Generation gap is spelled out in black and white for all to see

The dawn of colour television provides quite a useful line in the sand by which to judge whether one can be considered an old timer or not.

- with Mike Hill

Before colour television, life was The Beatles, rationing and the invention of the spinning jenny.

After the first colour television set left Radio Rentals, life became Rubik's Cubes, Sinclair C5s and the Nintendo Game Boy.

Anyone born before this handy - and arbitrary - cutoff-date rubbed shoulders with the cast of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and those arriving in the world afterwards cruised the streets of Blade Runner.