The following t-shirt designs from our catalogue have been tagged "Retro". Click on any thumbnail image to see all the formats that the design is available in.
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"Classic" Celebrity Mugshots T-Shirt A variety of superstar musicians and actors from the 50s, 60s and 70s, all pictured here having been arrested for various degrees of nefarious behaviour ranging... |
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1984 Robot Dance T-Shirt Dancing to electro-pop like a robot in 1984. The famous, futuristic dancing robot. Groovy. |
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5 1/4 Inch Floppy Disk T-Shirt Back in the mid eighties, times were when 720kb seemed ample to store your entire life's work. Ah, those were the days... Now my mobile phone takes photos... |
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Aeroflot T-Shirt Old school Soviet, and later Russian, air carrier. Such a famous, iconic image that they could not even bring themselves to do away with the famous hammer and... |
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Aeroflot Canvas Print The classic logo of the old Soviet Union Airline that re-defined customer service (or lack thereof). Printed on a 22 x 14 canvas. Please choose one of the... |
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Air Botswana T-Shirt The former logo and livery of the Botswana national airline. A southern African classic. |
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Air Congo T-Shirt Logo of the short-lived and long-defunct airline of the country formally known as Zaire, and previous to that knows ad the Congo. Air Congo operated from 1961... |
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Air Djibouti T-Shirt The pride of the Red Sea; Air Djibouti flew out of the tiny east African country from 1971 when the previous national carrier was taken over by Air Somalia... |
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Air Kazakstan T-Shirt Borat's favourite airline. Well, it would be had it not stopped flying in 2004. The ex-national carrier of the nation of Kazakhstan. Is good, yes? High five. |
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Air Moldova International T-Shirt The logo of the former privately owned airline from the ex-Soviet Republic. Shut down in the mid-90s, allegedly to ensure that the national flag carrier (Air... |
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Air Rhodesia T-Shirt The short-lived national carrier of the southern African state. Air Rhodesia became independent from Central African Airways in 1967 and, despite the country... |
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Air Zaire T-Shirt The logo of Air Zaire, which operated out of Kinshasa from 1971 until it went bankrupt in 1994 following decades of corruption and mismanagement. |
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Air Zimbabwe T-Shirt The, recently defunct, airline and national carrier of Zimbabwe. Air Zimbabwe ran a fleet of nine aircraft until the dire financial state of the country... |
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Alex Higgins T-Shirt The greatest, most exciting and most naturally gifted snooker player in the history of the game (sorry Ronnie): Alex Hurricane Higgins. World Snooker Champion... |
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Alex Higgins Smoking T-Shirt The most naturally gifted player in the history of snooker: Alex Higgins. Here pictured drawing on a cigarette whilst waiting for his chance at the table. |
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Arthur Scargill T-Shirt Leader of the NUM during the 1980's miners' strike and scourge of Thatcher, here resplendent with a quote of his on his approach to protest: What you need is... |
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Attack Of The Swivel-Eyed Loons T-Shirt Paying tribute to those hard-working Tory activists much coveted by Barmy Nigel and his lunatic fringe. We bring you the dreaded ATTACK OF THE SWIVEL-EYED... |
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ATV: Associated Television T-Shirt Retro Midlands television broadcaster.... in colour! |
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Audrey Hepburn T-Shirt Possibly Hollywood's greatest icon, star of all-time classic films including The Nun's Story, Charade, Sabrina and Wait Until Dark. Here pictured in her... |
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Bamber Gascoigne T-Shirt Host of University Challenge in its classic incarnation pre-Paxman. Eton old boy and all-round boffin beloved of Oxbridge-types and mercilessly send-up in... |
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Basil Fawlty T-Shirt John Cleese, as the Torquay Fawlty Towers hotel proprietor in all his glory. You all know how they go: You can see the sea. It's there, between the land and the... |
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BCCI T-Shirt Cast your mind back long before Lehman Bros, ages before Enron, and even before Nick Leeson single-handedly brought down Barings, the Bank of Credit and... |
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Bob Carolgees and Spit the Dog T-Shirt One of the most beloved television personalities of the 1980s...and Bob Carolgees too! Tiswas' finest, complete with expectorating canine puppet. |
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Britannia Tobacco T-Shirt Taken from the days before you became a social pariah for partaking in a bit of the demon weed; in fact, you could even get away with using an image of the... |
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British Coal T-Shirt The logo of the, now defunct, British Coal Corporation. Formed as the National Coal Board following nationalisation after the Second World War, this was the... |
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British Leyland T-Shirt Great British manufacturing company (1968-1986), the last vestiges of which died with the demise of LDV Limited in 2009. R.I.P. |
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British Steel T-Shirt The logo of British Steel, former standard bearer for the most famous and best steel production in the world. Now defunct. |
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Call My Bluff T-Shirt Do-do, do-do, do, do-do-do-do.... With Robert Robinson as the referee and Frank Muir and Patrick Campbell captaining. Now to concoct a spurious definition for... |
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Capitalism T-Shirt Creating poverty and inequality since 1776 - the publication of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Ronald Reagan provides his approval in classic 50s style... |
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Cassette Tape T-Shirt Taken from a time when technology was considerably more hands-on. This diagram comes from an instruction manual where the user is shown how to deal with the... |
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Cobra Kai T-Shirt The logo of the Cobra Kai dojo, the antagonists of the classic 1984 film The Karate Kid. Join the Corba Kai sensei, John Kreese, and win dirty; No mercy. |
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Commodore T-Shirt 1980s computer chic. Whether you had an Amiga or the classic 64, chances are any modern-day geek grew up learning their trade using a Commodore computer. |
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Daley Thompson T-Shirt The man. The legend. 1980 Olympic gold medallist. 1984 Olympic gold medallist. World record breaker four times and the only man to simultaneously hold... |
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Die Alien Scum T-Shirt If like us, you used to watch in terror as the evil alien space invaders moved inexorably towards you, all the time firing their deadly shield-destroying... |
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East African Airways T-Shirt Faithfully serving the air travellers of Kenya, Tanzania; and Uganda from 1946 to 1977. The logo of the, now defunct, East African Airways. |
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Enron T-Shirt The potent symbol of the nadir of the corporate moral vacuum. Greed is good, right? We've jazzed up the classic logo of the world's premier corrupt megacorp... |
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Ford Cortina T-Shirt But he's just like everyone, he's got a Ford Cortina and it just won't run without fuel. Fill 'er up Jacko! Based on an original advert for the classic Ford... |
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Fred Dibnah T-Shirt The Bolton steeplejack who became a national institution, complete with a trademark phrase: By 'eck it were grand. |
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Ghana Airways T-Shirt The defunct former national airline of the Republic of Ghana, operating out of Accra from 1958 until its unseemly demise in 2005. |
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Grange Hill Sausage T-Shirt Iconic image from the opening credits of BBC Children's TV classic Grange Hill. The forked sausage entering stage left in the refectory just prior to the... |
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Happiness Is Beetle Shaped T-Shirt An original Volkswagen Type 1, produced some time between 1938 and 2003. The classic and original (and best) - the longest running production car platform... |
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Happiness Is Camper Shaped T-Shirt Dating from the late 60s or early 70s, a fine example of a bay window VW Camper Van. |
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Happiness Is Mini Shaped T-Shirt A true 60s classic: The Austin Mini. A great image of this classic British car. |
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Home Taping Is Killing Music T-Shirt The slogan and logo of the British Phonographic Industry's anti-piracy campaign of the 1980s. The classic tape and crossbones and threatening addendum AND... |
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I Am Not A Scab T-Shirt After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal... |
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I Prefer Their Old Stuff T-Shirt Well, they're OK I suppose. I thought their third album was rubbish though. To be honest I prefer their old stuff... |
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If Found Please Return To The 70s T-Shirt If you yearn for those heady days of spandex and brown corduroys, of disco and glam rock, of drink driving and the three day week then this is the t-shirt for... |
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Jimmy White T-Shirt The Whirlwind of Old London Town and one of snooker's most popular ever players. Six times a world championship finalist and winner of ten ranking events. |
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Johnny "Guitar" Watson T-Shirt Featuring the late blues/disco/funk guitarist Johnny Guitar Watson in iconic 1970s style and incorporating I Want To Ta-Ta You Baby; one of his songs from his... |
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Johnny Ball "Think of a Number" T-Shirt The man who turned a generation of schoolchildren into wannabe scientists and mathematicians. You can bet you'll never see his like on TV ever again. |
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Join The Dots Cat T-Shirt A novel concept in t-shirt design based on those classic dot-to-dot exercises that we loved as kids. Clearly birdy is about to get it. |
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Kenneth Willlams T-Shirt Oh, matron! The beloved star of countless Carry On films and camp cult British icon, Kenneth Williams is shown here accompanied by the Carry On Cleo quote voted... |
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Kirk Stevens T-Shirt An early 1980s snooker icon. White suits, mullet, cocaine addiction, good looks and that famous 147 in the Masters - Kirk was surely the archetypal 80s... |
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Kong T-Shirt Imagine an angry gorilla hurling barrels at you as you try to climb a series of ladders. We were never quite sure where the donkey came into it all. |
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Laker Airways T-Shirt Sir Freddie Laker's no-frills fun for airline travellers on a budget. Laker Airways offered dirt cheap pack 'em in transatlantic flights long before the likes... |
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Librae, Solidi, Denarii (Pounds, Shillings, Pence) T-Shirt The Latin origin for pounds, shillings and pence; giving rise to the shorthand L.s.d. Printed in per-decimalised silver for all lovers of the imperial... |
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Milk Has Gotta Lotta Bottle T-Shirt An advertising slogan no doubt familiar to anyone who was a child in the early 80s. Nice cold, ice cold milk. |
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Mix Tape T-Shirt Nine original, retro, multicoloured 1980s purveyors of mixtape magic. |
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Mr T T-Shirt 6 foot-odd and with enough Elizabeth Duke bling to bring down the A-Team chopper. Perhaps that's why his favourite phrase was ain't goin' in no plane, fool. 80s... |
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Munich 72 Logo T-Shirt The logo of the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich, often described as the bright sun logo. The 72 Games saw the advent of much iconic imagery and... |
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New Order Cassette T-Shirt A life-sized image of a cassette tape by electro-pop pioneers New Order. You couldn't get more 1980's if you tried. |
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Norman Wisdom T-Shirt A classic image of great 60s slapstick comedy star Norman Wisdom. Apparently the only western actor whose films were allowed in Hoxha's Albania. |
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Northern Soul T-Shirt Pack up your 7-inches and head on down to the all-nighter at Wigan Casino. The classic 1960's Northern Soul logo. |
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Northern Soul Wallet A design based on the image of the classic Northern Soul logo, complete with clenched fist. Red leather with internal stud-closing coin pocket. |
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Percy Thrower T-Shirt Were you part of the infamous November 1983 Blue Peter Garden make-over team? Do you take pride in being referred to by the pipe-smoking children's TV... |
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Pong T-Shirt Symbol of a misspent youth. The original and (almost) the best arcade game. |
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Pool Safety T-Shirt The classic pool safety sign from the 1970s, warning all swimmers of the perils of such things as smoking, bombing and... er... petting. |
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Poona Races Railway T-Shirt A colonial-era poster advertising the express trains journeys from Bombay to Poona Racecourse along the Great Indian Peninsular (GIP) railway. With such... |
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Protect And Survive T-Shirt This t-shirt is for every child of the cold war who used to wake-up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night fearing the missiles were already on their way... |
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Protest And Survive T-Shirt The peace movement's response to the government's protect and survive mantra during the Cold War. Here seen with a peace sign as used by the Campaign for... |
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Psycho T-Shirt Janet Leigh screams in the shower in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 horror classic, Psycho. |
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Radio Caroline T-Shirt Coming at you direct from a ship moored somewhere in the North Sea: the logo of the legendary pirate radio station. |
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Radio Luxembourg T-Shirt The classic 208 logo from the radio station that, it is argued, led to the creation of pop music in the 50s and 60s. |
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Radio Rental T-Shirt Retro electronics retailer-inspired Cockney rhyming slang of a politically incorrect variety. For the uninitiated: Radio = Radio Rental = mental. |
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Rodney "Plonker" T-Shirt Peckham's own Rodney Trotter. Resident plonker from the staggeringly brilliant Only Fools and Horses. |
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Sewing Machine T-Shirt The classic lines of an antique Singer treadle sewing machine, dating from the late 19th century. |
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Sid James T-Shirt The late, great star of the Carry On films and Hancock's Half Hour and all-round British cinema legend. |
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Simon and Sarah and Peter and Goldie T-Shirt Simon Groom, Sarah Greene, Peter Duncan and the ever faithful Goldie the dog. The ultimate Blue Peter line-up for anyone who was a child in the early 80s. |
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Sinclair ZX Spectrum T-Shirt The computer that launched a thousand geeks. Complete with rubber keys, 8 colours and a massive 48k memory. |
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Sir Alan Sugar "You're Fired" T-Shirt The pantomime villain from the Apprentice TV show, Sir Alan Sugar. Pictured here in his younger days alongside his trademark catchphrase You're fired in Amstrad... |
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Slot Racing Track T-Shirt Based on those wonderful electronic slot-racing tracks of your youth, the advantage of this one is that the cars don't keep on stopping because the... |
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Solidarity T-Shirt Niezależny Samorządny Związek Zawodowy Solidarność. Famously led by Lech Wałęsa, the Solidarity Trade Union was central in... |
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Solidarność T-Shirt The original Polish version of the famous Solidarity logo, from the trade union led by Lech Wałęsa in 1980s Poland. |
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Space Invaders Knitting Pattern T-Shirt A spoof knitted effect, as seen on countless Christmas jumpers from grandma. This one depicting a screenshot from the popular 1980s arcade classic Space... |
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Sudan Airways T-Shirt The livery and logo of the national airline of Sudan - Sudan Airways is currently blacklisted by the European Union, presumably due to fears about the air... |
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Test Card T-Shirt Carole Hersee, a blackboard and a scary-looking doll. The BBC's Test Card F. Apparently the clown-doll is called bubbles and, together with Carole, they have... |
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Tetris T-Shirt The seven, four block, shapes made globally popular by Alexey Pajitnov in the mid eighties with his invention of one of the simplest, but most popular video... |
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The Frost Report T-Shirt John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett in the all-time classic Frost Report sketch on the class divide: Cleese: I look down on him... |
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The Old Grey Whistle Test Starkicker T-Shirt The unmistakable starkicker logo of the classic 70s and 80s BBC2 late night rock music show The Old Grey Whistle Test. |
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The Professionals T-Shirt Bodie, Doyle and Cowley. Jump in your Ford Capri and drive through some boxes. |
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The Sweeney T-Shirt We're the Sweeney son, and we haven't had any dinner John Thaw and Dennis Waterman as the Flying Squad's Detective Inspector 'Jack' Regan and Detective Sergeant... |
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The Time Tunnel T-Shirt Some retro sixties time-travelling sci-fi courtesy of Doctors Tony Newman and Doug Phillips; now tumbling helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somewhere... |
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The World Is Your Lobster T-Shirt George Cole and Dennis Waterman, stars of the 80s TV classic Minder. Cole played Arthur Daley in possibly his most famous role - he also appeared in the St... |
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They Don't Like It Up 'Em T-Shirt Clive Dunn as Lance Corporal Jack Jones in the BBC comedy masterpiece Dad's Army complete with trademark observation: They don't like it up 'em. Don't panic! |
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Three Flying Ducks T-Shirt The archetypal British working-class living-room wall art. As seen everywhere from Coronation Street to Wallace and Gromit. |
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Tiswas T-Shirt ITV's Saturday morning wake-up, complete with custard pies and the bucket of water song. Responsible for inflicting Chris Tarrant on an unsuspecting audience |
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Tommy Cooper T-Shirt A sadly missed comedy legend, complete with trademark fez. I'm on a whisky diet. I've lost three days already |
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Tony Hancock T-Shirt Comedy genius of the 50s and 60s who laid down many of the foundations of modern comedy in Hancock's Half Hour. |
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Trotters Independent Trading T-Shirt The logo of Derek and Rodney Trotter's empire. As seen on the side of many a yellow Reliant Robin van throughout the ages. Trotters Independent Trading Company... |
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Two Ronnies T-Shirt Corbett and Barker. Two pairs of spectacles. It's goodnight from me... |
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Typewriter T-Shirt A line drawing depicting a vintage mechanical typewriter. This model is probably in the region of a hundred years old. |
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Uganda Railway Poster T-Shirt A poster for the Uganda Railway, built at the turn of the 20th century, which linked the port city of Mombasa with the interior of British Colonial Africa. This... |
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Valerie and John and Peter and Shep T-Shirt The line-up from the Golden Age of BBC Children's television. Valerie Singleton, John Noakes, Peter Purves and, of course, Shep: Blue Peter circa 1971. TV... |
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Varig T-Shirt The classic logo of the bankrupt Brazilian airline. 1927-2006. |
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Vintage Rolleiflex Camera T-Shirt A sketch showing the unmistakable form of a vintage twin lens reflex Rollieflex camera. |
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Vote JR Ewing For President T-Shirt We've already had one morally vapid, Texan oil baron take his place as the most powerful man in the world, so why not everyone's favourite Dallas anti-hero? The... |
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Z-Cars T-Shirt Cult BBC drama series. Altogether now: der-der-der, der-der da der-der-der-der... |