oh, go for it then: Tomorrow's World

Once upon a time, in the prior century, during the decade of the 7th, there was a Japanese boy born in Tokyo in the 6th decade, growing up in North London, England, United Kingdom, Europe, Earth.

From a very early age, this Japanese boy was always into gadgets, like most boys are, but this particular boy loved to take things apart and see how things worked. He even wanted to be a scientist at age 5. However, this boy had control issues and was not able to put things back (and he still can't). He always used to tinker and fiddle about. His parents called him "the touch of death", or in a direct translation "don't let him touch anything new, he'll break it". Those comments disturbed the little Japanese boy, but nonetheless, drove his curiosity in the pursuit of the "why?".

This Japanese boy used to enjoy watching Television. Here's a typical flow for a Thursday night.

As mentioned in the above clip, during this period, there was (is?) a British television show called "Tomorrow's World" that captured the heart of a then, very young Japanese boy. Here's the intro to the programme from the early 80's (could not find one from the 70's).

Here's Kraftwerk on Tomorrow's World.

Here's Pink Floyd on Tomorrow's World.

Tomorrow's World preceded the famous music programme, "Top of the Pops". This combination proved to be "killer content", for this Japanese boy loved gadgets and dancing women.

Original version of the above song by the Monks (not the American garage/punk band).

This is an example clip. Back then, it was natural for TOTP to comprise of Dexy's Midnight Runners, the Pretenders, and Legs & Co. The first two mentioned were NEW bands back then, Chrissie Hynde was a seemingly rather mesmerising woman that the young Japanese boy felt attracted to. Dexy's were all about the horn section and the black colours.

But, Legs & Co. damn, this was the fumie moment for any parent exposing their children to TOTP. In the case of this Japanese boy, he was often told to eat his fish fingers. What you can't get, you want more.

Anyway, back to Tomorrow's World. Apparently, the programme was slotted just before TOTP on purpose, so that the kids, who anxiously waited to see what was happening that week, would also tune into TW, in essence, an education programme made with a pop perspective. Well, BBC, it worked.

In 1981, TW and TOTP even had a joint episode "Look Around You, Music 2000", where they held a contest to see what kind of music would become popular in the 21st Century.