Not really, though… it’s still me waffling on about something that has come into my life at some point! This time, I’m going on about things that used to make me feel good years ago, and still have the very same affect on me to this day.
The first thing I have to write about is my love of comics. The comic to the left is DC’s Justice League of America number 29, from 1964. Several years ago, I actually managed to obtain a copy of this, and I was / am very pleased with myself! This particular story features the second team-up between the JLA and the Justice Society of America from Earth Two. I’ve wrote about these stories in a previous post, but I have a ‘thing’ for the JLA/JSA team up stories in particular, as the very first DC comic I ever owned was one of these. I waited thirty years to read part two of that story, and that makes you think in itself! All good things come to those who wait! I waited each and every month for the next issue. Loved them!
Next on my reminiscence of things good, has to be the one and only Scooby Doo from Hanna-Barbera. I used to enjoy all of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons from the sixties and seventies, such as The Flintstones, Laff-A-Lympics, Top Cat (Boss Cat), The Jetsons, Blue Falcon, and the shorts including Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw and the rest, but Scooby Doo must take top spot! I even tried to call the BBC’s Multi-Coloured Swap Shop on 01-811-8055 (I still remember the number!) just to ask for an episode of Scooby Doo. I never got through, but just as well really as I only had 2p for the phonebox! I’m not too keen on the changes they have made to Scooby in the latest series of cartoons – it has lost it’s feel in my opinion. The updated cartoons (before this relaunch), where Fred has a blue stripe on his top, are OK though. But those from the early episodes are just fantastic! Love them!
Monday to Friday lunchtime TV used to feature a twenty minute or so show like Pipkins, Hickory House, and Rainbow. Rainbow was my favourite, and I still enjoy watching the shows to this day (although, I must admit I cringe sometimes… in a good way, I must add!) There was a dream episode once featuring Zipman and Bobbin… I’ll have to see if I can dig that episode out and watch it again. The theme tune is still with me today. Thames TV bongs followed by “Up above the streets and houses, rainbow climbing high. Everyone can see a rainbow, up in the sky. Paint the whole world with a RAINBOW!” and some more drums. Love it!
Everything that I’m remembering here is very colourful. As I’ve said before, I love colours, and they are providing very vivid memories to me. Even in the very early days, when we had a black and white TV, I used to watch Scooby Doo and imagine the colours. When I finally saw an episode in full colour, I was beside myself. It was a story about strawberry, chocolate and vanilla phantoms in an ice cream factory, and I watched it on my Auntie’s TV.
Nice memories… 🙂
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