And although the 1984 JVC VideoMovie wasn’t the primary mannequin available on the market, it grew to become iconic when Marty McFly lugged it round in 1985’s Back to the Future. The ruby purple model was the primary to combine the tapedeck into the digicam. (Previously, home videographers needed to put on a purse-like peripheral that housed the cassette.) Eventually, camcorders have been displaced by flash memory-packing Flip Video cameras and, later, smartphones. But their impression will reside endlessly, like the flicks they captured.

For instance, in one scene, the evil Dr Claw kidnaps Inspector Gadget, kills him, and throws him in a junkyard. Few films out there want to make me keep away from a TV collection as a lot as “Inspector Gadget”. It is totally unredeemable, unlikeable and unfathomably idiotic. You’d be a lot better off watching the Nostalgia Critic’s review. How about we head on again to …