[retired_princesspouty]

We used to eat Bacon-Rolly-Polly!! \o/

[retired_princesspouty]

Originally posted by Sir Bert Preast:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Retro:
Well ok I agree it does still exist, but the threat was greater, at least in the public consciousness in the early 80's.

Of course I was a kid then so that certainly would impact on my perception.

I remember asking my dad if we'd survive.

"Fook no you little twat, we live right on top of a major port"

oh

Shouldn't really say stuff like that to a 10 year old. </BLOCKQUOTE>
I lived near Aldershot, and RAF Odiham and not too far from the AWE!! We were toast!

My older brother was the harbinger of doom in my case.

[hanouda]

Still stands out and is one of the most underrated things the BBC has done. So well thought out and executed given the obvious budget limitations.

I always thought I'd do quite well in a post-apocalyptic survival situation tbqph I could eat raw sheep.

[retired_princesspouty]

I just remembered something - when I was about 10 I used to sit in the bedroom I shared with my brother and watch late night TV with him. He was 5 years older than me so I was watching stuff I shouldn't have been.

We watched Salem's Lot and it scared the living crap out of me. So when it finished my brother had the bright idea of watching Carl Sagan's programme to take my mind off it. Good idea, until Dr Sagan began talking about the effects of Nuclear War and it's impending inevitability.

So not only was I afraid to close the curtains in case a Vampire appeared at the window, but I had the double-whammy of contemplating a rather nasty nuclear-induced early death too.

Happy days.

[retired_fabricodalacosta]

We watched Salem's Lot and it scared the living crap out of me

The young lad's mate (who had turned into a vampire), knocking on his window. :eek:

[retired_princesspouty]

Originally posted by Big Geordie:
<BLOCKQUOTE>We watched Salem's Lot and it scared the living crap out of me

The young lad's mate (who had turned into a vampire), knocking on his window. :eek: </BLOCKQUOTE>
Yep - "Mark - let me in."

My brother recently got it on DVD - he remembers that night vividly as well. I think he wants to unleash it on his own kids, the bastard.

"come here... watch this. Stop crying it never did me any harm!!"

[retired_SingleMan]

Watched it the other month and still found it as scary as the first time I seen in in the 80s.

There are a few other similar films which are also frightening. Sure, their special effects may not match today's standards but the general message remains the same.

I live 10 miles from Edinburgh and 25 miles from Torness nuclear power station. Don't fancy my chances if it ever happened...

[retired_ball3248]

Kids have got it bloody easy these days - roaming the streets at all hours drinking alcohol, beating up teachers and escaping on their wheeled shoe machines.

I on the other hand lived in a constant state of dread from nuclear war delivered in serious tones by John Craven, and a constant dread of getting my foot stuck in a train track if I ever went near one. Or fire burning me and my mum and dad alive during the night because of a discarded cigarette

Although cigarette sweets and sherbert dib dabs tended to take my mind off things a little, it was still a traumatic era.

[retired_bec8643]

Originally posted by Frankie:
Watched it the other month and still found it as scary as the first time I seen in in the 80s.

There are a few other similar films which are also frightening. Sure, their special effects may not match today's standards but the general message remains the same.

I live 10 miles from Edinburgh and 25 miles from Torness nuclear power station. Don't fancy my chances if it ever happened...

Yeah they showed one about a pit collapsing or something done by Barry Hines also, subsequently got banned after the bbc had showed it.

[retired_truelizes]

Another good nuclear themed film was "When the Wind Blows". That unsettled me loads.