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Post by markperry on Mar 8, 2022 8:51:33 GMT
After the soccer score, the rainbow came back right on the very last frames, it's during the Nauncier radio scope bit and washed out the first frames of the radio speaker shot.
And there was a very tiny one when the Doctor recovers in Reagan's hideout on the 'ah there they are' line.
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Post by Robert Lia on Mar 8, 2022 21:17:16 GMT
Yes. WNED in Buffalo had more viewers across Lake Ontario than it did in New York State. Well Buffalo is not exactly a large US city but its not a small one either. It would have had many viewers in the USA as well. But its signal did compete with TV Ontario so viewers in that part of either southern Ontario or upstate New York would have had the opportunity to see the majority of the Jon Pertwee era between the two broadcasters. The only ones that would not have been available would have been "Spearhead form Space", "Carnival of Monsters", "Frontier in Space", "Planet of the Daleks" and of course "Invasion of the Dinosaurs". A pity the BBC wiped some of the season 10 and 11 episodes so soon after transmission when they were starting to get some colour sales to the USA and Canada |
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Post by Richard Marple on Mar 8, 2022 21:37:10 GMT
Yes. WNED in Buffalo had more viewers across Lake Ontario than it did in New York State. Well Buffalo is not exactly a large US city but its not a small one either. It would have had many viewers in the USA as well. But its signal did compete with TV Ontario so viewers in that part of either southern Ontario or upstate New York would have had the opportunity to see the majority of the Jon Pertwee era between the two broadcasters. The only ones that would not have been available would have been "Spearhead form Space", "Carnival of Monsters", "Frontier in Space", "Planet of the Daleks" and of course "Invasion of the Dinosaurs". A pity the BBC wiped some of the season 10 and 11 episodes so soon after transmission when they were starting to get some colour sales to the USA and Canada They seemed a bit hasty to do so. especially as they wouldn't have to rely on Australia getting round to starting colour transmissions. |
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Post by Dan S on Mar 9, 2022 1:13:15 GMT
The top picture is exactly what the rainbow patterning on my copy looked like. I don't recognize the patterning on the bottom picture at all. Mine too. It went from ok colour in parts, to what we see in the top picture, looking like colour bars superimposed with the picture. I don't have the tape any more (Ironically I junked it) but I still have my notes where I noted that episodes 2,3 & 4 were the worst of the set, with 2 being slightly better than 3 & 4, and the colour clearing up for the end of episode 4. Episode 7 was the best of them. In addition, the end credits were missing from 2,4 & 6. |
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Post by markperry on Mar 9, 2022 2:17:09 GMT
I can say Episode 7 had some ghosting, weakest color of the lot but still has decent color, those lines when it drifted off signal (when the police car arrives at the gate and Reagan sorts em out/and is where the official vhs stopped the color), and apart from the weak rainbowing it was well behaved.
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Post by markperry on Mar 9, 2022 3:14:46 GMT
I actually had a brain fade moment when I looked on the map where Buffalo and then (I assume) where BBC Ontario was and thought:
1 - would they have got their own tapes by some method or
2 - borrowed Ontario tapes for transmission
but then I thought that be a waste (based on the map) if they were simultaneously transmitted by satellite from Ontario and WNED linked up for that broadcast slot (or the New York broadcaster).
(Sorta what eg ABC australia did for some local nationwide broadcasts).
See how easy it is to get it wrong.
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Post by Nicholas Fitzpatrick on Mar 9, 2022 3:41:31 GMT
Well Buffalo is not exactly a large US city but its not a small one either. It would have had many viewers in the USA as well. But its signal did compete with TV Ontario so viewers in that part of either southern Ontario or upstate New York would have had the opportunity to see the majority of the Jon Pertwee era between the two broadcasters. To be fair, I meant to say members, rather than viewers. I'm not sure how the viewership compared. Also by the late 1970s, WNED was carried on cable systems throughout the Greater Toronto Area, plus Niagara, Hamilton, Kitchener, Barrie, etc. The population of this area is pushing 10 million now. The Buffalo/Niagara metro area is currently about 1.1 million - though probably hasn't grown as fast in the last 45 years. Gosh ... it was about 1.35 million in 1970 ... wow. |
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Post by Robert Lia on Mar 9, 2022 3:55:47 GMT
WNED in Buffalo got there tapes from Time Life Television in New York (and they may have been sent from a previous PBS broadcaster (Guam, Chicago, Iowa, Los Angeles, Rochester, Boston). The Ambassadors of Death was not sold to TV Ontario and was not screened as part of there run of Jon Pertwee stories.
The ones that TV Ontario and PBS both screened were "The Claws of Axos", "Day of the Daleks", "Curse of Peladon", "The Mutants and "The Time Monster". PBS had the exclusive on "The Silurians", "Ambassadors of Death", "Inferno", "Terror of the Autons", "The Mind of Evil", "Colony in Space", "The Daemons" & "The Sea Devils". TV Ontario had the exclusive on "The Three Doctors", "The Green Death", "The Time Warrior", "Death to the Daleks", "The Monster of Peladon" and "Planet of the Spiders".
CKVU-TV in Vancouver British Columbia took "Inferno", "Claws of Axos", "Colony in Space", "Day of the Daleks", "Curse of Peladon", "The Sea Devils", "The Mutants", "The Time Monster" "The Three Doctors", "The Green Death", "The Time Warrior", "Death to the Daleks", "Monster of Peladon" and "Planet of the Spiders".
No one in Canada aired "Carnival of Monsters" which was available complete on video tape (no missing parts) or "Spearhead from Space"
and to complete it WGBH in Boston took all 72 episodes offered by Time Life Films plus "The Three Doctors", "Carnival of Monsters" (only North American airing in the 1970's), "The Green Death", "The Time Warrior", "Death to the Daleks", "Monster of Peladon" and "Planet of the Spiders".
"Spearhead form Space" was the only complete color story not aired in the United States at least once in the 1970's.
So there were NTSC recordings on VHS of every Jon Pertwee story offered to North America bar "The Mind of Evil" going around North American Dr. Who fandom in the early 1980's
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Post by markperry on Jun 22, 2022 0:44:45 GMT
Originally uploaded 2010ish then blocked by the Beeb.
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Post by markperry on Jun 28, 2022 8:35:56 GMT
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