Did you ever complete a full book/set?
Were you into sports or tv/movies
How did you get yours:
- blowing all your pocket money every week and cursing at the duplicates?
- swaps ? (and subsequent arguments/learning bartering skills)
- free with goods ? cereal ? maybe crisps ?
What was the most prized sticker you longed for ?
I was very pleased when I got all the Wilma and SpaceVampires.
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Which one did you really desire, and bug your parents to choose/get?
They were indestructible.
Think the mushroom house was highly sought-after - it even came with a key didn't it ?
If I remember rightly you had to collect these paper tokens, and then trade them in for the collectible of your choice.
First got promoted by National garages, then BP followed suit.
Smurf song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu3UfjZKmj4
Cartoon TV series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTDOLoDiOcg
Saturday teatimes are never quite the same.
Pipes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clIQjO5or8Y
15 mins of madness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9owH37LyfLo
Outtakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDQ7wucLbNQ
She's a good darts player too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuAvh49BkDo
Oh they fell out after Bullseye 😞
The clash between presenter Jim Bowen and entertainer Carol Lee Scott (best known as the green-faced children's TV witch, Grotbags) occurred backstage after her guest appearance on the ITV darts game show Bullseye in 1984 [1, 2].
The incident unfolded with the following details:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfS8O6_diwM
"come along with me and I can give you all the cups of tea and slices of cake you can handle"
Can you name all his heads?
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Have left out the obvious one 😉
80s always had the best tv theme tunes
Science tv show.
Packed full of personalities
- (the unforgettable) Magnus Pyke, Stoppard, Griffiths, Bellamy, Brian Glover
- catchy tune
- audience participation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JT6WKlG0kI
Fact - would still be in bed in afternoon during school holidays without this
These were absolutely amazing, and so moreish.
Salt was off the scale lol
Cadbury not do any other savoury snacks?
Name the bear, and any catchphrases.
And what is the rosette?
Amy always got her own back on David and Linda, and her retaliations were a joy to watch, if a little cruel and calculated sometimes.
1980s was peak tv viewing for "foreign" holidays.
Wish you were Hear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXPEBX4X37w
If you went to Spain, a Bota bag usually ended up on your return home.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bota_bag
(they must have cost a fortune, the proper leather ones).
As a kid, you had to practice with cordial instead of wine.
I'm trying to unlock a deep memory.
About a "Fishing Rod" offer.
It was send away, and pay a token amount to get it, and may have involved collecting "box" tokens.
I thought it was cereal for some reason but could have been something else.
The "rod" was on a long flat bit of cardboard, with a blister pack over the top.
You had to strain yourself to pull apart the 2 strings, to "whizz" the ball along the line.
Can't remember the purpose of the game....but I think doing it so hard, it rapped the knuckles of your brother/sister was part of it lol.
Was very popular on beaches too.
Something like this:
You had to abvoid getting a mouthful of ball from your brother or sister or clonked on the head.
And the sound of defeat/failure when it got tangled up/stalled in the metal spring.
Games often ended in arguments like "you are doing it wrong".
And if you were playing on your own, one of difficult things to try, was to get your coordination right so you kept it spinning around in the same direction by strategic smashes.
Those bats were interesting too, just solid chunks of plastic with a grid in them
Was very popular on beaches too !