Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Consider this yet another short little preview of future uploads, if all goes well (yes, I know I still have some stuff to edit up from VHS digitizations, bare with me as always!).

This was recorded 21 years ago to this day, on a tape that had a bunch of BBC2 shows on before this point (from two days after) and here/onwards featured mostly repeats of "The Simpsons" on Sky One, part of an episode of "24" premiered on the same network...and this thing. "Love on a Saturday Night", an ill-fated attempt by ITV to fill in the void that Cilla Black's "Blind Date" left when that show changed hands. The tape does *not* feature the entire episode present, which was an exhaustive Valentine's Day special of the show with extra VTs from real couples before the breaks, but while trying not to wholly pre-empt my thoughts before I show off its ad breaks...even in 2004, I don't blame my family for deciding to turn away from this. ITV'd *totally* make a show like this again too if they could get away with the casual grossness of it...

...but ah well, this video's not about that but for the glimpses of how our cablebox back then was like to use! I didn't expect to see this stuff when it appeared and when it did, I honestly gasped in delight. Didn't think I'd see how it was like to use this on tapes we still had that didn't have its contents taped over (or...not so taped over something like this was erased) so...for the uber-nerds out there who'd be interested, here's a look at that stuff! Not much but it's enough that you can get a good idea anyway. :) A couple of menus and a channel change-over.

Oh, incidentally, Happy Valentine's Day if you celebrate that. But even if you don't, hope you're having as decent a day as you can have!