Boomtown Rats on The Eamonn Andrews Show 1979

[williammcgregor]

Boomtown Rats on The Eamonn Andrews Show 1979

TV Brain has the following, as Missing, without any guests listed

15/1/79 Episode 1
22/1/79 Episode 2
29/1/79 Episode 3
05/2/79 Episode 4
19/2/79 Episode 6
26/2/79 Episode 7
05/3/79 Episode 8
12/3/79 Episode 9
19/3/79 Episode 10
26/3/78 Episode 11
02/4/79 Episode 12
09/4/79 Episode 13

So one episode exists, but like the missing episodes above, can we find out who were the guests?

So did The Boomtown Rats appear on the existing episode or one of the missing episodes?

Which song(s) or track(s) did they sing on this appearance?

Not everyone maybe familiar with who The Boomtown Rats were, so which genre or category of music would
we put them in? By 1979, was there sound different to when they first started out?

Were Eamonn and The Boomtown Rats from the same part of Eire? If they were, they may have discussed their home town?

Referencing those dates above with a 1979 calendar, these episodes were all broadcast on a Monday
So which TV Station, Channel or Company made and transmitted these, if it was not LWT?

What time of day were these transmitted? Early evening or Late Night viewing?
What was the duration of these shows or episodes?

Was the Series fully ITV networked or only partly networked, with only some regions showing it?

1979 so which format would these episodes have been recorded on?

Calling all people who have old VHS recordings, is there a chance you may have something from this Series?

[markdixon]

Here’s what I’ve found about this version of “The Eamonn Andrews Show”.

It was a Thames production and was broadcast on Monday nights from 10:30-11:30 in the Thames and Yorkshire regions only. It was either broadcast live or recorded hours before transmission.

This is an incomplete list of guests:

15 Jan 1979: Kenny Everett, Millicent Martin, Donald Pleasence, David Frost
22 Jan 1979: Donny and Marie Osmond, Joan Collins, Malcolm Allison, Patrick Mower, Jack Good, Joe Brown
29 Jan 1979: Peter Cook, Lynn Redgrave, Lulu, Pete Townshend, Anthony Andrews
12 Feb 1979: Susan George
19 Feb 1979: Vidal Sassoon, Beverley Adams Sassoon, Jilly Cooper, Patrick Campbell. The Boomtown Rats mimed to ‘Me and Howard Hughes’. Bob Geldof was also interviewed.

[williammcgregor]

theboomtownrats.blogspot.com/1979/02/eamonn-andrews-show.html

[williammcgregor]

There is a copy of the existing episode held at the BFI
The Eamonn Andrews Show

Topical chat, music and entertainment from the New London theatre
held on

VHS cassette-Video 52.04 minutes
2'' Quadruplex - Video 1979-02-12