Popular Nostalgia

Popular Nostalgia from the 1980s. Memories of events and items from popular culture recorded in words and pictures on the internet. Share, remember and get wonderfully sentimental…

Daryl Hall & John Oates – I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) – a classic 80s track that rolls back the years even though it was made a year or two before I was born! This track came out in 1981, and was by Hall & Oates. I can go for that! Lyrics [...]

Its the 1980s, and you’re a boy, so what better to learn than that Sabrina is looking for a good time? This track will take you right back to those 1980s summertime holidays. Or, you’ll watch the video and remember that it really was quite revealing. Either way, reminisce with us about Sabrina, Boys Boys [...]

RETURN OF THE CATS A 1980s favourite is set to become this year’s Christmas ‘must-have’ as retailer demand outstrips supply of the new Thundercats action figures and vehicles. The retro cartoon – with celebrity fans including Jonathan Ross, Chris Moyles and Paulo Nutini – has been updated and recently released on British TV screens. The [...]

He-Man was another of my favourite cartoon TV shows when I was growing up. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, as a TV show really had it all. A main character with muscles and a big sword. Check. An enemy with a skull for a head (Skeletor). Check. At the end of the show, [...]

SuperTed (just realised it is all one word, not two!) was one of my favourite cartoons on TV as a youngest growing up in the 1980s. I don’t really remember why, but I do remember the slightly effeminate character Spotty (I think his full name was the Spotty man, but Super Ted just used to [...]

Don’t know why – its like all the things I can’t explain – but this track by Crowded House “Four Seasons in One Day” evokes in me feelings of the utmost nostalgia. Hence, I thought it appropriate to add it to this Popular Nostalgia website! Feel free to leave your nostalgic comments about the time [...]

I love point horror/ point horror unleashed and point horror nightmare hall. I’ve always loved them but it’s so difficult getting hold of them now. I have a small collection but would love to own every point horror book ever made. I may be 32 years old now but these books bring back memories from [...]

Thundercats has near legendary status in my mind, as it was perhaps my favourite TV show growing up, and certainly the best cartoon. I remember getting a lion-o jumper for my birthday one year and wearing it probably every day for a month. I also remember those two kids on flying surf-boards, who, when you [...]

Growing up in the North of England, it was great to read a book aimed at children from that part of the World. Kingdom by the Sea, by Robert Westall, is one such book that I remember fondly from my childhood. Written all about a boy who’s house is hit by a bomb in WWII, [...]

Danny, Champion of the World, was both a book by Roald Dahl, and a movie. Both of which I loved as a child, involving the perennial class war between a boy and his father, and the local lord of the manor. Danny and his dad play a great trick on the local rich folk by [...]

Ordinary people and well known entertainers alike were shown through their own lives with the “big red book” – no, not heaven, but the TV series “This is Your Life”. This Is Your Life originated on American radio with NBC from 1948 – 1952. The popular biography show hit the small screen in 1952 with [...]

Don’t you open that Trap Door. There’s something down there. This was on children’s TV when I was growing up, and I can remember only the intro, which is in the video above, and the fact that there was a talking skull. The start bit went like this: Somewhere in the dark and nasty regions, [...]

Fun House with Pat Sharp ran for an amazing decade, despite not really having much more to it than a few messy games, a really slow grand prix in go karts that seemed to have been turned right down to minimum, and an end bit with lots of great prizes like a trip to bognor [...]

Before Transformers became a silly overblown movie with Corvettes in it, it was an altogether more pleasant cartoon and toy combo which involved robots who would transform from useful objects, like lorries, into more cool objects, like Optimus Prime ( a big destructive robot overlord guy). I loved Transformers, for they truly were Robots in [...]

“Bidi bidi bidi” – Twiki says, as he helps the heroic Buck Rogers save the Earth once more. The television series, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, ran for two seasons between 1979 – 1981. The story was based on the character created in 1928 by Philip Francis Nowlan. Captain William Anthony “Buck” Rogers, played [...]