Just once, I'd like to see a post about how the old days were cool without the ill-informed condescension. First: > This would have been at the height of ‘Moo

Just once, I'd like to see a post about how the old days were cool without the ill-informed condescension. First: > This would have been at the height of ‘Moog mania’, when the success of Switched On Bach led to an explosion of interest in electronic music. How adventurous is it to follow a trend? Second, let's see what else the BBC was showing in the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_and_White_Minstrel_Show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_and_White_Minstrel_S... > The Black and White Minstrel Show was a British light entertainment show that ran for twenty years on BBC prime-time television. Running from 1958 to 1978, it was a weekly variety show that presented traditional American minstrel and country songs, as well as show tunes and music hall numbers, lavishly costumed. It was also a successful stage show that ran for ten years from 1962 to 1972 at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London. This was followed by tours of UK seaside resorts, together with Australia and New Zealand. Getting it out of the way: Product of the Times, Different Era, Nobody Knew Any Better, Long Ago, Nobody Remembers, Worth The Licence Fee Alone, Stop Being Sensitive. Am I forgetting anything? My point, though, is that the BBC was hardly a fully progressive institution back then, and it showing weird-but-unchallenging pap hardly proves it was more adventurous than TV now.