The 70's on BBC2

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OMG Its a time machine to my childhood!!

The 70s rewritten.
There is no getting away from tory propaganda these days.

Don't know about that Happy, they looked like they fucked it up fairly comprehensively in 72!

I want to go to bed but I love TOTP2...

Elton in his pomp. Love it.

I was born in 1971 and it's taught me loads about the political situation that my V leftwing parents left out! Most interesting

although I do remember visiting Ugandan Asian families who my mum was teaching English. All that hair oil I now know why my mum quizzes all asian folk she meets to see whether they were Ugandan refugees. She is 83 and very nosy!

this totp is really highlighting for me how influential Mick Jagger has been. All the men are attempting his pouting and strutting (New York Dolls, Rod, the singer from Sparks).

Look at Rod now - love him

Jason King! Everyone used to fancy him. We had no taste. And Peter Wyngarde, who played the moustachioed one, was gay (known as Petunia Winegum among his fellow thesps) - poor bloke got done for gross indecency in a bus station toilet, I recall, which scuppered his lady-killer image.

Nobody would care a jot now, which shows how far we've come.

oh it's such a heaven of a time. soul, punk, reggae,disco, Queen, how could 10 years offer so much??

Pan, I agree. I actually felt quite tearful watching that music programme. Everyone's a winner!

oh I didn't see the prog., but I think I didn't need to! - lovely memories and wonderfully hideous fashions.

I was 6 in 1970 and dh was 14, so we were watching it in such different ways! Really fascinating stuff though - like someone said 27% !! I hate Arthur Scargill with a passion

loved the miners in their hairnets

Yeah, the hairnets - remember DSis's boyfriend had a great chunk of his very long hair torn out of his scalp whilst netlessly operating a lathe. The company took a photograph of the bloody hair wrapped round the machinery to use on a health&safety poster which he proudly brought round to show us all. It was horrible, though.

I was 8 in 1970 so I could sort of remember all of this but obviously at the time I was too young to understand some of the issues. I liked that fact that this was not just a wallowing in nostalgia programme but quite a thoughtful discussioin.

I do remember the three day weeks and the huge amount of industrial unrest in the rest of the 70s but I guess this programme brought home just how serious the situation was in 1972. No surprises really that the Thatcher government went all out to crush the miners a decade later.

I was looking forward to this...

(born in 66. Can't beat a bit of nostalgia)

But was terribly disappointed.

The programme seemed to be unable to decide whether it was nostalgic fun, or an academic treatise. Either would have been just fine, but I thought it wasn't terribly good at either...

Enjoyed the Sounds of the 70s after, though...

It's a shame it's on on a Monday night.

Coz,

I don't like Mondays.

It's on repeat now. Does anyone know what the YES song was played just after the shot of the natwest tower?

Oh and the TRex clip, how hot was that bongo drumming sort!

omg men in knitted trousers!

Fetching

I am scared to watch this as it may make me want to put my foot through the telly. I was 10 in 1970 so it was MY decade. It was GREAT! We loved the power cuts, we had the best clothes and the best music all through the decade. The politics were everything (especially to my "communist" mother) but it was also FUN, so much to love/hate/talk about. Should I watch or will I regret it?

Mink, I think it might have been 'Starship Trooper'. I am a closet prog rock fam and got most excited when I heard that.