Popular Nostalgia

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Mike Brady (Robert Reed), has three sons; Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight) and Bobby (Mike Lookinland). He marries Carol Martin (Florence Henderson), who has daughters; Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb) and Cindy (Susan Olsen). Carols daughters take the Brady surname like their mum. Mike brings a live-in housekeeper Alice (Ann B. Davis) to [...]

I can’t believe we haven’t had The Raccoons featured in this Popular Nostalgia website, I mean it was Saturday morning gold when I were a wee laddie. BBC One mornings, before your mums and dads got out of bed were made all the more enjoyable/tolerable by The Raccons while we waited for Going Live to [...]

The X Files were, and still are, great. It was the ultimate treat to be allowed to stay up late enough to watch it. Thousands of conspiracy theorists were inspired and galvanised by the FBI cover-up sub-plot. Each episode, however, was a crush fest for young teenagers. David Duchovny became a pin-up off the back [...]

Two pretty blonde twins go to school. One is nice, one is nasty. All sorts of high-jinx ensue as they pretend to be one another. Very similar to Saved by the Bell and Clarissa Explains It All, this was just another fairly poor American teenager series. Jessica and Elizabeth engage in some surprisingly adult humour.

Ahhh the old days of Top Gear, when they actually used to review cars. Nowadays it’s just races, celebrities and silliness. However, at least they recognise that most of the audience are never really going to go out and buy a car. They just like to dream about buying a supercar. So that’s what they [...]

Kevin & Perry were two teenagers depicted by Harry Enfield and Cathy Burke respectively. The whole thing began on the midnight of Kevin’s 13th birthday where he transformed, werewolf-like, into a sullen, lazy and badly-dressed teenager who frequently reminded his parents that he hated them. Middle England went wild for this sketch and all its [...]

Before Hugh Laurie had an American accent and limped around a hospital, he was dim-witted Prince in Blackadder. “Queenie” was hilarious with her indiscriminate orders to behead and whims attended to by none other than the acidic Rowan Atkinson. My favourite character by far was Lord Flashheart -played by Rick Mayall. His character could well [...]

The pythons were: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin and they broadcast on the BBC from 1969 to 1974. Their madcap approach to comedy broke all the boundaries and they were as controversial as they were successful. If I could, I would play every Python episode and film [...]

The Getalong Gang is a fine exemplar of everything that a cartoon should be: informative, fun and featuring a moose AND a caboose. 2 words you don’t often hear in the same sentence these days, more’s the pity, are ‘moose’ and ‘caboose’. A caboose is of course the single train cart club house that the [...]

Allo Allo is a farcical comedy about a French cafe owner juggling the secrets of French, British and German wartime interests -as well as his own. The show ran from 1982 to 1992 and followed the progress of Rene who has to hide paintings for different German factions, act for different Resistance factions, hide two [...]

A hapless bunch of Home Guard “soldiers” attempt to defend their homeland to little effect. Dad’s Army has a brilliant start sequence with song that was specially written for the show and military progress arrows fighting each other. Lyrics to Dad’s Army Theme Tune: “Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr Hitler?” Who do [...]

Ah the 1970′s, when Saturday afternoon meant one thing -wrestling. With the chants of “Easy, easy” and commentary by an over excited Kent Walton, this was British sport at its most showy. Remember Giant Haystacks at 6’11″ and 45 stone? Loved by millions of viewers and reaching the peak of his popularity in the mid-1970′s, [...]

Unfortunately for the lovely Craig, nobdy could ever take him seriously again as a singer after Avid Merrion recast him as a character in the series “Bo’ Selecta”. Mocked for his street lingo and general cool kid antics, Craig David soon became better known as his alter-ego

Some people stand in the darkness, afraid to step into the light. And then there was Baywatch. We never missed a single episodes as normally disorganised brothers and dads managed to time their takeover of the telly to coincide with the weekly soft porn episode brought to you by David Hasslehof. I recently watched a [...]

Another travesty of the one-hit wonder phenomenon. Good for charity though, a bit like the Peter Kay re-make of “Show me the way to Amarillo”, but much more annoying. Watch out for Jeremy Clarkson and Carol Vorderman in this video. You even get to see Mrs Blobby and Baby Blobby towards the end as well [...]