Old Time Dancing Powderpuff - Come Dancing 74/ 77

Clip from BBC Come Dancing compilation, celebrating the years 1974 - 1996
Love, love , love the powder puff dance dresses and what precision footwork!

[SAHBfan]

I remember this show when I was a kid - it was about DANCING. No fake tan, not a bloody celeb in site - and the audience didn't drown the band out with out of time clapping. Far more class altogether.

[kimjones]

The first couple dancing are my grandparents Ken and Joyce 🥰

[lesleyscaifecomerade]

Used to watch this when I was a little girl, it’s changed so much

[lucyb]

I remember watching come dancing after returning from the pub, possibly on a Saturday night.

[Hypohair]

As a child these dresses fascinated me and I used watch the program for those and the sometimes disastrous 'freestyle' section. Not a celebrity in sight :)

[supermojo]

Crystal Chiffon in " Sunblush " You never hear that said anymore ! Fabulous

[woodmouse-]

Ah, lovely memories of watching this with my Gran when I was small. Like other comments, I found the dresses fascinating 🙂

[Elma]

I also wore those dresses. I danced competition from 1972 to 1994. They were really not easy to dance.

[hawkerrielly]

A thousand times better than that pish on BBC1 nowdays

[vladimirkroutov]

The man is walking about the room with his hands full of huge rose fluffy ball, out of which the woman's head is sticking out.This rose dress, gives another meaning to the "ball room dancing".

[carolefranks]

I can remember watching an episode years ago with my Mum and one of the dancers span too quickly and flew across the dance floor. Flat out on her back and disappeared under a spectators table! She was in a bouncy tangerine gown similar to the first one and had huge tangerine ball earrings on. The camera quickly turned away to another couple. I'm surprised it's never appeared on a TV bloopers programme somewhere.

[SavingHistory]

That looked a little like sequence dancing at the end - like they do on cruise ships.

[modmutha]

And these couples were about 19 years old 🤣🤣

[simonhough]

i like it when they look like dancing mushrooms

[celladora]

Who made those dresses? I didn't know petticoats could do that! Nice

[ilovemydog]

The first woman looks like the doll my Nana used to put on her toilet rolls 😊

[fairlyvague]

Never realised Danny La Rue did such good ballroom