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Post by Cartman on Dec 4, 2021 22:02:36 GMT
Seconded, it's a great idea Arthur
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 4, 2021 23:51:35 GMT
Yes I'll try to keep it going after December
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Post by Nightfly on Dec 4, 2021 23:57:30 GMT
Best bit on that days TV for me would have been ELO on the music programme Same here. I hadn't realised Get It Together lasted so long (77-81). Produced by Muriel Young who also did the Bay City Rollers show, Marc Bolan's 1977 series and I think she was involved with Ready, Steady Go in the 60s. They always had decent guests, but Roy North covering a hit of the day at the end of the each show wasn't probably the best idea. His version of TRB's 2,4,6,8 Motorway is still in the back of my mind. George Hamilton IV seemed to be the go to show as a filler for closedowns or middle of the night on ITV right into the 80s. I used to wake on the sofa after a night on the shandy many a weekend to find George belting out some tune about driving a truck through Nashville/rounding up cattle/being married to his cousin etc
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Post by Three Litre on Dec 5, 2021 8:57:43 GMT
Yes I'll try to keep it going after December
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Post by Sparky on Dec 5, 2021 9:18:00 GMT
Best bit on that days TV for me would have been ELO on the music programme Same here. I hadn't realised Get It Together lasted so long (77-81). Produced by Muriel Young who also did the Bay City Rollers show, Marc Bolan's 1977 series and I think she was involved with Ready, Steady Go in the 60s. They always had decent guests, but Roy North covering a hit of the day at the end of the each show wasn't probably the best idea. His version of TRB's 2,4,6,8 Motorway is still in the back of my mind. George Hamilton IV seemed to be the go to show as a filler for closedowns or middle of the night on ITV right into the 80s. I used to wake on the sofa after a night on the shandy many a weekend to find George belting out some tune about driving a truck through Nashville/rounding up cattle/being married to his cousin etc I have vague memories of George Hamilton IV also being on around lunchtime or afternoon as a filler - not sure if this was just restricted to a handful of regions. I seem to remember it on ATV and Channel Television.
Though many ITV stations used to use cartoons, short films or even have an 'intermission' which would usually be accompanied by a slide/menu of programmes for the day, accompanied by music.
The latter was more common on ATV during a Sunday morning - where the station would open slightly earlier than 9.25 and show a couple of short region only programmes. Of course most stations on the network would then all meet up at something like 10am for Morning Worship. If there was 5 or 10mins spare, ATV would fill it with an intermission.
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Post by Cartman on Dec 5, 2021 10:05:35 GMT
BBC used to have an intermission, or interlude, I think it was called, I vaguely remember it from when I wasn't very old, early to mid 60s, one showed a potters wheel, another was a bowl of flowers and, the best one was the muscle man, accompanied by Wheels cha cha cha.
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Post by Sparky on Dec 5, 2021 12:15:49 GMT
BBC used to have an intermission, or interlude, I think it was called, I vaguely remember it from when I wasn't very old, early to mid 60s, one showed a potters wheel, another was a bowl of flowers and, the best one was the muscle man, accompanied by Wheels cha cha cha. They had the potters wheel during the 50s and 60s. Gene posted a clip of it in the TV Studio thread.
ITV were still using intermissions in 1980 so they could bring regions into sync to meet up with important programme junctions.
As we know - the "intermissions" were more widely used between Schools Programming on both channels, where there would be intervals of up to 10minutes between some programmes, the final minute counted down by a clock.
These intervals were included as many schools only had one TV set, usually in a TV-Room - the breaks would give enough time for classes to be swapped over, the last minute used to quieten the kids down.
The BBC "intervals" longer than 15 minutes were usually filled by a Trade Test Transmission - or "Test Card" - from 1969, it was Test Card F. By around 1981, there was less Test Card on the BBC, and more "Pages from Ceefax...". If you needed the text card to fix a TV - you had to stop up late. (or build your own generator - as many did).
Sam Tyler knows quite a bit about the Test-Card...
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Post by Nightfly on Dec 5, 2021 12:27:31 GMT
ITV were still using intermissions in 1980 so they could bring regions into sync to meet up with important programme junctions. I had forgotten some of the intermission fillers that you don't see anymore. Often YTV would fill in with a cartoon, usually a Loony Tunes or Roadrunner etc. with an announcement "We have some spare time to bring you an extra programme.." Occasionally they would dig out a 5 minute film of the Red Arrows flying in formation to light instrumental music.
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Post by Sparky on Dec 5, 2021 14:28:40 GMT
ITV were still using intermissions in 1980 so they could bring regions into sync to meet up with important programme junctions. I had forgotten some of the intermission fillers that you don't see anymore. Often YTV would fill in with a cartoon, usually a Loony Tunes or Roadrunner etc. with an announcement "We have some spare time to bring you an extra programme.." Occasionally they would dig out a 5 minute film of the Red Arrows flying in formation to light instrumental music. ITV stations had to keep a readily available stock of "appropriate" filler or standby material - just in case they lost a programme, or had spare time. ATV (poss other stations) had a standby programme available just in case an incoming OB or programme feed from another station was lost.
Central - even in 1997, had a standby setup that consisted of a High End Panasonic VHS machine and a handful of pre-made up tapes with suitable material. This would only be used if there was a total failiure at the station -and had it's own link to the transmitters with a small mixer for announcements. In a power cut situation - they had generators capable of only keeping the station on air.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 5, 2021 17:10:34 GMT
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