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To sort of miss these things that used to be on the telly

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fragola · 24/05/2013 23:32

Mutants. Mutants were everywhere. They were generally the result of nuclear war and normally wanted to kill and or eat everyone who wasn't a mutant. If you were a small child in the seventies, it was impossible to imagine a future without mutants.

Ladies in little shorty nighties. If you were a middle aged busdriver, milkman, postman or window cleaner, you couldn't go anywhere or do anything without being beseiged by ladies in little shortie nighties. I don't think that i was sure of the significance of ladies in little shortie nighties back then, but i thought they looked pretty and i sort of miss them.

Quicksand. Most films that weren't set in britain seemed to involve quicksand, generally as a means to dispatch the bad guys. The world would now be overrun by baddies if it wasn't for quicksand.

Avalanches. If you shouted anywhere near a mountain, a big load of snow would fall on you. I considered this to be a valuable lesson learnt when i was six.

Vicars. Vicars were also everywhere. People had vicars around to their houses for tea so often you could be forgiven for thinking that at least 50% of all men worked as vicars (the rest were middle aged bus drivers, milkmen, post men and window cleaners).

So if anyone on mumsnet works on the telly could you see if you can do anthing about bringing back quicksand, avalanches, mutants, ladies in little shortie nighties and vicars please?

Thank you.

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Shakey1500 · 25/05/2013 05:35

Useless fact alert-the female dancer on Tales of the Unexpected was expecting at the time (see what I did there? Could have said pregnant but no,went for the pun Smile )

I miss The Tomorrow people. I fancied the dark haired bloke in the catsuit Blush

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Primadonnagirl · 25/05/2013 06:22

People always used to take the phone away from their ear and look at it if they've heard something surprising...don't think I ve ever looked at my phone....and men came home from work and poured a drink from the array of bottles on the sideboard but no one thought they might be an alcoholic..
But what I really miss is weather presenters clutching in their hands the sticky pictures that symbolised the weather and sticking it on the board behind them...I once asked for some sticky things for Xmas but never got them...maybe this year

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LtEveDallas · 25/05/2013 06:35

"Charlie says..." Grin

Hammer House of Horror on a Saturday night. Oh how I miss them. I was always allowed to stay up for them, and if I was lucky mum would fall asleep and I'd carry on watching the old black and white scary movies that followed: vampires, mummies, the Asphix (terrified me that one did), Quatermass, Nosferatu, werewolves in spooky American villages.

I even remember setting an alarm under my pillow one night because there was a particular film I liked the sound of on at about 1am. I sneaked downstairs and watched it quietly sat about 2 inches from the screen. I don't think the parents ever suspected.

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NorksAreMessy · 25/05/2013 06:38

I miss not-beautiful people acting.
You used to get non-glamorous detectives and secretaries and characters of all sorts,
Now everyone is blandly beautiful.

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CoalDustWoman · 25/05/2013 06:47

DevonCiderPunk - that dance by the light of the moon thing was at the end of thirtysomething, wasn't it?

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BrianButterfield · 25/05/2013 06:50

People always used to have their boss for dinner, and it was crucial that said boss be impressed, or you would be In For It. Does this still happen? In the bizarre event I did ask my boss over for dinner, it would be as friends, not as some crazy social-climbing activity involving crepes Suzette and a hostess trolley.

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spiritedaway · 25/05/2013 06:51

There was a lot of back trouble back then, people's backs went off at opportune moments, often as they were coupling up a caravan and the managing director(in bowler hat) was due to pop round.

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spiritedaway · 25/05/2013 06:52

inopportune moments even. . .

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spiritedaway · 25/05/2013 06:55

Brian. . same wave length, that was just my mental image. Damn hostess trolleys!

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Donki · 25/05/2013 07:04

Minouminou
I once sent a telegram. It was very exciting.
(Disclaimer I was 18)

Darkesteyes I remember The Edge of Darknes. 'Twas brilliant. Persuaded DH to get the DVD recently as well - he agreed that it was much better than the remake.

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Joiningthegang · 25/05/2013 07:18

What about kids who Jo on adventures and get into dodgy scrapes on choppers and usually with a dog

What happened to the kids on the rs hand gang?

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Growlithe · 25/05/2013 07:18

Doesn't anyone still worry about a village of pagan's wanting to put them in a massive effigy of a man made out of wicker and then setting fire to it? I had nightmares for years about that.

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Joiningthegang · 25/05/2013 07:19

Red hand gang

Oh and the littlest hobo "there's a place ....."

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LondonKitty · 25/05/2013 07:54

Yes Growlithe, I still have nightmares.

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Donki · 25/05/2013 08:01

Oh! and the original version of Village of the Damned...
Scared my silly.

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MorrisZapp · 25/05/2013 08:13

The boss's wife was such a judgemental bitch. The was just so smug that she had married a boss.

I often wondered, where can I meet a boss?

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minouminou · 25/05/2013 08:22

Candlewick bedspreads! You don't see them much nowadays!

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SarahAndFuck · 25/05/2013 10:22

You know what else isn't on TV any more. Squirrels and weasels when buying ice creams.

And you don't hear the talking about how easy it is to drown children in puddles anymore.

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Donki · 25/05/2013 12:25

And the test card. I miss that (weirdly)

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hackmum · 25/05/2013 13:35

Dolly birds. Young women in beehives and false eyelashes, wearing high heels, a too-tight top and a too-tight pair of hotpants. Their bum would wiggle when they walked. A passing man (postie, milkman, window cleaner) would do a double take as she walked past and say "You don't get many of those to the pound!"

The dolly bird was always a bit dim and would never understand any innuendo made to her by a male character.

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squoosh · 25/05/2013 13:42

Eligible sitcom bacherlors lived with their mother and it didn't harm their pulling power one little bit.

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scripsi · 25/05/2013 14:03

Yes about non-beautiful people running round. The dolly birds of the past wouldn't be cast in those roles these days.

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NotDavidTennant · 25/05/2013 14:11
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limitedperiodonly · 25/05/2013 14:16

I've just remembered tales of the unexpected...did you used to sing along to the theme tune and do the dance with the nekkid lady?!

I swear the nekkid lady was Princess Diana cornypedicure

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LittleAbruzzenBear · 25/05/2013 14:16

I love this thread! I remember all these things and those terrifying safety ads where a mum would leave a boiling kettle on the edge of a worktop or kids were playing on a building site. All the American shows were my fav though, I wanted to be Jennifer Hart, Kelly Garrett or any of the other glossy-lipped, big-of-hair women. When I was seven I loved Face from the A-Team and I decided that when I was twenty-five I would move to America and marry him. If that fell through I was going to marry Eric Estrada from Chips. Blush

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