28-05-2022, 02:59 PM
(28-05-2022, 02:26 PM)soupie Wrote: I don’t think the back announcement would be done that differently today in that circumstance- except they’d probably show a still of the person. The weirder detail (for me) is that super-abrupt mid-sentence fading out of the discussion, though this was common back then. I’ve seen a black and white Fred Dinenage-fronted schools programme from the 60s somewhere on the web where this also happens
I suspect its more that the programme overran than anything else and whoever was presenting didn't realise they were on the way out (or couldn't hear the gallery). This "happened" to David Frost on TV-am in 1988, completely ignoring the count out, though this wasn't the first time and it probably wasn't the last:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL7-doD3UTg