Why has the early morning news been PRE-EMPTED for a special LIVE This Is Your Life?

>>Why has the early morning news been PRE-EMPTED for a special LIVE This Is Your Life?

There's no need for the emphasis on the *live* - in the sixties it would have been more strange if it had been pre-recorded... This is Your Life went out live then...

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But in someone else's house? At 6 in the morning?

If their was someone in my house at six in the morning, I would have run out of the house at 5:55 when I heard them, was there a POINT to this episode?

A Monty Python sketch involving hungry old ladies and some vikings springs to mind as a reason........

Was Troy too drunk the night before to remember to shut his door, or do strangers with television cameras just burst right in?

Given the state of his living room and bedroom, a few hung-over Aquanauts draped over the furniture would have been appropriate...I'm surprised that Troy didn't dive back into his bedroom and lock the door.

At what point, exactly, was Troy permitted to excuse himself to shave and dress?

Troy's memory is slipping, or else he is editing them for public viewing. When discussing his "Raptures" episode (and very brave of him to recall such an embarrassing interlude) he said that he had been sent to investigate stories of an underwater gem forest. This actually sounds about as silly as the real reason: "Well, these two retro-hippie types decided go treasure-hunting in an uncertified, leaky old tub of a two-man submarine that should have been scrapped twenty years ago, and naturally they ran into trouble and yelled for help, and we happened to be the ones in the area...."

Marina is described as "The beautiful girl from under the sea." Come to think of it, that pretty well sums her up.

Reading about this episode before I watched it, I had the impression that Troy was asked which of the two women he preferred. He was not. The reporter asked Atlanta about the rumors about Troy and herself, and Marina was not mentioned at all. You would think that the reporter would make the most of this mysterious, silent woman, rescued and established as a member of Troy's team, but aside from the brief introduction when she, Phones, and Shore showed up, not a word.

Atlanta said that Troy is not the marrying type, but you just KNOW that she's hoping to change that....

Troy really sounded as though he were going to make a decision on the "romance" question. With both of the women present? That would have been in keeping with his general social thoughtlessness.

Oh, yes, nearly forgot. "Stingray" was filmed in color; the first British program to do so. (According to the commentary, their primary reason for doing do was for the American audience.) So why was the television show-within-the-show on this futuristic program shown in black and white?

It was Gerry Anderson's first colour show, but the first British one (I think) was The Adventures Of Sir Lancalot in 1956.

I dunno; I've read from several different sources (and my Stingray commentary DVD) that Stingray was the first British episode to be shot in color (and then originally screened in black and white!)

I've always thought Stingray was first British show in colour but was The Adventures Of Sir Lancalot a film or a TV series?

I think it was a TV series - ISTR hearing it had William Russell / Russell Enoch (whichever name he used) of Dr Who fame in it.

I recently read that Stingray was the first CHILDREN'S show to be filmed in color. That would explain all the discrepancies.

Of course, I recently got a copy of FAB Facts, and IT says that Stingray was the first British show (children, adult, or otherwise) to be shot in color. Looks like it's going to remain a mystery....