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Tonight’s Southern TV… in 1968
18 August 2014 tbs.pm/5418
From the TVTimes for Sunday 18 August 1968 comes this run down of what you could be watching on Southern. Things worth noting:
- This schedule is a figment of your imagination. ITV was out on strike nationwide by this point.
- But, hey, Bernard Bresslaw in Tickertape at 5.30pm and Hattie Jacques in Heyday Theatre at 6.15pm would’ve been worth seeing
- All Our Yesterdays is looking at 1943, well within the memories of most viewers. Its modern equivalent would be looking back to 1989 now
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Dave Rhodes wrote 18 August 2014 at 5:33 pm
You may well have got to see Heyday Theatre on the national emergency service – it appears in The Times listings. Rain on the Leaves, Choirs, The Auction Game and All Our Yesterdays were also scheduled by the boys and girls at Foley Street.
‘Rain’ was a rarity as a Granada entry in the Godslot – not too well received by reviewers I’ve read, but like LWT’s ‘Roundhouse’, one of those experiments I wouldn’t mind a look at.
‘Network production’ is stretching a point for Farm Progress, but it was shown in a number of ITV regions over the years.
And finally, Stephen ‘Lifemanship’ Potter as a panel show guest sounds intriguing.
Arthur Nibble wrote 8 September 2014 at 10:47 pm
A quick reminder for everyone who knows this (i.e. I suspect the majority of learned people who scour this forum) that “Thingumybob” was London Weekend’s first attempt at a sitcom and, yes, its theme tune was composed by THAT Paul McCartney (worse then “Silly Love Songs”, infinitely better than The Frog Chorus),
Alan Keeling wrote 10 June 2016 at 11:47 pm
In the 4.25 slot, “The Wild Wild West” episode was from the series’ first season (1965/66) filmed in monochrome. Robert Conrad & Ross Martin starred as a couple of government agents in this tongue-in-cheek series that was similar in vein to the style of “The Avengers”. From season 2, the series was filmed in colour.
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