All in the Best Possible Taste

Television past, as LP Hartley might have once said, is another country. And, in the early 1980s it certainly was a different beast. There were still only three channels to watch; the evening''s programmes finished with the playing of the national anthem; and the biggest prize on TV was not Chris Tarrant''s million pounds but a speedboat on Bullseye . . .

But as Tom Bromley suggests in this funny ...