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Post by cjones on Dec 2, 2018 2:04:14 GMT
Really? I hope you told them to get them digitised ASAP, or at the very least, offer them to the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. Wales' national screen and sound archive is housed on the ground floor, and very good it is too.
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Post by Stephen John Connett on Dec 2, 2018 12:20:48 GMT
Perhaps this is an opportunity for a general campaign for people to look for VHS copies of programmes that they may have stored in the attic or a cupboard? Most people I know used to write names of programmes on them, so if say they had Nationwide on it or similarly missing programme from the 70's/80's there might be a chance some of the lost material might be there?
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Post by Stephen John Connett on Dec 2, 2018 12:30:08 GMT
This Word press article carries a quote from 2000 AD's Pat Mill's that confirms the comic ripping Bough incident: In September 1976 John Sanders was summoned to explain himself to a pre-disgrace Frank Bough on the early evening news programme, Nationwide. “I think John mishandled the interview with Nationwide,” suggests Mills. “He was defending the comic but not perhaps in quite the right way. Bough said something like, This is a terrible comic and this is what I think of it, and tore it up live on air. Obviously it made for very good television.” And Steve MacManus is unequivocal. “It was a premeditated, studio drive-by stitch-up.”bigmouthmag.wordpress.com/2016/08/23/action-comic-britains-brutal-weekly-real-70s/
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Post by Marie Griffiths on Dec 3, 2018 0:18:40 GMT
This incident dies rings a bell for me too. The end of Action gave rise to 2000ad. I bought the first issue as it had a free frisbee. The frisbee was rubbish and the stories too. It went up in the attic where it remains today.
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Post by garygraham on Dec 3, 2018 14:40:29 GMT
The Fanny Craddock stitch up on The Big Time was in 1976 too. Perhaps it was a new idea at Lime Grove?
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