Dear LPG,

I have to start my letter with a question.  Is there a particular song that takes you back when you hear it?

I think that we are so lucky to have the TV services that we do in England even though I refuse to pay for all the extra channels that are on offer. 

The other day I discovered that the original Knight Rider series is now being repeated on Freeview television.  It was one of my favourite TV programs the first time round in the 1980s. I have to admit to being aware of how much more dramatic the theme music sounded back then, but having heard it a couple of times, its introduction, David Hasselhoff’s ‘big hair’ and the car named  Kitt, have managed to get me in front of the TV at the designated time each day and I find myself as transfixed now as I was then.  Once it starts I am transported back to a time when I watched with my young children at about teatime after they returned from school. 

I know that many of us can now access all manner of programmes that we are able to watch for the second time around, and they are all available on DVD these days but there was something special about the anticipation of what would happen in the next episode back in those days. 

I wonder how many pensioners still remember when there was only one black & white TV channel to choose from.  I am old enough to remember when there were only two, but now there are more than we will ever want before we start paying for the specialist ones.

I hear my grandchildren often moaning that there is nothing on TV but reruns but I think that we senior citizens are spoilt for choice at a time in our lives when we have more time and reasons to watch.

Music only takes you back for 4 or 5 minutes at a time but I get nearly an hour’s worth of nostalgia when I watch that particular bit of retro television.

ZY, New Cross

We have found some information that may bring back memories for you and also an online TV guide so that you can search for your particular preference.

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