Cakes, booze, good company and classic TV - a great way to spend a Saturday!

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I'm a fan of what I call the classic era of British TV - mostly the sixties and seventies, when you could pretty much guarantee that there was going to be something decent on the telly every single night. These days it all seems to be Big Brother and rubbish like that - there's very little decent drama on TV. I grew up watching classics like Secret Army, Survivors and Callan - there's nothing to match them now. Fortunately I'm not the only one who feels this way, and a few years ago I found out about a society called Kaleidoscope, who specialise in preserving and appreciating classic TV programmes (they have managed to recover programmes which were thought to be completely lost). Kaleidoscope are a great outfit, not only do they preserve classic TV programmes, but they organise events where you can go and watch them, and also see people being interviewed who have worked in the industry. Four times a year they hold these events, at Stourbridge Town Hall (not far from Birmingham). That's where me and a couple of friends are going to be this coming Saturday. They've got TV directors Darrol Blake and John Bruce lined up as guests of honour, and they'll be showing a variety of programmes, including Z Cars, Shadows and Wolfshead (an untransmitted pilot for a TV series about Robin Hood). Two streams of programming, guest interviews, a bar (it wouldn't be a fannish event without a bar), cakes on sale (provided by members of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute) and the chance to meet and talk to other people with the same interest. What could be a better way to spend a Saturday? They don't even charge for admission, they just ask people to donate what they can to the RNLI, which I'm always happy to do. Full details of the event are at Kaleidoscope's website here: http://www.kaleidoscope.org.uk Some people might think it's a bit anoracky to drive halfway across the country for an event like this, but some people fly to other countries just to watch a game of football - to me, this is much more fun. Is anyone else into this era of British TV?