The Golden Era - the 1980's. A time when one didn't face the risk of losing his/her mobile phone down a grid (they were the size of housebricks ffs). A time when it was shameful....shocking even....to be "Like a Virgin"
A time when Ronald Reagan made twice as much sense as what George W. Bush does today. A time when you were best friends with whomever brought in the "Rubik's Cube" or "Snake or "Pyramid" into school on any particular day. A time when......ahh you get the gist....

Select as many as you wish and if there is something that is not mentioned on the list (it's by no means an exhaustive one!) then tell us about it on the posts. Absolutely anything goes....someone somewhere is bound to relate to it somehow.

I have always loved the word Schmoo.....so the New Schmoo will always be a hit for me.....Schmoo can be used in so many different contexts...particualrly when talking about things that are icky and 'orrible! Also you can sing it repeatedly to the tune of Doe a deer and never tire of it! :cool2:

The Moomins bugged me...what were they all about! :glare:

I had a BMX to....and a Skate Board but I think that was more of a 70's thing as I was about 4 when I got my first one! :unsure:

Culture Club and Adam Ant rocked..... :cool2:

Oh and who can forget that fashion accessory that was the absolute must have.....THE SNOOD! Wonderful! :laugh:

For me it would have to be Madonna.........

I recall that my friends and I would spend HOURS getting the Madge look just right - loads of crucifixes, lace, net, leather, gold bangles,big gold hoop earings, loads of slap, Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig hair....... the strange thing was, I didnt rate old Madge back then, it was when she did Evita I changed my mind!

You missed off Frankie Goes to Hollywood - now they ARE the 80's to me!

Oh and jumper dresses and gold stiletto shoes - come on girls, we all did it - I got my jumper dress from Kendals - it was navy with a lovely flower motif that had glitter bits sewn in!!!!

V. early 80's was awash with tartan kilts, bondage pants and awful hair, punk music and going to as many concerts as humanly possible.

Mid 80's was George Michael and Careless Whisper, and many a snoggings at nightclub/disco's.

Late 80's stilletos [no change there then], big hair, shoulder pads, dreadfully gaudy and large costume jewellry - :sick:

It was the New Romantics for me, you were either a Duranie or Spandau. And who didn't own a Freedom, Choose Life or a Relax t-shirt?!!! Ra-ra skirts, leg warmers, anyone remember the Y cardigans? OMG, they were awful, I wasn't allowed one..........:cry:

The 80's for me was Diana & Charles, Wham & Madonna, marriage & motherhood....

THE SNOOD!

Snood?? - was ist das??

you were either a Duranie or Spandau.

....that we were....that we were...OMG!, that we were!

...I know this.........much is true.....(I was a Spandau, but temporarily crossed allegiances when "A View to a Kill" was released.

i was born in the 80s so dont know too much except queen were a great band :)

...Eurythmics swirling round my head courtesy of.....A SONY WALKMAN!!!!

...Eurythmics swirling round my head courtesy of.....A SONY WALKMAN!!!!

".....do do do do do bug bug....do do do do do bug bug......nineteen-eighty-four"

I think the early 80's for me meant figuring out everything. There were monotone pieces of artwork pasted all over classroom walls. But why? - didn't they have art equipment with any colour?? Later...much later I realized it was to do with the Ska influence, and Madness were doing their thing around that period too. And of course, everyone went mad about Doc. Martins, so I had to have a pair too. (I so wish that I had kept them - would have been a fantastic relic)

The school disco's were abuzz with amazing music - Wham (Never Gonna Dance Again, Freedom), Malcolm McLaren was producing some good s**t (Madame Butterfly etc etc) Spandau Ballet (True) Evelyn "Champagne" King's excellent "Love Come Down", Debarge's wonderful "Rhythm of the Night" and The Fat Larry Band's "Zoom"

Oh I so want to go back - someone hail me a cab and ask driver to drop me off at 1981!

Bathtime in the early 80's for me also had it's own tv schedule. Before Mummy got to wash my hair - ("Please don't wash my hair mummy! It's fine this week - it doesn't need doing..." - nice try sunshine!)
With tv set up on the floor, I played with rubber ducky (not a euphemism for penis!.....ffs!!) until "Family Fortunes" with the legend that was Bob Monkhouse, kicked things off. And then, it was straight on to "Hart to Hart"....(he had a dog.....his name was Max....), and then "Dallas", and then "Entertainment USA" and then......I was rushed quickly to intensive care suffering from hypothermia and said my weekly "hello" to all the lovely nurses.....

Ohhh the 80's were marvellous....

Mexico'86 - Diego Maradona - say no more. Absolute heartbreak. The b***ard. I'll never forgive him.....but my first ever World Cup. Sleeping over at my friends house watching games at 2 o'clock in the morning. It didn't matter if it was Egypt vs. Iraq - it was 2 o'clock in the morning!!...and we were still up....watching the footy....life doesn't get any better than this....

Swap Shop/The Saturday Show/Saturday Superstore/"the one with that weird green alien" (someone please remind me of its name....Gaz Top was the presenter....Gaz Top!!)

I never ever waited with such anticipation for a cartoon to come on as I did with "Godzilla" - I just wanted to see which monster was going to be locking horns with the mighty Godzilla. Actually always ended up being an anti-climax....some pathetic three-headed maggot that ejected a silky substance and would have Godzilla in its sights until......well....until 3 seconds later when Godzilla broke free and saved mankind by ridding it of the nasty old beast.......Godzilla!! - poor kids today are deprived of such quality!

Tiswas! - The Phantom pie man/eater/whatever he was - all those poor people locked up in cages...

ET, not just the movie - Shreddies had special little transfers and little discs that you could heat up and....something happened.....nobody will remeber those! nooooobody!!

The BMX....and all the nasty cuts and bruises I suffered from endless mishaps.

.....where's that cab?

I was definately a Duranie, with maybe a little bit of Spandau, Wham and Haircut 100 thrown in.

Ra ra skirts were all the rage at the local disco and I remember me and my friend thought we were so cool when we both dressed the same:laugh:
The boys at the disco used to take their own lino and breakdance all night long.

And me and my brother loved our roller boots (not roller skates, different thing altogether:laugh: ) the roller boots had stoppers on the toes to stop you but really it just caused you to fall over.

Oh and the snood was a scarf type thingy that you could put over your head made famous by Nick Kershaw.

Oh ny god Andrea......that took me right back.

Haircut 100.........oh yes please, can't remember lead singers name but yum yum.

Ra ra skirts and leg warmers with wooly jumpers too, no coat, just a big jumper. God we must have looked a right sight. :laugh: :laugh:

Haircut 100.........oh yes please, can't remember lead singers name but yum yum.

Nick Heyward ... very nice chap, he used to drink in a pub where I worked in Kensington. lovely smile!

Woodstock you missed out Duran Duran:excl: How could you :ohmy:

I loved most things, early eighties it was all Duran Duran, Madness, wham, Dexy's Midnight Runners, the rubik cube and ET ( I had all the ET dolls with the finger that lit up), middle to late eighties madonna, little leather laces round my wrist, bright (illuminous) orange shirts and jumpers, jeans with a million zips and pockets. Back to the future (fab film- great soundtrack), erasure
Big jewllery and belts. Lots of lace
Best year of the eighties with any doubt. 1985 genius year

Madonna and Molly Ringwald
'Fame' and Ferris Bueller
Rubik's Cube and ra ra skirts...
Legwarmers and Lady Di

*KC drifts off in a nostalgic haze...* :D

Woody, nothing on your poll tickles my fancy so I am going to go for my own.

The 80's took me from 15 - 25 so was quite a growing up time.

Duran Duran - Simon I still love you, Spandau - Tony ditto - tho I would choose Tony if they were both after me.

Spending a summer bumming round Corfu.

Yes the 80's was a bridge in time for me.

Two words.

Duran. Duran. :wub:

Two words.

Duran. Duran. :wub:


Who was your favourite, Ceri? Mine was the drummer Roger Taylor - he was :wub: Saw them a few months ago on Jonathan Ross and they were still all looking very good!

Who was your favourite, Ceri? Mine was the drummer Roger Taylor - he was :wub: Saw them a few months ago on Jonathan Ross and they were still all looking very good!
Sorry, butting in.....I was always a Simon fan...the way he rolled his jacket sleeves up and jutted (he couldnt' really dance could he bless) about the stage.

Her name was Rio and she danced upon the sand.......

I might have to buy their CD now, I've just bought Odessy's greatest hits..fandoubletastic....Native NewYorker, Going back to my Roots.....

the snood was a scarf type thingy that you could put over your head made famous by Nick Kershaw.

...ahhhh, now I see.

and Lord only knows how I bypassed Nick Kershaw......."There's a tree by a......" - no!....I won't do this...

Woodstock you missed out Duran Duran:excl: How could you :ohmy:
Back to the future (fab film- great soundtrack),
Best year of the eighties with any doubt. 1985 genius year
well........the problem with Duran Duran is they failed to quit while they were head and ended up breaching the 90's if I'm not mistaken (usually am) so in a way they betrayed the 1980's....leastways in my eyes.

yep! yep! - Back to the Future...yep! (quintessential 80's)

1986 just pipped 1985 as best year for me. Lot's more going on...

Molly Ringwald
and Ferris Bueller

*KC drifts off in a nostalgic haze...* :D

Molly Ringwald!! Breakfast Club!! (Simple Minds) - I so wanted to be a part of that detention with those chaps...

Ferris Bueller....Cameron Fry - oh yes! now we're talking 80's. "Fryyyyyy............Fryyyyyyyy..............Fryyyy yyy.......anybody seen Fryyyy?....."

Two words.

Duran. Duran. :wub:

Two words...

over & rated

fandoubletastic.... Going back to my Roots.....

that's my word now :unsure:

"hey youuuu, don beee silly......hud a con-dom on your willy.....RICH!......IN PARADISE!....." - oh how amazing were those strings??....

1980's.............
Paul Young laying his hat everywhere,
UB40 - there were loads of them, Ali Campbell mmmmmmm.
Rubiks cube..I could do it you know - properly, and the snake one aswell..
Andrea already mentioned the ra ra skirts and leg warmers (apparently on the way back so I hear) hope not.

The 1980's, to me, were:

The Jam (I was a modette for a while)
Quadrophenia (technically 1979, but I didn't see it until the 80's)
UB40
Skinheads with Dr Martens and Fred Perry t-shirts
Grange Hill
The Brixton Riots (lived very near the neighbourhood)
Having my first fag
Losing my virginity

1980's.............

UB40 - there were loads of them,
Rubiks cube..I could do it you know - properly, and the snake one aswell..


weren't there just! hundreds of the buggers....well, ten at least.

I could do one side of the Rubik - the best part was removing the coloured square bits and painfully rearranging them so it looked like you had sussed it! (I never really did that - thought crossed my mind on more than one occasion though)

I could do that nasty brown and gold snake however. Easy as pie!
(can still remember the first few maneouvres too.....)

The 1980's, to me, were:
Skinheads with Dr Martens and Fred Perry t-shirts
Grange Hill


nice image of the skinheads!! I can't believe I overlooked Grange Hill. I think that would be right up there amongst your Madonna's and BMX's. I can remember twiddling my thumbs waiting for last class to end so I could get back to base, sit down with a coke and a few biccies and watch my hero Tucker Jenkins, his large friend, and his Black friend get up to all manner of escapades. (this is quite a long shot but does anyone remember a certain episode where they (Tucker & co.) discovered a cellar-like room in the one of the school corridors? - 'cos I know everyone recalls the constant taunting of poor old Roland Browning!)

And who can ever forget Patricia Yates......

Why did they ever alter that original comic strip intro (with the sausages) and theme tune....idiots!! :ranting:

......and what about "The Adventure Game"??? Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain and all that.....drachma was the currency.....you don't re-mem-ber??

.....and there was "Jigsaw" too with those very unconvincing special effects characters....

I might be stretching it a bit here (and venturing too close to the 70's border) but I loved "Bod", "Mr Benn", "A Handful of songs to sing you..." (had a different title but that was the theme tune - hosted by two hippies. I had a thing for the woman with brown hair...

and Jeez! - what was that lunchtime programme for younger viewers with the crow and the quietly spoken little yellowy bear that looked like sooty?

Thing that made the 80's for me was the arrival of 1990!

I loathed the 80's, the decade that taste forgot.

......and what about "The Adventure Game"??? Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain and all that.....drachma was the currency.....you don't re-mem-ber??

Oh God, I remember The Adventure Game!
The Vortex..the growling aspidistra..wasn't the currency DROGNA? I think everything was an anagram using those letters...

[Adventuregame geek icon] :D

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The Tube hosted by Jools and Paula....
Friday/Saturday NightLive hosted by Ben Elton.....
Bon Jovi and Whitesnake....
Girls on Top.....
The Young Ones.....
Suits with huuuuuge shoulder pads, teamed with a frilly collared blouse with a sparkly diamante (sp?) broach at the neck.........
The Faulklands War.......
The Iranian Embassy Siege........

and who could forget.......................LIVE AID!!!

Well the '80's' changed me big time.

I got married in 1980 -yes that's 25 years ago on march 6th!!!
We never had a honeymoon, in fact my diary stated that we went shopping at Tesco's.(Nothing new there then?)
It was a fruitfull decade though - Emma born 1980, Clare 1984, Michelle 1987, Hazel 1989.
Tv was crap then?
A - Team, Battlestar - Galactica, Cagney and Lacey, Cheers, Dallas, Diff'rent strokes, Dukes of Hazzard, Dynasty, Equalizer, Fame, Fraggle rock, Knight rider, Knot's landing, L.A.Law, enough check them yourselves;

http://spiffyentertainment.8m.com/80sTV.html

Top movies in the eighties:
http://spiffyentertainment.8m.com/80smovies.html

Music?
http://spiffyentertainment.8m.com/80smusic.html

On this day in the eighties;
http://www.80snostalgia.com/tdih.html

Arhhh sweeeties:
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/acatalog/Novelty_Sweets.html


More sweets:(I know my teeth are crap.)

http://www.britishcandy.com/nostalgic_sweets_retro_candy1990.htm

Then there was live aid:

http://80music.about.com/od/liveaid/p/liveaid.htm

I was there were you?

Oh God, I remember The Adventure Game!
The Vortex..the growling aspidistra..wasn't the currency DROGNA? I think everything was an anagram using those letters...

[Adventuregame geek icon] :D

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might well be drogna - if I remember rightly Moira Stewart was one of the presenters

The Tube hosted by Jools and Paula....

Whitesnake....
Girls on Top.....
The Young Ones.....
The Faulklands War.......
The Iranian Embassy Siege........

and who could forget.......................LIVE AID!!!
some very good ones there - duh....Live Aid!!! :wacko: thanks for remembering the event of the 80's...

Well the '80's' changed me big time.

a fruitfull decade A - Team, Cheers, Dallas, Diff'rent strokes, Fraggle rock, Knight rider,

some excellent reminders there.....did anyone ever collect the scented novelty rubb.....erasers ie, Daz, Flash, Tide etc - didn't quite make the 80's for me but it became a fad among us. Also there were special "garbage pail kids" collector cards with useless stats (not to be confused with cabbage patch dolls although you could make a case for them too)

i was married in 81 !

Falklands war,
awfull Australian soaps,
Freddie in leather jeans and nowt else..... Live Aid
Skateboards
Van Halen at their gorgeous best
becoming a mum...eeeek!
a serious lack of babysitters
'Acquiring' Tommy our first cat, 1980
Vienna, our second, 1982
Jetta our third, 1983
Sylvie 1, our 4th, 1989
death of my dad, 84
discovering the delights of the greek islands, 86
buying the lovely Silver, 1988

gosh a looong time ago now it seems

M

wasn't the currency DROGNA? [Adventuregame geek icon] :D

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you're absolutely right. If you go to Greece though, you'll find some "drachma" there lol.......

......and they used to have those darkened cellar-like places where they had to feel there way through and pick up various tokens hanging from the ceiling on a piece of string............may be a different prog altogether...

i was married in 81 !

Van Halen at their gorgeous best

gosh a looong time ago now it seems

M

.....I played various concerts with my air guitar to Van Halen background....

"The Wonder Years" (good old Kevin Arnold & co.)....."CHiPs"......."Runaround" with Mike Read (Eastenders, not the one with daft hairstyle who went on to star in the jungle) - basics were....he asked a multi-choice question, 3-4 possible circles to stand in, you leg it over to one that corresponds with your answer, if you get it correct, you remain in game, all others eliminated. And he used to shout so loud that most of the kids anyway, legged it outside the building in sheer terror and made for home....

"Dallas" (previously mentioned but deserves another) I got the First/Second series on dvd as Christmas prezzie - was an absolute joy to once more see Sue Ellens' famous old rubbery expressions. Also a joy to see Victoria Principal in a swimsuit once again....

Also there was a childrens gameshow set in the grounds of Alton Towers - based on snakes and ladders (what seemed like a huge scaffolded building with slides and ladders) and hosted by the terrible Keith Chegwin.

"Look-in magazine".........we all had dozens of posters of Sinitta, Madonna, Tiffany, Bananarama, Aha, and Nick Kershaw on our walls - you can't deny it!

Wham bars (pink with glittery quality) were delicious, Space Invader crisps (perilous amounts of E-numbers), Monster Munch had just been launched.

Nat-West introduced the special little piggy banks as an incentive to save with them. For some daft reason I went with the Bradford & Bingley and instead received a hideous green savings column with coin tubes and an audio cassette tape with about 6 sh*te songs on it. Was so envious of all the kids on our estate who displayed the piggies in their windows (out of interest I had my Savings Column stored out of sight underneath my Captains bed. Never managed to save much more than 57p - a record which still stands today!)

He-Man, She-Ra (the latter was crap), Skeletor, Man-at-Arms....omg....some of us had the figurines....but not the expensive Castle Greyskull...

A-Team figurines were also the rage. And anyone who had the A-Team's Black van was your instant best mate.

ZX Spectrum's were launched, and with it came amazing games such as Jet-Pac, Manic Miner, Pyjamarama, Daley Thompson's Decathlon (this game would ulitmately be the death of your Spectrum keyboard!). Other games reflected certain movies that were released at the time such as Gremlins and Ghostbusters.

More obscure tv programmes were "My Two Dads", "Gruey", "Punky Brewster", and "Murphy's Mob"

Finally, it would be most unfair to omit "Rod Hull & Emu's Pink Windmill Show - I had a thing for Grotbag's.....(hated that stupid little dragon of hers though)

Oh God, I remember The Adventure Game!
The Vortex..the growling aspidistra..wasn't the currency DROGNA? I think everything was an anagram using those letters...

[Adventuregame geek icon] :D

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Oh wow:ohmy: I remember that one.

Woody...the Snood was a woollen tube which you could wear as a scarf or pull up over your head like a hood.... :cool2:

Corey Haim and Corey Feldman movies..... did em all :blush:

The Brat Pack! St. Elmos Fire, Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club etc...etc.!

The A-Team was pure class! :cool2:

Oh wow:ohmy: I remember that one.

Woody and Andrea, look what I found:

http://www.ukgameshows.com/index.php/The_Adventure_Game

Ah, memories. :D

Ah, Kittencat, thats brilliant, the vortex game at the end.

Doogy Rev:laugh:

The 1980's, to me, were:

The Jam (I was a modette for a while)
Quadrophenia (technically 1979, but I didn't see it until the 80's)
UB40
Skinheads with Dr Martens and Fred Perry t-shirts
Grange Hill
The Brixton Riots (lived very near the neighbourhood)
Having my first fag
Losing my virginity
Karen, you've stolen my life!! :ohmy:

"The Wonder Years" (good old Kevin Arnold & co.).....
Did you know that Kev's geeky mate did, in fact, grow up to be Marilyn Manson?

http://www.mortystv.com/showcards/wonder_years_250.jpg

Woody...the Snood was a woollen tube which you could wear as a scarf or pull up over your head like a hood.... :cool2:
:cool2:
Lady Andrea had already cleared this one up for me. Thanks too.

Did you know that Kev's geeky mate did, in fact, grow up to be Marilyn Manson?

http://www.mortystv.com/showcards/wonder_years_250.jpg
LOL!! - fantastic Floop!....fantastic! (great pic)

Jason Hervey (Wayne Arnold) can also be seen in Back to the Future (not sure if it's I or II) His only lines in The Wonder Years involved the words "Butt-Head!! or Butt-Breath!!

Woody and Andrea, look what I found:

http://www.ukgameshows.com/index.php/The_Adventure_Game

Ah, memories. :D
nice work KittyKatt, I'll have a perusal on the morrow - work beckons :(

well.......nobody, I repeat nobody has mentioned.........IT'S A KNOCKOUT!, hosted by Stuart (Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.....he laughed a lot you see) Hall.
Far removed from the concoction of crummy games that they created in the revived version a few years back. Oh no, the original was set in the grounds of castles....at night, so it was all illuminated. The games were hilarious, the costumes were even more so. Stuart Hall's laughter was absolutely genuine, and listening to him almost choking on it was hilarious too. The original version had European countries up against one another - so it wasn't Ashby-de-la-Zouche against Market Rasen! This was big time IT'S A KNOCKOUT!, and it was beautifully done......and if they showed all the repeats from back then.......they couldn't come soon enough!

Also silly adult-but-the kids-can-watch-too-type programmes included "Duty Free" starring Keith Barron, and "Big Deal" which had a gambling theme. The main character basically (must stop using that word) played cards in some gloomy back-street club, hardly ever won, got several beatings, and in almost every episode had to listen to his daughter or wife attemting to persuade him to quit that sort of lifestyle - to no avail. The blonde girl who played his daughter went on to star in the Bill.........I think.

......Chorlton and the Wheelies.......:)

I had a wrinkle free face.

removing the coloured square bits and painfully rearranging them

.....painstakingly rearranging them (sorry just correcting myself there):(

they had to feel there way through
.....feel their way through......(I'm doing this before Cat gets on my case....)

Oh God, I remember The Adventure Game!
The Vortex..the growling aspidistra..wasn't the currency DROGNA?
[Adventuregame geek icon] :D

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I've heard recently that Chelsea FC are launching a board game version of the show....it's rumoured the currency will be named "Drogba"......

Star Wars figures made the early 80's for me - they're all I ever played with.
I had the At-AT, the Millennium Falcon, a crummy Hoth Wampa (a kind of poor mans Rancor Monster - I so wanted that beast)

Table and chair legs would become the columns of huge facilities where the good would combat the forces of evil. Sound effects of the airborne vehicles would range from "schoooooooooo" to "eeeeeeownnnnnn", and my weapons would emit effects such as "tuckatuckatuckatuckatucka" and "pyoosh-pyoosh.....pyoosh-pyoosh" Of course, the manufacturers neglected to install any worthwhile sound effects so one had to improvise.......a talent which I honed over several years and was only marginally outdone by the Black geezer from Police Academy.....

Oh....and I also had the crummy old Rebel Transporter (which disappointingly turned out to be nothing more than a glorified carry case......

"........may the force be with you......"

Madonna's running away with this (....don't call her Madge!....heaven's above!!)I'm thinking about when the ice-cream man made his daily rounds in the summertime. I recall Superhero lollies (white sticks with a superhero on the end) May have been called "Marvel" lollies or something akin to.....

Also the game lolly sticks.....do they not play this anymore?? (similar theme to conkers really - one person holds his stick out flat in front of him (......please!! I mean really!!.....shame on you for having those thoughts!....) while t'other breaks it with his own in one fell swoop (hence, you had a "oner" or "twoer" and so on and so forth....and then you had the sorry-assed git who would dip his in varnish overnight (usually me...) and expect it would make a hell of a lot of difference to success rates....people also did the same with conkers....or they'd try going one better and cooking their conker for a wee while until fully hardened, and they found no-one would ever combat them anyway 'cos they were terrified of losing their own beloved "sixteener" or "forty-twoer"

And now conkers is banned I hear.........makes me glad I was young in the 80's and not in todays climate...:)....poor little b***ards!!

...Vicky the Viking.....:sad:

............. :mellow: ............1990! :wink2:

............. :mellow: ............1990! :wink2:
:ohmy: ....get away!.......1990 indeed - the very suggestion.....it was indubitedly 1980's material....next you'll be informing me that Dogtanian was 1990's too...:blink:

...Vicky the Viking.....:sad:
That has to be your shortest post ever



Can’t remember much of the 80's two many Drugs slept through most of it

That has to be your shortest post ever



Can’t remember much of the 80's two many Drugs slept through most of it


there were no drugs in the 1980's!! - everyone was innocent with Nick Heyward-style haircuts....and the closest thing to Marilyn Manson was King

there were no drugs in the 1980's!! - everyone was innocent with Nick Heyward-style haircuts....and the closest thing to Marilyn Manson was King
Your right but I never follow fashion nobody wanted them so they where cheap

to the young ones viewing

Drugs are bad for you and will ruin your life I would have been a millionaire now if not for drugs JUST SAY NO

"cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money...."

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nothing on the list is my 1980s!! 1980s for me was superted, bananaman and fireman sam!! tho i did too get dressed in a rara skirt courtesy of me ma.

also it was all about kylie and jason back then, better known back then as charlene and scott, it was all "i should be so lucky" and locomotion, and i have vague memories of doing the locomotion with my babysitters. and not understanding why i was given to them over the weekend to look after.

also watched alot of supergirl. and always remember the scene where shes on like another planet and crushes the egg or whatever then crawls up a hole?

there were no drugs in the 1980's!! - everyone was innocent with Nick Heyward-style haircuts....and the closest thing to Marilyn Manson was King

Errrrr I beg to differ............I was addicted to amphetamines in 1984 - peer and media pressure to have a size 8 figure...thankfully I saw the light in time!

And I think you will find that the closest thing to Marilyn Manson back in the 80's was THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS himself......Ozzy Osbourne!!!!!!

Just for my personal amusement Woody - HOW old were you in 1980????

Just for my personal amusement Woody - HOW old were you in 1980????

He was either 35 or still in his daddies ball bag I am going for the latter

He was either 35 or still in his daddies ball bag I am going for the latter


I have to agree on the latter here - Im sure if Woody was "grown up" in the 80's he would have the same view as the rest of us - a decade we prefer to forget and hope and pray that no-one EVER sees the photographic evidence :wacko:

[QUOTE=kookycat] doing the locomotion with my babysitters.QUOTE]

I've done the "locomotion" with one or two babystitters in my time too...

I have to agree on the latter here - Im sure if Woody was "grown up" in the 80's he would have the same view as the rest of us - a decade we prefer to forget and hope and pray that no-one EVER sees the photographic evidence :wacko:
According to breakfast TV BBC1 it’s making a come back leg warmers and all

Oh well back on the drugs then to block it out

According to breakfast TV BBC1 it’s making a come back leg warmers and all

Oh well back on the drugs then to block it out


FFS - it was cack the 1st time round, who on earth thought it would be a good idea to bring it all back :mad2:

save me some of the drugs please Cock me old mate :laugh:

cockburns the 80's fashion revival occurred two seasons ago. get with the programme! ive already ditched my off the shoulder tops in favour of a kaftan

FFS - it was cack the 1st time round, who on earth thought it would be a good idea to bring it all back :mad2:

save me some of the drugs please Cock me old mate :laugh:Of course I will



Some idiot has written a book about how good it was

And this presenter was sayin o yes I loved wearing spandex I bet she did

It just made everyone else look like a tit

I really liked the 80s

I really liked the 80s
Oooooooo you would I bet you looked good in spandex and leg wormers talking about Dynasty with your big hair and who shot J.R

...and I could drink all through lunchtime without coming home and crashing my computer

Why are you righting so small you are making my eyes water



how did you make a computer crash in the 80's
Ans =Turn it on strike any key

I was writing small because I drank so much my contact lens fell out. OK?

I really liked the 80s

Beeeeeehaaaaaaave!!!!!!! the 80's was cack, pants, rubbish and embarrassing (if you were over the age of 12 at any point from 1980 onwards).............

the 80's were soooooooooooooo UNcool!!!!! leg warmers, metalic/primary coloured stilettoes, canvas pastel coloured calf length boots with yer jeans tucked in, bat wing jumpers, plastic costume jewellry to match your stilettoes & handbag, and finally, the most criminal of all - DODGY 80's perms.....:sick: and thats just the MEN!!!!!

I was writing small because I drank so much my contact lens fell out. OK?

http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_1_56.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm22755GB) ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_11_6.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm22755GB) I have been there

I was writing small because I drank so much my contact lens fell out. OK?

Yeh right :laugh:

You don't really think we would fall for that, do you? :wacko:

Watching my brother get ready to go out and taking about 45 minutes to lace up his Doc Martens. He was a skinhead and so I was brought up on Ska and Madness etc.... brilliant :) .
I remember Grange Hill when Susan Tulley was in it (Michelle from Eastenders) and the episode where she turned up dressed as Boy George :laugh:

Anyone remember a sci fi programme on at teatime on a Saturday night called Tripods?

I had a snood :laugh: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cerise pink it was and Im sure I wore matching leggings :blink:

Ahhhh Grange Hill with Stu Pot and Tucker.....pity about the spin off Tuckers Luck...now that was a bit pants! :unsure:

Anyone remember a sci fi programme on at teatime on a Saturday night called Tripods?

......vaguely.....omg, you've tantalised my memory bank with that one...

Anyone remember a sci fi programme on at teatime on a Saturday night called Tripods?
Wasn't it Triffids, I remember the Triffids.

.....Space 1999......the theme tune was captivating....and the characters and alien creatures were fab!

In the 1980's people weren't so difficult to understand. Seems everyone is a funny ****** these days.

Wasn't it Triffids, I remember the Triffids.

I didn't even watch the Triffids but still had a dream of them eating my parents! :sad:

"hey you get ready get on your feet, get into gear and hit this street - hey you get ready get on your feet, get down to seventy-three....three....three...."

anyone remember.......No.73???? (saturday mornings)

.......Sandi Toksvig?.........Neil Buchanan??.......oh for goodness sake!!


I do....:huh:

Ooh I remember NO 73, used to love it.

Ooh I remember NO 73, used to love it.ahhh - thank you, I was beginning to believe it to have been a never-actually-happened moment whereby I dreamt it up some time in my past.

It was just a house with guests - that's all I recall (apart from the presenters)
It must have been on for just two consecutive weekends and then said its farewells.....why can't these programmes run in the same way Coronation Street has for over 30 years? - I for one would still get up at 8am on a Saturday to tune in to Noel Edmonds, John Craven, Poshpaws, Godzilla & Co.

They bringeth joy and then taketh away - bloomin' spoilsports!

Ooo No.73 -- the big red door!

Come on get ready get on your feet...
la lal la la lets hit the street.... :cool2:

What about:

RENT A GHOST

Ooo No.73 -- the big red door!

Come on get ready get on your feet...
la lal la la lets hit the street.... :cool2:

What about:

RENT A GHOST
....was never convinced by rentaghost...but I always wanted to have a horse suit like that one.....

I think, I'm too old to remember NO.73 :sad:

....was never convinced by rentaghost...but I always wanted to have a horse suit like that one.....

I once played the back end of a bright red camel...one hump...in a panto! :shocking:

Well, being born in the 80s, and only experiencing three years of it, not even being able to remember it, i have to say that being born was quite a major aspect of the 80s for me! :laugh:

I once played the back end of a bright red camel...one hump...in a panto! :shocking:
....I have a face like one.....we'd have made a lovely pair...

have an excellent book (which only yesterday I rooted out as I was going through all my boxes full of magpie-ish items) by my side - The Encyclopaedia of Cult Children's TV by Richard Lewis - www.allisonandbusby.ltd.uk (http://www.allisonandbusby.ltd.uk/)

Just thought I'd throw out some of the programme's that I myself have at least some recollection of, and see if they tantalise your own memory banks......
(I've omitted those programmes previously alluded to on this thread, and those given mention to aren't particularly from the 80's))

Alberto Frog and his Amazing Animal Band
Banana Splits
Battle of the Planets (one of my old favourites)
Belle and Sebastian
Blockbusters (....oh yeah, of course.....)
The Book Tower
The Box of Delights (ssem to remember always being mesmerised by a kaleidascopic intro and a revolving box....)
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels ("Captain.....Caaaaaaaavemaaaaan!!")
Catweazle
Chock-A-Block :)(.....she was called Carol Leader btw)
Chocky (supernatural drama - there was a young kid and some weird rainbow-coloured glowing thingy....)
Chorlton and the Wheelies (....she was called Fenella The Kettle Witch....)
Cloppa Castle(this one is deep inside the caverns of my memory....I always got my lego out immediately after it ended.....the characters were, as I recall anyway, a little similar to legomen....)
Cockleshell Bay
Different Strokes
Doctor Snuggles
Dogtanian (and the Three Muskehounds)
Duckula (David Jason's wonderful voiceover's)
Educating Marmalade (..my God, yes!...)
Fingerbobs (....Fingermouse featured in Fingerbobs...)
The Flumps
Follyfoot (I seem to remember it being called Follyfoot Farm, but there you go........."....down at Follyfoot Faaaaaaaaaaaaarm".......)
Ghosts of Motley Hall (....if you strain yourself it may just emerge.......)
Grange Hill (...couldn't resist! - Zammo McGuire, Roland Browning, Janet St.Clair (apparently she stuck up for Roland Browning...), Stebson, Pogo Patterson (wonderful wonderful name, and character), Trisha Yates, Suzanne Ross (...yep, Susan Tully), and Danny Kendall (the very arty but rebellious), not to mention the array of teachers that graced the school)
Handful of Songs :)(...so it was called that after all....I absolutely adored this programme)
Top Cat
Lippy the Lion & Hardy Har Har
Touche Turtle & Dum Dum
Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch
Wait Till You Father Get's Home (....OMG!!......."wait till your Father gets, wait till Your Father gets, wait till your Father gets hooome...."
Inch High Private Eye
New Shmoo (came out 1979)
Drak Pak (.......OH..........MY..........GOD!!! - yes!, I remember this......)
Pac-Man ???? (apparently this one was 1982 - I have absolutley no recollection of it!)
Heads And Tails (yes!! - Derek Griffiths, and his wonderful moustache)
How
Itsy and Bitsy (you may not remember the name of this programme but if I told you it was the one with the spider puppets and the creative lady, it may just jog your memory - I think one spider was blue, the other red - but there may just have been a third yellow one)
Jackanory (.....yep! - time to go out and play on the bike.....anything but this...)
Jamie and the Magic Torch (another of my favourites - also had a little book of his that was over and done with inside 2 minutes)
Jigsaw (Jigg the floating jigsaw piece, and Ptery the Pteradactyl)
Let's Pretend (Jesus!)
The Moomins
Mr Rossi :)
Paddington (always bored me....)
Paperplay
Pigeon Street (don't talk to me about pigeons.....)
Pipkins (Harltey Hare et al...everyone was scared by that ******! - it wasn't just you......)
Play Away
Pob's Programme
Puddle Lane
Razzamatazz
Screen Test (always watched this)
The Sooty Show (prerequisite)
Stepping Stones (yes!!)
Take Hart (even though I never sent off a picture, I was alwayus looking out for oneof my own to be hung up on his wall, having been secretly sent in by one of my teachers.......never happened.....):(
Tomorrow People

There has to be something among all those that you relate to.......

.....as an afterthought there were also lots of dramas sent to our tv screens from overseas. I cannot remember the names (it would be a tough ask) of the majority, but I do remember Heidi - they all had outrageously bad voiceovers, but some of them were compelling nonetheless......

and I can't allow Vicky The Viking to be omitted, even though I gave it a brief mention earlier in the thread.

I thank yo.

Banana Splits


Tomorrow People



I watched these but I am sure they were in the 70's when I was a teenager....

I watched these but I am sure they were in the 70's when I was a teenager....

may well have been ils - though I did mention that they may belong to era's other than the 80's. I think quite a few of those in the list came and went in the 70's.

may well have been ils - though I did mention that they may belong to era's other than the 80's. I think quite a few of those in the list came and went in the 70's.

Sorry your post was so long, I must have missed that bit :laugh:

Sorry your post was so long, I must have missed that bit :laugh:
well what's new there?? lol - you should be attuned to that by now.....

well what's new there?? lol - you should be attuned to that by now.....

Well I am - I don't normally read them - just skim them for the important points! :w00t:

Well I am - I don't normally read them - just skim them for the important points! :w00t:

...so in other words you just skim them.....:sad:

...so in other words you just skim them.....:sad:

Sorry ..... I do the same with all long posts...

The eighties so many memories, long hot summers that seemed to last forever. Zx 81's & spectrums c64's vic 20's etc,etc. Great programs on tv (for a youngster growing up) Adam and the Ants, Nena's 99 Red balloons, Queen, Madness, the end of the Jam (great band), the beginings of the Style Council (not so good), the Human League, ABC, Live Aid, early Bon Jovi, Def Leappard, G'n'R, the Cure, the list could go on for about 10 pages :pimp: