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Fascinating indeed! Many years ago I was given an off air recording of part of an episode with break bumpers and the very '60s adverts left in.

At the end the theme faded out early, so indeed cutting endings short or omitting them altogether is nothing new!

I was also rather surprised that it was recorded on 405 b/w as with LWT coming on the scene in late 68, and 625 conversions in full swing, could not see why they would have still been using 405 line equipment, I thought it had been a 625 colour tester. Anyway according to the BFI it needs some work...

Euston Films' virtually forgotten series, 'Shrinks', had an episode where the characters were watching an episode of, 'The Sweeney'.

We could hear the audio only, but the episode was immediately recognisable as being, 'Big Brother'.

The Times archive suggests it did indeed have a showing, across the network at 7.15 on Saturday, Jan 10, 1981. What caused it to come to grief in Tyne Tees I couldn't say - unless someone at LWT pulled the plug and local companies had to scramble for an alternative programme? I think it was either ...

I recall in the '80s Tyne Tees showed the film Holiday On The Buses one early evening. Memories are hazy but only a couple of minutes into the film the screens went blank, then the still Tyne Tees caption appeared with an announcement which remained on screen. I don't recall if this was down to a st...

What was unusual about the 1983 CH4 showings of The Prisoner was, apart from the first episode, they had their break bumpers intact. Unless I've missed it, I'm surprised there was no mention of Gerry Anderson shows being revamped by popular demand following a campaign from NME readers' I recall. The...

Thanks very much. I'm surprised it hasn't had a Network release.

A friend of mine alerted me to this series that starred John Thaw, Michael Goodlife and James Bolam. It ran for 10 episodes. I see it doesn't have a Network DVD release, nor have I found information as to whether the series still exists or not. Being from Granada, I would like to think it will exist...

I used to have the Pye Steptoe and Son LP, 'The Bird' from 1962.

Side 2 had extracts from three other episodes, one of which is surrounded with 405-line whistle, which would appear to suggest the audio came directly from the 2" master VT while it still existed.

It's 50 years today since the start of colour broadcasting on BBC1 and ITV. But there are still 6,586 homes in Britain with black and white licences, according to the Guardian (which doesn't seem to be aware that BBC2 had colour first!). They seldom get it right. I had a B&W license between 1984-19...

Of course during the colour strike, programmes made in colour would have been transmitted in B&W, Timeslip's 'Burn Up' story for example. It would have received its full colour debut during the 1974 repeat run when the original transmission tapes still existed. It looked great in colour I recall. I'...

ian b wrote:

Focus II wrote:Don't know if this is relevant but I remember the Lady Caroline actor Isla Blair being replaced by Louis Baxter in 'When The Boat Comes In'.

Blimey, that would have been a bit of a shock for the viewers...

Well spotted typo! Now corrected.

Don't know if this is relevant but I remember the Lady Caroline actor Isla Blair being replaced by Lois Baxter in 'When The Boat Comes In'. Series 2 started with a reprise of the Series 1 ending with the very different Lady Caroline as played by the dark haired Baxter in place of the red haired Blai...

Opinions certainly differ. As much as I like Public Eye and the B&W Callan episodes I thought the first series of Special Branch was something very special. I was up well into the early hours watching episodes back to back I enjoyed it that much. We got to know the characters and the storylines were...

To be fair on Special Branch the Euston series featured different characters, so a very different programme to the one that started in 1969. Bit of deja vu as well as I absolutely love the first 1969 series but thought the 1970 one was dreadful. I felt much the same about the first and second Euston...

There was also 'Radio Guide' in the early ILR years, which became the more generally music-based 'Tune In'. Sometimes these include listings you can't find anywhere online, although the British Newspaper Archive is getting better on this front (i.e. expanding more into contemporary history with sel...

Some programmes that were made in B&W that continued into the colour era could also be mentioned. Personally speaking, I believe Steptoe and Son , Callan and The Saint had well past their peak by the time colour episodes were made. Unfortunately with the general "Colour only" policy from most broadc...

I mentioned earlier about Richard Briers voicing many commercials yet very seldom appearing in person.

This came into my Facebook feed this morning!

I don't remember him and Felicity Kendall advertising Polaroid cameras!

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... 3130966696

Surprised no one else has mentioned this.
Been showing all the Thames produced episodes, now currently showing the 1972 series.

Good news- original Thames branding present and correct. Break bumpers missing but otherwise two breaks per episode.

Yes, I remember this. "Over on ITV now, News at Ten" was something else I remember.

In the early days of Channel 4 it certainly was, "ITV2" in all but name.

Speaking of edits I remember a 1990s VHS tape which included, "Scatty Safari". I remembered it well from its original transmission. Towards the end of that episode the RH characters disappeared into an ATV studio. We saw the ATV logo and the end of the ident tune. On the VHS release this had been ch...

Tyne Tees had their, "Epilogue" right from day 1 well into the 1980s. I think they only ended on becoming 24 hour. I remember Channel 4's, "Just For Openers" which celebrated 30 years of ITV. This included the first ever Epilogue and close down complete with National Anthem from Tyne Tees tv on 15th...

I'd have thought it was a bit earlier than 1984, but you're quite right that she did appear in a commercial for "Loving Care". It might have been. I have this commercial on a VHS recording at the end of a film from February 1984 which included it. Terry and June, sorry if someone's already mentione...

"Loving care from Clairol" shampoo I think it might have been from 1984 featuring Justine Lord, perhaps best known for playing Death in the Prisoner episode, "The Girl Who Was Death".

Mark wrote:
Not sure,wasn't the Wispa one was it, on the YT comments, it mentions it was filmed just a couple of months before Arthur Lowe died.

I certainly recall an advert for the blood transfusion service which included John Peel being abruptly taken off after he died.

prisoner5 wrote:Didnt Leslie Crowther do a lager beer ad with the line "are you coming down to zee beer kellar" in a German accent, either Kronenberg, or Hoffmeister?

Don't remember that but he did appear in Stork SB commercials on a taste comparison test.

As did singer Joe Brown for Pepsi (The Pepsi challenge).

If you're being coy about naming names because it was the unmentionable one...It wasn't! It was Alan Freeman who did Brentford Nylons. I stand corrected. I'm certain JS did appear in a similar department store advert though, clearly not Brentford Nylons. And another from memory: Tony Bastable adver...

Kenny Everett- "WHSmith, very good news"....

Must be hundreds more. The same TOTP presenter advertised Bisto gravy with his mother. Terry Wogan- Bovril cubes and Curry's. Lesley Judd Kit-E-Kat.

Can TV personalities be included? I seem to recall a certain TOTP presenter advertising Brentford Nylons in the '70s. Did Jimmy Young appear and sing in, "Mothercare Goes Upto Ten"? I also remember Percy Thrower advertising a brand of fertilizer (?), which got him sacked as "Gardener's World" presen...