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Tim Scrafton wrote: Robert Hardy numerous times (6?) as Winston Churchill.

He also played him in a West End musical!

A downer yes, but we do at least know who was in the front of the car.

I can't quite understand what the article refers to. Surely the Granada (shangalang) and Basil Brush (BBC) have been copied to D3 / Digibeta already? The BBC 2 inches have been copied, but what about the 1 inch? Are there still loads of uncopied 80s tapes? Are they transferring the old digital trans...

They are two different systems. Closed Captions are a specific system that puts encoded text, like Oracle and Ceefax, on hidden lines, but only carries the writing rather than news/sport like teletext.. It can then be decoded by a box or suitable tv. DVDs, with CC data on it, can output the hidden l...

The cinematography on The Coroner is stunning btw. Totally above wha you expect for an afternoon drama.

Could the OB units used for inserts not be 'written off' financially in a way, as they were made in the downtime for the vans in between weekend sport and religious broadcasts.

Which reduces the likelihood that Network will go to the effort of restoring future releases on Bluray.

The Bluray of The Towering Inferno includes 40 minutes of additional footage shot for the tv presentation to extend the slot. They are presented in 4:3 as a bonus feature. The Towering Inferno scenes were shot at the same time as the film and then cut..me fore being reinstated for tv. They do actua...

There's a decent serial hiding deep in Clayhanger. Very deep.
"An architect?, an architect??" - repeat ad nauseum.

This was crucified on transmission.... It really was that bad!! I just can't understand the logic!

It would have been 83, when Hamlisch was at the National Theatre writing the disastrous musical Jean Seberg.

Quick thought... the YTV adaption of South Riding had a large focus on the machinations of the councillors of the area - somewhat similar to a boardroom?

Crossroads in the late 70s/early 80s often descended to a boardroom drama consisting of squabbles about shares and so on

I was surprised to a discover a few years ago of the pre Ally-Pally BBC TV service. It used Baird's 28 line spinning disc system, and was viewed by the famous Televisor you often see crop up on TV shows. Broadcasting House had a TV studio for several years, and the broadcasts used the national BBC r...

Well I never, you're right! The rhythm and melody are part of a track called Hit It.

I think you need to look at the BBC of the time to see why there was such a reaction. By 1992, technology had allowed portable VT and OBs to become ubiquitous. Outside broadcasts on video were EVERYWHERE in the early 1990s, in every kind of BBC show, like Noel's House Party, Pebble Mill, Open Air, T...

From what I understand it was almost like his ghost appearing on TV. Les himself was supposedly disturbed by the ghost of Sid James at the Sunderland theatre where he died in 1976. Les was apparantly so distraught by the experience he never returned to the theatre and told Barbara Windsor never to ...