Wheel out the hostess trolley for a dinner party lost in time

The trouble with nostalgia is it isn't what it used to be. Hats off to Channel 5 for their 1970s throwback weekend this week, it was a real blast (from the past).

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But being a child of the Seventies and a ridiculous pedant, I have a few issues with some of the details.

If you were watching The 70s Dinner Party: You're All invited on Sunday night, you might also have been shouting at the TV.

Rusty Lee - yes her - was on hand to cook up some 1970s recipes that were supposedly a regular feature of the new dinner party for a handful of "70s celebrities": Debbie McGee, Johnny Ball, Cheryl Baker from Bucks Fizz, actress Vicki Michelle and singer Leee ('three eees') John.

In my memory these people were all famous in the 1980s, probably because getting hold of 70s TV people isn't easy now - they've probably either gone to the Great Panto in the Sky or are serving time thanks to Operation Yewtree.

And something has happened to Rusty Lee that's turned her 'infectious laugh' into a nervous tick that concludes every sentence she speaks, even if it's not remotely humorous.

The effect is of someone who is either highly 'medicated' or in the throes of an 'episode' of some sort which can only end very badly.

Thankfully they didn't show that bit. But they did show Rusty making a massive poached salmon which was decorated with cucumber 'scales' and a mayonnaise face mask.