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Post by richardwoods on Feb 4, 2018 14:34:03 GMT
As everyone is no doubt aware, DODG has a particularly poor survival rate. I have noticed, however that Wikipedia only lists 11 surviving episodes from the b/w era with excerpt from other episodes. However missing episodes now lists 25 b/w episodes as existing complete which is considerably better. Has there been a significant recovery recently or is Wikipedia simply well out of date?
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Post by rmackenziefehr on Feb 4, 2018 18:22:41 GMT
As everyone is no doubt aware, DODG has a particularly poor survival rate. I have noticed, however that Wikipedia only lists 11 surviving episodes from the b/w era with excerpt from other episodes. However missing episodes now lists 25 b/w episodes as existing complete which is considerably better. Has there been a significant recovery recently or is Wikipedia simply well out of date? Error in the listing here- Kaleidoscope shows most of these as being incomplete, and past discussion here indicates that there is a pile of episodes from the late 1960s for which the film inserts survive but not the segments originally on videotape. |
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Post by richardwoods on Feb 4, 2018 19:11:52 GMT
Ah, OK so the Wiki quote of 11 is probably more realistic then?
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Post by RWels on Feb 4, 2018 19:58:33 GMT
As everyone is no doubt aware, DODG has a particularly poor survival rate. I have noticed, however that Wikipedia only lists 11 surviving episodes from the b/w era with excerpt from other episodes. However missing episodes now lists 25 b/w episodes as existing complete which is considerably better. Has there been a significant recovery recently or is Wikipedia simply well out of date? Error in the listing here- Kaleidoscope shows most of these as being incomplete, and past discussion here indicates that there is a pile of episodes from the late 1960s for which the film inserts survive but not the segments originally on videotape. He means THIS page rather than Kal's TVbrain: www.thiswaydown.org/missing-episodes/dixon.htmI wouldn't attach much value to the wikipedia information; it all depends on whether any passerby happened to update it and had enough information. In fact you might as well correct the page using the data from ME and Kaleidoscope. (I did the same for a few other shows' pages from that time.) |
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Post by richardwoods on Feb 4, 2018 21:14:43 GMT
Yeah, that's the page. Interestingly enough I'm pretty sure that the missing episodes page USED to show numbers of surviving episodes more like that quoted on Wiki, hence my enquiry if there had been a significant recovery of 14 b/w episodes. I don't currently have access to the TV Brain page.
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Post by RWels on Feb 4, 2018 21:26:23 GMT
Yeah, that's the page. Interestingly enough I'm pretty sure that the missing episodes page USED to show numbers of surviving episodes more like that quoted on Wiki, hence my enquiry if there had been a significant recovery of 14 b/w episodes. I don't currently have access to the TV Brain page. Anyone can still see if an episode is missing; but you no longer get the totals ("X out of Y episodes missing"). |
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Post by rmackenziefehr on Feb 4, 2018 23:31:49 GMT
Error in the listing here- Kaleidoscope shows most of these as being incomplete, and past discussion here indicates that there is a pile of episodes from the late 1960s for which the film inserts survive but not the segments originally on videotape. He means THIS page rather than Kal's TVbrain: www.thiswaydown.org/missing-episodes/dixon.htmI wouldn't attach much value to the wikipedia information; it all depends on whether any passerby happened to update it and had enough information. In fact you might as well correct the page using the data from ME and Kaleidoscope. (I did the same for a few other shows' pages from that time.) Right in terms of what page was meant, and right in terms of the limitations of Wikipedia- this was the discussion we had five years ago involving questions about Dixon material: missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/8214/dixon-dock-green |
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Post by Stephen Neve on Feb 5, 2018 9:30:22 GMT
So are there any plans to release the surviving black and white Dixons on DVD?
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Feb 5, 2018 15:02:44 GMT
So are there any plans to release the surviving black and white Dixons on DVD? Well not as of two years ago - Stuart Douglas Administrator ***** Posts: 501 Z-Cars coming to DVD Feb 11, 2016 at 12:32pm Post by Stuart Douglas on Feb 11, 2016 at 12:32pm Well Acorn answered my question quickly at least... Dear Mr Douglas Thank you for your email. Unfortunately there are no plans at the moment to release further series of Z-Cars or Dixon of Dock Green. Kind regards Sandra.  Stuart |
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Post by richardwoods on Feb 5, 2018 18:04:34 GMT
Yeah, that's the page. Interestingly enough I'm pretty sure that the missing episodes page USED to show numbers of surviving episodes more like that quoted on Wiki, hence my enquiry if there had been a significant recovery of 14 b/w episodes. I don't currently have access to the TV Brain page. Anyone can still see if an episode is missing; but you no longer get the totals ("X out of Y episodes missing"). Well that progress for you. 🙄 |
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Post by richardwoods on Feb 5, 2018 18:05:59 GMT
So are there any plans to release the surviving black and white Dixons on DVD? Well not as of two years ago - Stuart Douglas Administrator ***** Posts: 501 Z-Cars coming to DVD Feb 11, 2016 at 12:32pm Post by Stuart Douglas on Feb 11, 2016 at 12:32pm Well Acorn answered my question quickly at least... Dear Mr Douglas Thank you for your email. Unfortunately there are no plans at the moment to release further series of Z-Cars or Dixon of Dock Green. Kind regards Sandra. Stuart Well that's a shame..... |
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Post by Stephen Neve on Feb 5, 2018 19:22:43 GMT
Well not as of two years ago - Stuart Douglas Administrator ***** Posts: 501 Z-Cars coming to DVD Feb 11, 2016 at 12:32pm Post by Stuart Douglas on Feb 11, 2016 at 12:32pm Well Acorn answered my question quickly at least... Dear Mr Douglas Thank you for your email. Unfortunately there are no plans at the moment to release further series of Z-Cars or Dixon of Dock Green. Kind regards Sandra. Stuart Well that's a shame..... There are a few existing colour ones that did not make the three volumes so far released. |
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Post by peterleslie on Feb 6, 2018 12:43:08 GMT
There are a few existing colour ones that did not make the three volumes so far released. I thought there was only one surviving colour episode not included on the Dixon DVDs ... 'Molenzicht' (1 Jan 1972). Which other existing colour episodes were not included? |
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