Subject: Re: TWIN PEAKS SET (the Japanese laserdisc boxed set)
From: moflngan@vax1.tcd.ie
Date: 1992-02-27, 10:26
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <18550@castle.ed.ac.uk>, bob@castle.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray) writes:
> > moflngan@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
>> >>Yep, same in Ireland. The Irish national station RTE was ahead of the BBC in
>> >>showing TP and screened the two hour final episode. It was funny to watch the
>> >>two hours on RTE and a week or more later expect to see the two hours on BBC,
>> >>you know, to catch up on any bits I missed, only to find that it was two
>> >>separate episodes and I had to wait another week to see the second part.
> > 
> > Strange. The BBC showed the first of the final two episodes
> > two days after it had first aired in the US. The last
> > episodes were aired in the US after a long delay because the
> > BBC had caught up rapidly by showing both series without a
> > break, except for a couple of weeks at christmas.
> > 
> > Are you really claiming that RTE showed the final episodes
> > before the US viewers saw them, and more, that no-one in
> > either the UK or Ireland has mentioned that until now.
> > That includes the Irish members of the very active UK
> > based mailing list at the time.
> > Bob.
Its a long time ago now, but I know RTE was ahead of the BBC all along
and I recollect seeing it there ahead of seeing it on the BBC. I could
be wrong there, its to ong ago, maybe the Beeb caught up.
I do know that RTE showed the one 2 hour episode while the BBC showed it
as two so they would both have finished in the same week even if RTE ended up a
week behind the BBC which is possible with the crazy TP schedule we had at the
time.

Sorry if I confused you but the basic purpose of the post was just that we got
a two hour final episode here, as in the States, unlike the uncharacterisitc
butchering done by the Beeb in splitting it.

Margaret