The Lone Ranger returned television's first children's generation to "those thrilling days of yesteryear."

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear.

These thrilling final days are not only about the superstars, Sosa and McGwire.

Or, as the voice-over on the old Lone Ranger programs used to say, "Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear."

These were bad but thrilling days.

"Now we will return to those thrilling days d'antan," Gaston had proclaimed after giving him the fifty-pence tour of the village and the chateau.

"This is one of the most thrilling days in my life."

For Lady Diana Spencer, just twenty years old, it was the most thrilling day of her life.

But this latest experiment in trying to re-create those thrilling days of yesteryear (actually, the mid-1980's) with Lewis will be put off for a while.

Definitely my most thrilling day was when we did a stunt which involved me running off a pier and jumping onto a moving speedboat!