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I vaguely recall a kids' BBC drama series from the 1970s called The Changes, during which people were fielding psychotic signals from their electrical appliances, including TVs. Pretty heavy stuff for 5.20pm on a Wednesday.
Originally posted by Snake Plissken View PostI always had Zelda down as Jo Whiley on a bad day.
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I've been meaning the watch The Changes, Jah. I'd never heard of it until recently, but almost simultaneously (spooky!) I came across an episode devoted to it on the Jaffa Cakes For Proust podcast and watched Children of the Stones on YouTube, with the latter provoking 'if you liked that, you might like this' links to The Changes. Consensus of opinion seems to suggest indeed that both series are amazingly dark for what was supposedly children's TV, in a 'you'd never get it these days' sort of way.
Originally posted by Snake Plissken View PostOh fuck! How could I have missed They Live!Last edited by Various Artist; 25-04-2018, 12:12.
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If it's on YouTube, I might well take a gander.
(As an aside, I discovered that Going Out - which I've not seen since its 1981 broadcast - has finally been uploaded in the past year or so. Noticeably, the dialogue is delivered at around half the pace of what you'd expect for that kind of drama now.)
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostI vaguely recall a kids' BBC drama series from the 1970s called The Changes, during which people were fielding psychotic signals from their electrical appliances, including TVs. Pretty heavy stuff for 5.20pm on a Wednesday.
On a bad day? Hoo-ha, there's grim and then there's grim.
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He wrote a lot The Changes is an odd and wonderful trilogy- The Weathermonger . Set during the Changes where people develop a loathing for machines. The Devil's Children about a Sikh family who aren't affected. Part of that extraordinary wave of Manichean English children's books like Alan Garner and Susan Cooper dealing with children facing elemental battle. I read an essay by Garner who said it was because they were all at school in the Second World War where the battle between good and evil seemed very close.
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostI vaguely recall a kids' BBC drama series from the 1970s called The Changes, during which people were fielding psychotic signals from their electrical appliances, including TVs. Pretty heavy stuff for 5.20pm on a Wednesday.
More significantly, I don't think it began at 5.20 pm. It was either 5.05 or 5.10 pm, I think.
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Originally posted by treibeis View PostBe thankful that you only 'vaguely' recall it. I still wake up shrieking at three in the morning now because of "The Changes". "The Changes", "Apache" and my sister kicking the shit out of me on 4th June 1976 made me the man I am today.
More significantly, I don't think it began at 5.20 pm. It was either 5.05 or 5.10 pm, I think.
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Stay Tuned was a decent little film starring Jon Ritter and Pam Dawber. Couple sucked into a television set and end up in parodies of game shows and the like.
Another "can't believe I forgot that one" is TerrorVision.Last edited by Snake Plissken; 26-04-2018, 09:27.
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostCould've been, but the BBC kids' slot I recall used to be something like: 4.0 (Play School); 4.25 (cartoon); 4.35 (Jackanory, usually); 4.55 (Blue Peter, etc); 5.20 (some kind of drama); 5.45 (short - Magic Roundabout, Wombles, Paddington, etc). Obviously, this varied a great deal, but represents the 'memory template' by which I was going.
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What nonsense, sir!
Here's the BBC1 schedule for 6 March 1972. While not being exactly as I described, it's really not far off...
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules...don/1972-03-06
'5.10', my fat ass!
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostWhat nonsense, sir!
Here's the BBC1 schedule for 6 March 1972. While not being exactly as I described, it's really not far off...
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules...don/1972-03-06
'5.10', my fat ass!
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostI'll buy regional news broadcasts and the like, but if you're seriously trying to argue that the BBC even varied their kids' programming...
Anyway, ursus has now delivered the bullet!
I was sure, absolutely cast-iron certain, that Points West kicked off at 5.40 pm - immediately after the five-minute cartoon-type thing at 5.35 pm.
This is the first day I've had off in three weeks. I won't be having another day off for a month. And you've ruined it by making me think, at length, about when Captain Pugwash was on the telly. Thanks a bunch.
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