Bring back the good o' days, Things ..........

[GOOFY4DONALD]

I just was thinking of some more shows...

Davey and Goliath
ABC after school specials...I use to love these shows!
The Electric Company was a fantastic way to learn..
Also, there was a a movie called Bad Ronald...It scared me for years!!

The Electric Company was my favorite show. Who knew The Count would become an academy award winner.

 

[hallie615]

These posts are getting stranger and stranger as they go on I loved the cheese guy, and I also remember ice pops out of toothpicks and icecube trays.

 

[hallie615]

Not sure if this will work but I'll give it a try

Remember this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtD4mn9CeH4

 

[hallie615]

Yeah it worked

Now I'm on a mission Remember HR puffenstuff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtEE9pKRoB8

Sigmond the seamonster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBiKyf_AbGY


Land of the lost http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFh5579uAE4

I am really having too much fun with this, the more I watch these old shows the more I realize how strange they really were. These were my favorite shows growing up.

 

[vsimeone]

I am really having too much fun with this, the more I watch these old shows the more I realize how strange they really were. These were my favorite shows growing up.

I think that too! What were we thinking??? I think us children of the 70s were subject to our parent's "free-living" while we were in the womb or something! I watch these shows today and can't believe that we were glued to the TV watching them!!!

 

[samanthacatangel]

I forgot all about that. I just loved that thing. Nowadays I don't think that would keep a kid interested more than a few minutes. I also loved this:

http://www.thisoldtoy.com/new-images/images-ok/0-99/FP2-EB112671634-B.jpg

My brother had this.

I had something a little different - it was a record player that came with (I think) a filmstrip. I remember watching/hearing Alice in Wonderland, Disney's version. I believe it was one piece with a record player on top, and a screen in front.

It was from the early 70's.

 

[samanthacatangel]

The Electric Company was my favorite show. Who knew The Count would become an academy award winner.

And to me, Morgan Freeman will always be Easy Reader.

Remember the Short Circus from that show? There was a girl on there that I wanted to be my sister.

 

[hallie615]

Just wanted to get us back on page 1

 

[njcarita]

I never imagined when I started this thread-- the amount of memories that it would evoke.
I have really enjoyed the remenicing ---the childhood stories etc.

heres one I haven't seen mentioned

Space 1999
here is a video of the intro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMEZuaguuCU

loved this show when I was a kid

 

[MI mom of 3]

Anybody from the Detroit area or Ontario, Canada remember "The Friendly Giant"? It was my favorite show as a kid.

I loved him!! "Look down, look waaaayy down' then he would rearrange the chairs!

I had forgotten all about him.

 

[JoJo's Mom]

I loved this!!!! I played with mine all the time!

 

[Debbie]

I loved him!! "Look down, look waaaayy down' then he would rearrange the chairs! I had forgotten all about him.

"One little chair for one of you, and a bigger chair for two to curl up in, and for someone who likes to rock, a rocking chair in the middle. Now look up....WAAAAAAY up. And I'll call Rusty." And I still do the Jerome whistle! Add Mr. Dressup , The Forest Rangers, The Beachcombers and RAZZLE DAZZLE (who knew that Alan Hamel would go so far in the business )

 

[scrap4u]

Now that we are on the subject of toys, I am in need of finding a toy. When I was a baby (in the 70's) I had a baby doll that was my constant companion. I called her 'snuggles' but I am not sure if that was the name of the doll. She had a yellow jammie/body and red hair. She also had a string in the back and when you pulled it her head would move from side to side (she didn't talk). I saved her with many items until my nasty ex tossed her away when we were getting a divorce. I have looked everywhere and I thought as long as we are on the subject of hard to find items someone out there may know what I am talking about.

I had a similar doll in the 60s call Thumbalina. She had blond hair and a blue onesie (except they weren't called that back then). She had a string in her back that you pulled and she moved her head from side to side and moved her arms and legs too I think. Not sure if that was the same doll in the 70s.

 

[scrap4u]

And the second verse:

I'm sorry playmate,
I can not play with you.
My dolly has the flu,
Boo hoo boo hoo boo hoo.
I have no rainbow.
I have no cellar door.
But we can still be friends,
Forever more!

You are so right! I forgot there was a second verse! I can remember being out on the playground in elementary school and playing this with my best friend, Mary Virginia. Can you tell I went to a Catholic school!

 

[solferino]

I heard Stairway to Heaven on the radio this morning. OMG, that brought me back to the end of every jr high and high school dance I ever went to. I shudder to think of what I wore to those dances.

 

[IDoDis]

I heard Stairway to Heaven on the radio this morning. OMG, that brought me back to the end of every jr high and high school dance I ever went to. I shudder to think of what I wore to those dances.

Stairway to Heaven was always the first song that teenagers wanted to play when they were learning how to play the guitar. Gues what? It it still is! All three of my teen nephews learned that song right from the get-go! Their eyes about popped out of their heads when I picked up the guitar and played it, too.

I remember going to see "The Song Remains The Same" (Led Zeppelin) at the midnight movies many times.

 

[njcarita]

I was sitting at the pediatrician office with my son and a vision came to me.

I was back in grade school--
in Gym class and I was wearing........................... A ONE PIECE BLUE GYM ROMPER --- required gym clothes back than---

anyone else subjected to this fashion nightmare.

 

[JoJo's Mom]

YESSSSS!!!!!!!

Ours was a one piece that zipped in the front. The bottom (shorts) were dark blue and the top part of it was white and blue horizontal thin stripes. They wrote our last name on the back with a marker. They were HORRIBLE! I am scarred for life!!!!

 

[tcarr5]

YESSSSS!!!!!!!

Ours was a one piece that zipped in the front. The bottom (shorts) were dark blue and the top part of it was white and blue horizontal thin stripes. They wrote our last name on the back with a marker. They were HORRIBLE! I am scarred for life!!!!

omg! I remember them too.....they were absolutely horrible

 

[pigletof4]

YESSSSS!!!!!!!

Ours was a one piece that zipped in the front. The bottom (shorts) were dark blue and the top part of it was white and blue horizontal thin stripes. They wrote our last name on the back with a marker. They were HORRIBLE! I am scarred for life!!!!

This is exactly what ours looked like too, but without the name across the back. That is too funny.