Talk:Vrillon

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Contents 1 Question 2 Reformatting 3 Whoever pulled this prank was a genius 4 no other channels 5 Deletion

[edit] Question

This is also a religious "cult", anyone care to fill out the article?

[edit] Reformatting

I have done some editing work on the main entry. I reformatted some of the text to improve readability, added a section for inline citations per WP:MOS, provided a few extra source citations and finally, reformatted the External links section. Cheers.

-- Labyrinth13 19:26, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Whoever pulled this prank was a genius

Yeah. So when does the statute of limitations run out such that the person/people who did this could say they did it without fear of being arrested? Or has it already ended? Titanium Dragon (talk) 03:38, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Genius? it was only a minor regional station... There is no Statute of limitations in the UK (except in contract law), but I can't see the police being interested in a 30-year-old minor broadcasting offence. It's safe to come out now guys! unless it really was Vrillon... :) Totnesmartin 00:19, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] no other channels

The assertion that there are sounds from other channels picked up towards the end is incorrect. The whole thing is ITV (Southern TV franchise area) from beginning to end. The sounds after the news are various adverts and then you hear the Southern Tv ident music (a short acoustic guitar riff) and then the Looney Tunes theme. Southern TV was merely showing a cartoon after the news. It was quite common for these old cartoons to be shown as filler on British Tv at the time. There are no other channels being picked up. The fact that the ident music is played before an old cartoon which would have been a non-networked programme confirms it. Lots of the American youtube commenters erroneously assume this to be a radio broadcast because there are no visuals, which is irritating. Probably no version with the visuals exists as most people did not have video recorders in 1977. A pity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.73.157.165 (talk) 00:46, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion

I for one highly disagree that this page should be deleted. It is a notable incident in both pirate television and ufology. The mere fact that someone was able to do this in 1977, by taking over several transmitters, made it newsworthy both then and now

Theartandsound (talk) 05:23, 21 April 2008 (UTC)