[Stooky Bill]

You'll notice there's a news bulletin for the South East - there were usually separate bulletins for the South and South East on Mondays to Thursdays, both coming from the Northam studios.

The SE bulletin was usually pre-recorded while the South bulletin was live, though it appears to be the reverse here. Scene South East on Fridays also included a pre-recorded bulletin from Northam.

That one could well have been recorded too, certainly Sarah's look to the right when she introduces it looks a bit odd. The wide shot at the beginning is framed so to hide the 'South' or ' South East'


Regional news magazines from that era are a whole different world to what we're used to today. Can you imagine a presenter of Meridian Tonight opening the programme talking about their holiday and sun tan?

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He uploaded that same episode of Saturday Banana, IIRC - but in a lower quality (VHS runoff, possibly)? Nic certainly knows the archive as he has been involved in researching the necessary clearances for e.g. the Old School Weekend on CITV.

I did wonder if it was a bit of a stalking horse situation - if anyone is going to stand up and prove ownership of this, they'll have to do so through legal channels which may then provide a line of enquiry.

Although my understanding is that, like in a lot of the franchise changes, the regional news archive was sold/transferred on to the successor. So the ownership of Day by Day might not be that contentious, assuming it was episodes and not just stock shots, packages etc