Ashes to Ashes tonight @ 9pm, BBC1

[JackieNo]

I'll be watching .

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkismiXva3M
here it is on youtube if you wanna reminisce again!!

I liked it. Am v impressed with GH's seamless shift from arrogant arse to love interest. But would still like to see a sniff of Sam somehow.

What's Annie doing in 1981 I wonder? Did she and Sam get together for good (or 7 years at least)

I think there will be more Sam references as time goes on. GH had the news clipping in his office and he looked at it in a forlorn manner....sigh....

Haven't been this excited about a new telly thing for ages.

Unless there'll be more JS on DW.

The Passions song i should have added... Lucky u CD seeing him in the playground every day!!

Did anyone else of my era think that TAB wasn't around in that form in 1981 ?? Marina ? (I know you aren't quite as old as me) - ??
Agree about there being something Keira Knightly-ish about Keeley Hawes...

yes, Keira Knightly with breasts.

I am wondering about that Tab thing too MaryAnn, but can't remember as I loathed the stuff and have possibly blanked it from my memory
I wonder what our scratch'n'sniff cards to accompany the series would feature...
Lavish use of Rive Gauche/Charlie for starters

Well I do

Maybe I should tell him
He would run a mile I bet

I think TAB was, wasn't it? I always thought it was such a pointless drink - basically brown, artificially sweetened water.

what about...Cresca, was it? Grapefruit? Urgh

Fresca?

CD, you wicked woman See, that's why PG isn't Gene Hunt. Far too naive.

I'm now trying to decide whether or not Keeley Hawes has a better range than Keira Knightley, whose range is 'pouty and long-necked' all the way to 'whispering in a cut-glass accent'.

I do think Keeley wins, really.

I really didn't think she was that great. She came across as quite emotionless imo.

I don't remember Fresca. I think you are exactly the same age as dh marina - we had a good reminisce last night! He was 18 in 1981 then and up to all sorts.

Not in Edgbaston I hope

CRESTA
It's frothy man

this right, you are all lusting after this man??

whoops!

I dont get it.....

Yeah - Fresca was grapefruit .... and, if memory serves, Tango in "those days" also came in grapefruit flavour ! (unless I am going senile).

Very weirdly, this quite upset me because 1981 was my O level year - at which I did well - and it all seems to have gone downhill since then ! Kinda proves that they captured the essence of 1981 well enough for me to get all maudlin and nostalgic about it just from clothes and music etc.

I liked the juxtaposition of "Vienna" and "Shaddup Your Face" ........ even 27 (27 !!) years on, I still get riled about the travesty that kept Ultravox off the top of the charts !

ooh he has a blog!!!

Tab came in a pink tin and was originally clear, then it was brown, but I'm sure it'd gone ( certainly in that packaging) by '81

Reading folders at dawn CD! I noticed PG wasn't in the playground this morning...funny as he usually was after LoM aired.

Ah I didn't do school run this am

I saw you yesterday but you were in a coven so I slunk by

How are you?

Well ..... according to the foodie bit on the TV Cream website, TAB was about from the 60s to 1981. Then it was relaunched in 1991, until 1992. The can was pink the 1st time rouns, then silver later. It was clear.

well I never, thanks catsmother

Am v well thanks after a madly busy January with work. How are you?

Lol at coven!