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...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 2 minutes ago, 8MileBU said: Was it not a movie that spawned a TV show? That was what my fingers were supposed to type. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 That was what my fingers were supposed to type. Thought so... Clarence The Cross Eyed Lion & Daktari are the answers. I was subjected to watching re-runs of this as a nipper because my Mum used to watch it when she was a child. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 (edited) Going back to Lockerbie... which Dutch superstar player ended up as a guard back in the Netherlands keeping an eye on the "Lockerbie Bomber" when he was awaiting trial? Clue - he drove a 2CV. Edited March 6, 2017 by Shandon Par 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 This swordsman was frozen in a block of ice and discovered on a sixties building site, what was the show? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nkomo-A-Gogo Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 FTFY! [emoji38] There's a BFTP on her shorts. Russell athletic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shuggz Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 1 hour ago, Zen Archer said: This swordsman was frozen in a block of ice and discovered on a sixties building site, what was the show? Adam Adamant....what have I won? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 Just now, shuggz said: Adam Adamant....what have I won? Adam Adamant Lives, you can have half a point. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shuggz Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 1 minute ago, Zen Archer said: Adam Adamant Lives, you can have half a point. You put an extra "o" in that...cheers! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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