P.S. Interesting in last nights documentary how Film on Four / FilmFour / Film4 basically came about because C4 didn't have any rights to films when they launched so had to make their own.
From someone who missed the Brookside reruns on UK Living in the mid 1990s, it would be excellent to see the series repeated from the start - but I would hope that if Channel 4 accidentally wiped some of the episodes as reported earlier this year, that Lime Pictures would still have the masters to enable the entire series to be re-run.
Nice to see the Film on Four ident just now into "Walter".
As someone else said, the credits were like those 'Independent Television' slides you see from the 1970s ITV strikes. Maybe the blue was the default on Mersey TV's graphics machine!
Could they move any slower do you think? It's like going from one extreme to the other.
Credits already ran rediculously "slow" up until the 90s - but then the Falklands War put an end to them. No seriously, the amount of constant news updates meant programmes shortened their end credits so they would keep the viewers for the news update and still get the ads in as well.
The Falklands war actually happened before C4 launched (April to June 82) !
I didn't mind the slow speed of the credits, you could actually read them properly, and absorb the information, something you're not permitted to do today. Someone transport me back to 1982, or better still 1973 please !
Yes - t'was amazing how slow those Brookie credits moved, you would never, ever get anything remotely as lengthy as that today; and even if it did go on for a bit of a while, great to see all the same.
If you watch old (1970s) episodes of Coronation Street, the titles often ran every bit as slowly as they did on Brookside just now.
The only thing missing from these programnmes are, with all due respect to the contemporary announcer, the original announcements and the break captions / FourScore from the first night.
Would Countdown then be the longest running programme ever to air on the launch night of a British television channel, with the exception of news of course.
Having said that, I think Channel 4 News is probably the only bulletin to have kept it's launch night slot for such a time.
Well done for removing the DOG. However, very insensitive choice of sponsor in Digital UK - just as we celebrate when C4 was good, there is this blunt reminder of how TV is about to get worse.
I'm sorry? Digital TV is worse than terrestrial? I appreciate that you have very old fasioned views, but that is ridiculous.
