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Because we are all children of the 60s, 70s and 80s at heart. Retro t-shirt designs and vintage t-shirts and imagery. If you grew-up watching Tiswas or ever dreamed of owning a Ford Cortina and playing on your ZX Spectrum we've got a tshirt for you.

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Fire Up The Quattro: Ashes To Ashes T-Shirt. The Audi UR Quattro, as driven by DCI Gene Hunt in the BBC's excellent Ashes To Ashes and featuring retro 80s-style writing. Welcome to 1981.
Fire Up The Quattro: Ashes To Ashes T-Shirt
Jim'll Fix It: Jim Fixed It For Me T-Shirt. For anyone whose letter went unanswered; Jimmy Saville clearly has a lot to answer for. No matter, hopefully this Jim'll Fix It design on the original logo will make up for all the disappointments.
Jim'll Fix It: Jim Fixed It For Me T-Shirt
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 IT'S ILLEGAL never seemed to stop mix-tape makers twenty years ago, and certainly has not stopped filesharers and torrents users today.
Home Taping Is Killing Music T-Shirt
Apollo Lunar Module T-Shirt. Responsible for transporting the first humans onto the surface of the moon, and safely off again. This t-shirt design is taken from the original NASA diagrams.
Apollo Lunar Module T-Shirt
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 dreaded tape-chewing cassette player.
Cassette Tape T-Shirt
Two Swallows T-Shirt. The classic swallow tattoo design reworked for a t-shirt.
Two Swallows T-Shirt
Morecambe and Wise T-Shirt. Eric and Ernie. Morecambe and Wise. Two of the greatest comic performers ever. What do you think of it so far? Rubbish!
Morecambe and Wise T-Shirt
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.
Norman Wisdom T-Shirt
Three Flying Ducks T-Shirt. The archetypal British working-class living-room wall art. As seen everywhere from Coronation Street to Wallace and Gromit.
Three Flying Ducks T-Shirt
Psycho T-Shirt. Janet Leigh screams in the shower in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 horror classic, Psycho.
Psycho T-Shirt
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 great Britannia  herself to market your wares. This print depicts an 1800’s Plug Tobacco Label, originally a lithograph and used to mark crates of tobacco. The style of this label, for the  Watson & McGill Co of Petersburg, Virginia, features a “Britannia” figure, a snake wrapped around her right arm and a spittoon lying at her feet.
Britannia Tobacco T-Shirt
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 nearly hundred year old poster invites the intrepid traveler to travel through nature's zoo.
Uganda Railway Poster T-Shirt
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 enticing facilities  as a ladies' boudoir and baths the new carriages were clearly suitable for the great and the good of British society.
Poona Races Railway T-Shirt
Sinclair C5 T-Shirt. Brainchild of Sir Clive Sinclair, the vehicle that was all set to revolutionise transport in the 1980. Until people discovered that it was utter rubbish.
Sinclair C5 T-Shirt
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 over. The original Protect and Survive Public Information Films and booklets from the 70s and 80s told you how to survive a nuclear holocaust by hiding under your stairs. If you ever get nostalgic for the days when you used to stockpile baked beans then you too can relive all that tension, excitement, paranoia and completely useless advice with this t-shirt.
Protect And Survive T-Shirt
Roy Lichtenstein Pistol T-Shirt. Based on Roy Lichtenstein's classic 1964 Pistol pop-art image.
Roy Lichtenstein Pistol T-Shirt
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.
Tony Hancock T-Shirt
Solidarity T-Shirt. Niezależny Samorządny Związek Zawodowy Solidarność. Famously led by Lech Wałęsa, the Solidarity Trade Union was central in restoring freedom to Poland in the late 80s.
Solidarity T-Shirt
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
Tommy Cooper T-Shirt
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.
Commodore T-Shirt
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 architecture, of which this logo was a part.
Munich 72 Logo T-Shirt
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 Cortina 1600 E - only £1399!
Ford Cortina T-Shirt
Mexico 70 T-Shirt. Probably the best World Cup in history. Brazil, one of the best attacking sides ever featuring the likes of Pele, Carlos Alberto, Jairzinho et al, demolished Italy 4-1 in the final. The tournament also featured the likes of Bobby Moore, Gerd Muller, Franz Beckenbauer, Gigi Riva and Gordon Banks.
Mexico 70 T-Shirt
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.
Northern Soul T-Shirt
Bruce Brucie Forsyth T-Shirt. The much-loved Bruce Forsyth, host of countless game shows and light-entertainment spectaculars along with your choice of Brucie catchphrase: Good game, good game, Nice to see you, to see you nice, Nothing for a pair, not in this game and, of course, Didn't he do well?
Bruce "Brucie" Forsyth T-Shirt
Pele T-Shirt. Edson Arantes do Nascimento Pele – possibly the greatest footballer ever. Here seen with Jarzinho celebrating winning the 1970 World Cup for a then record third time in one of the most iconic football pictures of all time.
Pele T-Shirt
BOAC T-Shirt. The logo of the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). Defunct British state airline.
BOAC T-Shirt
Bill Werbeniuk T-Shirt. Big Bill Werbeniuk. Six pints of lager pre-match and one for each frame, all washed down with copious amounts of beta-blockers. A true sporting hero.
Bill Werbeniuk T-Shirt
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
Tiswas T-Shirt
The Professionals T-Shirt. Bodie, Doyle and Cowley. Jump in your Ford Capri and drive through some boxes.
The Professionals T-Shirt
Jocky Wilson T-Shirt. Twice world champion and still probably the only darts player to have his picture displayed on Top of the Pops. The diminutive John Thomas Wilson.
Jocky Wilson T-Shirt
Z-Cars T-Shirt. Cult BBC drama series. Altogether now: der-der-der, der-der da der-der-der-der...
Z-Cars T-Shirt
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.
Johnny Ball "Think of a Number" T-Shirt
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 Olympic, Commonwealth, European and World titles in any event.
Daley Thompson T-Shirt
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 gardener that fateful day as mentally ill live on air? (let's hope Joey Deacon wasn't listening) If so, you deserve this t-shirt. You bastard.
Percy Thrower T-Shirt
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.
Bob Carolgees and Spit the Dog T-Shirt
Sinclair ZX Spectrum T-Shirt. The computer that launched a thousand geeks. Complete with rubber keys, 8 colours and a massive 48k memory.
Sinclair ZX Spectrum T-Shirt
John Arlott: The Sound of Summer T-Shirt. The voice of the BBC's Test Match Special for over forty years and one the finest cricket commentators of all time.
John Arlott: The Sound of Summer T-Shirt
A Clockwork Orange T-Shirt. One for all those droogs who like a bit of the old ultra-violence. Originally by Anthony Burgess, later popularised by Stanley Kubrick.
A Clockwork Orange T-Shirt
I Am Not A Scab T-Shirt. Picket-line chic. No blacklegs allowed.
I Am Not A Scab T-Shirt
Pong T-Shirt. Symbol of a mis-spent youth. The original and (almost) the best arcade game.
Pong T-Shirt
1984 Robot Dance T-Shirt. Dancing to electro-pop like a robot in 1984. The famous, futuristic dancing robot. Groovy.
1984 Robot Dance T-Shirt
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.
Air Kazakstan T-Shirt
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 sickle. A point of trivia: their customer service was once so bad that they once used the slogan We don't smile, because we're serious about making you happy
Aeroflot T-Shirt
Pravda T-Shirt. Soviet oracle telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Does exactly what is says on the big red Cyrillic masthead. This logo in fact belongs to Komsomolskaya Pravda, the young communist league komsomol paper which has outlived its parent organisation and is still going strong.
Pravda T-Shirt
Fuck Jim, I'll Fix It Myself T-Shirt. For all those who, as a young child, wrote in expectantly to Jimmy Saville and his ready army of Jim'll Fix-It helpers. And what did we get? Bugger-all. Not even one of those cheap plastic medallions and a sneaky puff on Uncle Jim's cigar. Well, fuck Jim; I'll fix it myself.
Fuck Jim, I'll Fix It Myself T-Shirt
ATV: Associated Television T-Shirt. Retro Midlands television broadcaster.... in colour!
ATV: Associated Television T-Shirt
Safety Pin T-Shirt. Because punk will never die. Everyone could do with a huge great safety pin.
Safety Pin T-Shirt
Two Ronnies T-Shirt. Corbett and Barker. Two pairs of spectacles. It's goodnight from me...
Two Ronnies T-Shirt
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 sky, Can't we get you on Mastermind, Sybil? Next contestant - Sybil Fawlty from Torquay, specialist subject: stating the bleeding obvious..., Oh, you're German! I'm sorry, I thought there was something wrong with you, Well, of course it's a rat! You have rats in Spain, don't you - or did Franco have them all shot?
Basil Fawlty T-Shirt
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 that famous episode of The Young Ones. Your starter for ten...
Bamber Gascoigne T-Shirt
AT-AT T-Shirt. A stylised image of the vehicle affectionately known to geeks all over the world as the All-Terrain Armoured-Transport (or AT AT to the rest of us).
AT-AT T-Shirt
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.
Kong T-Shirt
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