Smoke-filled, flannel optional (Gen X Lounge)

[UnquietDreams]

I shall look for Zelazney's book
Long Live the PizzaaaLord!!!

Zelazny is my favorite author, and loved to play with archetypes and what it meant to be a hero. Lonesome October was made partially as a bet of "I can make Jack the Ripper a hero."

Also?
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[NakedStoryLover]

Used to watch Hammer House of Horror, and back to back Horror movies on the weekend with my Gran on BBC2 in the summer holidays
Boris Karloff , Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee

Thank you for checking in from the UK!

 

[UnquietDreams]

I’m late GenX and grew up on Nickelodeon. Did anyone else in the US (or Canada maybe?) have lots of British shows on Nick - like the Tomorrow People? Or maybe that was on PBS. Or do any Brits remember late 70s/early 80s kids sci-fi/fantasy shows?

As a kid, just Doctor Who for the most part, on PBS.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Holy shit I haven't thought about that in years! I used to love it and be scared of it too.
Similar love/fear movies from way back were Watership Down and The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. Honourable mention to The Dark Crystal of course but Supergirl too weirdly

Watership Down was originally rated "G: For All Audiences," the rating for little kids shows. It scared a generation.

 

[inkandiridiumnibs]

Zelazny is my favorite author, and loved to play with archetypes and what it meant to be a hero. Lonesome October was made partially as a bet of "I can make Jack the Ripper a hero."

Also?
https://iili.io/3khOaXs.jpg

Hell YAH!!!
Butters Battle Chant!

 

[inkandiridiumnibs]

The Tomorrow people, Blake's 7, Space 1999, UFO, all them?

did you know that Martin Landau and Barbara Bain were married when they did Space 1999 together, and that Barbara also did Mission:Impossible also with Martin, as well as Leonard Nimoy

 

[RosewoodTulip]

Watership Down was originally rated "G: For All Audiences," the rating for little kids shows. It scared a generation.

It sure did but I adored it. Knew all the words to Bright Eyes and sang it constantly. It's only when I went to show my son and he was terrified that I realised it was maybe a smidge too intense

 

[NakedStoryLover]

Used to watch Hammer House of Horror, and back to back Horror movies on the weekend with my Gran on BBC2 in the summer holidays
Boris Karloff , Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee

What place does Dr. Who hold in the British GenX experience?

Tom Baker was the first Doctor I remember, but I wasn't a big fan during those days

 

[inkandiridiumnibs]

It sure did but I adored it. Knew all the words to Bright Eyes and sang it constantly. It's only when I went to show my son and he was terrified that I realised it was maybe a smidge too intense

Watership Down was originally rated "G: For All Audiences," the rating for little kids shows. It scared a generation.

The book was required reading in 4th or 5th grade...
Riki Tiki Tavi
A Cricket in Times Square
Secret of Nihm
Charlotte's Web
also had that "Oh..." moment at the time.

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

I've come to realize that my GenX street cred is surprisingly important to me.

Music, movies, thought, and (yes) nostalgia from that time can often lift my spirits as I navigate the full-time world of adulting in middle age.

So, I invite my fellow GenXers to share their favorite cultural and life recollections from that messy period of latchkey afternoons, grunge, MTV, Cold War, etc.

Or not. Whatever.

Latch key kid here!!
All of it!! Born 1974

 

[inkandiridiumnibs]

Just...to...uh...add to my "Latch Key Cred"...I was creating DnD characters before the "Official" DnD guide came out...it is safe to say, my "Fan Fiction" Mother got herself into the Beta Testing...

 

[lavendersilk]

Born 1974

I never would have guessed!

 

[NakedStoryLover]

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[NakedStoryLover]

The book was required reading in 4th or 5th grade...
Riki Tiki Tavi
A Cricket in Times Square
Secret of Nihm
Charlotte's Web
also had that "Oh..." moment at the time.

I loved the Riki Tiki Tavi TV cartoon! One of the lost classics.

 

[Apisto42]

Or not. Whatever.

. This. Very genX of me to be “whatever”.

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

I still talk like a valley girl

 

[cheekygirl75]

I've got the emerging GenX Boston accent, which apparently sounds Canadian. Which I'm not mad about. (yes, I say "aboot")

 

[Mo_Bandy]

I watched Star Wars in the 80s and that was plenty for me.

 

[inkandiridiumnibs]

I still talk like a valley girl

Fer Real? Fer Sure Even

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

Fer Real? Fer Sure Even

I say totally , dude, oh my God

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

I watched Star Wars in the 80s and that was plenty for me.

Same, I watched it because when it first came out, it was the movie to go see..
But I never remained interested..

 

[Apisto42]

I say totally , dude, oh my God

Most righteous of you dude.

 

[joclfc]

What place does Dr. Who hold in the British GenX experience?

Tom Baker was the first Doctor I remember, but I wasn't a big fan during those days

Well my first Doctor would be Jon Pertwee, early 70's remember hiding behind a sofa during one episode

 

[joclfc]

We also had a lot of American TV shows over here like Happy Days, wait till you're father gets home , Mork and Mindy

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Same, I watched it because when it first came out, it was the movie to go see..
But I never remained interested..

People now revolve who life around it. I have not seen any new stuff.