Wow memories indeed Steve 🎉 very retro memories I remember my late parents wearing 3d glasses for watching a movie I think it was jaws at the time around 1983 but perhaps I could be wrong but fantastic memories all the same 👍
Jaws 3D was the biggest 3D-promoting film at the time. It was actually the only 3D film I got to see from back then. And memories? You're not kidding - reading a Look-In in 2024 is like necking a full pint-pot of liquid nostalgia in one gulp!
Excellent Steve, I was also a regular Look-in reader and used to get the annuals too! I remember getting a plastic Skull ring similar to Adam Ants, but it ended up having to be cut off my finger due to it becoming stuck, I'll never forget that incident! 😢 I , also like you was a big fan of Bucks Fizz, and still am, although now they're the Fizz. Thanks for posting.👍🏻
Ohh, that 3d , E.T photo .., with E ( on a first initial basis with him..) on the bike basket, .i was there !! next to the camera ... 3 days of being a policeman....what memories
Fantastic video, i got goosebumps watching this. Thanks so much for the mention in the comments 😀 I will upload that family vhs 📼 video to my channel at some point with the Mr.T poster from Look-In magazine in the background on my wall. Marmalade Atkins gets a mention here, I'd forgotten all about her until now and I chose the Marmalade Atkins series of books from school book club too "Marmalade Atkins in space" springs to mind that must have been my favourite. Thanks for an enjoyable nostalgic trip RetroSteve 🙌 Edit - forgot to say i'm now looking for a pair of 3D glasses and some old copies of Look-In on ebay 😁👍
You're welcome, and thanks for the contribution. I've thrown your channel a sub so if/when you upload that home video I'll check it out. As for the eBay search .. I can't recommend it enough. These old Look-ins are pure nostalgia in a bottle!
@@RetroSpectives Thanks so much for the sub, much appreciated. I need to edit the video and will upload the clip of my old arcade machines and the poster capture soon 👍
@@RetroSpectivesI've uploaded a short clip from the family vhs 📼 featuring my pub space invaders machine, fruit machine and home base CB radio 😀 I've got a bit mixed up the Look-In Mr.T poster is in a family photo on my wall some years earlier, the video is from Christmas 1988 and I had Look-In Kylie Minogue posters on the wall, although you don't see them in the edited video. Once again thanks for the memories and great to have some vhs 📼 retro footage up my channel 👍
@@CoolhandLuke552 Yes, I watched that earlier on. It came up on my subs list. I did look for the poster - that'll explain why I couldn't see it! 🤣 Great to see all those arcade machines running in your home!! Must've felt realy special, and the CB stuff - that takes me RIGHT back. I forget the details - did you have someone in the family who worked in the industry?
@@RetroSpectives Ah that's great thanks for watching 👍 The only person in the industry was myself really as I went onto manage a travelling arcade on the funfair and later was an engineer for a games machine company installing and repairing fruit machines games machines and jukeboxes in the pubs and clubs on the road.
I'm surprised to learn Look In was still being published in 1983 (the year I left school). I distinctly recall my brother reading it in the early '70s but I'm sure I never bought it / had it bought for me. My choices of periodical journal at a similar age (to you reading Look In - i.e. circa mid-to-late-'70s for me) were a magazine 'hosted by' BBC radio DJ Stew 'Stewpot' Stewart which was dedicated to indigenous flora and fauna (stagnant ponds and whatnot) and a football magazine. Don't recall either title. What is etched on my memory is the parental gestapo vetting process I had to endure to secure the stagnant pond blurb. On one hand, it might change the habits of a reluctant reader. On the other hand, they resented diversion of funds from their own toys-and-sweets kitty. They relented on the proviso that I qualify as a Professor of Biology within six editions. I squandered those six editions' grace and was freighted off to a concentration camp. For the record, I was genuine about an interest in pondlife. There was a sublimely abandoned wild meadow within walking distance of home which was about my only outdoor diversion other than irking neighbours by kicking a ball against a wall over and over and over and over and over again and again and again and again and again. Years later it was homogenized by the council and turned into a sort of nature reserve / picnic area. I dare say it's been repurposed toward nuclear waste disposal in these enlightened times. Or just nurturing toxic substances per se. I'd have been reading music papers by 1983 and beyond - and gleaning the odd postal order or record voucher for written contributions. No nostalgia trip for me here, Stu, but a very interesting video nonetheless. I love the concept. By the way, 'Murphy's Mob' I do remember. Well, I remember that there was such a show and that (drumroll) Watford's Vicarage Road stadium was evidently used for location shots. I am nothing if not a font of trivia nuggets.
Look-In did have a surprisingly long 23-year run, from '71 to '94. The other two periodicals I remember most fondly were the extremely obscure "Things To Do" magazine, and the Beano's poorer cousin - Buster! I've always felt Buster comic had a better selection of memorable characters than Beano. I mean, come on - a kid that can 'scrunge' his face into different shapes, called Faceache, not to mention Ivor Lott and Tony Broke? What's not to like?
Don't sweat the mix-up; I figured it was an autocorrect typo. Besides, if you keep calling me Stu we could make it like an Only Fools & Horses tribute to Trigger and Delboy's brother, 'Dave'. 🤭
@@RetroSpectives - Your 'Buster' characters kind of ring a bell; it's more likely my baby brother received a hardback annual at Christmas than anyone having subscribed to the regular edition. Mutter und Vater invested modestly in a catalogue Christmas hamper club which appeared to comprise a pig-in-a-poke quotient - that was doled out on a remotely appropriate basis. Among myself, baby brother and baby sister. *Babier* older brother and both elder sisters routinely received dedicated gifts such as living unicorns, deeds to tropical islands, that sort of thing. Any volumes which weren't fastidiously curated for posteriority by the ancient siblings tended to churn among the glacier of household detritus year after year. I conceived the wizard jape of defacing and defaming the photographs within those volumes. Baby brother was roped into the caper and we'd take it in turns to 'spot the difference.' Anything but read the ruddy things, right? The Reich took a dim view but then I was committed to bolshy opposition from quite a young age. All in all, I reckon I've been proven right over the years. Intractable, at the least. During a forlorn punt at researching your 'Things to do' tome, I've untangled a Mandela effect regarding Stewpot Stewart. It seems he was the poster boy for Look In during my brother's era, nothing to do with my filthy pond gazette. Any detail of which is destined to elude me right up until I disintegrate into a filthy pond of myself. You've got to laugh. Well, it's not compulsory - much the same as I'll never suffer the received wisdom of 'Only Fools and Horses.' It had its moments, I admit. Witty quips. The overarching social commentary, however, is as maudlin and repressed as any romantic sub-plot explored in any Carry On film. And maybe even more sinister. The Carry-On portfolio at least obliged us with a buttock and part of a breast from an oblique angle. It's educational.
@herbert9241 Herbert, you write the best comments I've ever read on CZcams. I long to know more about your upbringing and caring, sharing parents (which sound uncannily like my own). Have you, by any chance, written a blog (or book)..?
Oh, this takes me back! I was a (and still am) a huge Transformers and Real Ghostbusters fan, so I was buying those as a kid, but, in a failed attempt to "grow up" I started buying Look-In, I'd say 87/88 maybe. The one I remember most was an 89 copy that featured the then new Ghostbusters II film. I remember being at my friend's house reading it together. There was an article about how much Bobby Brown was paid for the scene where he opens a door for the 'Busters, it's a few seconds, nothing long. I can't remember how much it was, but it was a big scandal at the time! I wonder if I still have that one? I do have all the GB stuff from the time so I probably would have it somewhere, will have to see if I can find it. I paused the video at the Adam Ant facts bit. Eating three Shredded Wheat gave me a chuckle! I'll have to dig out my 3D glasses and check out the images. Haven't done that in decades! Thanks for the great video, I'll sub for more. Cheers!
Lovely, thanks. 👍 The 3D still works really well; even better after I tweaked the contrast a little in Photoshop. As for the Shredded Wheat - you just triggered a forgotten memory. I once ate 4 for breakfast and thought I was amazing for doing so! Shows the power of advertising - in reality I was just being a greedy little bugger! 🤣
The amazing adventures of Bucks Fizz! While Look In were very good to the group, featuring Colour Centres and front covers for the majority of their singles, the picture strip can’t have helped their credibility, though I do remember an article saying Cheryl liked to read it cos it was fun and an adventure. Cheryl & Jay were two of the prettiest females in ‘80s pop, yet this first artist often made them look dog rough as seen here lol. Later in ‘83 there was a postcard from a star free gift for about 4 weeks, with a printed scrawled greeting from lots of popstars of the era. There was an inferior magazine with similar features around the same time called TV Tops, then a few years later the BBC got in on the act with the short lived Beeb magazine. I remember the ‘70s editions with the impressive painted covers too. There were often free gifts like Panini sticker albums to tie in with film releases or programmes, I remember a Star Wars one I think, and definitely a Dangermouse one, plus a Roland Rat frieze with removable stickers so you could create stories and scenes. Some of the readers drawings sent in were pretty shit weren’t they lol 😂 I remember the collect a page on the back cover, but some of the facts weren’t exactly revelationary, like the stars couldn’t be arsed to answer properly e.g. superstitions - none, favourite drink - anything refreshing lol.
This all sounds very familiar. Loads of forgotten memories triggered there. The free stickers I particularly remember. I know I managed to complete the Back To The Future Panini album. The free stickers with Look-in helped with that.
@@RetroSpectiveslol Steve knight rider was class especially the black trans am car KITT which I believe was Knights Industries Two Thousand and Twenty and the other trans am car was KARR the evil twin of KITT which was Knights Automatic Roving Robot 😅
one of my fav mags growing up..
Same here. Very affordable at that age, too.
Wow memories indeed Steve 🎉 very retro memories I remember my late parents wearing 3d glasses for watching a movie I think it was jaws at the time around 1983 but perhaps I could be wrong but fantastic memories all the same 👍
Jaws 3D was the biggest 3D-promoting film at the time. It was actually the only 3D film I got to see from back then. And memories? You're not kidding - reading a Look-In in 2024 is like necking a full pint-pot of liquid nostalgia in one gulp!
You're looking very dapper in your new specs, Retro Steve 😂 I remember this very issue of Lookin. I stared at those 3D pics for hours.
I'm pretty sure I had that one originally, too. Sadly now, with the 3D specs, I have to use them in conjunction with my reading glasses. 🤓
First time visitor to your channel. Won’t be my last, love it!
Thanks for popping by! 🙂
3-D was all the rage in 83. Jaws 3 and Friday The 13 Part 3. Both released that year in 3-D (Lots of three's there ) 🤣
The effect still works quite well now, with the old glasses.
Excellent Steve, I was also a regular Look-in reader and used to get the annuals too! I remember getting a plastic Skull ring similar to Adam Ants, but it ended up having to be cut off my finger due to it becoming stuck, I'll never forget that incident! 😢 I , also like you was a big fan of Bucks Fizz, and still am, although now they're the Fizz. Thanks for posting.👍🏻
I think a mate of mine I keep in touch with had seen them in recent years as The Fizz. Rings a bell.
A blast from the past there! Speaking of old comics/magazines, does anyone else remember Oink! Oink was essentially Viz for younger readers.
I definitely remember the name of the comic, but nothing about the contents.
Ah ha! My 10 seconds of fame! I have a Star Wars edition where the free gift was also just ripped off leaving a large scar ☹️
Ohh, that 3d , E.T photo .., with E ( on a first initial basis with him..) on the bike basket, .i was there !! next to the camera ... 3 days of being a policeman....what memories
Did you manage to look at them with the glasses on? Still works a treat!
Don't forget to look inside your Look In, this week!
Thanks for the reminder .. I'll get my newsagent to save a copy for me! 😄
Fantastic video, i got goosebumps watching this. Thanks so much for the mention in the comments 😀 I will upload that family vhs 📼 video to my channel at some point with the Mr.T poster from Look-In magazine in the background on my wall. Marmalade Atkins gets a mention here, I'd forgotten all about her until now and I chose the Marmalade Atkins series of books from school book club too "Marmalade Atkins in space" springs to mind that must have been my favourite.
Thanks for an enjoyable nostalgic trip RetroSteve 🙌
Edit - forgot to say i'm now looking for a pair of 3D glasses and some old copies of Look-In on ebay 😁👍
You're welcome, and thanks for the contribution. I've thrown your channel a sub so if/when you upload that home video I'll check it out. As for the eBay search .. I can't recommend it enough. These old Look-ins are pure nostalgia in a bottle!
@@RetroSpectives Thanks so much for the sub, much appreciated. I need to edit the video and will upload the clip of my old arcade machines and the poster capture soon 👍
@@RetroSpectivesI've uploaded a short clip from the family vhs 📼 featuring my pub space invaders machine, fruit machine and home base CB radio 😀 I've got a bit mixed up the Look-In Mr.T poster is in a family photo on my wall some years earlier, the video is from Christmas 1988 and I had Look-In Kylie Minogue posters on the wall, although you don't see them in the edited video. Once again thanks for the memories and great to have some vhs 📼 retro footage up my channel 👍
@@CoolhandLuke552 Yes, I watched that earlier on. It came up on my subs list. I did look for the poster - that'll explain why I couldn't see it! 🤣 Great to see all those arcade machines running in your home!! Must've felt realy special, and the CB stuff - that takes me RIGHT back. I forget the details - did you have someone in the family who worked in the industry?
@@RetroSpectives Ah that's great thanks for watching 👍 The only person in the industry was myself really as I went onto manage a travelling arcade on the funfair and later was an engineer for a games machine company installing and repairing fruit machines games machines and jukeboxes in the pubs and clubs on the road.
I'm surprised to learn Look In was still being published in 1983 (the year I left school). I distinctly recall my brother reading it in the early '70s but I'm sure I never bought it / had it bought for me. My choices of periodical journal at a similar age (to you reading Look In - i.e. circa mid-to-late-'70s for me) were a magazine 'hosted by' BBC radio DJ Stew 'Stewpot' Stewart which was dedicated to indigenous flora and fauna (stagnant ponds and whatnot) and a football magazine. Don't recall either title.
What is etched on my memory is the parental gestapo vetting process I had to endure to secure the stagnant pond blurb. On one hand, it might change the habits of a reluctant reader. On the other hand, they resented diversion of funds from their own toys-and-sweets kitty. They relented on the proviso that I qualify as a Professor of Biology within six editions. I squandered those six editions' grace and was freighted off to a concentration camp.
For the record, I was genuine about an interest in pondlife. There was a sublimely abandoned wild meadow within walking distance of home which was about my only outdoor diversion other than irking neighbours by kicking a ball against a wall over and over and over and over and over again and again and again and again and again. Years later it was homogenized by the council and turned into a sort of nature reserve / picnic area. I dare say it's been repurposed toward nuclear waste disposal in these enlightened times. Or just nurturing toxic substances per se.
I'd have been reading music papers by 1983 and beyond - and gleaning the odd postal order or record voucher for written contributions.
No nostalgia trip for me here, Stu, but a very interesting video nonetheless. I love the concept.
By the way, 'Murphy's Mob' I do remember. Well, I remember that there was such a show and that (drumroll) Watford's Vicarage Road stadium was evidently used for location shots. I am nothing if not a font of trivia nuggets.
Steve, beg your pardon. Confusing you with another similarly themed channel.
Look-In did have a surprisingly long 23-year run, from '71 to '94. The other two periodicals I remember most fondly were the extremely obscure "Things To Do" magazine, and the Beano's poorer cousin - Buster! I've always felt Buster comic had a better selection of memorable characters than Beano. I mean, come on - a kid that can 'scrunge' his face into different shapes, called Faceache, not to mention Ivor Lott and Tony Broke? What's not to like?
Don't sweat the mix-up; I figured it was an autocorrect typo. Besides, if you keep calling me Stu we could make it like an Only Fools & Horses tribute to Trigger and Delboy's brother, 'Dave'. 🤭
@@RetroSpectives - Your 'Buster' characters kind of ring a bell; it's more likely my baby brother received a hardback annual at Christmas than anyone having subscribed to the regular edition. Mutter und Vater invested modestly in a catalogue Christmas hamper club which appeared to comprise a pig-in-a-poke quotient - that was doled out on a remotely appropriate basis. Among myself, baby brother and baby sister.
*Babier* older brother and both elder sisters routinely received dedicated gifts such as living unicorns, deeds to tropical islands, that sort of thing.
Any volumes which weren't fastidiously curated for posteriority by the ancient siblings tended to churn among the glacier of household detritus year after year.
I conceived the wizard jape of defacing and defaming the photographs within those volumes. Baby brother was roped into the caper and we'd take it in turns to 'spot the difference.' Anything but read the ruddy things, right?
The Reich took a dim view but then I was committed to bolshy opposition from quite a young age. All in all, I reckon I've been proven right over the years. Intractable, at the least.
During a forlorn punt at researching your 'Things to do' tome, I've untangled a Mandela effect regarding Stewpot Stewart. It seems he was the poster boy for Look In during my brother's era, nothing to do with my filthy pond gazette. Any detail of which is destined to elude me right up until I disintegrate into a filthy pond of myself.
You've got to laugh. Well, it's not compulsory - much the same as I'll never suffer the received wisdom of 'Only Fools and Horses.'
It had its moments, I admit. Witty quips. The overarching social commentary, however, is as maudlin and repressed as any romantic sub-plot explored in any Carry On film. And maybe even more sinister. The Carry-On portfolio at least obliged us with a buttock and part of a breast from an oblique angle. It's educational.
@herbert9241 Herbert, you write the best comments I've ever read on CZcams. I long to know more about your upbringing and caring, sharing parents (which sound uncannily like my own). Have you, by any chance, written a blog (or book)..?
Oh, this takes me back! I was a (and still am) a huge Transformers and Real Ghostbusters fan, so I was buying those as a kid, but, in a failed attempt to "grow up" I started buying Look-In, I'd say 87/88 maybe. The one I remember most was an 89 copy that featured the then new Ghostbusters II film. I remember being at my friend's house reading it together. There was an article about how much Bobby Brown was paid for the scene where he opens a door for the 'Busters, it's a few seconds, nothing long. I can't remember how much it was, but it was a big scandal at the time! I wonder if I still have that one? I do have all the GB stuff from the time so I probably would have it somewhere, will have to see if I can find it.
I paused the video at the Adam Ant facts bit. Eating three Shredded Wheat gave me a chuckle!
I'll have to dig out my 3D glasses and check out the images. Haven't done that in decades!
Thanks for the great video, I'll sub for more. Cheers!
Lovely, thanks. 👍 The 3D still works really well; even better after I tweaked the contrast a little in Photoshop. As for the Shredded Wheat - you just triggered a forgotten memory. I once ate 4 for breakfast and thought I was amazing for doing so! Shows the power of advertising - in reality I was just being a greedy little bugger! 🤣
The amazing adventures of Bucks Fizz! While Look In were very good to the group, featuring Colour Centres and front covers for the majority of their singles, the picture strip can’t have helped their credibility, though I do remember an article saying Cheryl liked to read it cos it was fun and an adventure. Cheryl & Jay were two of the prettiest females in ‘80s pop, yet this first artist often made them look dog rough as seen here lol. Later in ‘83 there was a postcard from a star free gift for about 4 weeks, with a printed scrawled greeting from lots of popstars of the era. There was an inferior magazine with similar features around the same time called TV Tops, then a few years later the BBC got in on the act with the short lived Beeb magazine. I remember the ‘70s editions with the impressive painted covers too. There were often free gifts like Panini sticker albums to tie in with film releases or programmes, I remember a Star Wars one I think, and definitely a Dangermouse one, plus a Roland Rat frieze with removable stickers so you could create stories and scenes. Some of the readers drawings sent in were pretty shit weren’t they lol 😂 I remember the collect a page on the back cover, but some of the facts weren’t exactly revelationary, like the stars couldn’t be arsed to answer properly e.g. superstitions - none, favourite drink - anything refreshing lol.
This all sounds very familiar. Loads of forgotten memories triggered there. The free stickers I particularly remember. I know I managed to complete the Back To The Future Panini album. The free stickers with Look-in helped with that.
A time when few people had heard of the Hoff? It's barely conceivable isn't it
I have to admit, reading about a 'new' show called Knight Rider felt kind of weird! 😂
@@RetroSpectiveslol Steve knight rider was class especially the black trans am car KITT which I believe was Knights Industries Two Thousand and Twenty and the other trans am car was KARR the evil twin of KITT which was Knights Automatic Roving Robot 😅