1980's The Era

1980 TV Test Signal

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:07:37 +0000

I thought I could share this with all of you!! I can still hear that irritating tone of this TV test signal. Broadcasts only started late in the afternoons and if you had nothing to do you could stare at this test pattern and get hypnotized for the rest of your life. We are so spoiled nowadays with technologies like MNet, DSTV and Cable. Back in the days we made Television now we watch it. Enjoy

80′s Ads

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:05:36 +0000

Well, if you can remember the clown in this 1980s ad then you were DEFINITELY born in the eighties. I wonder if we could find a way to make Morkel sell their products for Christmas as cheep as they show in this ad? Check out these bunch of ads and tell me if you could remember them, I did…

Happy Christmas Holidays!!!

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:42:05 +0000

Oh Boy! Jessica Rabbit was really hot in this animation. For those of you that have not seen “Who framed Roger Rabbit?”, the story line is as follow!

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Roger Rabbit is a cartoon character or so to speak the “Toon star” who (along with many others) exists along side of real humans. Roger was afraid that his wife Jessica Rabbit was playing pattycake with someone else and therefore hired a private detective namely Eddie who hated toons, Eddie lost his brother at the hands of toons. To make things worse, Roger got framed for the murder of Marvin Acme the owner of Acme Corporations and Toontown, the actual culprit that fooled around with Rogers wife. Its all up to Eddie to clear Rogers name and to protect and save Jessica and Roger from the evil villain Judge Doom, who wants to destroy all the toons with a deadly chemical.

Dallas 1980′s TV series

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:20:29 +0000

The Dallas TV show was a 60 minute prime time soap in the 80′s. The series was about a family that had created a dynasty out of the Texas oil industry. From the South-fork ranch, they wheeled and dealed in the business world and dealt with their personal lives involving love, affairs, jealousy and even hate. The 1980′s series pretty much revolved around trying to outmaneuver other people both financially and personally and to keep others from doing the same to them.

Bionic Six

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:54:56 +0000

Wow, Yet another entertaining animation from the 80′s. Bionic Six, hmmmmm, can you guys remember?

Thanks to metacafe for a little background on the storyline.

The main character, ‘Bionic-1′, was a machine-enhanced human being using bionic technology, much like The Six Million Dollar Man. On one of his missions, Bionic-1 brought his family along so they could enjoy some skiing after the mission ended. There was an avalanche caused by a landing UFO and the Bennetts were all buried alive under radioactive snow. All, but Jack (whose bionics made him immune to the radioactivity), were thrown into paralytic comas. Unsure how to save them, Bionic-1 brings the family to Professor Sharp’s lab. Sharp deduces that giving everyone the bionic treatment would cure them of the radioactivity too. Each family member was given a specific bionic power, and they formed a team named Bionic Six.

1908 Era - Bionic SIX

Do you have more 1980 memories to share? Let us know and we will post it….

The A TEAM

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:45:56 +0000

Remember the famous 4, they were the A-Team; BA, Face, Hanibal and Murdock; “Shut up sucker fool” and watch this clip.

B.A Baracus

Airwolf

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:47:54 +0000

OH!! Don’t forget about Airwolf, main character anyone? Yes, the OJ from the 80′s, but the role he played was really keeping you to the end of your seat every Friday. Jan Michael Vincent in Airwolf, check it out!

Jan Micheal Vincent

Airwolf

MacGyver

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:13:52 +0000

Remember the main character from MacGyver? Richard Dean Anderson?

Richard Dean Anderson

The Afrikaans version of MacGyver is “Boer Maak ‘n Plan!“. He could escape from everything, did his own magic with his Swiss army knife, and yes, David Copperfield learnt from MacGyver

Enjoy your 80′s…..

Patrick Swayze

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:34:55 +0000

Nobody will forget the Swayze. Patrick one of the successful actors of the 80′s

He started his career as a dancer and then later took on the challenging role as an actor. Yip, he did make it though and was very good at it too. Here are some of his popular movies he played in in the 80′s. I’m sure you can remember it!

Another popular movie by Patrick was Point break where he was the bad guy robbing banks and Keanu Reeves the under cover cop trying to put him behind bars.

Patrick had a great life, unfortunately was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. After a 20 month battle he passed away on 14 September 2009.

Patrick Swayze 1952 - 2009

Dancer, Heartthrob, tough guy, loving husband, Icon and fighter.

He man and the masters of the universe

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:35:54 +0000

Remember this cartoon character?

It was every boy’s dream to be like he-man. He-man was like Chuck Norris but just the cartoon version Looking at the clip below, I can’t believe that it could have been entertaining at all, I mean my daughter will not watch more than 5 minutes of this, she will say that “Barney is more entertaining”. Never the less, I have to admit that I enjoyed watching this when I was a kid!