Is it mere coincidence? (3 November 1986, The Times)
Is it mere coincidence? (3 November 1986, The Times)
The always good value Colin Weston - who should be presenting on our screens to this day and shame on those that haven’t hired him - closes down Granada for the night, most likely following a promo voiced by someone else. Good night, Colin!
Granada starts the day with some early computer graphics, 1980s
Boy, this programme is good - full of famous stars who appeared on various Granada programmes, especially their news programme ‘Scene at 6.30’.
But copyright law is copyright law and many of the performers - or their record labels - don’t want their stuff to appear on here, even monetized. So this programme sits on a tape here and you just get Jim Pope throwing us to it.
Jim Pope on Granada in the autumn.
Granada is 25 years old and to celebrate it is reshowing classic episodes of its biggest production, Coronation Street. In this brief clip, we come in just as the credits end to hear Jim Pope telling us about tomorrow’s retro visit to the Street followed by 80% of an advert for St Ivel Gold butter substitute with Michael Jayston on v/o.
Colin Weston on Granada.
Richard Madeley and Tony Wilson introduce Granada Reports on the day that a petrol train derailed in Summit tunnel near Todmorden, bursting into flame and polluting local water.
Yeah, so everything you knew about broadcasting is wrong. Sorry about that. Here’s the jingle Granada used on its local news programme frontcaps in Autumn 1968
This is the NEW Granadaland, July 1968