Retrogram #7913: Three Shows, Three Mile Island

The week of March 26th, 1979: Wales is finally exporting the works of one of its finest storytellers to the small screen. Britain is exporting interconnected space operas, complete with space Vikings. And the U.S.? It’s exporting superheroes and a rare appearance by a genuine comics legend…but it’s keeping the nuclear fear to itself. (50:16)
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1979, Blake's 7, Incredible Hulk, The, Series, Tales Of The Unexpected (Roald Dahl's), Years
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Allan Prior, Anglia Television, Babylon 5, Battle Of The Planets, Beyond Westworld, Bill Bixby, Blacula, C-SPAN, CBS, Cengiz Saner, CHiPS, Chris Boucher, Church Rock, Compact discs, Dan Raven, Dragnet, Eurovision Song Contest, Farscape, Game Of Thrones, Jack Colvin, Jack Kirby, James Wainwright, Jupiter, Kagakuninjatai Gatchaman, King Lear, Kung Fu, Les Tremayne, M*A*S*H, Magnum P.I., Mello Yello, Mission: Impossible, New Jack City, Nuclear accidents, Pay phones, Philips Electronics, Quinn Martin’s Tales Of The Unexpected, Roald Dahl, Roots, Shelley Winters, Sherman Hemsley, Skip Homeier, Space Battleship Yamato, Stan Lee, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Wars, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Terry Nation, Thalmus Rasulala, The China Syndrome, The Expanse, The Greatest American Hero, The Jeffersons, The Outer Limits, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Sixth Sense, Thirty Minute Theatre, Three Mile Island, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Voyager 1, What's Happening!, William Shakespeare, Z Cars