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As it was 1974, when not many people had VCRs, and only broadcast in one city (as it was a local news show), it's very unlikely there was ever any recording made other than the studio master. Not like when Budd Dwyer shot himself on live TV 13 years later.

That's not entirely true, it was always known about, he sold it to Life magazine at the time, and they published some frames from it (though not the impact one). It didn't air on TV until years later though.

Early plasma screens were seemingly just a bit dangerous!

Sorry for the double post, but here's an incredible audio error from UKTV G2

Almost sounds deliberate to me.

Sounds like a skipping minidisc or similar

WHO wanted the series version of the beat the teacher theme tune???

"It's on TV but I lick it"- is that connected to Andi Peters in the post above?

I remember that Andi Peters clip from an ITV show called TV Nightmares , around 1998-9ish - actually a show more interesting than your usual "naughtiest blunders" stuff, as it had clips from various ITV/LNN Christmas tapes that were slightly more interesting than your usual falling over/swearing material (Anna Maria Ashe thinking she's recording a London Tonight rehearsal and signing off in a bizarre jokey way, not realising she's actually live) and had some genuinely unsettling clips along with the laughs too, like a reporter covered in blood sombrely explaining to the camera that a planned interview with someone had gone horribly wrong when they attacked back. Think they made a few of them over the next couple of years but I've got the first one on tape somewhere.

I've seen that clip before, she also mutters "god" under her breath after reading out one of the stories coming up on a later bulletin. The sign-off was something like "goodbye, lots of love, miss you" while blowing kisses at the camera. Probably got in a lot of trouble for that!

I mostly remember it because it was up on YouTube amongst another clip from presumably the same LNN christmas tape, where a Richard Littlejohn talk show was interrupted by porn from RTL (which presumably someone in engineering was watching!).

That clip is priceless, it cuts to a slide for Littlejohn and Peter Lewis was duty announcer sounding really shocked, not seen it online for a while now.

I'm sure the same tape features Mary Nightingale referring to Mr Keith Hunt as another word rhyming with hunt.

This clip. Its still on line and is pure gold.