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Old 03-01-2017, 23:50
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I heard about this strike but i was a bit too young to remember it

How long did at last and was there no TV shows being shown at the time
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Old 03-01-2017, 23:56
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There's a bit of info on wiki, if you google it.
I'm too young to remember it myself.
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Old 03-01-2017, 23:59
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I don't remember, I don't recall
I got no memory of anything at all
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Old 04-01-2017, 00:12
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I can just about remember it lasted several weeks, but I do believe it did not have that much affect on me even though there were less channels than there were now. I believe there were one or two TV strikes in the 1970s. At least it got rid of the adverts at the same time
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Old 04-01-2017, 00:15
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I can vaguely remember that there used to be TV strikes but I think life just carried on regardless

Nowadays ITV could have been on strike for the last 20 years and I don't think I'd have noticed.............
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Old 04-01-2017, 00:15
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Yeah, was 7 at the time. Little on, coming home for lunch from school and BBC didn't bother to capitalise in the evenings so much. Alistair Stewart mentioned it on Countdown earlier.
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Old 04-01-2017, 00:24
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Yeah, was 7 at the time. Little on, coming home for lunch from school and BBC didn't bother to capitalise in the evenings so much. Alistair Stewart mentioned it on Countdown earlier.
Yes i also heard him saying something about it today

I asked my mum about it and she does not remember at all

Maybe she watched a lot more shows on BBC more than on ITV
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Old 04-01-2017, 08:23
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Yes, I remember it. I was 10 at the time.

An old DS thread here

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Old 04-01-2017, 08:35
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No, I was born in 1978
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Old 04-01-2017, 09:03
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I remember when the strike ended, ITV had a little jingle written that they played for the first three or four days after it restarted that went something along the lines of :-

"Welcome welcome welcome back to I - T - V" along with some poor cartoon graphics.

Looked and sounded like it was written by the same person who did the title music and graphics for 3-2-1.
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Old 04-01-2017, 09:10
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Far too young to remember it.
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Old 04-01-2017, 09:17
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I was in my twenties. They could have knocked ITV on the head and I wouldn't have given it a second thought, let alone remembered it.
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Old 04-01-2017, 09:25
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How did people cope without their twice weekly fix of Corrie though?
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Old 04-01-2017, 09:40
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Yes, I do. It was off air for ages. Prior to that you only had the occasional off air period from the bbc or itv , usually only minutes due to a fault.
When it came back on, there was a new sci-fi series on it that was excellent & I watched it all.
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Old 04-01-2017, 09:53
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I only remember a tv strike when they broadcast carols in the run-up to Christmas instead. Our family much preferred the carols to the programmes. It was the precursor to today's YouTube Christmas carol videos, which are also popular in our house.
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Old 04-01-2017, 10:46
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Yes, I do. It was off air for ages. Prior to that you only had the occasional off air period from the bbc or itv , usually only minutes due to a fault.
When it came back on, there was a new sci-fi series on it that was excellent & I watched it all.
There was strike at the BBC in 1974 which resulted in shows such as Top of The Pops not being aired for several weeks.
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Old 04-01-2017, 11:41
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I seem to recall Thatcher apologising to somebody ( the chairman of the company?) after they stood up to the union but then lost the contract after her government opened up the field to competition.
Then again I could be mixing it up with some other dispute and be wrong.
It has been known.😊
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Old 04-01-2017, 11:45
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There was strike at the BBC in 1974 which resulted in shows such as Top of The Pops not being aired for several weeks.
Little did we know it but the vulnerable children of the country must have breathed a sigh of relief for several weeks.😳
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Old 04-01-2017, 11:46
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I don't remember, I don't recall
I got no memory of anything at all
Well played!
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Old 04-01-2017, 11:47
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I was 12. Yes, I can remember the "welcome, welcome, welcome home to I ... T ... V" jingle. Seem to recall Tiswas taking the pee out of the jingle . Also remember, the first evening back they showed a new Quatermass serial starring John Mills. The climax was at Goonhilly I think.
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Old 04-01-2017, 11:50
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LOL Found it :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IRAoRdeif8
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Old 04-01-2017, 12:03
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I remember it. I was about 15 at the time, and it started a week or so into the summer holidays. Me and my dad had been watching 'How the West Was Won' (with Bruce Boxleitner of 'Scarecrow and Mrs King') and were eagerly awaiting the new series which was due to air. By the time the strike was over (two or three months later), the TV bods were in winter schedule mode and I don't think that series was ever shown.

Apart from missing out on fleeting glimpses of Bruce Boxleitner's arse as he strode off into the sunset in his cowboy gear, the thing that sticks in my mind most was just how much more I went out with my mates that summer. Daytime TV was limited at the best of times, so going from three channels down to two meant we definitely had to find something else to do. I expect older people felt the same way, and wouldn't be surprised to discover that there was a mini population explosion across Britain the following year!
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Old 04-01-2017, 12:30
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How did people cope without their twice weekly fix of Corrie though?
That must have been funny to see since there was no venting platform back then and the world wouldn't know about it.
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Old 04-01-2017, 13:34
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How did people cope without their twice weekly fix of Corrie though?
I bet the newspapers loved it. A captive audience of bored readers, and no need to create content because of all the 'Outraged of Leamington Spa' etc generating realms of complaints to extended 'Letters to the Editor' pages for weeks on end.

I think someone has already mentioned that there was no internet back then. We were all still grumbling the old-fashioned way
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Old 04-01-2017, 14:56
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I bet the newspapers loved it. A captive audience of bored readers, and no need to create content because of all the 'Outraged of Leamington Spa' etc generating realms of complaints to extended 'Letters to the Editor' pages for weeks on end.

I think someone has already mentioned that there was no internet back then. We were all still grumbling the old-fashioned way
There was the cinema of course, but probably mostly of use at weekends ?

Back in the 1960s, every Saturday night, Granada TV used to show an hour movie, split into three 20-minute sections by advertising breaks. One Saturday, we watched the first two reels and accompanying ad breaks. Then a very sheepish voice said "We're very sorry but we're unable to continue with tonight's movie, as we've lost the final reel of film !".

Thank you for that ! Very useful !
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