Latest memories and comments from DoYouRemember.co.ukhttp://www.doyouremember.co.uk http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=8372 Circa 1977-78. Motley Hall is the ancestrol home of the Uproar family and is haunted by Sir George Uproar, Sir Fanny Uproar, Bodkin the Jester, Sir Richard and the White Lady (played wonderfully by Sheligh Steefeal). In The Ghosts of Motley Hall the ghosts get together and try to stop the sale of Motley Hall. The Ghosts of Motley Hall was the creation of Richard Carpenter, the man behind Catweazel. I seem to remember it was shown on Sundays at 5pm. I have watched it again recently and I feel sure J.K. Rowling would have watched this show as a girl, and maybe have been inspired by it!Thu, 8 May 2008 18:11:22 +0100 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=8371 Gary Oldman was catapulted to stardom in 1986 when he played Sid Viscious in Sid and Nancy. Sid's mother gave Gary, Sid Viscious' original "padlock" necklace for the part! Gary Oldman also starred in "The Contender" and in "The Firm" in which he played Bex Bissel, a football thug who comes to a nasty end. Gary Oldman is renowned for his amazing ability to dissapear into the characters he plays and from the 80's and now to date, has around 54 films to his credit.Thu, 8 May 2008 17:17:55 +0100 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=5096 Oor Wullie is a comic strip, set in Scotland, in the D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd newspaper The Sunday Post. It features a boy named William ('Wullie' - Oor Wullie is Our Willie in Scots) whose trademarks are spiky hair, dungarees and sitting on an upturned bucket - indeed, the strip has started and ended with a single frame featuring Wullie on his bucket since early 1937. The earliest strips always ended with Wullie complaining 'I nivver get ony fun roond here!' and featured very little dialogue, with the artistic style settling down by 1940 and changing little since. A frequent tag-line reads "Oor Wullie! Your Wullie! A'body's Wullie!". I personally still get the annual every year for Christmas (either Broons or Oor Wullie) and still love every page! I also get the Oor Wullie annual every year, even when I lived in Australia for 15 years and New zealand for 8 years. My mum would post them to me no matter where I was living.Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:32:31 +0000 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=8306 Wait Till Your Father Gets Home was an animated US series produced by Hanna-Barbera, it was about an American family with teenage kids and was the first prime-time animated series to run for more than one season (the next being The Simpsons). All 49-episodes featured Happy Days-star Tom Bosley as Harry Boyle, his wife Irma and his inept kids Alice, Chet and Jamie. Their next door neighbour was a commie-hating survivalist type named Ralph. I'm sure he was an inspiration for Bruce Dern's character in "The 'Burbs".Wed, 9 Apr 2008 21:02:06 +0100 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=8273 Daktari was a show set in the jungle/desert with a veterinarian taking care of animals in the wild. Daktari was a live action show around in the mid 60's. It starred Marshall Thomson and Clarence the cross-eyed lion.Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:48:20 +0000 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=1052 The one thing I really remember about the Grape Ape cartoons is that the big purple gorilla in it always sounded the same as the Zoo assistant in The Hair Bear Bunch who would always say 'Oooh! Oooh! Mr Peevley". That, and how cruel it was to cram a huge ape into a car full of people every week. Grape Ape had a friend, a dog called Bosley.Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:13:14 +0100 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=1216 Blue Peter with adverts, basically...The set was basic and sparse, there were models to make (and grave warnings not to use those scissors, get an adult to do it properly), the charity appeals and even the badges!ITV knew Blue Peter had the right idea and Magpie was in the main a shameless copy - that didn't make it any less watchable though (Jenny Hanley - last seen having a bucket of cold tea thrown over her to warn of leaving cups of tea in reach of tiny hands -helped in that regard!) The presenters of Magpie were Mick, Doug and Susan Stranks (of Itsy and Bitsy fame). Jenny Hanley joined after Susan left.Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:13:14 +0100 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=1342 Pardon My Genie was broadcast on ITV on Monday afternoons. Hugh Paddick (later to appear in an episode of Black Adder the Third, as an actor/playwright, alongside Kenneth Connor) played the genie, who created havoc for his master Hal (played by Ellis Dale). Roy Barraclough played Hal's boss. They ran a small shop.Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:13:14 +0100 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=1355 Perfect Strangers was a US sitcom in which a 'regular American guy' finds himself having to share his apartment with 'Balki'- a goat-herder from the island of Meepose who turned up on his doorstep one day out of the blue asking to stay for a while (I think he said he was a long-lost cousin or something) - much xenophobic mayhem ensued. They dated the two airline stewaresses who lived upstairs. In one episode of Perfect Strangers, they planned a camping trip. Larry was planning on sharing his sleeping bag with Jennifer, but Balki said two could not fit. To prove they could, they both got into the sleeping bag and zipped it up so that only their faces were showing. Then the tag broke off the zipper. Watching this pair trying to get out was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. They were like a huge blue worm with two faces! Brilliant.Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:13:14 +0100 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=1483 Sledge Hammer was an air-headed cop who always seemed to beat crime by luck and with the help of his smart partner.Sledge Hammer loved his big gun, which he had no problem using. Sledge Hammer was played by David Rasche, Dori Doreau was played by Ann-Marie Martin (and co-wrote the movie Twister) and their long suffering boss, Capt. Trunk was played by Harrison Page. There were two seasons. At the end of season one, the entire cast and most of L.A were vapourised by a nuclear bomb which Hammer failed to defuse. The second series was set five years earlier. Both seasons are available on DVD.Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:13:15 +0100 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=1500 Space: 1999 was a sci-fi show about Moonbase Alpha that was on Earth's moon. In 1999 a series of nuclear explosions blows the moon out of Earth's orbit and hurtling through space. Space 1999 starred Barbara Bain and Martin Landau and lasted just two seasons. In the second season they added Catherine Schell as the shapeshifter Maya and Tony Anholt as Tony Verdeshi.Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:13:15 +0100 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=1599 Created by Sweeney man Ian Kennedy Martin, The Chinese Detective was one of the most criminally underrated cop shows of the 1980's. Running for two series between 1981 and 1982, David Yip played the Liverpool-based Morris Minor-driving Det. Serg. John Ho.It gave a fascinating insight into being an outsider as Ho battled the hostility of his bigoted boss DCI Berwick (Law and Order's Derek Martin) and the traditional Chinese culture represented by his father Joe (Robert Lee).The plots were pretty routine but the racial aspect of the series elevated it above many other police shows of the time. However 14 episodes simply wasn't enough to do justice to the idea and the series has sunk without trace. David Yip went on to play Wu Han, the waiter friend of Indiana Jones in "Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom". His character was shot dead at the start of the fight in the Club Obi-wan.Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:13:15 +0100 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=1626 Luke and Bo Duke were the cool country-boy cousins who raced about in their famous 1969 Dodge Charger, "the General Lee" avoiding capture by their nemesis Boss Hogg and his brother-in-law Sheriff Coltrane.Most episodes of the Dukes of Hazzard featured a high speed car chase, lots of sliding across bonnets and jumping in car windows and an occassional visit to Uncle Jesse and cousin Daisy.The Duke's car was very distinctive with a confederate flag painted on the roof and a horn that played the the first few notes of "Dixie" and was so popular that in the 80s it was quite common to see Ford Capris painted up with the flag on the roof or Ford Escorts beeping their "Dixie" horns at passers-by. Sherriff Rosco P. Coltrane had a Beagle named Flash. Other characters in The Dukes of Hazzard were Crazy Cooter - who owned the garage in town and made a small fortune recovering police cruisers from Hazzard Pond, Deputy Enos Straight - who had the hots for Daisy (who didn't?), Deputy Cletus - who replaced Enos during the actors union dispute and occasionally Huey Hogg, the Boss's nephew. During one season, there was a lot of industrial action in Hollywood and Luke and Bo were replaced by Coy and Vance - yet more Duke cousins.Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:13:15 +0100 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=1633 How can people not remember The Fall Guy? One of the forgotten gems of the eighties - especially as he was supposed to be a stunt man but you can clearly see he did very few of his own stunts! Oh the joy! In The Fall Guy Colt Seavers (Lee Majors) was a Hollywood stuntman and part-time bounty hunter aided by his side-kicks Howie Munsen (Douglas Barr) and Jody Banks (Heather Thomas).Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:13:15 +0100 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=1690 The Man from Atlantis was a TV show about a man found barely alive after being washed up on the beach after a storm. Chanced upon by Dr Elizabeth Merrill (Belinda Montgomery), of the Foundation for Oceanic Research the man is rushed to hospital, but it soon comes to light that there is something unusual about him; he has gills, and webbed hands and feet. Dr Merrill soon comes to the conclusion that the man is the last survivor of the fabled, Lost Continent of Atlantis. On nursing him back to health, she gives him the name, Mark Harris (played by Patrick Duffy, later Bobby Ewing, in Dallas). The Man From Atlantis has brilliant green eyes, can swim faster than a dolphin, and has superhuman strength and senses. He wears distinctive yellow swimming shorts, and to begin with, his speech is somewhat pigeon-English. He joins Elizabeth and the Foundation, headed by 'CW'. His adventures with the good Doctor and the crew of the super sub, 'Cetacean' involved sea monsters, aliens, time travel, mad scientists and a super villain, named Mr Schubert.Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:13:15 +0100 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=3262 Fazz was make-up that was worn as jewellery and was shaped as lightening bolts, triangles, etc. I've searched everywhere for a picture. If anyone has one I'd love to see it!Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:10:29 +0100 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=4211 Fashion Wheel was a strange game for girls and was a type of drawing game. The main part was round and you placed a piece of paper under a clip and used a roller pencil/crayon and it printed a lady dressed in different clothes.Fashion Wheel taught children different combinations of fashion in different colours. To begin 'designing' with the fashion will you first had to rotate the outside circle to choose your bottom half, then the next circle to pick your top and the inner circle to choose the head. A plastic frame held the circles in place so you could create a kind of 'brass rubbing' of your design using the included crayons and pencils.Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:52:11 +0000 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=3260 Fashion Star Fillies were a series of plastic toy horses and they came in a range of different colours. Each of the Fashion Star Fillies had their own look and their own name. They came with cute clips in their hair and a special outfit.I collected most of them when they first came out.Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:10:29 +0100 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=3259 Originally released in 1978 Fashion Plates consisted of three different-sized plates that made up a fashion and you would switch them around making new styles. It was a more primitive versin of the popular Fashion Wheel. After you had decided which combination you liked best,you put a piece of paper on top and used the special crayon to print it.Fashion Plates also came with coloured pencils so you could colour in your design afterwards.I remember playing with my Fashion Plates for many hours trying to see how many different fashions could be made out of it.Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:10:29 +0100 http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=8370 Lizzie Dripping was about a girl with a vivid imagination so no one believes her when she says she has seen a witch. Great adventures with Lizzie and the Witch .Thu, 8 May 2008 14:12:39 +0100