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I only ever played I Vant To Bite Your Finger once. A friend of mine had it, and I remember playing it round his house one day and finding it quite fun. On the face of it the game was fairly standard, just being one of those games where you move a counter around a winding path on the board. What made the game special was the big plastic Dracula that came with it, which was actually capable of biting your finger!
Of course, it didn’t actually bite your finger. The model Dracula had two little red felt tip pens in its mouth which when you placed your finger inside might draw two little red blood dots on your finger. This was the luck element of the game, as sometimes Dracula would bite, and other times he wouldn’t. Dracula also had a cape which could be folded over him in the classic vampire pose, with just his eyes poking out over the top of the cape. There was a clock next to Dracula which randomly caused the cape to open when the hour hand was moved round on it.
Hitting our screens in 1984 was the cult Thames Television kids science fiction show Chocky. Based on the John Wyndham (best known for The Day Of The Triffids) novel of the same name, the television version was adapted and updated for the 1980’s audience by Anthony Read.
It seems to me that a lot of toy companies are a bit lazy when it comes to designing girls toys, especially when it comes to action figures. I would argue that those aimed primarily at boys tend to have more variation in the design of each individual toy in the range, whilst girls toys seem to be the same basic character produced in a range of different colours, as evidenced by toys such as 
The 1980’s spawned a number of dubious fashions, with the usual suspects of big hair and shoulder pads normally being mentioned first. However, during my teenage years the fashion it was cool to be seen sporting was the simple Terry Towelling sock.
Picking up where the 
The adventures of the little white bear called Rupert have been popular for many many years. Paul McCartney was a fan as a child, and when he realised that his own children loved Rupert just as much as he had done, it gave him the idea of creating an animated Rupert film.
The rather poor illustration accompanying this post is supposed to represent the wonderful things that were Galaxy Counters. I believe they were phased out sometime during the 1980’s but don’t know exactly when. Something very similar is still available today as one of the sweets in a packet of Revels, but it’s not quite the same, as you will see.
Famous for its bright red front door with the huge yellow 7 and 3 daubed on, Number 73 was an ITV Saturday morning show of the kind that lasts most of the morning, and pulls together interviews, music, cartoons and a bit of comedy banter from the regular hosts. It first aired in 1982, only in the TVS region, which caused much consternation to those kids who would rather be watching Tiswas, which was still airing in most of the rest of the country - back in the 1980’s the ITV schedule varied from region to region much more than it does today you see.