Ray Roberts
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This came up on my Facebook this morning for those interested in watching it.
At the end of 2024 those watching my stepdad on Talking Pictures TV [TPTV] saw his last broadcast of Out of Town on Southern TV which ceased broadcasting at the end of 1981. However, OOT will continue on TPTV on the usual days starting Sunday 5th Jan 2025 and running weekly until 30th March 2025. Jack and his team made these next series of episodes in 1986 - 5 years after the demise of Southern Television. My stepfather wanted to test the new market for VHS tapes, so he cherry picked favourite OOT location film that Southern TV’s successor passed on to him. Then, from his workshop next to Raven Cottage, he was filmed making new introductions to the old location footage, adding new commentary on the film itself - as usual without autocue - as Stan’s film, with its original sound effects, played on a monitor in front of his armchair in his sitting room in Raven Cottage.
Jack and his team made 28 more OOT episodes, not for broadcasting, but as I’ve said, for VHS tapes and later DVDs. It will be a delight to see these OOT episodes aired on TPTV. Some viewers may have seen the location film as part of previous episodes shown earlier on TPTV, but they will not have seen these especially selected remastered episodes with new introductions and commentaries by Jack Hargreaves. You can always recognise these 1986 episodes, as Jack is speaking from his workshop, not a studio 'shed'. You get glimpses of the Dorset countryside through the windows, and you can see that he is older in his introductions than he is in the location film. If all goes well with the first 13 of these 'new' Out of Town episodes, we can expect the remaining 15 episodes to continue on TPTV at the same times until 13th July 2025.
At the end of 2024 those watching my stepdad on Talking Pictures TV [TPTV] saw his last broadcast of Out of Town on Southern TV which ceased broadcasting at the end of 1981. However, OOT will continue on TPTV on the usual days starting Sunday 5th Jan 2025 and running weekly until 30th March 2025. Jack and his team made these next series of episodes in 1986 - 5 years after the demise of Southern Television. My stepfather wanted to test the new market for VHS tapes, so he cherry picked favourite OOT location film that Southern TV’s successor passed on to him. Then, from his workshop next to Raven Cottage, he was filmed making new introductions to the old location footage, adding new commentary on the film itself - as usual without autocue - as Stan’s film, with its original sound effects, played on a monitor in front of his armchair in his sitting room in Raven Cottage.
Jack and his team made 28 more OOT episodes, not for broadcasting, but as I’ve said, for VHS tapes and later DVDs. It will be a delight to see these OOT episodes aired on TPTV. Some viewers may have seen the location film as part of previous episodes shown earlier on TPTV, but they will not have seen these especially selected remastered episodes with new introductions and commentaries by Jack Hargreaves. You can always recognise these 1986 episodes, as Jack is speaking from his workshop, not a studio 'shed'. You get glimpses of the Dorset countryside through the windows, and you can see that he is older in his introductions than he is in the location film. If all goes well with the first 13 of these 'new' Out of Town episodes, we can expect the remaining 15 episodes to continue on TPTV at the same times until 13th July 2025.