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Yeah, I've never seen the TV show

Oh Dear, I remember being sat down for the first episode, at that time television closed down after the end of children's television and started again at around 7.00: "To give receivers/transmitters a chance to cool down".
Mysteriously, they no longer needed to cool down once the beeb had to compete with ITV, ushering in the golden age of Highway Patrol and Dragnet and latterly, 77 Sunset strip, whirlybirds, Cannonball etc..
Up until that time we had had sit coms like "I love Lucy", but no crime. Often the whole of saturday night on BBC before '55 was: "In Town Tonight" interviewing stars and personalities who were just that, followed by "Saturday Night Out" where television crews sat in a fire station all night waiting for an alarm call, or receiving the first TV pic. from Calais.
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