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Post by Peter Stirling on Nov 27, 2018 0:16:51 GMT
Wait, so they're getting chroma dot colour recovery? Ahw, why does this (@$#&) get to get its colour back and not The Goodies or several other comedies? (They're the one act that I just can't stand.) I think it's all down to luck at the time the telerecording ( aka kinescope) was being made. Some of the TRs have colour information on, some have faint colour information on and some don't have any at all.This was because the engineer doing the transfer from tape to film may have switched off the colour information completely as he knew he was only making a B/W recording ...or looking at the transfer screen may have de-focused the film slightly as perhaps he thought those (all important) dots were a disturbance. With the case of the ITV strike..the engineers made damn sure that no colour information was ever laid on the tape, so no hope for them I'm afraid ...unless somebody sits down with an electronic crayon and falsely colours each frame...yuk. I do hope though they finished the recovery on the early 1970 surviving Top of the Pops and not put them aside because Jimmy Savile was host.
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Post by RWels on Nov 27, 2018 10:10:30 GMT
Wait, so they're getting chroma dot colour recovery? Ahw, why does this (@$#&) get to get its colour back and not The Goodies or several other comedies? (They're the one act that I just can't stand.) I think it's all down to luck at the time the telerecording ( aka kinescope) was being made. Some of the TRs have colour information on, some have faint colour information on and some don't have any at all.This was because the engineer doing the transfer from tape to film may have switched off the colour information completely as he knew he was only making a B/W recording ...or looking at the transfer screen may have de-focused the film slightly as perhaps he thought those (all important) dots were a disturbance. With the case of the ITV strike..the engineers made damn sure that no colour information was ever laid on the tape, so no hope for them I'm afraid ...unless somebody sits down with an electronic crayon and falsely colours each frame...yuk. I do hope though they finished the recovery on the early 1970 surviving Top of the Pops and not put them aside because Jimmy Savile was host. It's often said that most BBC shows have the dots; only there hasn't been a drive to do all of them. Just Dad's Army, Are you being served? (and some or other children's science fiction show).
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Post by alexbriggs on Dec 9, 2018 20:53:57 GMT
Both episodes are screening (in restored colour) on BBC2 on Boxing Day.
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Post by John Wall on Dec 9, 2018 21:02:20 GMT
Both episodes are screening (in restored colour) on BBC2 on Boxing Day. Great. Be interesting to see them at the Beeb, in colour, but before Eddie Braben started writing for them. I’m looking forward to it.
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Post by richardwoods on Dec 11, 2018 20:52:24 GMT
Both episodes are screening (in restored colour) on BBC2 on Boxing Day. Great. Be interesting to see them at the Beeb, in colour, but before Eddie Braben started writing for them. I’m looking forward to it. Are these episodes written by Sid & Dick then?
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Post by John Wall on Dec 11, 2018 21:05:00 GMT
Great. Be interesting to see them at the Beeb, in colour, but before Eddie Braben started writing for them. I’m looking forward to it. Are these episodes written by Sid & Dick then? I think so. They moved to Auntie with M&W but then Eric had a heart attack and they moved on as they were unsure if he’d work again. Eddie Braben was only brought on board later.
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Post by richardwoods on Dec 12, 2018 16:58:47 GMT
I know my father always said he thought that the shows that were written by Sid & Dick were funnier than the Eddie Braben scripted ones, it will be interesting to see them and compare them.
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Post by John Wall on Dec 21, 2018 20:42:15 GMT
Article from the Liverpool Echo tweeted by PM.
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Post by John Wall on Dec 21, 2018 20:47:29 GMT
tweeted by someone from the Echo, retweeted by PM.
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Post by brianfretwell on Dec 22, 2018 14:42:54 GMT
Are these episodes written by Sid & Dick then? I think so. They moved to Auntie with M&W but then Eric had a heart attack and they moved on as they were unsure if he’d work again. Eddie Braben was only brought on board later. Sid & Dick also appear in them, at least in the one that was shown at MBW.
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Post by John Wall on Dec 22, 2018 14:46:23 GMT
I think so. They moved to Auntie with M&W but then Eric had a heart attack and they moved on as they were unsure if he’d work again. Eddie Braben was only brought on board later. Sid & Dick also appear in them, at least in the one that was shown at MBW. Yep, looks a bit like a colour “Two of a kind”
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Post by George D on Jan 6, 2019 4:12:22 GMT
Any more news on the video in pieces?
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Post by garygraham on Jan 11, 2019 21:12:36 GMT
On Pebble Mill and repeated when Donny MacLeod died. Hopefully this is still in the BBC Archive?
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Post by Peter Stirling on Mar 29, 2019 14:45:10 GMT
Digging this up again..just curious.
As these were a well promoted Christmas showing I just wondered if anybody else actually watched them? (apart from us old fogeys on the various old TV forums of course) I think the young find M&W rather puzzling and are cynical, so can find hidden meanings in all sorts of gags, which I am pretty sure had not crossed M&W minds for one second in a more innocent age.The Irish skit for example was probably influenced by fellow comedians Dave Allen and Spike Milligan's turns on the box which were numerous in those days and of course Ronnie Caroll seemed to be enjoying himself.
I recall a company conference event where a well known M&W skit was shown to emphasis the corporate message... went down like a lead balloon with the attendees talking amongst themselves while it was on.
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Post by Richard Marple on Mar 29, 2019 17:55:13 GMT
I was too young for M & W but normally found them funny, helped by the 1994 best of repeats.
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