Re: Doctor Who 2024 and its position in the UK TV charts

Your Name wrote on 29/6/24 9:19 am:

On 2024-06-28 13:04:41 +0000, Daniel70 said:

Blueshirt wrote on 27/6/24 9:30 pm:

Your Name wrote:

On 2024-06-26 18:26:47 +0000, Blueshirt said:
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You couldn't watch new episodes of Doctor Who 28 days after
it was broadcast on BBC1 in 1974, you can now.

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1974, no, but in 1976 you could ... if you were rich enough to
buy the then new-fangled home video recorder, and that would
not have been counted in the ridiculously meaningless
'ratings' nonsense.  :-)

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1976?! We just about had colour TV over here by then! :-)

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Yeap! I brought my Mum a Colour Portable T.V. for Christmas 1975!!
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I brought a (BETA) VCR Late 1982.

 1976 was when the first consumer-level video recorder was released in Japan, but they were expensive.  :-)
 

I finished my Electronics Apprenticeship late 1976, so dollars would have been tight at that time!!
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Daniel