Yess Yess !!

O M G, I can't wait, yea :-))

Thunderbirds

(OK I will admit it now, my nickname in the family is "Brains" ....)


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That will be good. But CITV?!
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CITV (short for Children's ITV) is a British television channel from ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It broadcasts content from the CITV archive, as well as commissions and acquisitions. It airs daily from 6am to 6pm. The channel has averaged 200,000 viewers everyday having a 0.8 share of the TV audience in the UK.

CITV (short for Children's ITV) is a British television channel from ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It broadcasts content from the CITV archive, as well as commissions and acquisitions. It airs daily from 6am to 6pm. The channel has averaged 200,000 viewers everyday having a 0.8 share of the TV audience in the UK.

Freeview Channel 75

The Tracy family was based on a concept similar to the TV series Bonanza with Jeff Tracy even taking on an appearance similar to Lorne Greene. Jeff Tracy's sons were named after the first 5 American astronauts into space via the Mercury space project, Scott Carpenter, Virgil Grissom, Alan Shepard, Gordon Cooper and John Glenn.

The puppets were all made to one-third life size (approximately 56cm high). Scott's appearance was based on Sean Connery, Alan Tracy's face was modelled on actor Robert Reed. Brains is thought to have been modelled on Anthony Perkin's. The characters Lady Penelope and Parker were designed to suit the English class society, hence the exaggerated accents and appearance. Parker's character was based on a barman at the local pub the production team frequented. Arthur, the barman, had previously worked for 'er Majesty's Service and spoke with an accent that allowed free use of the letter 'H'.

Lady Penelope was a female James Bond, her family motto being "Elegance, Charm and Deadly Danger". John Tracy was initially to be one of the main characters in the series but Gerry was never happy with his looks or voice and consigned him to Thunderbird 5 where he only made brief appearances.

Lucky you, we don't get it anymore here...
Really loved that show.
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Well, apart from being the pioneers of "Supermarionation" Gerry & Sylvia Anderson were also suggesting that in real life, perhaps a UN based International Task Force could be set up to deal with world wide disasters. A humanitariasn concept that I fear is unlikely to transpire in my lifetime, even though the technology is there to do it.

Virgin Galactic, is about to produce an equivalent to Thunderbird 1, the British built Harriers proved the concept of Thunderbird 2, the space shuttle has already mimicked Thunderbird 3. Various existing Bathyscapes are Thunderbird 4, and the ISS of course is the equivalent of Thunderbird 5.

So who knows ....

DVD's

as I don't have an antenna or aerial - and therefore don't have a TV Licence.

as I don't have an antenna or aerial - and therefore don't have a TV Licence.

Well if you watch "live streams" from any source you do in fact need a licence, aerial or not. You do not need a licence if you only watch "catch up" or time shifted programs.

The UK TV licence covers the premises, NOT any receiving equipment that may be within it.

TV licence

A reminder of the law

The law states that you need to be covered by a TV Licence if you watch or record television programmes, on any device, as they're being shown on TV. This includes TVs, computers, mobile phones, games consoles, digital boxes and Blu-ray/DVD/VHS recorders.

You don't need a licence if you don't use any of these devices to watch or record television programmes as they're being shown on TV - for example, if you use your TV only to watch DVDs or play video games, or you only watch ‘catch up’ services like BBC iPlayer or 4oD.

We still don't have those here, only the TV broadcasters need a license in the US.

In the UK, BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, are paid for by the TV licence fee. ITV and Channels 4 and 5 are commercial channels funded by adverts. Of course there are numerous other Freewiew and Freesat channels, that require a set top box or dish.