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Another thumbs up here. Although not a big DS fan (Dire Straits not Digital Spy obviously) I loved Private Investigations. Yes it does go on a bit but it is a single where you need to hear the full version to appreciate it and not the ridiculous snippet we heard on last week's Pops. File with Bohemian Rhapsody and Paranoid Android.
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Could Sarah Greene really have blocked the Mike Smith episodes?
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So it seems the 4/11/82 is not being shown. Confirmed by the official BBC Four listings. I hope they have got a good reason not to show it and are not simply missing out an episode because they are trying to cram all the episodes in before the end of the year. The Wham debut is a crucial episode and I'm hoping they repeated the same performance.
. ![]() Why don't they just save time & pull the plug on the whole lot!!!! ![]() And never mind Wham! Blancmange 'Living on the Ceiling' is on the same episode too!!
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Sorry if I'm being thick and/or have missed something, but please can someone explain exactly why the Mike Smith editions might not be shown? Is it just because he blocked repeats on UK Gold?
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W-T-F !!!!!!?? Please don't tell me they're now going to cut out all of Mike Smith's episodes AS WELL AS the Jimmy Savile episodes AS WELL AS the DLT episodes?!!!
![]() 1983 36 1984 38 (DLT and JS both step down as presenters this year) 1985 36 1986 36 1987 37 1988 49 (Mike stepped down as a presenter at the end of March) So although extremely disappointing, no year is worse than 1978 (35 episodes shown) or 1979 (34 episodes shown). Hopefully they will continue showing two years each year, as I'm sure no one wants to go back to not having an episode one week every month, and having a long summer break as well! |
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And then Martin Fry stole his trench coat!
He'll whisper his findings in due course. Quote:
Cloudbusting was her final encore at the Apollo gigs in September 2014. To be standing 8 rows from the front waving my arms and shouting "Yay ey o" was one of the best experiences of my life!
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Indeed 'Walking on Sunshine' took and re-played all the best bets of D-Train's 'You're the One For Me' & 'Keep On' over a song written by Eddy Grant (Jeez, he must have got a lot of royalties in 82) and some clever Arthur Baker production techniques and you have the best selling dance single of the year! Although I like it, it's not in my favourites of the year, that has to go to aforementioned D-Train singles, Sharon Brown's 'I Specialise In Love' and the brilliant 'Do It To The Music' by Raw Silk
![]() See also Vicky D's 'This Beat Is Mine', which just missed a Top 40 place in 1982 (and has echoes of Evelyn King's 'I'm In Love' about it). |
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W-T-F !!!!!!?? Please don't tell me they're now going to cut out all of Mike Smith's episodes AS WELL AS the Jimmy Savile episodes AS WELL AS the DLT episodes?!!!
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I don't think Sarah Greene actually has the power to ban all his episodes from being shown like they did on U.K. Gold. The rules have changed since then and the BBC can show what they like, after all we got through all of Noel Edmonds episodes which i doubt he was too pleased about.
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Indeed, Rodney Bewes always used to claim that James Bolam was blocking repeats of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, however this never rang true since the series has in fact been repeated many times in recent years, not to mention released on DVD.
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I have met Bewes and to be honest he is rather lugubrious.
I read his biography once & apparently he was very Ill during a lot of his childhood. It's such a shame he & James Bolam fell out.
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His character in The Likely Lads was a bit like that too!
I read his biography once & apparently he was very Ill during a lot of his childhood. It's such a shame he & James Bolam fell out. ![]() |
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DJs don't have the power to block episodes but artists or copyright holders perhaps have, Dave Clark 5 'Everybody Get Together ' from February 1970 has been blocked for decades and even German TV couldn't show it in the reruns of Hits A Gogo which exists in their archives as a TOTP insert.
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DJs don't have the power to block episodes but artists or copyright holders perhaps have, Dave Clark 5 'Everybody Get Together ' from February 1970 has been blocked for decades and even German TV couldn't show it in the reruns of Hits A Gogo which exists in their archives as a TOTP insert.
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We will know tomorrow anyway because thats when the Radio Times for the 10-16 December comes out and if the episode that was mentioned as his first episode is on it will be on Friday the 16th since the thursday is a Sky at night.
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We will know tomorrow anyway because thats when the Radio Times for the 10-16 December comes out and if the episode that was mentioned as his first episode is on it will be on Friday the 16th since the thursday is a Sky at night.
Thursday 22nd December 7.00 (18th November) Friday 23rd December 7.00 (2nd December) Wednesday 28th December 7.00 & 7.30 (9th & 23rd December) We'll be very busy over the festive period if all the Yewtrees appear online as well. |
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It looks as though Kid Jensen from the 11th November will be shown on 16th December. Following on from that, the rest of the episodes are provisionally scheduled as follows:
Thursday 22nd December 7.00 (18th November) Friday 23rd December 7.00 (2nd December) Wednesday 28th December 7.00 & 7.30 (9th & 23rd December) We'll be very busy over the festive period if all the Yewtrees appear online as well. |
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Ursula has mentioned that we should not give up on radio quite yet
I think that you can waste a lot of you life listening to cac just on the offchance of hearing something you might like a little. That is why I have spent a little more money on equipment, just to listen to what I want to listen to, not what some radio programmer thinks I should listen to. But ultimately, radio is all about other people trying to sell you music which "they think that you should like" |
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18 Nov 82 and 2 Dec 82 are back-to-back from 7pm on 23rd Dec -- doesn't seem to be any TOTP on 22nd Dec Looks like 9 Dec 82 and 23 Dec 82 are on 30th Dec. Still waiting for the confirmed listings. Quote:
It looks as though Kid Jensen from the 11th November will be shown on 16th December. Following on from that, the rest of the episodes are provisionally scheduled as follows:
Thursday 22nd December 7.00 (18th November) Friday 23rd December 7.00 (2nd December) Wednesday 28th December 7.00 & 7.30 (9th & 23rd December) We'll be very busy over the festive period if all the Yewtrees appear online as well. |
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His character in The Likely Lads was a bit like that too!
I read his biography once & apparently he was very Ill during a lot of his childhood. It's such a shame he & James Bolam fell out. ![]() Strangely, the 'word' from TV people I know is that Bolam was not the nicest person in the world either. |
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Although individuals can't block programmes from being shown, perhaps Mike Smith's family have requested that his episodes not be shown, and the BBC have agreed as an act of courtesy?
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18 Nov 82 and 2 Dec 82 are back-to-back from 7pm on 23rd Dec -- doesn't seem to be any TOTP on 22nd Dec
Looks like 9 Dec 82 and 23 Dec 82 are on 30th Dec. Still waiting for the confirmed listings. |
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Ramraider, you are spot on! Shalamar's 'Friends' is a stunningly good album, one of my soul highlights of 82 along with Aretha's 'Jump To It' & Patrice Rushen's 'Straight From the Heart'. That groove ballad you mention 'Help Me' is a gem, that impeccable gorgeous SOLAR (Sound of Los Angeles) production and those sweeping strings really make it something special & Howard Hewett's sweet vocals! 'Looking forward to seeing the band themselves in the studio soon
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Although individuals can't block programmes from being shown, perhaps Mike Smith's family have requested that his episodes not be shown, and the BBC have agreed as an act of courtesy?
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Although individuals can't block programmes from being shown, perhaps Mike Smith's family have requested that his episodes not be shown, and the BBC have agreed as an act of courtesy?
![]() It's not like he's being portrayed in a bad light or anything - he was doing a job he presumably must have liked at the time (otherwise he wouldn't've carried on), and for which he was well paid. I think we need some kind of official answer on this. Plus if we are losing his editions, can't we please have a compilation of the performances we'll miss? I know this is potentially contentious with the Yewtree'd editions because of people appearing in the audience, but I can't for the life of me fathom why this would be so problematic in this instance. |
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