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[olympic_torch]

As a child of the 70's, what a wonderful evening of entertainment
Tiswas Reunited on itv was tonight.
The sight of sally James in a leather waistcoat on a saturday morning
was a great help in curing the acne of an adolescent boy i can tell you.
how anarchic, how silly, how very un pc, how marvelous.

Aucto Splendore Resurgo.
(2 down, 58 to go)

[thebear29uk]

Oh no. I forgot to record it!!

Having said that I did watch the Swap Shop one earlier this year and you are right Torch, the memories come flooding back.

For our generation this was our only choice on Saturday morning TV. No sticking a DVD on or watching the Disney Channel on Sky. No X-Box or PS3 to play although I did have a Binatone Tennis game that you plugged into the back of the TV and used paddles to pass the "ball" (white dot) from one side of the screen to the other.

It was an age of innocence back then. No internet chat rooms or violent computer games. If you wanted to watch a Disney movie you had to go to the cinema or watch clips on Disney Time on Bank Holiday Mondays.

But then I watched an item on the news last week that said in the 70's 80% of 8 year olds were allowed to travel to and from school without parental supervision but now its less than 17%. So maybe kids need all those gadgets now as they spend more time indoors and less time roaming free.

We wouldn't have read about "Swallows and Amazons" or "The Famous Five" if their parents had been concerned about paedophiles etc.

Bit heavy for a Sunday morning but feeling very nostalgic.

Regards

Dave

[olympic_torch]

its not all that long ago in the big scheme of things
but how things have changed for kids.
the sweeney beating up suspects, kids were smacked, policemen could biff you round the earhole, happy days, a bit of mindless brutality never did me any harm.



now, where's me chainsaw............

Aucto Splendore Resurgo.
(2 down, 58 to go)

[Skippy]

I forgot it was on! I wasn't allowed to watch Tiswas when I was a kid - my mum thought that Swap Shop and Saturday Superstore were more suitable!

It's a shame kids aren't allowed to be kids any more - I played conkers, paddled in the river, went to the local shops - all the things they aren't allowed to do any more. If I was out of order I was shouted at, and if I ignored that I got a smack - none of this did me any harm. A bit of discipline would do them good - we get groups of them riding their bikes in the grounds of the flats. Someone asked them not to (they cut up the grass) and the next time she went out her car had been keyed!

I always wanted to be part of the Famous Five or Secret Seven! I really wanted to find a secret tunnel and I can remember my friend and I trying to dig one in my mum's garden - we didn't get very far but mum wasn't too impressed with the hole in the lawn!

Back to TV - what were your favourite programmes when you were a kid? Mine were The Wombles, Trumpton and Camberwick Green.

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[Kiska]

i used to have one of those tennis games, was it orange?

my favourite programme was jamie and the magic torch, paddington bear and - so my mom said- andy pandy!!!!!!!!!

[lily]

Rainbow, bungle zippy and george and uncle geoffrey. and playaway. I wasnt allowed to play out on the streets until about 14 or 15, very sheltered, but we had a very big garden with lots of trees and dad made swings on them. Lots of apples too, apple pie and crumble, still love apple crumble. The smell of apples brings it all back and blue bells do too.

lily

[olympic_torch]

Trumpton was great, pugh, pugh et al.The busiest fire brigade in he UK.
Early blue peter with valerie singleton, what that woman could do with sticky back plastic !.


Aucto Splendore Resurgo.
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[Kiska]

me and my friends used to maske mud apple pie and perfume out of rose petals and talk we had loads of fun..

[scaredkez]

its such a shame when i try and tell my kids of kick the can and spin the bottle and day time tv unheard of, they don't understand and think i am doolaly, take today my 8 yr old was pushed in a muddy pond, don't get me wrong he is no angel but the lads that did it was 2 yrs older so i thought best thing send older bro out to give them a shake up the grandad went for him and i ended up going for the grandad telling me my son was a liar coz he wasn't wet enough,well its all out war now, i will win lol kids today are not nice i am afraid i bring mine up to what i am use to and have fun but there are too many bullies out there for me. i am sorry i will be in prison very soon just for sticking up for my kids lol
kerri

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[Kiska]

i had a conversation todat about how cruel kids could be, we were talking about my sister in law loosing her hair and i said as i work in a school about how the kids would laugh. he didn't believe me, he couldn't imagine it. my daughter is 10, (neraly 11) and very innocent and he really couldn't believe it..

[thebear29uk]

Kiska I'd quite forgotton but now you remind me yes it was orange. My favourites were Mr Benn and Trumpton and Camberwick Green. Being the eternal kid I now have them all on DVD.

I loved watching Life on Mars as it took us back to a time when you couldn't txt or look things up on Google. Posh cars had a radio cassette not aircon and sat-nav.

I watched Holiday on the Buses on a satellite channel a couple of weeks ago when a mate was round and it was set in Pontins Prestatyn. I spent most of my childhood holidays there and I kept telling my mate what great times we had. There were 2 houses determined by whether you were in an odd or even numbered chalet. The houses were Embassy and Costello. You wouldn't get that nowadays either!!

I'm not saying I don't embrace change and development of science/medicine/technology but things were much simpler back then. We all knew not to speak to strangers and I'm sure paedophiles existed but they weren't able to establish worldwide networks through the internet.

I have been watching Britain's got Talent this week and that has been the kind of family entertainment everybody can sit down and watch. Opportunity Knocks meets The Seaside Special.

Must go now as Mr Benn has just put on his spacesuit.

Dave

[Kiska]

some programmes have even been banned, remember captain pugwash? i thought i was really posh when i had a spectrum computer...

what i think my daughter has now!

[ray_a]

Well I rember the 60's as a kid- Supercar, Thunderbirds, Stingray, XR15, Bonanza, Dixon of Dock Green, Z cars, Coronation St with Ena Sharples!

Music was great especially 1967!

Football was brillant when anyone could win the Championship and FA Cup day was always a must. The cricket was great as well pretrending in the field with my friends I was batting against Gary Sobers!

Loved the 70's as I did well at school and College!
Holidays in Torquay! Remember the summer of 75 with the lovely sunny days and 10cc playing "I am not in Love"

Just enjoyed being outside and having fun with good music, great sport, and no real problems to worry about!

[Dominic]

i preferred Tiswas to swap shop, Space 1999 hookum sicence flars ins space and did Dr Russell ever get together with John Koenig....

[Kiska]

tiswas was ace.

beats kids programmes now e.g teletubbies....

tinky winky?....