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Manufacturing industry was declining, jobs for young were dissappearing, financial speculation was increasing, and everyone was waiting for the Big Bang. Rape and child-murder were increasing, crime figures escalating, the centres of great cities deteriorating. Sex was lethal, smoking abhorrent, drinking dangerous, food destructive, and indeed the only pleasure left to make life worth living, if it was at all, was money, poor little paper money, which was trying to do all the work.

However, and in television there is always a however..