Season Seventeen
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Season Seventeen
'It has a bouquet. Yes. Like a good wine. You have to choose one of the vintage years, of course...Ah well, yes. It's 1979 actually. More of a table wine, shall we say.'
With its Grand Finale destroyed by strikes and its scariness forcibly removed by the Whitehouse-whipped Powers That Be, the wonder isn't that the season was a bit weak and a bit silly. The wonder was that it produced City of Death.