Voyage No. 17 Southbound May – June 1974 Captain G Nicolaou, Master Rotterdam to Bremerhaven 205 miles – Bremerhaven to Southampton 415 miles Southampton to…
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TV Party tvparty.com An American site that is sooooo slick. We can spend hours here, looking at categories such as ‘Super Sixties’, ‘Hit Shows of…
The Ramones & Toto This is just one of those lineups that makes less and less sense the more you think about it, but The…
Fo your next retro-themed dinner party, here’s a collection of some of our favourite recipes from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. Pigs in a…
According to today’s regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s probably shouldn’t have survived . . .…
The BBC’s Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd’s Bush officially opened on 21 May 1950. The site had started out as film studios, first for Gaumont…
The Gulf War in 1991 really freaked me out. I guess it would be a huge understatement to say it freaked a lot of people…
01 : You’re still bitter that Wham! broke up 02 : Punky Brewster is your hero 03 : You’re building your own Clockwork Smurf 04…
13 January 2009 Patrick Joseph McGoohan – the star, co-writer and sometimes director of one of British television’s most original and challenging series of the…
8 April 2008 Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has received an honorary Pulitzer Prize for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture”. The special music…
3 April 2008 Plans to film a sequel to the cult movie The Wicker Man have been halted due to “financing problems”. Cameras were due…
Originally published in TV Week (Australia). 27 May 1972 Abigail, sexy star of Number 96, has branded Australian men as coarse, and believes Australian women are…
24 January 2005 Johnny Carson, the Tonight Show TV host who served America a smooth nightcap of celebrity banter and droll comedy for 30 years,…
11 December 2004 James Brown, the “Godfather of Soul” and a legend in rap, rock and funk, has announced that he has prostate cancer. In…
Early in the proceedings of the 2004 live-action Thunderbirds movie, a character scornfully calls the line-up of International Rescue “Thunderturds” – A description which unfortunately fits the…
26 March 2004 If Brian Wilson was the king of the California dream regime, Jan & Dean were the crown princes – and the jesters. Composer/producer/lead singer Jan Berry…
1. Miss World 1970 (BBC) 10.6 million 2. Benny Hill Show (ITV) 9.3 million 3. Eurovision Song Contest (BBC) 9.2 million 4. This Is Your…
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