Does anybody remember the mid 80s channel 4 music show called E.C.T (Extra Celestial Transmission)

More like it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLsNYlHG8Rs

http://andylerock.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/ect-live-heavy-metal-on-channel-4-new.html

ECT – EPISODE 1 – 12th APRIL 1985 – MOTORHEAD, LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH, MAGNUM, MADAM X

http://andylerock.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-story-of-ect-live-heavy-metal-on.html

ECT – EPISODE 2 – 19th April 1985 – TORME, ROGUE MALE, GIRLSCHOOL, WAYSTED

http://andylerock.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-story-of-ect-episode-3-live-heavy.html

ECT – EPISODE 3 - Shy, Tobruk, Warriors, Hawkwind

http://andylerock.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-story-of-ect-episode-4-live-heavy.html
ep 4
TYGERS OF PAN TANG , MAMAS BOYS.ROBIN GEORGE , MCCOY

http://andylerock.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-story-of-ect-episode-5-live-heavy.html
ep 5 MARINO THE BAND, WILDFIRE, SPIDER and GARY MOORE/PHIL LYNOTT.

http://andylerock.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-story-of-ect-episode-6-live-heavy.html

PET HATE , TARAZARA, CHARIOT, SNOWY WHITE

http://andylerock.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-story-of-ect-episode-7-live-heavy.html
Cannes, Lionheart, The Grip, Persian Risk

ECTEpisode 8 – The Gunslingers, The Torpedoes, Venom, Lee Aaron

http://andylerock.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-story-of-ect-episode-8-live-heavy.html
ECTEpisode 8 – The Gunslingers, The Torpedoes, Venom, Lee Aaron

http://andylerock.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-story-of-ect-episode-9-live-heavy.html

ECTEpisode 9 – Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts, Doctor And The Medics, Rock Goddess, HeavyPettin

http://andylerock.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-story-of-ect-episode-10-end-live.html

And so we come to the last ever episode of ECT as shown on Channel 4 for 10 weeks during the spring of 1985. Whatever it’s plusses and minusses it brought heavy rock to a wide audience and gave exposure to many bands that would otherwise have not that much in history to remember them by.

A lack of big names and a flawed format killed the show. Had the live footage mixed with rock videos with some of the big US hitters, then I think it could have come back for a second series.

But as it was, it is a fascinating peek into the (mainly British) rock scene of the mid 80s.

SHE, TRASH, MAGNUM (replacement for Hanoi Rocks) , WARLOCK

why were Doctor and the Medics on this show?

Prototype attempt to reach out to the lucrative goth market