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It's from one of the Gotchas compilation repeats. After the time that the Oscars threatened to sue the BBC for using the name and their award design.
Therefore it was renamed to just 'Gotcha', the award was re-designed and the BBC edited out all mentions in future broadcasts to err on the side of caution.

Thats because it is, House party got told off for using the "OSCAR " names, No one at Oscar clicked during Saturday roadshow or the first series of House party.

The Gloria Hunniford gotcha was probably inspired by a prank that Noel himself was the victim of


http://www.orbem.co.uk/cons/consd_2.htm

I'm more impressed that Gloria cued her own records!

Gloria was the very first person to get a Gotchas. Also all DJ back in the day had to do that, and also mix them in.

TVS adverts and junction, Monday 7 April 1986:



Everything in this video is good - but what stands out for me most is the first 40 seconds or so of the new series of University Challenge.

This, of course, was the penultimate series of the Bamber Era, and the first to feature the unpopular 'Pass the Baton' format. It was also the only series in which the teams really did sit one above the other, although the split-screen effect was still used as the upper team (so to speak) sat behind the lower team as well as above them.

Dailymotion has the second half of a match from this series - the weekly final between Queen's Belfast and Imperial, which aired (in most regions, anyway) on Friday 9 May '86. (I hardly need to say that the 1985 copyright date indicates that there was a fair amount of time between production and broadcast...)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3y5ae_university-challenge-1985-part-1_shortfilms
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3y5nf_university-challenge-1985-part-2_shortfilms
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3y6lh_university-challenge-1985-part-3_shortfilms

Disappointingly, it appears that the only clip anywhere of the batons in action is the short one from the 40 Years/Story So Far documentary, with the top and bottom chopped off and Caroline Quentin's narration drowning out the other sounds. (I don't dislike her, mind, but you know what I mean.)

Indeed, there aren't all that many clips from the entire Bamber Era on the Internet. Obviously, most episodes from the '60s and '70s have been wiped - but one would think that there'd be a few more clips from the '80s. They'd certainly make a refreshing change from new episodes going up on YouTube almost as soon as they are broadcast...

This series went out at 3pm and was fully network, the trouble started in October 83 when LWT and Thames both refused to broadcast the series. Last series went out in the summer 1987 at 11am.

According to the Kaleidoscope search engine, the entire show is missing from 1962 to 1971 bar a handful of episodes and, for some reason, the Christmas 1975 special is gone too.

This is more curious when you consider Granada, which originally made the show, otherwise had a fairly good archival record compared to the other ITV companies. Granada, it is or was claimed, had a full set of Coronation Street episodes going back to 1960.

According to Sean Blanchflower's site, the '87 series began on Monday 13 July and ended on Friday 4 September, just before the new ITV daytime schedule began:

http://www.blanchflower.org/uc/uc87.html

The aforementioned 40 Years/Story So Far documentary features the closing moments of the final of this series: "It's goodbye now from our new champions Keble, and from me, until, may we hope, another series sometime in the future. But that's the end of this one." As Mr Blanchflower points out, though, it wasn't *quite* the end of the Bamber Era, with Keble taking on New Zealand champions Otago in those three special episodes at the end of '87.

And from 4 September, here's Jon Snow presenting the short-lived News at 12:30, preceded by the 1982 TVS still ident (a new look was just around the corner, of course).

That was actually a standard receive-only teleprinter of the time, with a camera pointed at it. That's how it was done until the videprinter came along in the early 80s. 1983 if memory serves.

I don't know why you say 'back in the day' as most music radio is still self op now, albeit with very different technology.


I don't know how much the DJ will have done back then and how much the studio manager or engineer was controlling. I remember reading that at Capital there was a secondary control room where the levels coming from the DJ could be adjusted and they also dealt with adverts and outside sources. There was an added level of technical control.

I think Radio 2 finally lost its studio managers in the last couple of years through DQF. I remember Simon Mayo saying that he was having to do more as the DJs were taking on some of their role

Because music-based radio is very different now. Everything's off computer, nothing needs to be cued up, they play in songs off of either a humanly selected playlist, or a computer generated one.

The DJs used to handle things like the records/CDs and the carts, whilst studio managers oversaw the levels and would bring in other studios such as the news studio, and telephone calls, which would be piped through to the DJ.