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Blue Peter presenters Peter Purves, John Noakes and Valerie Singleton take a look back at Christmas 1970s style. From Jimmy Osmond to Basil Brush, Operation, Buckeroo and selection boxes, and the disappointment of another year without Scalextric or Tiny Tears, the show remembers all the festive trimmings of the decade.
Tonight Jimmy Savile takes a nostalgic look back at the year when the world moved from black and white into colour. It was a year of chopper bikes, stylophones, ScoobyDoo and The Clangers, chart-toppers Mungo Jerry and the Supremes, the World Cup, MASH and The Goodies.
Britt Ekland presents the story of 1971. It was the year Britt got her big break in the film Get Carter, and the year innocent children risked their lives with clackers and space hoppers. It was the year of the bizarre Banana Splits and the baffling success of novelty records like Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep by Middle of the Road. Add in the arrival of Shaft and hot pants with the antics of Harvey Smith, and it was a mad, bad world in 1971.
Erstwhile teen heart-throb David Cassidy looks back at 1972 and talks about his rivalry with Donny Osmond. He also looks at when Magpie took on Blue Peter, and children stuffed their faces with Fruit Salads. Plus how Love Thy Neighbour was blamed for causing racial tension across the UK, and how the publication of the Joy of Sex and Cosmopolitan sought to change our lives.
Singer Noddy Holder looks back to the year the seventies began in earnest. As the kungfu craze swept the western world, snorkel parkas made an unlikely fashion statement, glam rock rivals Sweet and Slade competed to dominate the charts and Kojak star Telly Savalas proved that even a bald guy sucking a lollipop could be cool.
Bob Godfrey, the animator behind cult 1970s cartoon characters Roobarb and Custard, has devised an animated special, in which the pair put on a cabaret to introduce the stars of 1974. The show evokes the year by recalling The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. Custard remembers the Wombles and Pans People, while Roobarb performs the Mud dance. Plus there's a look back at the Ford Capri and computer game Pong. Richard Briers provides the voices.
Dennis Waterman introduces the highlights and heart-throbs of 1975, including Barry Sheene , David Essex and the Fonz. It was the year that Jaws scared bathers out of the water and cult musical movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show had its first screening. Plus memories of Saturday afternoons with World of Sport.
Muppets star Kermit the frog returns to TV screens to introduce the highlights and heart-throbs of 1976, including tennis legend Bjorn Borg and racing drivers Jackie Stewart and James Hunt. It was the year that Abba released the hit single Dancing Queen, Sylvester Stallone danced the ring in Rocky and punk first rocked the headlines.
Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher tells the story of the year as she looks back on the highlights and memorable moments from 1977. Saturday Night Fever turned John Travolta into a disco-dancing star while at the other end of the musical spectrum the Sex Pistols were at the forefront of a revolution in popular music as rock dinosaurs faced potential extinction at the hands of the punk movement.
Lynda Carter, who shot to fame in 1978 as the TV incarnation of comic-book heroine Wonder Woman, introduces tonight's slice of seventies nostalgia. The US actress wasn't the only one portraying a comic-strip character that year, as The Incredible Hulk also made an impact on British screens. Both the movie and music worlds were dominated by Grease, while the year's top toys and games were the electronic Simon, the arcade sensation Space Invaders and Top Trumps cards.
Bo Derek , the sex symbol who shot to fame in the final year of the decade in the film 10, presents this look back at the fads and fashions of 1979. Quadrophenia became the must-see movie of the year, The Dukes of Hazzard were leaving their tyre tracks all over the nation's TV screens, and Gary Numan topped the charts with Are Friends Electric? Meanwhile, kids and adults alike were trying to solve the fiendish Rubik's Cube.
