CAN I HAVE P BOB? YOU CAN BUT JUST YET YOUR GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT EPISODE OF BLOCKBUSTERS OH NO I CAN'T HOLD IT THAT LONG HAVE YOU GOT A BUCKET?
Really odd that in the final days pre-rebrand Anglia had apparently become so unnecessarily embarrassed by their old look that they didn't use it at all outside of the clock, ident and production slide, to the point that their branding had become a messy mish-mash with various 'ANGLIA' captions in different fonts, alongside using Central's pseudo-corporate ITV brand on trailers and on the Telethon promo they had no branding at all...and then one of the few remaining bits of Knight pres complete with Handel's Water Music would re-appear for a junction.
Hannington using channel 66 for channel 4 caused lots of problems, group B aerials were always fitted before channel 4 came along, if the channel allocation was followed at Hannington, then channel 4 would have used channel 52, but it was already in use in an adjoining area, better planning could have helped prevent this.
I actually remember this day clearly, as it was my eleventh birthday. Strange, as it’s it’s one of very few childhood birthdaysI vividly remember. I remember finishing school that day as if it was yesterday.
Where would the Blockbusters episude be played out from? Norwich possibly? Most other regions were a reigning Blockbusters Mon-Sat however some regions had a reduced Wed-Sat pattern instead due to their preference for Emmerdale Farm or Sons and Daughters at 5.15 on Mondays and Tuesdays.. this. episode would have been shown on on Border, , Tyne Tees, HTV, UTV, YTV, Granada, Central and possibly Thames some months before and would have been played out to those regions by Central.? Would Anglia and the others have simply recorded that playout and stored it for play out at a later date?
Yeomen of the Guard on the blue caption was soon replaced by Euroline by Chris Evans-Ironside in the spring of 1989 right up until the 7th of August 1990 which was entirely different to Gilbert and Sullivan overtures. I’d assume Euroline was played in the early morning slot of 5.41am.
Much preferred the version of the Blockbusters game board here, with the incomplete hexagons forming the border, than the later modified one with full hexagons. This one looked way neater. The new one also created a continuity problem with the refreshed opening titles, as they launched those around the same time as the new board and was always mismatched with the way it looked in the intro to how it looked in the actual show.
I don't think that NICAM answer was actually true was it? Every stereo VCR I used would down-mix the received NICAM signal to mono, so even the linear track would have contained the announcements. Switching NICAM off would have worked of course though. I know this for a fact with the specific Ferguson machine pictured, as when Bilsdale first went NICAM I had one of those machines. There were some technical issues afflicting Channel 4 where there would be loud glitches in the sound every couple of minutes - this was definitely recorded on the mono track on the VCR!
Never heard the Anglia flag being called "hateful" before. I'd honestly love to see some footage from the final day of the Knight and the first day of the Flag. It must've been a very interesting transition (especially because Anglia dropped their old mechanical clock for an electronic one in the process).
4:24 So satisfying to hear a rare occurrence of the word 'laugh' pronounced correctly on TV. Where I was brought up, in Central land, we also don't have larfs or barfs, we have laffs and baffs.
