Thoroughly enjoyed this, thank you! I had not considered the impact of the sixties on eighties childhoods, but you are right - it was everywhere! I actually think it was a good thing; I’ve certainly always been happier to embrace popular culture from different generations than my children, who steadfastly position themselves in the here and now. I feel culturally richer for it.
Thank you! That's a really good point, too. I'm so used to thinking about it working backwards, as it were - the TV showing not just sixties shows but also Harold Lloyd shorts and Flash Gordon serials, Film Noir and 50s MGM musicals - that I hadn't thought about what it did to us going to forward. I suspect we were primed to just be interested and to take everything in context, a little bit.
Loved thirtysomething, can still recall Elliot’s pean to the delights of an advertising company in CA: ‘the biggest problem Mikey is sand in the keyboards’. It was all so predictive of our baleful present.
I watched the first episode of the rebooted Ecclestone Doctor Who with Sylvester McCoy in a theatre dressing room in Cheltenham in 2005
That’s amazing! What did he think?
Thoroughly enjoyed this, thank you! I had not considered the impact of the sixties on eighties childhoods, but you are right - it was everywhere! I actually think it was a good thing; I’ve certainly always been happier to embrace popular culture from different generations than my children, who steadfastly position themselves in the here and now. I feel culturally richer for it.
Thank you! That's a really good point, too. I'm so used to thinking about it working backwards, as it were - the TV showing not just sixties shows but also Harold Lloyd shorts and Flash Gordon serials, Film Noir and 50s MGM musicals - that I hadn't thought about what it did to us going to forward. I suspect we were primed to just be interested and to take everything in context, a little bit.
Loved thirtysomething, can still recall Elliot’s pean to the delights of an advertising company in CA: ‘the biggest problem Mikey is sand in the keyboards’. It was all so predictive of our baleful present.