Goodbye Again - is a dvd release ever likely to happen?

[stevej]

As per the title really! Having (very) belatedly watched and enjoyed the 2004 dvd release of 'The very best of Goodbye Again', I wondered if there was any reason why someone like Network hasn't picked up on the series, short thought it was, for release. There were only four shows (details from Wikipedia):

Show 1, TX 18 August 1968 Music: Ike & Tina Turner, Donovan

Show 2, TX 24 August 1968 Music: Traffic, Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger and the Trinity

Show 3, TX 14 September 1968 Music: Georgie Fame, Selena Jones

Show 4, TX 3 August 1969 Music: Mel Torme

I believe that although made in colour, all four shows survive as b&w telerecordings, with various colour film inserts existing (which look to be of excellent quality- 35mm?)

The musical guests are pretty darn impressive too- The Traffic ('Triffic!) and Juliie Driscoll on the same show. Wow! Poor quality clips of both these performances exist on youtube.

A decent dvd release of the shows uncut, maybe with the colour inserts included as extras would be an enticing prospect indeed. Network have released far less commercial propositions in the past. Perhaps there are rights issues? Does anyone know?

Steve

[RWels]

It was only one clip as far as I know. But yes, in 1982 they still had colour copies!

One of the original episodes is known to be around. But who knows if there may not be some better copies in the US...?

[stevej]

That's a good point. The US may have colour copies of the shows, although as Peter says, if they do exist they will probably be edited and chopped about with sketches removed or truncated to accommodate extra commercial breaks etc.

In view of the gravitas of some of the musical guests, you would have thought that if colour performances exist, they may have surfaced in documentaries etc by now. Interestingly, The US-produced 'Casey Casem's American Goldmine' (which was shown over here late at night in the 1990s) featured the b&w telerecording of Traffic's '40,000 Headmen'.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=12eDw6DjqNc

or here's the same performance with the Pete & Dud intro:


www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzcojNK9EnI

[RWels]

Thought I'd mention, there's an archival site that sells two off-air audio recordings of the US version. But it's not really cheap so the gain would be quite limited.