Re: UFO ANNUAL 1972
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That was in the days before social media!
My impression at the time was the show was late night filler. A few years later it was shown on Sunday afternoon, I think. I recall a few years ago finding some TV Times magazines from the mid- to early 70s. Jon Pertwee era. And UFO was in the afternoons in those listings as a rerun. I was Granada region. In 1986 I used to watch it on the B&W in my college digs, via a very weak signal from the Midlands ITV region - the show was rerun at gone midnight then.
On 21 Aug 2020, at 16:55, Shado-cabinet [via SHADO] <
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Hi Clare
Its interesting that you mentioned that the biggest ITV regions only started showing UFO well into 1971.
Do you know what regions was UFO shown to when it actually premiered in September 1970?
It is really strange that Lew Grade did not secure the same scheduling period for all ITV regions when he asked the Andersons to conceptualized the show. He must have known that for the maximum critical & commercial response to a new show is that it must be shown everywhere around the same time (ie: at least the same month e.g. September 1970)