The 80s was a decade of firsts. Never before had a television channel given up virtually all of its schedule to one event, but that's what the BBC did in the summer of 1985.

Between 1978 and 1984, there was a rapid transitional period which took us from the mindset of the Village People’s YMCA , to Giorgio...

Double Science on Friday afternoon in late July, 1989 was the only time I ever fell asleep in school. Now this wasn't because of a...

The cartoon's name stemmed from a game which was originally created in 1974, and fell under the umbrella category of the 'Role-Playing Game’ or RPG genre, which in the 1980's would go on to cause a furore throughout schools across the UK.

In this post we’ll be looking at some classic songs that only reached Number 3 in the UK music charts in the 1980s. Some of them you might have thought ranked higher, but in reality they maxed out in third position when they were released. Some of them might surprise you.

When it comes to jaw-dropping beauty, choreography, soundtrack and cinematography - as in the sort which makes you literally stop what you are doing, fade into silence and pay full attention when it appears on screen - there is one advert from the 1980s which to this day would easily hold its own up against the ultra-high definition graphics of the 2020s.

No nostalgia blog would be complete without the occasional quiz challenge, and Time Chair readers are much smarter than the average bear. So Let’s get Quizzical and test your knowledge of 1970s and 1980s music using minimal prompts.

In the early Spring of 1978, the six-part children’s television series, Come Back Lucy was aired for the first time in the UK. The programme was an ATV adaptation by Colin Schindler and Gail Renard of a 1973 short story by Pamela Sykes.

Are you playing out after tea? In the days before we were inclined for various reasons to stay indoors, the opposite was true.

Promoter Barry Hearne had established the Matchroom Mob, and musicians Chas and Dave would go on to deliver the novelty track, Snooker Loopy the following year.

Historically, the last day of term would herald the rollout of the school disco, and even though we were approaching the end of the decade and technology had made huge leaps forward, our disco lagged somewhat behind and still looked like something out of the late 1970s.

In this post, we’ll look at some of the title sequences that had some of us convinced that we did indeed live in quaint opulence, even if the discarded television sets and pushchairs in the alleyways suggested otherwise.

Do you remember that one teacher from your primary school who you were terrified of?

There was a time not so long ago, when shorts were actually short, and for two hours each week, even in the depths of mid-winter, you and your classmates would be frogmarched to the local playing fields or the outdoor netball courts for your games lesson.

A Yorkshire firefighter called Peter Hall, who claimed that undamaged prints of a popular painting were being frequently found amidst the ruins of unusual house fires.

Originating in the 1970s at the peak of the Disco era, the Roller Disco didn’t find its feet in the UK until the mid -1980s.

"...I wanna spin around and roll, and give it every bit of soul, so come along... Let's have a break dance party..." B reak Machine...

Whilst keeping a firm grip on the bar, I stretched my legs downwards. There was no pool floor to be found. This was it. This was the moment. If I let go of the bar now and did what I'd done before, there was no reason why I couldn’t stay in the top metre of the water.

I'd watched the film Jaws many times, but it wasn't the shark which was the issue for me, it was the water itself. For those of you who can’t swim or were late learners, I think you know where this is headed, so strap yourselves in.

“The Big Snow” as it became known in the press, was the result of a cold wave over the UK which formed in early December 1981 and would last until late January 1982.

For many children in the 1970s and 80s, extremes were common and had to be endured; not avoided. Most of our understanding of the world came by way of direct interaction with it, and not by simply reading about it or looking at images on a screen like we do today.