Talk:Screen Test

"It was presented initially by the legendary Michael Rodd"

Legendary? Um, hyperbole much? No basis in fact. None. Few people now remember him, few knew him at the height of his career. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.155.204.119 (talk • contribs)

I agree the use of 'legendary' has no place here, but Rodd was certainly a 'known' face. 86.129.2.164 (talk) 20:29, 5 September 2011 (UTC) Al

Added 'introductory' to the theme description as the show was distinguished by having completely different (in style and well as tune) themes for opening and closing. Plutonium27 (talk) 18:55, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Both beginning and end themes were from the same tune, "Marching There and Back". Just from different parts of the tune. Quite common for library music to be composed this way, in order to be used as a TV theme.217.41.228.151 (talk) 19:10, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Intro says

"We made five programmes originally in black and white, which were going to go into the summer slot that Blue Peter left when they all went on holiday. Then, we made the next five in colour (BBC2 was then the only colour station available in the UK) — so we knew we'd really arrived then!"

Is the part in parentheses Rodd's own comment? Also, AFAIK BBC1 went in colour at the end of 1969 and the show apparently started in late 1970, so unless they made the first shows very early, this sounds unusual (though I do appreciate that not all shows were made in colour at first). Ubcule (talk) 22:21, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

As part of the young film-makers competition someone produced a brilliant black and white film to the Kenny Rogers song - sadly no copy can be found 2.30.161.223 (talk) 07:43, 4 October 2023 (UTC)