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Post by Paul Watkins on May 27, 2016 15:35:47 GMT
BBC4 schedule update: 9th June - 3rd Dec 81 (Kid Jensen) 10th June - 17th Dec 81 (Simon Bates) 16th June - 24th Dec 81 (Kid Jensen) 17th June - 31st Dec 81 (Mike Read) (7.30-8.00pm) 17th June - The Story of 1982 (10.00pm - 11.00pm) 17th June - Big Hits 1982 (11.00pm - 12.00pm)
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Post by Joe Haynes on May 27, 2016 21:22:55 GMT
I wonder if we will get to 1983 this year? How many eps from this year cant be broadcast?
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Post by Jonny Williams on May 27, 2016 22:05:49 GMT
At this rate we should get through all of the remaining episodes by the time of the next Charter renewal ☺
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Post by christian bews on May 29, 2016 20:37:35 GMT
what is the point of going to 1982 in june this year?
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Post by simoncurtis on May 30, 2016 1:52:53 GMT
I wonder if we will get to 1983 this year? How many eps from this year cant be broadcast? I think 1982 has 13 Yewtree'd editions, including the 2 Christmas Specials. As we speak, 40 editions are broadcastable.
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Post by simontaylor on May 30, 2016 7:49:24 GMT
what is the point of going to 1982 in june this year? So after 6 years of following the 35 year behind schedule they're now abandoning that and I guess speeding it up to two years in one. If they continue the Thursday and Friday night repeat schedule that is.
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Post by nicadare on May 30, 2016 11:20:53 GMT
what is the point of going to 1982 in june this year? On the digital Spy forum there are people whinging because the BBC are showing 2 episodes per week, as far as I'm concerned the more they show the better, the BBC cannot win, leave the episodes locked in the vaults and don't show them people complain, show 2 episodes per week and people still complain.
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Post by Kev Hunter on May 30, 2016 16:52:20 GMT
I agree with you, nic - I never understood what was so important about the 35 year thing anyway. The more episodes the merrier, and we can get to see the early 1990s TOTPs again before we all expire!
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Post by Richard Marple on May 30, 2016 18:12:13 GMT
As I've mentioned above were just about to get to the time I started to watch & remember TOTP, so can hardly wait.
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Post by Tony Walshaw on Jun 1, 2016 8:01:16 GMT
I still suspect they are hurrying through the remaining period where JS presented.
I think there is also a train of thought evident within BBC productions that the 70s & early 80s were a 'horrible time' for the UK with strikes and civil unrest. They seem to keep reminding us of this, as in the recent EMI documentary, which unfortunately was lazily scripted and trotted out a lot of old cliches.
I suspect those involved prefer the full-on Thatcher years of the later 80s. They want to get to that. Even though (by coincidence or not) music became less inspiring.
I like the BBC music documentaries on the whole, but they sometimes put too much onus on linking the politics of the time to the music. The two were not necessarily in tandem, and in some respects they are re-writing or airbrushing history.
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Post by Stephen John Connett on Jun 1, 2016 11:01:46 GMT
Maybe they could do a 'Rock N Roll Years' remix of TOTP cutting from Frankie does 'Relax' to BBC news coverage of the miner's strike etc and get Adam Curtis to edit it?
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Post by Dave Woods on Jun 1, 2016 23:15:00 GMT
There was never any logic to the 35 years thing other than: "How far back do we have most of the episodes?" "About 35 years." "Right then."
If they'd started showing them this year it would have been 40 years (and most of us would have appreciated a speedier run through '76). Except, I doubt they would start doing it now if they hadn't already. So we probably should be grateful for what we're getting.
At mostly two episodes a week we're reaching the end of 1981 in mid-June - almost halfway through the year. So I'm not sure this twice a week thing has anything to do with "the circumstances" really. I mean, no one's speculating about how the re-appearance of The Good Old Days is a result of the behaviour of certain people in the seventies, are they?
Breaking the strict "one year per year" thing makes about as much sense to me as not sticking with it. Although, because of "the circumstances", the Thursday and Friday episodes have often been strikingly similar. And, if anything, that is actually drawing attention to the fact that some episodes are missing.
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Post by Sal Mohammed on Jun 2, 2016 9:17:27 GMT
Why not go really over the top and show five episodes a week, Monday to Friday. I wouldn't have to wait seven years to relive Brit Pop again.
Watching the episodes from 1981 over a short period of time, I forgot how many 'Stars on 45' type singles were put together that year. It felt like there was a new one every week on the re-runs.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jun 2, 2016 12:19:18 GMT
Why not go really over the top and show five episodes a week, Monday to Friday. I wouldn't have to wait seven years to relive Brit Pop again. Watching the episodes from 1981 over a short period of time, I forgot how many 'Stars on 45' type singles were put together that year. It felt like there was a new one every week on the re-runs. I also noticed the number of medleys in the charts, along with TV Cream, who pointed out how little stage presence many of them had. Even when an edition hasn't been skipped over sometimes the chart changed a lot week to week, often with a lot of singles going down due to a lot of high entries.
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Post by richardwoods on Jun 2, 2016 17:14:42 GMT
Wouldn't it be nice if they showed the few complete pre 76 episodes.
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