One of the main things about the show that had so completely hooked my interest was that it was rooted in the decade(s) that produced it: the late 1970s and early eighties. The seventies were a bleak time, I had no illusions about that. Bombings, terrorism, pointless war, the rise of cults, environmental alarmism, and at the end of it, Reagan. Nobody who actually lived through that decade enjoyed it. But it was gone, it was done, and it now sat safely in its little historical drawer.
