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Max Power · Guest

Where can I find BBC "Liver Birds" episodes dating to DECIMALIZATION (1971,
LB Season 2 & 3) ???
I somehow expect that decimalization must have made its way into the scripts
somehow.
Interesting prices noted for 1975: Front Loader Clothes Washer @ 100 UKP !!!
Oooutch that's dear!

Liver Birds notes
-- The whole series should be available via .torrent files, but it isn't.
-- Hulu.com has no agreement to run BBC Classic Material (when the BBC TV
produced most of its content, 1945-1980s).
-- All Liver Birds episodes are in Colour (to the best of my knowledge) as
it was a Flagship programme at the time.

Applicable links
-- http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=cB6Gz0laPes
-- http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=rbwjSjKDH9g
-- http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ult-jO3vEuE (Nerys 'The Liver Birds' Hughes
advertises Sutherlands' paste in 1991)
-- http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=rx1EwdbmrR4 (Informative English ad from
1971 letting people know about the new decimal currency that was introduced
on 15th February 1971)
-- http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=T4wr93OpmbU repeat of above advert?
-- http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=TZVEEs-RJpw The Australians and Kiwis had
it much harder, in 1966 and 1967. Colour TV was introduced around the same
time as BBC TV.

Note the Deep Space Network @ Home link hinted at in the vids, but you
really must go to
-- http://hireme.geek.nz/dsn-at-home.html

R. Mark Clayton · Guest

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Ivan · Guest

R. Mark Clayton wrote:
|| "Max Power" <mikehack@washington.edu> wrote in message
|| news:g4i2ff$6sv$1@gnus01.u.washington.edu...
||| Where can I find BBC "Liver Birds" episodes dating to DECIMALIZATION
||| (1971, LB Season 2 & 3) ???
||
|| Try the BBC.
||
||| I somehow expect that decimalization must have made its way into the
||| scripts somehow.
||| Interesting prices noted for 1975: Front Loader Clothes Washer @
||| 100 UKP !!! Oooutch that's dear!
|||
||
|| Many things were relatively expensive in days gone by: -
||
|| late 1930's - small black and white TV ~£1,000
||
|| late 1960's - colour TV ~£1,000

I think your memory must be playing tricks on you there Mark, looking at
some of the original price details [which I can produce if you like].. In
1967 (the world's first large screen fully solid state colour TV) the dual
standard BRC 2000 sold with a recommended price of 284 guineas.. And in 1969
the 25 inch (single standard) Ekco CT105 sold with a recommended price of
£292. doubtless taking the 'recommended' price out of the equation and
looking for bargains, it's possible they could have been purchased for even
less.

||
|| now - high resolution widescreen TV <£1,000
||
|| early 1970's - B&O stereo Amp - ~£300
||
|| mid 1990's - Prologic AV receiver - ~£300
||
|| now - DTT AV system ~£300
||
||
|| all inc taxes.
||
|| 1986 - first hand portable mobile phone or fully loaded 80386 PC
|| ~£2,000
||
|| 1993 - early GSM mobile or Pentium PC ~£700
||
|| now - SIM free Nokia N95 or decent Dell PC - ~£300
|| (basic mobile ~£50)
||
|| (all plus VAT)

R. Mark Clayton · Guest

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Ivan · Guest

R. Mark Clayton wrote:
|| "Ivan" <ivan'H'older@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
|| news:6d42vrFo7s5U1@mid.individual.net...
||| R. Mark Clayton wrote:
||||| "Max Power" <mikehack@washington.edu> wrote in message
||||| news:g4i2ff$6sv$1@gnus01.u.washington.edu...
|||||| Where can I find BBC "Liver Birds" episodes dating to
|||||| DECIMALIZATION (1971, LB Season 2 & 3) ???
|||||
||||| Try the BBC.
|||||
|||||| I somehow expect that decimalization must have made its way into
|||||| the scripts somehow.
|||||| Interesting prices noted for 1975: Front Loader Clothes Washer @
|||||| 100 UKP !!! Oooutch that's dear!
||||||
|||||
||||| Many things were relatively expensive in days gone by: -
|||||
||||| late 1930's - small black and white TV ~£1,000
|||||
||||| late 1960's - colour TV ~£1,000
|||
|||
||| I think your memory must be playing tricks on you there Mark,
||| looking at some of the original price details [which I can produce
||| if you like].. In 1967 (the world's first large screen fully solid
||| state colour TV) the dual standard BRC 2000 sold with a recommended
||| price of 284 guineas.. And in 1969 the 25 inch (single standard)
||| Ekco CT105 sold with a recommended price of £292. doubtless taking
||| the 'recommended' price out of the equation and looking for
||| bargains, it's possible they could have been purchased for even
||| less.
|||
||
|| Ooher - remembered some article giving present day prices Sad

|| nevertheless you can still buy a TV for less than they cost seventy
|| years ago!

However I suppose that compared to present day prices in real terms it would
work out at 'well over' £1000 now, when you consider that my brand new house
back in 1967 costs under £4000, and the last time I bothered to check, about
a year ago, it was worth over £200,000 it certainly makes one think,
although the way things have been rapidly panning out over the last few
months I suspect that before long will soon be back down to £4000 pounds
again!

Jer · Guest

Ivan wrote: