Welcome to my little nostalgic corner of RU-vid. From memories of classic TV series and stars, to teasing retro trivia quizzes and recalling some of the lost or forgotten toys, sweets & chocolates of the past, my aim with Stuview TV is to bring back warm nostalgic memories and make you smile.
Stuview TV - Watch, remember and smile...
Please feel free to subscribe to Stuview TV if you enjoy what you see and tell your friends! It's nice to have you along for the retro ride.
My wife and I have been watching a lot of these nostalgia videos the last couple of days and it makes us smile to remember. Reading the comments seems to emphasise what I feel. We have gained mobile phones and the internet but have lost so much that was fun and charming about life - albeit a little tacky, sure.
Another fun fact for hedgehog crisps , i believe they supported a hedgehog sanctuary with sales profits. You could also collect tokens (if memory serves) to send off for a hedgehog sticker..
SavaCentre used to be in Basildon and even though my brothers used to work there, I didn't know that it was part of BHS as well, but sometime in the early '00's it got replaced by ASDA and still nextdoor or part of Eastgate shopping center, as far as I know it might still be there, yet according to the Net, the town has reported to be the most dangerous place to visit, I remember British Homes Stores closing, as some of their stock was bought by M&S, and then the big branch near Westgate closed soon after.
I've been trying to recollect an old brand for a long time. I used to get them in the early 90s from Food Giant, I think they were called Jumbos or something, but they were like chunky Wotsits, I think flavors like Pickled Onion. The packets had illustrations of cartoony faces of like a twin headed guys with spiky teeth.
I'm convinced that back in the 70s there used to be something very like today's Daim bar, except it didn't go by that name. Nor was it around for as long as the big hitters. It wasn't the Caramac (also delicious) although in my mind they are closely related. Perhaps they were always next to each other in the display trays. Am I misremembering my youth?
We also had bricks and large bits of wood to make a ramp in the road.doing stunts on there bike's.they wasn't a lot of traffic in those days.once they were finished with it took it out of the road.
My parents bought a load of Birds Apeel, including Grapefruit flavour. It stayed in our kitchen cupboards unused because a) it didn't taste good, and b) it had to be made up in ridiculously large volumes.s I remember adverts for Birds products like Angel Delight, where the birds were unsatisfied because they had been eating clouds... As well as Slimcea, there was Nimble "slimming" bread I never heard or the vanilla ice cream Monster Munch, but I would have loved to have tried them! Thanks for this trip down memory lane! I really liked and miss Nutty bars (caramel log covered in peanuts)
Always loved chance in a million.. brenda blethyn (in my remembering it anyway) always seemed to end up in her underwear for some reason or another!! Also i found Artemis here on ytube ,yup its prety incomprehensible.. mostly because the script sounded like a modern A.I. attempt to do Shakespeare, and theres virtually zero exposition to explain anything. But i always enjoyed Hywell Bennetts somewhat laconic acting .
If we were really bored my group of mates would play a game of double dare. This involved us daring each other to do ever more risky and dangerous things. The game usually ended when someone actually got hurt. Funniest memory is of a lad called Paul hitting his head and getting knocked out cold .After a while the rest of us stopped playing and thought we better help him. Having seen Westerns on telly we knew the solution to this was chucking water over him given that cowboys who had been clobbered over the head with a chair or bottle in a saloon fight always seemed to recover quite quickly this way. So the prostrate Paul got a pail of dirty water out of a nearby waterbut thrown over him. He eventually came round but was less concerned with the enormous bruise on his forehead or the double vision than what his Mum would say about his soaked and filthy clothes. I guess our parents who had grown up with bombs dropping out of the sky in WW2 England just had a different attitude to risk and consequently blamed us (not someone else) for being stupid if we got hurt or worse ruined our clothes.
I have a challenging and obscure lost UK TV miniseries for you. (I've tried to find this before by leveraging the hive mind of the Internet, but came up blank) It was very early 80s. 2 or 3 parts. Opening scene was a prison riot, electric cables across someone's temples, and cutaway to a computer which seemed to be or orchestrating events. A computer genius has gone missing, and Whitehall hire an investigator to find him. The Americans are also interested in a computer virus he developed. I can remember another scene (Though my memory may have mixed it up with a different series). An AI called Pippa, sexy CGI lips on TV screens. Please, please, what was this series called? (I can remember the theme tune, and remember the opening credits had the name sprawled across the screen... But can't remember what it was. Began with "D"?) , and where can I find it?
I recall Chocky being replayed around 20 years ago on some random TV channel on sky/satellite TV. I tuned in accidentally and had instant flashbacks to childhood trauma😅 I remember hating it when around 5/6 years old, but still watching every episode for some stupid reason😅
My brother worked on a building site in the 80s, he was doing the shop run so one of the lads said to him, " get us a pork pie mate, and if they've got no pork pies, get me anything ", they had no pork pies so he him brought him a bottle of Vosene 😂
It was a great time. Dens at the end of gardens up our road. Playing in the back fields, dangerous go cart races down the hill. yeah we all got hurt but we picked ourselves up and carried on with it. There were no worries then, brilliant times with no computers, we made our own fun and used our imginations!
About the Raleigh chopper. We used to think we were breaking the law by giving your mate a backie! The thing on the back of the seat said "not to carry passengers" or something to that effect! Great video,great times
