Memories (Child of our time cntd.)!

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Aloha/ Pam T, we did the sliced up Mars bar too!! Watching old Gene Kelly/ Doris Day/ Cary Grant(swoon) movies!

Also, first crush definitely Starskey, posters from Jackie all over my (purple) walls!

John Noakes and Shep my all time favourite presenters.

Had a ssquirmel too! Sadly squirmed its way into a cup of tea! Was never the same after that!!!

If you've no idea what I'm on about, check out the last few days on the Child of our time thread!

The David Soul song was "Silver Lady". He did another one, too "Don't give up on us".

It was a real shock when I saw David Soul again on Holby City (?) a few months ago. Did I really fancy that? Oh well I was only about 10 at the time.

What about Donny Osmond? I did plenty of drooling over him 20+ years ago.

oh Thank you for remembering David Soul song - the one I was thinking about was "Don't Give up on me Baby" - now I'm going to be humming it all day!

Donny Osmond was OK but even all those years ago a bit too clean cut. Once I'd found the Bay City Rollers, I never looked back. Sadly I even liked Derek who was the greasy looking drummer. How sad is that?!

Just thought on some others... (I'm really enjoying this... )

Anyone else use "sun-in" which you put on and then dried your hair and it was meant to turn in blond. (Never worked for me!) and that "dry shampoo" which was like talc and you put it on and then brushed it out and it was meant to clean your hair. Oh yeah! Just looked like you had greasy hair with talc in it!

There were also those sachets of hair colour which we all used to use. I seem to remember they were called something like shaders or toners depending on whether you wanted to go lighter or darker. Was like the Emperors new clothes. We all used to say the colour had changed and it looked just the same! Felt very daring in those days!

Oh yes, I remember Shaders and Toners! You're right, they were so weak they didn't change your hair colour at all but they looked like packets of glamour and promise. Have both David Soul songs in my head now and visions of the misty video that accompanied one of them. And dry shampoo, completely agree, didn't work at all.

And someone mentioned White Horses earlier. It was soooo badly dubbed, you could see it was filmed in a different language! Black Beauty was much better.

I liked Robinson Crusoe - it seemed to be repeated every summer. Had a great theme tune, later revamped by Art of Noise

What was that programme with all the kids larking about on a bus! There was a "cheeky" girl at the end, often on in the holidays.
Banana Splits anyone, and The Monkeys, I liked Mike Nesmith, how sad is that!!

The Double Deckers!

My favourite Monkee was Peter Tork but the one that me laugh the most was Micky Dolenz.

Double Deckers was great! Found a website here , see what they are doing now!

Going back to Starsky & Hutch, Starsky was my fave, I loved him in the opening credits in the pouring rain with that cardie! But I had to buy David Soul's 'Don't Give Up On Us' single, and I can even remember the tune to the b-side, a dreadful song called 'Black Bean Soup'!

I loved The Double Deckers, scary web site though!!!!

I call dd 'Tiger' after the girl on the Double Deckers

Black Jacks, Fruit Salad, Parma Violets.

Bunty, Jackie, Blue Jeans.

The Osmonds, Bay City Rollers, Alvin Stardust.

My beloved Kodak Instamatic.

Eddie Shoestring.

You can have some more when I'm back from camping (1st time for the kids)

Saturday morning cinema for children with cartoons, a serial and a British film, usually starring Charlie Drake or Keith Chegwin...

Remember 'Heidi' - that was so badly dubbed, but I didn't realise it at the time!

Spangles were amazing

Secret Agents anyone? Jungle Juice flavour were my favourite, and you always got a spy tip on the inside of the tube wrapper.

Remember when ice lollies and crisps used to be around 5p? Also, you could get a whole bag of sweets for 10p. Those were the days!

I came to join the chat but I think I'm just too young - I dom't remember any of these things

jenny2998
Rejoice and be proud! Tell us your memories! We can still enjoy them - they are just newer than our distant cob-webbie ones!

BTW does anyone remember Pogle's Wood ? ( Watch with Mother ) Same era as The Woodentops!

SLightly more recent are 'Mary, Mungo and Midge'!!

Pogles wood - fantastic!Pogle wore a dress. Very odd.
Also Busy Lizzie -a doll with a big flower on her dress. She could press it up to four times a day and get four wishes but if she accidentally wished for a fifth time all the other wishes would disappear. She had a friend who was an eskimo called Little Mo.
Anyone remember Junior Showtime starring the Poole family, featuring Glynn Poole?

Chinchilla, sadly I remember when crisps were sixpnce, as in the little silver ones, so two and a half pence!

Anyone remember 'Requiem' by Slick, fronted by Midge Ure, before the Ultravox days. I was so besotted with him, ok, so we had a lack of good looking boys where I lived! AND it was such a morbid song!

Yes - and then they were 2.5 p after decimalisation! I remember being impressed that they'd got so much cheaper!
Anyone remember the Banana splits? Those hairy animal thing that drove around madly in cars at the beginning of each show???

I LOVED the Banana Splits, Oh No, now I have THAT tune in my brain. At one point I remember them being in the middle of the Monkees profgramme. Now they were good too!

What about Grange Hill. Anyone of the Tucker/Trisha Yates era?

Busy Lizzie! - I had a dress like that and my sis had a Little Mo doll.

Spangles were the best. And is it just me or are Black Jacks and Fruit Salads just not the same anymore.

And Curly Wurlys are just no fun at all when you can't make them stretch from one side of the room to the other!