Here are some of my favourite films from my 70s childhood (off the top of my head - I'm sure I'll add more):

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - who could forget the evil Childcatcher!



Willy Wonka (the original and best!)



Oliver: (Forget Mark Lester, wasn't Jack Wild just the cutest?)



Not a kids movies exactly, but Jaws remains my all-time favourite film, even though that shark puppet was laughable!



What about your favorites?

Any of the Hammer horror films with Peter Cushing and Cristopher Lee...mostly because they always featured some buxom tart who never quite managed to be either completely dressed or undressed. Usually it was Ingrid Pitt, if memory serves.

LOL. Yes I loved those Hammer horror films - probably found them scary because I was about 10 - my friends would come round on a Saturday night and we'd hide under the duvet on the sofa during the scary bits.

Did you ever see that film "The Raven" with Vincent Price KK? That was one of my fave horror movies of that era, as well as "Tales Of The Crypt". The Raven was probably more humorous than scary (courtesy of Mr Price) and Tales of the Crypt I actually found scarier than today's horror flicks with all their gratuitous gore and violence.

PS - I like your new avatar btw - is that GI Joe?

OOh, I googled Ingrid Pitt and found some rather saucy pics - too explicit to show here - but here's one not too risque... I'm tempted to use it as my avatar but then people might get the wrong impression - plus I'm just not into the vampire look.

Ah, yes, the inimitable Vincent Price. My favorites among his many films are the "Dr. Phibes" trilogy. They were completely over the top as far as the methods he used to execute his victims, relying on a Biblical Plague theme and all. He also did a number of films for Castle Productions who were responsible for the original "13 Ghosts" and "House on Haunted Hill" among others. These films always had a gimmick, to help draw the audience into the film, such as the "Ghost Viewer", a pair of cardboard and celluloid glasses that were polarized...if you looked through one side, you could see the spectres in all their cheesy glory, and if you looked through the other, you would not see them at all. Without the viewer, they were no more than indistinct blurs. Very creative stuff, and it's a shame that Hollywood doesn't have that element of fun anymore.

As for the avatar, yes, that is my old pal Joe. This is one of the early ones without the fuzzy "Life-Like" hair or "Kung-Fu Grip". I must say he doesn't look half bad for a poor enlisted man who has been in uniform for nearly 50 years. And don't change your avatar-she looks so happy!

Yeah she was performing karaoke after smoking a couple of joints.

H.R. Puffnstuff.

The name says it all. I have no idea why Sid and Marty Krofft felt the need to inflict this drug-induce, Faustian nightmare on children, much less on Saturday mornings. But there it was, in lurid, psychadelic color, every weekend. Then, they just had to put it on the big screen. Of course, parents being the clueless brutes that they were, dragged their kids in droves to see this monstrosity. It did very well at the box office. But that does not mean children liked it, or even wanted to see it. It means that a lot of frazzled parents dropped their offspring at the theare while they did some shopping and had a peaceful lunch.

It happened to me-yes, I am an H.R. Puffnstuff survivor. I don't know what was the worst part of that film...Jack Wild being frantic about everything for nearly 2 hours, the horrid costumes that required the actors to bounce whenever they spoke so the mouth would flap in a grotesque parody of speech, or the insipid plot that seemed to combine all the worst elements of the T.V. program into one colossal mass of awful that was used to bludgein the terrified audience into submission.

Thankfully, we never did that to our children....

HR Pufinstuf was one of my faves.

Not sure that they ever made it into a film, but probably my favorite kids TV series of all time was the Banana Splits. Completely wacky, American, goofy, and fun. Also slightly surreal, though not as much as HR Pufinstuf.

I ordered the complete TV series (well maybe just one season) of the Splits on videotape off Ebay (don't think it's available on DVD), just for nostalgia's sake.

(hi K_K btw, I've been taking a slight break from walking down nostalgia lane at the moment, too much commotion going on in my present day life.)

Puffnstuff always terrified me. BUt I do remeber the Banana Splits! Quite fondly as a matter of fact. I always wanted one of those little cars to drive around in. That idea was firmly quashed by parental concerns over smashed furniture and flattened house cats or siblings. Never mind that the only thing remotely approaching those nifty little autos would barely creep along at 1 MPH.

Ah, well...

Another show that was a favorite with my sister was "The Monkees" because she thought Davy Jones was just "groovy". I even admit a grudging liking for some of the "pre-fab four's" music. I can listen to it today and be taken back to my childhood.