The REAL 1970s
Sunday, April 16, 2023

The Spacehopper - 1960s Pop Culture First & Foremost... - UPDATED

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The famous Mettoy space hopper first bounced into the UK in 1968... Many thanks to Mark for this interesting e-mail: I don't remember th...
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Thursday, July 28, 2022

The Liver Birds and the Mysterious Oppression of Women...

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Nerys Hughes and Elizabeth Estensen as Sandra Hutchinson and Carol Boswell in the 'Liver Birds'. Carla Lane was one of the writers (...
Tuesday, February 05, 2019

Wayne and Wanda - The Glorious Muppet Singing Duo, The Appendectomy And The Fever...

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The Muppet Show ! Jim Henson's lovely Muppet puppet concept had been around in one form or another since its very first manifestation...
Friday, January 19, 2018

Platform Shoes, Flared Trousers & Kipper Ties - So 1960s & 1970s? Er, Not Only... and DISCO Balls?!

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Portuguese-Brazilian actress and samba singer Carmen Miranda helped to popularise the platform shoe in the 1930s and 1940s. The 1970s dr...
Monday, March 07, 2016

"Boom Boom Boom Boom - Esso Blue!" A Sign Of The Times

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Unilluminated Esso Blue sign (left) and illuminated (right). Dashing home from school on winter's evenings in the 1970s - eager for...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Our Favourite Review Of Back In Time For The Weekend...

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Well, there's Rob Ashby Hawkins with his 1950s teddy boy haircut and home brew, Steph looking naff and the kids, Daisy and Seth (tho...
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Thursday, February 18, 2016

Back In Time For The Weekend With The Ashby Hawkins - History Without Tears - Stretching A Concept...

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The Ashby Hawkins family travel back to the 1970s (that looks like our lounge in the late 1960s - it's fabulous!), and do things li...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Top Of The Pops - An Audience Of 19 Million In 1979 - But Only Because Of The ITV Strike

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I was reading the other day about how wonderful TOTP must have been in 1979 because it reached ratings of 19 million viewers. Oh yes, but ...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Follyfoot and the Dreaded Sunday Afternoons...

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The "Follyfoot "annual 1977. The series ended in 1973, but lived on in repeats and through the "Look-In" comic strip ...
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Monday, June 02, 2014

You're Only Young Twice - The Adventures of Flora, Cissie, Mildred, Dolly, Katy, Miss Milton, Finchy and Roger

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A scene from the opening titles of 'You're Only Young Twice' - Flora Petty enjoyed her 'True Romances' in the Resid...
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Saturday, June 30, 2012

I Like 'Lectric Motors

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Loved this. Late 1979, kind of cusping 1980. At this point, we were all wondering what the 1980s were going to be like and eagerly looking ...
Sunday, July 03, 2011

Rings On their Fingers - And Anthony Hayward - Not An Overwhelming Hit...

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Diane Keen as Sandy and Martin Jarvis as Oliver in "Rings On Their Fingers". Were there special circumstances surrounding its succ...
Tuesday, September 01, 2009

The '70s - The Golden Age Of TV? I Think Not...

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I find it fascinating that the 1970s are so widely vaunted as "The Golden Age Of Television". Can somebody please explain? For ins...
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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Views Of The '70s Part 2 - Klackers, Racism, The Cambridge Rapist, Frisbees, Digital Watches And Maxi Skirts...

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No videos of TV series, but books based on them instead - Upstairs Downstairs, the '70s answer to the '60s Forsyte Saga, was hugely ...
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