Face it chaps. You will feel better.

[katied]

CR will be on for the third straight night here on the USA network. Too bad you cannot watch it 4 nights straight in the UK on tv as is being shown here.

I know in the States movies can be shown on TV after they've been out for 2 years or so. Not sure if that's the case elsewhere,though.

[Kristatos]

I know in the States movies can be shown on TV after they've been out for 2 years or so. Not sure if that's the case elsewhere,though.

It's slightly different in the UK (or at least it was when I lived there). In Britain, films usually appear on the premium movie channels after 18 months or so, then on network TV after 3 years. They don't go to basic cable first the way they do here.

[jimmyjazz]

well here goes. I've never posted images on a forum before. (never posted messages come to think of it). Hope this works.

[Kristatos]

Wow, that brought back some memories. It was like being transported back to my childhood. Looking at the Saturday morning TV listings, I'm guessing this is BSS (before Swap Shop),

[jimmyjazz]

Hey it worked!!!

Well, first off thanks to my mum and step sister who spent less than an hour scanning microfilms in clitheroe libuary of back issues of the local paper to justify my claims. God bless 'em. and not an internet connection in sight... research using legs and photofilm. There is hope.

Thankyou to sweeney for improving my IT skills and backing me up.

There is your evidence as far the screening dates are concerned. It backs up my claims to being a Bond fanatic who knows what he is talking about. However Katied will probably still doubt that I attended the screenings as she predicted that my parents might have gone to them instead of yours truely. I really don't want to go to all the trouble of scanning my birth certificate to prove my age.....please no! But I will if needed. This has become a weird hobby.

My dates were all wrong were they??

I did apologise for my nasty comments to katied of last night. It was quite easy to say sorry and I ment it. I could have apologised privately to the moderator who sent me my warning and nobody would have seen. But I prefered to say sorry in public.

Those members who jumped down my throat about my dates being wrong, about the authenticity of my claims, ( which I never gave a second thought to when I made them by the way), about my 'bulls**t' etc.

Have you got the balls to apologise to me.....

[jimmyjazz]

hello kristatos

Just about swap shop time I think. I remember swap shop coming to clitheroe, in winter. I remember chegwin being hit by a snow ball live on air and everyone in town claiming they threw it.

Note how there are only 3 TV stations. No channel 4 never mind freeview. Would love to catch up with the social club acts and hear their stories. The man with the golden gun is doing the rounds.

I could quite happily scan these newspapers for the rest of my life. How simple and un digital life was.

and everyone went to bed when the BBC said so. There's a society that looks after its people!

[katied]

Wow, that brought back some memories. It was like being transported back to my childhood. Looking at the Saturday morning TV listings, I'm guessing this is BSS (before Swap Shop),

Seeing Escape From Witch Mountain -the original, not the crappy remake with The Rock- in the movie listings is a blast from the past.

[bjmdds]

well here goes. I've never posted images on a forum before. (never posted messages come to think of it). Hope this works.

Jimmy:this page says in 1975 TMWTGG was being shown.It was released in 1974. Where is YOLT here? Did I miss seeing it?

[katied]

BJ, it's definitely on there.


Jimmy, I owe you an apology.

[The Sweeney]

well here goes. I've never posted images on a forum before. (never posted messages come to think of it). Hope this works.

Jimmy:this page says in 1975 TMWTGG was being shown.It was released in 1974. Where is YOLT here? Did I miss seeing it?

It's highlighted in the red box.

Katied has had the decency to apologise. BJ, your turn......

[bjmdds]

Have a drink with the Sweeney.

[The Sweeney]

Have a drink with the Sweeney.

That's still not an apology from you.

Are you going to do the decent thing, or are you going to behave like a member from another forum which you hate so dearly.....

[bjmdds]

Have some curry with The Sweeney....

[carl stromberg]

Sweeney's doing his Paxman again.

The Cricket in the old newspaper was the Third Ashes Test between England and Australia in Leeds. England 288 (Steele 73, Gilmour 6-86) & 291 (Steele 92). Australia 135 (Edmonds 5-28) & 220-2 (McCosker 95). The match was drawn. Just in case anyone is interested. If you want to watch this years England V Australia cricket, you will have to pay £50 a month to Sky TV.

[bjmdds]

Welcome to the forum....

[stockslivevan]

Have a drink with the Sweeney.

That's still not an apology from you.

Are you going to do the decent thing, or are you going to behave like a member from another forum which you hate so dearly.....

BJ refuses to acknowledge that Craig is a popular Bond among the public without claiming that they've gone utterly insane. Let him be skeptical.

As for why TMWTGG is still showing in 1975. 1) It was released in December, of course it'll continue well after New Years, 2) showings of new films lasted much longer in the old days than it does today. Keep in mind that this was well a decade before home video hit the market.

[Kristatos]

Note how there are only 3 TV stations. No channel 4 never mind freeview.

No home video either. Looking at the age of the films being shown on TV then, it's no wonder the Connery Bonds were still being re-released in cinemas.

[bjmdds]

Who knows what numbers Connery's Bond films would have done in the 1960s if they had multiplex theatres and DVDs then?

[katied]

I noticed there's an ad for the Disney Peter Pan on the page Jimmyjazz posted- when I was a kid it seemed like they rereleased a LOT of the Disney films-I remember going to to see Fantasia and the 101 Dalmatians among other movies.

[Kristatos]

I noticed there's an ad for the Disney Peter Pan on the page Jimmyjazz posted- when I was a kid it seemed like they rereleased a LOT of the Disney films-I remember going to to see Fantasia and the 101 Dalmatians among other movies.

Disney for a long time had a policy of not allowing their films to be shown on TV so they could get continuing income from cinema re-releases. I remember what a huge event it was when the first Disney movie was shown on British television - and that was one of the more obscure live action ones.