Victims
A really good story - very well acted and the quality of the print was great. I know modern TV's can upgrade a non HD picture but this episode I saw on ITV4 this morning was excellent.
Watching the Sweeney is a portal into the past - I was a very young man of 20 in 1978. The cars do look old in terms of design- except the Ford Grammy which doesn't seem to have aged.
Of course no traction control - ABS - Satnav and to top it all you did not have to wear a seatbelt.
It seems incredible now that people didn't mind being thrown through their windscreen or having someone on the backseat be launched like a torpedo into the back of their head if there was a crash or emergency stop.
Clearly the physics of inertia was not a hot topic in pubs. I remember my friend used to drive his Ford fiesta at 90 (indicated) on the motorway (no speed cameras) so we would have both ended up as pizza in the event of an accident.
It was a totally different World though with no mobile phones - so queues outside red telephone boxes (although often to use them as a loo after the pubs shut) - no internet - home computers and grotty TV's with runny colour. Don't ask about home decorations.
I wonder how society will look back on us in 40 years time?