Product Description

"Look-in: The Best of the Eighties" is a collection of some of the most memorable and nostalgic picture strip stories, interviews and features to have appeared in the top kids' magazine of the decade.Also referred to as the "Junior TVTimes", "Look-in" was first published in 1971 and ran all the way through to 1994. During the 1980s, the magazine was at its peak, changing its cover design in 1981 to use photographs rather than the old artwork, but retaining the picture strips that everyone loved so much.As well as picture story strips based on TV shows like "Robin of Sherwood" or "Dangermouse", the eighties' "Look-in" featured the stories of pop stars in picture strips - "Duran Duran", "Wham!", "Bucks Fizz", "Madness", "Bros", "A-ha", and many more.In addition, the magazine offered behind-the-scenes glimpses of kids' favourite TV shows, interviews with pop, sport, TV and movie stars, pin-ups, quizzes and features on everything from skateboarding and BMX to popular science.Of course, the magazine continued to list broadcast highlights specifically of interest to kids for all of the different ITV regions, continuing to earn its ranking as the "Junior TV Times" and making itself an indispensable item in households all over the UK!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21749 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

About the Author
Graham Kibble-White is a journalist and one of the creators of popular nostalgia website www.tv.cream.org The TV Editor at Inside Soap magazine, he previously spent a year as the Press Association's TV Writer in London. By night, he's also the creator and editor of the "admirably joined-up TV-absorption site" (says the Observer) www.offthetelly.co.uk. He has written freelance for various TV-related magazines, including Radio Times, TV Times, TV Quick and TV Choice. In 2002, he penned Twenty Years of Brookside for Carlton Books and in 2005 he edited, compiled (and created the cover for) TV Cream: The Ultimate Guide to '70s and '80s Pop Culture (Virgin Books) and wrote The Ultimate Book Of British Comics (Allison & Busby).

Customer Reviews

Look-in back over the years
When I discovered this purely by chance on the amazon website, I was initially very excited, as I was a huge fan of look-in magazine during the 1980's and bought a copy every wednesday for years, so when I actually received it and had a peek at it, I was disappointed to find that there was nothing from the mid 1980's featured in it, it was mostly material and features from earlier in the decade and not from the later stages, unlike the smash hits yearbook covering the same decade, which covered virtually everything I remembered from that time; I was also a smash hits devotee you see, and it's a real pity that both look-in and smash hits are no longer in circulation, for they were both iconic publications in the 1980's, and now the only way to get any piece of these magazines is via such things as yearbooks. The look-in yearbook sadly did not live up to my expectations at all, and I would only recommend it for those of you who are into retro items from the 1980's, otherwise,don't give it a second look.

Well worth a Look (in).
Back in the day, Look In was the must have magazine for anyone growing up in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s, and this collection from the era of Adam Ant, Buck Rogers and Robin of Sherwood is a must have. Brilliantly researched and compiled, this should send a wave of fuzzy nostalgia over any thirty and fortsomething. Recommended.

Pure nostalgia from cover to cover
I bought this book and "Look-in the Best of the Seventies" as a present for my sister. I had a sneak read through them before wrapping them and found them amusing and nostalgic. My sister was very pleased with them too.
The popular culture of the era is captured very well by these annuals. There are comic-strip versions of various TV programmes of the time and endless articles about the pop stars and celebrities of the day.
Either of them would make a nice gift to someone in their 30s or 40s who hasn't quite grown up yet.