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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jun 7, 2021 21:27:03 GMT
Buying any new Apple device (iphone, ipad or an apple tv box) entitles you to a years free Apple TV subscription. Otherwise it's £49 a year.
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Apr 14, 2021 11:18:53 GMT
Now that absolutely anyone can become a "content creator" the restrictions on copyright material will eventually have to change. We need something similar to the Content ID system used for identifying music, so that any revenue gained from re-using clips is automatically shared with the original copyright owners. It's not going to be easy to implement but I'm sure it will happen soon.
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Apr 13, 2021 6:30:19 GMT
I think in those days it was in the hundreds. So about the same as some of the Freeview and Freesat channels these days!
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Feb 21, 2021 7:36:16 GMT
According to TV Brain all 15 episodes exist: Series 1 (1975) was 8 episodes, Series 2 (1977) was 7 episodes. The IMDb synopsis reads as follows: "The programme reprised past top twenty hits. These consisted of film, or video, and live performances by the original artistes, or guest performers, (who also acted as the shows hosts)."
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Feb 20, 2021 20:38:14 GMT
Question: does anyone else have a memory of this episode, and can they confirm or deny that it was Mickie Most who got into a disagreement with Mike Read on Pop Quiz (22 May 82) about The Beatles 1st #1 record? (Please Please Me vs. From Me To You) It was a bit of a dust-up at the time, in the social media of the day, ha. Or was it someone else on a different episode of Pop Quiz? Cheers... It wasn't Mickie Most as I've just watched that episode and The Beatles don't even get a namecheck in it! However, I have tracked down the clip you're after, which has actually been available online for years so I'm surprised no-one else noticed it before. It's a clip from the very first episode of Pop Quiz: Mike Read: "And over to the end of Round 5, Chris Neil, watch this clip of The Beatles and then I'm going to ask you a question..." Pathe News colour clip of The Beatles performing She Loves You in Manchester, 1963, plays.Mike Read: "She Loves You was their second Number 1. What was their first Number 1?" Chris Neil: "Please Please Me". Mike Read: "No, it wasn't. Some might say it was, but it technically wasn't - it only got to Number 2. Their first Number 1 was From Me To You." The Official Charts website also show Please Please Me as only reaching Number 2 as they've used the same data as the Guinness books...
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jan 3, 2021 13:28:08 GMT
(Of course, any mention of DW in a newspaper must get something wrong. Marco Polo wasn't "the fourth-ever episode of Doctor Who"). Isn't it irritating how it's a BBC News article that's calling it the fourth-ever episode? Surely someone should be fact-checking their reports. (Marco Polo is, of course, episodes 14-20 of Series One, the fourth story/adventure)
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Dec 7, 2020 21:55:15 GMT
Not sure why you're quoting from an article that's over a year old, Stephen!
BritBox has improved considerably since it launched with just a couple of hundred titles on November 7th last year. It now has 900 different titles including many archive titles from ITV, BBC and Channel 4. It may be missing some of the politically incorrect shows but it has plenty of other obscure programmes to keep me happy since I cancelled my TV licence...
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Dec 1, 2020 9:15:36 GMT
Massively influential but now almost completely forgotten, this early '60s music show featured the cream of British Folk and Blues – as well as some highly important foreign artistes. Hosted by musician, poet, sculptor and all-round polymath Rory McEwen, Hullabaloo was a key part of the early '60s Folk boom, with guests recorded live in front of an invited audience as ABC's Teddington Lock studios. It's probably "forgotten" because, although recorded it London, it was never actually broadcast in the London region! The only mention I can find of "Hullabaloo" in the TV Times is a three times a week kids show that aired between April and July 1968 on Rediffusion - all 51 episodes of which are missing according to TV Brain...
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Sept 9, 2020 20:13:36 GMT
I'm guessing these were archived on Philips N1500 or something similar. In the "Mr Safety" clip he shows a shield and starts referring to the different colours on it, so presumably those shows were originally broadcast in colour.
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 18, 2020 8:39:39 GMT
I've managed to get my kids interested in archive TV and it's historical importance, so hopefully there will still be a small band of missing episode hunters when we're no longer around. We need future generations to preserve our heritage with plenty of back-up copies in case someone hits the DELETE button or the HDDs fail.
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 4, 2020 20:38:55 GMT
It's not missing - just not available to the public at the moment. Hopefully, one day, we'll get to enjoy early episodes of Pop Quiz once again...
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jun 18, 2020 18:55:56 GMT
Thanks for the heads up. I've downloaded all the Z Cars and quite a few other ITV & BBC series from that channel to watch offline, as you never know when they'll disappear...
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Apr 27, 2020 6:52:17 GMT
According to the BBC programme page the 3-hour show "Comedy Greats" that included this episode was made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in May 2003, so Barry's links would have been recorded back then...
Genome tells us there were only ever 8 episodes of "It's a Fair Cop", written by John Junkin and Terry Nation, broadcast once only on the Light Programme between May and July 1961.
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Apr 18, 2020 15:38:54 GMT
Interesting to note that, assuming this is an off-air recording, Channel 4 didn't manage to sell any advertising slots for this broadcast. Both breaks in the programme just show a 'continues shortly' card and some music!
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Feb 3, 2020 21:42:02 GMT
All six episodes of Series 1 are available now. These were originally broadcast on ABC in Australia 26 April - 30 May 1964 and on the BBC in the UK 25 February - 1 April 1965. If you thought Doctor Who was low budget wait until you see this! The flying saucer appears to be made of wood with a sliding door that you have to manually open and close. You never see it take off or land as it's obviously just a studio prop.
The events described could certainly never happen today: a strange man appears outside a school and within minutes gets offered a job as a teacher, starting the very next day, without any qualifications, references or police checks. He befriends three of the kids (two boys and a girl) who think he's a bit strange but agree to keep his secrets and promise not to tell their parents! He then abducts them for a week and flies them to his planet. When they get back their Dad is a little bit angry but promises to help the stranger after he gets arrested. The Dad, who is skeptical about their story, asks a professor to speak to the kids about their kidnapping. The professor suggests the kids show him the spacecraft and amazingly gets permission from their parents to go on a journey with them, all alone, out in the Australian bush, the next day!
That brings us up to episode 5 that I'm just about to watch now...
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