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[–] NeoNachtwaechter 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Great question!

[–] Crackhappy 1 points 1 year ago

Shit I watched it on 3 too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, ITV along with Phantom Empire and King of the Rocket Men.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Phew! I was pretty sure it was ITV but not completely. Thank-you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well that's my recollection from when I was a nipper but this suggests it was more complex than that with different serials being shown on a fre channels at various times.

My main memory is of getting up early to watch the B&W serials on ITV before the proper telly started but it may be I have conflated things into that memory. I definitely wouldn't have thought they were on BBC 2 at teatime as I recall things like Star Trek TOS being on at 6 and there being a battle to see if we'd watch that or the news. However, the movie serials were presumably cheap filler so different channels presumably filled up time with them at various points.

I will do more digging.

[–] PoopSpiderman 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was so young in the 80's, I only vaguely even remember watching Flash Gordon, He-Man, TMNT and Teddy Ruxpin while still in the actual 80's. I definitely do not remember the channel any of them were on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

5, I think, ktla

[–] spittingimage 2 points 1 year ago

In New Zealand it was on channel 2. Which is how many channels we had at the time.

[–] Volume 2 points 1 year ago

We had it on VHS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In NYC I think it was 9, WOR? Or 11, WPIX

[–] zebs 1 points 1 year ago

In the UK, and no idea until I found this site https://tvrdb.com which allows you to search old TV listings.

It was BBC1.

Got the Blu-ray a few years back. I think the BBC might have cut a few bits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I saw it in the cinema.