Suspense (1960) ATV anthology series

[robertboon]

Now according to Lost Shows all 14 episodes are missing:


Missing or incomplete episodes for programme SUSPENSE.



--.--.-- A Stop on the Way (missing)

28.02.60 The Tip-Off (missing)

06.03.60 Decision at Nine (missing)

13.03.60 The Devil Makes Three (missing)

20.03.60 A Slight Case of Felony (missing)

27.03.60 Flight 404 (missing)

03.04.60 Love Story (missing)

10.04.60 Point of Honour (missing)

24.04.60 Trump Card (missing)

01.05.60 Collision! (missing)

08.05.60 Payment in Full (missing)

15.05.60 Eight Feet to Midnight (missing)

22.05.60 Time Factor (missing)

29.05.60 Scheme to Defraud (missing)



Now ITV have been registering large numbers of programmes with the Entertainment Identifier Registry Association (EIDR) and even have a representative on the board of the organization. Inexplicably in the case of Suspense, 4 of the episodes have been registered by ITV (registration of missing audiovisual material is allowed, and is even done in some cases by non-rights holders).


10.5240/6631-8B9E-4650-5CA5-9208-Y Decision at Nine

10.5240/6951-70D8-D912-96AF-A98F-3 Eight Feet to Midnight

10.5240/CBB4-045F-FE23-588C-7172-I The Devil Makes Three

10.5240/7914-9746-6B94-7752-E3A8-7 The Tip-Off

Now registering all or no episodes would be understandable but the only reason I can think of for registering just 4, is that those are the episodes that ITV actually now have.

Even if episodes actually are still missing, the registration data provides useful information. In the case of 'The Devil Makes Three' the entry makes it clear that the ATV programme was actually a shortened, edited version of the MGM movie of the same title from 1952.

Equally a comparison of the entry for ATV's 'Eight Feet to Midnight' with a listing for the Studio One episode 'Eight Feet to Midnight' that was broadcast in the US on 29 April 1957 shows that the director and cast are identical, which suggests the episode had been rebadged as an episode of Suspense, particularly as the subject matter, concerning the IRA in Belfast, would be relevant to a British audience.

[John Green]

Fascinating!

This site's often useful: ctva.biz/UK/ATV/ATV_WeekendDrama_00_(1960).htm
Though I see that they,too,have no t/x date for A Stop on the Way...

[robertboon]

Nov 4, 2016 16:30:05 GMT John Green said:

Fascinating!

This site's often useful: ctva.biz/UK/ATV/ATV_WeekendDrama_00_(1960).htm
Though I see that they,too,have no t/x date for A Stop on the Way...

Thanks.

Amongst other missing material registered by ITV with EIDR the earliest ATV programme I could find is:


10.5240/A077-C0BC-1D94-DB79-5A3F-V Man of Destiny (as an episode of TV Playhouse)

which was broadcast on 1 November 1955, only one week after ATV commenced broadcasting

[Peter Stirling]

Nov 4, 2016 16:21:12 GMT robertboon said:

03.04.60 Love Story (missing)


Now ITV have been registering large numbers of programmes with the Entertainment Identifier Registry Association (EIDR) and even have a representative on the board of the organization. Inexplicably in the case of Suspense, 4 of the episodes have been registered by ITV (registration of missing audiovisual material is allowed, and is even done in some cases by non-rights holders).


10.5240/6631-8B9E-4650-5CA5-9208-Y Decision at Nine

10.5240/6951-70D8-D912-96AF-A98F-3 Eight Feet to Midnight

10.5240/CBB4-045F-FE23-588C-7172-I The Devil Makes Three

10.5240/7914-9746-6B94-7752-E3A8-7 The Tip-Off

Now registering all or no episodes would be understandable but the only reason I can think of for registering just 4, is that those are the episodes that ITV actually now have.

Even if episodes actually are still missing, the registration data provides useful information. In the case of 'The Devil Makes Three' the entry makes it clear that the ATV programme was actually a shortened, edited version of the MGM movie of the same title from 1952.

Equally a comparison of the entry for ATV's 'Eight Feet to Midnight' with a listing for the Studio One episode 'Eight Feet to Midnight' that was broadcast in the US on 29 April 1957 shows that the director and cast are identical, which suggests the episode had been rebadged as an episode of Suspense, particularly as the subject matter, concerning the IRA in Belfast, would be relevant to a British audience.

Fascinating Robertboon thanks for sharing,


I think your your theory (about only listing what they have) could well be true?

I tried EIRA on some old forgotten ATV stuff.

For example the 'Love Story series (known to be more or less all there) and it does list it.
I then tried it on 'Crime Buster' a short lived adventure series (known to be severely depleted) and it does not list any



.

[David Buck]

Actually what the above appears to suggest is that whoever is entering data for the episodes of suspense (ATV) is using IMDB or a similar source for their details and looking at info for the wrong versions of these story titles

the following two entries come from the Kaleidoscope ITV drama guide, which people should buy since Lost shows is just a bare-bones version of the same data , these are clearly British casts

13.03.60 The Devil Makes Three
Written by Marc Brandel; produced by Quentin Lawrence.
With Jack Watling (John Wycherly), Peter Dyneley (Bob Deniken), Jennifer Jayne (Ruth Deniken), David Rose (Robin), Lionel Ngakane (Barman), Colin Douglas
(Inspector Milne), Peter Hughes (Sergeant Ross), Patrick Newell (Howard).

15.05.60 Eight Feet To Midnight
Written by Marc Brandel; produced by Quentin Lawrence.
With Barry Keegan (Liam O'Neill), Fred Johnson (Tom Dunphy), Kenneth Cope (Joey Gallagher), Sheila Brennan (Blanche), John Cowley (Michael), David
Blake Kelly (Dennis), Horace Sequeira (Old Man), Anne D'Alton (First Woman), Sheila Ward (Second Woman), Joan Frank (Third Woman), Randal Kinkead
(John Rutledge), Barbara Adair (Waitress), Laurie Morton (Barmaid), Gerald McAllister (Mr Flaherty), Richard Sullivan (Police Constable), Peggy Marshall (Mrs Flaherty).

[robertboon]

Still leaves the mystery of why ITV have only registered those 4 episodes