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Post by TSWSTV on Jul 20, 2022 8:43:22 GMT
STV's Garnock Way didn't fair any better either - 4 episodes survive? That was almost 10 years later! STV had a fires and/or water damage in their studios which meant the archive was damaged more than once! Dangerous work television! One of the fires meant they had to use their Gateway Theatre in Edinburgh for programming - not sure if continuity came from Edinburgh though! Knowing STV and video tape was expensive, they may have reused all the cans for something else. High Living didn't sell well across the network neither did Garnock Way, which is a shame. With the streaming revolution STV has been able to market their archive and get some income via STV Player. There's some great one off drama's or Weir's Way etc. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie seems to have been quite a success with the first ever repeats on television (since transmission!) and DVD sales.
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Post by williammcgregor on Jul 20, 2022 12:50:35 GMT
Don't worry Ronnie Granny Crombie is going to be ok as Peter has already correctly identified episode 6 which is entitled ( Granny Takes A Trip) after listening to The Purple Gang on her radiogram. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqh_bh77hK0 She must have been listening on pirate Radio Scotland ( "On 242 meters on the medium wave, this is the sound of Radio Scotland", at night it could sometimes be heard in London) as the BBC banned it. Frighteningly I could still sing along to it on that You-tube link!!! Aye yer richt there son Granny Crombie would be listening to pirate radio Scotland due to her insomnia. Radio Scotland has been mainstream up here for decades now (funny how things change) it's my radio station of choice mostly for the topical news phone-in's in the mornings. Also great for football coverage although the (Off The Ball) presenters get on my wick banging on about wee teams like Motherwell and St.Johnstone  instead of the mighty Hibernian (Hibs)  |
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Post by tonyrees on Jul 20, 2022 16:52:14 GMT
The BBC didn't ban Granny Takes A Trip as I've got it on two editions of Scene and Heard from about that time. I don't think they banned Arnold Layne either, but Radio London did!
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Aug 17, 2022 20:56:17 GMT
Things got even worse for Granny Crombie. This from the 9 January 1969 episode -
`It's panic stations in Caulton Court (STV 7.30) when Gran Crombie (Betty Henderson) is trapped in the lift. Gran and the other two ladies caught in this dilemma, Mrs McGill and Mrs Lambie, are virtually panic stricken by the time the caretaker, Dan Dunlop (Willy Joss) arrives' Daily Express
It's terrible what that poor old woman had to go through after the council rehoused her to that modern tower block.
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Post by Peter Stirling on Aug 17, 2022 21:48:09 GMT
Things got even worse for Granny Crombie. This from the 9 January 1969 episode - `It's panic stations in Caulton Court (STV 7.30) when Gran Crombie (Betty Henderson) is trapped in the lift. Gran and the other two ladies caught in this dilemma, Mrs McGill and Mrs Lambie, are virtually panic stricken by the time the caretaker, Dan Dunlop (Willy Joss) arrives' Daily Express
It's terrible what that poor old woman had to go through after the council rehoused her to that modern tower block. Hopefully on IMDB now - slightly rewritten just in case the copyright police are about. Oh no! terrifying for Granny Crombie and friends.... I suppose just before the end she can hear the strands on the lift cable starting to snap and jolt ....Will Dan get them out for the next episode? |
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instead of the mighty Hibernian (Hibs) 
