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Post by Dale Rumbold on Jun 29, 2015 19:53:32 GMT
BBC4 HD is only available on selected transmitters (not mine, Sudbury, for instance : but is on Tacolneston up the road near Norwich) : it is on an extra MUX but not on the normal ones.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Jun 24, 2015 9:28:46 GMT
Having watched Dr Who from the very beginning, when I was 4, it amuses me to see these polarised opinions of Old v. New : my view is that the Hartnell years were good ; Troughton - fantastic and unsurpassable ; Pertwee - ok ; Tom Baker - some decent stories but mostly rubbish ; Davison - worse but still some good moments ; Colin Baker - badly treated with some awful storylines ; McCoy - mostly dreadful. As to its reincarnation, I've continued to watch and mostly enjoy it, particularly with Tennant as The Doctor, but had to grit my teeth through the dreadful Matt Smith stories (and his even worse acting / characterisation); it has recovered somewhat under Peter Capaldi. So, overall, both old and new had much to admire but also much to deride.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Jun 17, 2015 11:33:10 GMT
For anyone trying to match the chart list shown : please remember that at that time the BBC used its own chart, calculated as an average of several published charts, rather than any of the published charts themselves. It will not match, for example, the charts used by Guinness Hit Singles (or indeed anything that I've found on t'internet).
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Jun 12, 2015 10:04:56 GMT
I absolutely loathe this show (Junior Showtime) - You can't loathe it as much as me : Glyn Poole? Bonnie Langford? What's to like ...
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Post by Dale Rumbold on May 23, 2015 18:29:23 GMT
and of course it is only 59.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Mar 11, 2015 10:02:11 GMT
The 7.30pm version looked fine. Only the full-length version had been filmised. Thanks : how very odd then?
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Mar 8, 2015 13:25:02 GMT
Just caught up with the show from last Thursday (shown 5th March), hosted by Simon Bates : why was this a 'film-ised' version? Broadcast as if it were 25 progressive frames per second rather than 50 interlaced fields per second? Spoiled the whole look of it. Surely the original tape had not been lost? Wrong settings on digitising it whenever that was done??
This was the BBC4 HD version, shown on Sky, in case there were different versions shown elsewhere.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Jan 4, 2015 13:11:32 GMT
TOTP vastly improved during 1980, no more live singing necessary, better sets and the beginning of the new romantic era, 1981 and 1982 were even better. I couldn't agree less : pop music had been deteriorating slowly from 1975 onwards, with Disco being the main culprit, but the "everything on a synthesizer" New Romantic rubbish sounded the death-knell for anything worth listening to in the Top 40. The then awful decision to revamp TOTP and allow/encourage the audience to whoop and holler over the top of the songs so you couldn't hear them (a state that continued until its inevitable demise), and the even worse decision to tear up the MU agreement and allow bands to mime to their records, utterly ruined it for me.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Dec 29, 2014 10:09:43 GMT
Brilliant ! We had BRW (British relay) at home in Ipswich from 1962 till c. 1977 : the picture was always plagued with ghosting and co-channel interference (sometimes it was like watching 2 channels at the same time!) but you did get London ITV as an extra channel, which, in the 60s and 70s, was months ahead of Anglia for showing new shows, particularly American ones which my dad liked. I think Happy Days was shown on London 2 years earlier than on Anglia. Mind you, the London signal was simply dreadful most of the time : BRW's receiving equipment was obviously right on the edge of the London broadcast catchment. Getting Radio 1 with crystal clarity was a bonus though, at a time when it was only broadcast on 247m MW. My dad's neighbour still has the BRW cables attached to the side of his house : our whole estate had them from being built in the mid-50s.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Dec 27, 2014 17:18:36 GMT
If by some miracle Santa found one missing episode and left it under your tree to share with the world which would you choose? For me it would have to be Episode 1 of Power of the Daleks. It was all change from there on. Troughton must have looked mysterious and amazing! I've been very tolerant of the New Series's Christmas Specials (and a couple have been rather good) but I have to admit that this year's (my TARDIS is still in 2014) entry was dire. I actually found this year's was the ONLY Christmas Special worth watching : I thought it was excellent, and probably in the Top 3 stories that they have made since Dr Who was brought back.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Nov 9, 2014 16:32:21 GMT
Having watched from the beginning (aged 4) and now aged a mere 55, I have to say that I've enjoyed this series much more than any of the terrible Matt Smith ones, and as much as most of the Tennant ones ; Capaldi has been excellent. I have no idea why Jenna Coleman's Clara character gets so much stick : I think she's been great, but then having followed the appalling Karen Gillan, she didn't have much to beat. Having said all that, I too disapprove of the more childish 'stunts' we've had from Stephen Moffat again : particularly the moon as an egg rubbish, the stupid forestation story, and the St Pauls thing. But at least the individual stories pretty much stood on their own 2 feet (unlike a couple of series back when the story-arc was so complicated I still have no idea what was going on). I hope Peter Capaldi continues for a good few years ; though I doubt he will.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Oct 26, 2014 9:35:04 GMT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZukFh398U4Worth a re-post of the audio from his missing TOTP performance of Good Love Can Never Die from 30th Jan 1975, which I rescued from a cassette recording.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Sept 27, 2014 15:27:29 GMT
I presume that DLT's conviction, on one count of sexual assault, means that the BBC will now destroy all material they have in which he appears? In fact, I'm off to check that my copy of Convoy GB has not spontaneously combusted while my back was turned ...
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Sept 27, 2014 15:17:53 GMT
The 'expert' on the long jump programme was Alan Lerwill, as I recall watching. He didn't seem all that good!
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Aug 27, 2014 9:12:35 GMT
Masterplan 12 is one episode I ache to see. I missed it because of children's Christmas party. That must have been a very late Christmas party. Episode 12 was shown at the end of January! Works kiddies Christmas parties were frequently at that time, or even into February, in my experience : my employer kept the Christmas decorations up in the works canteen until the party had happened, which was always pretty odd.
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