40th anniversary of the ITV strike

Quatermass, which also started on that opening night back, had been planned for September, and was filmed in late 1978.

As for 3-2-1, Wikipedia says that it's second series aired from 24 October 1979 to 5 April 1980, but only had 14 episodes. That doesn't add up - it would only take them to 23 January, based on one episode airing each week. So clearly they didn't burn that off as post-strike filler, and actually stopped airing it for a couple of months at some point mid-run.

3-2-1 aired on the first night back and then it moved to a Friday from Friday 2nd November 1979 in the 7.30pm slot according to the first TV Times issue for the first full week back on air. By April 1980 it was moved to Saturday nights it seems, so it does seem the show was bounced around the schedules a bit for the 1979-1980 series.

There might have repeated the 1st series?

5th April was Easter Saturday, so whoever added that to Wikipedia has probably included an Easter special as part of the series.

There probably wasn't that much stockpiling going on. By mid-August when the strike began they would have already had most of the programmes ready for the autumn season to begin in early September.

And just like that, a list of progammes that were stock piled has appeared!

ITV has been giving details of some of the shows that have been on the shelf since the strike began - and some which are waiting to be completed.

— ITV on strike (@ITVonstrike) October 21, 2019

Family Feud... interesting that they initially planned to keep the American name.

I think it was Bob Monkhouse who wasn't that keen on that name and persuaded the producers to change it

Family Fortunes always made much more sense to me. Feud never made sense.

Yes, I'd heard similar in that he felt the word "Feud" was too confrontational and wasn't reflective of a family game show. This was ATV's big carrot to dangle in front of him as compensation of sorts for axing both The Golden Shot a few years previously and Celebrity Squares earlier that year, and after they way Francis Essex treated him over the then-controversial 'Wilkinson Sword incident' they didn't want to lose him to the BBC.

Interesting that ITV made it very clear that the return schedule for ITV on Wednesday 24th October 1979 and after that date was to have new programmes and not based on repeats or old films.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHfTW2dX0AAGbnG?format=png&name=900x900

Just one more day and ITV returned to air in 1979 - I can not find anywhere where a television network was off air for 11 weeks on industrial action - that must have been a record for any television station in the world surely?

Family Feud, because it featured two families playing against each other, was a reference to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_feuds_in_the_United_States