[pressgang] Nostalgia

[Vince Deehan]

Hi Maya,

Great post. I also used TDK video cassettes to tape Press Gang off the
telly. I think they may still be
at my parents house.

Bizarrely, I am fairly sure that Steven Moffat himself sent me a copy of
the VHS he used to tape
the first series. I probably still have that too.

I'm 51 now and the days when I would watch Press Gang every single day are
long gone.
I think I used to watch it pretty much every day, throughout most of my
20s!
It calmed me down through some very stressful times.

The last time I watched Press Gang was when I got married in 2017. On my
wedding day,
I suddenly felt compelled to watch the episode 'At Last A Dragon'. Probably
my most watched
episode.

Vince Deehan






On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 12:29 PM Maya Crabtree <mayacrabtree at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, it's obvious isn't it? A freak worm hole has opened up in the fabric
> of the space-time continuum. This seemingly insignificant set of video
> cassettes has been sucked back in time twenty years to the bedroom of the
> infant Maya Crabtree. But what awesome celestial forces are behind this
> strange phenomenon? And what is their evil purpose? We shall have to act
> quickly to save the entire Universe!
>
> Upon clearing out all my old things from my mom's house, I came upon my
> old original PG video cassettes. There were a few weird/funny months (or
> more) during which, had a fire burst out in our flat, I would have reached
> out to those cassettes first thing, without hesitating, as my most prised
> possession (assuing I wasn't thrown back on the floor while trying to fix a
> spark emitting dangerous looking socket).
> I was sure I'd hold on to those forever, but looking at it from the
> perspective of a 40 year old person with a family struggling to find space
> for things that we actually use, I think the time has come to say goodbye.
> As the only people in the world who might appreciate this feeling (or at
> least, not think I've lost my marbles), I just wanted to share this with
> you guys before I dump these into the electronic waste bin.
>
> So, that's it then :)
> [image: Press Gang.jpeg]
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