Primary school spring term 1981 (a Friday morning in February). We were watching a schools programme on BBC2 that Friday morning - one which should have been on BBC1 the first week of term but for some reason didn't get shown - hence its rescheduling on BBC2.
Do you have any idea what the programme was or why it wasn't shown on B1?
Are you for real? Why on earth are you encouraging this tedious man?
Primary school spring term 1981 (a Friday morning in February). We were watching a schools programme on BBC2 that Friday morning - one which should have been on BBC1 the first week of term but for some reason didn't get shown - hence its rescheduling on BBC2.
Do you have any idea what the programme was or why it wasn't shown on B1?
Are you for real? Why on earth are you encouraging this tedious man?
Primary school spring term 1981 (a Friday morning in February). We were watching a schools programme on BBC2 that Friday morning - one which should have been on BBC1 the first week of term but for some reason didn't get shown - hence its rescheduling on BBC2.
Do you have any idea what the programme was or why it wasn't shown on B1?
For your information, the programme was
Merry Go Round
. The first six weeks of spring term 1981, it was about The Odyessey.
The first Thursday morning of that term, they were supposed to be showing programme 1 - The Wooden Horse. For reasons best known to Auntie (and probably long forgotten by them), that wasn't shown, instead they showed programme 2 - The Cyclops. Your guess is as good as mine as to why that boo-boo occurred. The second Thursday, they showed the one that was supposed to be shown in week 2, programme 2 The Cyclops. Thus my class saw that one twice! Weren't we glad they got it right in week 3, Cirse, not another showing of The Cyclops.
About week 4 or 5, they announced that The Wooden Horse would be shown on BBC2 the Friday morning after the SIXTH Thursday, i.e. after the sixth and final edition of The Odyessey had been shown. Perhaps Auntie thought that The Wooden Horse would be better late than never, and better at the end rather than somewhere in the middle.
For your information, the programme was
Merry Go Round
. The first six weeks of spring term 1981, it was about The Odyessey.
The first Thursday morning of that term, they were supposed to be showing programme 1 - The Wooden Horse. For reasons best known to Auntie (and probably long forgotten by them), that wasn't shown, instead they showed programme 2 - The Cyclops. Your guess is as good as mine as to why that boo-boo occurred. The second Thursday, they showed the one that was supposed to be shown in week 2, programme 2 The Cyclops. Thus my class saw that one twice! Weren't we glad they got it right in week 3, Cirse, not another showing of The Cyclops.
About week 4 or 5, they announced that The Wooden Horse would be shown on BBC2 the Friday morning after the SIXTH Thursday, i.e. after the sixth and final edition of The Odyessey had been shown. Perhaps Auntie thought that The Wooden Horse would be better late than never, and better at the end rather than somewhere in the middle.
The BBC programme catalogue is in no way complete, but I have to ask you anyway, are you 100% sure of the date?
1981 wouldn't have been the first airing for these shows anyway, they are from the late 70's, so it is odd that the first episode wasn't broadcast at the correct time. I wonder if there was a recent news story about a wooden horse that made it inappropriate to show it at that time?
Anyway, thanks for the additional information.
Just one more thing, when you said
Tumble Tower posted:
About week 4 or 5, they announced that The Wooden Horse would be shown on BBC2 the Friday morning after the SIXTH Thursday
Primary school spring term 1981 (a Friday morning in February). We were watching a schools programme on BBC2 that Friday morning - one which should have been on BBC1 the first week of term but for some reason didn't get shown - hence its rescheduling on BBC2.
Do you have any idea what the programme was or why it wasn't shown on B1?
Are you for real? Why on earth are you encouraging this tedious man?
As said in the previous page, he is Tumble Tower and I claim my £5 (or 500p in decimal terms).
Primary school spring term 1981 (a Friday morning in February). We were watching a schools programme on BBC2 that Friday morning - one which should have been on BBC1 the first week of term but for some reason didn't get shown - hence its rescheduling on BBC2.
Do you have any idea what the programme was or why it wasn't shown on B1?
Are you for real? Why on earth are you encouraging this tedious man?
As said in the previous page, he is Tumble Tower and I claim my £5 (or 500p in decimal terms).
I'm interested in your theory. What makes you think I am Tumble Tower? I have nothing to gain by posting under two different accounts. Its not like we even agree with each other on every subject. Maybe I could see your suspicion if we had both opened accounts yesterday or something, but I have had an account for just over 3 years and Mr. Tower has had an account for a while too. We also both have old Digital Spy accounts although I think Tumble Tower is banned over there.
It's only in the last 18 months that there's been the explosion in codes. I went public with it for the first time in February 2006, by setting up "TV Channels: A Shorthand Code" on Digital Spy. That had a couple of idle periods in the first few months, then a long gap with no postings between July and December 2006. You see, the problem was up until Xmas 2006, codes were still all one letter followed by one numeral.
That created a problem for coding the UKTV family of channels. It took me until 29 December 2006 to decide to move away from one letter - one numeral, and realise that sometimes it would be necessary to use two letters, or perhaps two letters and a numeral. In the case of UKTV, start them all with U, followed by letter H for History, BI for Bright Ideas, Dr for Drama, G1 for Gold, G2 for G2, etc. Hence why it was then (29 December 2006, in the afternoon) that I suddenly posted a list of codes for the UKTV family of channels, thereby bumping a thread that hadn't been replied to for five months.
Since the start of this year, I've coded all the Sky TV, Discovery, Virgin, EMAP and Chart Show channels. The annoying thing about the Sky Digital EPG is that the lineup changes so often. Look how Sky rebranded their movies channels this year, from numbers (one, two, three etc) to genre (Premiere, Family, Classics etc). The replacement movie channels needed new codes. Discovery Kids (DK) and Discovery Wings (DW) were both axed and replaced with Discovery Turbo (DU). Chopping and changing like this annoys me as it means changing codes.
Isn't there a condition called "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder" or something? The fact that you've been creating a useless code system for television networks for the last 25 years or whatever (your story on discovering your personal Da Vinci code was... unique to say the least) is abnormal, I guess you could say. And the way you get angry whenever Sky change their EPG order because it messes up your system is bizarre. Have you seen a doctor about all this?
Quality. You're still the only one that uses them!