I was born in 1962 and remember my step father watching it in 1974 when I was 12. I couldn't stand the show.  I tried watching it in repeats some years back and I still didn't like the show. Maybe because it was based around war, but it didn't appeal to me at all.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi