... 'The Gauntlet' at 10, but LWT flung on an old episode of The Professionals at 9, shunted 'Time for Murder' to 10 (something they did with a lot of dramas at that time which didn't fit their proto-Murdochian image - indeed, they were often the sort of thing Nick Elliott shifted the BBC away from during his brief stint there a decade later) and then showed Quadrophenia at 11. LWT were also the only region not showing Bullseye on the Sunday.
indeed, going by the online archive of the Glasgow Herald and related publications, Radio Clyde was still the only Scottish ILR station broadcasting round the clock *throughout the week* by 1987. But Radio Forth took Mike Allen's 'National Fresh', and Clyde didn't, so it all evens out.
Ah yes, that half-GSTQ that was presumably some kind of attempt to keep both Rangers and Celtic fans happy ... This was one of the nights when the cultural division between LWT and the rest of British broadcasting at the time - as we know, they, or more specifically their former staff, won that particular battle hands down - came to the fore; every other region had the old-school Granada play 'The Murders at Lynch Cross' in the 'Time for Murder' series at 9 and the Clint Eastwood film ...
4:25 Well if you're not enticed by the prospect of our married monster from outer space on Channel 4, and you are. Regretfully switching off now, please don't forget to switch off AND disconnect from the mains for safety's sake. From all of us here, goodnight.
