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bisphamseasider · Joined: 02 Jun 2009 Posts: 2731 Location: Blackpool

I have put this observation under a new thread but it could quite easily have continued "The game's gone mad thread".

17 live matches on TV today. Shocked

Includes games from England, Wales, Spain, Italy, France, Holland, Portugal and the African Cup of Nations.

This must be some kind of record.

derby1884 · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 3:11 pm Post subject:

It was only as recently as Jan 1974, wasn't it, that the FA were brave enough to allow some Cup games to take place on a Sunday.

From memory, there was some convoluted ruling about entrance fees for a Sunday - clubs had to issue a teamsheet on the day as well as a programme and the entrance fee was linked to the supply of the teamsheet.
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bisphamseasider · Joined: 02 Jun 2009 Posts: 2731 Location: Blackpool

It was all to do with the 3 day week and the suspension of floodlit games to save on electricity consumption.

At that time they couldn't charge an entrance fee so included it in the cost of a programme or team sheet.

There is an article here.

http://www.wsc.co.uk/the-archive/100-Fan-culture/11097-holy-commotion

Wullie · Joined: 10 Jun 2009 Posts: 3423

I'm not surprised gates doubled for the first ever Sunday games. I remember Sundays in the 1970s as mind numbingly boring.

Pete’s Picture Palace · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 4:34 pm Post subject:

Wullie wrote:

I'm not surprised gates doubled for the first ever Sunday games. I remember Sundays in the 1970s as mind numbingly boring.

The Big Match with Brian Moore followed by a quick dash to the rec with jumpers for goalposts until it was dark. Bliss.

goodison · Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 242 Location: Shetland Islands

I think 22 is the most i've counted on TV on a Sunday this season, there's usually A-League and Bundesliga games on BT Sport, but neither league had games this weekend.

derby1884 · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 8:43 pm Post subject:

Wullie wrote:

I'm not surprised gates doubled for the first ever Sunday games. I remember Sundays in the 1970s as mind numbingly boring.

John Player League cricket on BBC2 in the afternoons followed by Arthur Montford's "Scotsport"

Monty Python and Colditz on BBC1 in the evenings.

Or so my 1975 diary tells me.
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Wullie · Joined: 10 Jun 2009 Posts: 3423

The most exciting thing ever was when the ice cream van visited the street. I hated Sundays for ever Laughing

Well at least till shops were allowed to open, pubs opened all day , football and of course , in the early 1980s Bullseye.

"Look at what you could have won." "You can't beat a bit of Bully!"

derby1884 · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 9:34 pm Post subject:

Wullie wrote:

"Look at what you could have won." "You can't beat a bit of Bully!"

At least the prizes were useful (a power drill, a set of fish knives etc).

Not like the tat Bruce and Anthea purveyed on their conveyor belt of a Saturday night.

Cuddly toy excepted, naturally

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CodeXIII · Joined: 07 Oct 2010 Posts: 285 Location: St Helens

At least the prizes were useful (a power drill, a set of fish knives etc).

and don;t forget the "star prize" of a speedboat between two unrelated mates!

best ever out takes are from Bullseye:

Jim Bowen: John, it says on my card that you're a fisherman, what do you fish for?

John: Fish, Jim...

Jim Bowen (looking right down the camera): I can't do this anymore, f&*^ing morons...

OurManInVanc · Joined: 23 Oct 2014 Posts: 16

You're forgetting Thats Life on Sunday evenings, can't remember what year that started
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Jim LFC · Joined: 05 Oct 2014 Posts: 597

OurManInVanc wrote:

You're forgetting Thats Life on Sunday evenings, can't remember what year that started

Wasn't that Saturdays in the early 70's? Who can forget the "sausages" dog and the 3 Alsatians fighting for soda water from a syphon!! Laughing

Jim LFC · Joined: 05 Oct 2014 Posts: 597

derby1884 wrote:

Monty Python and Colditz on BBC1 in the evenings.

Or so my 1975 diary tells me.

How the mind plays tricks! I was convinced that those 2 were on Thursday evenings!! Shocked

bisphamseasider · Joined: 02 Jun 2009 Posts: 2731 Location: Blackpool

3 classic comedies made their debut in 1974.

Porridge
Rising Damp
It Ain't Half Hot Mum

And 2 more in 1975

Fawlty Towers
The Good Life

They don't make them like those anymore.

derby1884 · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:46 pm Post subject:

Jim LFC wrote:

derby1884 wrote:

Monty Python and Colditz on BBC1 in the evenings.

Or so my 1975 diary tells me.

How the mind plays tricks! I was convinced that those 2 were on Thursday evenings!! Shocked

Thursday was Top Of The Pops!
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OurManInVanc · Joined: 23 Oct 2014 Posts: 16

derby1884 wrote:

Jim LFC wrote:

derby1884 wrote:

Monty Python and Colditz on BBC1 in the evenings.

Or so my 1975 diary tells me.

How the mind plays tricks! I was convinced that those 2 were on Thursday evenings!! Shocked

Thursday was Top Of The Pops!

Yeah, I'm disgusted we let that sicko Savile into our homes via the little box
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derby1884 · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:55 pm Post subject:

Couple of queries about the 1966 World Cup to tie in with this thread:

-other than the Final itself, were the earlier rounds shown "live" on TV or was it highlights only?

-always wondered why no programmes were produced for the individual matches (other than the Final). Anyone know why not? Would have made a very collectable set!
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highlandjambo · Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Posts: 209

Yes all the games were on TV, I remember Korea being 3 - 0 up on Portugal and then losing 5 - 3, Pele being kicked all over the park in the group matches, but I could never remember who won it that year.

bisphamseasider · Joined: 02 Jun 2009 Posts: 2731 Location: Blackpool

BBC and ITV shared coverage using the same pictures.

Most games were live except games being played simultaneously.

I think coverage of one or two games may have started after kick off.

derby1884 · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:51 pm Post subject:

I quite forgot that I have a Radio Times for the opening week of the World Cup '66.

Here's the lineup for July 11th on BBC1:

4-45: Jackanory (read by Stratford Johns)
5-00: Blue Peter (Christopher Trace, John Noakes, Valerie S)
5-30: Laurel & Hardy
5-50: The Adventures of Tin Tin
6-00: The News
6-30: United!
6-50: Opening Ceremony
7-30: England v Uruguay
9-20: The News
930: The Defenders
10-20: Twenty Four Hours
10-50: Suivez La Piste (French classes!)
11-20: The weather and Closedown

The rest of the week had one game live and "up to the minute reports" on those being played simultaneously.

live games that week on BBC1 were:
July 12 - Bulgaria v Brazil
July 13- Mexico v France
July 14- no match
July 15- Hungary v Brazil

According to this issue, there was NO live radio commentary, which surprises me...
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