The 70s – and being a kid playing

Being young in the 70s meant finishing school and going straight out after a bite to eat and going on the nearby football pitch to play footy until dark and beyond. It also meant going into the woods close to the fields and playing at commandos running around with sticks for make believe guns, we […]

Cleopatra (Coming At Ya)

Cleopatra (Coming At Ya)

For no reason at all, I today remembered this three-piece girl group, Cleopatra, who came at us in the 1990s with not only a theme tune (Cleopatra’s Theme, AKA “Cleopatra Coming At Ya”), but a really lame TV programme which was, from hazy recollection, on childrens ITV. I don’t remember much else about them, but […]

Transformers: Robots in Disguise

Transformers: Robots in Disguise

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 […]

Buck Rogers: In the 25th Century

“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 […]

Fax Machines

Fax Machines

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 […]

Teletext

Teletext

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 […]

Toxic Crusaders (Cartoon)

Toxic Crusaders (Cartoon)

The Toxic Crusaders was a short cartoon that I remember airing on UK TV during my childhood – I can just remember thinking “oh great, another cartoon” while the show started, then the theme tune featured the line “we’re hideously deformed” (or similar) and I was hooked. The toxic crusaders tried to ride the tidal […]

M.A.S.K

M.A.S.K

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 […]

Strawberries and Cream

Strawberries and Cream

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 […]

Kop Kops

Kop Kops

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 […]

Bryan Adams (Everything I Do) I Do It For You

Bryan Adams (Everything I Do) I Do It For You

Remember those school disco mid 90s days when we would spin around unrhytmically to this track while squeezing our partners bum before heading home at 10pm full of the joys of spring? We all do, don’t worry. This track, which Bryan Adams held at the top of world charts for around 100 years before, during […]

Point Horror Books

Point Horror Books

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, […]

Mr Frosty

Mr Frosty

The 90′s was an amazing era. You could even make your own ice cubes! Imagine that. Rather than using a freezer to make ice, or even ice lollies, you could use a snowman and his hat! I remember seeing an advert for Mr Frosty through my old black TV box. Those were the days where […]

Five Children and It (BBC)

Five Children and It (BBC)

I remember watching this thing when I was a child. I am not altogether sure that I enjoyed it, but TV was a pretty straightforward game back in 1991, you had your basic 4 channels in Britain, and only one of them showed children’s TV without adverts, so it was this or art attack. Come […]

Cheers

Cheers

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 […]

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