David Looser wrote:
"John Williamson" wrote in message
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As far as I remember, the series ran in a slightly modified form right up
until Practical Television closed down after it turned into Television. I
remember reading some not too long ago, but the format was of the guru
handing the problem to the novice, giving him enough clues, with the
answer on page xxx. "Of course, what Novice missed was....."


I think you must be talking about the long running "Test Case" feature,
where the symptoms of a fault were given, together with the results of some
tests, after which the reader was challenged to diagnose the fault.
Originally the answer was given in the next issue, but that was later
changed to being on another page in the same issue. This feature ran for
many years long after the change of name.

These cases were introduced as being real cases in a repair workshop
populated by a cast of characters with names like "Television Ted" and "Real
Technician". Whilst the reader was led to understand that some of these
people were more experienced at diagnosis than others, it wasn't the case
that these problems were given to a particular "novice" to solve. It was
quite different to the "Smithy and Dick" feature in Radio Constructor.

That's the one. Quite entertaining in it's way. :-)

Now Television's morphed again & been relaunched as Television & Consumer
Electronics. I've not seen a copy of the new one yet.

Nor me. Having subscribed to "Practical Television" and then "Television"
for decades I stopped just before it's recent re-incarnation, as the
magazine had lost it's way and no longer had anything in it to interest me.

I may buy a copy if I accidentally see one, but, likewise there wasn't
much of interest in iot to me towards the end.

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Tciao for Now!

John.