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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Neil Forbes 2nd Oct 2015		TV The Champions (1968 - 1969)	@23Skidoo, if you have a Blu-Ray drive on your computer, you can play discs from any and all regions without need to convert to any given region. It works that way with DVDs so I don't see why Blu-Rays won't work the same way. As they say in the classics, "suck it and see!"
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		TV Time Team (1994 - 2014)	I thought Tony Robinson was looking a bit dizzy(cue Tommy Roe single.... ha-ha), must've been all that "spinning-off" he did! HA-HA!
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		TV Time Team (1994 - 2014)	This one seems to have gone missing from the ABC-TV schedules here in Australia.
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		TV Bewitched (1964 - 1972)	If Bewitched debuted in Australia during 1968, then it was already 4 years old before we got to see it. Pretty-much par-for-the-course for Australian TV in those days.
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		TV Skippy The Bush Kangaroo (1968 - 1970)	@Zabadak, you cruel beast! Poor little Skippy is shaking like a leaf at the thought of ending up on your dinner plate! Ha-ha!
Neil Forbes 27th Sep 2015		TV Welcome Back, Kotter (1975 - 1979)	Even so with filmed or videotaped shows, there was a degree of quality loss in conversion, but if the so-called "washed-out" look was deliberate, the conversion from film to NTSC videotape(if indeed they copied the filmed stuff to videotape) then upward conversion from NTSC to PAL would definitely have compounded the quality loss.
Neil Forbes 27th Sep 2015		TV Welcome Back, Kotter (1975 - 1979)	RC:- "Colour looks if it was washed out"... That can be easily explained by the conversion from American NTSC colour system up to the superior German PAL system in use by more discerning countries, including Australia. The conversion highlighted the shortcomings of the American colour system against its vastly superior German counterpart.
Neil Forbes 26th Sep 2015		TV Welcome Back, Kotter (1975 - 1979)	RC:- "One of three shows I used to see what I call picaso print" Er.... huh???????
Neil Forbes 26th Sep 2015		TV Welcome Back, Kotter (1975 - 1979)	...Up your nose wit' a rubber hose! Oooh that's just gotta hurt! Ooouuuucccchhhh!
Neil Forbes 26th Sep 2015		TV Hogan's Heroes (1965 - 1971)	Donkof? Ahhh vieleicht meinst du "Dummkopf", Ja?... They're coming to take me away, ha-haaaa....!
Neil Forbes 26th Sep 2015		TV Welcome Back, Kotter (1975 - 1979)	Ooo-oo, Oooo-oo-oo! (Arnold Horshak) Sadly, Ron Palillo passed away some years ago. but he'll likely always be remembered for "Arnold Horshak".
Neil Forbes 26th Sep 2015		TV Hogan's Heroes (1965 - 1971)	Ach.... I know nussssink... NUSSSSSSINK! (Oh it's all so nice in the nuthouse....)
Neil Forbes 25th Sep 2015		TV Home And Away (1988 - Now)	Yeah, that'd be about right, RC!
Neil Forbes 25th Sep 2015		TV Skippy The Bush Kangaroo (1968 - 1970)	One day, Sonny Hammond was in Sydney, with Skippy coming along for the ride, of course. It was around lunch time and Sonny, feeling a bit peckish, visited an Asian restaurant. Ordering a plate of food he'd have some and feed some to Skippy.... but poor old Skippy's digestive system couldn't handle it and she was throwing up in the gutter out front of the restaurant. A passing stranger sees this and asks what was wrong with her, to which Sonny replied... wait for it.... "Thai's got my kangaroo down, sport!" Ha-ha!
Neil Forbes 25th Sep 2015		TV Home And Away (1988 - Now)	Well... I wouldn't go that far!
Neil Forbes 25th Sep 2015		TV Skippy The Bush Kangaroo (1968 - 1970)	Tsk.... tsk... tsk...tsk...tsk...tsk...tsk... What's that, Skip? You're trying to live the quiet life in retirement and reference to your starring role keeps popping up on 45Worlds? And you're hoppin' mad about it? Can't blame ya!
Neil Forbes 25th Sep 2015		TV Home And Away (1988 - Now)	@Zab, what episodes are you seeing now? and RC, the show's been running since 1988 but how much longer will it last?.... How long's a piece of string?
Neil Forbes 23rd Sep 2015		TV Home And Away (1988 - Now)	RC: "I haven't seen home and away since 1999 watched abit of it the other night gone the days good video quality looks like it's shot in 8mm film and who is directing it must be stoned it goes from scene to scene they can't even keep that camera steady haha" errrr like..... faaa-aaar out, man! Got 'ny more weed?(ha-ha)
Neil Forbes 23rd Sep 2015		TV Home And Away (1988 - Now)	I continue to watch it only because the network isn't producing any other drama or comedy, just putrid "reality(contrived)" shows.... Ugh!
Neil Forbes 23rd Sep 2015		TV Don't Blame The Koalas (2002 - 2003)	Enough to send shivers down a poor koala's spine....Brrrrrrr!
Neil Forbes 23rd Sep 2015		TV Home And Away (1988 - Now)	Not all the time, though, occasionally they cut the Thursday night show back to half-an-hour.
Neil Forbes 23rd Sep 2015		TV Don't Blame The Koalas (2002 - 2003)	Oh don't say that, RC, you'll have Edna Everidge giving them nightmares! (ha-ha) "Hello, possums!"(eeyyyeeewww!)
Neil Forbes 23rd Sep 2015		TV Home And Away (1988 - Now)	@23Skiddoo, it's a daily programme, though these days it airs from 7.00 to 7.30 pm Monday to Wednesday, then 7.00 to 8.00pm Thursdays on Station ATN-Sydney and affiliated capital city stations as well as the Prime network through regional Australia.
Neil Forbes 23rd Sep 2015		TV Don't Blame The Koalas (2002 - 2003)	That's good, Zab!, I mean really, just how much can a koala bear(yes, I know they're not bears, as an Aussie, I'm well aware of that fact, but it shouldn't ruin a good punch-line).
Neil Forbes 16th Sep 2015		TV The Beatles Anthology (1995)	I'll bet this is one Record Collector is keen to get his hands on... Ay, RC?
Neil Forbes 16th Sep 2015		TV The Benny Hill Show (1955 - 1989)	I've said my bit, I'll leave it at that.
Neil Forbes 16th Sep 2015		TV The Outer Limits [1995] (1995 - 2002)	Do not adjust your TV sets........ Yeah, right!
Neil Forbes 13th Sep 2015		TV The Benny Hill Show (1955 - 1989)	@23Skiddoo and RC, What I was getting at is when you start a format at one station, like The Mike Walsh Show as an example, which, in Sydney at least(through its early years up to 1975) was live to air, but delayed when carried by any regional station which carried it, by anything up to a week or more after the original broadcast, then, after perhaps, a dispute between Walsh, the company producing the show(Screen Gems[Australia] Ltd.) and the station, TEN-Sydney, in which studios the show was made, up to 1975, the dispute leads to a falling-out between the named parties, Walsh, now producing the show himself, takes it to Station TCN-Sydney from 1976 on to 1984, that's the point at which the "counter is reset to zero", even though the format hadn't changed, the studios in which it was made have changed. It's not just the production company "packaging" the show, the station has a stake in the show as well, thus, different station = different show! Same with Benny Hill, he used BBC facilities from 1955 to 1968, then used the facilities of Thames TV from 1969 to 1984 to produce his shows. With shows like "Bionic Woman" or "MAS*H", these are pre-packaged shows that are produced independently of any broadcast station, they use no TV station facilities(or if they do, it's sparingly at most) The shows are produced in a company's(like Paramount's or Columbia Pictures) own back-lot, the finished product is then offered up to the stations to accept or reject, the stations had little or no part in the production, so the count of episodes continue regardless of which network is screening it, CBS, NBC, ABC, A & E, Fox, whichever!
Neil Forbes 11th Sep 2015		TV The Benny Hill Show (1955 - 1989)	@RC, If you want to start running, I've got an MP3 of Boots Randolph's version I'll play for ya! Ha-ha!
Neil Forbes 11th Sep 2015		TV Night Court (1984 - 1992)	@RC, if you're referring to my comment about Bob Hawke, I don't resile from, nor do I apologise for it. Hawke DID ruin regional TV in NSW, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia with that brain-fart of his, called "regional TV market aggregation".

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