SC
Yes, I have to confess to being an S&D fan. Though the episodes we are seeing now are not a patch on the glory days of the 1983 and 1984 seasons.
As for a re-run of The Young Doctors, someone from the S&D newslist contacted Five earlier in the year and their reply was that they have no plans to show this, or any other, Aussie soap after S&D finishes. A great pity.
As for a re-run of The Young Doctors, someone from the S&D newslist contacted Five earlier in the year and their reply was that they have no plans to show this, or any other, Aussie soap after S&D finishes. A great pity.
FL
Interestingly Five edit the show, despite the fact ITV showed it uncut at 3pm before CITV!
Ironic as ITV edited Home & Away to shreds but Five (for the most part) leave that intact at tea-time!
Must try and catch some S&D.
Interestinly Rowenna (I think) has been done for fraud or something recently... I only really remember her as June (Don Fisher's bird) in Home & Away.
Ironic as ITV edited Home & Away to shreds but Five (for the most part) leave that intact at tea-time!
Must try and catch some S&D.
Interestinly Rowenna (I think) has been done for fraud or something recently... I only really remember her as June (Don Fisher's bird) in Home & Away.
GO
Im so chuffed some people actually like my bits. lol
Sad but i even laughed at the last v/o i did... I know, Im sorry
Glen
Sad but i even laughed at the last v/o i did... I know, Im sorry
Glen
CW
cwathen
Founding member
I watched SAD when C5 started it in the afternoons in 1998, and carried on when they started showing it in the late night slot, but then stopped some time around mid-2003. Don't really know why either.
Cheap fillers like SAD (it may be a great programme, but lets not kid ourselves that C5 see it as anything else) are not usually edited by the channel themselves, but by the distributers. Since it was originally shown in the early afternoon, they may have requested a version suitable for daytime transmission, even though they show it in the middle of the night. Sunset Beach continues to be edited for the same reason.
Alternatively, there may be versions edited for time (similar to syndication versions of network shows in the USA) which C5 have requested so that they can two episodes to fit into a 45 minute timeslot. Prisoner use to be edited for this reason - each episode should have run for 44 minutes, yet frequently C5 showed episodes which only ran for 40 minutes, so that they could schedule it for 45 minutes and fit commercials and trailers in.
I actually think it extremely LIKELY that Prisoner WILL come back. When that great epic finished in 2001, C5 originally extended their late night sport to cover it's space. Only 9 months later, they backtracked from this and scheduled S&D as a double bill, in exactly the same timeslot, and indeed have now caused the sport to receed further, by putting Sunset Beach back into a late slot after they cancelled it from daytime.
Whilst it's true that they may just double up Sunset Beach, I think it equally likely that Prisoner will be rerun - it's got to be cheaper, and so far it's been the most succesful late night soap C5 have had - S&D can't sell advertising, SSB sells next to none, whilst Prisoner almost always managed to sell enough advertising to justify 2 internal commercial breaks and usually another one after/before the programme.
Whether or not they'll succesfully complete another airing of it (which AFAIK, no one except Tyne Tees ever has) remains to be seen, but I firmly believe that Prisoner will be back on C5 one day.
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Interestingly Five edit the show, despite the fact ITV showed it uncut at 3pm before CITV!
Cheap fillers like SAD (it may be a great programme, but lets not kid ourselves that C5 see it as anything else) are not usually edited by the channel themselves, but by the distributers. Since it was originally shown in the early afternoon, they may have requested a version suitable for daytime transmission, even though they show it in the middle of the night. Sunset Beach continues to be edited for the same reason.
Alternatively, there may be versions edited for time (similar to syndication versions of network shows in the USA) which C5 have requested so that they can two episodes to fit into a 45 minute timeslot. Prisoner use to be edited for this reason - each episode should have run for 44 minutes, yet frequently C5 showed episodes which only ran for 40 minutes, so that they could schedule it for 45 minutes and fit commercials and trailers in.
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I'd love Five to rerun Prisoner once S&D's finishes, but as they've already shown the series once, this is unlikely
I actually think it extremely LIKELY that Prisoner WILL come back. When that great epic finished in 2001, C5 originally extended their late night sport to cover it's space. Only 9 months later, they backtracked from this and scheduled S&D as a double bill, in exactly the same timeslot, and indeed have now caused the sport to receed further, by putting Sunset Beach back into a late slot after they cancelled it from daytime.
Whilst it's true that they may just double up Sunset Beach, I think it equally likely that Prisoner will be rerun - it's got to be cheaper, and so far it's been the most succesful late night soap C5 have had - S&D can't sell advertising, SSB sells next to none, whilst Prisoner almost always managed to sell enough advertising to justify 2 internal commercial breaks and usually another one after/before the programme.
Whether or not they'll succesfully complete another airing of it (which AFAIK, no one except Tyne Tees ever has) remains to be seen, but I firmly believe that Prisoner will be back on C5 one day.
JE
Jez
Founding member
I saw some of the later episodes of Sons and Daughters on ITV in the early 1990s (think HTV finished the run in 1991), and on UK Gold from around the time Patricia left until the end. I also watched what Channel 5 showed in 1998 at lunchtimes.
I wish they would repeat it from the start at a decent time so I could see the whole series.
I wish they would repeat it from the start at a decent time so I could see the whole series.
CW
They did - they started from episode 1 in 1998. And when they rescheduled it in the late night slot they carried on from exactly where they left off. So if you watched it in 98 and are watching it now, you are seeing the whole series.
cwathen
Founding member
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I wish they would repeat it from the start at a decent time so I could see the whole series.
They did - they started from episode 1 in 1998. And when they rescheduled it in the late night slot they carried on from exactly where they left off. So if you watched it in 98 and are watching it now, you are seeing the whole series.
JE
They did - they started from episode 1 in 1998. And when they rescheduled it in the late night slot they carried on from exactly where they left off. So if you watched it in 98 and are watching it now, you are seeing the whole series.
Yes but im not, I didnt bother going back to it in 2002 due to the stupid timeslot. Same with Sunset Beach.
Jez
Founding member
cwathen posted:
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I wish they would repeat it from the start at a decent time so I could see the whole series.
They did - they started from episode 1 in 1998. And when they rescheduled it in the late night slot they carried on from exactly where they left off. So if you watched it in 98 and are watching it now, you are seeing the whole series.
Yes but im not, I didnt bother going back to it in 2002 due to the stupid timeslot. Same with Sunset Beach.