I know many people that still have Jarts. We use to play with them a lot in the 80s.
I do remember him and the show. It was actually available on Youtube a few years ago. The other half of the show was the great and wonderful and very long lived John Astin.
I had a Peanuts one also, I was a Snoopy fanatic. My first 45 was Snoopy and the Red Baron’s Christmas. They still sell Colorforms though. They’re not gone, just somewhat rare like Booby Trap, Break the Ice or Mouse Trap.
I wanted one of these as a kid. Never got one. I did have Spirograph though, who remembers those? Still for sale but not often seen anymore.
Who remembers Cecil & Beanie by Chuck Jones? Very funny though the animation was the flat minimalist 60s cheap animation.
Really odd one, does anyone remember at movie theaters in the 70s into the 80s the pre-preview scene filler of swirling colors that I think were a heated oil being projected?
There’s one thing that stands out to me as I was super, insanely jealous of this thing. My friend that had this barely remembers is and no one else I’ve talked to remembers having or seeing one.
This would be a late '60s or early '70s toy, something a child could ride on. It had a center pylon with an electric motor, and two long-ish arms each with a spaceship-esque thing you could lie down on. Once aboard, there was some way to start it spinning, probably quite slowly despite my memory of zooming around on it.
Back in the 80s, Nickelodeon had a show called The Third Eye, which played British sci-fi series. Some of the stories were stupid, but a few of them were excellent. I’ve never met anyone who’s heard of the show.
Another piece of home playground equipment we had as kids but never saw another one–circa probably '64-66. I have no idea what it’s called so I’m going to have to describe it! It was made of tubular metal and stood on four splayed legs. The top was cross shaped, with four seats facing the middle, one at the end of each arm. Each seat had a handle and pedal (they worked as a pushme/pullyou sort of arrangement) that attached in the middle. As you’d push and pull the handle/pedal, the thing would start to rotate and when you got four kids on that thing going full guns it would go around like gangbusters–and those handle/pedals did not idle, they’d keep pumping back and forth as long as the thing was going. You had to have at least two kids sitting opposite to make it work, and if you did things juuuust right you could get the entire assembly rocking and bringing its legs off the ground as it swung around. What the hell was that thing?
We had a lot of really dodgy and probably dangerous stuff like that–I suspect my dad was not that invested in fatherhood since he kept buying and bringing these things home.
In the 1950s, everyone who mattered knew that mass market color TV was on the horizon. A lot of shows were filmed in color in the belief they’d be aired that way eventually.
IIRC, NBC was already the first all-color network by 1960. The other networks followed suit, albeit slowly; by September 1966, everything was in color.
Sorry about that, the show went off when I was 1. It never ran much in syndication in the NYC market, I can just barely remember the show. Did I get the “it was very funny” part right at least?
The Swirling thing was like a lava lamp but it wasn’t a lava lamp as far as I can recall. Spencers has never stopped selling lava lamps BTW. It did look like a heated oil thingy though like a lava lamp.
I remember seeing commercials for Bosco when I was little, but I don’t think it was available in Minnesota. At least, we never had it in our home, though I did tell my mom to buy some.
Let’s see…The Haunting of Cassie Palmer, Children of the Stones, and Into The Labyrinth. Nickelodeon in those days imported a lot of UK and Canadian content. After school, I used to watch You Can’t Do That On Television, The Third Eye, and The Tomorrow People back-to-back.
I’ve had fizzies in the 2010’s. They sold them at the Sugarloaf craft fair at the Montgomery County, MD fairgrounds. Ms. P remembers Kimba, but I son’. It’s possible it was on our ABC affiliate, which we couldn’t pick up because it was UHF.
We had that, my brother got the original Creepy Crawler one and then my older sisters got an expansion pack which was molds for flowers and butterflies and brighter color liquids.
