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The only thing I can think of is a British series from 1979 called Noah's Castle (based on a YA novel of the same name by Sue Townsend. I studied the book in high school which is why I remember it). It is set in a Britain that is without a government and on the brink of anarchy, with troops roaming the debris-littered streets and food prices rising to the levels of Weimar-era Germany. The Mortimer family is headed by father Norman – a stern army colonel type who has planned ahead for the looming breakdown of social order by hoarding serious amounts of food, petrol and other essentials (including booze – “for barter”) in the cellar of the isolated family home (the “Noah’s Castle” of the title).
However, I don't rcall a scene involving a university or a yeti.
"The Old Men At The Zoo".
I need to watch this show again, and have been searching on and off for years. It aired in the late 70's or early 80's in New Zealand (but it wasn't a NZ show). I think it was most likely British, but could have been American, it was in English.
It was a little like "An Englishman's Castle", set a dystopian world, either during a war or fascist period.
The only scene I can remember was the last episode where the war ends/ the resistance wins and the scene is in a university or museum and everyone is happy, they are restoring thing to normal and someone proclaims "we've found the yeti!" And the bring out and large stuffed yeti (imagine a stuffed bear).
Please help!