The London Palladium December 1973 part 2

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Uploaded by on Jan 10, 2008

At the end of this clip, i have a little quiz. Who knows the answer?

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  • How much of the show was broadcast before it was taken hurriedly off air? Also was this tape made by a private individual on an early domestic video recorder or was it made by LWT? If the latter does it officially exist in their archive?

  • I think it was after 30 minutes or so. It was recorded on a Sony CV2000B in the dressing room from the London Palladium, receiving the signal live from a "rabbit ear" antenna. This program is not in the ATV archive.

  • This was shown on 23rd December 1973. There was a bomb scare at the theatre - someone rang the box office at 8.05pm and said a bomb would go off in five minutes. 2000 people were evacuated, and television switched to the Sammy Davis special.

  • Yes !!!! We have a winner.

  • Something like this happened twice on this revived version of the popular 1950s/60s variety show. After the first of the two commercial breaks that the programme featured, had it gone out properly, the picture went all weird - the programme was taken off and, on this clip, replaced with a programme with Sammy Davis, Jr. On a later edition of this show, at almost exactly the same point, the same bit of weirdness occurred again - and we found ourselves watching a programme with Rolf Harris in it!

  • Sorry,

    The problem was nothing technical. Thanks.

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  • This comes from the period of the three-day week and the 10.30 pm TV shutdown.

    This was obviously recorded from LWT going by the break bumper, although there are two different announcers heard - maybe the one over the Palladium slide was from ATV (who I think were still producing this revival despite no longer having a London franchise - the 1980s revivals were LWT, though).

  • No, the show was broadcast live so no problem with the quadruplex tape. thanks for trying. ;)

  • Most likely at the end of the performance the video master reel which was being played back had a problem, probably badly damaged the reel from the sound of it would be my best guess. It was a common occurence when playing back these broadcast quadraplex reels.

    Enjoyed the show, many thanks for posting it, liked the Canada Dry commercial at the end, neat that there was a bit of contunity there as well..

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