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Titolo: Utter shambles

Anyone who wanted to watch Dr Who on UK gold on Sunday was faced with a
clear indication of just how hopeless Cable TV channels (and the BBC)
really are.
What should have been a straightforward screening of a Dr Who double bill
degenerated into farce in the space of a week.
According to the monthly TV guide published by Cable & Wireless, Sunday 7th
November was to feature two Who adventures: Castrovalva at 9.00 and Four To
Doomsday at 11.00.
Curiously, Castrovalva was originally scheduled for the previous weekend -
a fact confirmed by the BBC's website. But Logopolis was shown instead. So
the Cable TV guide looked like it was right.
BUT
UK Gold's Text pages saw things a little differently. In their Dr Who
section (page 272) they only scheduled one story: Castrovalva at 8.25.
AND YET
On the day, the listings for the day's programming (page 204, I think),
listed two stories, Castrovalva at 9.00 and Kinda at 11.00. For further
details on Kinda, viewers were invited to go to a new page (265, I think),
which told you all about the first episode of Dynasty which is due to be
aired soon!
Still, there's always the BBC's site, that's usually reliable.
Er, wrong. The TV guide is STILL listing the shows for October, although
the News page lists November's schedule, but has Castrovalva and Four To
Doomsday being shown on Thursday 11th November (shurely shome mishtake).
Eager to see Four To Doomsday for the first time in 18 years, I hedged my
bets and sat in front of the TV at 9.00 on Sunday. Before the adverts the
announcer said that Dr Who was off to Castrovalva (so I guessed that the
listing in the Cable guide was right all along). After the adverts, the
announcer mumbled something about Dr Who and Event One, and the screening
of Four To Doomsday promptly began.
At 11.00 the announcer (both before and after adverts) introduced Four To
Doomsday. And, not surprisingly, Kinda was shown!
Is it me, or is it reasonable to expect people working on TV schedules to
have more than a vague clue as to what's being shown when. Or is it normal
for everyone to make it up as they go along??
Colin.
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It's you.These people don't have a clue!I stopped
watching the UK Gold repeats as I got them on video
when they were first shown.I can't stand the omnibus
showing anyway.I prefer the cliffhangers intact.
Perhaps the Dr Who night on Saturday will be better
organised.At last we'll get to see the 1996 movie
UNCUT!Then Spearhead from Space on Tuesday!Let's hope
ratings are high enough to justify a full run of
repeats. 
Have you got the Five Doctors DVD?
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You'll be happy to know that this kind of idiocy has shown up in American 
repeats as well.  Why, just a little while ago, I was happily viewing Doctor 
Who on Saturday evenings from 11:00pm-12:00am.  We get two episodes a week.  
Anyway, I was in the third week of Seeds of Doom (parts five and six).  Lo 
and behold, I received part five, but, instead of part six of Seeds of Doom, 
I got part six of The Invasion of Time.  Go figure.  
Later, I realized that I shouldn't be that hard on the station.  It is a 
public station, and it does thrive on (monetary) support from the public.  
Being that I refuse to give money to incompetent fools who cannot even get 
the order of certain Doctor Who episodes straight, it appears that I am at a 
bit of a standstill.  But I'll gladly continue to watch their blundering 
efforts, if only to support the "cause."
 
Jim McGinley
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 showing anyway.I prefer the cliffhangers intact.
Yeah, me too. And I think the majority of non-casual viewers
do also. That's why they stopped issuing omnibus style tapes.
UK Gold is in a league of it's own though: in the episodic
showings, the first runs were ruined by horrible intrusive
before and after advert logos (the picture was squashed into 
the upper half of the screen and kept running while the other
half was taken up with a logo). Even after that went, they
plastered "PART ONE/TWO" in huge letters before and after
each break - and they often put breaks right in the
middle of dialogue too. Even when the episodes that had
ad-breaks built in (a fade to black between scenes about
halfway through - added when foreign sales got going) they
didn't use it. The Omnibus editions nearly always have
the wrong music between breaks. This week was wonderful -
it should have been Castrovalva, it was even announced as
that (nearly, that is, still Castrolalla was quite close)
and we got Four to Doomsday, followed by Kinda (announced
as Four to Doomsday). LOL!!
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 repeats.
They don't need to be. Doctor Who is a very cheap show to
repeat, more so since the BBC renegotiated fees with the
actor's union.
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In fairness to cable television stations,  UKTV in Australia have been great in presenting Doctor Who, especially the older stories.  
I guess we should be grateful that they are playing the series at all.
Question: Are there any cable staions playing Doctor Who related shows such as the Myth Makers and the Auton series?
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