Golden Gate Park most-visited city park in the United States after Central Park in New York City, Lincoln Park in Chicago, and Balboa and Mission Bay Parks in San Diego. In the 1860s, San Franciscans began to feel the need for a spacious public park similar to Central Park, which was then taking shape in New York City. Golden Gate Park was carved out of unpromising sand and shore dunes that were known as the Outside Lands, in an unincorporated area west of San Francisco's then-current borders. Conceived ostensibly for recreation, the underlying purpose of the park was housing development and the westward
Talking to a Stranger the four instalments were shown weekly from 2 October to 23 October 1966. The first three plays ran 96 minutes and the final play 102 minutes. It was repeated as part of BBC2's twenty-fifth anniversary celebrations in 1989, allegedly because writer Alan Bleasdale refused to allow his 1982 drama "Boys from the Blackstuff" to be re-shown unless "Talking to a Stranger" also featured as part of the celebratory season. It was screened again by the BBC in 2003, this time on the digital channel BBC Four. "Talking to a Stranger" was remade thrice, once for Canadian television in 1971 and