tamthebam Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 12 hours ago, Fullerene said: Here is 3 blasts from the past - all in one. 1. The Twilight Zone 2. Really basic special effects 3. Black and White TV. I remember watching the Twlight Zone. Rod Serling would be talking to the audience and everybody else would act as if he wasn't there. I used to wonder how they were able to do that. I think I understand now. *insert joke about there was no make-up it was actually filmed in Fife here 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 On 3/3/2017 at 09:51, Cardinal Richelieu said: No idea where the Jews went, right enough. We don't believe you Heinrich. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessmagic Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 30 years ago today.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 1 minute ago, Shandon Par said: 30 years ago today.. I was thinking of that today as there was some reports on the radio on the way to work today, and a family member said ' was watching TV in the evening and a News-Flash came on, and I knew they were on that ferry'. Newsflashes in the days before 24hr news, I remember the end of the Falklands and the SAS ending Iranian Embassy seige as newsflashes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 Just now, MEADOWXI said: I was thinking of that today as there was some reports on the radio on the way to work today, and a family member said ' was watching TV in the evening and a News-Flash came on, and I knew they were on that ferry'. Newsflashes in the days before 24hr news, I remember the end of the Falklands and the SAS ending Iranian Embassy seige as newsflashes. I remember the newsflash for Lockerbie too. Interrupted something like Lethal Weapon or Trading Places on STV. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 Just now, Shandon Par said: I remember the newsflash for Lockerbie too. Interrupted something like Lethal Weapon or Trading Places on STV. Lockerbie, How could I forget that one, was helping my mum decorate the living room before visitors for Christmas, that didn't get finished that night. Piper Alpha was in the morning (happened overnight and saw on TV in the morning) , my Dad was offshore at the time, on a different rig, but had previously worked on Piper Alpha, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dee_62 Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 4 minutes ago, MEADOWXI said: Lockerbie, How could I forget that one, was helping my mum decorate the living room before visitors for Christmas, that didn't get finished that night. Piper Alpha was in the morning (happened overnight and saw on TV in the morning) , my Dad was offshore at the time, on a different rig, but had previously worked on Piper Alpha, Hillsborough and Heysel both unfolded in front of the cameras to sheer disbelief. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted March 6, 2017 Author Share Posted March 6, 2017 (edited) 23 minutes ago, Shandon Par said: I remember the newsflash for Lockerbie too. Interrupted something like Lethal Weapon or Trading Places on STV. The Cruel Sea on BBC anyway... Interesting how sabotage is treated as nothing more than one possibility on that, almost something simply stuck on at the end of analysis. Imagine if this had happened last night - would be the first thing mentioned, speculation about it taking up 90% of the airtime. Changed days. Edited March 6, 2017 by Hedgecutter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 (edited) 14 minutes ago, dee_62 said: Hillsborough and Heysel both unfolded in front of the cameras to sheer disbelief. Heysel I watched, For Hillsborough I was at Meadow Park for an Irvine Meadow game and a couple of folk said their was fighting at the Liverpool game and it was abandoned. Most assumed hooliganism at that moment. Long time fo the truth to unfold. Edited March 6, 2017 by MEADOWXI 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 I remember watching "Football Focus" or whatever it was called one Saturday afternoon and the announcer calmly mentioned that the game between Bradford and Lincoln City had been interrupted because of a fire in the stand. It turned out to be a lot more serious than that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclizine Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 Piper Alpha was the day my youngest sister was born. I don't really remember the news, but apparently my uncle had been on it but had flown off a day or so before and was sleeping off a hangover somewhere in Aberdeen - not that my dad and grandparents knew whilst franticly trying to track him down. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted March 6, 2017 Author Share Posted March 6, 2017 Surprised Granny Danger hasn't given us his account of the Tay Bridge Disaster yet tbh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 Newsflashes were always exciting as you knew it was obviously going to be important stuff if they were interrupting a TV show for it, but ultimately it ended up in anti-climax as it was never a visit from aliens but usually a tragedy of some sort. One of the Space Shuttles blowing up springs to mind. I remember watching the Bradford fire rapidly taking hold live on TV as well. Grim. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted March 6, 2017 Author Share Posted March 6, 2017 4 minutes ago, Dee Man said: Newsflashes were always exciting as you knew it was obviously going to be important stuff if they were interrupting a TV show for it Indeed: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmc Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 Space shuttle one was covered by John craven news round if I remember correctly....and done in a far more respectful and less gleeful way than current rolling news channels normally report stuff. Bbc24 is nearly as bad as sky for it now....raoul moat thing and Paris attacks come to mind. Makes drop the dead donkey look tame 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 It was pre-internet but terror gripped a sleepy corner of west Fife one week in the late 80s. "The Beast of Saline" (not DA Baracus) was spotted by terrified yokels and had the media in a frenzy. Turned out the terrifying horned beast was in fact an escaped goat and it ended up getting it's picture in the paper with Jim Leishman. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 33 minutes ago, Shandon Par said: It was pre-internet but terror gripped a sleepy corner of west Fife one week in the late 80s. "The Beast of Saline" (not DA Baracus) was spotted by terrified yokels and had the media in a frenzy. Turned out the terrifying horned beast was in fact an escaped goat and it ended up getting it's picture in the paper with Jim Leishman, the Beast of Lochgelly FTFY! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 Name the TV show and the show it spawned? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 Name the TV show and the show it spawned? Was it not a movie that spawned a TV show? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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