We shall not see their like again. Until the DVD release

Perhaps we're better off with all the oil running out. The next generation will never get excited by lairy oversteer, rumbling V8s and squealing tyres the way we do.

In decades to com we shall be known as a romantic generation of misty eyed dreamers, willing after a glass or two of fine wine to tell the youngsters such tales of steering into slides and wheelspin.

But how did it come to this? Why are we the last of a line, why will the young'uns never revel in such flagrant petrolhead behaviour?

Saturday tea-time telly that's why. For a golden period that stretches from The Fall Guy to Knight Rider, via those good ol' Duke brothers, Streethawk and the A-Team a generation lay on the floor early Saturday evenings to watch a certain kind of American show.

Tub thumping family fun, yes, unreconstructed rubbish, certainly. But when was the last time you saw a reality/talent show with a car chase involving at least one Bell Jet Ranger?

Glen A. Larson and Stephen J. Cannell we salute ye!



KnightRider the film is now in pre-production.