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Science fiction obsessed 1970s kids – like me!

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1970s kids were obsessed with science fiction as we were influenced by the Apollo space missions and the Soviet cosmonaut program

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The Guardian Angels – on the London tube

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The Guardian Angels were set up in New York in the late 1970s to patrol the subway but when they came to London – the idea flopped badly

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