And yes, I reaaalllyyy want to see the entire series! This one's for @awnaves 😉
"Originally released in 1967 as a weekly comic book called “Candy”, the bizarre domestic set up of two life-sized mannequin children and their “parents” — a pair of humanoid pandas — was dreamed up by renowned production studio Century 21, founded by British TV producer and film director Gerry Anderson."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/09/style/candy-andy-bearandas-book/index.html
@see_the_sus OMG! I think I could turn this into a horror story. Haha
Is @FrankCannon familiar with this? Maybe @BillyBones ?
@see_the_sus 🙀 Wow, no! I know all of the other shows & things mentioned and loved them at the time. Weirdly, seeing those stills makes me feel that this really could have worked back then, and as kids we wouldn't have found it *that* horrific!
Since we're alike in many ways, I wonder whether @FrankCannon agrees with my initial thought that this looks like it would have worked as a cross between Joe 90 & Rupert Bear (one of my fave puppet progs as a kid) 🤔
Watched a smidge of Rupert and I wanna know who the blue critter is!
@see_the_sus That's Raggety! He's a grumpy wood-troll made of sticks 😁
@see_the_sus And a side note. When I was 4 years old I used my birthday money to buy my first two 45's. One was the theme from Rupert The Bear. The other was The Six Teens by Sweet. A foretelling of the rest of my life, really 😝
Four years old?!? And birthday money at that age? Damn, I'd have liked to have your childhood!
I can't remember exactly how old I was when I bought my first album but it definitely wouldn't have been for several more years. I think it might have been Andy Gibb's Shadow Dancing, which I still have, and if so then it was '78 and I'd have been eight.
@see_the_sus I know I had *some* birthday money, but honestly it was probably a case of me begging for those two records and my parents telling me I had enough money for them 😆
Plus, I think singles were 45p each in 1974, which will have been the equivalent of less than a dollar at that time 👍
As for yours, that's very impressive and it's fantastic that you've still got it! I'm fairly sure @ShazzaRazza had the same album. I know she was quite the Andy Gibb fan too 💜
I was devastated when he died. I was watching morning news before heading to school, (I was a senior in high school), when the announcement was made. 😢