I recently discovered the complete 1971 BBC Sunday teatime drama series, "The Last of the Mohicans" on Youtube.
*https://youtu.be/6KkAB0-B7bw
(This is the complete series with each oddly broken down youtube episode/segment running automatically into the next one).
For eight weeks in 1971 it was essential Sunday teatime viewing and one of the last highlights of the weekend before the depressing prospect of the next day's return to school.
Rewatching it now in binge mode it has struck me how low the production values were, but that hasn't dimmed my enjoyment at all but has probably only added to its appeal.
I was curious as to when exactly in 1971 it was broadcast so I checked the TV schedules for that year and to my surprise discovered that the final episode, (episode 8) was broadcast at 5.20pm on Sunday 7th March, which coincidentally is exactly 50 years to the day, this Sunday coming....
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1971-03-07
I have now decided to save episode 8 until Sunday and relive 45 minutes of my childhood exactly 50 years later at exactly the same time, day and date and commence my viewing of it at 5.20pm, the exact time it was originally broadcast.
(Blame Lockdown).
To get really into the 1971 sunday teatime atmosphere my wife has even offered to serve me the dreaded "Sunday tea" of that era, my least favourite meal of the week which was served every sunday teatime and which I hated with a passion, comprising of dry, undressed lettuce, hard boiled egg, potato salad, beetroot and salad cream (not mayonnaise).
Was anyone else a fan of this fantastic series, the show which I believe gave the name to the "mohican" hairstyle favoured by some punk rockers just a few years later? As a pedant I should point out that it was actually Magua (Philip Madoc) and the Hurons who sported the so called "Mohican" cut, and not the two Mohican characters in the series, Chingachgook and Uncas, whos hairstyles were more heavy metal (think Gene Simmons/ Kiss)....

Magua of the Hurons

The Mohicans, Uncas and Chingachgook
I must confess that as a young boy I had a bit of a "man crush" on Hawkeye but I'm sure I wasn't the only one. I am now trying hard to rekindle those feelings in time for Sunday's viewing to get fully in the zone....

Hawkeye
*https://youtu.be/6KkAB0-B7bw
(This is the complete series with each oddly broken down youtube episode/segment running automatically into the next one).
For eight weeks in 1971 it was essential Sunday teatime viewing and one of the last highlights of the weekend before the depressing prospect of the next day's return to school.
Rewatching it now in binge mode it has struck me how low the production values were, but that hasn't dimmed my enjoyment at all but has probably only added to its appeal.
I was curious as to when exactly in 1971 it was broadcast so I checked the TV schedules for that year and to my surprise discovered that the final episode, (episode 8) was broadcast at 5.20pm on Sunday 7th March, which coincidentally is exactly 50 years to the day, this Sunday coming....
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/1971-03-07
I have now decided to save episode 8 until Sunday and relive 45 minutes of my childhood exactly 50 years later at exactly the same time, day and date and commence my viewing of it at 5.20pm, the exact time it was originally broadcast.
(Blame Lockdown).
To get really into the 1971 sunday teatime atmosphere my wife has even offered to serve me the dreaded "Sunday tea" of that era, my least favourite meal of the week which was served every sunday teatime and which I hated with a passion, comprising of dry, undressed lettuce, hard boiled egg, potato salad, beetroot and salad cream (not mayonnaise).
Was anyone else a fan of this fantastic series, the show which I believe gave the name to the "mohican" hairstyle favoured by some punk rockers just a few years later? As a pedant I should point out that it was actually Magua (Philip Madoc) and the Hurons who sported the so called "Mohican" cut, and not the two Mohican characters in the series, Chingachgook and Uncas, whos hairstyles were more heavy metal (think Gene Simmons/ Kiss)....

Magua of the Hurons

The Mohicans, Uncas and Chingachgook
I must confess that as a young boy I had a bit of a "man crush" on Hawkeye but I'm sure I wasn't the only one. I am now trying hard to rekindle those feelings in time for Sunday's viewing to get fully in the zone....

Hawkeye
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