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The Gerry Anderson television live-action series UFO (1970 – 1973) featured many spectacular vehicles, including spaceships, tracked land assault wagons, and a submarine which could launch…
The Unabomber – so named because his case was given the acronym UNABOM which stood for the places he targeted; UNiversity and Airline BOMbings – killed…
Underoos were the brainchild of Fruit of the Loom, and starting in 1978, these sets of fantasy underwear made it possible not only to believe…
Lemonade, Orangeade, Limeade, Cherryade, Cream Soda and Cola. You could but it from your milkman!
The Unisex fashion movement largely came and went in one year: 1968. The trend began on the Paris runways, where designers like Pierre Cardin, Andre…
A delicious piece of biscuit covered in thick milk chocolate, with a honeycomb-like crispy layer. United bars – from McVities – were advertised on TV…
The cult card game was launched in 1972. It consists of four suits of 27 cards plus wild cards and special cards for skipping the…
Introduced by Mattel Toys in 1969, Upsy Downsys were a collection of psychedelic plastic figures in garishly bright colours with yarn hairdos. Each character came…
Geller was born on 20 December 1946 in Tel Aviv, which was then part of British-administered Mandatory Palestine. At the age of 11, Geller’s family…
Invented by Eddy Goldfarb and released by Mattel in the 1960s, Vac.U.Form was based on the industrial vacuum forming process. A rectangular sheet of coloured…
The main job of British movie dolly birds in the 60s and 70s was to be passive objects for the likes of Sid James or…
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing was born in Germany during the French occupation of the Rhineland. An early graduate of Michel Debré’s post-war Ecole Nationale d’Administration, Giscard…
Fleetway published this weekly boys’ adventure comic for 711 issues from October 1962 to October 1976. During that time, it absorbed Knock-Out (1963), Smash! (1971), TV21 (1972), Lion (1974) and Vulcan (1976), before merging into Battle…
When it happened we can’t say . . . fer sure – All of a sudden everything the ‘Vals’ did or said was blown out…
Through tight corridors, against numerous foes, with only a four-way blaster for defence, a solo fighter took on the challenge of Vanguard, a pioneering shoot-em-up…
The colourful canvas shoe that caught a wave and rode in as a 1980s fashion phenomenon. Sean Penn’s surfer dude character (Jeff Spicoli) in the…
This satirical comic strip by New Zealand-born cartoonist John Kent (who emigrated to England in 1959) ran every Monday in The Guardian from 1969 to…
Venture (from Exidy) challenged a lone treasure hunter named Winky to explore a monster-filled dungeon armed only with a bow and arrow. Our hero was…
Verity Ann Lambert was born in London on 27 November 1935, the daughter of a Jewish accountant, and was educated at Roedean School. She left…