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An ad came up on my browser a couple of weeks ago saying "You won't believe Petula Clarke at 90." She appears to actually be 88, but she's physically well and independent and still has all her faculties. Petula Clark will be presenting a special musicals-themed edition of Sounds of the Sixties on R...

stearn wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 21, 2021 3:43 pm

I wonder if this was just picking up from someone else's incorrect statement or relying on memory.

Well of course the Goodies themselves did spend rather a long time complaining that the show hadn't been repeated, to the extent that it became a running joke on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue...

If only there was a database of Radio Times listings going up to a decade ago when the BBC started publishing their schedules online In fact the cut-off date for Genome makes it look as though there have been no repeats since 1986, with the single exception of "Winter Olympics" in March 2006. The w...

"This desire for a full view of the shows is reflected in Network’s treatment of The Goodies. A comedy series as popular and experimental as Python, the show has never been repeated on television."

Not actually true...

This is getting a little repetitive... What's amazing is that it was never planned as a series - the original "Seven Up" documentary was intended as a one-off. Remarkable for Michael Apted to have stuck with the project for such a long time. As I said above, it was never planned as a long-term serie...

a big flaw in the "Up" series is that it needed more girls. And non-whites. I assume the gender/race balance was different when the series started. No it wasn't. They followed the same fourteen people throughout the entire series (though some of them declined to take part in future programmes, and ...

You may not have to wait too long to hear Andy's Television Show again. According to the provisional schedule, the programme will be returning on Boom Radio, which launches on February 14th online and on DAB in some parts of the country, this time at 5pm on Sundays. Obviously, that may change betwe...

What's amazing is that it was never planned as a series - the original "Seven Up" documentary was intended as a one-off. Remarkable for Michael Apted to have stuck with the project for such a long time.

rosalyn wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 06, 2021 11:57 pm

the Radio 4 soap Waggoners Walk

It was on Radio 2.

On air he said the show would be back in "late spring when the weather's improved". Don't know exactly when that is, but "late spring" suggests May to me. Most of this week's themes (and ads) have already been played in the last six months or so since this thread started, so I've little to say excep...

When did Coronation Street become commonly known as "Corrie" anyway? I'm sure I never heard it when I was growing up in the 70s - not in my part of the country anyway (HTV West region). Other soap operas don't seem to have nicknames - "Emmie" might have taken off, though "Eastie" seems highly inappr...

Those BBC2 idents were brilliant. I think it was the first time anyone had designed multiple versions of an ident for regular use on one station. Sometimes I'd look forward to the ident almost as much as the programme! I even heard it said that BBC2's viewing figures went up as a result, even though...

Good news - there's a bumper double edition of the Television Show on New Year's Eve from 1-3pm.

Bad news - it's billed as the "final edition". Really?

The man behind some of the most memorable BBC and Channel 4 idents:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55465330

Last show of the year, I think - he said he'd be back next week but a "Ray Conniff Christmas Special" is scheduled for Boxing Day at 5pm. The undoubted highlight for me this week was the ad break, which was from the era I remember best - the classic PG Tips ad ("Dad, do you know the piano's on my fo...

The biggest surprise for me was that Top Of the Pops is only eight behind The Queen. That means that they could overtake her during my lifetime!

Could "unconscious plagiarism" have been a hidden theme in this week's show? We had the theme to H.R. Pufnstuf by Les Szarvas, for which Paul Simon had to be given a songwriting credit when he pointed out that it was too similar to "Feelin' Groovy". We had the theme to Blake's 7 by Dudley Simpson, w...

What's happened to the promised remake of "The Christmas Eve Party", due to be broadcast on Christmas Eve this year? In its place Radio 4 is listing "Department Store Santa", first broadcast in 2018. ("New Year Resolutions" - the only other remake not yet broadcast - is scheduled for New Year's Eve,...

This isn't to say that 'a night in the 70s' wouldn't be viable as a scheduling event, a day might be pushing it somewhat, but a single night broadcast simply because all the programmes exist by some curious chance isn't the way to do it. It would undoubtedly fall back on the same few 'classics' to ...

This isn't to say that 'a night in the 70s' wouldn't be viable as a scheduling event, a day might be pushing it somewhat, but a single night broadcast simply because all the programmes exist by some curious chance isn't the way to do it. But it was Christmas Day - it wasn't some random day in the y...

The idea of recreating a whole evenings viewing may be an interesting one, but other than for academics that wish to see shows in their exact context, I am not sure what the benefit would be. It would be an "event", like the numerous other one-off "events" that the BBC stages in order to get public...

Ignoring those, Christmas Day 1972 on BBC 1 does pretty well with everything else from 3pm to 11.50pm surviving. That includes The Queen , Billy Smart's Christmas Circus , Dick Whittington , Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game , Christmas Night with the Stars , The Morecambe and Wise Show , the f...

I don't believe that "copywritten" is an actual word. What do advertising copywriters do? They write copy; they don't "copywrite", any more than screenwriters "screenwrite". A copywriter would presumably say "I have written some copy", not "I have copywritten". Whether it's a word or not, it's clear...

Thanks for that. In addition to the piece itself, John Wyver makes an interesting remark in the comments: "I’m very curious to know when is the earliest we might be able to have a decent go at showing the majority of an evening’s schedule – for the BBC at least my guess is that it would be the early...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/55204070

Also host of the innovative chat show Around with Alliss, where he played golf and talked to various well-known people.

Not sure of the intended use of the Sorry theme. Gaynor Colbourn and Hugh Wisdom are credited as composers. This may or may not be the same Gaynor Colbourn: https://www.dressagetomusicbygaynorcolbourn.com/ Yes, I believe that it is. I don't know where I first read the suggestion that the Sorry! the...

Quite an inspired selection today. My favourite this week was Don Harper's theme for World of Sport - or would have been if he hadn't cut it off shortly before the end! The great thing about World of Sport was that it had a nice long closing credit sequence, so you always got the theme tune in full....

Anyone volunteering for a marathon watch to check? I hope that won't be necessary! I think you have to be almost exactly my age (54) to fully appreciate the cultural significance of Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt . A few years to one side or the other, and you won't be aware of the phenomenon of peopl...

On the subject of misquotes, did Selwyn Froggitt (Bill Maynard) ever actually say "Magic, our Maurice"? He certainly said "Magic" a lot, and he certainly referred to his brother as "our Maurice"; but whether the two actually occurred together I wouldn't like to say. I found this interview in Norther...

...which reminds me of all the schoolboy-sniggery quotes which aren't in Captain Pugwash. I was under the impression that "Master Bates, Seaman Staines, and Roger the Cabin Boy" were invented by Victor Lewis-Smith for an article in the short-lived Sunday Correspondent , but the Snopes article here ...