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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Bluecortina - 27-12-2023

Once he put the costume on he was Dame Edna and Barry Humphries simply did not exist and no-one referred to him as Barry.

We were in the canteen one evening and Barry himself came into the canteen for his evening meal. He was joined by some of the production crew and he got a bit noisy and flamboyant. Being engineers sat nearby we just wanted to eat our meal in peace. Whilst Barry was in full flow I turned round and simply looked at him. Our eyes met and I instantly knew I'd made a big big mistake and waited for the inevitable invective. It didn't come and I think he got the message and calmed it down.

I still break out in a sweat when I think about it after all these years.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Stooky Bill - 27-12-2023

I wonder if they warned Thames what they were starting with. I can't imagine Tom not taking that opportunity so either he had no idea or he deliberately played it down.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Steve in Pudsey - 27-12-2023

There was an era when at Christmas the two pres departments would have a phone call and exchange details of their respective announcers, so they could do a handover like

That's all from Thames for this week, so to continue the Christmas entertainment we'll say Merry Christmas to Peter Lewis and our colleagues at LWT.

(Picture roll)

Thank you Philip and Merry Christmas to everyone at Thames.

I guess it was only done occasionally because LWT liked to start with a bit more energy?

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Stooky Bill - 27-12-2023

The story of what happened to the UK version of Nick at Nite

https://regularcapital-audiovisual-research.fandom.com/wiki/Why_Nick_At_Nite_UK_Didn%27t_Launch_In_1994%3F 

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Neil Jones - 28-12-2023

In what turned out to be a very rare event, the last person to complete Raven's The Way of the Warrior, well ever basically:
https://youtu.be/mbO8VuK-BM8?si=5t7VrtZio9Sc6elD&t=1260 
(from 21mins in)

Have been binging Raven off and on for a while on YouTube, as some people have shoved a good chunk of it up there. Effectively Knightmare in a knockout format (and totally real, as opposed to the blue screen used on Knightmare due to being a studio production), UKGameshows decided by Series 3 Raven was one of the best gameshows they had ever seen, and it ultimately ran for 10 series in its original guise (early instalment weirdness not withstanding).

I've always liked the soundtrack to Raven..

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Stooky Bill - 31-12-2023

On the last day of 2023 here's a 6 part look back at some of the best and worst TV moments of the year
Part 1 here
https://youtu.be/Do2zkHnNvDg?si=l6T0yxKdO1x-Zkqu 

The rest on this playlist
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNEYxe48ejQqvzDvKA6z5sCYO7R2AHt2-&si=ff17rW6j4vwqsp4S 

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Milkshake - 31-12-2023

As its Hogmanay here are some past programmes:

STV 1978
https://x.com/STVFootageSales/status/1344704878292172803?s=20 

STV 1980
https://x.com/STVFootageSales/status/1476228208144044033?s=20 

Grampian 83
https://x.com/STVFootageSales/status/1609238276048838657?s=20 

Grampian 84:
https://x.com/STVFootageSales/status/1344735075204624384?s=20 

STV 89-90
https://x.com/STVFootageSales/status/1609285766525370368?s=20 

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Stooky Bill - 31-12-2023

The evenings programmes for New Years Eve 1977 on BBC1

https://youtu.be/khUpBJixsNg?si=qvcS6_MUwemC8VzN 

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Milkshake - 31-12-2023

(31-12-2023, 10:16 PM)Stooky Bill Wrote:  The evenings programmes for New Years Eve 1977 on BBC1

https://youtu.be/khUpBJixsNg?si=qvcS6_MUwemC8VzN 

Alas that is not 1977, it is in fact the following year at 1978.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - lookoutwales - 31-12-2023

And with the time at two minutes past overtime (I think), the BBC2 network control team get their moment in the sun at closedown (props to Neil for all his uploads throughout December)

Despite what announcer Robin Whitting notes about making it a tradition, no, they didn’t do it again the following year…

https://youtu.be/1M20STrEF2E?si=cextcdw-noKXHPqz 

Happy New Year!

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