I've just stumbled across this video on You-Tube & it really made me tear up, mainly the bit where the announcer says the show would be back in the Autumn.
Oh wow. This is fantastic. I remember watching this live on the Beeb that evening. It wasn't the first episode I'd seen, but it was the one that got me hooked. I was in hospital, on the children's ward. Two thirds of the way through the episode a nurse floated in and announced to the assembled kids and parents that she'd read about it in the newspaper and Bobby was going to get shot at the end.
I just stumbled across this video on You-Tube & it really made me tear up, mainly the bit where the announcer says the show would be back in the Autumn.
God - I
really miss the Home Counties formality of announcements on UK TV. These take me back to a very magical time.
Notice, too, the way the announcement about the series returning in the autumn was respectfully held off until
after the credits. Nowadays they'd probably reduce it to a thumbnail and give a series of audible
and visual plugs for the entire length of the end titles.
I can remember that trailer following the episode asking who the viewers thought did it, and never thought I'd see it again, especially in such good quality. I hadn't remembered it was for
Breakfast Time, and I misremembered some of the wording (I was convinced the announcer had used the word "vengeful" in reference to Katherine). Oh, and as the years had gone by I'd started to think the three suspects were shown in a three way split à la the opening credits.
Does everyone have there own memories of waiting for the show to come back between it's seasons?
I recall that Season Six was repeated during the summer break in '84 and I caught most if not all episodes as I wanted to see what led up to Bobby's shooting. There was a whole lot of speculation going on in the O'Drama household and I'd correctly deduced whodunnit and why. Which seemed like a big deal at the time.
