I Love a 1970's Christmas (2000 TV Special) User Reviews

I'm Dreaming Of A Blue ( Peter ) Christmas

[ShadeGrenade · 9/10 · 31 July 2006]

This was a lame excuse to run the bits that didn't get into 'I Love The '70's' the previous summer. Again the Z-listers were trotted out to tell us what they once got for Christmas, or rather what they would have got had they been alive then. The main attraction for us forty-somethings was seeing John Noakes, Peter Purves and Valerie Singleton again, acting as though they'd never been away from 'Blue Peter'. As a matter of fact, the Titanic Three enjoyed the reunion so much they wanted to do a nostalgia series, but the mean old B.B.C. wouldn't let them. I suppose its asking too much for a nostalgia show to actually exhibit affection for the past, as young people - who these shows are mostly aimed at - are so full of spite and hatred they won't watch anything about the '70's unless its done with a sneer. It wasn't until Channel 5's 2006 series 'The 70's: The Decade That Was' that an honest depiction of the era was finally presented. About time too. Only an idiot would dismiss an entire decade as rubbish.

Dreadful Rewrite of A Dreadful Era

[vintageTVaddict · 1/10 · 24 June 2006]

A highly inaccurate 1970s-themed festive "pop culture" show, which insisted on taking 1960s stuff (like Space hoppers) and mixing them with things unavailable until the 1980s.

The 1970s revival in Britain was not based on accuracy, and several 1960s items were included in this programme simply to flag up the 70s recession-era pop culture. 1980s items were also tossed in to the programme as there seems to be a feeling here that we must not celebrate 80s culture openly - because of the attendant "yuppie" culture! So, let's call early 80s pop culture "70s"! Highly illogical!

The American versions of the "I Love..." series were refreshingly accurate and non-priggish.

But this was awful.