What we used to watch...

[pacharan]

Will it be possible to look up and watch old TV programs?

Yes. One of the crew from the pub was telling me that with the international IPlayer you can select episodes from loads of old series to watch like Dads Army, the Good Life etc.

With the UK version you just get to see the crap that's been broadcast that week. There is a fee for the international IPlayer but its only about 60 bucks a year.

[NickFitz]

Yes. One of the crew from the pub was telling me that with the international IPlayer you can select episodes from loads of old series to watch like Dads Army, the Good Life etc.

With the UK version you just get to see the crap that's been broadcast that week. There is a fee for the international IPlayer but its only about 60 bucks a year.

Over here you get that through Netflix - the terms of the BBC charter require them to subcontract that kind of revenue generation to a third party within the UK

[darmstadt]

They've just started showing 'Till Death Us Do Part' on German TV

[BrilloPad]

I checked back to 1970 - interesting that some of the programmes on BBC1 were in Black and White.

[NickFitz]

I checked back to 1970 - interesting that some of the programmes on BBC1 were in Black and White.

One of the first shows to be broadcast in colour on the BBC was The Black and White Minstrels Show

[OwlHoot]

Been watching (in my lodgings while working on my laptop) some episodes from Sergeant Cork, a TV series broadcast between 1963 and 1968.

It was a bit before my time, and I hadn't heard of it before seeing the DVDs on sale; but most of the episodes are quite entertaining and surprisingly modern in outlook. (Think the Sweeney, set in the 1890s!)

Three series have been released on DVD now, although sadly only about 40 of the original 66 episodes have survived.

[pacharan]

I really really really don't miss that show.

Along with Bilko, The Lucy Show & other noxious crap of the era.

No? Bilko was pure class.

Never really watched Lucy but other stuff like Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie was fab.

[wim121]

I miss everything like You Bet, Jim'll Fix It and Family Fortunes.

They should remake them all. The family fortunes remake is a bit mehhhhh. Vernon Kay is good, but it's too modern and eghhh and they only seem to do charity specials which are boring.

[NickFitz]

I miss everything like You Bet, Jim'll Fix It and Family Fortunes.

They should remake them all. The family fortunes remake is a bit mehhhhh. Vernon Kay is good, but it's too modern and eghhh and they only seem to do charity specials which are boring.

I reckon all of those are way too complicated for a generation that can't understand that Deal or No Deal doesn't actually involve any skill

[MarillionFan]

I reckon all of those are way too complicated for a generation that can't understand that Deal or No Deal doesn't actually involve any skill

Ah! But it does Nick. It does. You can tell what's in the boxes by the sweat on the brow of the production crew.