They thrill at the time but they only become primal later.
When you look back.
Television has a big part to play in that. The art-form that so many dramas have perfected now started their journey in earnest in the 80s.
Now, there was an entertainment show which connected a generation to the wonderland of America.
Jonathan King's Entertainment USA.
It was fast, it was efficient, he was caustic and fascinating and it had a theme tune to raise your pulse pressure.
(Note to self... Use the concept of Pulse Pressure for my first medical thriller novel... a quick Google tells me nobody else has done it because only a medic would put those two words together... the phrase hasn't reached public consciousness, otherwise it would be used for half a dozen books by now. It's always nice to stumble across something that other people haven't, in a world of billions).
So then, Jonathan King's Entertainment USA on BBC2.
It showed us the way to America. He fed us an intoxicating diet of colour and dreams.
Jonathan King was... well I think I will leave that to Wikipedia where I read he was just arrested again last week (sigh)... but he did do a turn at a pop career with a very pleasant ditty...
Here he is introduced on Top of the Pops by Leeds' own son ...Jimmy Savile.
It's a different world, isn't it?
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