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As far as Television is concerned, that might be so; but for broadcasting, the BBC nine o'clock news is the second oldest news programme, being three hours younger than the 'Six'.

"News Scoop". The associated captions sequence was inspired!

The latest of the Forgotten Television Drama 'Play for Today at 50' articles: The Dominick Hide plays by Philip Braithwaite - https://forgottentelevisiondrama.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/play-for-today-the-dominick-hide-plays/ Is THAT what Dominick Hyde is about? I've had a copy for the last 15 years;...

I don't know about a RE-issue, but SPENDER has only been available via appalling quality knock-offs so far.

Which 'Flintstones'?

The aim is to sell newspapers.
Facts come a very poor second.

Tyne-Tees (Ch.8) showed Green Acres.

I've never seen the feature-length spin-off.
Is it worth a punt?

...Along with the image of Karloff in full make-up on Universal's 'Frankenstein'.

"...If it's motive was to encourage nuclear disarmament by public protest then you have to remember those countries with warheads pointed at the UK would not be seeing it, they would not have been allowed to see it." It was to promote UK-only nuclear disarmament by public protest; a widespread fifth...

It was a popular subject at that time.
I remember thinking "They're trying to whip up the old WW III hysteria again".

It's the whole point of good drama.
It's what distinguishes it from mere 'entertainment'.

I missed TV so much I decided to re-create it. Television is a process , not just an art-form. In the early sixties watching TV was entirely immersive; the room was filled with a strange bluish light; the warm electrical smell and the all-pervasive whistle told you that something 'special' was takin...

My 'Star Trek' set allows me to switch between original and new effects at will; it's interesting to do so, but the episodes would be incomplete without the correct ones.
People who want 'updated' episodes' might be better off with complete re-mounts. 'Old TV' is meant to look old.

Mark wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:32 pm

Sadly, the ABC material that Network have been teasing about is for View On Demand.

I have to say, a massive disappointment, I was looking forward to a few orders, but this is not for me.

Me neither. It's a glorified lending library with fees.

Mark wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:04 pm

So long as it's not on at Stupid O' Clock, I might watch it again.

By the time I'd stopped watching 'as broadcast' TV, the problem of being 'in' for a programme had been well and truly solved.

Has this technology gone the way of 3-D and supersonic airliners?

If this describes what Joe Public actually thinks, then I may have to revise my long-held negative perception of this publication.

Mark wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:51 pm

I agree it was misjudged, but the portrayal of the ' Armchair viewers' was more realistic I thought, who sits on the sofa biting their fingernails? , it's usually a family size Pizza, these days!

A jaded society, as far as television is concerned.
We've all had too much of a good thing!

Could 'The Best of Please Sir' have been a repeat strand?
Possibly to enable out-of-order episodes to be repeated, rather than give the impression of a series repeat?

Wasn't Coronation Street done live on Wednesday, immediately followed by the Friday instalment on tape?

Watching "Please Sir!, on Forces TV earlier tonight, and rather oddly, they have edited the titles of the episode "A Very Nasty Outbreak". They have stuck the opening seconds of one of the first two final series episodes on it ( crediting John Alderton ) this is to hide the fact that the episode be...

Ian K McL wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:10 am

Strangely Network DVD highlighted Jokers' Wild only the other day for some unknown reason.

Perhaps more are to come after all?

Einstein's Relativity may well be a description of events observed from a false position, in the same way as the apparent retrograde motion of planets when viewed from Earth.

Very much a 'niche within a niche'. Even if you consider 'old TV' to be mainstream, rather than a niche in its own right, 'sixties/'seventies stand-up comedians are a niche market. A game show based on them has GOT to be of limited appeal. I was hoping for the complete set; there again, I'm still wa...

I would imagine that the reason why we haven't seen a third volume of Jokers Wild would be because sales of the first two were insufficient to make continuing the range commercially viable in a dwindling market. Rather than Network cravenly kowtowing to the edicts of "those people" who "don't HAVE ...

Why must we humour these people who 'have a problem'.
It's their problem. They don't HAVE to buy it.

My first thought was 'if only they would put that much effort into the actual dramas...'
Then I remembered that they did.

Two missing 1974 ATV plays have turned up (on the original 2" tape!) and are now available to view at the BFI Mediatheque. They are They Disappear When You Lie Down (11 June 1974 w. Tony Perrin d. Graham Evans - sisterly rivalries at a table tennis tournament) and The Person Responsible (17 Septemb...

WOW!
The BBC really WERE on form then!

"...t's an old trick, string viewers along by suggesting a well know character might not be what we thought they were, only to discover it was a mistake, stokes up interest, when ratings are flagging...."
Are you sure the current writers are capable of this much 'joined-up' thinking?