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as usual, I like old TV better
Jan. 26th, 2010 01:53 amI just finished rewatching Danger UXB, the 1979 BBC mini-series about a WWII military unit responsible for defusing unexploded bombs. I first watched it when it aired in the States on PBS (our government-supported TV channel) in 1981.1
It really is awfully good. ( Nothing particularly spoilery but cut nevertheless )
1I was 11. I think I must have watched pretty much all of UXB, because I remembered major plot points from a lot of episodes. I had weird taste for a kid.
Re-watching UXB has made me think about how much PBS meant to me, and influenced me, when I was young. I must have been about 10 when a PBS station began broadcasting to my extremely rural area. It was the station we got the best reception of, so my family watched quite a bit of it. The late 1970s and early 1980s were a particularly bleak wasteland for American TV, so the British shows I saw on PBS (Monty Python, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Brideshead Revisited) seemed especially brilliant in comparison. And incidentally, that's a set of programs that couldn't be more likely to produce a queer Anglophile if they were deliberately designed to do so. Thank you, PBS!
It really is awfully good. ( Nothing particularly spoilery but cut nevertheless )
1I was 11. I think I must have watched pretty much all of UXB, because I remembered major plot points from a lot of episodes. I had weird taste for a kid.
Re-watching UXB has made me think about how much PBS meant to me, and influenced me, when I was young. I must have been about 10 when a PBS station began broadcasting to my extremely rural area. It was the station we got the best reception of, so my family watched quite a bit of it. The late 1970s and early 1980s were a particularly bleak wasteland for American TV, so the British shows I saw on PBS (Monty Python, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Brideshead Revisited) seemed especially brilliant in comparison. And incidentally, that's a set of programs that couldn't be more likely to produce a queer Anglophile if they were deliberately designed to do so. Thank you, PBS!
