April 2023

Yuppie TV ads of the 1980s

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In the 1980s, the yuppie phenomenon was latched on to by the advertising industry creating a slew of yuppie TV ads as Tony McMahon discovers

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Kojak was one of the great true crime police series of the 1970s with Telly Savalas as the lollipop sucking detective

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Women’s Lib burst on to the scene in the 1970s but the fight for sexual equality was fierce as Tony McMahon discovers

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In 1976, the BBC broadcast the Roman drama series I Claudius but as Tony McMahon discovers, some TV critics savaged this TV gem

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In the 1980s, I lived with Nigel Lawson’s nephew while his uncle was Thatcher’s Chancellor of the Exchequer and architect of her financial policies.

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The John Major government in the UK faced an avalanche of political scandals in the 1990s that undermined belief in parliamentary politics