Endless repeats

[whattheheck]

In this world of endless repeats on TV, a situation we're gonna have to live with I suppose, when are we going to see some of the programmes they NEVER seem to repeat ?. Ones like 'WKRP In Cincinatti', 'Rhoda', 'Chelmsford 123', and real oldies like 'Get Smart', classics - where are they?. Any more suggestions?.

[double-blade]

where they belong :-]

[whattheheck]

Ooooo - handbags !. Come on, do you really want to sit through Fools and horses -  AGAIN, Are you being served - AGAIN, Allo, Allo - AGAIN, even Friends - AGAIN. Like I said, there are ALWAYS going to be repeats, let's just have a few different ones now and again.

[tonymclark]

The Goodies, so long overdue for a repeat.

[littleoldme]

I'd second The Goodies, although I seem to remember reading somewhere that there were contractual or legal reasons for the lack of repeats.

I'd also like to see Joking Apart, Rescue Me (the UK one), The Innes Book of Records and This Life again. I know This Life has been repeated, but I missed it and I'm too stingy to fork out for the DVDs!

[littleoldme]

Oh yes (sorry for a second go) and Michael Palin's Ripping Yarns.

[tonymclark]

littleoldme, I'd forgotten the Innes Book of Records, now that was good. Ripping Yarns too. BBC2 made some good comedies!!

[guinnessman]

Just glad to see someone else remembers Chelmsford 123 !!! I thought it was brilliant, but no one i know has even heard of it !! I was starting to think i'd imagined it !

[galltin]

I would love to see Survivors again.

[Kay]

I must say, Im enjoying Steptoe and Son all over again.

[Didwot]

The regular excuse does seem to be copyright, and it seems that hte copyright in a programme or series may be vested in lots of different peopl, writers, performers, directors, and if they do not all agree, then the show can not be re run. Seems like the TV executives were not up with their contracts back then.
Ripping yarns is on DVD.... was Across the Andes by Frog, a precursor to Himalaya?

[tonymclark]

Survivors is on DVD too, with season three due in October I think.

Most of The Goodies are expencive to repeat because of the endless music throughout the episodes, the reason the DVD releases are so expencive.

[flaming]

This starts me off on a pet rankle.  I'd like to see repeats on BBC1 & 2 of some of the popular things now shown on 3 & 4.  These could be repeated late at night, say, at a date soon after they were transmitted on the new channels.  Also annoying is the fact that a continuation of whatever one is watching on ,say, BBC1 can be seen immediately  on, say, BBC3.  I cannot receive the new channels, as the signal is too weak.  All viewers should be treated equally as we all pay the same licence fee. As one pays nothing to commercial channels, one doesn't feel so hard done by because of the similar situation which has arisen with those.

There are masses of things show in recent years which must be within actors'contracts.  I am for 'This Life' too.

I appreciate that they wouldn't want to spoil DVD sales in the case of 'Survivors', another favourite of mine. 

The 'Famous Five' spoofs made me laugh a lot.

[fatcat]

I'd like to see Dear John again. Didn't John Sullivan write that? I would really love to see the Ted and Ralph three-parter too as none of that is in the Fast Show box set.

[brachiopod]

I'm with Survivors and The Goodies on this one. Though I tend to think The Goodies may not have aged very well and be rther unfunny now. (I missed The Goodies & The Beanstalk when they showed it again last Christmas on C4 / Five (?) )

Copyright issues are a major factor, as Didwot says.

For all the repeats of Carry On films (including those cr�ppy compilations ITV seem to stick on whenever the sport finishes early on a wet Saturday afternoon), the (surviving) actors receive sod all - they were paid a flat fee at the time of filming and that's all. This is part of the reason they are so oft repeated - it is cheap programming.

I understand the DVD release of The Young Ones (the BBC comedy, NOT the Cliff film!) has a couple of songs missing (I don't even own a DVD player, so I don't know which, but it's something like Mot�rhead from Bambi and Rip Rig & Panic from Interesting) which seem to have been cut for some copyright consent reason.

It's a shame that the programmes we want to see again are tied up in copyright issues, leaving the trouble-free programmes to be repeated ad nauseam; so that in the end, no matter how good they are/were, they just become 'oh no, not this again'....repeats.