"I'M A TOMORROW PERSON" Seventies Super T-Shirts (1976)

We haven't talked about The Tomorrow People yet but we will.  For now though I'm going to assume you have a passing knowledge that its a Classis 70's kids show that almost spanned the entire decade.  Its Sci-fi.  And its about the next step in human evolution.  Look-in used to love The Tomorrow People and Mike Holoway.  Here they are using him to model their exclusive Tomorrow People T-Shirt. (available in white or yellow at a cost of 99p plus 20p P+P)

Now that's a super T-Shirt.  Anyone wearing that in the summer of 76 was going to look pretty cool in the queue for the standpipe.


Steve

Look-in #3 (1972)

The cover star is Catweazle, an eccentric 11th century wizard who accidentally travels through time to the year 1969.  And the competitions are all about the Apollo moon missions.  Magic and rocket science in equal billing.  This is 1972.

 

 

Steve

Look-in #15 (1975)

 

 

 

Steve

SKY (1975)

It's almost 4:50 on Monday the 7th of April 1975.

 

We have just the one television set in our house at this time and we're watching ATV(1) on it.

I've only just turned seven a few weeks back and with an older sister and brother in the living room with me, its doubtful I'm calling the shots as to what we we're about to watch.  Jackanory is on BBC1 which is an easy pass most weeks but after that its Blue Peter(2) and everybody likes that. Why not today then?  Somebody must know of something better.

 

The TV-Times rests on the arm of the sofa, with the beguiling Jane Seymour illustrating the final episode of The Hanged Man. Its also the "Year of the Yo-yo" apparently and there's a chance to win an Estate Car as well. (insert era appropriate jokes about British Leyland(3) here!)  No clues on the cover of that then.

 

My brother had Look-In magazine back then so perhaps it's him that knows what's coming on next.  That's probably it. Look-In is published every Thursday and is billed as the Junior TV-Times.  As well as the usual listings for all the regional TV suitable for 70's youth, the latest edition is also sporting a full colour painted cover of a strange young man with eldritch eyes.  He looks like an angel or a warlock and he's standing in front of Stonehenge, flanked by bright yellow copy that reads;

 

"Great new sci-fi adventure series SKY starts on TV"

 

There you go then, at least that's one mystery solved, although its worth noting that this kind of sci-fi adventure will become increasingly alien (pun fully intended) to my big brother as the years role by.

 

"What's this about?" I probably ask as its starts.  "Shut up and watch it" they say.  And I do

...and I'm hooked.... forever

It's now the 30th of May 2016 and some time has passed.

I've just watched episode 1 of SKY again for the umpteenth time and it still feels very special.  Its one of those shows that got into my DNA, partly because of the age I first saw it but mainly because of the story telling.  It's quirky and dangerous and the answers don't come easy.  You have to properly watch it and you have to think about it and if you do that then it just keeps giving.

Or at the very least it keeps transporting you back to a time when the answers were enigmatic and powerful and could only be half grasped.

"The Juganet is a circle. The circle is a machine. The machine is a crossover point. The point is a paramagnetic intersection. That is where I must be"

 

And I probably am.

 

 

Steve
 

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