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…

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 […]

Long ago, before the internet was even really invented, or at least before it was available to people without bottle end glasses, there was no such thing as email. If people wanted to deliver a message on the spot, however, they did have an option. They could send a fax. To do this, you needed […]

Its time for a very British TV focussed post here in Popular Nostalgia – its Teletext! We all remember reading Teletext for news, sport reports and even, once Fastext (oh what an advancement in technology that was – like the internet, only with four “choices”!) was invented, quizzes, like Bamboozle. If the internet is the […]

I remember the cartoon M.A.S.K as one of my childhood favourites – I used to love everything about this cartoon, particularly the fact that they fought crime, all the time. I even got a M.A.S.K paper plate and cup set for my fifth birthday party (postponed because I had chicken pox I believe) so I […]

No, I’m not talking about the fruit and dairy products that posh people eat at Wimbledon. I’m talking about the Strawberries and Cream sweeties that you used to buy from the local sweet shop and which would go slightly soggy and stick to your pocket while you swung on your chair in double maths. A […]

I was first introduced to Kop Kops by my friend who bought a quarter of Kop Kops one morning. At first, I thought they were cough sweets but there was enough sugar in there to keep the ten year old me perfectly happy and these things fast became a firm favourite of mine. They still […]

Before the time when everyone had a Tv in their room, on their phones, on their computers, maybe even attached to their face.. kids used to read. Kids used to read all the time. (I’m sure they still read a lot now… I’m sure they read this website ;)) The mothers helper, the baby sitter, […]

Cheers, the US hit television series, began in the early 1980s and ran right through for more than a decade. Then we endured around 18 years of repeats of the 200+ shows around the world! However, Cheers has probably the most nostalgia-incurring themetune in existence, and, being based around a bar “where everybody knows your […]

Henry’s Cat was frankly one of my favourite cartoons growing up because the story was just like my little life. Enjoy the intro video above – its taken from our all-new YouTube Channel, which you can discover for yourself right here: http://www.youtube.com/PopularNostalgia

Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears to give it its full title (thanks Wikipedia) was one of my favourite cartoons growing up in the 1980s, and the video above doesn’t really show their main secret that well: Gummi-Berry Juice. When the Gummi Bears drank Gummi-Berry Juice, they could utilise their super-power, which was, rather oddly, […]

Who remembers when children’s TV wasn’t a gateway drug for the next wannabe tv presenter? Who else, along with me, remembers those halcyon days when characters like Phil Schofield or Andi Peters would sit in The Broomcupboard with little for company other than a stuffed puppet? The Broomcupboard is yet another children’s television memory which […]

This Queen album, with the title track “A Kind of Magic” came out in 1986 – the video above is Freddie Mercury and Queen playing “A Kind of Magic” live at Budapest in that very year. Queen were really rather good, weren’t they. This track reminds me of my 1980s childhood perhaps more than any […]

Count Duckula was another cartoon that I grew up watching in the late 1980s and early 1990s – enjoy the episode above – I hadn’t remembered the intro was quite so long! This was one of my favourites, probably because it was pretty dark and macabre. Count Duckula was made for four series and there […]