Posts by: Quibbler

FURTHER APPEAL:**HOPES SOMEONE FROM UKTV WILL READ AND RESPOND**

That's TWO of us, then, VickyL!!!

It's Saturday tomorrow and I see no sign of a response from UKTV yet...

It seems that you can only get a response from the powers that be if you whinge incessantly about 80's sunday night garbage like Howard's Way (I'm not a fan, actually, don't know if you'd guessed... lol!!)-

As an aside, I note that I have searched the UKTV pages and cannot find programme listings for the week ahead... Have I missed it by mistake is this another omission??? I would happily look up the answers to my questions here if I only knew where to look!

APPEAL TO UKTV DRAMA BODS:
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE could someone explain how the current run of Secret Army is being screened?

Though I'm pleased to have another chance to see it, I was dismayed to find that I had once again stumbled across the tail end of series three this week.

Oh well, I thought, perhaps I'll catch the series's from the very first episode the NEXT time UKTV drama show them...

But then, this morning (saturday), having watched various of the final series episodes this week, I was (pleasantly) surprised to find an episode from an earlier series (featuring Jan Francis, so it must be older!!).

I first started watching when Curtis had just joined them (series 1 or 2?) then missed a number of episodes and finally caught up again in series 3.

My question is:

Are episodes from earlier series being shown weekly in the Saturday timeslot, AS WELL as series 3 on weekdays?

If so, if I were to watch the Saturday timeslot in future, would I be able to catch the episodes I've previously missed?

OR

Are UKTV Drama planning to screen the whole lot from series 1, episode 1 at any time in future?

I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE ANSWERS IF ANYBODY (from UKTV or otherwise!) CAN LET ME KNOW!!!!

Thanks for reading!!!!

I'm not sure if it qualifies for UKTV Drama, but I remember a series about Special constables which I think was enterprisingly called "Specials"; set in Birmingham, which would be well received in my house.

I admit I'm not a huge fan of Howard's Way, but it does serve as an excellent document of the excess and melodrama of the 1980's!
I remember so well when the world looked like that!

posted by Fontina, 17 01 06:

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Well, congratulations UKTV Drama, you have made it virtually impossible for anyone who works 9-5 to see Howards Way! The worst of it is that the timings have changed mid-way through series 4 just as we have become hooked again! Don't you care?"

What about people who work later? Or shifts? lol

(Video recorders are very cheap these days! )

Hello all

As a mere youngster I have never seen Secret Army before.

I have enjoyed watching the series a great deal- I think this is a fine example of good quality BBC drama, instead of the sensationalist, ratings-driven squitter that graces our screens daily on terrestrial TV presently; (although I confess that it is quite amusing for me to see the obvious parodies, having grown up watching "'Allo, 'Allo!'")

I am sorry to disagree with Swanella but I believe that every single actor in the series delivered a first-rate performance. I was personally impressed particularly by Bernard Hepton and Michael Culver.
I think it is a testament to Clifford Rose's talent that the character he plays should be so disliked!

(And I am disappointed that Juliet Hammond-Hill does not have her own gallery on the net! lol )

I am only sorry that I missed the beginning of the run.

Sincerest thanks to UKTV Drama for showing the 3 series' back to back... Please PLEASE let us know when you plan to screen it again, as I would love to see it in its entirety.

WHY can't the BBC produce programmes like this today?