The week ahead: it's all in the line of duty for Mrs T


The week ahead: it's all in the line of duty for Mrs T

Conrad Astley
26/ 5/2006

AHH, the sixties. Flower power, Woodstock, the mini-skirt, The Beatles.

Yes, I know. That's at least four reasons to avoid watching The Summer Of Love, 1967 ( Saturday, BBC2) but the programme's makers claim they've done more than just re-hash those pieces of archive footage you've seen countless times before.

While that story about the Rolling Stones getting busted for drug possession is unearthed yet again, they've got their hands on some rare gems - such as a film taken by Twiggy's boyfriend and manager on her US tour.

There is also some rare amateur underground material, which they say is a far better record of what was really going on in the sixties - a time when the BBC wasn't quite so clued up and on the ball as it is now. Ahem.

Bill Nighy, a man who seems born to play the part of an ageing rock star, provides a very appropriate voice-over to complete the package.

This is the first of a series of trips down memory lane to summers past. Next week looks at the seventies summer of hate, while future offerings will take us to the late eighties summer of rave and the 1997 summer of pop and politics. Was it the same as you remembered?

Nostalgia certainly isn't what it used to be, and there seems to be a lot of it around this week. We also have the closing episode of The Line Of Duty ( Wednesday, BBC2) in which Thatcher wins another landslide General Election.

So, there's bad news for the country as well as for the central characters of Nick Guest and Gerald Fedden, who find their lives crashing down on them.

Sex In The 80s ( Wednesday, Channel 4) may sound as if it's going down the same line, but is, in fact, a look behind the scenes of the establishment run by society madam Cynthia Payne.

There's plenty of nice details here, like how she made sandwiches and poached egg on toast for the judges and MPs who provided her with a livelihood. Hopefully, these will have been served with doilies.

There's something even stranger going on in The Triangle ( Saturday-Monday, BBC1) the latest American sci-fi import. The three-sided object in question is the Sargasso Sea, bounded by Miami, Puerto Rico and - you've guessed it - Bermuda.

The three-parter sees a shipping magnate, fed up with his vessels constantly going missing, hiring a group of experts to get to the bottom of this age-old mystery.



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