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Sorry to be late coming back to this. No, I don't get issue on all wordpress.com sites - my own (very sparsely populated!) blog loads absolutely fine, for example.

Having looked in greater detail, I suspect the problem is that my Plusnet broadband is filtering it for pornography, and presumably the page that Plusnet is firing up to show the 'block' isn't the same certificate (is that how it works? it is an https:// page) so Safari isn't allowing that page to be shown (although Chrome does show the 'block' page).

It's a shame as it's a great site and I wonder if other people are having problems with it, too.

One of the earliest examples of Channel 4 continuity from Horseferry Road, (one week after the move, to be precise), you can tell at this point, because although the 1982 idents were in their final years of use, the video quality looks much sharper compared to their last few days at Charlotte Street.

Seeing the Banana Splits in that video reminds me of the fact I saw a DVD for a Banana Splits slasher movie in Asda last week... which is one of the strangest things ever. Was anyone asking for that?

Seriously? Banana Splits slasher? Do I even want to know?

So you've got a programme menu for the Banana Splits and the Big Breakfast. What kind of music is going to hold the attention of the waiting audience for those two programmes and prevent them switching over to GMTV? Classical???

The BBC finally realised that one

Or, on this occasion, a Frank Mills classic...

It's real... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Banana-Splits-Movie-DVD/dp/B07TZ4R8LW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1V6G81ESHCG0B&keywords=banana+splits+movie&qid=1582757256&sprefix=banana+spl%2Caps%2C174&sr=8-1

Rated 18. God knows what Hanna & Barbera would have thought...

I never knew they repeated the original Flashing Blade series in 1988, just a few months after On The Waterfront's spoof edit/overdub version had gone out. The previous showing was 1980 according to Genome.

Ooh. B-Rated Horror. Interesting.
Mind you Hanna & Barbera were behind Tom & Jerry which was probably far more violent than any real life production could ever be...

What's on the Tapes' recent episode contained extracts from the original BBC broadcast of the Fireman Sam episode, Norman's Tricky Day; the first of its kind to emerge:

Also, double post: CiTV continuity from August 2002, with a promo for the Autumn season of programmes beginning on September 2nd of that year, this seems to be a precursor to the CGI bouncing letter idents created by Stars and Heroes, from the blue and white background, to the sound design being almost exactly the same.

Strangely, however, they continued using the Spring 2002 ident until October, one month after the season began:

Here's a three minute promo for Discovery's then-new digital channels in 1998. One of them was a timeshift 'plus one hour' service of the main Discovery Channel, the first of its kind. It'll never catch on.

Use https://stretch.site to fix the aspect ratio.



And if you're wondering what became of the rest:

Civilisations > Knowledge > History
Home & Leisure > Real Time > Closed and replaced by TLC.
Sci-Trek (what did that actually mean?) > Science
Travel & Adventure > Travel & Living > Closed.