And that's not all, of course....

A Bit Of Fry & Laurie (first series from 1989 never repeated)
Monty Python (final series not shown since original transmission in 1974)
The Goodies (BBC shows - nothing on terrestrial since 1980, unless they showed an edition for BBC 50 in 1986)
Absolutely (original 45 minute series from 1989 and 1990 never repeated in any form on terrestrial)
Not The Nine O'Clock News (original 27 shows never repeated in full. I'm not counting those hopeless compilations John Lloyd did in his sleep in 1995)

Come on everyone...what needs repeating? (Suggestions for Red Dwarf, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Dad's Army and Only Fools & Horses will be destroyed immediately.)

The Day Today csnnot be reshown due to BBC broadcasting restrictions. These were put in place to prevent the public from realising how false and vainglorious the notion of "news" is, and also how bad Talback's output has become.

Yes, Fry & Laurie series one was an absolute cracker and should be shown immediately, as should the pilot. I think I could only stomach a "Best of" of their last series though.

ooh loads of things like Spaced, and well Spaced errrr... still waiting to see loads of the Quantum Leap stuff... Randall and Hopkirk (the original stuff) Deceased, love that Friday night feeling... and loads of films that you can't get hold of like 2001 and I eventually had to order a copy of Cuckoo's nest...

Oh, and Kelly Monteith of course. I'm not being ironic. Maybe it'll look shite, but I need to know.

As far as I know, there's no rights or clearance issue surrounding "The Day Today", just the BBC's apathy.

I could have sworn it was shown on UK Gold at least once, though...

The BBC edit all this stuff and put it into shows like Jenny Eclair's Pick 'n' Mix. Or that 'Alexei Sayle looks at war' programme (No Laughing Matter, or something like that).

Why don't they repeat them in full? Because they're cun-

xfiles, has not been repeated once to my knowledge.

Horrible bbc.
Wasn't allowed to watch it until 12 or 13 years old.

Am only 15 now.

>xfiles, has not been repeated once to my knowledge.
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>Horrible bbc.
>Wasn't allowed to watch it until 12 or 13 years old.
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>Am only 15 now.


Hello Subbes

>xfiles, has not been repeated once to my knowledge.
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I'm sure it has.

I keep seeing the one where something strange happens, and Mulder comes up with some ludicrous, yet not unbelievable (as we have already seen that he is right) explanation for it which Scully doesn't believe. That one and the one with the animated horse.

Actually, I'm fairly sure it has been repeated. At least in a sort of "heres a selection of the best episodes" type way.

I reckon it's Jane Root's fault, most things are.

On the subject of Fry and Laurie, I have the script books for the 2nd and 4th series, and the quality difference is amazing. It's almost as if the 4th series was a completely different show. Ugh. A "best of" would not help matters

And here's that stop in full:

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How about repeating "Thompson"?

Only kidding!

Wouldn't mind seeing "This Is David Lander" again (C4 show, mind)

Stop bringing up Subbes, there's very little left of her now...

I would have got away with it if it wasn't for you pesky kids!!!

>How about repeating "Thompson"?
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>Only kidding!
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>Wouldn't mind seeing "This Is David Lander" again (C4 show, mind)

Was that the Stephen Fry/ Tony Slattery "mock-umentary"?

Speaking of things with Stephen Fry in them I'd like to see "In The Red" repeated or released on video, it was brilliant.

In The Red
that was good, wasn't it?
Missed most of it, what with it being on a school night.

Yes, "David Lander" featured Fry as a Roger Cook-type reporter. Then Slattery took over and it was renamed "This is David Harper". £ series in all (I think), only the last one with Slattery.

I was "Delve Special" on R4 originally, which was brilliant, and started in 1984.

That should say "3 series in all"

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>I was "Delve Special" on R4 originally, which was brilliant, and started in 1984.

You were better on the radio

>I was "Delve Special" on R4 originally,

Really? Blimey, even Jon himself was better on the radio...

Damn! Beaten to it...

Well, I'd like to see In The Red, Fry & Laurie, Absolutely, Fist of Fun, Brass Eye, Mr Don & Mr George, and how about some old episodes of Paramount City with people like Patrick Marber and Simon Pegg doing stand-up?

X Files, at least in its early days, was repeated ad nauseam. The Day Today and Fist Of Fun have never been afforded that luxury. Neither, for that matter, has The Goodies.

A sense of perspective, please.

Hold on, David Lander? Wasn't he Squiggy in 'Laverne and Shirley'?

One of the greatest TV series ever, but it looks a bit dated now though.

There's a oft-repeated Learning Zone programme about it though which is quite good

>One of the greatest TV series ever, but it looks a bit dated now though.

Only because some real news fools didn't understand it was supposed to be funny, and made the real news increasingly hysterical and melodramatic.
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>There's a oft-repeated Learning Zone programme about it though which is quite good

Really? What is it? I'll have to look out for that.

A friend of mine told me about this programme. I thought he was lying, but clearly not...

Learning Zone prog about what? TDT or David Lander?

[Sorry about all these questions, I'm lonely and my brain's melted]

The Day Today.

Ooh. A docu I haven't seen about a Chris Morris programme, no less. If anyone knows when it'll be on again put it up on this forum in big block caps so I don't miss it.

I emailed Absolutely Productions last week, complaining that my 8-year-old VHS tapes were getting very worn out and casually pleaded why the hell "Absolutely" hasn't been repeated. I received a very prompt, polite reply from a fellow called George (not McDairmid) stating that there are 'absolutely' no plans to repeat any of it in any way shape or form, on terrestrial, satellite, cable, tin cans & string etc.

I mean.. for Christ's sake. So much comedy genius, forever forgotten but for the few, whilst our airwaves are continually polluted by Who Wants to be a Millionaire, When Aunties Go Missing! and "Supermarket".

The Day Today
Brass Eye
(both preferably unedited)
Absolutely (very overdue a repeat run)
The Goodies (at least give young 'uns like me a chance to see it)
Rutland Weekend Television (never seen any of this, sounds 'kin good)

>Ooh. A docu I haven't seen about a Chris Morris programme, no less. If anyone knows when it'll be on again put it up on this forum in big block caps so I don't miss it.


Oh yes, I think I've seen this. I saw a long explanation (given by the VT editor, I think) about how they cut together the CBN US-style news packages to make them look American. The techniques are very clever once they're pointed out.

On the Absolutely front- I only saw the last series; so of the others which is *the* one to watch- series 1, 2 ???

Didn't they just use NTSC cameras?
The thing I like about TDT is that they use the right format for the suitable programme, NTSC for America, 16mm film for The Swimming Pool, video tape for The Bureau, etc.

The same technique used in Brass Eye and thats why it looks much better and more realistic than other shows from the period like the Fast Show.

They don't dare repeat TDT because now you genuinely wouldn't be able to distinguish it from 'Newsnight'. It was meant to be a satire, not a sodding blueprint.

Watch the Channel 4 news at seven. It seems to have graphics done by the guy who did Brass Eye and it's presented by a Chris Morris sound-a-like.

[Heretical, sceptical voice:]

But it didn't stick to the remit of satirizing news programmes, it always brought in other targets - soap (The Bureau), MTV, things that had nothing to do with news and which aren't linked to news in real life anyway. So it was more of a broad swipe against the media than the precision attack that it gets made out to be.

I still think it's great, but it irks me when people claim it had a more concentrated structure and format than I can see in the tapes I've got.

I heard that the graphics designers on TDT were actually the same people who used to do the News At Ten graphics, and that they were just told to go totally over the top.

>I heard that the graphics designers on TDT were actually the same people who used to do the News At Ten graphics, and that they were just told to go totally over the top.

Yes, I remember Coogan saying as much in interviews before the series started. He seemed to imply it was a graphic designer's wet dream.

And the US-style footage had been mocked up to look like NTSC, hence the programme and the bit I saw where the editor sat in front of the Avid showing how they fiddled with the colour balance etc etc. What really made it American was their technique of using slightly too many shots and cutting in mid-zoom etc... maybe only really of interest to telly people.

But subliminaly it makes you feel you're watching an American broadcast without going "Ooh, look, they've made it fuzzy" unlike, say when they drop out a frame to make it look like film or put the show in 16:9, like in French and Saunders or The Big Breakfast. That attention to detail from all concerned is what makes Chris Morris's shows look and, more importantly, feel more effective than other shows of it's ilk.

>[Heretical, sceptical voice:]
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>But it didn't stick to the remit of satirizing news programmes, it always brought in other targets - soap (The Bureau),

...Predating Big Brother by about six years. That's news these days, isn't it? So it would seem...

...MTV, things that had nothing to do with news and which aren't linked to news in real life anyway.

The real news now is increasingly full of trivial guff anyway. What's the difference?