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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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