Totally curious as to why you think so. I feel so lucky to have grown up watching connections. I even see the decline of this kind of education programming as the seasons progressed.
This particular episode could not have been made today: 2020 taught us that masses of people setting fire to buildings and/or breaking into them are not "looters" or "rioters" ... they're "peaceful protestors" :-/
This video used the wrong term, and showed the wrong people doing the looting and/or rioting.
As it was a British show, things Crazy America does probably doesn't apply.
Today you just pay the ransom and continue with whatever you were doing.