[Afamilyatwar-list] Into The Dark

[Brian Renforth]

Ahem!


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Hi Scott and Richard,

Can't speak for AFAW but it's been reported the colour strike period jeopardised some sales abroad, notably to the USA. As I understand it London Weekend were forced to re-record the first episode of, "Upstairs Downstairs" in colour after the strike had ended with a new ending to fill in the gaps as such sales avoided having to include any B&W produced episodes. The original B&W episode 1 was reportedly destroyed but I believe the others have survived.

Many ITV companies wiped their programmes from the colour strike period, notably ATV. As an odd irony most of ATV's early '70s programmes exist only as B&W export film telerecordings under  the ITC umbrella if lucky to have survived at all, whether originally made in colour or not. "Timeslip" is a good example. Note that John Altkin played Frank (Skinner) in the first story of that set in wartime! No doubt a coincidence he appeared as Frank in, "A Family At War" or vice versa!

Whether the episodes of AFAW were made in colour or not doesn't affect my enjoyment in any way.

Great stills of the late great Ian Stirling. I still have visions of him appearing with Gus Honeybun, the Westward/TSW birthday puppet rabbit!



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Many people thought the earlier Forsyte Saga had been in color (given the intensity of the series and the emotions provoked). I absolutely thought that AFAW episode was in color (given its desert setting). To paraphrase The Bard, there is no color but thinking makes it so....




On Monday, February 26, 2018, 10:57 AM, Veit, Richard via Afamilyatwar-list <afamilyatwar-list at baylor.edu> wrote:

Just to refresh our memories, here are some screen captures of Ian Stirling as Corporal Grant in "Into the Dark." (This was one of the eight episodes to be filmed in black and white.) Stirling died on 30 June 2005 at the age of 63.





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Best wishes to all,



Richard Veit





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Fascinating to see Ian Stirling in this episode. He's perhaps better known, at least in SW England as a popular in vision continuity announcer for Westward TV and TSW. There's several You Tube clips of him in that role.

Didn't know he was an actor. Think he passed away in the mid 2000s.




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