As Nuts in May debuts on Blu-ray, we turn the clock back 50 years to see what else we were watching on British TV in 1976. But British TV culture seemed notably secure in its identity at this time – that is, in the wealth and worth of British stories as tales worth telling. I, Claudius is a British TV landmark, one whose emphasis on “treasons, statagems and spoils” would later find contemporary expressions in The Sopranos and House of Cards, among others. Rock FolliesWriter: Howard SchumanRock Follies (1976 to 1977)The hype last year around Sally Wainwright’s Riot Women revived contemporary interest in its pioneering ITV predecessor Rock Follies, another drama focusing on a female rock band. O’Toole’s own professed favourite, though, was Rogue Male, the BBC2 TV film adapted from Geoffrey Household’s 1939 novel by screenwriter Frederic Raphael and directed by Clive Donner.