Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel70 Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: Doctor Who 2024 and its position in the UK TV charts Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 20:28:31 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 12:28:30 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d3f015b8daabbe1283380985babea72d"; logging-data="4083363"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19lfzMCaMXXM+EGwHnCWPKsW5alg3orTyg=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:txJCHMYSFgthxO8T+YJtOp42n+s= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2326 Your Name wrote on 29/6/24 9:19 am: > On 2024-06-28 13:04:41 +0000, Daniel70 said: >> Blueshirt wrote on 27/6/24 9:30 pm: >>> Your Name wrote: >>>> On 2024-06-26 18:26:47 +0000, Blueshirt said: >>>> >>>>> You couldn't watch new episodes of Doctor Who 28 days after >>>>> it was broadcast on BBC1 in 1974, you can now. >>>> >>>> 1974, no, but in 1976 you could ... if you were rich enough to >>>> buy the then new-fangled home video recorder, and that would >>>> not have been counted in the ridiculously meaningless >>>> 'ratings' nonsense.  :-) >>> >>> 1976?! We just about had colour TV over here by then! :-) >> >> Yeap! I brought my Mum a Colour Portable T.V. for Christmas 1975!! >> >> I brought a (BETA) VCR Late 1982. > > 1976 was when the first consumer-level video recorder was released in > Japan, but they were expensive.  :-) > I finished my Electronics Apprenticeship late 1976, so dollars would have been tight at that time!! -- Daniel