Talk:1990 (TV series)

Article assessment

I have rated this article as stub class because of the relatively short length and as low importance because there is little to distinguish it from other articles about television series. --Opark 77 15:31, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

DVD

Is it available on DVD? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.113.108.105 (talk) 02:34, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

No official release to date. Only related items are the two novels based on episodes. MopyNZ (talk) 11:21, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Memorable TV Show

IMHO, one of the more memorable UK TV shows from the 70s, and unfortunately never repeated, or available for purchase. Those familiar with UK politics from the 60s and 70s will get a lot more from this show, thus it is a little topical. The UK had to bailed out by the IMF in the early 70s, mostly with US money. One of the conditions was that the UK scrap a lot of its military/RAF aircraft production, and use US aircraft instead. The union control is a reference to the two governments of Harold Wilson (65-70, 75-80) both of which were notorious (IMHO) for nepotism with labour union organisers, and particularly only unions strongly allied with the Labour Party. The show was probably never repeated because of suspected political bias. Sigma-t (talk) 06:01, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

The show also presented ideas, such as "life scores", which had been floating around, internationally, for a few years - and are still very much with us. For example, "life scores" are now "social credit" scores - in China, and (less obviously) in the West, with "debanking" and so on. The idea of a digital currency controlling what people can buy is also very far sighted for 1977 when the show was written - back then such ideas were only just starting to be talked about in elite circles, ditto general control of the population - although Dr Klaus Schwab's book "Stakeholder Capitalism" had come out a few years before. 2A02:C7C:E183:AC00:E830:61BB:EFB9:31AC (talk) 18:20, 29 July 2024 (UTC)