Re: Prisoner ever in stereo ?

"DaveB" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:c2tpge$2018tr$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Aussie AM Stereo Fan wrote:
> > This is a question no one seems to know or cares about but maybe just
one
> > person on here can confirm the later epsiodes (600's ?) were made in
stereo
> > by Grundy ?
> >
> > In fact those watching the episodes in Oz on Foxtel's UKTV channel
perhaps
> > can confirm stereo as I think episodes are now in the 600's ?
>
> I would also like to know about this. I understand that stereo was
> actually quite common on Aussie TV even that early. But I suspect that
> if Prisoner was ever in stereo, someone would have confirmed it by now.
> I don't think there was any stereo when last shown in the UK :-(
>

Yes Stereo TV was common as early as 1984 in Oz with just about all progs
in
stereo mid 80's. We had to wait 5 years later for Nicam stereo in the
UK...