I agree!!

In some ways. There was a lot of poverty around though for the real 'working class'.

@@francishunt562 Not for me there wasn't.

I loved every year of it! Lol

@@francishunt562 @Francis Hunt True, the 70s stagflation was the worst economic downturn in the US since the Great Depression and only got beat by the Great Recession of the 2000s-2010s. The UK and other countries had similar downturns as well. Some Asian countries like Japan experienced a boom thanks to rapid deindustrilization in the west that allowed them to take over manufacturing but between numerous wars in the 60s and 70s, a delayed recession after the post WW2 boom, the oil crisis, a crash of several industries, and increased automation of many jobs there was a rather severe economic slump across much of the world. IIRC the 70s was also when the Soviets started to stall and stagnate after mostly keeping pace with the West and they pretty much plateaued into the 80s and 90s.

The 70s ..cool

Oh l agree.When you look at old footage on the T.V. you think WTF??!!!! I have come to the conclusion that you can't properly remember the seventies unless you were at least born in the early sixties rather than the late sixties like u and I.The punk explosion in the UK I barely remember.Your looking at those years through a child's eyes.There was a BBC documentary featuring Boy George who was about six or seven years older than me and his recollections were completely different from mine because he was a teenager.The various tribes(punks,tedd's, skinhead's) could be incredibly violent towards each other on the street.Football violence was rife.It's not just about remembering children's T.V.

Exactly the same for myself..no wonder we had such vivid imaginations!!

65-75 was THE weird stretch! LOL :)

It was the best of times.

Quite right too! Marathon and Opel forever!

I was born in 1970, so spent my formative years during that decade!

I was born 64, I loved this era and my times as a child, also loved being a punk 🤪 would love to go bk for a while, wish someone would sort out a time machine.

I think they did 😄

The media was certainly more independent then than they are now.

It could be argued the trade unions ran the country in the 1970's.

June 1963 what a Time 1970 seven years old 1980 17 all the great memories wish I could go back I do it over at a heartbeat and totally do it different this time around if I could go back. Wish I had a time machine I go back in a heartbeat

It's because there's too many options now. That's also why news has become so sensationalist and "clickbaity", in the 70s even in a massive economic powerhouse like the US chances are you'd read a local paper and watch a single news station and you'd only have a few to choose from so without having to worry about a ton of competition the news could focus on giving facts to a wide range of people. Today there are social media sources, influencers, KZfaq channels, international news sources, and dozens of news channels to choose from all competing for a country that's only 50% larger, meaning you've got 5000% more news sources competing for 150% of the available watchers. Many "news anchors" have even legally claimed to be entertainers and not journalists because they have to sensationlize everything to such a degree their more actors then reporters.

You are therefore the same age as me, Helen. A simpler era to grow up in. Always use the Green Cross Code!

I do think the 70s and 80s had the best opening themes, most shows now feel so generic. I used to watch alot of old reruns as a kid in the 90s and 00s and can remember more intros from the 70s then from today.

I am therefore Gen X - born in 1970!

Not me! Better being 7 you old codger! ;-P

@@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars was a great Time to be a kid though. Now at an age where the hardest part is holding on to the memories 😀

me 7,

We have You Tube to bring the memories back to us! So 59 is the best year ever to be born. Now we have the net to helps recall those great days.

@@andymoore9977 I'm a 59er too, and I thought that growing up in the 60s and being a teenager all through the 70s was magic and just the best time. Wouldn't want to be young now at all.

Same age as me, then!

Amen to that. Your mother obviously brought u up well. Its a totaly different world now.

Yes I agree 💯 we were thought to help any elderly people with their shopping now they would think you were going to mug them in the book of Timothy second C3v1 it says that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here and that people will be greedy and have no natural affection and not open to any agreement to me it is like reading the news paper Eileen

The hilarious thing is people say the same thing about every generation. My great grandparents hated it when women had hair too far past their shoulders or if men had hair longer then a couple inches, they thought hippies were the scum of the earth, and that pot was ruining the whole world. My grandparents thought that men with hair down to their shoulders or any facial hair beyond a tightly groomed mustache was disgusting and that mustaches were "a little too European", and they thought that rock and roll promoted sex and drugs which were corrupting the morals of the youth and that the whole counter culture movement was weakening the country and opening the door to the communists. My parents thought that heavy metal and grunge promoted devil worship and drugs and were responsible for all the school shootings and that later hip hop and rap caused gang violence. I cant remember people complaining about how Bart Simpson glorified disrespecting your elders way back in the early 90s and people even tried to get the show canceled over it. Watch old movies and you'll see the same thing: people of parenting or grandparenting age complaining about "kids these days and their corrupted morals", doesnt matter if it's a film from the 50s, 70s, 90s, or today. This attitude even predates film, there accounts of nobles in the middle ages complaining that all the rules in jousting (which used to be a free for all where knights would even kill each other on purpose, attack random spectators, and focus more on stealing horses or equipment from each other then sport) were making warriors of the day weak and effeminate. A few leaders in the 1800s thought that society needed regular wars because they thought that not joining the military lead to young men becoming weak, effeminate, partying, and not gaining proper values and discipline. in the 1700s people even tried to get couches banned because they thought young people were spending too much time sitting, laying down, or sleeping and that it was leading to them being lazy and would lead to too much sex and erode their morals.

@@arthas640 Ok.

Man From Atlantis was MASSiVE in UK yet gets overlooked for some reason. It only ran for one year though. but was repeated lots.

I am therefore much younger than you, as I was born in 1970 and have just turned 53. The 70s were my formative years!

Luke ...i am your father boiyo

Yeah, and they dubbed out his west country accent in this too, just like in Star Wars!

Same born in 1970

Mind Your Language would NEVER be allowed now; and Love Thy Neighbour ... can you imagine the uproar THAT would cause?

I had a chopper bike; and DAMN, I miss jublies. Why did they stop making those?

Was one of the children crossing the road Coleen Nolan?

@@philiphalpenny3783 The child has a look of her, Philip and born in 1965, she would have been of the right age, (looks about 6 or 7 in the ad) but according to IMDB, she didn't do commercials until 2007, for Iceland.

The 70s did have a ton of crap (serious look at a lot of the animation from the era) but did have plenty of good stuff too. People tend to suffer from "nostalgia filters" since after 20+ years people tend to quiet airing reruns, making copies, or remembering any bad movies/tv shows/music but the good stuff stays around and gets remembered so after a few decades people mostly just remember the best a decade produced.

When I was young there was a Mister T ice lolly. Cola flavoured of course.

100% agree with you, but social media had played the biggest part in changing that.

@@MrHammoreds. I agree.

And they didn't feel the need to warn us about every little thing before a programme starts, just in case someone gets offended or upset, and that's before 9pm. Grrrr! That's one of my biggest peeves of today.

True, I've heard stories of the glass ones shattering and spraying kids with broken glass or the string breaking and hitting people. Get a 1 inch giant glass marble going at high speed and the thing is like a weapon, it's essential like a sling and if a sling can kill Goliath it can do a decent amount of damage to a kid. I had a set of them as a kid in the 90s but they later had 2 separate strings (which were more of a high strength plastic like fishing line) for each ball so if 1 broke it wouldnt go flying and they were made with smaller balls that were a more lightweight plastic and by the early 2000s they had rigid plastic arms.

Yes all the pop stars were in their 40's and perverts like Gary Glitter, Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris etc etc

Didn't the series start in 78 or 79? Not sure but it certainly seems more 80s.

@@bhamacuk Started in 1978 and was on long enough to air through the 1980s, ending in 1991.(Wikipedia helped with the last bit)