Adam Bowie, to PGage, today (11/11): > > "LWT" conjures up something entirely different in UK TV, where it was the > weekend franchise for ITV in the London area (Yup - we had two franchisees > who shared the week in the London region, one getting Monday - 5.15pm > Friday, and the other getting the rest). > > Anyway, to me, and many Brits it means this: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxj5ZbUwLiM > > Probably meaningless unless you somehow saw episodes of The Professionals > or Dempsey and Makepeace from the seventies and eighties, and they left the > credits intact. > > Getting back on topic, I look forward to catching *the other* LWT on Sky > Atlantic this evening when we get it here. > >> >> Here's a blast from the past: I can actually recall something from London Weekend Television *before* either of those shows Adam mentioned... for some strange reason a few Stateside stations (one of which in Philadelphia, which is where I saw it) picked up the two-season "Doctor In The House," inspired by the hit movie series and whose début episode was written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman (Cleese quickly bolted to concentrate on "Python," while Chapman would collab on a few more stories the first year)... it aired July-October 1969 and April-July 1970, back when LWT's weekday counterpart was Thames...
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