End of Paul Daniels Halloween Show then start of Sportscene - 31st October 1987

The end of Paul Daniels performing the iron maiden torture cabinet illuison on his TV show on Halloween. This caused the BBC switchboard to be jammed with telephone calls from worried viewers who feared for Paul's safety. With hindsight Paul's appearance at the end of the credits is a clue that all was ok but nonetheless it was pretty real at the time.

We then have a BBC1 Scotland link into Sportscene which features Hearts 4-2 win over Dundee which was in itself one of the best games seen that season. Archie Macpherson presents.

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[Mintsauce27]

@angryheavyhand  Yes

[p0ab]

@angryheavyhand no

[sh1ttyhorror]

@jeffrey44 I couldn't sleep! I was allowed to stay up to watch Sportscene then only went to bed after he'd appeared again. Earliest memories = trauma via Paul Daniels :). Glad it wasn't just me :)

[jeffrey44]

I remember watching this and then going to bed thinking he had been killed. I think my Dad told me the next morning that Paul Daniels had come back on later to confirm that he didn't really die - obvious with hindsight. I was only 7 years old at the time though.

[hiplingo]

This is when Paul Daniels pretended to die... then football got murdered.

[RobinCarmody]

No, thankfully. The third series was fully networked on BBC1, because it was shown on Thursdays (the second had been shown on Tuesdays, when the regions used to do their own thing - Barry Norman's Film series also started as a London-only thing at this time) and the fourth series was on BBC2, which was the same throughout the UK (hence why its announcers said "that's except for viewers in Scotland", etc.)

[623058]

Was the 3rd and 4th series just as badly treated?

[RobinCarmody]

Yes. The second series, unbelievably, was hardly shown outside London on its original transmission in 1970, but was fully networked in 1971 - although minus the last episode with the Undertakers' Sketch (which wasn't networked until 1987, and even then may not necessarily have been shown in Scotland).

The BBC *really* didn't appreciate what they had ...

[623058]

Back when MPFC was first transmitted did there ever broadcast them at a later date?

[RobinCarmody]

"on other occasions" = "on *this* occasion". They did delay the schedule on other occasions, as I said.

I need some sleep.