Nice To See It, To See It, Nice: The 1970s In Front Of The Telly

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The 1970s was not just the decade of power-cuts & three-day weeks, of Chopper bikes & Spacehoppers, of kipper ties & bad perms, of Abba & the Bay City Rollers.. .it was also the decade of Fawlty Towers & Porridge; A Bouquet of Barbed Wire & I, Claudius; The Sweeney & Starsky & Hutch. There was no such thing in those days as Wacky Warehouse or Playstation or even video recorders -- for its entertainment, the nation switched on the telly. Some programmes, such as The Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show, were practically part of the national psyche, while some characters -- such as Benny from Crossroads & Olive from On The Buses -- became the unlikeliest of icons. Watching the box will never again be the collective experience it was then, & Brian Viner, in this hilarious & affectionate memoir, pays tribute to an era in televison -- the forgettable as well as the memorable -- which happily coincided with his own formative years.