h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The Montreux festival. Does this still occur? In the eighties this was on TV every year but I haven't seen it or heard it mentioned for years.

Yeah its still going but its not taken up by channel four anymore.

Also you still get high diving boards but they are expensive and round here the local authority claims it cant even afford to keep swimming pools open.

Gabriela Sabatini

Ford Capri's

James Burke

Ludwig (Did anyone ever actually work out what it was about?)

Motor racing tracks with slanty sides

Malcolm Allison

Jumping Jacks

Tandy shops

Keyrings that beep when you whistle (or when there's any noise above 3 decibels)

Morphing in TV commercials.

"My other car is a ferrari" stickers (thankfully)

Lizzie, the keep fit woman from TVAM.

Ruth Lawrence

Frozen rivers (in the UK)

Darts players with a dart in one hand, pint in the other.

Frank and Louie, the Budweiser Lizards

This thread discussed Wilf Lunn some time ago.

Here is his website:

http://www.wilflunn.com/

David Steel

Tim Brooke-Taylor

The Green Giant.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but has Chitty Chitty Bang Bang not been on TV for years?

Tim-Brooke Taylor is still a part of the 'team' that constitutes that antidote to panel games "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" of which the latest series is just about to end on BBC Radio 4 with a summary of the year's "Clue" on Monday night, 6:30 GMT.


And as far as I know, in 30 years he's _still_ only won 3 games of mornington Crescent

I had a mega crush on Tim Brooke-Taylor back in the days of the Goodies and the 1948 Show.

There's also a Goodies DVD available from the usual outlets

But technically, unless you're regularly in the audience for "Clue", you never see him anymore.

Black ink all over your hands after reading a newspaper.

My feet time for some new years weight loss

Going back one to Emancipation of the Groin's post - I am sorry to say that the local paper for Ipswich, the Evening Star, is guaranteed to turn your hands black almost as soon as you pick it up. Whatever technology they use to stop the national papers from smudging obviously hasn't reached East Anglia yet.

Petrocelli

The fact that some humourist has written a song about Petrocelli on the Writing Buddies website suggests that it might still be on some dodgy satellite channel somewhere - but I haven't seen it on TV for years.

>> ...technology...hasn't reached East Anglia yet. <<

That goes for most technologies, doesn't it?

Pretty much, yeah. There are some places near the East Coast that cannot get a digital signal (if they boost it up, it will interfere with european digital broadcasts) so no digital telly for me unless I am prepared to shell out huge wadges of cash for satellite or cable. If the analogue signal gets turned off at the end of this decade as has been threatend, then I may be able to add 'television' to the list of things I don't see any more.