Looks like I was suggesting what they actually plan to do!
Surely this is a very cheap way of filling the schedule?
Cheap in terms of cost, and cheap in terms of quality.
I can understand showing one election night for historical purposes, but to show all of them in a series?
Surely this is something which should be on UK Gold?
Are you joking?!
Why on earth should a long political show be on UK Gold - which is a comedy and entertainment network - with no current affairs or news output at all?! UK Gold is a commercial channel - I can't see many advertisers buying slots in a 5 hour repeat of a 33 year old election... However BBC Parliament is not a commercial operation - and doesn't have the same limitations. (If it were to be shown on any UK TV channel I would imagine UK Horizons would be its natural home?)
The 1997 and 1979 election repeats were a really refreshing change - it is the kind of thing that you never see repeated in real time - a real chance to re-visit history being made. It is also great to see how TV has evolved over the years.
I think 1970 was the first UK General Election televised after BBC One went colour in 1969 (BBC Two launched a proper colour service in the UK in 1967) Whether the election was covered in colour, B&W or a mixture I don't know - so it will be interesting to see. (Certainly some regions were not colour by 1970)
Yes - the programmes are probably quite cheap to repeat - after all BBC Parliament is a low cost digital-only channel. However if a suitable gap appears in its schedule to repeat a previously unshown Election programme - then I see no reason not to. It will certainly prove educational, and a public service, for all manner of reasons.
Could they not make a BBC comedy show out of a story where two likely individiduals spend all day trying to avoid hearing the result from the broadcast of the show from the night before until they finally settle down on the couch to watch the videotape recording of it at their leisure, only to dsicover that despite setting the timer correctly, somebody forgot to actually put the cassette in the machine?
Maybe such a sitcom script will appear one day on The Larry Scutta Show. :+) :+) :+)
Anyone watching this? Amazing how much of a difference 33 years can make!
Bit of a tape problem coming up every so often - I thought it was just poor production standards but seems to be just the wear of time! Lots of black slides giving results, "COMPUTER PREDICTS" astons and going into outside broadcasts the camera moves up above the presenters and set into some blue screen which is showing the OB. Quite surreal.
"Our rivals and commentators at ITV have gone home from Trafalgar Square but we'll continue along with the revilers here".
"If you're thinking of joining Independent Television, they've gone to bed!" Meow!
Bloody BBC PARLIAMENT bug though. You'd have done better to stick with BBC ONE this afternoon, they showed the christmas 1986 episode of EastEnders (good old Arthur Fowler!) complete with uninterrupted 90-second end credits! That's what telly ought to be like!
Anyone watching this? Amazing how much of a difference 33 years can make!
Bit of a tape problem coming up every so often - I thought it was just poor production standards but seems to be just the wear of time! Lots of black slides giving results, "COMPUTER PREDICTS" astons and going into outside broadcasts the camera moves up above the presenters and set into some blue screen which is showing the OB. Quite surreal.
The cuts between the modern colour studio and the older B&W studios and OBs is quite jarring, although videotape can make sync faults look worse than they were when live
especially with ageing VT. Though I find the programme exceptionally good, in both quality and completeness, especially considering this is from an era when VT was often wiped.
