Grampian - covering the North / North East of Scotland - was the joint-first ITV region to screen Thriller repeats when it showed Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are on 11th September 1980. It was one of the strongest ITV regions generally for Thriller repeats for the next year but then they became more sporadic and particularly infrequent after May 1982. Ultimately it seems to have finished six episodes short; generally the ITV stations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland showed fewer Thriller repeats.
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| Viewers in Grampian were the first to witness the bizarre new titles for Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are |
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Episode |
Date |
Day |
Time |
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Come Out, Come Out Wherever You
Are |
11.9.80 |
Thursday |
11.05pm-12.30am |
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Cry Terror! |
18.9.80 |
Thursday |
11.05pm-12.30am |
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Death in Deep Water |
25.9.80 |
Thursday |
11.05pm-12.30am |
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Dial a Deadly Number |
2.10.80 |
Thursday |
11.05pm-12.30am |
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The Double Kill |
9.10.80 |
Thursday |
11.05pm-12.30am |
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The Killing Game |
16.10.80 |
Thursday |
11.05pm-12.20am |
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Kiss, Kiss, Kill, Kill |
23.10.80 |
Thursday |
11.05pm-12.30am |
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Look Back in Darkness |
30.10.80 |
Thursday |
11.05pm-12.30am |
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Murder in Mind |
6.11.80 |
Thursday |
11.05pm-12.30am |
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One Deadly Owner |
13.11.80 |
Thursday |
11.05pm-12.30am |
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A Place to Die |
20.11.80 |
Thursday |
11.05pm-12.30am |
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Sign It Death |
27.11.80 |
Thursday |
11.05pm-12.30am |
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Sleepwalker |
4.12.80 |
Thursday |
11.05pm-12.30am |
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Spell of Evil |
11.12.80 |
Thursday |
11.05pm-12.30am |
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Anatomy of Terror |
18.12.80 |
Thursday |
11.05pm-12.30am |
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Death in Small Doses |
9.4.81 |
Thursday |
11.00pm-12.15am |
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In the Steps of a Dead Man |
30.4.81 |
Thursday |
11.10pm-12.25am |
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The Savage Curse |
8.5.81 |
Friday |
11.00pm-12.15am |
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Postponed unknown episode |
14.5.81 |
Thursday |
11.05pm-12.20am |
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Murder Is a One Act Play |
21.5.81 |
Thursday |
11.00pm-12.15am |
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Mirror of Deception |
28.5.81 |
Thursday |
11.00pm-12.15am |
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Murder on the Midnight Express |
4.6.81 |
Thursday |
11.00pm-12.15am |
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Not Guilty |
11.6.81 |
Thursday |
11.00pm-12.15am |
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Murder Motel |
23.9.81 |
Wednesday |
10.35-11.55pm |
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I'm the Girl He Wants To Kill |
21.10.81 |
Wednesday |
11.10pm-12.30am |
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The Eyes Have It |
4.11.81 |
Wednesday |
10.30-11.40pm |
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Carnation Killer |
17.4.82 |
Saturday |
11.05pm-12.25am |
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The Death Policy |
24.4.82 |
Saturday |
11.30pm-12.45am |
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The Devil's Web |
1.5.82 |
Saturday |
11.35pm-12.45am |
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File It under Fear |
15.58.2 |
Saturday |
11.20pm-12.40am |
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Appointment with a Killer |
22.5.82 |
Saturday |
11.20pm-12.40am |
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Melody of Hate |
29.5.82 |
Saturday |
11.20pm-12.40am |
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The Fear Is Spreading |
3.1.83 |
Monday |
11.00pm-12.20am |
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Killer with Two Faces |
6.2.84 |
Monday |
10.30-11.50pm |
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The Next Victim |
13.2.84 |
Monday |
10.30-11.50pm |
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Someone at the Top of the
Stairs (postponed 23.1.84) |
15.2.84 |
Wednesday |
11.00pm-12.20am |
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Once the Killing Starts |
5.3.84 |
Monday |
10.30-11.50pm |
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Possession |
19.3.84 |
Monday |
11.15pm-12.30am |
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A Killer in Every Corner |
No record of broadcast |
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Color Him Dead |
No record of broadcast |
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If It's a Man - Hang Up! |
No record of broadcast |
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Only a Scream Away |
No record of broadcast |
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Screamer |
No record of broadcast |
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Terror from Within |
No record of broadcast |
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| Listing for Sleepwalker on Grampian that could easily be missed by viewers (and researchers!) as it was billed only by the movie title with no reference to Thriller |
Thanks to Martin Marshall for some of these details including transmission times.
The rare broadcast of a few 'Thriller' episodes on Wednesday nights on Grampian reflects the lack of taking 'Mid Week Sports Special', (compiled/networked by Thames and aired many weeks of the year after 'News at Ten' on that day), by the station. A similar situation existed for Scottish TV and Ulster, as 'Mid Week SS' focussed heavily on English based football and other similar sport. The English based stations (and I think HTV Wales) invariable took the network feed from Thames, this precluding 'Thriller' broadcasts on Wednesdays for them. Sport and special events aside, and the occasional high profile but 'adult rated' film (an example being Hitchcock's 'Frenzy'), post 'News at Ten' programming was invariably local and not networked.
ReplyDeleteThose Wednesday repeats are unusual. By my reckoning there were only 10 repeats of Thriller on Wednesday nights - 7 of them in Scotland and Northern Ireland - with Grampian contributing 4 of them.
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