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The Big Match - ITV4
at 23:30 17 May 2025

Seems like there is a lot more care and concern for rare gems at the ITV archives, than their counterparts, and thats good to know. Much as i love The Big Match re runs, does surprise me that there is such an appetite from viewers, in terms of attracting sufficient advertising revenue. By the same token, i used to collect all the various The Big Match dvd's and other PDI/ITV/BBC related releases, and surprised if much profit was made, as Pretty sure the guy who licensed the Nostalgic tv dvd releases of the 70/71/76 cup finals, made a loss on them. Would love to see some of the midweek matches from the 70s/80s shown on ITV. Regarding QPR v West Ham from 75/76 showing on the upcoming The Big Match, i thought only 10 minutes or so of this existed from Granada's The Kick off match, where the main match was Blackpool v Sunderland. Some time ago i had heard there was tape damage to the Big Match programme featuring the extended QPR v West Ham. Of course with the need to insert 3 ad breaks, i dread the butchering on The Big Match Revisited.! Personally i would prefer interviews and/or random items to edited out, as opposed to match footage and abrupt endings with no end credits.

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The Big Match - ITV4
at 22:55 17 May 2025

You're welcome. Funny enough, i believe most match of the days that have been junked to b & w, do actually exist in colour for goal clips, hence as seen on the QPR Match of the day compilation vhs tape, released 30 odd years ago.!

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The Big Match - ITV4
at 19:20 15 May 2025

The majority of Match of the day's up until 76/77 are archived in b & w. They were ''junked'' to those awful b & w ''scratchy'' film versions to save money, by re using the colour tapes, which were apparently expensive. Thats the reason thats been given in the past. Considering LWT kept the vast majority of their TBM'S in colour, i suspect thats possibly bs, and penny pinching/lack of foresight were the reason(s). From 76/77, the Match of the day's in the archive are in colour, but not all of them exist, even in to the 80's Aside from that, some are the matches only with no studio links. The BBC wiping policy is actually worse than fist feared. Think they still wipe stuff, because they dont see any value in it.

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The Big Match - ITV4
at 19:01 15 May 2025

At least 4 shows have been left out so far. Sometimes its because of damage to the original master tapes. That said, Charlton v Sunderland 15/11/75 is not being shown, and i know for a fact, that exists. West Ham v Sheffield United, West Ham v Stoke and Arsenal v Aston Villa have also been missed out.

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