We’re finishing off the fortnight with something of a whimper rather than a bang. But on the BBC there’s still a good afternoon film – Hitchcock’s Notorious and during the evening there’s Jasper Carrott’s review of the year in Carrott’s Lib.
Over on ITV we’re about midway through the first series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Today’s episode – Private Lives – is a S1 highlight. Dennis and Dagmar are becoming an item – but he’s keen to keep it a secret from the lads. As you might expect this turns out to be impossible, even in a city as large as Hamburg.
Over on C4 there’s another chance for Max Boyce to meet the Dallas Cowboys.
And that’s it for my fortnight in 1983. Thanks to anyone who’s managed to stay the course with me. All being well, next year it’ll be December 1984 …
Archive Television Musings 
I went away over the New Year weekend so I didn’t see a lot of tv on the last few days of December and first day of January.
I had a look on BBC Genome to see what was on on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. These programmes were listed in the following week’s Radio Times.
By the way who was on the cover of Radio and TV Times for 31st Decmber 1983-6th January 1984? I can’t remember if Radio Times did a cover advertising a documentary about George Orwell’s novel 1984, or Richard Chamberlain in Thorn Birds.
You sometimes download clips from The Good Old Days on your Twitter messages. On New Years Eve 1983 BBC1 showed the last Good Old Days.
BBC2 showed the cult movie Theatre of Blood starting at a quarter to midnight.
On New Year’s Day BBC1 showede Aladdin and the Forty Thieves, with Sarah Greene as Aladdin, Johnny Morris as Widow Twankey, and Edward Brayshaw from Rent-a-Ghost as Abanazer.
One of the highpoints of Christmas tv used to be the All Star Record Breakers, but the 1982 edition was the last one, and the following year they did a New Year pantomime instead. Although this proved to be a one-off.
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Auf Wiedersehen Pet was supposed to be set in Dussledorf in Series 1, but was in fact filmed in Hamburg. The episode in question is probably the one that took in most location footage, as most of the series was in fact filmed in the UK with the German building site being in Elstree of all places.
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