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If Proust had YouTube
Posted by Nick_Setchfield on 28 August 2009 - 10:42pm.
I defy anyone who had a '70s childhood not to be reduced to warm, quivering sobs by the following:
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Marvellous
Rentaghost was completely shit though!
Indeed
It was. How did it last for so long.
The only one of those I don't remember is TISWAS, as our ITV region decided to show their own cheap-rate programming instead.
As was Grange Hill
The proto Eastenders.
Nooooooo!
I loved Rentaghost! It did get a bit rubbish as the years went by, I'll grant you that.
RRRRRRRentaghost!
new
The best post ever on this site.Class! The only missing was Champion The Wonder Horse. Did you get that in the mainland on Saturday mornings? We never got Tiswas over here in N Ireland for some reason
A horse, of course
yep we got him. Much preferred Champion to bloody Lassie. I hated that dog. was no match for
new
The reason why every dog on our estate was called Rebel! Wasn't a fan of the Hobo nor Gentle Ben.
The Littlest Hobo
Best
Theme
Tune
Ever!
Remember James Dean Bradfield doing this as the intro to Motown Junk at a long past Manics gig
A la
recherché de Thames perdu ??
Pure
genius
You, Sir,
are far too kind !
If proust had had youtube
he'd never got anything written and his madelines would've got burnt....
Any hobbies?
Surely it should have been 'figurine paninis'...
for the UK market?
somebody...
Needs a Hug!!!
Ahh! Bliss
The past is now in colour
When I was growing up (in the 70s) the past was in black&white. I'm still having difficulty thinking of the past in colour despite the fact that we've had colour TV for 40 years now.
Thanks to the appearance by Mark Vidler on the Word Podcast a year+ ago, I heard that Finger of Fudge tune on the Spliced Krispies Kompilation at http://www.gohomeproductions.co.uk
Wonderful stuff, thanks for posting.
The bit with the Six Million Dollar Fan action figure...
I had one of these as a kid. Long lost.
Saw one in Wimborne Market, fully boxed, at the Comic Book Guy's stall....I almost broke down in tears.......luckily the FPO was carrying the wallet at the time otherwise I would have happily parted with the £125 CBG wanted for it.
Dara O'Briain was spot on when he said, in this very organ, that nostalagia was nothing more than heroin for the elderly!
I had a Six Million Dollar Man action figure too...
I seem to remember it headbutted Action Man and lost its head in the process. Action Man was down but not out.
Wot, no Flashing Blade?
Essential for that real school holidays feel (along with White Horses, Robinson Crusoe and the Singing Ringing Tree). It's somewhat worrying that this had a huge influence on my notion of right and wrong...
And for more 60s childhood themes
see this thread
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/banana-splits , I'm still looking for a bit of Zokko though, and the Aeronauts intro in English
and this
romance with lonely goatherds , sweet grandparents, girl in a wheelchair, evil stepmother and dodgy dubbing - it had it all.
you missed drinking milk straight from the goat
oh and bread roll smuggling!
ahhhhhh!
get back you demon 1970's child get back!
For a good Proustian rush
try the Museum of Brands in Notting Hill. It's a walk through the history of product packaging from the beginning of the 20th Century.
Everyone breezes through the early decades until they come to a dead stop in front of a display case (exactly where depends on their age). They've spotted something - a packet of Rancheros,or a Blue Peter annual, for example - that they haven't seen in 30 years and it's unlocked a door in their head, and suddenly they're 12 again. They look around for someone to tell, but everyone else is away, too, lost in their own childhood.
For me it was a carton of Um Bongo.
Ah, when ITV regions had their own theme tunes...
...rather than the drearily matchy-matchy corporate branding ITV imposes on its regions these days. That Thames TV ident takes me back - da, da, da-da-da, da, da-da-daaaa...
(Central Television's, on the other hand, freaked me out as a nipper - a multicoloured moon with a vaguely spacey theme to match - though I cannot remember why).