TOTAL RECALL!
Telly fave Maconie to embark on most ambitious reminiscence project yet
BROADCASTER STUART MACONIE has wowed nostalgia fans across the globe today by announcing plans for a new TV series... in which he will reminisce about EVERY SINGLE DAY of the 1970s. The remarkable new weekly show - entitled I Love
Every Single Day Of The 1970s - will contain a whopping 3652 hour-long episodes, and is set to air on the TV channel Dave over the course of the next seventy years. The first 60-minute installation - I Love the 1st Of January 1970 - will be broadcast next week, with the three-hour season finale - I Love the 31st Of December 1979 - due to air some time in 2086.
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Maconie unveiled the uniquely ambitious project to gobsmacked reporters at a sparsely attended press conference in central London.
“The British public have already been exposed to - and greatly enjoyed - many of my memories of the 1970s,” he said. “However, the memories that have so far been televised represent just an infinitesimally minuscule fraction of the total memories I have of that ever-so-special decade.”
He continued: “I can literally recall every single second of the 1970s in vivid, highdefinition detail. So I just thought, instead of letting those remarkable rose-tinted reminiscences sit about, cluttering up the inside my head, why don’t I broadcast them in exchange for money?”
The Merseyside-born maestro of the memory went on to outline the many and various highlights his new programme will contain.
“There will be some cracking episodes in this series, such as I Love the 21st Of December 1970, in which I will recall the moment Elvis Presley met Richard Nixon; I Love the 10th Of
September 1974, which will see me revisit the invention of the Rubik’s Cube; and I Love the 3rd Of May 1979, which will contain my personal recollections of Thatcher being elected Prime Minister.”
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However, Maconie has warned viewers to brace themselves for several thousand less instantly captivating installments.
“Obviously not every episode can be an action-packed, edge-of-your-seat thriller,” he explained. “Some will, naturally, be a little slower than others.”
Instalments that Maconie has admitted may need some extra editorial attention closer to broadcast included: I Love the 17th Of May 1971, in which the presenter will spend an hour discussing the unexplained early closing of Woolworth’s in Barnsley town centre. I Love the 2nd Of April 1975, in which the 6 Music favourite will revisit the moment Russian gymnast Olga Korbut briefly thought she’d twisted her ankle in training, but soon discovered she hadn’t. I Love the 20th Of February 1977, in which Maconie will look back at length on the death of the brother of ‘Pickles’, the dog who stole the Jules Rimet trophy in 1966. At time of press, Dave has also commissioned Maconie’s ground-breaking followup series, I Love Every Single Hour of the 1980s, which will debut on the channel early in 2087 with I Love 12am to 12:59am on the 1st Of January 1980, before culminating with I Love 11pm to 11:59pm on the 31st December 1989 sometime in the year 613,200.