I lived in the Thames/LWT ITV region and that's all we got, but somehow, some school friends were able to get Southern ITV on their sets. Southern showed TNA on a different night from London. If I missed an episode of TNA (there was no such thing as a video recorder!) I'd go round to theirs to watch it the next night! But somehow, I still ended up missing a couple of the episodes. They were first repeated in the London area late at night in 1980/81 and then again in 1985/86, by which time the awful film montage titles had been added on some episodes and I was able to record them.Dandy Forsdyke wrote:Regional veriations used to drive me mad as a kid. In the TV Times listings there used to be a small box listing the programmes in other regions. It used to infuriate me when The Avengers or another favourite was shown anywhere else but my own area.
I don't know if this still the case today. I tend to think that these days - local news apart - that each region has fairly standard programming.
Although the BBC run of TNA was the first true network broadcast of TA in any form, I think it's fair to say that they were broadcast across the ITV network in their original runs, just not necessarily simultaneously, which is as good as a network showing really. It's interesting that the Channel 4 run of the Peel/King episodes in 82-84 weren't shown nationally. I always assumed C4 was one network, but it makes sense that SC4 was separate.
