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Entry: 'Do Not Adjust Your Set' - the Television Series - A88022261
Author: Bluebottle - U43530

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Yay! Another blast from my school day past!

You explain most of the abbreviations, but perhaps you could expand LWT, as it is not self-explanatory (and I assume it no longer exists?)

Thanks for reading through - I adjusted the LWT section and added a footnote about it now. No, LWT no longer exists and is one of the companies gobbled up by Carlton-Granada before they became ITV plc.

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Interesting section about Thames Television - when I hear their theme tune I think of Quentin Crisp and 'The Naked Civil Servant' 'George and Mildred' that I watched recently was also a Thames Television production

"a curry house on 11 May" - 11 May, 1968?

I never watched either of those back in the 80s, so I think I'd remember it more for old children's television, such as made by Cosgrove Hall.

Anyway, I've added the year (1969) to that section and thanks again for re-reading.

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Cosgrove Hall productions here were broadcast by Granada, so I didn't hear the Thames Television theme tune in those days, but they were programmes I enjoyed Yes, I certainly didn't watch The Naked Civil Servant in the '80s - it was 2009 or so that I saw it

Just one thing I noticed - we don't know who Graham Chapman is here. Maybe moving the link up to the mention of his name in the third paragraph would help, and perhaps you could say a few words, or maybe the mention in the third paragraph isn't needed, as the Do Not Adjust Your Flying Circus section explains things.

We were TVS here, later Meridian, but still had the Thames Television logo and jingle come up now and then.

Anyway, I've added the Chapman link up to the first time he is mentioned and also cut down on some of the repetition in the Do Not Adjust Your Flying Circus section.

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Happy Birthday!
Been in Peer Review a year today.

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Belated Happy Birthday Entry Time for another readthrough

" Idle later described the experience" - does this quote fit in with the first quote? The 'experience' is performing and writing in a children's TV show rather than just working with David Jason and Denise Coffey, I see.

"When Gilliam worked for Help! magazine..." - can the sentence be rephrased to avoid two 'when's?

Is footnote 5 saying LWT was taken over by Granada in 2002?

Thanks Sasha - I've tweaked the entry to combine the Idle quotes and clarified the about LWT and changed the wording on the Gilliam section too, so hopefully all reads better now?

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I hadn't realised Granada owned LWT from 1994, so that's all much clearer now, thanks

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