Quote Originally Posted by ljb187 View Post
Amazing that you were able to process that show at ~12.

Well, Purple Haze was on the radio, people had Magritte posters on the wall, I was reading John Wyndham books, and Britain had been primed by Danger Man, Patrick McGoohan’s previous TV series. I was a schoolboy in a conservative country town, but enough of this stuff filtered through. The most remarkable thing was that ostensibly old-school TV executives didn’t seem to think twice about putting it out. The Avengers was another example, as was Monty Python which grew out of a children’s TV show. The ground was fertile and there was an appetite for the produce.