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Tomorrow's World

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	Tomorrow's World	comment	Tomorrow's World was a long-running BBC science and technology show that was aired between 1965 and 2003. It was born as the BBC's contribution to the mid-1960's "We're Backing Britain!" campaign, a government drive that sought to reverse Britain's decline as a manufacturing and industrial power by highlighting the very best of British ingenuity, talent, skill and ability to be at the leading edge in all aspects of cutting-edge tech. It also sat well with then Prime Minister Harold Wilson making "a new Britain, forged out of the white heat of technology" a keystone of his leadership. As so often happens, the show vastly outlived the reasons for its creation, and it was still a fixture of BBC programming in the very early 2000's. By then the white heat of British technology had had its fires damped somewhat by Margaret Thatcher and others, but there were still enough glowing embers left to sustain a weekly digest of exciting technological developments.Initially presented by a team headed by former RAF pilot Raymond Baxter, the show was a manifestation of the BBC's original charter commitment to educate as well as to entertain, and earnestly sought to break down the underlying scientific mysteries into small easily understandable sound-bites. it came from very much the same place and from the same underlying broadcast philosophy as Blue Peter, and even diehard nostalgic fans will admit it came over as Blue Peter for grown-ups. In its thirty-eight years on screen with much the same unchanging format, it became a British broadcast institution, and even earnt the accolade of getting its own dedicated parody show: Look Around You became (in its second series) a blatant Shout-Out, maybe even Homage, to TW.Tropes demonstrated and explained on this show by the earnest presentation team may include, twenty or thirty years into our future, the following:
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	Tomorrow's World	hasFeature	I Want My Jet Pack / int_6a8e730b
	Tomorrow's World	hasFeature	Isn't It Ironic? / int_6a8e730b
	Tomorrow's World	hasFeature	Long-Runner Cast Turnover / int_6a8e730b
	Tomorrow's World	hasFeature	Nipple and Dimed / int_6a8e730b

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