1970's Reality TV Survival show - Youtube video

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Cracking find Cobweb!! Thanks.


What was the name of the more recent Prog set in Scotland featuring a larger community trying to survive? anyone know?
 
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Just had the Youtube gods bless me with this gem!


Great find, but I am as sceptical about 70's reality TV as I am about current stuff. Who the hell sets out on 2 weeks bush survival wearing white bell-bottoms?! - and how were his knees still clean after over a week of building shelters, collecting firewood and foraging? I don't know about you lot, but my knees are grubby within 10 minutes of setting up camp :)
 
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Great find, but I am as sceptical about 70's reality TV as I am about current stuff. Who the hell sets out on 2 weeks bush survival wearing white bell-bottoms?! - and how were his knees still clean after over a week off building shelters, collecting firewood and foraging? I don't know about you lot, but my knees are grubby within 10 minutes of setting up camp :)

Optimistic Hippies Broch. :)
 
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Who the hell sets out on 2 weeks bush survival wearing white bell-bottoms?! -
I don't know if you were around at the time but people tended to just wear their everyday clothes. Outdoorsy uniforms were really reserved for the pros. And there wasn't any internet or TV personalities informing folk what clothes they should wear.
I probably camped out in beige corduroy flares a few times in the late 70s.
The secret was not to care.:)
 
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Nationwide did a good one in the late 70s. The name of the intrepid presenter will come back to me, but he was given some training and dumped on a (Scottish?) island with instructions to make a video report every so often. He got pretty miserable.

Maybe Bob Langley?
 
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I don't know if you were around at the time but people tended to just wear their everyday clothes. Outdoorsy uniforms were really reserved for the pros. And there wasn't any internet or TV personalities informing folk what clothes they should wear.
I probably camped out in beige corduroy flares a few times in the late 70s.
The secret was not to care.:)
Mine were purple, right hippy chic.
 

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