Reposting only 'cuz I deleted it from GG web after what looked (at least
on Firefox) like a double-post:
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...
B
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