MEDIOCRE STUDENT T-shirt industry, famous for not ending in 1982.
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Trad Jazz Britannia
Friday, 21.00, BBC4It always amuses us when we see clips of Double Your Money and notice the category board includes both “jazz (traditional)” and “jazz (modern)”, though it is true that at that point trad really was big news, the nascent Pick of the Pops spinning off from Trad Tavern being just one example of its hold on the nation’s teens in the early sixties, despite it being influenced by music some forty years old at the time.
Now then, TVC, that’s rather cynical as this was a very successful and well loved children’s show in its day that ran for 20 years. However, Geoffrey never seemed to change and was spotted wearing flares as late as 1987.
Can’t be many students left who even remember Rainbow, surely?
Please don’t try to be edgy. It deserves nostalgia as much as anything else on this site and more than most. Getting all grumpy because the proles got there first and have done it to death doesn’t help anyone.
Blimey! A Rainbow-related backlash. We’ll get to work on a re-write…
I think you Bungled there! Boom boom!
Plus it didn’t end in 1982! Not the sort of lazy error I expect from TV Cream!
But what can be said about Rainbow that isn’t on a hundred other sites? Even my stock joke about “when they were in the back garden, why did Zippy and George stand in next door’s garden?” is hackneyed.
I thought it ended in 1992?
Started in 1972, with me being one of the original viewers, but somehow Geoffrey and Rod, Jane and Freddie’s fashion sense seemed stuck there all the way through the show’s lifespan. Jane always seemed to remind me of Lyn Paul out of the New Seekers in that she had the same hairstyle and dresses and worryingly never seemed to change.
Aw c’mon, Rainbow was great in it’s day and has cult status, too- how many old children’s TV puppets go on to become Dj’s on tour?!
Rainbow is a classic. It did end in 1992
A Rainbow revolution!
I seem to remember something called ‘Mole in the Hole’, which was more or less Rainbow recreated with the same cast but different characters. Or did I dream it?