The joys of 80s TV

A cursory glimpse at UKTV Gold is enough to show us that 80s TV has never really gone away.

If you've been at home during the day recently, there's a good chance that you caught an episode of Cagney and Lacey (with all the horrors of Mary-Beth's dropwaist dresses) or saw Rodney and Del Boy smash that chandelier for the umpteenth time in Only Fools and Horses.

And as for children's TV - do Bagpuss, Basil Brush and The A-Team ring any bells?

But what about the TV ads? What were we watching then? Personnel Today has put together its own top 10. They are in no particular order:

Shakin Stevens' greatest hits

 

 

Ruth Madoc: Wispa

 

Labatt's Lager: Tony Slattery as Malcolm the Mountie

 

California Raisins: I heard it through the grapevine

 

 

Jim Bowen: KFC

 

 

Pontins - a deeply strange advert

 

 

ZX Spectrum: fascinating for the product, rather than the ad

 

Monster Munch

 

 

Carling Black Label

 

 

 

And finally, one for the ladies:

 

Enjoy these, but shed a tear, perhaps, for the ones we've lost.

• For the kids: Inch High Private Eye, Supergran, and the fantastic Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, a cartoon with heart.
• And for the adults: Howards' Way, Just Good Friends and Bergerac, otherwise known as Midsommer Murders on sea.