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Tomorrow's World

Addickted
Addickted Posts: 19,456
edited May 2017 in Not Sports Related
The TV programme that predicted the mobile 'phone, the home computer, chip and pin, touch screen technology and plastic grass, makes its return to our screens later this year on BBC.

Alas, no Raymond Baxter, William Woollard or Judith Hann.

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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,406
    terrific intro music
    https://youtu.be/ERaF-h8UhvU
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    Loved TW as a kid and Raymond Baxter was a Spitfire pilot in WW2. A bloody hero.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,406
    Baxter also did a lot of commentating/punditing on motor sport .. and what about James Burke ? ..he was the main man on a few very good BBC science programmes
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,641
    Greenie said:

    Loved TW as a kid and Raymond Baxter was a Spitfire pilot in WW2. A bloody hero.

    Used to love him commentating on the Farnborough air shows
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,627
    Lincsaddick said:

    Baxter also did a lot of commentating/punditing on motor sport .. and what about James Burke ? ..he was the main man on a few very good BBC science programmes

    James Burke - seriously intelligent man - very good at explaining complicated things to the 'common man'

    I used to have a bit of a schoolboy crush thing for Judith Hann
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,627
    edited May 2017
    Who is the bloke with dark hair on the right ?
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,976
    Shame they couldn't have predicted the life and times of Roland Duchatelet. We could have turned off the lights, shut the curtains, and pretended nobody was home when he arrived to speak to Slater and co.
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,415
    DaveMehmet said:

    Greenie said:

    Loved TW as a kid and Raymond Baxter was a Spitfire pilot in WW2. A bloody hero.

    Used to love him commentating on the Farnborough air shows
    RB was an ex RAF fighter pilot.

    Also - Michael Rodd had a bit of time on TW as I recall.
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,288
    Lordflashheart said:

    Who is the bloke with dark hair on the right ?

    Howard Staplesomething?
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,234
    Great prog.

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  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    was the Sinclair c5 car launched on Tomorrow's World.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,406
    Bournemouth Addick said:

    Lordflashheart said:

    Who is the bloke with dark hair on the right ?

    Howard Staplesomething?
    right .. good memory .. Howard Stapleford ..
  • TellyTubby
    TellyTubby Posts: 3,559
    Excellent news. Will look forward to that.

    I wonder if they will do a feature each episode showing old features?
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,384
    I always remember a new fireproofing material on TW. They put paper in a metal box then smothered the box with this wonder stuff and then lit a fire around it.
    Needless to say the obvious happened, the paper was to ash.
  • Redskin
    Redskin Posts: 3,126
    DamoNorthStand said:

    Shame they couldn't have predicted the life and times of Roland Duchatelet. We could have turned off the lights, shut the curtains, and pretended nobody was home when he arrived to speak to Slater and co.

    Give it a rest for fuck's sake.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Could never get me head around Maggie Filbin being married to Keith fuckin Chegwin. Real early crush of mine she was
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,055
    I remember one episode where they showed a CD smothered in jam placed in a CD player and it still worked.

    Sod trying that in my own CD player!
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    JohnBoyUK said:

    I remember one episode where they showed a CD smothered in jam placed in a CD player and it still worked.

    Sod trying that in my own CD player!

    Was a three piece band from Woking?
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,816
    JohnBoyUK said:

    I remember one episode where they showed a CD smothered in jam placed in a CD player and it still worked.

    Sod trying that in my own CD player!

    I think it was Bob Marley's CD player.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    JohnBoyUK said:

    I remember one episode where they showed a CD smothered in jam placed in a CD player and it still worked.

    Sod trying that in my own CD player!

    VHS alwats worked covered in Harry

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  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,627
    JohnBoyUK said:

    I remember one episode where they showed a CD smothered in jam placed in a CD player and it still worked.

    Sod trying that in my own CD player!

    That was Swap Shop with Noel Edmonds !!!
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,627
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:

    Could never get me head around Maggie Filbin being married to Keith fuckin Chegwin. Real early crush of mine she was

    They divorced due to Cheggers drink problems
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,288
    edited May 2017
    Lincsaddick said:

    Bournemouth Addick said:

    Lordflashheart said:

    Who is the bloke with dark hair on the right ?

    Howard Staplesomething?
    right .. good memory .. Howard Stapleford ..
    That's the fella.

    Loved a bit of Tomorrow's World as a kid. What a future I was going to have. Robots doing everything in my fully automated, self cleaning, house, rocket packs to whizz about on, self driving hover cars, holographic entertainment systems, the lot!

    Gits.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,406
    Bournemouth Addick said:

    Lincsaddick said:

    Bournemouth Addick said:

    Lordflashheart said:

    Who is the bloke with dark hair on the right ?

    Howard Staplesomething?
    right .. good memory .. Howard Stapleford ..
    That's the fella.

    Loved a bit of Tomorrow's World as a kid. What a future I was going to have. Robots doing everything in my fully automated, self cleaning, house, rocket packs to whizz about on, self driving hover cars, holographic entertainment systems, the lot!

    Gits.
    lol .. instead we are now all slaves to 'technology'
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,818
    didn't they say that by 2000 we'd all be working a 3 day week as computers would be able to do most jobs. All computers have done is to replace a lot of the workforce, esp in car manufacturing and people are having to work harder, for longer.

    I do remember one programme showing a new type of fuel for airplanes that wouldnt burn or create smoke if the plane crashed. Seemed like a great product but no idea if it has ever been used.
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,976
    Redskin said:

    DamoNorthStand said:

    Shame they couldn't have predicted the life and times of Roland Duchatelet. We could have turned off the lights, shut the curtains, and pretended nobody was home when he arrived to speak to Slater and co.

    Give it a rest for fuck's sake.
    Sorry Katrien
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,864
    :smiley:

    https://youtu.be/L7L3iSZsNpY

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