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The Hard Sell #110 or so: Have a Break SatAM 1985 (Patreon)

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2020-01-24 14:02:58
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Michael Parkinson: "Yorkshire."

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Chris Oakley

Good one, Matthew. Enjoyed watching... 👍

Stuart Kenny

I agree, great episode, and Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines is a true classic, filled with a truly great cast. I saw it again over Christmas, and it's still great fun, you missed an opportunity to do the episode as Terry-Thomas, with the flying helmet, the moustache and voice. ;) If you want another Yorkshire ad break to use, I recommend this one during High Society in September 1982. There's an ultra cheap local ad at 3.56 that makes the one for the Reliant dealer here look like a Hollywood epic. :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzB1icbNARQ&t=240s

Stuart Kenny

That's a shame, as I was praying for the day an ad break is found from Chubby Brown's 1980 appearance on Tyne Tees' Saturday Shake-Up. 😜

Daniel James Webb

To answer your question about what other regions were showing at the same time, ITV seems remarkably almost fully networked (presumably from LWT) on that day (though given the need to come together for World Of Sport in the afternoon, and to show some headline shows and a movie premier together in the evening it sort of makes sense for them to have stayed together all day). The majority of the other regional stations only had any variations at all at 11:30pm, when every regional station in the network seems to have let their hair down and shown whatever the heck they felt like, after having taken the network feed all day, whether for reasons of conformity, or lack of budget. There were only four stations that had any day time variations, as follows: Ulster specifically advertised their Ulster News at 5:03, when the rest of the network had ITN News from 5:00-5:05, so either the rest of the network did in fact see some sort of local news but didn't want to brag about a 30 second opt-out within the main national news, or else Ulster were the only ones to bother with local news in the first place on Saturday evenings. Tyne Tees only daytime variation was to replace the 9:25-9:30am Walt Disney Presents with their own show called Morning Glory, which I gather would have been local news on weekdays, but in the absence of any news (or more probably any budget to pay their journalists to find any) the weekend editions involved a local school choir singing a song, usually with vaguely religious connections, so that it could also be chalked up against the required duration per week that the station had to broadcast religious material as a condition of their licence. Neither of those two deviated from the movie in question then, but two stations did, one by its own free choice, and the other because it was essentially completely at the mercy of the other station. As you've probably guessed from that, these are you're very own region, TSW, and the tiny Channel, who were getting a relay of TSW's transmission to base their service on. The rest of the network saw the following: 9:25am Walt Disney Presents: 9:30am Adventure Of A Lifetime: 9:55am Film: Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines and then went to World of Sport at 12:15pm TSW's schedule up to World of Sport instead went 9:25am Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 9:50am Cartoon Alphabet 10:15am Henson's Place 11:17am Gus Honeybun's Magic Birthday's 11:20am Freeze Frame, which apparently was TSW own Saturday morning show instead of rest of the network's The Saturday Show, although it had also been called The Saturday Show originally. In this instance I'm not sure if the TSW show continued to run through the summer, when the network's show didn't, or if they simply ran repeats at this time of the year. Channel decided to make two secondary variations to TSW's primary variations. Firstly they pretty obviously opted out of local anthropomophic sock Gus Honeybun, in favour of their own version of that schtick, Puffin's Pla(i)ce. And secondly instead of Freeze Frame (which they did take most of the year) they showed Tarzan. The fact that Channel weren't taking the TSW show during the summer is what makes me think that TSW were just showing repeats and Channel therefore chose to opt-out since their viewers had already seen the content once so weren't missing out as such, but admittedly I am just speculating there. So in summary the only station with the necessary independence-mindedness, defiance and/or balls to deviate from an otherwise day long ITV-wide networked schedule (really short local news/hymns shows aside) was TSW, who in turn forced Channel's hand.