Nostalgia Time: The Great Egg Race

A lot of the youngsters on here won't know what I'm talking about, but back in the stone age (1970's - 1980's) we had a fantastic tv show called The Great Egg Race.

BBC Magazine Article

Fronted by the excellently eccentric Prof. Heinz Wolff, it was a great programme and now the BBC have digitised it:

BBC - Archive - The Great Egg Race - Cracking feats of engineering

At the time it was one of the best things ever on tv but perhaps I'm a bit biased.

And there was the delectable Charlotte Allen, the thinking-man's totty, as a bonus:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...teallen112.jpg

I happen to bump into Heinz Wolff quite a bit round my way. [ Brunel only round the corner from me - and boy would I love to work there ] - one of my fav TV shows - seem to remember it being a BBC2 show.

BBC - Archive - Tomorrow's World - Tomorrow's World | Mobile Phone

I quite like this one too!!

Tomorrow's World, and the mobile phone!

Crikey! And whatever happened to Michael Rodd?

There's more too!

Keiran Prenderville (Pre or Post That's Life???), Judith Hann, James Burke......All great names from my childhood!!!

The thing is....it's almost like I can remember some of those individual reports, from the time. I'm sure it musty just be a trick of the memory...but that phone......

I used to watch Tomorrow's World all the time and remember quite clearly a lot of the programmes even though you're talking nearly forty years ago.

I quite like what they are doing with Bang Goes The Theory ... I still miss The Great Egg Race and Tomorrow's World though ...

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Originally Posted by GrumbleDook

I quite like what they are doing with Bang Goes The Theory ... I still miss The Great Egg Race and Tomorrow's World though ...

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Bang Goes The Theory is a complete rip off of Mythbusters. last nights Ice boat was done by Mythbusters + a few more. I find Mythbusters much better.