I'd can confirm this was shown after Valerie Barlow's death from a electrocution of a hairdryer on the 27th of January 1971 at 8pm, The Benny Hill Show was one of the other major shows that was affected due to a colour strike alongside Upstairs Downstairs and On the Buses (cleary as the first two series was in black-and-white).
Worth pointing out as well that some ads back then were originally made in B&W. Another example was with the news where in a programme that was mainly in colour some reports were still in B&W well into the early 70s, as were on screen continuity announcements in regions such as Border. If I remember correctly they didnt use a colour continuity camera on Border until 1977 / 78!
Interesting to hear the actual theme tune to The Benny Hill Show (i.e. not Yakkity Sax) I remember it still being used when he ended it in the late 80's
@@TheGramophoneGirl That's a lot of money to me. My Dad was earning over £200 a week in 1970, as I found some of his payslips, when he died. He was a Steeplejack.
We had a video recorder at my school in 1974. It was a reel to reel machine, so this could be genuine. I have some footage of me walking through the playground, but it is black and white.
I understand (possibly incorrectly) the colour strike was just turning off the colour capabilities of the camera so anything already in colour or adverts were still broadcast in colour.
Both. This was from the colour strike era but is also a recording from 405 lines as most consumer video recording equipment available at that time was made for 405.
This was during the ITV Color Strike. The camera workers at the ITV companies went on strike over not getting extra pay for color programming. The home viewer (Circa early 1971) probably wouldn’t have noticed anything, since Most still had Black and White sets (these were Dual Standard sets in most areas, as long as BBC 2 was available, but in some areas they were still using the older 405 line only sets.). Very few people (in the areas that could receive color) even had a color set. It wouldn’t be until the end of the 1970s before the entire commonwealth fully had color tv reception available. Even then, the Black and White 405 line service continued in most of the Largest markets (Pretty much at least one main ITV STATION in each region) until New Years 1985 (final transmission dates do vary to that first week of January, but most say the date was January 3rd (they actually switched as the day progressed). In truth, The BBC’s Ceefax page on engineering stated that the last transmitters would close between January 2nd and January 6th, and Oracle Teletext saying January 3rd. The last three transmitters to close were: Church of Scotts (Kirk O’ Shotts) and Black Hill (Central Scotland) on January 4th. And the last to close was Winter Hill, serving Manchester and Lancashire, closing on the 5th Exceptions go to Anglia and channel, who switched in the Spring of 1984. Also, at least two Welsh transmitters, and, most notably Two ITV stations in the Grampian region (DURRIS and ANGUS) closed down in July. The two Grampian stations were due to close with the rest of the network that first week of January, but due to a fire damaging the UHF aerial at DURRIS, Grampian elected to close those two stations down early, in an attempt to beat out the cold winter weather. MONTEAGLE continued to the January date.
@@davidmatthewvinotjr8396 - The material on those three Hill shows made during this strike was far funnier and more superior, I.M.H.O., to their pathetic '80's remakes which, on top of it all, had extraneous stuff that weren't in these originals. This was also the show where Hill gave very subtle hints about Jimmy Savile being a pervert, in his impersonation during the "Top of the Pops" parody - so as not to invite a potential defamation lawsuit. Skewering his surname as "Saveloy" was but one - wasn't "Saveloy" in the UK (besides being a form of sausage) a euphemism for a certain part of the male anatomy in the same sense of his usual "go-to," "John Thomas"?
@@robrob8258so did my mum and dad, they didn’t get colour until 1979, it was quite surreal going to other people’s houses as a child with colour televisions.
This is during the ITV colour strike & just amazing this has surfaced
I'd can confirm this was shown after Valerie Barlow's death from a electrocution of a hairdryer on the 27th of January 1971 at 8pm, The Benny Hill Show was one of the other major shows that was affected due to a colour strike alongside Upstairs Downstairs and On the Buses (cleary as the first two series was in black-and-white).
Worth pointing out as well that some ads back then were originally made in B&W. Another example was with the news where in a programme that was mainly in colour some reports were still in B&W well into the early 70s, as were on screen continuity announcements in regions such as Border. If I remember correctly they didnt use a colour continuity camera on Border until 1977 / 78!
This is WELL RARE!!!!
1:47 Hai Karate ad with Valerie Leon, as spoofed in #TheGoodies #RIPTBT
Interesting to hear the actual theme tune to The Benny Hill Show (i.e. not Yakkity Sax) I remember it still being used when he ended it in the late 80's
£18 in 1970 is about c£235 today (or so I googled)
My Dad bought a colour TV in 1970, it was £200.
@@Jack_Warner Which according to the same calculator would be £2,600 today. Which is about right for the latest tech tv like a nice 8k one.
@@TheGramophoneGirl That's a lot of money to me. My Dad was earning over £200 a week in 1970, as I found some of his payslips, when he died. He was a Steeplejack.
Was this taped on a CV2000 reel. I know that was one of the only consumer VTRs at the time.
We had a video recorder at my school in 1974. It was a reel to reel machine, so this could be genuine. I have some footage of me walking through the playground, but it is black and white.
They seem to have video recordings on a daily basis.Love to know the source of these
This was the period when Thames offered discounted ad prices to tempt companies away from advertising on London Weekend Television.
The same day Valerie Barlow died on Coronation Street.
Yep.
Was this during the colour strike or from a 405 line transmission?
It’s from the latter.
Actually it was a clour strike
The whole colour strike was a bit of a waste of time considering that the vast majority of viewers were still using monochrome TVs anyway.
I understand (possibly incorrectly) the colour strike was just turning off the colour capabilities of the camera so anything already in colour or adverts were still broadcast in colour.
Both. This was from the colour strike era but is also a recording from 405 lines as most consumer video recording equipment available at that time was made for 405.
Video recording from 1971?
My friend Abigail was born on this day! Why Is it still black and white though?
This was during the ITV Color Strike.
The camera workers at the ITV companies went on strike over not getting extra pay for color programming.
The home viewer (Circa early 1971) probably wouldn’t have noticed anything, since Most still had Black and White sets (these were Dual Standard sets in most areas, as long as BBC 2 was available, but in some areas they were still using the older 405 line only sets.).
Very few people (in the areas that could receive color) even had a color set. It wouldn’t be until the end of the 1970s before the entire commonwealth fully had color tv reception available. Even then, the Black and White 405 line service continued in most of the Largest markets (Pretty much at least one main ITV STATION in each region) until New Years 1985 (final transmission dates do vary to that first week of January, but most say the date was January 3rd (they actually switched as the day progressed).
In truth, The BBC’s Ceefax page on engineering stated that the last transmitters would close between January 2nd and January 6th, and Oracle Teletext saying January 3rd.
The last three transmitters to close were:
Church of Scotts (Kirk O’ Shotts) and Black Hill (Central Scotland) on January 4th.
And the last to close was Winter Hill, serving Manchester and Lancashire, closing on the 5th
Exceptions go to Anglia and channel, who switched in the Spring of 1984.
Also, at least two Welsh transmitters, and, most notably Two ITV stations in the Grampian region (DURRIS and ANGUS) closed down in July. The two Grampian stations were due to close with the rest of the network that first week of January, but due to a fire damaging the UHF aerial at DURRIS, Grampian elected to close those two stations down early, in an attempt to beat out the cold winter weather.
MONTEAGLE continued to the January date.
@@davidmatthewvinotjr8396 - The material on those three Hill shows made during this strike was far funnier and more superior, I.M.H.O., to their pathetic '80's remakes which, on top of it all, had extraneous stuff that weren't in these originals.
This was also the show where Hill gave very subtle hints about Jimmy Savile being a pervert, in his impersonation during the "Top of the Pops" parody - so as not to invite a potential defamation lawsuit. Skewering his surname as "Saveloy" was but one - wasn't "Saveloy" in the UK (besides being a form of sausage) a euphemism for a certain part of the male anatomy in the same sense of his usual "go-to," "John Thomas"?
Most people still had black n white sets then.I remember my Nan still had black n white late 70’s
@@robrob8258so did my mum and dad, they didn’t get colour until 1979, it was quite surreal going to other people’s houses as a child with colour televisions.