Episode Order

I was annoyed that BBC2 were cutting bits out of the episodes. The
most blatant example being in Exposed where right after the titles
ended we're in Straker's office as he's on the phone to Miss Ealand. I
had the episode on video and thusly knew that Auntie had decided we
could not see an establishing shot of the film studio. Nonetheless I
taped the series when I could - that is, when the Beeb decided to show
it. I've since got the entire series on the Digital Entertainment VHSs
and a few years later the Carlton DVDs, so I don't have to rely on any
TV station putting episodes out if they feel like it or cutting them up
because they can.

As regards the running order of the episodes, how about when Tyne Tees
ran the series in the first few months of 1987 on Saturday mornings,
the last few months of 1988 on Saturday afternoons, and one Saturday
afternoon in 1989? In 1987 they started off, naturally, with
Identified, then anything went. They didn't show Exposed until a few
months after Paul Foster had appeared in episodes such as Destruction,
which, IIRC, was the first episode of that run that he appeared in on
Tyne Tees!

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:07:02 -0000
"docmed03" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> As regards the running order of the episodes, how about when Tyne
> Tees ran the series in the first few months of 1987 on Saturday
> mornings, the last few months of 1988 on Saturday afternoons, and one
> Saturday afternoon in 1989? In 1987 they started off, naturally,
> with Identified, then anything went. They didn't show Exposed until
> a few months after Paul Foster had appeared in episodes such as
> Destruction, which, IIRC, was the first episode of that run that he
> appeared in on Tyne Tees!
>

Nice to see a mention of Tyne Tees on the list! I'm from Hartlepool,
and I remember those Saturday UFO broadcasts very well. I still have
one or two of them on VHS tapes.

Come back Neville Wanless, all is forgiven.

James

--- In [hidden email], James Gibbon <jg@...> wrote:

> Nice to see a mention of Tyne Tees on the list! I'm from Hartlepool,
> and I remember those Saturday UFO broadcasts very well. I still have
> one or two of them on VHS tapes.

I kept most of the episodes I taped off Tyne Tees in 1988 (I didn't
have a video when they ran some episodes in 1978) for a few years,
but taped over them when BBC2 started running the series. I naively
thought I was going to get the complete collection from the beeb!  
When I saw what BBC2 were doing to the episodes I wished I'd not been
so hasty.
 
> Come back Neville Wanless, all is forgiven.

Didn't Straker shoot him, thinking he was an alien? :-)

> James