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Series 1 - Original broadcasts

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Simon B KellyOct 12, 2012
 

 
I've been researching old UK radio and tv listings recently (going right back to 1922) and, with the recent JAM repeats on Radio 4 Extra, it seems the right time to share my findings on the first series.

As we know, the pilot episode (S01E01) went out on a Friday evening. However, most of Series 1 was also repeated on Saturday afternoons!

Between December 1967 and April 1968 a total of 26 episodes of JAM aired on BBC Radio 4 - 13 on a Friday and 13 on a Saturday. Here are the original broadcast dates and times:

S01E01 Fri, Dec 22, 1967, 7.30pm
S01E02 Fri, Dec 29, 1967, 7.30pm
S01E02 Sat, Dec 30, 1967, 1.10pm
S01E03 Fri, Jan 05, 1968, 7.30pm
S01E03 Sat, Jan 06, 1968, 1.10pm
S01E04 Fri, Jan 12, 1968, 7.30pm
S01E04 Sat, Jan 13, 1968, 1.10pm
S01E05 Sat, Jan 20, 1968, 1.10pm
S01E06 Sat, Jan 27, 1968, 1.10pm
S01E07 Fri, Feb 2, 1968, 7.30pm
S01E07 Sat, Feb 3, 1968, 1.10pm
S01E08 Fri, Feb 9, 1968, 7.30pm
S01E08 Sat, Feb 10, 1968, 1.10pm
S01E09 Sat, Feb 17, 1968, 1.10pm
S01E10 Fri, Feb 23, 1968, 7.30pm
S01E10 Sat, Feb 24, 1968, 1.10pm
S01E11 Fri, Mar 1, 1968, 7.30pm
S01E11 Sat, Mar 2, 1968, 1.10pm
S01E12 Fri, Mar 8, 1968, 7.30pm
S01E12 Sat, Mar 9, 1968, 1.10pm
S01E13 Fri, Mar 15, 1968, 7.30pm
S01E13 Sat, Mar 16, 1968, 1.10pm
S01E14 Fri, Mar 22, 1968, 7.30pm
S01E14 Sat, Mar 23, 1968, 1.10pm
S01E15 Fri, Mar 29, 1968, 7.30pm
S01E16 Fri, Apr 5, 1968, 7.30pm

As you can see, if you only listened to Radio 4 on Friday evenings you would have missed Episodes 5, 6 and 9. Conversely, if you only listened on Saturday afternoons, you would have missed Episodes 1, 15 and 16.

Hopefully this will clear up some of the confusion as to why the BBC dated their recent broadcast as January 20th - there was no JAM on Jan 19 (or Jan 26, or Feb 16) as the evening was taken up instead with a BBC Symphony Orchestra concert.

Simon

 
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