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[Red Ranger 1]

2 hours ago, CaptainHulk said:

ITV schedules are NOTORIOUSLY hard to pin down.

Now if H&A was on the BBC we'd have no problem as there's a BIG fat archive for stuff dating back to the 20s (radio), Genome I believe.

Well, I've been following the episodes from August 1994 onwards in my diaries for that period and it seems reasonably consistent with no days missing.(We were getting the Friday episode on the Monday etc at that point.)

[Dan F]

I've got access to the schedules, it just fries the brain a bit as the synopses don't always match up to the Oz ones - so I sometimes have to dip into the eps/extended guides to make sure both storylines were indeed going on in the same ep.

Already got your diary in mind RR1 for crosschecking the odd date as we go forward

[early years fan]

I noticed one episode last week on 7two had the previews for the following episode?  It seemed to be a one off.  Did this happen each day during the original airing of the episodes?  I don't recall it when watching the first time around in the 90's.

[Old H&A Fan]

In Australia at least, when they were originally shown, there was a preview for the upcoming episode right before the closing credits started. These appear to have been cut from all the repeat episodes (at least on TV).

[Old H&A Fan]

Who are these birds in the opening titles?

1. The one that gets groped as the closing credits begin

 

 

2. The 2 runners on the beach

Edited November 16, 2016 by Old H&A Fan
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[beau_t]

One of the runners is also an extra on the show and was in the background at Shane and Angel's wedding as well as in the DIner in some scenes. She is also the girl who gets pulled off the guy's shoulders in the pool in another shot.

[dan]

If it helps the researching of UK airdates I currently have access to tv ratings for at least the 1989-93/4 period. They're top 30 lists for each channel, so if less than five H&A's make it into the ITV top 30 then something unusual must have happened that week. Unfortunately some weeks are missing, and the show wasn't charting consistently enough for this method in the first four-ish months, but still it adds extra evidence to the research. I've already studied up to May 1991 so far, and a few irregularities have jumped out at me. Home and Away did not chart on Xmas Day Monday or Boxing Day Tuesday 1989 or News Year Day Monday 1990, so I had assumed that there were no episodes those days, messages in this thread suggest that may not be the case, but if there were episodes on any of those days then the viewing figures for such episodes would have to have dropped from the then average of 12-13m down to less than 8.44m for Xmas Day/Boxing Day, and less than 9.87m for New Years Day, as these were the figures for ITV's 30th highest ranked shows in those weeks. There is no charted episode for Monday 28th May 1990, which appears from other entries to be due to Telethon '90, but it isn't clear if there was no episode, or if they just aired the show within the Telethon and therefore didn't get separate viewing figures for it on that occasion. There is also no charted episode for Friday 8th June 1990, which seems to be due to World Cup Italia '90 (which aired that day on ITV from 16:00), though there could still have been one or both airings at earlier times, but, if so, they would have to have got less than 7.55m combined. Thursday 22nd November 1990 also sees no charted episode, which appears to be due to the resignation of one Margaret T of Westminster that day, so I'm guessing it was bumped for an ITN special or some such. I don't have xmas week 1990 unfortunately, but the following week it definitely aired on New Years Eve Monday, but no charted episode appears for New Years Day Tues, which in a week when episodes on the other four days that week got between 12 and 14.66m, would require an audience of less than 9.68m if it did air, so it looks likely to me that there was no episode that day. Most of the data I have includes the broadcast times for charting episodes, presumably for Thames/LWT, if that would be of any additional help.

[Homeandawayfan.]

Well I went to my local library again and looked at local newspapers for December 1995, the TV schedules and I think the last UK airing episode shown in 1995 was 22nd December. It returned the following 2nd January. Over Xmas 1995 they showed H&A mockumentaries charting the Sophie Simpson era.

Spoiler

Dodge returned to UK screens in mid December 1995.

The papers did give viewing figures for early 1994, and H&A was rating about 14 million but by Dec 1995 the figures were not given. I would like to know the viewing figures for UK screens in late 1995.

[dan]

I will see what I can find for 1995 viewing figures, but by that point my source was only publishing a listing occasionally, and only including the highest viewed episode for any particular show that aired more than once in a week, so there's only limited information I can get.

In terms of the researching of airdates, I've just tallied the airdates on the episodes section of this site with my spreadsheet compiled from weekly tv ratings, and this site says eps 138 and 139 both aired on 23rd August, with no ep on the 24th August, and eps 152 and 153 both aired on 12th September, with no ep on 13th September. BARB ratings data suggests five daily episodes those weeks as normal, although it could be a regional variation thing, since BARB would add together the regional viewing figures for the same episode, regardless of broadcast dates and times, as long they were all in the same broadcast week (Mon-Sun). I would guess the dates/times in the BARB data are for Thames, in which case it seems unlikely that another region went a day ahead temporarily, even if there was a good local reason for doing so.

Edited November 20, 2016 by dan
Grammar correction

[dan]

I'm just going to add here that I wasn't originally convinced that there could have been a xmas day broadcast of H&A in 1989, so after trying youtube for Xmas 89 continuity clips from ITV, I sought out my original off-air recording of the film "The BFG" that immediately preceded it, which was due originally to start at 3:15, then at some point near Xmas this was changed to 3:10 (perhaps HM The Queen, on at 3, was short of material that year?). Unfortunately my dad, who made the recording for me in the first place (I was 6!) was, on that day, super efficient at starting and ending the recording with the first and last frames of the film's credits, and the three ad breaks, though he left them in, did not contain any continuity indicating what the schedule was that day, but at least I had a bit of a nostalgia fest re-watching a classic animated film. Having given up on finding some proof I then stumbled on this clip on youtube, which if paused quickly enough right at the end, reveals that indeed H&A was aired on Xmas Day 1989 at 4:55pm