I Love the '70s (UK)

Season 1

TV-14
Celebrities recall the pop culture of Britain in the 1970s.

Where to Watch I Love the '70s (UK) • Season 1

10 Episodes

  • I Love 1970
    E1
    I Love 1970Tonight Jimmy Savile takes a nostalgic look back at the year when the world moved from black and white into colour. It was a year of chopper bikes, stylophones, ScoobyDoo and The Clangers, chart-toppers Mungo Jerry and the Supremes, the World Cup, MASH and The Goodies.
  • I Love 1971
    E2
    I Love 1971Britt Ekland presents the story of 1971. It was the year Britt got her big break in the film Get Carter, and the year innocent children risked their lives with clackers and space hoppers. It was the year of the bizarre Banana Splits and the baffling success of novelty records like Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep by Middle of the Road. Add in the arrival of Shaft and hot pants with the antics of Harvey Smith, and it was a mad, bad world in 1971.
  • I Love 1972
    E3
    I Love 1972Erstwhile teen heart-throb David Cassidy looks back at 1972 and talks about his rivalry with Donny Osmond. He also looks at when Magpie took on Blue Peter, and children stuffed their faces with Fruit Salads. Plus how Love Thy Neighbour was blamed for causing racial tension across the UK, and how the publication of the Joy of Sex and Cosmopolitan sought to change our lives.
  • I Love 1973
    E4
    I Love 1973Singer Noddy Holder looks back to the year the seventies began in earnest. As the kungfu craze swept the western world, snorkel parkas made an unlikely fashion statement, glam rock rivals Sweet and Slade competed to dominate the charts and Kojak star Telly Savalas proved that even a bald guy sucking a lollipop could be cool.
  • I Love 1974
    E5
    I Love 1974Bob Godfrey, the animator behind cult 1970s cartoon characters Roobarb and Custard, has devised an animated special, in which the pair put on a cabaret to introduce the stars of 1974. The show evokes the year by recalling The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. Custard remembers the Wombles and Pans People, while Roobarb performs the Mud dance. Plus there's a look back at the Ford Capri and computer game Pong. Richard Briers provides the voices.
  • I Love 1975
    E6
    I Love 1975Dennis Waterman recalls how the 1970s went through a mid-decade makeover, when David Essex and the Bay City Rollers were storming the charts, and Steven Spielberg terrified a generation with his tale of a man-eating shark, Jaws.
  • I Love 1976
    E7
    I Love 1976Muppets star Kermit the frog returns to TV screens to introduce the highlights and heart-throbs of 1976, including tennis legend Bjorn Borg and racing drivers Jackie Stewart and James Hunt. It was the year that Abba released the hit single Dancing Queen, Sylvester Stallone danced the ring in Rocky and punk first rocked the headlines.
  • I Love 1977
    E8
    I Love 1977Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher tells the story of the year as she looks back on the highlights and memorable moments from 1977. Saturday Night Fever turned John Travolta into a disco-dancing star while at the other end of the musical spectrum the Sex Pistols were at the forefront of a revolution in popular music as rock dinosaurs faced potential extinction at the hands of the punk movement.
  • I Love 1978
    E9
    I Love 1978Lynda Carter, who shot to fame in 1978 as the TV incarnation of comic-book heroine Wonder Woman, introduces tonight's slice of seventies nostalgia. The US actress wasn't the only one portraying a comic-strip character that year, as The Incredible Hulk also made an impact on British screens. Both the movie and music worlds were dominated by Grease, while the year's top toys and games were the electronic Simon, the arcade sensation Space Invaders and Top Trumps cards.
  • I Love 1979
    E10
    I Love 1979Bo Derek , the sex symbol who shot to fame in the final year of the decade in the film 10, presents this look back at the fads and fashions of 1979. Quadrophenia became the must-see movie of the year, The Dukes of Hazzard were leaving their tyre tracks all over the nation's TV screens, and Gary Numan topped the charts with Are Friends Electric? Meanwhile, kids and adults alike were trying to solve the fiendish Rubik's Cube.

 

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