Nostalgia TV

[JayzusB.Christ]

Last night's YouTube nostalgia watch was Cracker; specifically the episodes where Robert Carlyle is Albie the homicidal Hillsborough survivor.  Between Carlyle and Coltrane, here were two Scottish actors at the very top of their game. 

[JayzusB.Christ]

Two Scottish Roberts, now I think of it.

[nxylas]

As opposed to the Bogie Man TV movie, which sees Coltrane at the very bottom of his game.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Yep, I was thinking of that alright. Great actor, awful script.

[The Legendary Shark]

Speaking of nostalgia, I've just gone through Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World for the first time since it originally aired in 1980. It's crammed full of lovable crackpots and has a wide-eyed awe of Computers, with not a single mobile 'phone or web page in sight. Some of the interviews are ripe for satire, for example three Irish priests in a rowing boat recounting their brush with a lake monster has Father Ted written all over it. (And some of the retrospectively ill-advised scenes of Uncle Arthur and young Sri Lankan boys seem to have something else entirely written all over them.) 

It's sometimes hard to believe that the world I grew up in looked like that.