1986 was the year that Hearts came within seven minutes of the league title, Graeme Souness revolutionised Rangers and Scotland headed to Mexico for another World Cup group of death.
Only remaining episode of a late 60s show which brought to the UK public's attention an equally skilled magician, comic, and alcoholic. He'd go on to almost kill Parkinson, and was still making us laugh during his death at the Palladium, and also after it courtesy of a brilliant Jerry Sadowitz impersonation.
However there was a down side, and that was Paul Daniels getting on the telly more because Cooper was dead. Nobody liked Paul Daniels. They should've given the Great Soprendo his own show instead, and got Sadowitz on live at Her Majesty's.
By 1973 the optimism of the 1960’s had evaporated and the country lurched from political upheaval to economic crisis via industrial strife while the IRA waged a sustained and bloody bombing campaign in London and Birmingham. It was also the time that Celtic won the last of their 9-in-row Scottish Championships and came within a whisker of a domestic treble. However they lost narrowly in Europe to a superb Atletico Madrid side, and behind the scenes the number of hideous crimes continued to grow.