Another ITV Diatribe

Following on from my previous post.

Krypton Factor It!

In the days when ITV had regions and wasn't the corporate one body mess it is now.

With little features like this, it shows the pride that ITV had in it's regional "sum of all parts" structure. Sad that it's all gone due to greed, incompetence and negligence.

Harry Worth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaTxTPAMduM

(unfortuntely the embedding has been switched off for this video)

Another fine find from Youtube.

Harry Worth was very popular in the 1960s but seems forgotten amongst the gems of Steptoe and Till Death. A great deal of his stuff is missing from the archives, but this is quite a funny example of his work. He wasn't there to change the world ala Speight and Garnett, just to entertain.

Bye bye Richard and Judy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8040368.stm

I don't think the case is that the viewers could find them, it's more the case that they are bloody well confused with the way that the channels have been rebranded and moved around on the platforms.

UK Gold became UKTV Gold, became Watch? But Gold is available now as G.O.L.D (Go On Laugh Daily) but on a different channel?

Queenie's Castle

What a find! Diana Dors was incredible playing these sort of sexy strong, near despotic women and was always quite an under-rated talent in the 1960s and 1970s.

The council housing seen in this series was the Quarry Hill estate in Leeds, famed for it's Art Deco 1930s appearance, which is sadly no more, pulled down probably a few years later on.

This site, funnily enough, now houses the West Yorkshire Playhouse, the Kremlin style offices of the Child Support Agency, and the BBC Yorkshire Headquarters.