11-07-2023, 10:10 PM
I think "live" at 10pm on a Sunday night for a sitcom was pretty much not going to happen. We have had late night live TV in various guises at that time granted, but a sitcom seems a bit far fetched to be honest.
No I think what it boils down to is somebody lined up the wrong edit of the episode (or it was labelled wrongly on the tape as a broadcast master) for some reason, that went out, that screwed presentation up and resulted in what actually happened on air.
Probably never know 40 years later what the problem actually was - genuine error, human error (wrong label?), some other error? Who knows after all that time. Could have been the cleaning personnel at the controls for all we know.
No I think what it boils down to is somebody lined up the wrong edit of the episode (or it was labelled wrongly on the tape as a broadcast master) for some reason, that went out, that screwed presentation up and resulted in what actually happened on air.
Probably never know 40 years later what the problem actually was - genuine error, human error (wrong label?), some other error? Who knows after all that time. Could have been the cleaning personnel at the controls for all we know.