Pehe, Veronika2020-08-132020-08-132014-06-24https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15061The first post-1989 rerun of the 1970s television series Třicet případů majora Zemana (‘The Thirty Cases of Major Zeman,’ or in short ‘Major Zeman’) in the Czech Republic generated a heated controversy in the media. This article will examine why Major Zeman became such a contested topic and presents an analysis of responses to the series. The paper suggests that the rescreening consolidated a particular ‘retro’ reception of the series, which reappropriates socialist popular culture and ascribes it with an ostensibly apolitical, postmodern, ironic sensibility. The paper will consider how such a response can be reconciled with more explicitly political approaches to the series, arguing that retro has a political agenda of its own.engFernsehenPost-socialist nostalgiaCzechoslovak televisionRetroMajor ZemanTelevision reruns07079110.18146/2213-0969.2014.jethc06010.25969/mediarep/14098DIE KRIMINALFÄLLE DES MAJORS ZEMANTHIRTY CASES OF MAJOR ZEMAN2213-0969