First viewed : September 1992
This was a night time series on ITV which I taped for a while but then abandoned. It followed the same format as The Rock and Roll Years , without the music but with a solemn voiceover from Robert Powell. Unlike that series, which had full access to the BBC's vast news archive, this was tied to the output of an independent news agency so if they hadn't been on the spot, the event simply wasn't covered no matter how significant. Even when they were there, the footage was often poor quality. This led to a very lopsided analysis of the period with obvious gaps and I eventually got too irritated to continue with it. I got up to at least 1979 which featured a report on Torvill and Dean practising in lieu of any footage of them actually winning the British Figure Skating Championship for the third time, an event so obviously on a par with Thatcher's arrival at number 10 and the Iranian Revolution.
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