Interesting. Any gap of longer than 6 weeks seems to be counted as a "new season" or series, when something returns - I recall the second half of Dr Who's 14th season being announced as a "new series" when it came back after a long autumn/fall/winter Christmas break, although these days fans (and BBC commercial releases) count it as one season.
I do like the idea of the 33 Tara episodes and the final 8 Emmas being one humungous season though What a way to sign off the series!
Six or Seven seasons?
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Frankymole wrote:Interesting. Any gap of longer than 6 weeks seems to be counted as a "new season" or series, when something returns - I recall the second half of Dr Who's 14th season being announced as a "new series" when it came back after a long autumn/fall/winter Christmas break, although these days fans (and BBC commercial releases) count it as one season.
I do like the idea of the 33 Tara episodes and the final 8 Emmas being one humungous season though What a way to sign off the series!
I CONCUR...GOOD POINT...Always wondered how the Tara era would have progress..had the series enjoyed another season-or-two...
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Intersetingly, France's ORTF2 (2e châine) showed "The Forget-Me-Knot" as the last episode of their series 2 (series 5), although they showed them in a unique order and skipped 9 episodes ... perhaps!
Télévision française was affected by disputes in June & July 1968 and the Swiss papers I've been checking stopped listing their programmes for several weeks, so some of those missing 9 might have been broadcast.
Switzerland saw the lot in the first run on Suisse Romande, January-July 1968.
Suisse Romande showed all but 8 episodes of series 4 in October 1966 - March 67, again apparently doing better than ORTF, which skipped 13, but showed "The Master Minds", which I haven't found in the Suisse Romande broadcasts yet. In 1967, "A Touch of Brimstone" was held back to a Wednesday 10:10pm timeslot, two months afte the previous episode, "The Thirteen Hole" ended the series run on Saturdays nights, spisodes starting between 8:30 and 9:30pm.
The listings are quite annoying because sometimes they say "film policier" instead of the programme title.
Télévision française was affected by disputes in June & July 1968 and the Swiss papers I've been checking stopped listing their programmes for several weeks, so some of those missing 9 might have been broadcast.
Switzerland saw the lot in the first run on Suisse Romande, January-July 1968.
Suisse Romande showed all but 8 episodes of series 4 in October 1966 - March 67, again apparently doing better than ORTF, which skipped 13, but showed "The Master Minds", which I haven't found in the Suisse Romande broadcasts yet. In 1967, "A Touch of Brimstone" was held back to a Wednesday 10:10pm timeslot, two months afte the previous episode, "The Thirteen Hole" ended the series run on Saturdays nights, spisodes starting between 8:30 and 9:30pm.
The listings are quite annoying because sometimes they say "film policier" instead of the programme title.
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1968 must have a been a great year to live in Switzerland, at least the French side - you had The Avengers on Suisse Romande and ORTF2 and also later on on Suisse Allemantique and Allemange II - you would often have a couple of episodes a week.
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They certainly did, as The Avengers was replaced by The Saint, The Champions, Dangerman or Department S at various times.Frankymole wrote:That's fascinating. Maybe they had a genre "slot" for police/crime series, an early version of "stripping"? How did you come across the Swiss tx details?
I've been going through theSwiss TX via the archives of L'Express/L'Impartial at http://www.lexpressarchives.ch/Olive/AP ... panel=home and the somewhat easier to navigate Journal de Geneve/Gazette de Lausanne https://www.letempsarchives.ch
I was actually after confirmation of the French TX but when I discovered Switzerland screened most episodes way earlier I started collecting the data.
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