Our first episode is a rip-roaring ride to the epicentre of the 80s: it’s 1985 and we’ve just been interrupted in our viewing of another classic from the Reg Grundy stable. But what an interlude it is. R Whites display the same ambivalence towards lemonade drinking that Trainspotting did towards heroin; Exchange & Mart issue a stark warning of the perils of using ropier, local listings papers; Castlemaine XXXX whisk us back to Australia in the 50s. Or the 80s, we couldn’t tell. BT invest a large-scale budget to display small-scale mindedness, and we wrap up with a half-arsed ad for a half-arsed product that provoked a half-arsed parliamentary debate. 

Contains judicious use of swearing.

You can find the ad break in question here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqQ8eGUaf58

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