I watched the first episode of Life On Mars earlier tonight and was surprised to see how dark, dim, dismal, dingy and dated the '70s appeared to be, especially in regard to the interior of houses and shops. That's not how I remember things at all. Surely the '70s were bright and colourful, and furnishings were more modern and not quite so old-fashioned looking? Is it my memories of the era that are mistaken, or have the show's makers gone overboard in trying to reproduce their perception of what the '70s were like?
What do you say, readers? To me, the '70s still (mostly) feel like fairly recent history, not something that happened in the far distant past. How does the period seem to you when you think back on it? (If you're old enough to have lived through it at the time.)
