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Post by Del Boy on Dec 27, 2021 15:12:30 GMT
I will have to look out for that channel. Hopefully they can improve on these humble beginnings and offer some better material.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 27, 2021 16:50:52 GMT
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Post by Sparky on Dec 27, 2021 20:24:44 GMT
I suppose it's surprising that they're aren't more of these channels, they're the equivalent of pound shops. That's TV show 4:3 tv shows in the wrong aspect ratio, it's fixed as well so you can't change it on your tv.
Speaking of quality I've also noticed that the sound on Drama has been out of sync for at least a year, presumably it's something they can't fix as surely they're aware of it.
Not sure why That's TV show their programmes in odd ratios.
Beadle was shown in 16:9.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 28, 2021 15:51:36 GMT
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Post by Sparky on Dec 29, 2021 9:51:11 GMT
Dec 28 1976
The Entertaining Electron at 10.25 seems quite interesting.
Also - it was presented by the IBA themselves.
If this was 1976 - I'd love to see what innovations they were coming up with for the next decade and how many of them did come to fruition. Oracle even gets a mention.
I wonder if stereo sound got a mention; as they had been working on that since the late 60s.
We didn't finally get NICAM until around 1990 - the struggle with that was converting the transmitters.
Was this programme part of the Royal Institute Christmas Lectures?
I've normally caught the lectures on BBC2; though was it shared/alternated during the 1970s (like the Royal Variety Performance)
The best Royal Institute Lecture I saw was based around the Enigma machine - how it worked (they opened one up), how the decryption worked, how a message was decoded at the other end, and then some heavy duty maths that showed you how to calculate the total number of possible combinations - making the machine virtually unbreakable.
They have a Youtube channel with many short pieces on.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 29, 2021 19:44:18 GMT
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 31, 2021 15:18:17 GMT
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Post by Sparky on Dec 31, 2021 17:03:51 GMT
Never seen an episode, but was the Fenn Street Gang a spin off from Please Sir?
Years back, I switched on to Granada Plus, which was part way through an episode of Mind Your Language - I thought it was the Fenn Street Gang.... that was until the credits rolled.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 31, 2021 17:53:54 GMT
Never seen an episode, but was the Fenn Street Gang a spin off from Please Sir?
Years back, I switched on to Granada Plus, which was part way through an episode of Mind Your Language - I thought it was the Fenn Street Gang.... that was until the credits rolled.
It was Sparky, I've not seen any episodes either though I've seen the Fenn Street Gang sketch on the 1972 'All Star Comedy Carnival'. Watched some 'Please Sir' on Forces TV recently, worth watching to gawp at Penny Spencer, her character was replaced by Carol Hawkins after series 3.
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Post by Nightfly on Dec 31, 2021 18:56:40 GMT
If my memory serves me correctly, The Fenn Street Gang was one of those spin-offs that didn't really work. It followed the Please Sir pupils as they started their first jobs. The only one thing I remember was Frankie becoming a cowardly private detective who talked the talk and ran back to his Mum when the heat was on. It all seemed a bit predictable. 1975- ITV putting out an afternoon repeat of the previous year's Village Hall episode Mr Ellis v The People by Jack Rosenthal, a comedy about a day in a polling station. It's pretty accurate and hardly anything has changed these days. Ron Moody heading a cast of soon to be big names from what seemed to be Granada's unofficial repertory company. Andy Stewart on annual Hogmanay show duties. Nowadays we have the annual realisation that we are getting older by watching Jools Holland and not having the slightest idea who those performing on the show are.
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