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The newspapers basically say there were no technical staff on site from around 7am, so there was no recording at and no playout from Granada at all, and the IBA had a caption card on screen for that area. I had hoped to at least find out what Thames broadcast, but the Reading evening paper mentions ...

It's not that Rory. Narrated by Martin Jarvis, it has illustrations and it is a standard writing desk and study background set - no coins to be seen.

The Coventry Evening Telegraph reported that the Midlands region would see and edition of The Saint instead of A Family At War

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He always said it was his gran taking him regularly to the theatre to see the turns that was the basis for everything

Bugger!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51906543

doubleM wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:40 pm

...than Birmingham would have been.

Didn't Telly Savalas love the place?

The BFI Channel has a clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87jKAP5-ht0

Not ITV, I admit, but I was thinking of Grayson and the Generation Game, Wogan for, well, Wogan, and Andrews for This is Your Life, and all were London based, although further along their careers, and not, as you say, exclusively London. The studio location, whilst a hangover, wasn't necessarily som...

Eamonn Andrews, Terry Wogan, Larry Grayson are others that spring to mind when Harty was mentioned. When a broadcaster is good at their job, does it matter where they come from? I suspect some of the reasoning for the London companies picking up regional talent was because London had more job opport...

The Jasper Carrott Audience with.. shows were early 1978 (Jan-Mar), but he had been on Radio 1 in Apr 1976 in Jasper Carrotts (My) Top Twelve, so presumably had other shows in the Midlands before and after this, but it was probably Funky Moped that gave him the national exposure in the Summer of 197...

Anglia showed a series of Mr & Mrs starting in October 1969 (at 8pm), but Thames/LWT were showing Strange Report from 7.30pm. I don't have an Anglia edition of TVT from that time to see who the production company were. Border were showing it the same day, but half hour earlier, and Harlech had finis...

I'm far more bothered about his behaviour than Robin's. With respect, that is the moderators job. And to be fair, Brigham only put into words what others may be thinking (certainly, I'm guilty there). Robin has form, not just here, but, just like I wouldn't ban Robin or remove/edit his posts unless...

(1) You gave no indication that your post was a response to the original post. Your response came directly after mine and did not quote from any other post, so I naturally assumed that it was a comment on my post. How was I supposed to guess otherwise? Odd, as I thought it directed at me because of...

Pointing out someone is back, isn't exactly unhelpful, nor can I see how it might have offended anyone. Robin does have issues, and whilst this shouldn't make any difference to those posting here, his tendency to take a perfectly rational observation/question and hijack it to shoe-horn into his hobb...

Juswuh wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 09, 2020 12:04 pm

Crossroads was on for years before it was shown all across ITV.

There were catch up editions with narration over someone knitting to bring the transmission into line. BigCentreTV broadcast Crossroads while they were on the air.

Brock wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 09, 2020 11:41 am

Sale of the Century?

Yes. Looking at Wikipedia it seems the first series was Anglia only. For some reason I thought that was one of the handful of Anglia produced programmes that was networked from the start.

In a nutshell, 'It's amazing how many Regional ITV programmes became popular across the whole Network'. Simple, and without the bigotry. And subtly wrong. Just because a programme was made by a regional company (it had to be made by someone and ITV was a collection of regions) doesn't mean it was a...

The examples that were originally given weren't made for the region, they just happened to be made by a regional franchise, and were based on books. They would have been purely commercial decisions (although I suspect there was also an eye on awards). I think there is a big distinction between simpl...

Even if the viewing figures do bear out his assertions, I'm not sure what his argument actually is when they were made for the network and not for their franchise audience. If it was a regional programme, a sort of "eh, up, where's me whippet" that had a huge following at Channel, but no-one in Gran...

And the Guardian can't even spell her name right in the photo caption!

But was anywhere actually like the realm of Jeeves and Wooster? The four prestige Granada productions you mention were all based on books, so their popularity would have already been a known quantity. Produced for network transmission, it would have come down to which of the big five wanted to make ...

I notice from Laughterlog, there are a fair few scripts surviving for "Whacko!", Ian mentions one he has of the Radio series, comparing them to the recordings might be interesting. I'd hazard a guess that all (or nearly all) scripts would exist at Caversham in some form, but those would be what had...

Funnily enough, I was thinking about the front pages of scripts today and their reliability for tx information. Having seen a fair number (cataloguing the Monkhouse papers alone), quite a percentage would have amendments in pencil, either where the intended cast changed at the last minute, or a tx d...

Basildon has played up to some of the cliche. This appeared some years ago, and has been updated with the 7@ on the end more recently. The Festival Leisure park is also locally known as Bas Vegas.

Balham. Quite right, written for Third Division (or Some Vulgar Fractions) on the Third Programme in 1949. Incidentally, the Northern Line wasn't call that until 1937, being the City and South London Railway beforehand, but Mornington Crescent Station opened 30 years prior to that. The Camden Palace...

Apart from the Dagenham dialogues (With Dud from Dagenham) I associate Pete and Dud with Neasden. Whether either lived there, or just thought the rhythm of the name funny, I don't know. Marty Feldman used names of areas he was familiar with - the Balls Pond Road, Clissold Park (for the 5 part Clisso...

Yep, and I deleted my reply as it looked a bit odd! It did prompt me to knocking the next thing off my 'to do' list and do a mass mail shot to all members. We've moved back to the original domain name. The old board has been removed and the home page and board home have both had pages to this effect...

This looks to be a wider cookie handling issue. When the cookies can't be saved properly a SID is created. I have had issues with my login being remembered between browser sessions and wasn't sure if it was my browser settings or the board. At least I have something more tangible to look into now.

Yes, the final stage of all the work that has been driving me insane is finally over - the forum has been migrated to the original domain to tidy things up. All the surrounding data has been archived and Mr Wolf can decide what he plans to do with it. Now that it is updated and where it will be stay...

I'd says the context was everything. Made by ITV, is too general for anything pre ITV plc., and even after that, it is most likely to have been made for ITV by an independent. Transmitted on ITV is slightly different as that can go back to the earliest days where programmes were shown on the Network...