Retro: United Kingdom Thurs, Feb 15, 1990

[Bluenoser]

from Hello!

BBC1 BBC1
BBC2 BBC2
ITV programs airing on all ITV stations
CAR Carlton (London-weekdays)
MER Meridian (South East)/Channel (Channel Islands)
ANG Anglia (East of England)
YTV Yorkshire (Yorkshire)
HTV HTV (Wales and West of England)
HTVWa HTV-Wales only
HTVWe HTV-West only
TT Tyne Tees (North East England)
UTV Ulster (Northern Ireland)
GRA Granada (North West England)
GRM Grampian (Northern Scotland)
STV Scottish (Central Scotland)
BOR Border (Cumbria/South Scotland/Isle of Man)
WC Westcountry (South West England)
C4 Channel 4
S4C S4C (Channel 4's Welsh counterpart)

Morning
6.00
BBC1 Business Breakfast
BBC2 Open University
ITV GMTV (ITV's morning program was operated by a separate franchise)

6.25
BBC2 Feminist Strategies

6.35
C4-S4C Think Tank

6.50
BBC2 No Lay-Bys at 50,000 Feet

7.00
BBC1 BBC Breakfast News
C4-S4C Big Breakfast

7.15
BBC2 See Hear Breakfast News (news in sign language)

7.30
BBC2 Stingray

8.00
BBC2 Blue Peter

8.25
BBC2 Tales of the Tooth Fairies

8.30
BBC2 Puppydog Tales

8.40
BBC2 Record

9.00
C4-S4C Fifteen to One

9.05
BBC2 Daytime on Two

9.20
BBC1 Can't Cook, Won't Cook

9.25
ITV Win, Lose or Draw (local version)

9.30
C4 ITV Schools
S4C ITV Schools/S4C Ysgolion (S4C used their own version of the ITV Schools animation when it broke off from C4's Schools feed to air Welsh programs)

9.45
BBC1 Kilroy

9.55
ITV Local News

10.00
ITV The Time...the Place

10.30
BBC1 Good Morning with Anne & Nick

10.35
ITV This Morning

Afternoon
noon
BBC1 News
C4-S4C House to House

12.05
BBC1 (England-NI-Wales) Turnabout
BBC1 (Scotland) Dotaman

12.20
ITV Local News

12.30
BBC1 Going for a Song
ITV ITN Lunchtime News
C4 Sesame Street
S4C Hullaballoo

12.55
CAR-YTV-TT-STV-CEN Home & Away
MER Chain Letters
ANG Lady Killers
HTV-GRA-BOR Shortland Street
UTV-GRM-WC Emmerdale

1.00
BBC1 BBC One O'Clock News

1.20
STV Vanessa

1.25
CAR-YTV-TT-WC-CEN Chain Letters
MER-ANG-UTV-GRA-GRM-BOR Home & Away
HTV Coronation Street

1.30
BBC1 Regional News
C4 Hullaballoo
S4C Movie "In Old Chicago"

1.40
BBC1 Neighbours

1.50
GRA A Country Practice
GRM Shortland Street
STV Home & Away

1.55
CAR-ANG-CEN A Country Practice
MER Shortland Street
YTV-TT Emmerdale
UTV Vanessa
WC Home & Away
C4 Waterways

2.00
BBC1 Pebble Mill
BBC2 Tales of the Tooth Fairies
HTV Home & Away

2.05
BBC2 Puppydog Tales

2.10
BBC2 Andrew Neil

2.20
CAR-MER-ANG-GRA-GRM-BOR-CEN Vanessa
STV Chain Letters

2.25
YTV-TT-WC Vanessa
HTV Chain Letters
UTV Shortland Street
C4 Movie "Dreamboat"

2.40
BBC1 Flying Doctors

2.50
CAR Our House
MER Child's Eye
ANG-UTV-GRM Chain Letters
HTV Vanessa
GRA-STV-BOR Emmerdale
CEN High Road

2.55
YTV-TT-WC A Country Practice

3.00
BBC2 News

3.05
BBC2 Westminster (Parliament coverage)

3.15
S4C Ricki Lake

3.25
ITV Local News

3.30
BBC1 New Yogi Bear
ITV Riddlers

3.35
BBC1 Morph Files

3.40
ITV Wizadora

3.45
BBC1 Dinobabies

3.50
ITV Rupert

3.55
BBC2 News

4.00
BBC2 Today's the Day
C4-S4C Backdate

4.10
BBC1 Highlander

4.20
ITV Mike & Angelo

4.30
BBC2 Ready, Steady, Cook
C4 Countdown
S4C Travelog

4.35
BBC1 Really Wild Show

4.45
ITV Reboot II

5.00
BBC1 Newsround
BBC2 (England-NI-Wales) Oprah Winfrey
BBC2 (Scotland) Ken Hom's Hot Wok
C4 Ricki Lake
S4C 5Pump

5.10
BBC1 Grange Hill
CAR After 5
MER-YTV-TT-WC Home & Away
ANG-CEN Shortland Street
HTV A Country Practice
GRA-BOR Chain Letters
GRM Chart Bite
STV Emmerdale

5.30
S4C Countdown

5.35
BBC1 Neighbours

5.40
BBC2 Sky at Night
ITV ITN Early Evening News

5.45
C4 Terrytoons

5.55
ITV Your Shout

Evening
6.00
BBC1 BBC Six O'Clock News/Weather
BBC2 (England-NI-Wales) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
BBC2 (Scotland) Mire Mara
CAR Home & Away
MER-ANG-YOR-HTV-TT-UTV-GRA-GRM-STV-BOR-WC-CEN Local News
C4 NBA

6.05
GRM Home & Away

6.15
BBC2 (Scotland) De A-nis?
C4 Heno

6.30
BBC1-CAR-GRM Regional News
MER Getaways
BOR Home & Away
C4 Moviewatch

7.00
BBC1 Top of the Pops
BBC2 (England-NI-Wales) Waiting for God
BBC2 (Scotland) TNG
CAR-MER-ANG-YTV-HTV-TT-UTV-GRA-GRM-BOR-WC-CEN Emmerdale
STV Home Show
C4 Channel 4 News/Weather (produced by ITN)
S4C Pobol y Cwm (this BBC-produced Welsh soap still airs today)

7.25
S4C Pwy 'Di Pwy?

7.30
BBC1 EastEnders
BBC2 (England) Regional Program
BBC2 (NI) Now You're Talking
BBC2 (Wales) Dad's Army
BBC2 (Scotland) Eorpa
ITV Survival

7.50
C4 The Slot

8.00
BBC1 (England-NI-Wales) Alien Empire
BBC1 (Scotland) Velvet Claw
BBC2 (England-Wales-Scotland) Three Colours Cezanne
BBC2 (NI) More of It Than We Think
ITV The Bill
C4 The Pulse
S4C Y Ferch Drws Nesa

8.30
BBC1 Detectives
BBC2 Top Gear
ITV The Brits are Coming
C4 Food File

9.00
BBC1 BBC Nine O'Clock News
BBC2 (England-NI-Wales) Movie "Roommates"
BBC2 (Scotland) Traces of Guilt
ITV Thief Takers
C4 Seasiders
S4C A55

9.30
BBC1 Into the Fire
C4 Annie's Bar

10.00
BBC2 (Scotland) Moment of Truth
ITV News at Ten
C4 NYPD Blue
S4C Annie's Bar

10.30
BBC2 Newsnight
CAR-MER-ANG-YTV-HTV-TT-GRA-BOR-WC-CEN Local News
YTV-TT A Current Affair
GRM Crossfire
STV Late Edition
S4C Movie "Night on Earth"

10.35
BBC1 (England-Wales-Scotland) Question Time (Question Period from the House of Commons)
BBC1 (NI) Spotlight

10.40
CAR London Bridge
MER Movie "Dead in the Water"
ANG Magic & Mystery Show
HTVWe Getaways
HTVWa Under the Dragon's Wing
UTV Counterpoint
GRA Being There
BOR Movie "Last Rites"
WC Careless in the Community?
CEN Crime Stalker

10.55
C4 Whose Line is It Anyway?

11.00
GRM Way It Was

11.05
BBC1 (NI) Question Time

11.10
CAR Good Stuff
ANG Cover Story
YTV-TT Prisoner: Cell Block H
HTVWe On the Line
HTVWa Tales from the Crypt
UTV RPM-Looking Ahead
GRA The Line

11.15
BBC2 (England-NI) Late Review
BBC2 (Wales) Wales 2006-the Culture
BBC2 (Scotland) Ma Chuairt Alba

11.30
C4 Midnight Special: Scott Report

11.35
BBC1 (England-Wales-Scotland) Hunger for Faith

11.40
CAR-HTV-WC Prisoner: Cell Block H
ANG Max Monroe: Loose Cannon
UTV Knight Rider
GRA Bodies of Evidence
GRM Ceol na Fidhle
CEN Magnum

11.45
STV Tales from the Crypt

11.55
BBC1 (England-Wales-Scotland) Movie "Who?"
BBC2 Weatherview

Late Night
midnight
BBC2 Midnight Hour

12.05
BBC1 (NI) Hunger for Faith
YOR-TT Movie "Airport 80-the Concorde"

12.10
GRM Tales from the Crypt

12.15
C4 Dispatches

12.25
BBC1 (NI) Movie "Man on Fire" (sign-off follows movie)

12.30
BBC2 BBC Learning Zone

12.35
MER-ANG-HTV-WC Carnal Knowledge (sex quiz that was considered "pornography" by Yorkshire-Tyne Tees, who refused to show it)

12.40
CAR-GRA-BOR-CEN Carnal Knowledge
UTV-GRM TBA
STV God's Gift

12.50
S4C Midnight Special: Scott Report (sign-off 2.20)

1.00
C4 Champions

1.25
BBC1 Weather (sign-off 1.30)

1.35
MER-ANG-HTV-WC Not Fade Away

1.40
CAR-UTV-GRA-GRM-BOR-CEN Not Fade Away
STV Sledge Hammer!

1.50
YOR-TT Not Fade Away

2.00
C4 Movie "Forbidden" (sign-off 3.30)

2.10
STV Home Show

2.35
CAR-MER-ANG-HTV-UTV-BOR-WC-CEN Shift
YOR-TT TBA
STV Movie "Into Thin Air"

3.05
YOR-TT Shift

3.30
CAR-YOR-TT-UTV-GRA-GRM-BOR-CEN Customs Classified
MER-ANG-HTV-WC Story of Steam

4.15
CAR-YOR-TT-UTV-GRA-GRM-BOR-CEN On the Live Side

4.20
MER-ANG-HTV-WC The Time...the Place

4.25
STV Kid Creole & the Coconuts

4.30
CAR-YOR-TT-UTV-GRA-GRM-BOR-CEN Millionaires

4.55
CAR-YOR-TT-UTV-GRA-GRM-BOR-CEN The Time...the Place

5.00
MER Freescreen
ANG-HTV-WC New Mr & Mrs

5.30
ITV ITN Morning News

5.40
BBC1 Hunger for Faith

 

[Bob1370]

I assume "Prisoner: Cell Block H" was a rerun on the stations that showed it?

It was an Australian drama about inmates in a women's prison and it was syndicated in the U.S. intended for play in early prime time (between 7 and 8 PM ET, just before the big 3 networks would start feeding their prime time schedule every weeknight) starting back in the late 1970s. By 1980-81 it had run its course in the United States, partly because it was too hot for a lot of stations to handle. It was pretty frank for its time and a lot of markets didn't carry it as a result. The CBS affiliate in Buffalo, NY, WIVB-TV, carried it at 7 PM ET following Walter Cronkite and the CBS Evening News, and got good numbers with it until it went out of syndication...other markets in the Great Lakes region either carried it late at night or didn't carry it at all. I don't know if the Aussies kept it in production for domestic viewing or other syndicated markets after its American market dried up.

 

[Bluenoser]

I assume "Prisoner: Cell Block H" was a rerun on the stations that showed it?

It was an Australian drama about inmates in a women's prison and it was syndicated in the U.S. intended for play in early prime time (between 7 and 8 PM ET, just before the big 3 networks would start feeding their prime time schedule every weeknight) starting back in the late 1970s. By 1980-81 it had run its course in the United States, partly because it was too hot for a lot of stations to handle. It was pretty frank for its time and a lot of markets didn't carry it as a result. The CBS affiliate in Buffalo, NY, WIVB-TV, carried it at 7 PM ET following Walter Cronkite and the CBS Evening News, and got good numbers with it until it went out of syndication...other markets in the Great Lakes region either carried it late at night or didn't carry it at all. I don't know if the Aussies kept it in production for domestic viewing or other syndicated markets after its American market dried up.

They would be reruns, production ended in 1986. Wikipedia has a page on the show at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_(TV_series) , Section 4 deals with its scheduling in the UK.

 

[bpatrick]

I suspect WIVB was in a minority; I don't recall many stations
carrying "Prisoner: Cell Block H" in access time (the show was
hardly family-friendly), but I do know that WGN carried it in
daytime, and in some cities (like Louisville) it was on at or after
11 PM. I think a few stations tried the other Australian soap
that was syndicated in the U.S. around 1980, "The Sullivans,"
in access time but apparently without much success.

 

[BMR]

Many of Prisoner Cell Block 'H' 's fans used to complain in letters columns of newspapers about the way it was used as late night filler, with the slots moving around from week to week, and different episodes showing in different regions at different times. I suppose its cult success in the UK led eventually to the British TV series 'Bad Girls'


Still so much variation between the different ITV companies back then- within a decade or so we would be down to 2 companies for England and Wales, and within 15 years just one.

 

[RyanHoward]

I assume "Prisoner: Cell Block H" was a rerun on the stations that showed it?

It was an Australian drama about inmates in a women's prison and it was syndicated in the U.S. intended for play in early prime time (between 7 and 8 PM ET, just before the big 3 networks would start feeding their prime time schedule every weeknight) starting back in the late 1970s. By 1980-81 it had run its course in the United States, partly because it was too hot for a lot of stations to handle. It was pretty frank for its time and a lot of markets didn't carry it as a result. The CBS affiliate in Buffalo, NY, WIVB-TV, carried it at 7 PM ET following Walter Cronkite and the CBS Evening News, and got good numbers with it until it went out of syndication...other markets in the Great Lakes region either carried it late at night or didn't carry it at all. I don't know if the Aussies kept it in production for domestic viewing or other syndicated markets after its American market dried up.

In Philadelphia, "Prisoner" was on at 5 pm on then-NBC affil KYW-TV, right after "The Mike Douglas
(later John Davidson) Show," from March 1980 to April 1981.