EXAM QUESTION 5

Social contexts influence television programmes by using recent events as a plot line for an episode or maybe a whole season/series. This is commonplace in The Avengers such as in the episode 'The Town of No Return' where the school is on an airfield and in the inn there are planes and ammunition on the walls and chandeliers. The war took place only twenty years before this came out so the war wounds were still fairly fresh and everyone was still recovering from the disaster. When Steede walks into an airfield bunk-house, the wall was destroyed and he finds out the real Piggy Warren was dead. The plot of the episode is based on a full-scale invasion by replacing every person in a village with one of their own. This is most likely caused by the fear of invasion by Nazi Germany.