The Battle For Saturday Night

nezza

I've tried this before but it didn't work out so fingers crossed for this reboot.

POD: 1968

ITV Franchises

Regionals
Northern Scotland: Grampian
Central and South Scotland: Scottish
Northwest England: Granada (***)
North Wales: WWN
South Wales and Western England: TWW
Midlands: Central
Southwest England: Westward
Channel Islands: Channel Television
South and South East England: Southern
East England: Anglia
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire: Yorkshire
NE England: Tyne Tees
NI: Ulster
London: Thames (**)

National
ABC, ATV (*) and ITN (**)

*ABC and ATV are national weekend only programme providers
** ITN and Thames co-produce "Daybreak" Breakfast Show from 8.30 to 9.30 across the week.
*** Granada cover IOM, Cumberland and Westmoreland so no Border)
 
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Alue26

Sorry if I sound a bit stupid and not able to read the thing but... Is this meant for British television, or something else?
 

nezza

By 1978 both the BBC and ITV were engaged in a frantic battle for supremacy on Saturday nights. A typical evening's viewing would be along these lines

BBC1

5.30 Dr Who
6.00 Larry Grayson's Generation Game
6.50 The Duchess of Duke Street
7.40 Starsky and Hutch
8.30 The Two Ronnies
9.20 News
9.35 Match Of The Day
10.25 Parkinson

ITV

5.30 Star Trek: Phase 2
6.30 Blind Date (Presented by Bob Monkhouse) (ATV)
7.30 Columbo
9.00 News
9.15 Frost on Saturday (ABC)
10.15 Late Film
 

NOMISYRRUC

nezza said:
I've tried this before but it didn't work out so fingers crossed for this reboot.

POD: 1968

ITV Franchises

Regionals
Northern Scotland: Grampian
Central and South Scotland: Scottish
Northwest England: Granada (***)
North Wales: WWN
South Wales and Western England: TWW
Midlands: Central
Southwest England: Westward
Channel Islands: Channel Television
South and South East England: Southern
East England: Anglia
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire: Yorkshire
NE England: Tyne Tees
NI: Ulster
London: Thames (**)

National
ABC, ATV (*) and ITN (**)

*ABC and ATV are national weekend only programme providers
** ITN and Thames co-produce "Daybreak" Breakfast Show from 8.30 to 9.30 across the week.
*** Granada cover IOM, Cumberland and Westmoreland so no Border)
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London Weekend Television (LWT) is conspicuous by its absence. Did Lew Grade beat David Frost for the London Weekend franchise ITTL?
 

NOMISYRRUC

nezza said:
By 1978 both the BBC and ITV were engaged in a frantic battle for supremacy on Saturday nights. A typical evening's viewing would be along these lines

BBC1

5.30 Dr Who
6.00 Larry Grayson's Generation Game
6.50 The Duchess of Duke Street
7.40 Starsky and Hutch
8.30 The Two Ronnies
9.20 News
9.35 Match Of The Day
10.25 Parkinson

ITV

5.30 Star Trek: Phase 2
6.30 Blind Date (Presented by Bob Monkhouse) (ATV)
7.30 Columbo
9.00 News
9.15 Frost on Saturday (ABC)
10.15 Late Film
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IIRC (and I probably have because I have that sort of memory) ITV IOTL (or at least Tyne Tees) was transmitting The Man From Atlantis in the same time slot as the Generation Game in 1978. One of the reasons why I remember this is because I wanted to watch The Man from Atlantis and my sister wanted to watch Larry Grayson's Generation Game. (I didn't dislike Larry Grayson's version, I preferred Man from Atlantis.) Our parents solved this by having "Atlantis" on one week and The Generation Game the next.

Bruce's Big Night is also conspicuous by its absence.

It's interesting that the BBC's American series is about an hour earlier than I remember it. IIRC Starsky & Hutch, Ironside, Kojack and later on Dallas (after it moved from weekday evenings) were in the nine to ten slot.
 
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nezza

Technically speaking Thames is still Monday to Friday but with the ITN linkup their studios at Teddington Lock are still on air at weekends. The endcap reads:

Daybreak
ITV MCMLXXVIII

ABC and ATV aren't franchise areas but programme producers/providers

In this universe Bruce started Play Your Cards Right for ATV in 1980
 
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