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Post by Ian Wegg on Feb 14, 2012 17:36:25 GMT
BBC showed quite a few archive F1 races on the "Red Button" service both last season and in 2010. I doubt they'll be doing it this year though as their main live coverage is apparently going to be on red button for half the season.
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Post by Ian Wegg on Feb 14, 2012 10:32:22 GMT
The uploader has since posted that 7th May was the recording date.
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Zokko!
Feb 12, 2012 10:06:49 GMT
Post by Ian Wegg on Feb 12, 2012 10:06:49 GMT
Me too. I remember Bleep and Booster very well but only on Blue Peter. I have vague memories of a space adventure on Zokko but I'm sure that was something different.
~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Feb 8, 2012 21:58:29 GMT
At the moment, the best I've done with this one is narrowed it down between 30/12/78 and 24/3/1979 inclusive. Annoyingly during The Times strike so no listings but anyone with access to the online Guardian might be able to look it up. Note that right at the end Noel mentions that "the programme ends next week".
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Post by Ian Wegg on Jan 25, 2012 16:06:40 GMT
I remember very well seeing the Dad's Army episodes "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker" and "A Stripe for Frazer" and I was quite surprised when I first heard they were missing. Strangely, I have no original memories of "Under Fire" or any of the other series 2 episodes.
~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Jan 22, 2012 19:01:14 GMT
I heard years ago that the Swedes (?) had a system whereby communities could swap periodicals.Instead of re-pulping them,they'd be taken to community halls to be swapped for others. We used to have that system here, it was the doctors' surgery waiting room. Unfortunately after decades of problem free operation they stopped it recently on health grounds. Following the recommendation I've now joined my local Freecycle group. It was by no means a simple operation as I had to create both Yahoo and Freecycle accounts and then wait to have my application request approved, but I'm in now so will give it a go. ~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Jan 21, 2012 8:20:52 GMT
With any viewing figures I always feel it's fairest to see what the competition was: anyone know what was on the BBC when the Avengers was on? (at whatever times?). That's a very interesting question! In truth from its inception, ITV had no competition from the BBC for TV audiences at this time. From 1955 through to 1960 the only BBC programmes that make the ratings are Party Political Broadcasts and even then they share the position with ITV. Late 1961 is when BBC programmes start making it into the charts. November 1961 they had three: Miss World being the highest at number 9 ( Doctor Kildare and Overland Trail at 15 & 19). Through 1962 and 1963 the most number of programmes the BBC get into the top 20 is five and there are still many months with no BBC presence at all. It isn't until January 1964 that Steptoe & Son gives them their first number 1 position. The BBC didn't really become a serious ratings contender until the 1980's. ~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Jan 20, 2012 14:25:45 GMT
Im curious how the ratings or popularity were the first season of Avengers. While it may not mean much, it may help give a hint as to wheather the lack of audios is due to lack of persevation or lack of recordings made. Series 1 and 2 didn't make the top 20. The Avengers didn't appear in the ratings until October 1963 when it got to number 11. That would be S03E03 "The Nutshell" which reached 6.0 homes. ~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Dec 13, 2011 22:29:16 GMT
Ian - The Delmonts were on Who Do you Do? a couple of times and we were fortune enough that these episodes were repeated on one of the satellite channels around 10 years ago so we did manage to get copies of those then. Great that you've got those. Keep good care of them as ITNSource only have one, they might be difficult to replace. Shame about the archive status of Opportunity Knocks though. ~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Dec 12, 2011 17:47:15 GMT
- and your dad probably appeared twice, as they were winners, so one heat and one final - Actually more than that. The winner of the show returned the following week and would keep coming back until they lost (I'm sure that painted man with the muscles was on the show for months!). The last programme of the series was an All Winners show, so a winning act would usually appear on three or more programmes. Update: According to www.merseybeatnostalgia.co.uk/html/freddie_starr.html, Freddie joined the Delmonts in 1965 "for a short period", so I'm guessing the OpKnox appearance would be '65 or '66. Nothing on ITNSource but it does have an episode of Who Do You Do? from August 1972 which features the Delmonts (as well as Freddie who was a regular). If your dad was still a member in 1972 then he should be on that. The bad news is that there's no online preview so you'd have to shell out for it (and it wouldn't be cheap). www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITVProgs/1972/08/22/9L00998/?s=Delmonts~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Dec 9, 2011 8:00:17 GMT
I noticed you'd been quiet Ray! Hope you make a complete and rapid recovery ... and catch up with your emails!
All the best,
~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Nov 23, 2011 14:44:11 GMT
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Post by Ian Wegg on Nov 23, 2011 10:50:49 GMT
Thanks for the confirmation, you can hear "Red Alert" here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK8TpQadcoo (just get out at the floor you want!) It looks like someone has been updating the wrong IMDb entry, I've submitted delete requests for all the spurious data. ~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Nov 23, 2011 9:41:09 GMT
Thanks for the pointer to the theme. I have it on a vinyl LP somewhere, possibly the Simon Park Eye Level album which I seem to remember also has the Man About The House theme. I found the tail end of an episode of General Hospital on one of my off-air VHS tapes recently. However this was one of the later one hour shows from 1976 which has a different theme, I believe called "Red Alert". It is credited to Johnny Pearson but frankly it might just as easily have been computer generated, it's a pretty bland bit of department store lift music. Re: Lynda Bellingham / Judy Buxton. They are only listed twice because the BFI only have 3 episodes catalogued: ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/8075. The database has been closed for several years so I've no idea if it will ever be expanded. IMDb has over 120 episodes with various details: www.imdb.com/title/tt0196249/episodes. However, their entry for the series www.imdb.com/title/tt0196249/ is in a right mess - unless it really did have a second unit director, 13 stuntmen and a bear trainer in which case it must have changed quite a bit after I stopped watching it! ~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Oct 26, 2011 13:09:05 GMT
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