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Stryker of the Yard
« Thread Started on May 23, 2012, 10:26pm »
Just been looking through this archive.

www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk


I've entered names of a few missing shows, just on the off-chance.


They list having 9 episodes of Stryker Of The Yard.

8 of them are listed as missing here:
http://www.btinternet.com/~m.brown1/stryker.htm

Have I made a find?
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Re: Stryker of the Yard
« Reply #1 on May 23, 2012, 11:16pm »
According to lostshows.com 12 out of 13 are missing.
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Re: Stryker of the Yard
« Reply #2 on May 24, 2012, 6:48pm »
Ray said on the other thread:
I'll do further checks on this and the Strykers (need to ascertain wthere they are exactly the same shows - tx dates are way off - but I think the Wednesday Play one could indeed be a find.


About the TX dates, I've looked at IMDB. It lists a 1953 movie and the TV series in 1957.

My guess is that this is the wrong way round. The TV series 1953-4 and the movie 1957. This would match the BFI TX dates correct.

I'll also guess that the 1961-2 given at http://www.btinternet.com/~m.brown1/stryker.htm is mistaken.

As for the movie, IMDB describes it thus:
Two episodes of the Stryker of Scotland Yard series: The Case of the Studio Payroll and The Case of Uncle Harry, edited together into feature film format.

These are both missing episodes. Any way to check if the movie still exists? That would change their status to exists in a different format .
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Re: Stryker of the Yard
« Reply #3 on May 24, 2012, 7:42pm »
This is a helpful link: http://www.bvws.org.uk/405alive/info/prog_stryker.html

It seems that Stryker was intended for cinema screening and later picked up by ATV for TV. 15 instalments were originally made and it seems that the BFI hold nine.
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Re: Stryker of the Yard
« Reply #4 on May 25, 2012, 8:12am »
""This early 1950s crime series was originally made for cinema showings and was distributed throughout the UK by British Lion Films. Even so, it was shown on American television (NBC) around 1957 and cut down from 35 minutes to 25 minutes, also bearing the legend Hollywood Television Service at the beginning of each episode. Incidentally, Hollywood Television Service was a division of Republic Pictures, who were renowned for producing B-movies, B-movie serials and such early 1950s television series as Stories of the Century, Dr Fu-Manchu, Frontier Doctor, and so on.

Anyway, getting back to crime, 13 episodes of Stryker of the Yard were first broadcast by ATV from 2nd November 1961 to 25th January 1962, then occasionally between 1966 and 1972, although Channel Television ran all 15 segments in 1972. By this time, however, the series looked amusingly dated. The programmes had a similarity to the Edgar Lustgarten Scotland Yard series (produced at the Merton Park studios), with a comparable host (Tom Fallon) introducing each segment and the narrator’s voice at the end of each segment intoning: "And it just goes to show that crime does not pay", once the villain of the piece had been ‘despatched’.""

Thank you Ken and Pete. Pete, this is your find. Credit due. Excellent research from Ken.

I apologize if this sounds patronizing, I don't mean it to be, but Pete Morris and jgreen coming up with the recent finds (brilliant, by the way) are exactly what I want. More people finding things, new finds, it's excellent. If I only found one thing a year, and everyone else found 2000, I would be happier than me finding 500.

I am sure you get the jist of my post.

Thank you!
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Re: Stryker of the Yard
« Reply #5 on May 25, 2012, 9:51am »

May 25, 2012, 8:12am, Ray Langstone (was saintsray) wrote:


Thank you Ken and Pete. Pete, this is your find. Credit due. Excellent research from Ken.


So, have you confirmed 100% that it exists?
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Re: Stryker of the Yard
« Reply #6 on May 25, 2012, 2:35pm »

May 25, 2012, 9:51am, Pete Morris wrote:

May 25, 2012, 8:12am, Ray Langstone (was saintsray) wrote:


Thank you Ken and Pete. Pete, this is your find. Credit due. Excellent research from Ken.


So, have you confirmed 100% that it exists?


I'd like to know this too. I enjoyed the one episode of this I have seen and a return of this size might prompt Network into a dvd release?

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Re: Stryker of the Yard
« Reply #7 on May 25, 2012, 2:47pm »
Still waiting on an email, but I'm pretty sure it does.
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Re: Stryker of the Yard
« Reply #8 on May 28, 2012, 7:50am »
The 8 episodes appear to be finds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Stryker of the Yard
« Reply #9 on May 30, 2012, 8:29pm »
For the record,there were two 'Stryker movies:

Stryker of the Yard,combining Studio Payroll and Uncle Harry,
and 1954's Companions in Crime a.k.a. Stryker Strikes Twice,a compilation of Case of the Black Falcon and Case of the Two Brothers.The BFI holds these,though I can't see any information on format,They were cheap,but would have been filmed in 35mm,surely? If they WERE 35mm,and all the episodes were made to be shon theatrically,are the ones listed 35mm?

Episode running times in the UK were 35 mins.,chopped down in the U.S. to 25.
Anyone know how long the films ran?
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Re: Stryker of the Yard
« Reply #10 on May 31, 2012, 2:38pm »
Do the two films in effect complete the run?
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London Screen Archive.
« Reply #11 on May 31, 2012, 11:06pm »
The LSA seem to have listings for perhaps missing 'No Hiding Place (Bottle Full of Sixpences),Expert With Salt),Man From Interpol (Latest Fashion in Crime,Ronnie Barker Playhouse (Incredible Mister Tanner,Ah! There You Are,The Incredible Mister Tanner),Orlando,etc.
Am I reading the listings wrongly,or do I have the wrong 'missing' list?
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Re: London Screen Archive.
« Reply #12 on Jun 1, 2012, 6:14am »
No still seem to be missing (with the possible exception of Orlando which I noticed was in there with a couple of episodes of Crane also existing). Well done. Don't know if the No Hiding Places are ones recently unearthed from ebay etc. but not yet updated in Lostshows.
The LSA seems to be throwing a lot of "finds" within the BFI archives in particular. Which is strange. Hence the seperate thread on BFI "finds".
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Re: London Screen Archive.
« Reply #13 on Jun 1, 2012, 7:48am »
The lostshows.com list has a lot of inaccuracies when it comes to Rediffusion. The BFI archive is where Rediffusion existing shows are, for the most part, meant to be.
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Re: London Screen Archive.
« Reply #14 on Jun 1, 2012, 8:08am »
Expert In Salt was, I think, one of the NHP items that turned up for sale a few years ago. I didn't know it had been passed to the BFI though. Which Orlandos were they? At last reckoning there were about 4 or 5 existing (which I'd love to see!) from one particular 6 part story. The BFI do also have one Ronnie Barker Playhouse and a couple of Crane as well, so these might be the ones.

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