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Post by DR. QUIST on Jul 26, 2010 4:33:48 GMT -5
ARCHIVE NEWSPAPER REVIEW
EVENING STANDARD 1st February 1971 HOBB'S CHOICE Reviews Season 2 Episode Flight into Yesterday (Episode 7) by Martin Worth
People seem to have stopped worrying and learned to live with the Bomb. It has become one of the facts of 20th century life, like the Pill, or cigarettes, that causes much controversial heat but is too firmly established to be given up. Horizon cuts through the complacency tonight with a graphic reminder that there is still cause for concern about nuclear Armageddon. It does this by doing a stocktaking job on global nuclear bomb capability. Is the increasingly complex and sophisticated range of missile hardware and deployment upsetting the balance of men's power over them, it asks. Film of America's formidable arsenal is not exactly reassuring (BBC-2, 9.20).
DOOMWATCH'S obsession with choosing topical – not to say telepathetic – subjects seems to be cramping its style. Tonight's far-seeing scientific saga probes the disorientation dangers caused by flying through different time zones: Dr. Quist goes into a flap after a long-distance trip on an aeroplane. (BBC1, 9.20).
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