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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 258149" data-attributes="member: 23">A strike? In Seventies Britain? Surely not.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />This kind of stuff always interests me, and it&#039;s lovely that you have that memory of watching it. From what I&#039;ve read it was a huge ratings success for ITV and finished at #1 a couple of times in Season One.TBW was just a little too early for me, I think. I&#039;d have been just that bit too young to fit into the demographic during its original UK airing, and I can&#039;t even remember a specific run of repeats that grabbed me.In childhood, most of my knowledge of the series came from a couple of old annuals that I&#039;d somehow acquired by the early Eighties.&nbsp; Because of this, the series felt very elusive and mysterious to me. But also very attractive. I can clearly remember being obsessed with the final season of Wonder Woman when it first aired here, but that didn&#039;t arrive until 1980. So it seems my graduation into juvenile fantasy TV came very shortly after TBW had (I assume) finished its run.Ha ha. Yes. I watched those episodes just last night and they&#039;re enjoyably frustrating.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 258149, member: 23"] A strike? In Seventies Britain? Surely not. ;) This kind of stuff always interests me, and it's lovely that you have that memory of watching it. From what I've read it was a huge ratings success for ITV and finished at #1 a couple of times in Season One. [I]TBW[/I] was just a little too early for me, I think. I'd have been just that bit too young to fit into the demographic during its original UK airing, and I can't even remember a specific run of repeats that grabbed me. In childhood, most of my knowledge of the series came from a couple of old annuals that I'd somehow acquired by the early Eighties. Because of this, the series felt very elusive and mysterious to me. But also very attractive. I [U]can[/U] clearly remember being obsessed with the final season of [I]Wonder Woman[/I] when it first aired here, but that didn't arrive until 1980. So it seems my graduation into juvenile fantasy TV came very shortly after [I]TBW[/I] had (I assume) finished its run. Ha ha. Yes. I watched those episodes just last night and they're enjoyably frustrating. [/QUOTE]

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