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1980s TV Ads: Shredded Wheat - "Bet You Can't Eat Three!", Nina Myskow and Ian "Beefy" Botham... 15 May 2013 | 10:32 pm
One of the most successful and best-remembered TV ad campaigns of the 1980s was for the breakfast cereal Shredded Wheat, featuring several screen and sports stars, and the tagline "Bet You Can't Eat ...
Capturing The 1980s Sporty Look... 7 May 2013 | 05:04 pm
Fashion snobs like to call this Adidas top "classic" (don't mention the '80s), but actually it's pure 1980s. Pete has written: OK then, you say the 1980's were great for fashions! How would I wear an ...
E-Mails: 1980s Flexi-Lamps, And A Sharp Radio, TV, Cassette Combination... 29 Apr 2013 | 06:03 pm
Laura has written for help in dating a couple of items she has recently found in her store room. Both look '80s, but I'd love to be able to date them properly! Well, Laura, going on the descriptions y...
Coronation Street: Alf Roberts In The 1980s... 28 Apr 2013 | 04:10 pm
From the TV Times , 27 September - 3 October 1986: Alf's got it right Grumbling may be one of the characteristics of Coronation Street's Alf Roberts, played by Bryan Mosley, but his corner store is ...
Smash Hits: Always Read The Black Type First... 27 Apr 2013 | 11:06 pm
Howard Jones and a lovely brolly (£2-99 - a snip!) star on a 1985 "Smash Hits" cover... Lovely freebies... Mid-1980s "Smash Hits" hilarity... Black Type was essential reading for me in the 1980s. The ...
EastEnders 1986: Dot Cotton Writes... 27 Apr 2013 | 04:44 pm
June Brown first appeared as Dot Cotton, chain smoking launderette attendant of the EastEnders serial, in episode 40, broadcast in July 1985. By 1986, Mrs Cotton and the show were wildly popular, but ...
ALF - Alien Life Form... 26 Apr 2013 | 10:30 pm
Dateline: Mid-1980s... ALF was created by puppeteer Paul Fusco. In 1986, he crash landed his space craft into the garage of the Tanner family... Like Knight Rider , the American TV comedy series ALF ...
Images Of The 1980s: Rubik's Cube, Yuppie, Mobile Phone... 26 Apr 2013 | 12:03 am
I love this imagery from publicity material for National Geographic's The '80s: The Decade That Made Us series, a look back at my favourite decade from an American perspective. The image features the ...
The 1980s Mobile Phone As A Defensive Weapon! 23 Apr 2013 | 09:49 pm
The Sun , November 18, 1988. Yuppie Richard De Vahl didn't hesitate when a mugger attacked him... he clocked him with his mobile phone. The thief collapsed stunned, then fled empty-handed. Richard, 26...
Postbag - 1980s Weetabix Cereal Bowl, Featuring Brian 23 Apr 2013 | 12:00 am
An e-mail from Rhys: I was born in 1980, but I remember when I was little having a Weetabix cereal bowl. Would you have any details of this? I'd love to see it again. It featured the 1980's Weetabix c...
