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The big day arrived with ITC and Anderson arriving. Space 1999 and UFO are in genuine HD . A browse of Captain Scarlet left me unsure whether it was SD or HD but Randall episodes are the old Carlton versions and not the new HD versions with the restored original broadcast credits. The Prisoner is HD...

Got another 30 day trial as the new arrival of vintage kids tv sounded interesting but this is ITV we're talking about here so understandably if there was a better way to screw it all up I don't know what it is. Anderson shows - per the rest of the service everything is listed as HD yet shows which ...

Just been watching Touching Evil from 1997 and surprised to see that ends with a caption saying it was an Anglia Television production so regional identity was still around then. Difficult to have a single cut off date because the gradual morphing of the regions into a single ITV went side by side w...

When i was a kid, students at Monash University put on an amateur production of Blyton's "The Faraway Tree". The books... the concept of a Land that visits and never stays for long is interesting. Bit formulaic though - even if they get stuck in a Land, they always manage to find a way back to the ...

Was it commonplace for the movies to have no continuity with the series? Most of the 70's comedy spinoffs have poor reputations for that exact reason. To be fair it would be difficult to create a 90 minute movie for a cast in the usual studio location that was usually just 24 minutes. So they rathe...

Not sure the ratio problems will relate to any difference between interlaced and progressive. Wrong ratios has always been a problem and continues to be but most of the time they get it right. Not recorded from the SD version for a long time but Top of the Pops on the BBC4 SD channel would often swi...

I don’t really want this to descend into Roobarb bashing, but I backed away years ago when a rather politically ranty member was openly giving advice (and unchallenged) on how to shoplift magazines from supermarkets. To get back on topic, I’m wondering how Britbox are going to join in with the like...

I'd forgotten about the Roobarb Forum and how terrible it is. I had a look out of curiosity having been reminded of it and did a search for "Timeslip". Before I could search I had to answer a "random question." "Which 1984 David Lynch film was based on a series of novels by Frank Herbert?" I have n...

Thanks to Roobarb's for this useful link: https://tvrdb.com/britbox/ I clicked on the link and almost the first thing I saw was a whopping great error. As I think I've mentioned previously on this forum, 42 Up was shown on BBC1 - not ITV! Someone noticed as it has been corrected. Although in this d...

Probably a well known one was when the 'Doctor at...' sitcoms were riding high in the popularity stakes. This is Your Life were going to do the book's author Richard Gordon's life .....Eamonn cornered him in the pre studio sequence and he said the magic words but Gordon appeared shy or angry about ...

I have Virgin myself. Shows how long it is since I checked out TPTV on there.

My favourite last minute replacement was in 1978 on Xmas day. Yorkshire tv were on strike so all the networked YTV shows got replaced by regional choices. ATV chose to air a Year Two episode of Space 1999 instead of 3-2-1. What made it so memorable is that after 5 years of being stuck with only Angl...

The biggest pain with Freeview is the retuning. Even if they don't add new channels and just change things a bit they tell you to retune but in most cases you lose all your timer recording settings and the Favourite Channels list needs to be setup again. My Bluray recorder went though this only last...

I remember E&M having ads for TV shows, not surprisingly "Who" featured an awful lot! I also remember that Halliwell interview ( I should still have it somewhere, although I thought it was in 'Home Video' mag or something like that, there were a lot good articles and interviews in those old Video m...

I don't think Halliwell "moved" to C4. He purchased their films in addition to those of ITV. At the time C4 was owned by the ITV companies. IIRC his input to most of ITV was only for films intended for networking. An interview in a 1983 Video Viewer made it clear that he liked buying for C4 but was ...

On, TPTV's Sunday night screening of "SNATP", the first part was in the wrong ratio, for some reason. Also, there is a strange jutter effect on VT shows, but not present of any films or Filmed TV shows. Been there for a while now. The judder could be down to settings on your equipment. If you have ...

What was unusual about the 1983 CH4 showings of The Prisoner was, apart from the first episode, they had their break bumpers intact. Episode 1 had a still image with video generated caption IIRC. Then they aired Many Happy Returns as episode 2 instead of Chimes of Big Ben, then they showed A, B and...

I think there has been some kind of deal made at the BBC regarding availability of some programmes due to the BBC wishes of keeping things on Iplayer for up to a year. I seem to recall that prior to the most recent series of Line of Duty the BBC wanted to make the first 4 available and in order to d...

US Britbox has been going a bit longer than the UK one so I expect it will have more and even once the UK one is well established it's likely to have a lot of different material to ours. Although the entire Sweeney seems to have been remastered about 5 years ago in readiness for Bluray as in spruced...

I assume that ITV will get shows onto Britbox as soon as they can. I expect they will want as much on there as possible but as you say there is a conflict with ITV Hub (I think the pay version is also still ongoing creating even more conflict) but as with broadcast tv ITV seem to be steering clear o...

Worth noting that in addition to the Warner Archive Bluray that you can import for around £12 it's also been added to the HMV Premier Collection too.

I will pre-order this regardless but I seem to recall when it was first announced they were planning to include 2 serials aswell. Or was that on a Bluray with a movie by the same director? Or are the serials listed with the films too?

I took the free trial out of curiosity to see Dr Who. Everything is "filmised" so series made on tape look like they are on film. I believe this is because it's a streaming service rather than a standard broadcast and the loss of the VT look happens on all streaming services. I'm unsure who it's aim...

Regarding the breaks in transmission: wasn't it standard back in those days for a US show to be regularly interrupted by reruns so that a standard season of 24 or so episodes would last for almost 8 months? If you go through the IMDB and look at dates for series in the 60's and 70's there were break...