Some of these were ‘one and done’ creations, burning brightly for a single season before being canned, whereas others had legs and stuck around for a while longer before finally going to that great TV archive in the sky. You could hardly move for shows about doctors who could transform into animals (because, well, reasons), Vietnam veterans on the run from the authorities, souped-up cutting edge high-tech helicopters and motorbikes, and digitally-created crimefighters. Those import shows all felt more exciting and high-budget than more homegrown fare, and tended to stay far longer in one’s memory than they ever did on screen.įor a while, it felt as though the schedules were chock full of wall-to-wall American series in primetime, and not always in a bad way. For kids who grew up in the 1980s, for example, there is an undeniable warm, fuzzy glow which accompanies the recall of what felt like a golden age of TV, especially when it came to glossy, high-octane, gimmick or gadget-laden US action-adventure programming. However, despite the Biblical quote that talks about putting away childish things, there are still things which attract that Proustian rush through one’s adulthood when remembering things past. In some cases, it seems that nostalgia – as the hoary old joke goes – is not what it used to be. In the same way that you are apparently never more than 6ft away from a rat in London, it appears on social media you are never more than a brief scroll away from somebody waxing lyrical about the corned beef of their childhood, or enquiring whether anyone remembers Spangles, rickets, or the repeal of the Corn Laws.
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