BBC Election Replay - 1970 and 1974

It looks liekt he Brekfast portion of the programme was missing again- anyone know why that wasn't taped? The Breakfast portion was there on the 79 election last year, not on the 1997 one though (presumeably that was becuase it would have been Breakfast News and wouldn't all have been related to the election). I wonder if we'll see breakfast time next week though.

Might be of interest re. 74 election on TV - www.selectedworks.co.uk/television1974.html

Are BBC parliament showing coverage of any more elections soon?

They're showing 1983 next Friday. That's all for the moment ...

It doesn't appear on the BBC or Digiguide schedules at the moment

Why didn't BBC Parliament show the second 1974 election rather than the 1983 one (assuming its on Friday, as its not on Digiguide)

There was a Breakfast News in 1997 - and it was produced by a substantially different production team - and had a number of quite long regional opts for the first regional election results programmes (ISTR that BBC East split entirely for these - less than 6 months after the sub-opt in Cambridge had launched!)

Breakfast News did mainly cover the election, and used the same studio set (the weather people looked huge in the video wall!) - though not exclusively - so was presumably not included in the repeat as it was technically a different show - and the regional bits may have been a bit confusing.

I'm wondering if we'll se the 1983 Brekafast show. Though does anyone know why the brekafast portion was not recorded in 1970 and 74?

Well there was no Breakfast TV service on the BBC prior to 1983 when Breakfast Time launched - so if there was an Election programme between 0600 and 0900 I would have imagined it would have been produced by the same team... Is there any possibility that the programme might actually have come off-air for a period in the early morning?

Both in 1970 and 1974 the programe came off air about 0430. THe period from 6-9 was produced by the Nationwide team and presented by Michael Barret. They used the Election set but had their own production team.

Incidently this was the same in 1979, with Sue Lawley presenting, but was shown during the repeat last year

Presumably the brekfast show was recorded in 79, but wasn't in 70 and 74

Watching the one the other week - they finished at '4.50am', ran a long credits sequence and faded to black before carrying on with the '6am' programme. Would there have been a closedown sequence in-between with anno/globe/clock? Or would that have been one of the rare occasions BBC1 wouldn't have had an announcement with it being so late?