http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=des-custard The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 11:56:37 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684&page=2#post-5259 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:46:05 +0000 Scroat 5259@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>In the 70s I was either at work, in a pub, in another pub, in yet another pub or at a folk club. But as far as kiddies' TV was concerned, it was The Magic Roundabout, Ivor the Engine or Noggin the Nog. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684&page=2#post-5178 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:40:33 +0000 Quaz 5178@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>What can I say Brownpaperreporter? I googled a picture and bapwatch came up with the best one. I take no responsibility for anything I ever do or post late at night in a hurry. As HST once said "I wouldn't recommend drugs and violence, but they work for me". Mind you, he blew his brains out with a 45 so it those might not be words from the wise. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684&page=2#post-5167 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:02:49 +0000 brownpaperreporter 5167@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Pogles Wood .... anything by Oliver Postgate<br /> Terry Scott doing the Curly Wurly ad<br /> Never mind the bollocks - here's the Sex Pistols ... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684&page=2#post-5154 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:28:53 +0000 roffle 5154@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I was born in 1990. Have no idea what you're all talking about, but you all sound nice and happy. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684&page=2#post-5067 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:48:11 +0000 Mrblacker 5067@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>What about the Flumps?</p> <p>I've based my entire life on being Pootle </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-5061 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:59:03 +0000 The All New Jeni B 5061@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ooh! Loved Dick Turpin. Given that my parents were really quite strict about the time I was allowed to spend watching tv, I seem to remember an awful lot of it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-5040 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:44:28 +0000 simonjmr 5040@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Up from the depths thirty stories high, breathing fire Godzilla ...and Godzuki</p> <p>Dogtanian and the Muskerhounds</p> <p>Fingerbobs and Jamie and the magic torch</p> <p>Robin of sherwood (Clanned wailing on about Herne the Hunter)</p> <p>Transfixed by Nicola Bryant on Dr Who - the best two things about the Colin Baker era </p> <p>Dick Turpin with Richard O'Sullivan</p> <p>Worzel Gummidge and Catweazel "Elastic trickery" </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-5007 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:24:26 +0000 brownpaperreporter 5007@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Quaz - <a href="http://www.bapwatch.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.bapwatch.com</a> ..... ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4972 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:40:02 +0000 Quaz 4972@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Tiswas was ACE. I seem to recall them playing "5 minutes" by the Stranglers and Joy Division's "Love will tear us apart". More than that I remember Sally James in a T-shirt.</p> <p><img src="http://www.bapwatch.com/obscure/and/sally_james_29.jpg"> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4862 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:30:19 +0000 Crow 4862@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Touché Plucky </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4860 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:27:02 +0000 edward hack 4860@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Tiswas was compulsory if you lived in the Midlands.<br /> Saturday morning it was either Noel Edmunds in a poncy sweater playing the latest from Sad Cafe OR Sally James in a wet T-shirt playing something from The Lurkers - apparently my dad was a big fan of The Lurkers.<br /> No contest </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4853 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:22:14 +0000 PluckyMunky 4853@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Language, mr crow! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4840 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:10:57 +0000 Crow 4840@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Too old to remember Crystal Tips. But Press Gazette columnist The Grey Cardigan dubbed his lady editor Crystal Tits. So that irascible old bugger must be younger than me. Kids these days, eh? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4824 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:03:55 +0000 brownpaperreporter 4824@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good call Mr Custard - vividly remember the sailors cap bands worn by Sally James at garter level<br /> Banana Splits!<br /> I remember being scared of the Sea Devils in Dr Who<br /> Pre-decimlisation, going to the shop and getting 4 fruit salads for an old penny<br /> Grey school shorts and scabby knees </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4807 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:48:17 +0000 Des Custard 4807@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Tiswas. Nothing else compares. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4801 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:05:16 +0000 John Square 4801@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Battle of the Planets.<br /> [/thread] </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4777 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:41:33 +0000 The All New Jeni B 4777@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And Catch The Pigeon, Yogi Bear, Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home, The Hair Bear Bunch, and another early 80s one, The Groovy Ghoulies Show.</p> <p>And yes, I did do a College project on "The Evolution and Development of Childrens Programmes - From Entertainment to Education." </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4773 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:27:19 +0000 Oxbridge 4773@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Two words. Wacky. Races. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4768 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:59:14 +0000 The All New Jeni B 4768@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There's Rentaghost too. And does anyone else remember The Ghosts of Motley Hall?<br /> Other than myself and my parents, I've only met one other person who has heard of this. It was on on Sundays in the early to mid 70s. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4755 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:37:15 +0000 saltire 4755@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hector's House. With Joanna Lumley 'doing' Ki Ki the frog....croak. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4743 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:15:07 +0000 sauce 4743@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Clangers - brilliant.</p> <p>Not heard of Trap Door, Quaz. Obviously, as a student, I was busy studying. Or something. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4730 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:44:14 +0000 Quaz 4730@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I thing you have mentioned all the usual suspects (apart from Pipkins, that dead stuffed hare that looks frankly creepy if you look at it on U-Tube).</p> <p>What about "Trap Door"? I know, it's mid/ late 80's but it really caught the attention of those of us who were either of a student persusation or chemically challenged at the time.</p> <p>Plastercine characters, Willy Rushton doing the vocals, stop frame animatiton, it's a must to show your kids. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4716 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:59:15 +0000 The All New Jeni B 4716@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Those bloody priests again, eh? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4713 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:55:24 +0000 theumpire 4713@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>When Mr Blacker &amp; I were young the most we got was Muffin the Mule and Andy Pandy. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4701 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:46:16 +0000 The All New Jeni B 4701@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ooh! Michael Bentine's Potty Time!<br /> And for the Scot's, who else remembers Glenn Michael's Cartoon Cavalcade?<br /> I still have the birthday card he sent for my 3rd birthday. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4699 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:41:33 +0000 The All New Jeni B 4699@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"Allo little old lady!" </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4698 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:41:22 +0000 rickwestwell 4698@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss,<br /> Old Fat Furry Catpuss,<br /> Wake up and look at this thing that I bring..."</p> <p>And Ivor the Engine - snow, greyness, still makes me sad. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4696 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:40:16 +0000 jp1885 4696@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Chorleton and the Wheelies - nuff said. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4682 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:36:43 +0000 The All New Jeni B 4682@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I loved Barbapapa too. My language teacher uncle gave me the books in French one Christmas, I must've been about 7, and I could understand them by New Year.</p> <p>I suppose it's a bit later, more like early 80s , but The New Schmoo was good too.<br /> Loved The Moomins as well. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1684#post-4671 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:50:44 +0000 Ludicity 4671@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I am still having flashbacks about Barbapapa &gt; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUjpNdOBImc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUjpNdOBImc</a> </p>