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Sir David Frost has died

(September 2013)

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Markymark
Yes, concorde didn't enter service until 1976. However, Sir David did use Concorde frequently and was very vocal against it's withdrawal back in 2003.


Yes, I think he was on its last ever flight back from JFK ?
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Whataday Founding member
Exactly - it rated really well too - 5.5m, certainly far above ITV's expectations considering only one break contained any ads.


I would've thought the lack of ads was so they could cram more into X Factor?
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Steve Williams
Frost on Sundays, never started until September 1986, I was able to found that out in seconds......

He did co present the "The Sunday Programme" which run from 1985 until early 86, which it was replaced by jonathan Dimbleby on Sunday which went out from march - September 1986.


Well, it is true that Frost was on TVam on Sundays for most of its life, from 1983 to 1992, albeit not always billed as Frost on Sunday. My TV Times back issues have him presenting on Sunday mornings from the middle of 1983, after he moved off weekdays, but he only did it for six months of the year. At that point it was still billed as Good Morning Britain seven days a week but Frost's Sunday show was very much the format it had for the next two decades, so it's certainly not incorrect to say his Sunday show ran for virtually TVam's entire life, whatever it was called.

As the fantastic Morning Glory by Ian Jones points out, he alternated with Jonathan Dimbleby from the beginning of 1985, with the Frost on Sunday brand being introduced around that time, but it was only a rebranding, certainly not a new show. In the six months of the year he wasn't on, there were various other strands of a similar ilk, some better than others. At the beginning of 1989 there was TVam Reports with Adam Boulton but the ratings plummeted and Bruce Gyngell personally asked Anne Diamond to come back in its place.

Morning Glory points out that in September 1990, while the franchise bids were being made, Frost on Sunday came back for its longest ever run - thirty weeks - and was also shown on BSB. Of course Frost had a presence on BSB anyway, presenting their big opening night show and starring in their adverts. I don't know if it was ever shown on Sky News in this form.

But although his last show on TVam was indeed on Sunday 27th December 1992, that was his first appearance on the station for six months. His last proper programme was back in June, then for the summer they didn't have any live show on a Sunday, it was all repeats and imports while they were winding down. As the Radio Times points out, Maya Even, who was Frost's replacement in previous years, then did Even On Sunday from September, though only for an hour, 8-9am, while Frost had done a full ninety minutes. The RT does not bill this on Sky News. That lasted until the penultimate week before Frost came back for one last show. Then a week later he was on the Beeb, of course, which was shown an hour later on Sky News. Don't know when that stopped.
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A former member
I had a good pock around and what is very strange is on few Sundays in October 1984,

07.25 GMB with Frost
07.45 Rub a dub- For the young
08.45 GMB
09.05 Frost interview

By 1985 It was 7am start then Frost would disappear from 07.10- 08.30. Good morning Britain Sunday shows was renamed as the The Sunday programme during the summer of 1985 and that is when the format of one hour show come in to operation,
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kernow
Tribute show to be shown on ITV on 16th September:

http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-37612
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Inspector Sands
Tribute show to be shown on ITV on 16th September:

http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-37612

I notice that Al Jazeera English has a half hour best of programme scheduled for 8pm on Friday. This is the usual Frost slot but I don't know if there was to have been a full hour episode this week
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RDJ
Frost paid tribute to at the end of tonight's Through the Keyhole.
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kernow
I don't know if this has happened before, but when the Frost Interview was shown yesterday evening on Al Jazeera, it was introduced by the presenter, Felicity Barr, as "The Frost Report "
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Aquasetia
I have just been reminded of some audio I once heard on a flight.
It was a "political speech", read by Frost that said absolutely nothing, and was brilliant.
I would love to hear that again.

If my time-warped brain remembers, it started "Ladies and Gentlemen, I feel it is time for me to speak out. For I believe, as many believe,..."

Edited as I found it was called "All Purpose Political Speech" and was from an old US vinyl record.
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fanoftv
I've just caught up on the itv programme. What a well constructed & touching programme it was. It contained
a lot of detail that I didn't know about, especially regarding the JFK memorial show, his 8 live daily shows in a 7 day week, and Greg Dyke coming in to TVam, telling him that he would no longer be hosting weekdays.

It showed what a great individual & unique all round television personality he was over his many years of pioneering broadcasting.

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