WordNet
n. past times remembered with nostalgia [syn: auld langsyne, langsyne, old times]
Wikipedia
The Good Old Days was a popular BBC television light entertainment programme directed by Barney Colehan which ran from 1953 to 1983.
It was performed at the Leeds City Varieties and recreated an authentic atmosphere of the Victorian– Edwardian music hall with songs and sketches of the era performed by present-day performers in the style of the original artistes.
The audience dressed in period costume and joined in the singing, especially " Down at the Old Bull and Bush" which closed the show. The show was compered by Leonard Sachs, who sat in a pulpit-like structure at the side of the stage. In the course of its run it featured about 2,000 performers. Each show was an hour long. All acts were in the style of late Victorian/Edwardian stage acts.
The good old days is a term used when referring to better times in the past.
The Good Old Days or Good Old Days may also refer to:
- The Good Old Days, a popular BBC television light entertainment television program which ran from 1953 to 1983
- The Good Old Days (TV series), a 1996 Hong Kong period drama series
- The Good Old Days (film), a 1940 British film
- "Good Old Days", the instrumental theme song for the Our Gang comedies, now known as The Little Rascals
- "The Good Old Days", a song from the 2003 album Shootenanny! by Eels
- "The Good Old Days", a song on the album Up the Bracket by UK band The Libertines
- "Good Old Days", a bonus track on the deluxe edition of Pink's album The Truth About Love
- "Good Old Days", a song on the album Even Worse by "Weird Al" Yankovic
The Good Old Days is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Roy William Neill, written by Austin Melford and John Dighton based on a story by Ralph Smart and starring Max Miller, Hal Walters and Kathleen Gibson. It is about a group of entertainers who struggle to get permission to perform at a tavern in 1840.
It is on the British Film Institute's BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films.
The Good Old Days was a television drama produced by Hong Kong broadcaster Asia Television in 1996. It was first aired from 15 April 1996 to 20 September 1996.
Usage examples of "the good old days".
Though the right to organize was quickly weakened by Supreme Court rulings, it was not until the 1980s that corporate America felt strong enough to return to the good old days, moving the US off the international spectrum once again.
Many established institutions inspire a high degree of loyalty in those whose memories are grounded in the good old days.
Indeed, one often expects the good Reverend to wax poetic about the good old days of the Inquisition, and times when those horrid witches really got what they deserved.
In the good old days, I am told, the boys on the coast ran away and became sailors.
Oh for the good old days when a strawberry was a strawberry, and there was no perplexity about it!
Nostalgia for the good old days when men were men and women were women and defectives knew their place?
He yearned back to the good old days and often sighed with regret and moped about the kitchen like a sandy-haired cloud of doom.
In the good old days I read of the possibilities in EC comic books.
And there had always been someone in the family who bemoaned the passing of the good old days, so strongly and constantly as to bore others to the verge of violence.