
airwolf
mork and mindy ..nanoo nanoo
wonder woman - linda carter
battlestar galactica with lorne greene
starsky and hutch
chips
happy days
Worzle Gummidge
Tomorrow People
space 1999
charlies angels
Ace of Wands
Doomwatch
Crackerjack with leslie crowther
please sir
mind your language..........very unpc
love thy neighbour...very very unpc but hilarious
incredible hulk who always managed to keep his trousers on
UFO
Planet of the Apes
Six Million dollar man and the bionic woman with max the bionic dog
Dr Who... Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee
Tiswas
sapphire and steel
man about the house
porridge
citizen smith
kung fu
Magpie (Ooooh Mick Robertson was sooo sexy)

More will probably come to me later
And yes I was a member of the tufty club

JillS_2

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

70's TV seemed so much better
Follyfoot
Catweazle
kung fu
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Magpie (Ooooh Mick Robertson was sooo sexy)

More will probably come to me later
And yes I was a member of the tufty club

Survivors
The real thing not the [EMAIL="!!!!py"]!!!!py[/EMAIL] modern version

Justamum

maganan wrote: »

As someone else said I was also terrified of the safety films especially the firework one with the little girl with her hand all bandaged up looking sad, as a result I've never bought fireworks for at home!..............ahh the power of advertising!

I never liked fireworks as a child, but it was all Magpie's fault! Around bonfire night they would feature horrible incidents which had killed or maimed children. Absolutely terrified me! My dad used to buy fireworks for home but I would always stay inside. After a few years we used to go to a local organised event which I never enjoyed. When they lit the fireworks I would hide under my dad's coat until they were all over - and I didn't even like sparklers. Dangerous things sparklers :eek:

Justamum

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Magpie (Ooooh Mick Robertson was sooo sexy)

Your list brought back so many memories.

I remember Mick Robertson's first appearance on Magpie. He was nervous the whole way through, and at the end of the programme the other guy got up and walked off camera leaving Mick Robertson there. He said "don't leave me" in a panic and got up and walked off too :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:He did improve. Mind you I never enjoyed Magpie as much as Blue Peter.

mum2one

Ida_Notion wrote: »

Another blast from the past and beyond our reach financially as kids - the Binatone Tennis game! Such things were most definitely not seen as essentials, just as one of the many things featured in adverts that you automatically assumed you'd never own. My ex picked up a second hand one for us several years after the height of their popularity (which was around 1979/80). Kids would yearn for one in much the same way that ipods and Playstations are yearned for today, although they were not exactly feature-packed in comparison

All there was to one was a bright orange and silver plastic box, from which ran a cable that plugged into the back of your telly somewhere, and a further two cables which each had a bright orange controller on the end. The TV screen would go dark grey and would be split into two by a white horizontal line, and there would be two small very small white vertical lines on either side representing tennis raquets. You and your opposition would use your controllers to guide these monotonously up and down the edges of the screen, one on the left and one on the right, endlessly trying to bat a square white 'ball' from one side of the screen to other in order to increase the scores shown at the top of it. Such was life on the cutting edge of technology - there was a very long way to go before the wii

You just hav3 just brought some wonderful memories back, I was 11 when we had one of those systems, and you really thought you were the bees kness....

I remember being in 3rd yr at secondary school, *1984/85 , must been 13/14, and then we were split into groups according to your caability, how I will never know I was in the top group of 6 groups, and when it came to options only the top group where allowed to choose computer studies.

Just around that time the spectrum zx, rubber keyboard came out, my mum and dad went posh and brought me a commodere 64k, it was about £400, it was on the never never, they went in every month and paid the loan back, I also remember shakin stevens bringing out a new cassette and at the end of it was a game for the commodore computer.

I was 11 (1982) I had the 1st walkman in our town, at the time we use to rent to TV from a family firm, and they had just come back from a trade show in Birmingham, I had the walkman and mum and dad brought a stacker radio, casette, and recorder payer, all in unit, we were the envy of the neighbour.

Then I remember having a black and white tv, and to change the channel it was dial a number up,
As for party lines, we shared with the woman facing us, who was having an affair.... the nights my mum use to listen in... xx

CFC

mum2one wrote: »

You just hav3 just brought some wonderful memories back, I was 11 when we had one of those systems, and you really thought you were the bees kness....

I remember being in 3rd yr at secondary school, *1984/85 , must been 13/14, and then we were split into groups according to your caability, how I will never know I was in the top group of 6 groups, and when it came to options only the top group where allowed to choose computer studies.

Just around that time the spectrum zx, rubber keyboard came out, my mum and dad went posh and brought me a commodere 64k, it was about £400, it was on the never never, they went in every month and paid the loan back, I also remember shakin stevens bringing out a new cassette and at the end of it was a game for the commodore computer.

I remember doing computer studies at school.
We had a double lesson once a week. We had to write our little basic program - I do remember 'HELLO WORLD' lol - and we had to physically punch the punch cards with a little metal pin stuck to a plastic thing like a pen....the cards were sent off to University College, London, to be processed during their spare time during the night, and the resulting print out was sent back to us to be looked at the following week in our lesson!
:rotfl:

Justamum

The Double Deckers on tv.

sophsnan

banana splits on tv and what was that prog with jack wild in errrrrrrr
cant think someone help me pleeeeees

jackieb

Justamum wrote: »

The Double Deckers on tv.

A few weeks ago I made brownies. OH came into the room as I was 'cleaning' out the bowl and I must admit I had chocolate on my face. He took one look at me and just said, 'Doughnut!' :rotfl:

I actually looked him up on imdb and we share a birthday. :eek: Although he is 10 years older.

Gigervamp

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