Once upon a time my Saturday afternoons were often spent watching some of the finest acting on telly - Wrestling. The BBC4 Timeshift documentary When Wrestling was Golden shown last night didn't tell me much more than I already knew about the wrestling TV heyday (fixed not 'fake') and the company that controlled it all. But I didn't know about how it all came together in the post WW2 years and the clips and interviews were revealing and nostalgic. Simple entertainment and good fun that was dropped by Greg Dyke, probably because it was seen as too 'low-brow' and common. Which is a joke when you consider what passes for entertainment these days. US wrestling is not the same as the home-grown heroes and villains. Sigh.
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