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

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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.

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

Aha shakey not a useless fact at all. I like the idea that it was Princess Diana and William waving his little foetus arms about.

Do you mean Mike Holloway? I fancied him too.

Having been made to walk across boggy ground as a child (we had holidays in N Wales and were always being dragged up and down mountains etc), which co-incided with scary quick sand films, I cannot bear anything slightly sticky and 'sinky'...

We go up to Norfolk and I find walking across the muddy tidal creeks absolute mental agony! (I'm 47 )

And has mentioned the male equivalent of shorty nighties, short towelling dressing gowns with a Chinese symbol on the breast pocket?

Usually worn by Dennis Waterman, Lewis Collins or Patrick Mower.

Hairy chests! Where have the hairy chests gone?

One word for what terrified me........RABIES

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

I know someone who was a window cleaner in the 70s and his brother was a milkman, apparently he was never propositioned at work by, despite rejoicing in the nickname 'shagger,'

Another myth shattered.

I always think of the 70s would be like one long bawdy Carry on/Confessions film, with the odd strike thrown in for good measure.

I've just posted this on another thread but it fits here because it's very '70s even though it happened in the '90s.

There was a violent assault in my street and the police came round because the attacker had escaped using our garden though we hadn't seen anything.

I came home from work about a week later and the police car was outside our flat again with one of the officers in it. I waved and let myself in and his mate was shagging my flatmate on the living room floor.

The Walton's are on every morning from 7 til 9 on one of the high up film channels on Sky - got me through many sleepless early mornings bfing. I have managed to restrain myself from sky+ it . John Boy was wise beyond his years.

I loved watching Shirley temple films of a Sunday morning. Oh and Pob! Does anyone remember Pob?

Before the days of 24/7 kids TV, do you remember the owls which would indicate that kids TV was coming to an end (v late - just before the 6pm News). The Mother Owl would say to the baby 'Heads under wings, beaks under blankets, all eyes closed, Goodnight'....Yaaawn!

Those adverts for useful gadgets like the buttoneer and a thing for getting fluff off your clothes. " I liked it so much I bought the company" sort of thing. Names escapes me.

And household stuff as prizes on quiz shows. Hostess trolley, washing machines, new dining room suite in mahogany coloured melamine. On Bulls Eye you could even win a BOAT!

And House Party! I loved House Party as a child.

Donki our local Sainsburys had the DVD of the original Edge of Darkness for £7 a couple of years ago. Like an idiot i didnt take advantage of the offer.
I think the BBC should sell some of their dramas like this and State of Play etc in one big box set.

Those brilliant films by the children's television workshop where gangs of articulate kids would ride their bikes to a nuclear power station/ abandoned warehouse / empty sanatorium where they'd meet some baddies up to no good and eventually save the day because of their bravery and teamwork.

porto Ronco stuff definitely. What was the Buttoneer? It seemed vital.

DH met Victor 'I loved it so much I bought the company' Kiam and liked him, but he is easily impressed by rich people.

And here's what you could have won. And is it sector, section or segment? I think it's segment.

I miss the Benji movies, Littlest Hobo and Gideon the cartoon duck with the long neck.

Aargh, the Flypaper episode of Tales of the Unexpected, with the wee girl, the man on the bus and the 'friendly' woman who turns out to be his murderous wife scares the shit out of me.
I don't remember most of this stuff first time round but my DH was born in '75 and has introduced me to Threads, TOTU (we've got about 40 episodes taped off ITV2 or such like), DVDs of Grange Hill from 1978 up to 1992 and he bought me series 1 of Shoestring for Christmas!

You want to get hold of a DVD called Charley Says - all the public information films of the era, including Dark Water and the titular Charley. Pretty cheap on Amazon.

I find it v amusing how DH grew up terrified of nuclear war, whereas my age group (born '85 ) weren't bothered. I was more scared of leprosy. But then I did go to Catholic school and there were lepers in near enough every book we read.

Ronco!!!! Today's quiz show audiences want nothing less than cold hard cash, particularly with 3 noughts after it. A hostess trolley would be sneered at

Roary1 The Littlest Hobo made me cry every time he went off by himself at the end. I was six though.

Pob's still around, only now he's the Secretary of State for Education.

Pob! I forgot about him! He used to spit at the camera, what was that all about?! Is that what made you think of the Secretary of State Brian?

Anyone remember The Raccoons?

Little House On The Prairie

Sexually frustrated spinsters. No man was interested in them, even though they were desperate for it. Epitomised by Olive on On The Buses.

Magnum. Now THAT was a moustache.