brilliant then massively dated now

[ex hibitionist]

Some things were the bees knees at the time but now look anything but. The best example I can come up with is the series M.A.S.H. which was the coolest thing going at the time but is now one of the most irritating things on Freeview channels. I'll put the B52s in there as well - sounded cool and edgy at the time but a bit fake and pretentious now. You could include Kenny Everett, awful on the BBC, his Thames TV show can raise a smile but we thought he was the funniest man who ever lived at the time - his Captain Kremen shows on the radio may hold up and his 20 worst records. And people loved a good cop show back in the 70s - Van der Valk was all the rage when it came out, what with the theme tune, watch it now and it's pure comedy. Any more?

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Glam rock. Some of it still sounds OK but it's not a good look. Maybe Bowie carried it off but then he would. Same thing with lots of hairy bands from the 60s & 70s. Leave out the 80s - most of them looked like bozos at the time and I didn't like much of the music anyway.
I used to like The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Napoleon Solo was a cool dude, but it doesn't seem so hot now and it doesn't help that Robert Vaughan was in Coronation Street.

 

[Jimenez]

Glam rock. Some of it still sounds OK but it's not a good look. Maybe Bowie carried it off but then he would. Same thing with lots of hairy bands from the 60s & 70s. Leave out the 80s - most of them looked like bozos at the time and I didn't like much of the music anyway.
I used to like The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Napoleon Solo was a cool dude, but it doesn't seem so hot now and it doesn't help that Robert Vaughan was in Coronation Street.

I was going to say Punk Rock most of it with obviously the odd exception hasn't dated particularly well neither for that matter has most of the Ska/Twotone stuff especially Madness.
TV wise Minder, I keep seeing reels on social media & it now looks very dated although there are still some laugh out load moments.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

I was going to say Punk Rock most of it with obviously the odd exception hasn't dated particularly well neither for that matter has most of the Ska/Twotone stuff especially Madness.
TV wise Minder, I keep seeing reels on social media & it now looks very dated although there are still some laugh out load moments.

Most punk wasn't that great anyway but, for me, the Pistols and the Clash hold up.
Minder started in 1979 so a bit of dating is fair enough but some episodes were a bit lumpy at the time as well. The later series weren't a patch on the Arthur & Terry ones, especially if Mr. Chisholm was in them.

 

[Forest Hillbilly]

The Liverbirds encompassed all that is benign in fad , progressive TV,...for me.
Lets set a 'comedy' , not in London. I know, the home of a (at the time) fantastic football team and The (now disbanded) Beatles. It seemed a fantastic concept

The two main characters were females sharing a flat, and the whole turgid series dated in an afternoon.

It was created by the maestro of comedy, Carla Lane.

 

[Forest Hillbilly]

Space 1999. sci-fi series on the TV. Digital watches came into being in real-life whilst the moonbase crew used video-link communicators.
It only took less than a decade for real life to catch up, with the space shuttle and spectacular space photography. Although no-one has ever invented a woman that can turn into any animal she wishes. 🙂

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Space 1999. sci-fi series on the TV. Digital watches came into being in real-life whilst the moonbase crew used video-link communicators.
It only took less than a decade for real life to catch up, with the space shuttle and spectacular space photography. Although no-one has ever invented a woman that can turn into any animal she wishes. 🙂

The last sentence is definitely worth leaving alone.

 

[Badger11]

Monty Python (the TV series),
Up Pompei,
On The Buses,
Love Thy Neighbour,
Benny Hill,
Black and White Minstrel Show ( my dad loved this for the singing not the face paint),
Doctor Who (wobbly scenery and every alien planet looking like a disused chalk pit (it was),
Platform shoes ( As a short arse I thought great I can look taller, you had 6ft guys wearing them. Still cool at the time).
Denim Jeans (My dad hated them, the day he started wearing them was when I gave them up).

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Monty Python (the TV series),
Up Pompei,
On The Buses,
Love Thy Neighbour,
Benny Hill,
Black and White Minstrel Show ( my dad loved this for the singing not the face paint),
Doctor Who (wobbly scenery and every alien planet looking like a disused chalk pit (it was),
Platform shoes ( As a short arse I thought great I can look taller, you had 6ft guys wearing them. Still cool at the time).
Denim Jeans (My dad hated them, the day he started wearing them was when I gave them up).

There was more than a hint of Herman Munster about talk blokes wearing platform boots.
High waistband trousers were a challenge for anyone carrying a bit of timber.
I worked with a very skinny bloke who tried Gordon Gekko braces for a while but they were always flapping around off his coat hanger shoulders,

 

[Badger11]

There was more than a hint of Herman Munster about talk blokes wearing platform boots.
High waistband trousers were a challenge for anyone carrying a bit of timber.
I worked with a very skinny bloke who tried Gordon Gekko braces for a while but they were always flapping around off his coat hanger shoulders,

LOL it's like tall blokes getting into a midget sports car, not a good look.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

brilliant then, massively dated now.

MG Midget - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Dinosaur macho British men. Today's dinosaurs live mostly in warmer climes. I recently had a Taxi journey driven by a young fella who preached the virtues of a happy wife who takes a few light slaps from time to time. He drew from the case of his own parents. Charming.

 

[BromleyMonkey]

Most punk wasn't that great anyway but, for me, the Pistols and the Clash hold up.
Minder started in 1979 so a bit of dating is fair enough but some episodes were a bit lumpy at the time as well. The later series weren't a patch on the Arthur & Terry ones, especially if Mr. Chisholm was in them.

I went to see the Sex Pistols a couple of weeks ago, obviously minus Lydon, because they’ve fallen out over a Disney documentary. I hated Punk originally when I was at school, quite frankly it scared the crap out of me. But this gig I went to was brilliant. I think I’ve come to appreciate any music from the passed because it was just people in bands playing instruments, none of this manufactured X factor boy band crap and stuff thrown together on a computer. I’ve seen Squeeze twice recently as well and they were excellent

As for minder, my all time favourite tv programme, but watching it back now, it is so dated and some of the episodes seem really bad now. But there are still some great ones I re-watch regularly The Gary Webster years were poor apart from George Cole still making it just about watchable with his brilliance as Arthur

 

[BromleyMonkey]

Remember the first computer game you plugged into your tv? Tennis, but all it was just two lines at each end as the bats and a little dot you batted to each other with the annoying constant bib bob noise. It seemed brilliant at the time.

When I got my first Atari for Christmas with the tank battle cartridge I think I did actually wet myself with excitement

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Remember the first computer game you plugged into your tv? Tennis, but all it was just two lines at each end as the bats and a little dot you batted to each other with the annoying constant bib bob noise. It seemed brilliant at the time.

When I got my first Atari for Christmas with the tank battle cartridge I think I did actually wet myself with excitement

Remember seeing Paul Weller playing the brick wall version of that In a pub in Victoria in the late 70s. Then the Space Invaders version appeared and made it seem a bit ordinary although there were still walls involved.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

Doctor Who (wobbly scenery and every alien planet looking like a disused chalk pit (it was),

The original Star Trek. They beam themselves down to an alien planet. Its always either a) like a tropical Garden-centre or b) like the Mojave Desert with tall boulders everywhere....which it probably was.


Brilliant.........now dated.

A person sitting at a cash-till in your Supermarket.

A staff member at a desk at your local gym.

A car hire person in an office.

A friendly helpful person at an airline check-in desk.

Ditto for a Bank worker.

A human to walk you around a museum/Historic Venue and talk you through all the marvels you are looking at.

Nightclubs.