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> On 31/07/2012 21:17, Gordon wrote:
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> > Hello All,
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> > >I'm a newbie on this group and I thought I would introduce myself.
> > I've been into UFO since the early seventies, and I've just >completed
> > the DVD set and have started re watching them, brings back a lot of
> > memories. This series was a very big part of my >youth and I collected
> > all the books, gum cards, dinky toys etc, which is significantly some
> > of the only remaining stuff I have >from my childhood -- must have
> > felt the need to keep it. It's great to watch it again and actually
> > understand a lot of it, as I never >did as a kid!
> > >I was wondering if someone could help me with a few queries regarding
> > the series:-
> > >>1. Transmission dates. I used to watch UFO on what I think must have
> > been the first or second re runs -- 11.10 on a Sunday AM >on Anglia
> > TV, then 2.10 on Sunday afternoon for Midlands. We could get both in
> > our area. This would have been in the early to >mid 1970's, I guess
> > between 1973 and 1976 but does anyone have the exact dates? I missed
> > this first transmissions in 1970 >1971 as I was only 3 or 4 at the time!
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>           Hello Gordon......Welcome.
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>        As an avid fan of UFO,watching the series  in the Midlands area
> at the time,I can tell you that as far as the
>        Midlands is concerned,the re-run started on Sunday 30th December
> 1973 until around May 1974.I say around         May 1974 because it then
> changed to a late Saturday night slot in order to show the more adult
> episodes.The end     of that run co-incided with the start of the 1974
> World Cup in Munich in June.
>       The time of transmission for Sunday was Lunchtime,normally around
> 1.15.It was usually,at least to start with,
>        preceded by Weekend World introduced at the time by Peter Jay and
> laterly by the American family cartoon Wait      Till Your Father Gets
> Home.It was followed by Star Soccer.
>      The Anglian episodes overlapped with the Midland episodes.I am not
> sure exactly how the overlap occured,but I can check,as I have a lot of
> old TV TImes from that time.
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> Regards    Mark UK
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