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Obviously thought of as sufficiently successful to be released on DVD 5 years ago. I remember watching some episodes then and it must have been 'OK, but nothing special' as I have no real recollections of it.

In the London region, at least, half the 1977 series was up against Hawaii Five-O and the remainder General Hospital. Of course, those had already been on for 30 minutes before The Other One Started.

The 1979 series was up against Flambards, again, starting 30 minutes before.

There was a 'The NEW Mr & Mrs Quiz Book' published in 1982 by 'ITV Books & Arrow'. Abebooks list the first one, "The Mr And Mrs Quiz Book" as being published by ITV Books & Arrow in 1978. The Whodunnit book listed on Amazon is dated 1978 and also has ITV Books/Arrow as the publisher on the front cov...

A quick google for the titles does suggest a change at the start of 1977 - before is Piccolo/TVTimes (and it is the masthead font that was current at the time) and after it is Look-in Books. Like Simon, I can't see any Look-In prior to 1977 Piccolo seemed to be an imprint of PAN, which was owned by ...

Liverpool Echo has evening listings for R. v. Purbeck 5, 6, 7 Dec 1972 (Granada), but being essentially an evening paper, the 'next morning' schedules are less informative, so there is nothing to suggest what the previous weeks lunchtime editions were other than R. v. Bolton (starring Edward Jewesbu...

I wonder if it is easier to create a fictional engine rather than have problems with misrepresentation i.e. type in query and the top response tells you whodunnit, where to find them, and what the motives were. A similar thing to the almost standard disclaimer that 'Any resemblance to actual persons...

I do wonder if this is rights driven rather than a decision to go streaming for the hell of it. The two week window to watch was what immediately puts me off. I have DVDs still in the shrink wrap from 5 or 10 years ago. I knew I wanted to watch the series, but just not then. Lockdown should, in theo...

Steve Rogers works in the BBC archives, so it is a definitive answer!

One of the IMDB user reviews says:

Those involved in the production still alive by 1964 are interviewed with their slightly divergent points of view, and they are a colorful lot

Perhaps that's was what confused the viewers memories? :)

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Thu Jul 16, 2020 12:34 pm

You don't normally find home recorded audio from the mid '50s.

In the rare cases that you do, it is more often than not where it has been cut to disc.

You mean the kind of short term repeats, just a few days later? I hadn't really got a specific gap in mind. If it was known it was definitely going to be repeated, so in the provisional schedule, I would guess that there would be some mechanism in place to avoid it eating up production budget. Wher...

At a guess, I would say yes. What numbers, I haven't a clue, but video would offer a useful tool for repeats where the tape could be re-used keeping expenses to a minimum. Film, once struck, is relatively permanent, so unless there was a specific will to keep it for sales or continued re-use, it wou...

I don't know about specific examples, but I was always under the impression that video tape editing was a very cumbersome affair early on, and we know that video tape was a costly process and there needed to be a good justification for the expense. This meant the norm was shows were broadcast live (...

Does the Team Think was on radio into the early 70s, with both Ray and Askey on the teams. Between that and Jokers Wild they wouldn't ever be far from the public conscious. Ray died in 77 and Askey in 82, so neither had long, lingering retirements.

There are two theories of relativity, Special Relativity and General Relativity. I'll lift the descriptions from Wikipedia. It took my whole first year as an undergraduate to get my head around Special Relativity. One TV programme would be pushing it somewhat! General relativity (GR), also known as ...

Comedians in their sixties/seventies...

To an extent Network have shot themselves in the foot in the past with the way they release things. The Morecambe and Wise Two of a Kind, and the Whicker releases are those that spring to mind. Early buyers and supporters were rewarded with the series only being completed in different formats requir...

Radio, granddad? R4X has certainly opened up the archive to a newer generation, but those listening to radio, I would think, are a different mindset to those who only consume via their phones and are more likely to be looking at TikTok. It may just be me, but I have felt that there was more discussi...

This is the entry in the Radio Times for the Genome link above.
As you can see, the caption for the picture asks the question, "Is the Earth a giant recording?"

I think I'm correct in saying that the referendum results programme was repeated on BBC Parliament. If so, you might find some snippets on the web. I don't remember recording it otherwise I'd take a look.

I didn't realise you had to chose to pigeonhole yourself as interested in contemporary or archive TV as the dividing line is always blurred and moving! I suppose the premise of the thread was covering programmes that you can't just record yourself now. It is interesting though, that most of the cont...

On a per series basis, unless it is a real biggie and you can offer something new that people will spend money on and double or even, perhaps, triple dip on, it isn't going to be worth the effort. Didn't Network have a blanket deal with ITV meaning that they could release pretty much anything they c...

The race issue doesn't seem to be something that was ever addressed in Galton and Simpson's scripts. I don't know whether they deliberately avoided it, or it was just something they weren't interested in. It's quite remarkable in a way. It might well have been totally unconscious, and they never ne...

Not quite the same as what I meant. I have experienced people suck gbs of data from a torrent site and suddenly pitch themselves as a researcher (and wanting to swap material, compare notes etc.) In fact, the reason I am involved with this forum is because my site had been cut and paste onto another...

So true. I gave up researching for my own site for two reasons. The first was the content was just ripped off and passed off by others as theirs, and the second was review copies of things like DVDs, books, and audio dried up overnight, with the emphasis on promotion through social media. Without th...

I suspect the web page was written after the initial broadcast and to promote the repeat a year later. There is no date on the page and nothing to suggest that is the case, but let's be generous.

That was the last tx date. Genome has 3: 6 Jun 2004, 14 Aug 2004 and then 8 Aug 2005.

Thanks Mark, I'd missed that, but I was looking for a B&WMS not something under another name. Genome doesn't suggest a recent repeat but there was a Black and White Minstrel Show revisited in 2004. I vaguely remember watching that, but don't remember too much about it and didn't record it. Was Lenny...

Interestingly, having looked at RT now, it appears that they did take the blackface off before the Music, Music, Music series but wore masks (wearing masks won't catch on!). Although there are detailed breakdowns of what was going to appear in each show, there is no mention of masks in the September...

He also wrote an excellent biography of Ken Dodd last year and is working on his next book.