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Monday, August 21, 2006

One from the vaults

RETRO! thirtysomething, More 4, 3.00pm

Okay, hands up if you remember this one from the first time around? Uh huh. Now hands up if you secretly remember it but don't want to admit it because that would be showing your age a little bit? Yep, we thought so. For what it's worth, we remember this being on the first time around too, but our memories are fairly hazy. We vaguely recall liking the bloopy-bloop theme tune and the production card at the end that went "...and dance by the light of the moon!", and...that's pretty much it, actually.

This one's aimed at people who are at home during the day and have access to digital TV - with apologies to the rest of you, natch - and who fancy a bit of nostalgia. The first season (this one) was shown in 1987, so there's always the opportunity to play "spot the comedy fashion faux pas" if all else fails. And for those of you who've never heard of this show, it was pretty much an early prototype for the Cold Feet school of drama, where pretty and wealthy people experience domestic discord and gaze at their navels a lot.

It's probably a good timeslot for it, actually - a bit of glossy glorified soap during the day, to keep you going between the two showings of Neighbours. Unless you'd rather watch Terms of Endearment on Five instead, of course.

(Apparently, this is our 2,000th post. Cake, anyone?)

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I remember watching it and HATING the guy with the beard and his utterly repugnant (character wise) wife.

She got cancer and I laughed.

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