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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cobbles" data-source="post: 236558" data-attributes="member: 5138">The April 1976 start date on Granada was started from when Bill Podmore took over (presumably the powers that be at Granada deemed that eras as the best at the time, so didn't bother with anything up to it - most have commented early 70s was a decline in quality.) The 1986 episode they started on was the first appearance of Alan Bradley in the show, presumably ITV3 decided the Alan Bradley/Rita storyline was a good place for people to jump in on for that era and most interesting place to go and most likely to be watched by high numbers of viewers to justify the slot.But as you say it would be nice if they just accepted they might as well show the dross with the good.I'd imagine if ITV3 repeats stopped and they went back to start again in 30-40 years, someone might pick the tram crash storyline as the starting point for 'repeats.'Unless they start from the very beginning there always going to annoy some of us though.</blockquote>