11-05-2022, 08:08 PM
(11-05-2022, 10:34 AM)thegeek Wrote: Well that sounds pretty magnificent. EastEnders came between MOTD and the Party at the Palace, so I guess it was a live trail and presentation having a bit of fun with it.
I always love those kinds of things. Actually that Jubilee weekend was tops for odd telly things, we had the newsflash interrupting the World Cup coverage for the fire at the Palace (which turned out to be a piddly electrical fire that was more or less put out with a glass of water), Trevor McDonald welcoming us to "this World Cup and Jubilee Bank Holiday" and because the World Cup matches were in the mornings, some brilliantly bonkers scheduling including SMTV on a Monday and This Morning at two o'clock in the afternoon.
Another sort of example of this, and another holy grail of mine, is from I think the 2000 Cup Final on ITV, where when they did the menu of what was coming up during the day, they included the news and the regional news, and there was a graphic with all the logos of all the ITV regions, I remember the Border logo being particularly prominent. I love that someone went to the effort of knocking that up for a few seconds on screen, would love to see it again.
And of course, no thread about televisual holy grials can be complete without the most obscure TV programme of all time with the most fascinating Radio Times billing - Buzzfax!
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/se...22#at-9.30
I was too young to see this, which was only on once, but a friend of mine saw it and had such vivid memories of it, it was a Saturday morning programme introduced by a talking page of Ceefax, which sounds absolutely demented. Would love to know what it actually looked like, but it's clearly long been wiped, if it was ever recorded in the first place.
We are a bit spoiled these days in that in the past you would read about all kinds of old programmes and have to imagine what they might have been like because there was no chance you'd ever see them. I pored over books like The Guinness Book of Classic British TV and magazines like Comedy Review for their features about old telly and, looking back at them now, there are loads of errors in them, but we just took it for granted in those days because we'd never see the programmes they were talking about. Neither had the authors half the time probably, when we did the Saturday Night TV book nearly twenty years ago now, it was pre-YouTube and we had to go to the National Media Museum in Bradford to watch episodes of some of the programmes we wrote about, and others just relied on our memories.