RE: [CPF0000] H2G2 movie

["McCallion, Martin" <martin.mccallion@xxxxxxxxx>]

rick.baird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I think the series was originally broadcast on BBC as 12 - 20
> minute episodes (30 with commercials)

There's an inherent contradiction in that assertion, Rick: the BBC
doesn't have commercials.  So I think they were 30 minutes here, as
well.

We're very used to 50-minute programs imported from the US, y'know, and
frequently (certainly in old 70s shows) with strange fades-to-black on
some scene changes.  Those were the places where the US commercial
breaks would have been slotted in.

It only now occurs to me that _Doctor Who_ was probably made in
25-minute episodes so that two could be joined together and be the right
length to be padded out with ads for the US market.  Could that really
be true, as long ago as 1963?

"I seem to be having a few problems with my lifestyle."

Cheers,

Martin.

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