Ironically, this was broadcast the day after Reg Calvert, the owner of Radio City, was shot dead by Major Oliver Smedley in a dispute over ownership of a transmitter Smedley had supplied. That was the catalyst that led to the passing of the Marine Etc. Broadcasting Offences act, which put most of the pirates off the air. It wasn't the end, of course, as witness RNI, Laser 558 and the numerous comebacks by Radio Caroline.
@kgarrett1404
Ай бұрын
Radio London was the best!
@VulcanDriver1
Ай бұрын
Radio London was my favourite. They should have been licensed, bought ashore and taxed. But the BBC couldn't cope with the competition.
@johnmacleod4481
Ай бұрын
Pretty flamingo pretty ships pretty damn fine music on the offshore radio stations
@mohammedcohen
Ай бұрын
...I remember an episode of 'Secret Agent'....."a quiet night for a drum solo"...
@bobmeade3499
27 күн бұрын
That was Danger Man in the UK.
@mohammedcohen
26 күн бұрын
@@bobmeade3499 ..yes it was - in its first iteration in the states - in the early 60s...by the mid/late 60s it became Secret Agent, with Johnny Rivers singing the theme...in one of the Danger Man episodes ca 1962/63 McGoohan gets out of a jam when what eventually became the Carter Arms AR7 survival rifle was smuggled to him inside a loaf of French bread....years late when I bought one I realized how idiotic the script was...there ain't no loaf big enough to conceal that rifle...but it made for a good story at the time because no onein the general populace had ever seen one either....cracking good shows of my yute'...
@hopnedod
Ай бұрын
WELL they done a better job than the BBC..... GREAT days
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