It enthralled audiences of more than 10 million a week and hooked a generation on science.
Now, once again, we find ourselves a generation on from the ending of a global war, the cold one of the Berlin Wall.
With one of the largest economic development windfalls in a generation on the line, 238 cities used every tactic in the book to court the company — including offering to rename a city "Amazon" and appointing Jeff Bezos "mayor for life".
A generation on, little has changed.
A generation on, most people's experience has been the opposite.
A generation on, public-policy orthodoxy has changed again.
A generation on, and many people still associate Africa with starvation and poverty.
He became leader very young and turned a generation on to politics".
Nixon's disgrace traumatised US culture but, a generation on, is there room for re-evaluation?
No surprise that, a generation on, contemporary writers should return there for creative renewal.
Twenty years ago, Harry Potter turned a generation on to reading.
