63 Up

Yes it is. I quite like it ( just saying)

It's terrifying! It's a nice touch that the old theme has stayed with the show for so long, though.

I watched last night's programme.

Refreshing to see no 21st Century gimmicks, straightforward format that hasn't changed in 55 years, and assumes the viewer has an attention span longer than 30 seconds.

Good to see native 4:3 footage presented as pillar-box with black bars.

It looked as if some the old 70s/80s footage had been re-TK'd into native HD ?

Or did I dream the whole programme !?

63 years? It didn't start when they were born!

EDIT: And you've already corrected it.

Just making sure you're paying attention !

I did find last night's film the hardest to follow because they were telling the story of two people at once, cutting back and forth. But as has been said, well done for crediting the audience with more concentration skills than I clearly have.

It was a bit odd, but I suppose because the two of them are in relatively regular contact, it made sense to do that.

Yes - the 16mm colour film had clearly been retransferred in higher quality (HD or better). There was one series that looked liked it may have been shot with a dodgy SD 25p video 'film effect' that didn't hold up compared to the recent HD stuff and the retransferred film stuff.

Although it has to be said, in previous years it was often easier to date the footage by how grainy it was.

We were totally confused and had to rewind and review some of that part to make sense of it. At one point I thought it was one chap with 11 children!

Ah, I thought World in Action only had the one theme tune. Thank you.

Here's the original World In Action 7 Up where you can hear the closing theme being used.