TV Show directory - TRAVELLING IN THE '70s
New York baby boomer Dean Cycon re-experiences the modes of travel that encapsulated the iconic 1970s – the decade when the USA was embroiled in a horrific war in South East Asia, battling sexual
equality while the muscle motorcar was thirsting for oil. We delve into the fashions and the technological fads that were never going to stay the test of time. Along the way, Dean flies, cigarette
in mouth, on the first jumbo jet, crosses Jack Kerouac’s America on a Greyhound bus, hitches a ride with a CB-obsessed trucker, re-enacts ‘Easy Rider’ on a Harley Davidson motorbike, goes inter-railing in Europe on a student travel pass and joins some Hippies on their magic bus trip to self-discovery. The show intercuts Dean’s peregrinations and nostalgic re-enactments with a string of
1970s archive film footage.
Production Company: Pilot Film & Television Productions
Year of Publication: 2016
