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Post by Alan Turrell on Oct 8, 2016 20:52:15 GMT
Chris Perry
25 mins · Birmingham
DISCOVERY 68: P G Wodehouse’s The World of Wooster - Jeeves and the Great Sermon Handicap tx: 13.6.1965
Written, produced and directed by Michael Mills.
With Ian Carmichael as Wooster and Dennis Price as Jeeves; Simon Ward, Arthur Ridley, Jack Haig, John Scott Martin, Simon Carter.
This edition has proved harder to identify since the can has no title; and I don’t like to wind film out too far. I am using stills from the episode to identify actors to place its title. Delighted to say that Dick Fiddy will be screening this edition at Missing Believed Wiped 2016.
16mm print acquired from a collector.
As always with the help of Steve Birt.
Tomorrow night its documentaries and schools, then back to drama for Monday and Tuesday.
This collection being announced is all from one source. There are other discoveries that will be announced in the next few weeks which are still being catalogued and assessed.
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Post by Alan Turrell on Oct 8, 2016 20:54:41 GMT
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Post by Alan Turrell on Oct 8, 2016 20:55:48 GMT
And there's still more to come into next week.
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Post by John Green on Oct 8, 2016 20:59:31 GMT
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Post by richardwoods on Oct 8, 2016 21:20:35 GMT
Shocking so many of these are missing. I remember watching them really well  . Good news on the recovery though  |
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Post by George D on Oct 8, 2016 21:27:27 GMT
I'm very thankful for youtube. Those people get the stuff out. |
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Post by John Green on Oct 8, 2016 22:46:00 GMT
There's a comment on Youtube from four months ago that "It seems the second surviving episode is in a private collection, not the BBC archive." Would that be this episode,or another possible survival? Added: In 2004 a guest here commented: In Ian Carmichael's biography ("Will the real Ian Carmichael...") he mentions two episodes of World of Wooster being taken by Frank Muir on 16mm to show PG Wodehouse at his home on Long Island. Is this a lead? |
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Post by RWels on Oct 9, 2016 8:44:48 GMT
Shocking so many of these are missing. I remember watching them really well . Good news on the recovery though Yes so far the one below, "Delated exit", was the only complete one out of 5 series (3 World of Wooster + 2 World of Wodehouse). No audio was known either. The list on the main site: www.thiswaydown.org/missing-episodes/Wodehouse.htm |
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Post by RWels on Oct 9, 2016 8:47:57 GMT
Shocking so many of these are missing. I remember watching them really well . Good news on the recovery though Slightly envious, although I think opinions are very divided if they did it justice. Did the Blandings and Ukridge follow-ups leave any impression? |
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Post by RWels on Oct 9, 2016 8:54:55 GMT
There's a comment on Youtube from four months ago that "It seems the second surviving episode is in a private collection, not the BBC archive." Would that be this episode,or another possible survival? Added: In 2004 a guest here commented: n Ian Carmichael's biography ("Will the real Ian Carmichael...") he mentions two episodes of World of Wooster being taken by Frank Muir on 16mm to show PG Wodehouse at his home on Long Island. Is this a lead? Interesting. Both options are interesting. It's possible that this was never checked with his estate. The series also went to various parts of the commonwealth, but like we see with Doctor Who, that doesn't guarantee a thing. Just a handful of clips from Australia. |
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Post by richardwoods on Oct 9, 2016 19:00:19 GMT
Shocking so many of these are missing. I remember watching them really well . Good news on the recovery though Slightly envious, although I think opinions are very divided if they did it justice. Did the Blandings and Ukridge follow-ups leave any impression? No, not really. These episodes were funny enough but in hindsight Carmichael seemed too "mature" in all ways to play Bertie somehow. Personally I really liked the Fry & Laurie version best. Sadly I've no memory of the follow ups. |
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Post by RWels on Oct 9, 2016 19:32:48 GMT
And the Blandings / Ukridge sequels? Meanwhile, here's a page with colour photography, courtesy of the National Library of Australia:  |
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Post by John Green on Oct 9, 2016 21:46:53 GMT
There were some Penguin paperbacks with colour photo covers,too.
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Post by christian bews on Oct 10, 2016 20:26:49 GMT
As well as that corgi toys issued a Bentley with Jeeves at the wheel with Wooster standing.it was coloured green & although 'world of wooster' was in b&w at the same time corgi issued an 'avengers' set which has steed's bentley which was red & Emma peel's lotus elan s2.this was a major headache for corgi toys at the time as both shows were made in b&w in 1965 but when 'the avengers' was switched to colour in 1967 steeds Bentley was green at all but both steeds & Wooster's Bentley was the same model!they were still available in toy shops but both models remained in the same colours as the Diana ring colour episodes were shown first in b&w
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Post by Richard Marple on Oct 11, 2016 17:32:25 GMT
I remember someone who collected the Thunderbirds models complaining that Dinky had painted them in the wrong colours, in particular TB2 was blue rather than green.
Even though the TV episodes were unavailable in colour for a few years, the comics & other materials had pictures in colour so it was obvious something was wrong.
Did Dinky only get some early B&W publicity pictures & had to guess the colours?
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. Good news on the recovery though 
