Life On Mars

Seeing as Red Bee/BBC Marketing's budget is bigger than that of some of the programmes, it's a poor effort. For starters there's gallons of that globe footage on Monty Python programmes, they could not have lifted it from there ?

It does annoy me when the 'near past' gets re-created without any reference to those who actually experienced it. LOM itself has many such holes too.

Have to agree with you there Ant, at least they bothered to do one.

ah but they might be intentional remember. There are a few things that are TOO obviously wrong such as the motorway.

Only coz I'm feeling nice

Simon is correct however, the England version is a real horrid mess of a mock. Not only does the reflection look terrible but the announcer's intonation is completely wrong. Wales got it perfect.


What did Scotland do out of interest? I managed to miss the whole episode last night (grr) so I also missed that.

Was there a subtitles indicator?

That's exactly what I'm thinking, I mean for goodness sake, cut BBC1 some slack they made an effort into making promos and even went back to the 70's, I can't imagine National ITV1 doing that.

Thats exactly what i thought! I mean do you think ITV would have brought back Tyne Tees, etc. if LOM had been on ITV1?

What are people getting so hot under the collar about?

Yes it was a reconstruction of the 1970s globe - but outside this forum who remembers that you couldn't see Antarctica on the original?

And finding a way of allowing the reflections to disappear convincingly at the edge was always going to be a challenge.

Taking the original from a tape and modifying it to fit a 16x9 image would have been a challenge. Running to black at the edges... added grain... lack of definition on a zoomed image. There was no perfect solution. Though personally I agree that Wales pulled it off better!

The important thing is it set the scene for the episode for the vast majority of viewers. I'm surprised the people who are moaning haven't also pointed out that by 1973 it was very unusual for the announcer to say: "This is BBC1 in Colour". That only lasted happened regularly in the early months of colour.

I can only assume most of the people who are hot under the collar weren't actually around in 1973!

Does anyone know if they repeat yesterday's Life On Mars??
My DVD recorder messed up last night

I reckon Dave Jeffery must've done one too, although I don't know for sure. I reckon his will knock people's socks off if it exists though.

Anyway, can we have a full size 1024x576 jpg of that BBC Wales globe please? I think part of it is recreated from what I've seen on YouTube, and I would like to see it properly so I can see the BBC logo properly.

Well spotted! The globe itself retains its last branding - the 1981 'double-line' lettering.

Whilst I'm at it, I've got a puicture from about 1973 which is of a control room in BBC Wales, and on one of the screens is something like the last image. Anybody got any information on it? I think there might have been pre-73 versions with a different legend too. I'd like to know how accurate my recreations are.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/deej_mulder/CYMRU_IDs_demo_01.jpg

They may have been using the LLIW COLOUR version of the diamonds in 1973 too. http://www.j-one.co.uk/mulder/presheaven/BBC%20Cymru%20Diamondscope_2.html (that's actually not the right version, but just so you get the idea).