Bonkers - how bad was UK telly archiving in the 80's. At least nowadays if this happened you could find a pristine digital master on someones telly box. Reminds me of the "Press Gang" DVDs, ITV managed to find the video masters, but they had appalling sound. So the sound was redubbed in from someone's personal…

Unless they've also remastered the original British framing scenes with Fulton Mackay or John Gordon Sinclair, count me out. ITV even managed to put the wrong version on their streaming service a couple of years back…

Xyzzy innit?

Apologies for stealing your point about Hopkins brilliantly meta speech - was reading in order and hadn't got down to yours.

Guys,