On You Tube watch Adam Adamant Lives from 1966, Episode 3, 1 minute and 55 seconds.

Here is the link: http://youtu.be/VHTBDmdZ-lY

Sandbrook mentions it in his sixties book as an example of how commodification, Americanisation and commerce has taken root in London. The character Adam has been frozen for 60 years, he wakes and doesn't recognise London: this is an Edwardian gentleman and his shocked by what he sees. That is the neon of Piccadilly Circus, the noise (transistor radios, the advertisement hoardings and the crowds of people.

To Adam, the commercialisation is Hell. He panics and yells, 'What infernal place is this'?

Sandbrook reads this as a critique of England's infatuation with the tawdry, the shallow and the vulgar.

Richard