To mark our fiftieth episode, we travel back 50 years to 1972 to see what we were watching on TV. There are some old favourites like Mary, Mungo and Midge, The Magic Roundabout, Blue Peter and Penelope Pitstop but some forgotten treasures like Hatty Town and Woobinda – Animal Doctor.
Why were Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford in formulaic TV cop shows? And our host Oliver has a bit of difficulty reconciling some of the programme content with 21st century attitudes. Also can you guess which two long running shows started this year?
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Doomwatch was a sort of ecological drama it stood for
Department of observation and measurement
It was on point and predicted many things which have come true
Sadly a lot of them have been wiped and one story although made called Sex and violence was never transmitted it started June Brown as a sort of Mary Whitehouse figure .
There are some good episodes but it was very much of its time
The episode you mentioned ,called Without the bomb ,dealt with Pheromones a new lipstick designed to act as an aphrodisiac
Worth a look at season 2 is complete but season one is missing a few episodes and season three only has a very few episodes
Thanks .
Just binge listening
Fantastic podcast