"No, Not the Mind Probe!!?!"

Well, I was only a small child myself at the height of it; but it was something that seemed very much in the background a lot of the time in those days. I remember the nuclear disarmament protesters at the airbase at Greenham Common, and Star Wars and all of that stuff; strange. I don't know if you've seen Threads, but it is quite possibly one of the most disturbing things ever put on British television. Not quite as whompingly heartbreaking as When the Wind Blows; I remember our English teacher showing us that when were doing about nuclear war fiction, and I think it scarred me (and I was older by then!); like Watership Down, but even worse...