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[hidden email], Yuchtar <yuchtr@...> wrote:
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> I thought the ep was just a few minutes short and they filmed that scene
> just to add some time.
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Very possible. ITC shows were intended to be sold to US networks and US TV shows at around this time were only allowed to be up to 30 seconds short (the time could be filled in with trailers etc) but not a second over time. The US networks were obsessed with programmes starting on the hour well before British TV.
US TV producers often made sure that there were a couple of scenes in each script which could run longer or shorter as necessary. Even so, desperation seems to have set in in a few episodes of different series I have seen over the years. Not least an episode of Ironside where Raymond Burr lengthily summarised the plot as the moral lesson we had learned this week - all that after the longest, slowest "race to the rescue" I have ever seen utilising every shot in their library of Ironside's van chugging through San Francisco.
Regards
John
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