It’s all there – the Doc Martens and Morrissey t-shirts, the curled-up Penguin classics with the orange spine, the milk crates of LPs and the pseudo-class warfare between students and everyone else.
Plus a few thoughts on that oft-overlooked 70s sitcom, Barney Miller:
In the episode set on the election day that brought Jimmy Carter into office, we learn that Harris (Ron Glass) – the hip, dandyish black detective – is a Republican, an apparent demographic curiosity that he explains as his attempt to “confound expectations.” It’s not played for laughs, or as some character flaw, and never gets mentioned again for the rest of the season, and I couldn’t help but wonder – contrary to everything I know about the ’70s from actually living through it – if some things might have actually been better then.
