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Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 9:08 am
by The Ginge Reaper
Rogg wrote: Sunday 21st April 1985. A pic of Bristow and Jim Bowen.
Live football from the Canon League, Bullseye and The James Bond Film.
The last televised game on the 21st April when the season finished on the 28th May
Golden age of TV, or something.
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 9:18 am
by Rogg
It's almost unbelievable. It's not as though we're talking about the 1960s here.VIDEO
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 9:40 am
by The Ginge Reaper
Lutons ground looks worse now than it did then.
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 11:22 am
by Randall
Les sealy
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 12:05 pm
by Smithy1412
Yep, died about 20 years ago
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 2:16 pm
by Randall
I remembered something!
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 4:05 pm
by Rogg
A party political broadcast by Mrs Thatcher and some Blackadder mixed with your snooker in 1988.
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 4:27 pm
by Rogg
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 9:02 am
by Rogg
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 10:14 am
by Randall
Racing from Leicester?
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 10:17 am
by The Ginge Reaper
Randall wrote: Racing from Leicester?
Seems a strange track to show. Must have been at the time ITV had rights to some tracks and BBC others.
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 10:18 am
by Randall
The Ginge Reaper wrote: ↑ Sun Apr 23, 2023 10:17 am Randall wrote: Racing from Leicester?
Seems a strange track to show. Must have been at the time ITV had rights to some tracks and BBC others.
Only track I know of is in oadby
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 10:23 am
by The Ginge Reaper
Randall wrote: The Ginge Reaper wrote: ↑ Sun Apr 23, 2023 10:17 am Randall wrote: Racing from Leicester?
Seems a strange track to show. Must have been at the time ITV had rights to some tracks and BBC others.
Only track I know of is in oadby
Well yes its that one, its just not a very important racecourse even now. Think their biggest race of the season was downgraded this year.
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 12:53 pm
by Randall
The Ginge Reaper wrote: ↑ Sun Apr 23, 2023 10:23 am Randall wrote: The Ginge Reaper wrote: ↑ Sun Apr 23, 2023 10:17 am Randall wrote: Racing from Leicester?
Seems a strange track to show. Must have been at the time ITV had rights to some tracks and BBC others.
Only track I know of is in oadby
Well yes its that one, its just not a very important racecourse even now. Think their biggest race of the season was downgraded this year.
They were doing covid vaccines there
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 1:07 pm
by The Ginge Reaper
Aye a few were, i recall Epsom and Ascot doing the same. Big empty rooms with loads of car parking, suppose it makes sense.
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 1:08 pm
by Randall
Been to Aintree for a company conference years ago
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 1:41 pm
by Rogg
The name of the Greece entry was strange and eye-catching. I found it:VIDEO
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 2:15 pm
by Rogg
22nd April 1984.
Captain Hobo will be enthralled as we find "Australian Cinema" season in a snooker sandwich on BBC2. A word in there hasn't aged too well.
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 2:16 pm
by The Ginge Reaper
But first, 25 minutes of snooker. What was the fucking point?
Re: TV listings from the olden days
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 2:30 pm
by Rogg
The Ginge Reaper wrote: ↑ Sun Apr 23, 2023 2:16 pm
But first, 25 minutes of snooker. What was the fucking point?
I guess it's a bulletin to give an update on what's been going on while it was off air.
