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99 episodes
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99
Total castaways
1970s
Peak decade
8
Decades seen
Castaways who chose this
Peter Donohoe on putting his hands under his armpits in a 70mph car crash
Sue Lawley on being called the kind of girl you'd take home to mum
Geoffrey Howe on convincing Labour voters that Tories don't have horns, tails or cloven hooves
Alfred Eisenstadt on being hoisted 142 feet into a rainforest tree to photograph from a platform
Christopher Reeve on his first stage role as a boy soprano in Gilbert and Sullivan
Alan King-Hamilton on nearly swooning when he mistook a VC for a KC
How her husband's 'Well, then write' turned Rachel Billington into a novelist
Jack Higgins on his first job as a messenger boy in the Leeds cleansing department
Arthur C Clarke on building his own crystal set to listen to music as a youth
Marisa Robles on winning a radio competition at nine only to have her bicycle prize taken away
David Shepherd on raising £46,000 in one evening for a poacher-catching helicopter
How walking down the main street of Chipping Camden taught Gordon Russell more than school
Leslie Baily on persuading Marconi to recount his first transatlantic wireless signal
George Thalben-Ball on accidentally triggering every organ effect during the national anthem
Alfred Hitchcock on describing Psycho as 'a rather gentle horror picture'