Obscure things from my childhood - an appeal

abouttobebanned

I can recall some odd things from my childhood and if even one person can say "yes- I experienced that too" then I'll be content.

1. The move "the sheriff and the satelitte kid". So an alien befriends a sheriff...cue usual mayhem...but I think I loved that crazy moving picture.

2. Zodo's club.
I think this was in the Irish press but it was a club for kids...you got a membership card with a secret password (mine was zenga) and on your birthday your name would appear in the paper. Happy times.

3. Air force runners. Actually...the less said about these the better.

4. Naff jackets. Or as we called them in school "nackers asking for food" - horrible things.

5. The tv shows, "why don't you" which made fact sheets and goody bags sound like diamonds and gold bars...."out of this world" another show on during the summer holidays...had the theme music "would you like to swing on a star..carry moonbeams home in a jar..." the father was a piece of Waterford crystal or something...I dunno...

6. Pink and white chocolate mice....

7. Fives..crisps for 5p...


Ok we can all look back upon things that we knew existed...but I'm starting to doubt all the above because with the exception of the confectionary items...most people haven't a clue what I'm talking about. Feel free to list your own...not obvious ones like martin and lance from home and away...but really odd ones...and don't forget to try and remember mine!!

m@cc@

abouttobebanned wrote: »

7. Fives..crisps for 5p...

I was more upmarket than you, my taste was for Bikers. Push pops, so cool that you could wear them on your belt. If you needed an instant sugar fix, you could draw it from your holster in the blink of an eye.

I remember for a time that everyone seemed have Yo-Yos as paradied on the Simpsons. Pogs were another massive fad.

OutlawPete

Loved 'Why Don't You'.

Especially when they went to visit a farm ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPaZFc1M8Cs

DazMarz

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Pink and white chocolate mice....

Oh dear God, yes.... Lovely things!!!

we'llallhavetea_old

4. Naff jackets. Or as we called them in school "nackers asking for food" - horrible things.

rings a bell, were they black puffy yolks?

5. The tv shows, "why don't you" which made fact sheets and goody bags sound like diamonds and gold bars...."out of this world" another show on during the summer holidays...had the theme music "would you like to swing on a star..carry moonbeams home in a jar..." the father was a piece of Waterford crystal or something...I dunno...

WHY DONT YOU! yep.

out of this world was class, and yes her dad was a piece of crystal.
she used to touch her fingers together and freeze time!

6. Pink and white chocolate mice....

7. Fives..crisps for 5p...

yep, i remember. the pink ones were manky though

Nevermind_

abouttobebanned wrote: »

2. Zodo's club.
I think this was in the Irish press but it was a club for kids...you got a membership card with a secret password (mine was zenga) and on your birthday your name would appear in the paper. Happy times.

3. Air force runners. Actually...the less said about these the better.

4. Naff jackets. Or as we called them in school "nackers asking for food" - horrible things.

I remember Zodo's club... barely
Also remember Air Force Runners and Naff jackets, but I dont remember either of those tv shows.

anyone remember pajo's junkbox (I think thats what it was called) on saturday mornings?

m@cc@

abouttobebanned wrote: »

out of this world" another show on during the summer holidays...had the theme music "would you like to swing on a star..carry moonbeams home in a jar..." the father was a piece of Waterford crystal or something...I dunno...

Don't know the show but it reminded me of this:

http://darjakaisa.ru/uploads/posts/2009-11/1257328868_dreamstonecover.jpg

we'llallhavetea_old

bucky o hare? he was a mutant rabbit as far as i can remember, but no one else remembers him

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/77/Bucky_cartoon.jpg

Duggy747

^

I remember Buck O'Hare the gammy git, he used to be on CiTV or Channel 4 yonks ago. Reboot was another programme nobody remembers.

Everyone had the step-haircut at least once in their lives.

Watching all those aussie programs like Round The Twist and The Girl From Tomorrow, cracking TV :pac:

Live @ 3 (I didn't enjoy watching it but always remembered seeing it on the TV when coming home from school)

Anyone remember that mime game on RTÈ that the lottery presenter used to host?

recylingbin

Duggy747 wrote: »

Anyone remember that mime game on RTÈ that the lottery presenter used to host?

RTE's answer to Give us a clue.
Hosted by Ronan Collins, I think with Derek Davis as the men's captain and Twink as the women's.
Can't for the life of me remember the name of it.

OutlawPete

recylingbin wrote: »

Can't for the life of me remember the name of it.

Play The Game is the TV Gold your thinking of ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urfYViamhw8

recylingbin

might have been 'play the game' actually.
No idea where that came from or if it's even a tv programme.

m@cc@

ZZZap! - The TV comic

http://images.tvrage.com/shows/8/7846.jpg

recylingbin

3-2-1 was a personal fav when I was growing up.

sample clue:
I'm something you don't want to win,
Without a doubt I'm dusty bin

Obviously that prize would be rejected whereupon Ted Rogers would 3 card trick it to the max.
I'm also pronounced im
something you don't want to win without = a preza
doubt I'm dusty bin, well, it certainly isn't it's our star prize - a subaru impreza.

Makes that tv3 thing seem like they're throwing money away.

OutlawPete

recylingbin wrote: »

might have been 'play the game' actually.
No idea where that came from or if it's even a tv programme.

Eh, the post above yours should give you the answers.

Adyx

That music quiz show on RTE with Dave Fanning and Joe Elliot from Def Leppard. A cartoon called Arcadia (I think) they went travelling around underground in a giant and possibly sentient spaceship thing. There was a woman who looked a bit like storm from X-Men in it.

Edit: It's not Arcadia because I've seen it on Retro Junk and it's not listed. The people were called Arcadians though.

we'llallhavetea_old

m@cc@ wrote: »

ZZZap! - The TV comic

http://images.tvrage.com/shows/8/7846.jpg

ah yes, citv, i remember now. i remember there were certain squares that i hated being picked :rolleyes:

we'llallhavetea_old

Adyx wrote: »

That music quiz show on RTE with Dave Fanning and Joe Elliot from Def Leppard. A cartoon called Arcadia (I think) they went travelling around underground in a giant and possibly sentient spaceship thing. There was a woman who looked a bit like storm from X-Men in it.

Edit: It's not Arcadia because I've seen it on Retro Junk and it's not listed. The people were called Arcadians though.

was it the beat box?

Adyx

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

was it the beat box?

I don't think so, didn't that just show music videos and stuff?

we'llallhavetea_old

Adyx wrote: »

I don't think so, didn't that just show music videos and stuff?

oh crap you're right, i missed the "quiz" part

we'llallhavetea_old

@adyx

just googled and it came up that it was called "number one"

OutlawPete

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

was it the beat box?

It was called, Number One.

Adyx

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

oh crap you're right, i missed the "quiz" part

Lol, second result on Google: No. 1.

The cartoon was Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea btw. Does anyone else remember it?

m@cc@

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

ah yes, citv, i remember now. i remember there were certain squares that i hated being picked :rolleyes:

Neil Buchanan was great. Art Attack and Finders Keepers were other gems of his.

OutlawPete

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

@adyx

just googled and it came up that it was called "number one"

Beat me by a nano second ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6GuEswXOXo

Mackman

Duggy747 wrote: »

^
Watching all those aussie programs like Round The Twist and The Girl From Tomorrow, cracking TV :pac:

I used to love Round the Twist!!:D
The Girl from Tomorrow used to scare me though, i always thought she's get stuck in our time and wouldnt be able to get home

abouttobebanned

We still have some unaccounted for obscurity - Air force Ones anybody?

WindSock

If only there were a forum for all this sort of thing...

cynder

Whoppa's mint and cola
penny sweets
chopper bikes
cabbage patch dolls
golly wogs
the gummy bears
thundercats
worsley gummidge
rainbow
old style prams
the fondz

xoxyx

Wow - I'd forgotten about Round the Twist. Can even remember the theme tune now. That show used to freak me out a little bit - like when the guy's mouth was shrunk up for some reason - it was weird!!!

Does anybody remember Twins of Destiny? It was a cartoon on (I think) the Children's Channel about 15 years about a Chinese boy and English girl who were twins somehow and when they held hands they had magical powers. It was awesome, but nobody that I've ever spoken to has seen it. It wasn't even mentioned on the internet until a few years ago. It is now thank God - I thought I was losing it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twins_of_destiny

m@cc@

WindSock wrote: »

If only there were a forum for all this sort of thing...

Ah, your bit of power in the world.

WindSock

m@cc@ wrote: »

Ah, your bit of power in the world.

Yes, I am a super powerful Retro mod. Kneel before me and chant thy name.

NothingMan

Half way across the galaxy and turn left. Loved that show.

I was on The Works when I was in 5th classs. "Are ya laughin?".

The fizzy quiz! Use to with I had that rotating thing with the frisby hoes and the velcro!

ghosttown

Ha, we're showing our age here ! My abiding memory (perhaps incorrect !!) of Saturday mornings was eating cereal watching Fingerbobs followed by Champion the WonderHorse, waiting for the Multi-Colored Swap shop to begin...................but if the weather was right we might pick up HTV and get Tiswas !!
And of course, the ultimate 11 o'clock snack while watching was a packet of aniseed balls !:)

abouttobebanned

WindSock wrote: »

Yes, I am a super powerful Retro mod. Kneel before me and chant thy name.

Ah yes...apologetico!!

It was early in the morning and I was trying to write the thread on my iphone with the missus kicking me every now and again.

Don't want it to descend to a lets make a list of things we remember from our childhood...(just to take a random item from a previous poster) Like Thundercats...we all know about Thundercats...

This is for those things that reside in the very back of your mind...in a small room just beside the exit...soon they will walk out the back door and be gone forever...

AssaultedPeanut

Ahhhh the memories, they're all flooding back *nostalgic sigh*


No one I know remembers a programme on BBC called You & Me, there was a woman presenter and 2 puppet things.

You can't do that on Television. I think it was set in an American Highschool, everyone seemed to pop out of a locker and say something or get covered in green slime out of nowhere at any given moment.

T-Bag. All I can remember is it was in space and some old hag of a woman was in it. Even then I might be wrong

WindSock

Ah yes. The theme tune from 'round the twist' pops into my head every so often.

WindSock

dementedsoul wrote: »

No one I know remembers a programme on BBC called You & Me, there was a woman presenter and 2 puppet things.

I do. You & Me, Me & You, theres lots of things for us to do :pac: I think I fancied the orange one.


Chockabloc, now there was a programme.

AssaultedPeanut

WindSock wrote: »

I do. You & Me, Me & You, theres lots of things for us to do :pac: I think I fancied the orange one.

Yaaaaaaaaay you even remember the song

sbsquarepants

Saturday evenings on the sofa in front of a roaring fire, after a compulsory bath (showers were for americans in those days!), watching the Paul Daniels magic show! I fancied the pants of Debbie Magee, ha ha, the shame!
Also Kangaroo runners, it would take you about 10 minutes to get the 50p you wedged in there out when you got to the shops.
Why don't shoes have pockets now? Why?

twitch1984

dementedsoul wrote: »

Yaaaaaaaaay you even remember the song

brill show cosmo and dibs were the names of the puppets,

also i remember the sheriffe thing from the op he was like a a bear the size of him with his big beard

FarmerGreen

Rowan and Martins laugh in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5vRPPIWzhQ

MetzgerMeister

Postman Pat/Fruit Salads/Black Jacks/Apple jacks

Those really nice "milk teeth" yokes that had a powder on them

Sharkey & George

Batman (1989) merchandise

Father Ted

Giant chew bars

Cap guns, plastic rings (8's or 12's) of caps and the paper rolls

Choker Chains

Penny Sweets

TCC

On Sky analog - the way certain normal daytime channels would swap over to adult channels at 12am (so I've heard)

Old school Disney Channel

Art Attack

The Beano (comic and animated series)

The lovely smell of a brand new hurley

I used have a thing for being able to name the make of car just by glimpsing at the shape of it from a distance (don't ask why because I don't know!)

Lovely, warm, sunny summers

Lego

Meccano

Worzel Gummige

Fugees - Ready or Not, Captain Jack - Captain Jack, Prodigy - Out of Space, Voodoo People, Faithless - Insomnia, Babylon Zoo - Spaceman, Shaggy - Mr. Boombastic (and the ad for the jeans it was on)

Round the Twist

THE REAL Christmas vibe and the smell of the tyres on a brand new bike

abouttobebanned

einheisserschre wrote: »

Postman Pat/Fruit Salads/Black Jacks/Apple jacks

Those really nice "milk teeth" yokes that had a powder on them

Sharkey & George

Batman (1989) merchandise

Father Ted

Giant chew bars

Cap guns, plastic rings (8's or 12's) of caps and the paper rolls

Choker Chains

Penny Sweets

TCC

On Sky analog - the way certain normal daytime channels would swap over to adult channels at 12am (so I've heard)

Old school Disney Channel

Art Attack

The Beano (comic and animated series)

The lovely smell of a brand new hurley

I used have a thing for being able to name the make of car just by glimpsing at the shape of it from a distance (don't ask why because I don't know!)

Lovely, warm, sunny summers

Lego

Meccano

Worzel Gummige

Fugees - Ready or Not, Captain Jack - Captain Jack, Prodigy - Out of Space, Voodoo People, Faithless - Insomnia, Babylon Zoo - Spaceman, Shaggy - Mr. Boombastic (and the ad for the jeans it was on)

Round the Twist

THE REAL Christmas vibe and the smell of the tyres on a brand new bike

Thanks for killing the thread. Father ted...ffs...

alwaysadub

abouttobebanned wrote: »

I can recall some odd things from my childhood and if even one person can say "yes- I experienced that too" then I'll be content.

1. The move "the sheriff and the satelitte kid". So an alien befriends a sheriff...cue usual mayhem...but I think I loved that crazy moving picture.

2. Zodo's club.
I think this was in the Irish press but it was a club for kids...you got a membership card with a secret password (mine was zenga) and on your birthday your name would appear in the paper. Happy times.

3. Air force runners. Actually...the less said about these the better.

4. Naff jackets. Or as we called them in school "nackers asking for food" - horrible things.

5. The tv shows, "why don't you" which made fact sheets and goody bags sound like diamonds and gold bars...."out of this world" another show on during the summer holidays...had the theme music "would you like to swing on a star..carry moonbeams home in a jar..." the father was a piece of Waterford crystal or something...I dunno...

6. Pink and white chocolate mice....

7. Fives..crisps for 5p...


Ok we can all look back upon things that we knew existed...but I'm starting to doubt all the above because with the exception of the confectionary items...most people haven't a clue what I'm talking about. Feel free to list your own...not obvious ones like martin and lance from home and away...but really odd ones...and don't forget to try and remember mine!!

1: Nope sorry don't remember that

2: Think i remember that,but wasn't a member :mad:

3: I was soooo happy the first time i got a pair of air force runners...

4: Yep remember them alright,again,wasn't allowed get one-we used NAFF to stand for something else i think, but can't remember what

5:Why Don't You-LOVED it. Ant from Ant and Dec was in that!!
Out Of This World- OH MY GOD THANK YOU!!!!:D I was beginning to think i had imagined that show-no one else remembered it

6: Prefered white mice but used to get pink one in out 10penny bag..

7:Nope,don't think we could get those..


OOH anyone remember Mallet's Mallet-it was on Channel 4 in the mornings. Timmy Mallet hosted it and there used to be a quiz where he hit the contestants over the head with said mallet-i so wanted to be on that show!