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Welcome fellow gen-xer!
I tried rewatching The Prisoner but I can't get past Patrick McGoohan's acting now. He has one setting, a hard squint and rage.
I, Claudius is excellent and seeing John Hurt prancing about as a crazed Caligula is another reason to watch it. Brilliantly done series.
Connections is very interesting, well done, and I remember it fondly from watching it as a teen but I never bought some of his "connections". Like you said, claiming, say, coffee led to the chemical industry. Well they could've just as likely met over ham sandwiches too. lol "These two physicists met while playing tennis, therefore the invention of tennis led to the first atomic bomb..." oy!
I kind of think that lloyd's of London starting as a coffee shop sort of proves that argument.
I'd say it was a coincidence. It could've been a pub and we'd be talking about the creation of beer instead.