1990 – BBC TV Series • Blog Archive • David Mulholland. One of my favourite TV series from the 70s. British society has been taken over by bureaucracy. Freedom on all fronts is stifled by the government through bugging, rationing and the invidious presence of the public control department (PCD). Jim Kyle, a journalist with the ‘free press’ treads the fine line between exposure of the truth and governmental propaganda – whilst covertly helping to smuggle scientists and doctors abroad, emigration having been all but outlawed.
Aired: 1977-78 Archives: all 16 episodes still exist in the BBC archives. Recommended episodes: Whatever Happened to Cardinal Wolsey(scr Wilfred Greatorex) Witness(scr Wilfred Greatorex) Non-Citizen(scr Edmund Ward) Trapline(scr Edmund Ward) Ordeal by Small Brown Envelope(scr Edmund Ward) Great Britain, 1990. There were only 16 episodes and so far the BBC has not released them on DVD. From www.eclectica.info Some years ago, browsing through a second hand bookshop, I stumbled across a TV tie-in book for a show called 1990. Links: 1990's Classic TV Shows | TV show info, theme songs, episode guides, cast, DVDs - Classic TV Database.
1990 (TV series) 1990 is a British then-futuristic political drama television series produced by the BBC and shown in 1977 and 1978. The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Public Control Department (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Two series, of eight episodes each, were produced and broadcast on BBC2 in 1977 and 1978. The series has never been repeated, nor received any official DVD or video release. Two novelizations based on the scripts were released in paperback by the publisher Sphere; Wilfred Greatorex's 1990, and Wilfred Greatorex's 1990 Book Two. Exposition in this series was mainly performed by facts occasionally dropped into dialogue requiring the viewer to piece together the basic scenario. This state of affairs was precipitated by an irrecoverable national bankruptcy in 1983, triggering a de facto state of emergency.
"1990" (1977) - Plot Summary. 1990 - Series 1, episode 1. Edward woodward 1990 dvd. Socialism and/or barbarism. Salvagepunk (Apocalyptic notes, 1) . . -Benjamin, "Exposé of 1935", Das Passagen-Werk They are not dream residues of a world, the nostalgic fantasies and fashionings of what once was. They are residues of a dream world, forming a historical border to the next era, but not as blueprints or utopian plans. Rather, as the unwelcome remainder, for what matters is neither manifest nor latent dream content. The cunning of an era, then, is the dreaming of its own grave. In short... Well, kind of like that. A lineage: If we are witnessing the self-dismantling of the neoliberal order, we are witnessing also the eclipsing of cyberpunk, at least as we've recognized it so far. And then the fall... Now, the reigning order promises new direction, yet one that digs into its bag of bones to join together new Keynesianism with a "weaning off" foreign oil.
The promise beneath this? All in all, a participation in that great pasttime of the pseudo-Left, remembering the time that never was, back when life was simpler. That is more like it.