Life on Mars (B.B.C.1). Does this programme take anyone else back in time?

I'm of a generation that used to dress like they do in this programme, and I used to own a Mark 3 Cortina. A time with no mobile 'phones, credit cards, laptops, X- boxes, D.V.D.'s or even video recorders. If you're of my generation, tell me... How did we survive?

Life on Mars (B.B.C.1). Does this programme take anyone else back in time?
same as......but didnt we have some fun?!!
Reply:We did not survive - we lived! (Male, fifty years old)
Reply:Easily! We were a generation that made our own entertainment or went out to see friends etc. We didn't expect to sit on our backsides all day being entertained in our own homes. We were thinner, fitter and less stressed. Having said that, I now own all those things!
Reply:i was 11 in 1973 but we had star trek and the planet of the apes things started to move fast when the first home computer came out in 81 it is better no than in 73 and is 79 we had that tyrant thatcher
Reply:havent watched it is it good
Reply:I missed it tonight,wish i could go back in time and watch it. Conkers,scrumping,playing soldiers or cowboys and indians, making go karts.Happy days,i wanna get comatose :o) Too many hi-tech games etc now.Kids have forgotten how to play together.
Reply:Hi, I was born in 74 and have only seen bits of Life on Mars as I didn't see the first couple of episodes....





I saw the beginning tonight with the Rag and Bone Man and had a surreal trip back in time... mentioned it to my husband (born 73!) and found out that his village had one too....





I suppose he's been replaced by ebay!!
Reply:It's funny you know, as a similar trhing happened to me when I was in a coma. The difference was that I became a 1970's male porn star with a big moustache and a cheesy grin and I didnt want to go back.
Reply:I just love that programme because I'm 17 again when I watch it, the clothes were brilliant even if funny looking now, the music was brilliant, life was so carefree in those days, oh I think we survived very well, we knew how to have fun more in those days.
Reply:I was 20 in 1973, wore flared jeans and Indian embroidered t-shirts, hair down to me waist, left home for the first time and used to hang out at Leeds University union trippin' and stoned. Didn't need video games when we had LSD......lol
Reply:Wonderful awful diabolical cloths, but just the business. My hubby almost collapsed when he saw me in my hot-pants in psychedelic colours, my kids just disowned me. We did our own thing without everyone breathing down our necks all the time.





What about the hairs styles , they were something else as was medallion man and the long Russian style coats with a fur ruffles at the collar.





Wonderful programme and authentic to the letter. Even Oldham's town hall relic of the fifties is featured in all it's pitiful glory.





PS what about the bench seats in the Cortina many a baby conceived on those car seats.
Reply:I remember the attire but was too Young to drive. And am eagerly awaiting the second season. All show should be like that with a set time run. A beginning and an end. Not some great mystery that never gets resolved because it gets cancelled.
Reply:You bet it does.Its like the "SWEENEY" but a lot better.
Reply:Hi my partner is a cop and also about the same age to remember the stuff like he said he always wanted the car tonight in the second episode (we turned over to bbc4) I had to laugh when the fella pinched female cops ****, and that would never happen now, thank God. Yes I remember lots of bits and bobs ( born 69) like the evening news sellers. We also live here in manchester so are always pointing out bits of Town we recognise. It is very good.
Reply:it's a blast from the past for me, what i like is that it doesn't show stereotypical 70's images, for instances the interiors of most houses have old 50's style furniture, which is what most people had as they couldn't afford everything habitat style etc.
Reply:I was 20 in 1970, and I had just got my first flat away from the parents. I loved the late 60s and 70s, happiest years of my life. Life was a lot harder then but its all we knew. If I'm to be honest I prefered it as the worlds not a nice place anymore. I still have some of my orignal clothes from back then, my youngest daughter now wears them with pride, telling everyone ' yep this is an orignal not a poor copy '. bless her, oh to be that age again.

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