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  1. WillD

    WillD Well-Known Member

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    Early 70s during the summer holidays:
    Why don't you
    White Horses
    Robinson Cruseo
    Double Deckers
    Banana Splits
    Chigley
    Trumpton
    Cambellwick Green
    Joe 90
    Stingray

    Late 70s after school
    Harold Lloyd
    Laurel and Hardy
    Six Million Dollar man
    BJ McKay and my best friend bear(Peter Kay ripped it off)

    Early 80s
    Trap Door
    Battle of the Planets
     
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    LKToday Well-Known Member

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    Round the twist always gets me feeling nostalgic.
    Goosebumps aswell.
     
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    Evil Jimmy Krankie Well-Known Member

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    All the above plus

    Hawaii 5-0
    The Sweeney
    Grange Hill
    Doctor Who (when it was proper)
    The Generation Game
    Dads Army
    That’s Life
    Ask The Family (not that they ever had Joe Wanless a coal miner from Silksworth, his wife Edna a shop worker and their two comprehensive school educated children…..)

    Probably others but it’s nearly 1am here and the god awful weather is keeping me up.
     
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    Essayyeffcee Well-Known Member

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    Roobarb and Custard



    and The Muppets

     
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    Vincemac Well-Known Member

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    Alfred Hitchcock
     
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    The Flashing Blade
     
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  7. King Kareoke

    King Kareoke Well-Known Member

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    Casey Jones
     
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  8. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    Classic thread ...



    and back into the earliest depths of my memory ...



     
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    Essayyeffcee Well-Known Member

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    Gotta have Looney Tunes cartoons!

     
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    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    Brilliant ...

    ... I used to sing this with my youngest son, along with accompanying barking <laugh>
     
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    Loved this from my childhood and for obvious reasons
     
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    My pooch looks a bit like dogtanian minis the hat so I’m always singing the ****er with accompanying barking
     
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  14. Row 3

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    Early years: Laughing gnome, Banana Splits

    Primary school: Doctor Who (Tom Baker at the time), Rhubarb and Custard, Grange Hill. Both parents into McCartney so lots of that on in the house.

    Comp: Human League (even though I hated them), Stiff Little Fingers, Simple Minds.
     
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    C19RK73 Red & White army!

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    A lot of the above plus these
     
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    Tales of the Unexpected - still very weird now when I watch an episode
     
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    My youth tv mainly consisted of whatever me Dad watched, only one tele in them days.
    High Chapparal
    Bonanza
    The Waltons
    Test match cricket
    Pot black
    And my personal favourite.....
    Sportsnight.
     
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    A lot of these plus
    Starsky and Hutch,
    Happy Days
    And the sports themes, Grandstand, Sportsnight, Superstars, Ski Sunday, Shoot.
     
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  19. Smug in Boots

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    Absolute shyte then, still shyte now ...

    ... but strangely compelling and always the chance of a nipple <laugh>
     
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