AC57 What's Next?

[WallShadow]

Anyone planning to run an AC57 game at Fall-In this Halloween?

[AzSteven]

A Very British Atomic Cafe?

So what would be iconic and fun for a late '50s post-apocalyptic Britain?

[Steve F]

So what would be iconic and fun for a late '50s post-apocalyptic Britain?

In science-fiction terms, it's the decade of John Wyndham (Day of the Triffids, The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids) and Nigel Kneale (the Quatermass serials, the BBC adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four).

In the movies, you're getting the first Hammer horrors, the Ealing comedies, Dirk Bogarde and Diana Dors, the first St Trinian's films (hoos creeaytur, ronald sirl, is also sending Nigel Molesworth to St Custards, chizz, chizz), and those peaks of intelligent, thoughtful cinematic SF, The Trollenberg Terror and Devil Girl from Mars. 

On the radio, there's Dick Barton, Special Agent and Journey into Space.  The Archers is spreading agricultural knowledge like muck.  Above all, there is the Goon Show.

In pop culture, you've got the Teddy Boys, while Trad Jazz is squaring off against the first "modernists" (Mods, as they became known).

Lots of good source material there.  Neddy Seagoon, Bluebottle, Eccles, Major Bloodnok and Min would be a good start!

Edit: I forgot to mention comics.  This is the decade of The Eagle and Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future - not actually post-apocalyptic, but Dan's first mission to Venus was motivated by food shortages.

And perhaps post-apocalyptic Britain should be teeming with the feral children of the baby boom - this is when The Beano was selling more than a million copies a week on the back of newly-introduced characters Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx and The Bash Street Kids.

Remember: Remain Indoors and Don't Think About The Event.

Blessed be the Regulations!

[Arlequín]

Excellent summary Steve, to which I'll add the 'Angry Young Men' of popular literature and the 'Six-Five Special' TV show.

[Bako]

Canadians?

 

I think he means rednecks, personally.