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

Batfink is having a run on the ABC at the moment in Australia, which is served as a great introduction to the programme, most notable the "supersonic sonar radar".

batfink currently shown in U.K. on kids tv show on saturday mornings.

anyone remember 60's show called Phoenix 5. some space thing I seem to recall

Ronnie Biggs

John Selwyn Gummer

Jurgen Klinsmann

Pandas at UK zoos

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Silly putty (or maybe I'm just old)

The Seahorses

Posters advertising boxing matches

Gretchen Franklin

Readybrek glowing kids

Johnny Ball science programmes

"The management" (Hale and Pace characters)

Great artists who paint 'normal' paintings

Friday the 13th sequels

Zippy, Bungle, George etc.

Inspiral Carpets

Peter Beardsley

Bubble car

The Great Soprendo

Turkish Delight adverts

Unfunny car stickers..."windsurfers do it standing up" etc

Stamps that show their price

Winston Churchill MP

World In Action

Magicians making doves appear

Video recorders...in Dixons.

AFAIK it's on ly in Britain where stamps don't show their price. I often wonder what happens when the postage rates are raised - surely you can hoard 2nd class stamps at the old rate and use them even when they should cost more?

Captain Beaky and his band

Black lace

Car phones

Trevor and Simon

Andi Crane

A year without flooding somewhere in the UK

People going over Niagra falls in a barrel

Mark 1 Ford Escorts

Tangoman

John Regis

Prince Naseem fights

Evil Kneivel

Pepsi challenge

Winner Takes All

Juliet Bravo

Hale Bopp

Leslie Judd

Babba Papa

Mini helicopters

Harlem Globe Trotters

Sister Wendy

Dukes of Hazard

Different Strokes

Magician's guillotine trick

"Aids..Don't die of ignorance"

On digital

On digital's monkey

Flat Eric

Nigel Short

Robin Cousins

'Long Player'

'Nostradamus said the world will end in 1999'

The man who is married to two identical twins

Brough Scott

Wimbledon FC

The Beverly sisters

Crowd fights at UK football matches

Captain Caveman

Sir John Mills

Miss Marple

The Christians

Dogtanyan and the Muskahounds

Czechoslovakia

Heinz Wolff

Liza Tarbuck

Donald Sinden

Jane Crouch (boxer)

John Fashanu

BBC coverage of air shows

Mastermind (the board game)

Stylaphone

Mickey Mouse Club

Man sitting behind a desk introducing next TV show (like on Thames)

Eugene Landy

Roger Daltry's/Stings acting careers

That young kid (forgotten his name) who was an antiques prodigy then had a sex change

Liam Gallagher sticking two fingers up at cameraman

Cults claiming human cloning success

Mr T

Crowds at sports events holding up a card each to form a picture

Pamela Stephenson

Mike Leigh plays on TV

Magicians pouring milk into newspaper and making it vanish

Guards on trains

B*witched

Craig Charles poetry

TV programmes about chess

Sir John Harvey Jones

Magicians with magic wands

Cine cameras

Jumpy animation (Ray Harryhousen etc)

Royals taking part in horse races

You can still see the crystal maze with Richard O'Brien on Challenge in the UK.

Neighbours talking instead of ignoring or arguing,
concorde,
celebrities with kids wih sensible names like chris or amanda or bob.
sega master systems.
board games that dont include a cd or dvd. lol
The Snowman, not even at christmas.

Digby, the biggest dog in the world.

The shaggy DA.

the snowman was on last christmas, unless its just because ive got it on videa. there is a stage show now too, also got that on video

new singles on tapes rather than cds

Whistling kettles

Tea cosies

Indoor fireworks

I'll tell you something I haven't seen for ages: a right hammering in the premier league - a 7, 8, 9 goal thrashing.

I've noticed since I was last in. I can't see my feet anymore

highstreet shops that sell clothes everyday clothes to real women, instead of pretending we are all flatchested, making us go to specialist shops!

Enough banter for now.
Merry Christmas

&
CHeEky

Backtracking to post 611 - I've got a whistling kettle! It's an electric cordless one and the whistle is a bit gimmiky really.

I'm sure a cup of tea from an old fashioned tea pot is tastier than one from a modern pot - just as chips are nicer when wrapped in newspaper and food is nicer when it's cooked in a old pot.

Bouncing bombs. Were they used on any occasion other than the dambusters raid?

Bill Wyman.

Feature-length British cartoons.

Disaster movies involving planes.

Susannah York.

Ivan Lendl.

Fizz or Bunny from Eldorado ()

Rag and bone man with horse and cart.
(We still get a man coming round with a van and I still can't work out what he's shouting.)

K9, Metal Mickey, VINCENT.

Carol singers.

Oh and Liza Tarbuck was just on the French and Saunders show, a few weeks ago...

you see carol singers in cambridge i know i was one of them!!!!

45 rpm record players

Tacky Disney films with teenagers

*Chopper* scooters

Bob McGrath on Sesame Street

Big *L* Liberals

"Noel's Christmas Presents" - I really miss this programme.
My older kids used to enjoy it, and it never failed to make me well up - it epitomized the true spirit of Christmas for me.

I can remember the brother of a handicapped girl (who liked reading but she couldn't get to the library) her brother used to do a paper round then go to the library to change his sister's books.
One day his bike got nicked outside the library



Noel got him a brand new bike - and he wept and hugged his sister.

My whole household bawled.

Then there was the disabled man who'd lost both his parents that year.
Noel arranged for his favourite group The Hollies to sing him "He Ain't Heavy" - in his own back garden.
That clip was just on "100 best Christmas clips" on Channel 4.

Bring back Noel at Christmas please, BBC!
It used to be the highlight of Christmas Day for me.