Discovery 66

[Alan Turrell]

Chris Perry
23 mins · Birmingham



DISCOVERY 66: Here’s Harry – The Musician tx: 22.11.1963

Written by Vince Powell and Frank Roscoe, produced and directed by John Ammonds for BBC North.
With Harry Worth, Max Jaffa, Geoffrey Hibbert, Jack Woolgar, BBC Northern Concert Orchestra

Comedy and music combined in the only edition of series 6 that now survives. 16mm telerecording acquired from private collection. Shown on the night it was announced that President Kennedy had been killed. One of the few programmes actually shown and not re-scheduled.

As always, my thanks to Steve Birt for his support.

The next few days will be comedy and documentaries, then back to drama at the end of the weekend.

[richardwoods]

Does this one start with the classic shop window scene or is it too early a series?

[John Green]

An historic find-in more ways than one.

One of those peculiar series where the title of every episode-well,with a few exceptions-starts with 'The'.

[Alan Turrell]

Oct 6, 2016 20:51:47 GMT richardwoods said:

Does this one start with the classic shop window scene or is it too early a series?

Yes Richard this is the series with the classic shop window scene.




www.youtube.com/watch?v=f189hOfyYSY

[richardwoods]

Thanks Alan, Great stuff. Happy memories!

[Stephen Byers]

Can someone upload a list of Harry Worth eps. existing v.v. missing please. There were loads of old Harry Worth recordings from VHS tapes available from a certain 'boxed' Brit. TV site some years' ago which is now well closed down. I expect the source tapes got dumped so now no-one can see them.

[John Green]

The list of survivals here: unionsearch.bfi.org.uk/advanceSearch.dhtml?fl.text=harry+worth&rows=20 though it'll be incomplete,is useful since it's easier to find missing episodes at Lostshows.

[RWels]

Some audio-only survives as well for other episodes of Harry Worth, rescued by Tristan Brittain-Dissont, the Archivist of the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society (www.tonyhancock.org.uk).

[John Green]

This old thread is well worth a read for context:

missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/317 on the night Kennedy died.

[richardwoods]

Oct 14, 2016 22:43:36 GMT John Green said:

This old thread is well worth a read for context:

missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/317 on the night Kennedy died.

Brilliant article!

[John Green]

The surviving Here's Harrys are being released on 11 September. 2 discs, 300 minutes.

Thanks to Joe Dredd at Roobarb for the details.