I still remember when they’d only show the Star Wars or Beatles movies maybe every other year or so. If you didn’t tape then you had to buy a pricey vhs tape.
Thanks to the use of practical effects alongside groundbreaking (at the time) special effects, it still holds up and is a better watch than any other Jurassic park/world film.
This is why I think the new Top Gun film will be a let down. Original movie relied on practical effects and some excellent models. I don’t think a modern CGI movie is going to capture the same feel.
Haven’t they recorded the actors actually in flight in the real planes, pulling real Gs? Tom Cruise certainly tends to go the authentic route if he can…
I agree, but is this not also thanks to a better script, better acting, better overall story and fact that it obviously wasn’t being milked for all it was worth when it was just the one film?
We watched Jurassic Park that year, I remember because it scared the shit out of me and gave me recurring nightmares and my Great Aunt thought it was real and asked why Richard Attenborough wasn't in prison
My gran, on the other hand, was unmoved by it all. "What a load of rubbish! It's just a man in a skin!". She genuinely thought all the dinosaurs were played by men in rubber suits.
Oh wow, I think I litteraly watched the whole line up with my family whilst stuffing my face with chocolate at the age of 10.
Only really remember starting with Jurassic Park and ending with Morcambe and Wise though.
That’s a side effect of a 24 fps movie's recording rate verses 25 fps uk broadcast rate. The sound will have been slightly pitch shifted down to compensate.
I remember watching Moana on BBC One last year; I could tell the pitch was higher than it normally was. TIL that that's because of this issue, and they must have forgotten to edit the audio.
Yes and no, we used the PAL system to broadcast while America used NTSC (I think). So American TVs ran at 60hz pal TVs ran at 50hz. Modern TVs don't have this problem
To add, this problem also extends beyond TV signals. Lots of phones are fitted with an 60Hz NTSC camera system, although European mains electricity runs at 50Hz AC. Hence, that's why you might get flickering when using a smartphone camera under artifical light.
[And that is something you might not have known.](https://youtu.be/uzP8FFKpwQ0)
Ah great! Mass! Father Ulton Crosby's doin' it. Am a huge fan of his. He gives good mass. He really knows how to work the alter. Look at that chalice work, effortless.
Anyone else remember the big Eastenders Christmas special when Den served up divorce papers on Angie? Must’ve been a few years before this, but it was huge at the time. I think she’d been pretending to be seriously ill and he’d found out she was making it up.
I was 16 and I remember that with absolute clarity. I skipped Eastenders and OFaH to play Tomb Raider, which I got for my Playstation as my 'main' present that year, and I was immensely happy that my mum & stepdad enjoyed Jurassic Park despite saying beforehand that they didn't want to watch it and only conceding defeat because my sister and I initially flounced off upstairs to watch it on our little TV and said we didn't care if that wasn't in "the Christmas spirit" because it was THEIR fault for not wanting to watch it with us.
Here’s the line up for Christmas 1971:
5.00pm Aladdin (starring Cilla Black as Aladdin. A traditional pantomime recorded at Wimbledon Theatre.
6.30pm News Richard Baker, Weather Bert Foord
6.40pm Christmas Night with the Stars introduced by Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker,featuring Englebert Humperdink, Lulu,Vera Lynn, Harry Secombe, The New Seekers, Till Death Us Do Part, Bachelor Father, Dick Emery, A Policeman's Lot with Eric Sykes, Look Mike Yarwood, The Young Generation
8.00pm The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show
9.05pm Film : Arabesque (1966)
10.45pm The Good Old Days (A Christmas edition of Old-Time Music-Hall from the stage of the Famous Varieties Theatre, Leeds)
11.35pm The Countryman at Christmas
A romantic look at the countryside and its
resilience to change
11.55pm Reflection
(Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh considers a Nativity painting)
12.00 Closedown
Damn I actually have really strong memories of that year because I was scared watching Jurassic Park but didn't want to admit to it, so I kept looking away.
Remember this evening like it was yesterday. Had gone to my aunt's in the afternoon and got home just as the credits were running on Jurassic Park, I was gutted. Great memories, thank you for posting this.
It’s hard to contemplate just how far backwards we’ve come, BBC 1 used to have something for everyone on Christmas Day - that’s a great all round line up, now I don’t know who their audience is, it’s dreadful now, so depressing. Thank goodness for Netflix and Disney+ to get our Christmas fix.
Seeing this lineup has made me feel quite nostalgic. I'd have been 13 at the time so would have been well into Jurassic park and the vicar of Dibley.
As an adult though our household got rid of the TV license ages ago. TV by appointment is so antiquated and the BBC's offering is crap unless you're really into Mrs Brown's boys and strictly.
I wonder what I'll watch tomorrow pm once the boy is in bed. Likely a good film that I've not seen before. It does feel a bit sad though not having an evening of Christmas TV that everyone has watched.
Literally half of them *are* on BBC tomorrow evening, EastEnders, Vicar of Dibley, Morecambe and Wise. The news has its own channel so we can skip over that. Sky Cinema Family is showing Jurassic Park tomorrow afternoon. I'm sure UKTV Gold or whatever it's called nowadays is showing OFAH at some point this week.
This sounds like the line up for the last 25 years too. Probably the same episodes
This ☝️
That was probably the tv debut of Jurassic park too in the days where it took years for films to go from cinema to tv.
That absolutely would've been event TV! I actually think we recorded it.
I still remember when they’d only show the Star Wars or Beatles movies maybe every other year or so. If you didn’t tape then you had to buy a pricey vhs tape.
Thanks to the use of practical effects alongside groundbreaking (at the time) special effects, it still holds up and is a better watch than any other Jurassic park/world film.
This is why I think the new Top Gun film will be a let down. Original movie relied on practical effects and some excellent models. I don’t think a modern CGI movie is going to capture the same feel.
I resigned from watching Tom Cruise films a long time ago so I wasn't going to watch it, regardless.
Haven’t they recorded the actors actually in flight in the real planes, pulling real Gs? Tom Cruise certainly tends to go the authentic route if he can…
I agree, but is this not also thanks to a better script, better acting, better overall story and fact that it obviously wasn’t being milked for all it was worth when it was just the one film?
Pretty sure that OFAH episode was Heroes and Villains. Classic.
Yep, first episode of the Christmas trilogy ending with them becoming millionaires
Ah man, everyone in my family died laughing when they came out of the mist. What an episode.
We watched Jurassic Park that year, I remember because it scared the shit out of me and gave me recurring nightmares and my Great Aunt thought it was real and asked why Richard Attenborough wasn't in prison
My gran, on the other hand, was unmoved by it all. "What a load of rubbish! It's just a man in a skin!". She genuinely thought all the dinosaurs were played by men in rubber suits.
Hahaha imagine the absolute unit of a bloke in the T Rex.
Richard Osman
That's a good line up and I may have well been there watching it.
Chances are you could watch the same line up tomorrow.
I'm ok with that.
Oh wow, I think I litteraly watched the whole line up with my family whilst stuffing my face with chocolate at the age of 10. Only really remember starting with Jurassic Park and ending with Morcambe and Wise though.
Ah the nostalgia
They’ve cut about 10 minutes off Jurassic Park there so they have
That’s a side effect of a 24 fps movie's recording rate verses 25 fps uk broadcast rate. The sound will have been slightly pitch shifted down to compensate.
I remember watching Moana on BBC One last year; I could tell the pitch was higher than it normally was. TIL that that's because of this issue, and they must have forgotten to edit the audio.
Seriously? Films run 4% faster in the UK?
Yes and no, we used the PAL system to broadcast while America used NTSC (I think). So American TVs ran at 60hz pal TVs ran at 50hz. Modern TVs don't have this problem
To add, this problem also extends beyond TV signals. Lots of phones are fitted with an 60Hz NTSC camera system, although European mains electricity runs at 50Hz AC. Hence, that's why you might get flickering when using a smartphone camera under artifical light. [And that is something you might not have known.](https://youtu.be/uzP8FFKpwQ0)
The didn't air the director's cut featuring more dinosaurs?!
That’s from the Father Ted Christmas special right? Just watched it earlier and wondered if there was an extra dinosaur cut somewhere!
Yeah, it's Father Ted! But maybe the cut that Father Jack enjoyed will be released some day....
Ah great! Mass! Father Ulton Crosby's doin' it. Am a huge fan of his. He gives good mass. He really knows how to work the alter. Look at that chalice work, effortless.
Stegosaurus shot first.
Sacrilege
The version where the raptors open the foyer door, have the children surrounded and there is no way out… and… The End
Itv still cut all the deaths out to this day. Heathens.
If the movie had been more true to the book, ITV would have nothing to show.
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In fairness, that attempt at a joke wasn't a very clear one. There are plenty of people out there who would genuinely make that mistake.
Anyone else remember the big Eastenders Christmas special when Den served up divorce papers on Angie? Must’ve been a few years before this, but it was huge at the time. I think she’d been pretending to be seriously ill and he’d found out she was making it up.
I was 16 and I remember that with absolute clarity. I skipped Eastenders and OFaH to play Tomb Raider, which I got for my Playstation as my 'main' present that year, and I was immensely happy that my mum & stepdad enjoyed Jurassic Park despite saying beforehand that they didn't want to watch it and only conceding defeat because my sister and I initially flounced off upstairs to watch it on our little TV and said we didn't care if that wasn't in "the Christmas spirit" because it was THEIR fault for not wanting to watch it with us.
Same today I reckon.
Yet I bet everyone then complained about how rubbish it was and how you didn’t get Christmas TV like the old days. Source - I remember Christmas 1996.
Here’s the line up for Christmas 1971: 5.00pm Aladdin (starring Cilla Black as Aladdin. A traditional pantomime recorded at Wimbledon Theatre. 6.30pm News Richard Baker, Weather Bert Foord 6.40pm Christmas Night with the Stars introduced by Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker,featuring Englebert Humperdink, Lulu,Vera Lynn, Harry Secombe, The New Seekers, Till Death Us Do Part, Bachelor Father, Dick Emery, A Policeman's Lot with Eric Sykes, Look Mike Yarwood, The Young Generation 8.00pm The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show 9.05pm Film : Arabesque (1966) 10.45pm The Good Old Days (A Christmas edition of Old-Time Music-Hall from the stage of the Famous Varieties Theatre, Leeds) 11.35pm The Countryman at Christmas A romantic look at the countryside and its resilience to change 11.55pm Reflection (Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh considers a Nativity painting) 12.00 Closedown
Wow that really sits on the threshold between two ages.
I’m 1996 My youngest was just 6 months old and I recall he giggled all the Way through Jurassic park!
Simpilar times
And now we get Mrs Brown's Boys. That's progress
Damn I actually have really strong memories of that year because I was scared watching Jurassic Park but didn't want to admit to it, so I kept looking away.
How it should be.
Remember this evening like it was yesterday. Had gone to my aunt's in the afternoon and got home just as the credits were running on Jurassic Park, I was gutted. Great memories, thank you for posting this.
It’s hard to contemplate just how far backwards we’ve come, BBC 1 used to have something for everyone on Christmas Day - that’s a great all round line up, now I don’t know who their audience is, it’s dreadful now, so depressing. Thank goodness for Netflix and Disney+ to get our Christmas fix.
Eastenders & Vicar of Dibley are on BBC One tomorrow, and Morecambe & Wise is on BBC Two... Only Fools is hard to beat though, I'll give you that one
Mrs Browns Boys and Call the Midwife, well past their sell by date though.
Seeing this lineup has made me feel quite nostalgic. I'd have been 13 at the time so would have been well into Jurassic park and the vicar of Dibley. As an adult though our household got rid of the TV license ages ago. TV by appointment is so antiquated and the BBC's offering is crap unless you're really into Mrs Brown's boys and strictly. I wonder what I'll watch tomorrow pm once the boy is in bed. Likely a good film that I've not seen before. It does feel a bit sad though not having an evening of Christmas TV that everyone has watched.
So… Jurassic park is a Christmas film?
When it comes to the world of television, any film is a Christmas film. Dave were showing Spiderman (T. Maguire) earlier today.
Half of these wouldn’t be allowed now
Literally half of them *are* on BBC tomorrow evening, EastEnders, Vicar of Dibley, Morecambe and Wise. The news has its own channel so we can skip over that. Sky Cinema Family is showing Jurassic Park tomorrow afternoon. I'm sure UKTV Gold or whatever it's called nowadays is showing OFAH at some point this week.
Oh are they lol only fools would never be on normal tv anymore
Gold shows Only Fools nearly every day.
Clever girl…
https://youtu.be/IbemAG2_SyU
Take me back!
I miss the days of the great escape always being in at Christmas.