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Post by Kelvin Walker on Jun 19, 2019 22:40:58 GMT
There were 78 episodes (plus 1 untransmitted) in total of Little Big Time (series 1,2,4 and 6)/ Oliver in the Underworld (series 3)/ Freddie's Joke Hall of Fame (series 5) produced between 1968 and 1974. Officially according to lostshows.com ONLY series 6 episode 7 (7th August 1974) EXISTS. However somebody posted this 1971 clip of Oliver and the Underworld on Facebook and uploaded the YouTube clip from the Freddie and the Dreamers website. I am curious from which episode from series 3 is this from and if possibly the whole edition of the post may exist in full. Thanks. www.tvbrain.info/tv-archive?showname=little+big+time&type=lostshowyoutu.be/zxWmBJ0sp-U |
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Post by richardwoods on Jun 20, 2019 21:00:22 GMT
To me that looks like clips of various episodes across series 3.
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Post by ajsmith on Jun 21, 2019 8:53:48 GMT
That's an odd clip, it looks to me (and I am a total novice when it comes to Little Big Time, so happy to be corrected!) like the OIIO footage is from some kind of filmed highlights clip made for overseas (probably American) promotion of the OIIO series of LBT. I may be wrong, but I would assume that the original episodes would have been made on videotape? Hence only this promotional highlights reel survived as it was on film and stored separately? Then at the end you also have the footage of Garrity being interviewed by Fred Dinenage (I think?) on some 90s nostalgia show reacting to the same footage.
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Post by Ian Wegg on Jun 25, 2019 17:32:48 GMT
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Post by rmackenziefehr on Jun 26, 2019 19:09:13 GMT
In addition to the comments made in the previous thread, a couple of other notes:
1) The "sales reel" footage appears to have been on film at some point, but with the transfer being made from a copy on some sort of video format- note that there are video artifacts present.
2) As for it being on film: I've seen a couple of other cases where television programs produced on videotape ended up with promo reels on film. I'm not sure about the exact reasons in this case, but I suspect that it's a combination of film being easier to do presentations with in that era (in particular, the ability to project to a larger screen), and, in this case, the fact that film allows them to avoid the PAL/NTSC standards issue.
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