I remember reading once how TV-AM got a bollocking in in their early days for their unpolished presentation and were told to buck up their ideas. I bet that does not happen any more.
The ITA closed down Opportunity Knocks because of Mr Greens Right wing bias. :-O
a show that was getting over 18 million viewers, that's like shutting down the X-factor because it's a four month plug for the Christmas single number one.
I can't help thinking their must have been some power mad little Hitlers working for the ITA and IBA. The big and quite often earth shatteringly stupid and/or self serving decisions they made (coupled with the lack of clarity on why) they must surely have been taking back handers. Kind of the FIFA of British independent broadcasting.
When I think of TV station indents I think of them as BC4 and AC4 (Before channel four and after Channel four). Before channel four's digital 3d rendered spinning blocks, idents were either mechanical, flat animations, or simple 2D graphics with at best a glow effect on lines.
It's funny now, you look at the pre Ch4 idents of other channels, or the ones they had when C4 launched and they looked so primitive and often a little shoddy. Then a few weeks or months later watch as the TV stations panic and go in to 3D overload, good god some overdone.
So almost everyone who grew up in the 70's and 80's will know Test Card F. A timeless classic stood the test of time most probably because the girl's dress does not represent any perpendicular period in time. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/TCF.jpg
Now a heavy one. News from 1981. At 6:50 in the video Sir Peter Hayman gets caught with child porn (package left on bus). The director of public prosecutions Sir Thomas Heatherington decided against prosecution 'because their was no question of financial gain or sending material to people who did not want it" WTF? Its worth nothing that this all occurred in 1978, but was kept from the press until Private Eye leaked it out. In light of current and on going investigations, this one made be shudder.
Re the test card....It always gave me the willies....WHY you ask...
Well I never saw the clown doll as a doll....I always saw it as two heads (one on top of the other)
the first head is the clowns (shudder)
and the second head below the first is a green skull looking at the girl (the clowns body)
Honestly that's what I saw as a child......I.m glad I never took that Rorschach test. I would of got the Electric Chair.
! Standby alert !
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb!
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year :)
Wood effect plastic rather than real wood, but it's still the oldest telly in the house. After that it, TV's were all black plastic, some with silver sections.
I'm gonna sound like fleabay now, it worked when last used. But it was a while ago :D
! Standby alert !
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb!
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year :)
So almost everyone who grew up in the 70's and 80's will know Test Card F. A timeless classic stood the test of time most probably because the girl's dress does not represent any perpendicular period in time. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/TCF.jpg
Out first color TV was this GEC Model C2115 , brought by my dad in the 70s. It used to buzz quietly, but if the colors (luminence) were bright it would hum quite loudly. It was one of them whack it on the side to make it work better type of sets. http://www.oldtechnology.net/images/gecc2115.jpg
After that we got this GEC in 82. It was rock steady, no buzzing and had a great picture. I know there was a model with remote control as an optional extra, ours did not have that. We kept it till 98 and then gave it to a family friend. It out lived the set we replaced it with. http://www.tvfilmprops.co.uk/userdata/PRODPIC-2018.jpg
I had a large wooden one for my Vic (pre-spectrum). It too was a whack-on-the-side. I think it had a dodgy valve, which would make the vertical hold go. A quick whack would put it back again. Bit of pain when I was watching the 'network premiere' of Alien all those years ago. Lost a bit of its tension with the vertical hold going every now and then.
I remember those old wooden telly's. My parents used to rent them from a guy that had his own buisness selling and fixing them. They were so old and buggerd, they would break down about every 3 weeks. Didn't think they liked my Atari 2600 at the time either as the telly's would break on my gaming session. My parents would lie to the man when he came to repair it saying it went off half way through Eastender's or something.
I myself brought a Pye StudioColour 20' model from the early 1980's in about 1993. Set it up in my bedroom with a bent coat hanger as an ariel. It was a plastic wood finish job. No remote just basic controls with 12 channel presets. It cost £60 and was a refurbished ex-rental set from Granada. Remember getting up in the mornings and watching The Big Breakfast on C4. Used my Speccy and Mega Drive on it, I even brought an old Sanyo Betamax machine with a shedload of tapes for £5 from a family friend and used that on it too. The old Pye set never went wrong but can't remember what happened to it.
I was watching an ep of minder with my Dad over the summer on Youtube. Terry kept saying "I engh stayin in an aarrghse wiv an iron" I had to look up what an Iron was. It turns out "Iron hoof".
Was that 'Salvage 1' ever broadcast in the UK? I never saw it.
I do have 'Tales of the Gold Monkey' on DVD, as I never got to see it when it was broadcast as it was on Cubs night. Same with the 'Blue Thunder' TV series - never seen an episode of that, either.
Tales of the unexpected, was that ever shown outside the British Isles? One of the most memorable theme tunes ever.
Given that many of the tales included American actors and were also often filmed abroad (often in America) I'd be very surprised if the USA didn't show it. Not sure about the elsewhere in Europe, but Roald Dahl was a very well-known author.
I loved Kenny Everett. As a kid that DIY man he did that always used to injure himself had me in stitches. There was one where he did cooking and when using a hand held whisk on a circular table, ended up flying round and round the table and then out of the window. I was unable to find that on on YouTube.
Was that 'Salvage 1' ever broadcast in the UK? I never saw it.
I do have 'Tales of the Gold Monkey' on DVD, as I never got to see it when it was broadcast as it was on Cubs night. Same with the 'Blue Thunder' TV series - never seen an episode of that, either.
Yep Sunday dinner time is when I remember watching it, there was loads of crap shows shown then but the worst has to be CHiPs.
Was that 'Salvage 1' ever broadcast in the UK? I never saw it.
I do have 'Tales of the Gold Monkey' on DVD, as I never got to see it when it was broadcast as it was on Cubs night. Same with the 'Blue Thunder' TV series - never seen an episode of that, either.
Yep Sunday dinner time is when I remember watching it, there was loads of crap shows shown then but the worst has to be CHiPs.
One thing that I do remember is around 1982,83 on a friday night Channel 4 would show cheers a funny well written and acted comedy and ITV's answer on the other side was 'That's my boy' possibly the worst tv show ever made apart from 'mixed blessings' (a man "the same one from that's my boy" had a girlfriend.....ooooh and the funny bit is......she is black ) :-O
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I can't help thinking their must have been some power mad little Hitlers working for the ITA and IBA. The big and quite often earth shatteringly stupid and/or self serving decisions they made (coupled with the lack of clarity on why) they must surely have been taking back handers. Kind of the FIFA of British independent broadcasting.
It's funny now, you look at the pre Ch4 idents of other channels, or the ones they had when C4 launched and they looked so primitive and often a little shoddy. Then a few weeks or months later watch as the TV stations panic and go in to 3D overload, good god some overdone.
BC4:
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/TCF.jpg
So I've been reading we could have has this.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v481/23Daves/tcf_variant1.jpg
I can always remember their being a test card variant that had a thicker line around the picture in the center and a picture of a woman not a girl. However, until this day I thought I might have been wrong. Then I found this. Do you remember it?
http://36.media.tumblr.com/a9fe624581155536beabdafe73d1a934/tumblr_nocnb0krCL1uvcudho1_1280.jpg
Well I never saw the clown doll as a doll....I always saw it as two heads (one on top of the other)
the first head is the clowns (shudder)
and the second head below the first is a green skull looking at the girl (the clowns body)
Honestly that's what I saw as a child......I.m glad I never took that Rorschach test. I would of got the Electric Chair.
Mark
Repair Guides. Spanish Hardware site.
WoS - can't download? Info here...
former Meulie Spectrum Archive but no longer available :-(
Spectranet: the TNFS directory thread
! Standby alert !
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb!
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year :)
Wood effect plastic rather than real wood, but it's still the oldest telly in the house. After that it, TV's were all black plastic, some with silver sections.
I'm gonna sound like fleabay now, it worked when last used. But it was a while ago :D
Mark
Repair Guides. Spanish Hardware site.
WoS - can't download? Info here...
former Meulie Spectrum Archive but no longer available :-(
Spectranet: the TNFS directory thread
! Standby alert !
“There are four lights!”
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb!
Looking forward to summer in Somerset later in the year :)
Is that last one the late night porno version?
I dunno, but the middle one looks like a young Susan Boyle.
http://www.oldtechnology.net/images/gecc2115.jpg
After that we got this GEC in 82. It was rock steady, no buzzing and had a great picture. I know there was a model with remote control as an optional extra, ours did not have that. We kept it till 98 and then gave it to a family friend. It out lived the set we replaced it with.
http://www.tvfilmprops.co.uk/userdata/PRODPIC-2018.jpg
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I myself brought a Pye StudioColour 20' model from the early 1980's in about 1993. Set it up in my bedroom with a bent coat hanger as an ariel. It was a plastic wood finish job. No remote just basic controls with 12 channel presets. It cost £60 and was a refurbished ex-rental set from Granada. Remember getting up in the mornings and watching The Big Breakfast on C4. Used my Speccy and Mega Drive on it, I even brought an old Sanyo Betamax machine with a shedload of tapes for £5 from a family friend and used that on it too. The old Pye set never went wrong but can't remember what happened to it.
I was watching an ep of minder with my Dad over the summer on Youtube. Terry kept saying "I engh stayin in an aarrghse wiv an iron" I had to look up what an Iron was. It turns out "Iron hoof".
I do have 'Tales of the Gold Monkey' on DVD, as I never got to see it when it was broadcast as it was on Cubs night. Same with the 'Blue Thunder' TV series - never seen an episode of that, either.
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Yep! That one screened here in New Zealand - so I guess that would qualify as outside of the British Isles... :P
Very memorable...
I was never allowed to watch it as it 'for grown ups only' :D
Yep Sunday dinner time is when I remember watching it, there was loads of crap shows shown then but the worst has to be CHiPs.
One thing that I do remember is around 1982,83 on a friday night Channel 4 would show cheers a funny well written and acted comedy and ITV's answer on the other side was 'That's my boy' possibly the worst tv show ever made apart from 'mixed blessings' (a man "the same one from that's my boy" had a girlfriend.....ooooh and the funny bit is......she is black ) :-O
That's my boy
Mixed blessing
can't find that on you tube???