"Go! Learning To Fish" Southern Television (1965)

[Ian Wegg]

It is being reported on the Jack Hargreaves Facebook Page that a film has been discovered called "Learning To Fish".

This is an episode of the children's programme Go! which introduced youngsters to new activities and was broadcast throughout 1965 on Monday's at 5.00pm. It was networked on ITV but each region contributed episodes. Jack's is, naturally, from Southern. It is listed as missing on lostshows (as are most of the others).

www.lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=20a8bae1-2a9a-4386-bd54-c4413b33b4ad

~iw

[John Green]

I hope everyone here will avoid saying "'Go!' Gone?".But seriously,great news.

Do we have subject-matters for the ones which aren't given any on Lostshows?

My priority is to find: 05.07.65 Ponk Trekking (missing)

[Ian Wegg]

May 25, 2016 20:06:01 GMT John Green said:

Do we have subject-matters for the ones which aren't given any on Lostshows?

I've just been doing a trawl of the listings. Getting them all will take time. All I have so far...


20-11-1965. Sand Yachting. James Lloyd. Tyne Tees.
27-11-1965. Learning To Fish. Jack Hargreaves. Southern.
04-12-1965. Railway Modelling. Stuart Hutchison. Westward.
11-12-1965. Ski-ing. James Spankie. Grampian.
18-12-1965. Boat Building. Anglia.

I'm hoping any more Southern ones may turn up from the same source (whatever that is).

~iw

[Ian Wegg]

I've been through all the TV Times available to me and it seems that for most of 1965 the three weekday ITV franchises North (Granada), Midlands (ATV) and London (Rediffusion) had a programme called Seeing Sport in the 5:00pm Monday slot. All of the other regions showed Go! and each of them contributed one or more films to the series. The earliest I can find the series being fully networked is episode 27 on 18 October, which appears in the London edition of TV Times listed as "Southern Television Network Production".

These are the episode contents that I found that aren't in lostshows, with the regional company that produced them:

31.05.65 Canoe Building. Ulster
21.06.65 Golfing. Scottish
12.07.65 Hydroplaning. Anglia
16.08.65 Water Ski-ing 2. Southern
23.08.65 Camping. Westward
06.09.65 Fresh Water Fishing. Tyne Tees
13.09.65 Aeromodelling. Grampian.
11.10.65 Surf Riding. Channel
18.10.65 Shotgun Shooting. Southern.
25.10.65 Diving. Tyne Tees
01.11.65 Golfing - 1. Scottish
08.11.65 Golfing - 2. Scottish

(There are 12 episodes for which I don't have a TV Times for reference)

John, your previously mentioned 05.07.65 Ponk Trekking was made by Border. I guess that is where there are the most ponks!  Episode 3 on lostshows as "Fitness" was made by TWW. I think every single region (outside the big 3) made a contribution, was it common for the regions to collaborate on a complete series in this way I wonder?

Southern made at least 4 episodes: 2 on Water ski-ing with Fred Dinenage (which used the company's OB boat Southerner in their first year of ownership), Jack's "Learning to Fish" and another one by Jack Hargreaves on "Shotgun Shooting". That I would love to see!

~iw

[John Green]

Ian Wegg said: was it common for the regions to collaborate on a complete series in this way I wonder?

I was planning to ask you! It rings a bell.

Added: Got it! This thread missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/10101/200-missing-programmes-utv states

#GO! [Networked] –
31.05.65 Build Your Own Canoe
07.06.65 Paddle Your Own Canoe
##.##.65 Waterskiing

as found in the Ulster TV archive.Apparently,31.05.65 is AKA Canoe Building.

[williammcgregor]

The 'discovered' film episode mentioned by Ian Wegg in his opening post is not just a 'find' of One episode, but TWO!

because this Learning To Fish episode was also screened on 27 December 1965, making it the last Missing
Episode on the lostshows list..


Details from (North Region) TV Times

27th Nov 1965...



and article on page 16 same TV Times...



The Second Screening of Learning To Fish in the (North Region) TV Times contains
Monday 27 December,( you will find this is called Boxing Day, even though Christmas Day was the Saturday
then the Sunday was a 'normal' day, they moved Boxing Day to the Monday 27 December)
NB: this was screened at an earlier time than usual for Go!, this day was 4.55 - 5.20 pm, but the synopsis for the episode along with the production crew, is the same as for the first screening on Monday 29 November..
with both the 29 November and 27 December listings, the forum can see these 2 ME's are the same, the
latter a repeat.



Onto Scottish Television ..
the episode dated 19/7/65 in the Lostshows list is Offshore Cruising,
made by Scottish Television, featuring a six ton sloop called Starletta skippered by
Jock Kerr-Hunter who shows some of the arts of this...



16/08/65 Go- Water Ski-ing below...



Monday July 5 Pony Trekking, this was With Hugh MacGregor - a trek in the Lake District
Produced by Derek Batey...Border Television Network Production.

Monday September 20 5.0 -5.25 pm Archery
Kevin Flanagan is introduced to the 'Ancient and Honourable Sport' By Hector Simpson
Ulster Television Production

[John Green]

I don't suppose it's Learning to Fish 2 or 3? (They seem a bit slack about that sort of thing in the listings).

[John Green]

Nice to hear (via Toolz on Roobarb) that the extras on the upcoming Network Out of Town set comprise:

[] Two episodes of Southern Gold
[] A Tribute to Jack Hargreaves
[] Go! Learning to Fish
[] Summer in Kite's Country"

[Ian Wegg]

Yes not bad going. 14 months after the discovery I have watched this now on the new DVD set.

[John Green]

I've got hopes that the Channel TV one on 'Surf Riding' will turn up. Channel have uploaded some nice stuff over the last few years, including 'lost' episodes of A Chance to Meet..., and were apparently doing an inventory of their archive. Anyone heard more about how this is going/went?

I'm guessing that a children's programme called 'Go! Shotgun Shooting' wouldn't have much chance of a repeat even if it turned up.