Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll: The 60s Revealed - 

Channel Five, Monday, 1 December, 9pm

If you're anything like Ian Hislop, don't watch Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll: The 60s Revealed (Five, Monday, 1 December, 9pm). I don't know if you remember, but Hislop put the '60s into Room 101 because it irritated him that he wasn't 'there', and he was certain that it was brilliant and all that. Of course, nostalgia shows about the 1960s are ten-a-penny, yet somehow, I always end up watching them (even though most of them contain the same clips of Carnaby Street, screaming Beatle fans, austere men in bowler who don't get it and Twiggy). Even though this is going to be no different, it does have a great little extra...

I've seen too many cobbled-together looks at the '60s and been equally entertained and irritated. Too many of them feature soundalike Beatle music, instead of plundering the rich seam of music that's probably cheaper to license than hiring The Cheaples session band.

However, this look at the most canonised decade in history has something to really look forward to. Forty years ago, Bernard Braden started recording interviews with the movers and shakers of the time, intending to return to them every three years to see how they and their careers had progressed. A bit like that Seven Up! thing. However, it never came off and the footage was thrown in a store-room... until now.

So instead, we get these never seen before interviews mixed with the stars who originally featured, looking back at them and cooing at their threads and funny ways of talking. Davy Jones of The Monkess quips, when faced with his younger self, "I used to be a heart-throb, now I'm a coronary." Sure, there'll be plenty of fluff in this, but it should be better than the usual '60s nostalgia tat.

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