ABSTRACT
Out on Tuesday started as an eight-week series of hour-long episodes. In 1990, the second series extended to ten weekly episodes, now starting at the earlier time of 9pm, and this is the format it stuck to-except for one further change. In 1991, the series moved to Wednesday night and it changed its name to plain Out.2 In 1992, as the fourth series was staggering to a close, Out was axed. But the story continues, for in 1993 a summer season of lesbian and gay programmes was broadcast on Channel 4 under the generic title, Summer’s Out. At the same time, the channel announced a change of heart. Director of programmes, John Willis, declared that due to ‘widespread protest’, Out would be revived in 1994, thus proving that fairy stories do have happy endings (for the time being, at least).3
