A while back we told you about a strange aberration that occurred during a Granada TV broadcast in 1978 (see here for more details).
Something similar occurred in 1974 when the TV station idents for both London Weekend Television and BBC's The Open University were similarly affected.
No one knows who invaded the broadcasts, though a radical group of totalitarian gym teachers was suspected, particularly because, during one children's TV programme, a story about Humpty Dumpty was subverted into a lecture on Joseph Stalin's passion for badminton.
Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight fever. "Visit Scarfolk today. Our number one priority is keeping rabies at bay." For more information please reread.
Thursday, 14 March 2013
LWT & Open University TV broadcast signal intrusions 1974
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1970s,
badminton,
BBC,
Hauntology,
ITV,
LWT,
Open University,
politics,
Scarfolk,
Stalin,
totalitarian,
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intriguing --- especially as the government broadcaster her in Oz IS run by stalinist Gym teachers....
ReplyDeletehere in oz ... kangaroos... whatever
ReplyDeletesadly... pretty much ALL is run by stalinist gym teachers..still roll on september......
ReplyDeleteMy PE classes certainly were.
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