402nd post and I'm still stuck on viewmaster reels.
This is the last lot you'll be pleased to know as I'm finally bored with them now. You can probably tell as the humour is starting to look a little desperate now.
I've also attempted to recreate the sixties packaging as opposed to the rather basic 80s style.
Here's six more them to be going on with. Apologies.
Viewmaster. The amazing gadget that allows you to see 3D pictures of everything from Thunderbirds to Tom & Jerry to the Grand Canyon to something called Dr WHO.
Here's a selection from the 70s and early 80s that money can't buy.
Back in the 1970s, the BBC's Question Time was one of the popular television programmes in the UK. Millions tuned in to see a studio audience grill the politicians of the day under the watchful bow tie of Robin Day. The show's popularity spawned a mini-industry of merchandise eagerly snapped up by fans. Presented here is a choice selection from the hey day of "Questiontimemania"...
A series of novelisations penned by some of the UK's top science fiction authors and based on the some of the more dramatic episodes.
Children got a chance to act out their own Question Time episodes with a 'Give-A-Show' Projector set. Very few survived.
For one of their 'Election Special' editions, the Question Time crew were joined by a photographer from the popular Viewmaster company who took dozens of 3D images of the show - including the classic moment when Ted Heath nodded off during a lengthy retort from Jeremy Thorpe. Needless to say, the Conservative Party office were not pleased with Reel 3 / Image 4.....
The official Question Time LP was a popular number two...
In 1965, the popular children's toy manufacturer Chad Valley released a Doctor Who version of its popular 'Give-A-Show' projector.
This simple toy consisted of a battery operated projector and over a dozen card strips of slides depicting the Doctor's many amazing (and quite compact) adventures on different planets such as Vortis and Skaro.
Here's a modern update that adapts one of the most popular episodes of recent Doctor Who.
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(with thanks to Clayton Hickman)
Doctor Who Slipback - Viewmaster Reels
GAF - 1986 - Price £1.99 (Woolworths exclusive)
Back when Michael Grade put 'Doctor Who' on hiatus in the mid-eighties, the production team filled in their time by making a radio special that was allegedly broadcast on BBC Radio Four UK. (Few people actually heard it due to the fact it appeared within a kids radio programme that no-one listened to.)
Having sold two successful sets of 3D reels of Doctor Who for their popular Viewmaster viewing thing, the people at GAF signed up for another set. Alas, the aforementioned 18 month hiatus set in.
Needing something for the ever approaching Christmas market, GAF sent their photographer to the next best thing... the recording of the radio show.
Pictures were taken in glorious 3D of the cast and crew at work, play and, in the case of veteran actor, Valentine Dyall, asleep in a large moth-eaten armchair.
The subsequent reels were released in time for Christmas as a Woolworths exclusive.
In 2008, Woolworths went into administration...
A lesson had been learnt!
Suggested by reader Clayton Hickman - £5 Woolworths Gift Token STAR LETTER
402nd post and I'm still stuck on viewmaster reels. 
