Product Description

"Look-in", aka "Junior TVTimes", was the essential subscription for children growing up in Britain in the 1970s. It offered behind-the-scenes glimpses of their favourite TV shows, interviews with stars, pin-ups and TV spin-off picture-strip adventures. With exciting installments of "Black Beauty", "The Six Million Dollar Man", and "Sapphire and Steele", hilarious "Robin's Nest", "On The Buses" and "Please Sir!" picture strips, features on "TisWas," "Junior Show Time" and "How", an exclusive Roger Moore interview and pin-up and much, much more, this compulsive book takes you back to a time when we had three TV channels, we listened to LPs and singles on our record players, our crackly transistors were tuned to 275/285m Medium Wave for Radio 1, and the Bionic Man could have all that work done for a mere $6m.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85247 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-03
• 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. He's just become TV Editor at Inside Soap magazine, after spending 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, SFX, ScriptWriter, TV Quick, TV Choice, Total TV Guide and TV & Satellite Week.

Customer Reviews

Are you a tragic seventies nostalgia buff? Join the club!
There is a character in The League of Gentlemen called Les McQueen, a clapped-out glam rocker forever trapped in the seventies like an insect in amber. Well, why not? To those of us of a (cough!) certain age, the seventies were a magical decade - just look at how everyone lapped up Life on Mars!

And few things bring back the seventies more vividly than this wonderful collection from Look-In magazine. Yes, it was 'the junior TV Times', but that doesn't really do it justice: it was quite simply the decade in magazine form. The editors have been deliberately playful with their choices of material, picking things that have endured and things that obviously haven't (Our Kid, Flintlock). But it's all there: the music; the fashions; the telly. The comic strips are actually pretty compelling, too: I particularly liked The Bionic Woman and The Adventures of Black Beauty.

Cracking stuff!

Look-in(g) good!
The classic weekly read compressed into hardback form for a new generation; where else would you find those ITV region logos? A cracking stocking filler with a Proustian rush on every page.

Outstanding
A fantastic compilation, brilliantly edited. A must for any 30 and 40 something wanting to take a trip down memory lane.