The star of 1982’s Time Pilot was a time-hopping military jet. Designed by Yoshiki Okamoto, who would go on to create Gyruss, Final Fight and…
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“Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out” From 1960 onwards, while teaching psychology at Harvard, Timothy Leary began experimenting with drugs on prison inmates and then…
It’s always tough for parents and kids to settle on the age-old dispute of which toy to buy. Inevitably, the kids are going to want…
Tiny Tears was (and indeed still is) a realistic 12″ baby doll that cried tears and wet itself when given a drink of water. Small…
The British drink Tizer – the name originally came from “the appetizer” when it was launched in 1924 – had an indescribable taste (possibly cherry?)…
A flavoured spread from Heinz in a little tin that you spread on toast and bunged under the grill. The advertising boasted that with Toast…
Tobor (“robot” spelt backwards) was a toy robot produced by Schaper Toys in 1978 to take advantage of the burgeoning science fiction craze. The toy…
Toe socks were one of the biggest fad of the 1970s, when it seemed no sock could battle it out against the striped-top tube sock.…
These tubes of glue-your-teeth-together chewy toffees from Mackintosh’s (originally named Toff-O-Lux) were first produced in 1964. The name was changed to Toffo in 1975 and…
TOG’L was a construction set produced by Mattel from 1968 through 1970, similar in concept to Lego. Based around a cube-shaped building block called a…
Born Thomas Frederick Cooper in Caerphilly on 19 March 1921, Tommy Cooper served as a member of Field Marshal Montgomery’s Desert Rats in Egypt during…
Pedigree Toys Ltd released this action figure in 1966 in direct competition with Action Man by Palitoy The basic 11″ action figure depicted a British…
Born in April 1943, Tommy Nutter was raised in Edgware, Middlesex, where his father owned a cafe. After the family moved to Kilburn, Nutter and…
Born Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston in Eynsham, Oxfordshire, in 1940, he was expelled from school at 15 for truancy and got his first…
There might not be a toy that says “boy” more! Boys love their Tonka Trucks. Love to hold them, love to smash them into other…
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn was a British Labour politician. In fact, he was formerly the leading figure on the party’s left wing. He was minister…
Born at Parkstone, Dorset, on 29 January 1943, the son of a GP and a nurse, Tony Blackburn began his broadcasting career in 1964 on…
Tony Blair was born on 6 May 1953 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was educated at the Durham Choristers School in Durham, England and at Fettes…
A native of Dorset, Brandon broke into broadcasting – after a spell as a journalist with the Portsmouth Evening News and some time on the variety stage as…
Tony Burrows was born in Exeter, Devon, on 14 April 1942. In the early 1960s, he was a member of The Kestrels, a vocal harmony…