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Post by Leonardo Flores on Apr 18, 2014 16:33:59 GMT
Watching DW in order from Episode 1, I was curious what TV commercials were shown during a regular early broadcasts of DW?
Who were the sponsors of the show, if there were any?
Leonardo
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Post by tombeveridge on Apr 18, 2014 16:35:53 GMT
No commercials--it was broadcast on BBC
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Post by Simeon Carter on Apr 18, 2014 16:36:20 GMT
It's a BBC Show, there are no commercials as it's paid by the licence fee.
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Post by John Green on Apr 18, 2014 16:56:44 GMT
And in fact there was only one other TV company-so less incentive to turn over,even if there had been adverts!
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Post by Simon Collis on Apr 18, 2014 19:31:33 GMT
There were, however, deliberate fade to blacks in order to allow commercial broadcasters overseas to take commercial breaks, right from the first episode. So the BBC were thinking about international sales and international broadcast right from the beginning.
That said (and going just a teensy bit off topic), there were some tie-ins with commercial products in the UK - Sky-Ray lollies is the first one springs to my mind. I'm sure there were others I can't remember. I know there was a brand of sweet cigarettes that did a range of Dr Who cards, and those are on one of the DVDs (I'd have to go dig through my DVDs to find out which one though).
Also, Tom Baker did some mildly amusing commercials for Prime Computer in Australia you might want to find on YouTube as well.
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Apr 18, 2014 19:35:15 GMT
Watching DW in order from Episode 1, I was curious what TV commercials were shown during a regular early broadcasts of DW? Who were the sponsors of the show, if there were any? Leonardo Sponsors? Commercials? We pay through the nose for our TV don't you know! And most of that goes to pay top execs when they want to leave or get fired! |
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Post by John Green on Apr 18, 2014 19:51:27 GMT
There were, however, deliberate fade to blacks in order to allow commercial broadcasters overseas to take commercial breaks, right from the first episode. So the BBC were thinking about international sales and international broadcast right from the beginning. That said (and going just a teensy bit off topic), there were some tie-ins with commercial products in the UK - Sky-Ray lollies is the first one springs to my mind. I'm sure there were others I can't remember. I know there was a brand of sweet cigarettes that did a range of Dr Who cards, and those are on one of the DVDs (I'd have to go dig through my DVDs to find out which one though). Also, Tom Baker did some mildly amusing commercials for Prime Computer in Australia you might want to find on YouTube as well. Ha.And wasn't the Doctor constantly running past Sugar Puff ads in at least one of the films? |
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Post by Simon Collis on Apr 18, 2014 19:59:28 GMT
Ha.And wasn't the Doctor constantly running past Sugar Puff ads in at least one of the films? Quite possible, I can't remember offhand. But then those weren't made by the BBC, so I suspect they had rather more commercial freedom. |
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Apr 18, 2014 20:02:47 GMT
And don't forget the publicity for the Dr Who Exhibitions at Longleat and at Blackpool's Golden Mile given at the end of many episodes during the 1970s by announcers. This was another amazing aspect of being a fan in the 70s-these exhibitions that you could go to, to see actual props and sets from the programme.
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Post by John Green on Apr 18, 2014 20:06:45 GMT
Anyone remember the claim that there were Milk Marketing Board (?) ads filmed?
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Post by Robert Lia on Apr 18, 2014 22:04:51 GMT
Depending on the coutry showing the series of course. In the USA Jon Pertwee was run on a comercial station in Philadelphia starting in 1972. Tom baker ran on comercial stations in New York and Los Angeles starting in 1978
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Post by Leonardo Flores on Apr 21, 2014 23:43:14 GMT
Thanks for the replies everyone,
Simon Collis refers to what I was seeing when watching these early Doctor Who episodes, the deliberate fade to black in the middle of the episode.
I am fully aware that BBC is a government owned entity, but I kept wondering why the deliberate fade to black?
I am assuming that some sort of PSA or BBC Bumper Flash went into that spot when it faded to black between to two acts of an episode. Since I wasn't around in England in the early 1960's I am not aware of the full extent of how a program was shown on beeb concerning PSA's and such.
It seems the entire program ran for 23-25 minutes with the deliberate fade to and back from black in each episode.
I was wondering what those "Missing" commercials/PSA/Bumpers would have been in that deliberate fade to black in each episode.
Its seems Simon explained it quiet clearly, it was for oversea sales of the program to put commercials in that fade in/out spot in the middle of the program.
When originally shown on the BBC nothing went into that spot, the program just continued…
Thank you for the clarification,
Leonardo
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Post by John Green on Apr 21, 2014 23:49:30 GMT
I think you've clarified it more than anyone,Leonardo!
I've seen U.S. shows with 'place ad here' notices; I'm wondering now if the BBC prints had anything apart from the fade-to-black?
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Post by Simon Collis on Apr 22, 2014 6:57:38 GMT
There might have been more than fade-to-black when sent abroad, I don't know - someone with more direct access to the prints would be able to tell us. To add to Leonardo's points earlier, there were PSAa ('Public Information Films', as they were called) shown in the UK (I have very vivid memories of a few) but they were shown between programmes, or sometimes last thing at night before closedown. There's a collection on the National Archives, should that be of interest you: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/  |
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