Just the perfect way to start a Sunday, thank you so very much Retro and well done on this magical find, we'll pray for many more! Takes me back, to watching these at my grandparent's house, just wonderful. God Bless ya Nancy RIP xx.

@radioandtvmemories6178

Ай бұрын

I also have fond memories of watching "Paint Along With Nancy" at my grandparents' house when I was about 3 or 4. That was around 1976-77, so that's probably when the programmes were first broadcast. Incidentally, my grandparents were also called Nancy and Alan

@80sandretrogubbins25

Ай бұрын

@@radioandtvmemories6178 This one was first broadcast in 1975. The programme ran from 1974-1978, by the later series Alan was not present.

@radioandtvmemories6178

Ай бұрын

@@80sandretrogubbins25 In that case, my memories must actually go back even further as I remember the episodes with Alan Taylor

Featuring one of the most gracious theme tunes ever to bless a television programme.

I got the feeling La Kominsky wanted to trip Alan up, as if to say, see, I don't him ;-).

Thank you for a new one of these. Keep them coming please.❤❤

@80sandretrogubbins25

21 күн бұрын

@@londonlady227 The chances of finding any others are close to zero unfortunately.

@londonlady227

6 күн бұрын

​@80sandretrogubbins25 oh dear.....😢

If the repeat is from the London region then it's most likely to be from 13 April 1982. But that wasn't a networked broadcast, so if the recording was made elsewhere then that date won't apply. That year, Thames Television repeated almost three-quarters of the series (38 out of 52 episodes), in the mornings, during the weeks that they weren't showing programmes for schools around Easter, Whitsun and the summer break.

@80sandretrogubbins25

Ай бұрын

It's possibly the Yorkshire region as other things on the tape were Yorkshire, but I have no definite proof which region these were taped in.

@simonc8785

Ай бұрын

I'm drawing a blank with Yorkshire. I can find repeat dates for ATV, Anglia and Granada around this kind of time, but YTV are eluding me at the moment. One odd thing about these repeats is that the episodes don't seem to have generally been shown in the original sequence. "Low Tide" had originally followed "Geraniums", as is clear on screen here, but in these repeats it generally followed "Pink Poppies" with "Geraniums" appearing a little further down the line.

@80sandretrogubbins25

Ай бұрын

@@simonc8785 I can add that Thames repeated these in the 9.25 slot in the summer of 1980. What I did notice is that at least this episode and possibly the other one, went straight into adverts after the HTV endcap. I don't know if that could reveal anything about the region, though the ads were not taped anyway.

@simonc8785

Ай бұрын

​@@80sandretrogubbins25 Yes, Thames repeated episodes in the early morning in the summers of 1978, 1979 and 1980. The repeats in 1979 and 1980 were all from the final series, 9 episodes in each case with some duplication, and some from that series not shown during either run. "Low Tide" comes from series 1 or series 2, depending on how you number them. The first 13 episodes seem to have been made in a single production block but were shown in two runs, so you might say there were 5 series consisting of 7, 6, 13, 13 and 13 episodes, or 4 series each of 13 episodes.

@80sandretrogubbins25

Ай бұрын

@@simonc8785 Can anything be gleaned about region from both episodes going straight into ads at the end, or was that a fairly conventional thing?

Wonderful, many thanks for this. As there were comments about repeats, I would like to ask a question: When was "Paint Along With Nancy" last repeated on ITV?

@thebadtemperedbrit

Ай бұрын

I dunt think it ever was, sadly, maybe there was around the original transmission years, but I'm not aware of any later on, it did vanish into time.

@80sandretrogubbins25

Ай бұрын

The latest date I see for any repeats is 1984. That is according to the TV and Radio database.

@80sandretrogubbins25

Ай бұрын

@@thebadtemperedbrit There were plenty. I know because I remember some of them on Thames. That's why I was particularly pleased to find these.

Thank God they eventually got rid of Alan Taylor and allowed Nancy to present the programme by herself. I wonder if they actually asked her if she wanted that annoying little weasel to co-present or did they just force him on her?

@80sandretrogubbins25

Ай бұрын

I think they probably thought it would be useful to have someone break things down.

@stuartbeacham

Ай бұрын

​@@80sandretrogubbins25 Nancy could - and in later editions did - do that without any 'help' from an interfering busybody.

@londonlady227

6 күн бұрын

​@@stuartbeachamYou could see it irritated her.

That man is annoying, horrible format.