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Post by garygraham on Oct 10, 2023 23:33:35 GMT
Has the BBC tended to keep tapes of promos or were they discarded?
I'm surprised the one that Savile did in the 1990s for the TV Licence easy payment scheme hasn't appeared in any of the many programmes about him.
Was it wiped or do you think it exists but the BBC is keeping it under wraps? As it must be their worst nightmare?
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Post by sonnybh on Oct 11, 2023 20:19:27 GMT
Same with BR's Age Of The Train adverts, which had to be skirted around in a recent documentary.
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Post by John Green on Oct 11, 2023 20:24:59 GMT
Same with BR's Age Of The Train adverts, which had to be skirted around in a recent documentary. I once took part in a 50p-an-hour focus group on Savile's BR ads. I made the point that he seemed ubiquitous. |
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Post by garygraham on Oct 12, 2023 12:45:30 GMT
Always interesting what ISN'T included or is changed. The BBC's current drama being an example.
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Post by garygraham on Oct 12, 2023 12:46:28 GMT
Same with BR's Age Of The Train adverts, which had to be skirted around in a recent documentary. I once took part in a 50p-an-hour focus group on Savile's BR ads. I made the point that he seemed ubiquitous. He didn't seem to do many TV ads. I can only remember the British Rail ads and public information films. |
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Post by John Green on Oct 12, 2023 15:35:30 GMT
How much it was down to him, and how much down to the sloganeer,I don't know,but Clunk-Click' became a catch-phrase-remember it was used in the driving-instruction episode of Man About the House. (Said several times).
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Post by sonnybh on Oct 12, 2023 20:29:33 GMT
I heard he turned down doing an advert for British Leyland because he owned a Mercedes at the time.
The Newwork PIF collections have Shaw Taylor doing a Clunk-Click film.
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Post by Dan S on Oct 15, 2023 0:17:54 GMT
Just as an aside, I find it interesting that in all my years of radio collecting I've never seen an episode of Savile's Travels on anyone's list, ever. I should make it clear don't want to hear one, I couldn't give a monkeys, but the lack of recordings gives me the impression people have been avoiding him for years, even before they knew.
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Post by John Green on Oct 15, 2023 9:39:26 GMT
Just as an aside, I find it interesting that in all my years of radio collecting I've never seen an episode of Savile's Travels on anyone's list, ever. I should make it clear don't want to hear one, I couldn't give a monkeys, but the lack of recordings gives me the impression people have been avoiding him for years, even before they knew. They were quite listenable; they'd be on the background at home on a Sunday. I'd have expected the people in the area he was visiting to record the show, not least the ones interviewed! |
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Post by Kev Hunter on Oct 15, 2023 10:19:00 GMT
After Savile's Travels was it his Speakeasy show that came next? I remember him interviewing the Wilkins family (from 'The Family' TV reality programme) and part of this was included in the TV series. I think it was on Speakeasy that I heard Tangerine Dream for the first time, playing live - something that seems incongruous now, Savile and Tangerine Dream!
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Post by garygraham on Oct 21, 2023 19:18:59 GMT
After Savile's Travels was it his Speakeasy show that came next? I remember him interviewing the Wilkins family (from 'The Family' TV reality programme) and part of this was included in the TV series. I think it was on Speakeasy that I heard Tangerine Dream for the first time, playing live - something that seems incongruous now, Savile and Tangerine Dream! Yes and then he did both. |
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