Mrs Thatcher seemed to have quickly forgave the BBC during the 1987 election campaign, according to the video description!
She seemed perfectly happy to appear in an interview with Robin Day on panorama - her most hated programme - where she made her "I shall go on and on and on". Too right, she served for 11 and a half years and never shut up!
Oh, and the date is Wednesday 20th May 1987. The Dallas episode was showing only five days after its US transmission - it was usually shown from autumn to spring in line with the US seasons until the last series, which was flung out on Sunday afternoons in the summer because, here as there, its ratings had completely collapsed by that point.
@RobinCarmody - the falling popularity of Dallas also seemed to be tied with the BBC transmitting it from an NTSC conversion instead of importing the 35mm prints? People complained that it wasn't so glossy looking.
'Best of British' ending at the start, I presume. Thatcher did appear on a Radio 1 phone-in just before the election, of all places, but then she'd have had no opinion of that station, at least compared to her paranoia about the rest of the BBC. Note the Lime Grove address - Current Affairs was always based there, with News at TVC, and it was John Birt's merger of the two later that year, combined with the terrible condition of the building, that finally did for BBC TV's post-war home.
Mrs Thatcher seemed to have quickly forgave the BBC during the 1987 election campaign, according to the video description!
She seemed perfectly happy to appear in an interview with Robin Day on panorama - her most hated programme - where she made her "I shall go on and on and on". Too right, she served for 11 and a half years and never shut up!
AidanLunn 9 months ago
did Dimbers read the whole bulletin I wonder...sport as well?!
givemethevalium 1 year ago
Oh, and the date is Wednesday 20th May 1987. The Dallas episode was showing only five days after its US transmission - it was usually shown from autumn to spring in line with the US seasons until the last series, which was flung out on Sunday afternoons in the summer because, here as there, its ratings had completely collapsed by that point.
RobinCarmody 1 year ago
@RobinCarmody - the falling popularity of Dallas also seemed to be tied with the BBC transmitting it from an NTSC conversion instead of importing the 35mm prints? People complained that it wasn't so glossy looking.
doubledeckers 1 year ago
'Best of British' ending at the start, I presume. Thatcher did appear on a Radio 1 phone-in just before the election, of all places, but then she'd have had no opinion of that station, at least compared to her paranoia about the rest of the BBC. Note the Lime Grove address - Current Affairs was always based there, with News at TVC, and it was John Birt's merger of the two later that year, combined with the terrible condition of the building, that finally did for BBC TV's post-war home.
RobinCarmody 1 year ago