Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Jun 15, 2023 23:12:17 GMT
As usual, I'm struggling health-wise, so I apologize for my lack of.... anything.
Anyway, it transpires there are sadly less Electric Theatre Shows than we thought; only around 8 remain.... we're told....
However, STV has a huge amount of rushes and clips and a few other things, which comes to several hundred bits of material from editions from every series.
They don't have the rights to show them. Network had a deal done prior to STV acquiring Grampian's Archive, so.... they have the physical films, but no rights to do anything with these bits.
I expect Network had a number of full shows, but we don't know this yet.
However, the fact STV held outtakes and clips is encouraging.
There is one wee bit of TETS that didn't come from a Network DVD release on youtube and it's this, which if from 20/07/1984:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hx-Of11bb4
Another Ultra Quiz. (yes, ANOTHER one....) www.youtube.com/watch?v=osEpOb_xrFU
This strays into 'off-topic' territory.... kind of!
After Paul O'Grady's untimely and sad passing a few people I know posted about shows he'd been on, and I thought I'd take a quick look at a few programmes that he'd appeared on.
Anyway, one fairly early filmed Lily Savage appearance in 1990 was 'Lily Savage Live at the Hackney Empire'. This was sold on VHS and does not appear to have been shown on terrestrial TV at the time and I'm clueless in regard to whether Sky or any one else that followed transmitted it. (So that's the off-topic bit...)
It transpires that the programme was actually produced by TVS and directed by TVS staffer Dave Heather.
The thing is.... the independent production company who made it are no longer in existence and the BFI don't seem to have it, neither do Wessex and there's never been an official DVD release.
So, as it was produced by a TV company, and it's not in any of the archives we know of (and I'm positive it wasnae part of the TELSO catalogue that went to Disney), one could consider this a missing programme.
Anyway, it's on youtube:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN5r9BBHLc4
I don't really mention my yokel roots too much (although being a Saints supporter sometimes gives it away....) so I am delighted to point out this upload for the latter bit.
The first bit is more important, though.... it's some audio from the completely wiped ABC show 'Hallelujah', which IS another religious programme, but it's ABC and nothing else exists from this show. It may be audio and just a minute or so long, but....
I've actually managed to date this to Sunday 3rd April 1966 (which was the last edition completely given over to the Salvation Army Joy Strings, and just after the Troggs had finished a small UK tour), but the upload is also interesting for the interview segment with dear old Reg Presley and how he wrote 'Love is All Around', sprinkling some good old west Hampshire fairy dust on the Shakespearean sweet wine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3fSNpYBmlg
I expect the vast majority of the fans of this show will know about this.... but I am clueless on the Avengers, mostly*.
These are outtakes from one of the colour series and are held by the Pathe archive (who also have outtakes and unused footage from Today, Magpie and A Town Called.... amongst others), but just for the benefit of any Avengers fans who haven't seen these.... as I hadn't.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1ECz1xOzc4
Pathe acquired things from Thames including ex-ABC footage, but these were almost completely unused and/or unusable material.
*I am aware of which episodes are missing and I do look for them!
Audio only, this, but.... Dee Time.... Spike Milligan, Tubby Hayes and (obviously), Simon Dee.... what's there not to like?
The episode is 02/12/1967:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lui5QqmP_I
Off-topic.... (radio).
Pop Score, SE10 E07, 01/08/1983:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuHLw3ZVEAc
(spotted by a contact of mine who wishes to remain anonymous....)
Clips from the 21/07/1984 edition of Saturday Picture Show from the ADC youtube channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j3eoHZpjZ8
And now the last missing performance from 19/02/1976's TOTP - DAT by Pluto Shervington:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnwxefo7QoM
Huge thanks to the uploader at the VHS Rewinds channel! 🙂
and as promised:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6SIx6iZoX8
Small potatoes (although I do like tatties, obviously....)
A new upload of a Night Thoughts - this is 09/03/1986:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkAqr95Vt0U
and one I missed (sorry David Palfreyman, nice transfer, btw) from a Diteli Media upload; this one dates from 24/10/1986:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU_GgMIH-iQ
It's a conspiracy.
Another find of.... Songs of Praise.
The edition from 25/05/1980 exists in the Archives of the London Borough of Sutton.
This is an off-air recording on a domestic tape format.
Ah, well. A find is a find is a find....
Ok, this is wonderful.
A unique Muppet Show junction, specially-filmed from 25/12/1978.
Thanks to the Television Heaven UK youtube channel for this!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-C3WBGOdTE
You know lightning striking twice?
Thought I might see if there are any others.
There is.... another Muppet Show trail with a unique specially filmed trail and this is from 30/05/1981!:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mL8C8vrIvY
An announcement of a find I had absolutely nothing to do with.
ITV have located a thought-to-be-missing episode of Mess Mates from 20/09/1960.
This is on 16mm and was retained because it was reshown on Boxing Day of that year as part of a presentation on Granada entitled 'Popular Programmes of 1960'!
My thanks to Chris Perry and an anonymous contact of mine who alerted me to this recent discovery.
Aidan Lunn's found another Sit Up and Listen - and this one is read by a talking bear.
Sorry, I mean Michael Hordern....
Anyway, it's from 20/09/1982 and comes from Aidan's own channel on youtube called Sticky tape 'n' rust. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfWyr8i66Q0
ANOTHER Ultra Quiz, Series 3, Episode 4:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK2cJvLTGog
This doesn't really count as it's just a teaser, but....
Richard Latto was very kindly informed me about a lost How that's been recently found.
This is some extracts from it.... just visually.
As far as I know bits of it will be shown at the event being held on 11/06/2023 (which is mentioned at the end of the trailer).
Just don't mention football.... 😉
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZPhLFdi04
The only time I break/wilfully ignore the rule about no news programmes is when it comes to BSB.
There are two reasons for this; one is that much BSB material is missing and everything should be pointed out.
The other is that I love wilfully breaking rules. (Inhales).
Anyrhododendron, this is a BSB News from 22/08/1990.
(O/T) Border geeks (meaning those people interested in geopolitical boundaries, as opposed to Border TV) will be either amused or amazed that BSB were still showing the Iraq-Saudi Arabia neutral zone in 1990 but to be fair to BSB the 1975 division and subsequent border treaty had not been registered with the UN....) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk5FmkcBWdM
A missing Big Breakfast.
Yes, ANOTHER one. 10th August 2001, this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jovz10xgS6g
This is more 'missing in action' than lost.
Let me explain.... Highway is one of those shows where tvbrain haven't got all the answers yet, with the exceptions of some definitely wiped TVS ones.
The likelihood of there being other missing episodes is very high.
90s editions will be more likely to be lost than 80s episodes and the last time I asked STV if they had any Highway editions they said no (once they'd realized I wasnae talking about Take the High Road, must be my accent....).
Add to the fact the BFI don't have this and neither do the NLS, plus there's no likelihood it's be at ITV, so I'm guessing that this possibly lost edition from 17/01/1988 is unfortunately just that, lost.
I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I0kr1uT2jY
And while I'm on the subject of Grampian TV, here's an edition out Out and About with Robbie Shepherd (Buckie), from 1987.
(I mentioned the 'Moray' episode which is online years ago.)
(NB: right at the end of the upload, in a completely unrelated programme Des O'Connor introduces his guest as STAR-TUS QUO.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qlp01nWQFA
Well, I HAD to look for missing Cliff.
Nothing. Zilch. Not a sausage.
But I did locate some Livvy audio from a wiped 'It's Cliff' (08/01/1972). There IS other audio from that same show online, but I overlooked the ONJ, but this is also very interesting because it never appeared on bootleg!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eli3eO2868k
Terribly tiny spuds here, but not much of TVS' 'Afternoon Club' exists and this has just shown up.
It's from 05/11/1984 and it includes Una Stubbs:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv3jjjg6HV0
The wonderful Audio Only youtube channel uploaded an audio - obviously - of a wiped episode of Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (Billy Bunter's Bicycle, 27/08/1960. And there was me thinking that was a name of a band who played Monterey).
This, to my knowledge, is the only one of the recordings on their entire channel that is still listed as having NOTHING existing on tvbrain.
Erm, yes it does exist, in audio.
Like....here:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTSvIhxJP5o
This isn't exactly wiped.
More like given away....!
As most interested parties will know there's a bit of unused Thames footage in the Pathe Archive, and there's also a tiddly bit of bits - if that makes sense - of programmes that were broadcast.
Obviously Fremantle had no plans to keep this filmed report from 'A Town Called....Aylesbury' from 1972 featuring a quite bitchy critique of that town's modern transformation by Thames TV's favourite son, Bill Grundy.
Indeed, until the Bucks Herald ran a story about it in 2021, I doubt that anyone remembered the savaging he gave the town back in the day. www.bucksherald.co.uk/.../a-look-back-at-when...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=81AkJr9K6vk
(After the Bucks Herald's article I shall add the phrase 'to go full Paxman' to my vocabulary.)
For the über-completist this....
This isn't a UK programme, just the UK 'special' edit.
Back in the day, for those people either too young or who were elsewhere at the time there was a cartoon character called Top Cat.
Wikipedia can say this better than I, so.... """Top Cat" premiered on the BBC Television Service (now BBC One) on May 16, 1962, under its original name but after only four weeks was renamed The Boss Cat on June 13, 1962. This was shortened on 22 February 1967 to Boss Cat. This rapid name change was made because Top Cat was also the name of a then-popular British brand of cat food, and the cartoon was aired on the BBC which does not carry advertising. The dialogue and theme tune still referred to the character by his original name, but a small cut was made at the climax of the opening credits (resulting in a slight jump in the film) and a title card carrying the revised title inserted before the episode proper. Similarly, the Top Cat name was edited from the final section of the show's closing credits, causing another slight jump (as Top Cat is putting on his eyeshades and readying himself for sleep in his trash can). """
ALSO NOTE:- """The BBC run comprised only 26 of the original 30 episodes, with notable omissions including Choo-Choo Goes Ga-Ga, with its repeated scenes of Choo-Choo attempting suicide. This 26-episode selection was repeated on the BBC from 1962 to 1989."""
So, these are the UK-only colour titles.
They should be an extra on a DVD release.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8xiYpWKjWg
You remember that allegedly lost Thames TV 'English Programme: Viewpoint' edition, 'Money Talks' (14/11/1977) that I located in the National Library of Wales? I expect not. They sold very well internationally and I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were multiple copies out there of all the supposedly lost editions.
I say this as I had completely missed was the fact it actually was uploaded to youtube in 2019!!!
So, if you want to watch it:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQhkZPugsbE
(you'll note it also has a slate at the start which makes it very likely that is does exist in an archive....!)
12 seconds of Alan Bennett?
Yes, that's all this is, more or less, in regard to wiped material.
(well, aside from the IVC, of course....)
This was one of several specially filmed trails that Alan recorded for the season 'Six Plays by Alan Bennett' and this was shown as part of feature about LWT's weekend shows with the promo being broadcast on 26/01/1979, shortly after the handover from Thames (which is strikingly obvious looking at the thumbnail....):- www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZJqftO5Di8
C.A.T.S Eyes was probably one of the best-known TVS series; it ran for three seasons and was one of their biggest prime time successes.
Disney eventually wound up with the tapes and that's the last we know about them.... the tapes, that is.... I understand Disney are still going.
Anyoldiron, when the Top 100 Most Wanted Lost Programmes list was revealed, the show came in 89th.
All of the shows have now been found - either off-airs, which are mostly with Kaleidoscope, and also a few 1" tapes which are with the BFI.
Which is BRILLIANT, of course. However, wouldn't it be nice to see them?
Well, you can.... mostly.... here:-
SERIES 1
Episode Title
12.04.1985
Goodbye Jenny Wren
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmGOhjm82rE
19.04.1985
The Black Magic Man
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EYBbybzWrI
26.04.1985
With Vinegar and Brown Paper
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOH845mobKM
03.05.1985
Under Plain Cover
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Fpbcelz1Q
10.05.1985
Something Nasty Down Below
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP6uUp649y8
17.05.1985
Cross My Palm with Silver
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqsbQAy1uCc
24.05.1985
Frightmare
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4QNhoBMvRk
31.05.1985
The Double Dutch Deal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G5PYVRw4L8
07.06.1985
My Father Knew Lloyd Mbotu
NOT ON YOUTUBE
14.06.1985
Love Byte
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DCLNbGBEpg
21.06.1985
Fingers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtKDYU4vhzw
28.06.1985
Blue for Danger
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGuHfuLLJgU
UNFINISHED
Sweet Toothed Barracuda
NOT ON YOUTUBE
SERIES 2
Date
Episode Title
05.04.1986
One Away
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKi9v4RPVGw
12.04.1986
Powerline
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImbrBYbuIyQ
19.04.1986
Hit List
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMViVIahIA0
26.04.1986
Good as New
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQwxNUKko-w
03.05.1986
Rough Trip
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCoEs7zi9qc
10.05.1986
Passage Hawk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFHt3oXfAYU
17.05.1986
Freezeheat
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uwsTXN19xA
24.05.1986
Fit
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5J1YlIBLNg
31.05.1986
Honeytrap
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGeq-iMhPiE
07.06.1986
Crack Up
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxqR6iQLUAU
14.06.1986
Tranmere Dan and Tokyo Joe
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx_7m7LTJ6o
SERIES 3
Date
Episode Title
25.04.1987
Twelve Bar Blues
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFhLPhlPSMQ
02.05.1987
Carrier Pigeon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUOF2tf7eAE
09.05.1987
Country Weekend
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2xjS8ey990
16.05.1987
The Big Burn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ1l0jRrhNs
23.05.1987
A Naval Affair
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPtRbhfFG64
30.05.1987
Family Tradition
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTGJne70Jis
06.06.1987
Backlash
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MudEHOzqRG0
(I have located a copy of that elusive C.A.T.S Eyes episode 'My Father Knew Lloyd Mbotu' (the only one not on youtube) on """grey market""" DVD.
Kaleidoscope apparently already have a copy of it, but this is from a different source tape and I was particularly annoyed it wasn't on youtube.)
Did I mention that the supposedly lost About Britain HTV episode 'Quest for Arthur' (tx 27/06/1980) exists at the National Library of Wales on 16mm colour film?
Well, it does.
About 90% of the 'wiped' episodes of Catchphrase are handily on this playlist.
These aren't new finds at all, but it's very handy to have all of them in one place. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNgMDrhgVj0_cEuQnVDtaaUmG3DbXiWON
This isn't anything to do with me, but the BBC have unearthed a filmed insert from a missing edition of Tom Tom from 26/11/1968 and it includes a wee bit on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0n1R0xZhLI
Only 19 minutes of material from the 6 series was previously known to exist.
Discovering a tiddly bit of a wiped show can be quite amusing. In this case I think it's fairly indicative that the broadcaster of the excerpt has the whole programme, in this instance, so this is good news all round, even though it's just a listing....
A DRAMA! (I do find dramas, you know....)
The play in question is 'A Hatful of Rain' which was a part of Rediffusion's 'Star Performance' and was transmitted in 26/04/1968 and I've located an excerpt of it.
An except of the final scene of the play exists in the ABC Archive in the US AND also at Paley; this was shown as a part of the extant ABC's Silver Anniversary Celebration (Peter Falk was in attendance to see it).
The thing is, if the play existed until 1978 in ABC's archive, it most likely is still there now....but there's no way I can check.
(Note, the ABC Archive I mention and all previous mentions of them in this post refer to the American broadcaster, just in case anyone had a brainfart.)
and another thing.... the 1984 series 'Ian Breakwell's Christmas Diary', listed as completely missing on tvbrain, is held by Ian Breakwell, was released on DVD through the LUX Shop or the BFI. It was also shown in an online event in 2021.
Here's a wiped Saturday Picture Show from the youtube channel that keeps on giving, the JMX TV ARCHIVE.
This lengthy clip I have managed to date and it's from the missing 19th July 1986 edition (I was surprised JMX didn't managed to ascertain the date which is very very easy to spot....).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYawza1VS0g
A tiddly wee bit of audio of Alma Cogan appearing on Stars and Garters (Rediffusion, 15/03/1965), as introduced by Ray Martine. Wiped? Obviously.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuFktImJEBE
Well, my my my, this is something new that I didn't know about....
This is an audio recording of dear old Arthur Brown and his Crazy World performing Fire on TOTP from 25/07/1968 (audio only).
This is not the same version as the commonly aired one, as Arthur is singing live. (I've compared the two versions so you don't have to....)
(and just to think they thought Robert Wyatt was a fire hazard!!!!)
(I REALLY LIKE BRACKETS.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyIeHWogrbU
A specially-filmed trail (after the adverts) of the Muppet Show.
This dates from 12/09/1981 and is part of the ADC channel on youtube.... and it's been online two years and I missed it.
That is, of course, until now.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t5cSNlqJB4
Dodgy quality recording of Wings' interview on Thames TV's 'Today' on 19th October 1976.
This has been on youtube since 2001 and I'd never spotted it - but then again, with less than 800 views in that time I don't think many people had. It's interesting in that the non-McCartney members of Wings get chatted to by Eamonn is his.... shifting, whispering way....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGiFQeBr_CA
(I am VERY aware of the Beatles audio from the 1965 ABC Eamonn Andrews shows....)
I missed this. That said, it's only been on youtube less than a year.
Also, I think this episode probably exists at Fremantle - but I have no proof, just a load of circumstantial evidence.
This is The English Progamme episode "The Real Thing" (Thames, 28/11/1977) and it's uploaded on the excellent treffynnon 19 youtube channel.
So:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=atuEe46tkyo
And the 'misses' keep on coming.
I've scrolled by this clip maybe 1000 times as I didn't notice that it came from an episode of Glen Michael's Cavalcade (STV).
This dates from 24/12/1987 and features a wee section featuring a clip of Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson.
Almost a 'Before They Were Famous' bit this, no?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G1-tcmtFyA
Wiped? Well, I'm not sure.
I have decided to err on the side of incaution and actually post a few wee clips that comes from the most archived show on British TV. Let me explain....
Ok, Corrie has one episode missing. This isn't it.
There were some Coronation Street VHS releases in the 1980s and one of the first ones includes some specially-filmed linking scenes.
So, let me make it clear, these bits weren't shown on terrestrial TV.
However, this is material doesn't appear to be in the archives of ITV or the BFI, so either I've missed it (very possible) or they don't have it (also possible).
Anyway, I thought it might be better to include this as I came across it by accident.
This discovery is also for a friend who lives t'other side of the Pennines and is watching the entire series bit-by-bit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HcpnQK7icQ
Would you like to hear some wiped RSG?
Well those nice young scallywags at the Brian Jones Resource have uploaded 18 - EIGHTEEN - audio performances of the Rolling Stones on the show. A few exist, quite a lot are on bootleg and the odd one I've pointed out before, but this is a full list, and they're pretty much in date order as well.
It is a work in progress, so there may be more additions, too.
www.youtube.com/playlist...
Approximately 2 minutes and 16 seconds of a wiped John Craven's Newsround from 07/06/1982. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltWPTDXkZdA
09/01/1982. Swap Shop. One reel exists.
Now.... I'm not sure which part of the show is missing.
The thing is, this is from an off-air and it's that part of the show which features the recently dearly departed Dame Edna.
It's here:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyqpu_FXGDQ
Like I said, I have no idea if this is from the missing bit, but assuredly part of the show is lost.
I Love Keith Allen, BSB. Show 12, Wiped:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCqyHWFjCUQ
Audio from a missing show here.
February 1969; Cinema (Granada). The guest with Parky is that old scoundrel Dean Martin!
Huge thanks to the Dean Martin Association for uploading this:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOFSERzCeYI
Well, this was only put on youtube 9 minutes before I saw it!
This is a partial upload of a wiped episode of Chips' Comic, the CH4 series that ran for two seasons in 1983 and 1984.
20 episodes were made, 1 exists and the BFI and another 3 exist in parts with Kaleidoscope.
Over the course of a few minutes, I watched bits of it and I've managed to ascertain that this is a repeat broadcast of the missing second season episode 'Travel', originally shown on 17/11/1984 and subsequently repeated on 01/06/1985.
Here you go:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=in3faMsf_9s
Well, this is interesting - not just the rarity, but the material itself.
This is apparently the wiped part of an edition of 24 Hours, presented by the excellent Ludovic Kennedy and it's all about that naughty young man Rupert Murdoch trying to buy LWT in an early attempt at world domination.
And just as a bonus we have one of LWT's Directors - a chap named Jimmy Hill, yes, THAT one being one of the guests in the studio
It's from 22/02/1971 and I'm informed the studio material presented here does not exist at the BBC, although filmed insert material does. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyURjtuJIC4
I wasn't looking for this.
I spotted it by accident.
Bobby Davro's TV Weekly, TVS.
The only missing episode was 26/03/1988.
It's not lost any more, it's here:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgdyVNS87ZY
Well, a very good quality audio of the re-recorded TOTP version of Sugar Me has turned up.
I am guessing this is from an ex-studio tape of some sort as it's not from an off-air and has no audience noises or anything like that.
Lynsey would have most likely re-recorded the backing track in the 48 hours prior to performance and then mimed on screen.
(She could, theoretically have had a live mic on as well and sang on top of her re-recorded vocal. You'd be amazed how many artists did this!)
anyway.... here it is:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6HmC7Wo1hg
Well this is random.
Despite me having zero interest in fishing it appears I have located a 1980 episode of Angling Today (ATV, no better tx date yet) on domestic VT in a private collection. A number of ATV editions are missing.
I have the gentleman's contact details, so I'll get onto him soonish.
I'm quite pleased with this discovery.
This is Dionne Warwick performing on Pebble Mill at One on 27/04/1984. This visual quality isn't all that, but it's way better than nothing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXOCf3TMD1c
Here's a wiped Sit Up and Listen that I missed from 23/06/1982 with a wee bit of continuity and a Closedown and all that from the JMX channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ea8fJ90v_w
Season 1 Episode 3 of Max Headroom (abridged), wiped. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgiaWtaffAY
Some people get very happy even if a few seconds of a wiped programme are discovered - and here are two examples of clips from missing shows that are on the same tape from the wonderful ADC youtube channel....
Firstly, Talking Animal's first episode 'Elephants' (28/06/1984) features in a clip on this TVS compilation promo film (from 6.02 to 9.33 approximately) and On Safari from 21/02/1984 is featured from 9.33 until 10.48.
I'll go through all the TVS bits on the promo films soonish.
In the meantime:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEUHLs3VAFQ
Another TVS promo clip discovery!
The Brief was a drama series that ran for 13 episodes in 1984 and only one exists.
This is from a missing episode, even though I'm not sure which one as I've got a copy of the existing one (On the Edge) which I sent to Kaleidoscope all those moons ago and just whizzed through it and this clip isn't from that episode.
Anyway - it's from 6.59 to 10.37 of this upload:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLw1MtOtZWk
Here's the audio to episode 7 of A for Andromeda (the Last Mystery, 14/11/1961).
This was recovered a while back and I understand this has not been issued officially yet.
(This was spotted online by a Caledonian compatriot of mine who wishes to remain nameless, but deserves your secret plaudits.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-5PCglKBY
Lee Barnard of the very wonderful Transdiffusion has located a lost HTV programme.
This is 'the Evergreen' and it was broadcast by HTV on Christmas Eve night 1977.
Lee went the extra mile to check this was missing, as tvbrain lacks this information; he has contacts at the National Library of Wales and they confirmed this is one they don't have. Since then I've checked with the BFI who don't have this either.
Well done, Lee!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjxGdn4sE3Q
It's good to report things exist sometimes when common wisdom suggests they don't.
Remember Ad Mags? Well, all the ITV companies ran them in some form or other, but for some reason it's forgotten that Granada made them.
Well, the BFI have a copy of one edition of 'On Show Tonight' from 1959 and it's on 16mm.
collections-search.bfi.org.uk/.../Choic.../150621187
Something I neglected to mention from 5 years ago.
Jack Benny's appearance at the 1965 Royal Variety exists on audio in a private collection.
The Pete'n'Dud appearance was known to exist in audio only but this find never received that much publicity.
Anyway, that's a list of a few discoveries from the last few months.
Some of them, anyway.
Anyway, it transpires there are sadly less Electric Theatre Shows than we thought; only around 8 remain.... we're told....
However, STV has a huge amount of rushes and clips and a few other things, which comes to several hundred bits of material from editions from every series.
They don't have the rights to show them. Network had a deal done prior to STV acquiring Grampian's Archive, so.... they have the physical films, but no rights to do anything with these bits.
I expect Network had a number of full shows, but we don't know this yet.
However, the fact STV held outtakes and clips is encouraging.
There is one wee bit of TETS that didn't come from a Network DVD release on youtube and it's this, which if from 20/07/1984:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hx-Of11bb4
Another Ultra Quiz. (yes, ANOTHER one....) www.youtube.com/watch?v=osEpOb_xrFU
This strays into 'off-topic' territory.... kind of!
After Paul O'Grady's untimely and sad passing a few people I know posted about shows he'd been on, and I thought I'd take a quick look at a few programmes that he'd appeared on.
Anyway, one fairly early filmed Lily Savage appearance in 1990 was 'Lily Savage Live at the Hackney Empire'. This was sold on VHS and does not appear to have been shown on terrestrial TV at the time and I'm clueless in regard to whether Sky or any one else that followed transmitted it. (So that's the off-topic bit...)
It transpires that the programme was actually produced by TVS and directed by TVS staffer Dave Heather.
The thing is.... the independent production company who made it are no longer in existence and the BFI don't seem to have it, neither do Wessex and there's never been an official DVD release.
So, as it was produced by a TV company, and it's not in any of the archives we know of (and I'm positive it wasnae part of the TELSO catalogue that went to Disney), one could consider this a missing programme.
Anyway, it's on youtube:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN5r9BBHLc4
I don't really mention my yokel roots too much (although being a Saints supporter sometimes gives it away....) so I am delighted to point out this upload for the latter bit.
The first bit is more important, though.... it's some audio from the completely wiped ABC show 'Hallelujah', which IS another religious programme, but it's ABC and nothing else exists from this show. It may be audio and just a minute or so long, but....
I've actually managed to date this to Sunday 3rd April 1966 (which was the last edition completely given over to the Salvation Army Joy Strings, and just after the Troggs had finished a small UK tour), but the upload is also interesting for the interview segment with dear old Reg Presley and how he wrote 'Love is All Around', sprinkling some good old west Hampshire fairy dust on the Shakespearean sweet wine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3fSNpYBmlg
I expect the vast majority of the fans of this show will know about this.... but I am clueless on the Avengers, mostly*.
These are outtakes from one of the colour series and are held by the Pathe archive (who also have outtakes and unused footage from Today, Magpie and A Town Called.... amongst others), but just for the benefit of any Avengers fans who haven't seen these.... as I hadn't.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1ECz1xOzc4
Pathe acquired things from Thames including ex-ABC footage, but these were almost completely unused and/or unusable material.
*I am aware of which episodes are missing and I do look for them!
Audio only, this, but.... Dee Time.... Spike Milligan, Tubby Hayes and (obviously), Simon Dee.... what's there not to like?
The episode is 02/12/1967:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lui5QqmP_I
Off-topic.... (radio).
Pop Score, SE10 E07, 01/08/1983:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuHLw3ZVEAc
(spotted by a contact of mine who wishes to remain anonymous....)
Clips from the 21/07/1984 edition of Saturday Picture Show from the ADC youtube channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j3eoHZpjZ8
And now the last missing performance from 19/02/1976's TOTP - DAT by Pluto Shervington:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnwxefo7QoM
Huge thanks to the uploader at the VHS Rewinds channel! 🙂
and as promised:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6SIx6iZoX8
Small potatoes (although I do like tatties, obviously....)
A new upload of a Night Thoughts - this is 09/03/1986:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkAqr95Vt0U
and one I missed (sorry David Palfreyman, nice transfer, btw) from a Diteli Media upload; this one dates from 24/10/1986:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU_GgMIH-iQ
It's a conspiracy.
Another find of.... Songs of Praise.
The edition from 25/05/1980 exists in the Archives of the London Borough of Sutton.
This is an off-air recording on a domestic tape format.
Ah, well. A find is a find is a find....
Ok, this is wonderful.
A unique Muppet Show junction, specially-filmed from 25/12/1978.
Thanks to the Television Heaven UK youtube channel for this!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-C3WBGOdTE
You know lightning striking twice?
Thought I might see if there are any others.
There is.... another Muppet Show trail with a unique specially filmed trail and this is from 30/05/1981!:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mL8C8vrIvY
An announcement of a find I had absolutely nothing to do with.
ITV have located a thought-to-be-missing episode of Mess Mates from 20/09/1960.
This is on 16mm and was retained because it was reshown on Boxing Day of that year as part of a presentation on Granada entitled 'Popular Programmes of 1960'!
My thanks to Chris Perry and an anonymous contact of mine who alerted me to this recent discovery.
Aidan Lunn's found another Sit Up and Listen - and this one is read by a talking bear.
Sorry, I mean Michael Hordern....
Anyway, it's from 20/09/1982 and comes from Aidan's own channel on youtube called Sticky tape 'n' rust. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfWyr8i66Q0
ANOTHER Ultra Quiz, Series 3, Episode 4:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK2cJvLTGog
This doesn't really count as it's just a teaser, but....
Richard Latto was very kindly informed me about a lost How that's been recently found.
This is some extracts from it.... just visually.
As far as I know bits of it will be shown at the event being held on 11/06/2023 (which is mentioned at the end of the trailer).
Just don't mention football.... 😉
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZPhLFdi04
The only time I break/wilfully ignore the rule about no news programmes is when it comes to BSB.
There are two reasons for this; one is that much BSB material is missing and everything should be pointed out.
The other is that I love wilfully breaking rules. (Inhales).
Anyrhododendron, this is a BSB News from 22/08/1990.
(O/T) Border geeks (meaning those people interested in geopolitical boundaries, as opposed to Border TV) will be either amused or amazed that BSB were still showing the Iraq-Saudi Arabia neutral zone in 1990 but to be fair to BSB the 1975 division and subsequent border treaty had not been registered with the UN....) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk5FmkcBWdM
A missing Big Breakfast.
Yes, ANOTHER one. 10th August 2001, this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jovz10xgS6g
This is more 'missing in action' than lost.
Let me explain.... Highway is one of those shows where tvbrain haven't got all the answers yet, with the exceptions of some definitely wiped TVS ones.
The likelihood of there being other missing episodes is very high.
90s editions will be more likely to be lost than 80s episodes and the last time I asked STV if they had any Highway editions they said no (once they'd realized I wasnae talking about Take the High Road, must be my accent....).
Add to the fact the BFI don't have this and neither do the NLS, plus there's no likelihood it's be at ITV, so I'm guessing that this possibly lost edition from 17/01/1988 is unfortunately just that, lost.
I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I0kr1uT2jY
And while I'm on the subject of Grampian TV, here's an edition out Out and About with Robbie Shepherd (Buckie), from 1987.
(I mentioned the 'Moray' episode which is online years ago.)
(NB: right at the end of the upload, in a completely unrelated programme Des O'Connor introduces his guest as STAR-TUS QUO.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qlp01nWQFA
Well, I HAD to look for missing Cliff.
Nothing. Zilch. Not a sausage.
But I did locate some Livvy audio from a wiped 'It's Cliff' (08/01/1972). There IS other audio from that same show online, but I overlooked the ONJ, but this is also very interesting because it never appeared on bootleg!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eli3eO2868k
Terribly tiny spuds here, but not much of TVS' 'Afternoon Club' exists and this has just shown up.
It's from 05/11/1984 and it includes Una Stubbs:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv3jjjg6HV0
The wonderful Audio Only youtube channel uploaded an audio - obviously - of a wiped episode of Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (Billy Bunter's Bicycle, 27/08/1960. And there was me thinking that was a name of a band who played Monterey).
This, to my knowledge, is the only one of the recordings on their entire channel that is still listed as having NOTHING existing on tvbrain.
Erm, yes it does exist, in audio.
Like....here:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTSvIhxJP5o
This isn't exactly wiped.
More like given away....!
As most interested parties will know there's a bit of unused Thames footage in the Pathe Archive, and there's also a tiddly bit of bits - if that makes sense - of programmes that were broadcast.
Obviously Fremantle had no plans to keep this filmed report from 'A Town Called....Aylesbury' from 1972 featuring a quite bitchy critique of that town's modern transformation by Thames TV's favourite son, Bill Grundy.
Indeed, until the Bucks Herald ran a story about it in 2021, I doubt that anyone remembered the savaging he gave the town back in the day. www.bucksherald.co.uk/.../a-look-back-at-when...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=81AkJr9K6vk
(After the Bucks Herald's article I shall add the phrase 'to go full Paxman' to my vocabulary.)
For the über-completist this....
This isn't a UK programme, just the UK 'special' edit.
Back in the day, for those people either too young or who were elsewhere at the time there was a cartoon character called Top Cat.
Wikipedia can say this better than I, so.... """Top Cat" premiered on the BBC Television Service (now BBC One) on May 16, 1962, under its original name but after only four weeks was renamed The Boss Cat on June 13, 1962. This was shortened on 22 February 1967 to Boss Cat. This rapid name change was made because Top Cat was also the name of a then-popular British brand of cat food, and the cartoon was aired on the BBC which does not carry advertising. The dialogue and theme tune still referred to the character by his original name, but a small cut was made at the climax of the opening credits (resulting in a slight jump in the film) and a title card carrying the revised title inserted before the episode proper. Similarly, the Top Cat name was edited from the final section of the show's closing credits, causing another slight jump (as Top Cat is putting on his eyeshades and readying himself for sleep in his trash can). """
ALSO NOTE:- """The BBC run comprised only 26 of the original 30 episodes, with notable omissions including Choo-Choo Goes Ga-Ga, with its repeated scenes of Choo-Choo attempting suicide. This 26-episode selection was repeated on the BBC from 1962 to 1989."""
So, these are the UK-only colour titles.
They should be an extra on a DVD release.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8xiYpWKjWg
You remember that allegedly lost Thames TV 'English Programme: Viewpoint' edition, 'Money Talks' (14/11/1977) that I located in the National Library of Wales? I expect not. They sold very well internationally and I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were multiple copies out there of all the supposedly lost editions.
I say this as I had completely missed was the fact it actually was uploaded to youtube in 2019!!!
So, if you want to watch it:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQhkZPugsbE
(you'll note it also has a slate at the start which makes it very likely that is does exist in an archive....!)
12 seconds of Alan Bennett?
Yes, that's all this is, more or less, in regard to wiped material.
(well, aside from the IVC, of course....)
This was one of several specially filmed trails that Alan recorded for the season 'Six Plays by Alan Bennett' and this was shown as part of feature about LWT's weekend shows with the promo being broadcast on 26/01/1979, shortly after the handover from Thames (which is strikingly obvious looking at the thumbnail....):- www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZJqftO5Di8
C.A.T.S Eyes was probably one of the best-known TVS series; it ran for three seasons and was one of their biggest prime time successes.
Disney eventually wound up with the tapes and that's the last we know about them.... the tapes, that is.... I understand Disney are still going.
Anyoldiron, when the Top 100 Most Wanted Lost Programmes list was revealed, the show came in 89th.
All of the shows have now been found - either off-airs, which are mostly with Kaleidoscope, and also a few 1" tapes which are with the BFI.
Which is BRILLIANT, of course. However, wouldn't it be nice to see them?
Well, you can.... mostly.... here:-
SERIES 1
Episode Title
12.04.1985
Goodbye Jenny Wren
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmGOhjm82rE
19.04.1985
The Black Magic Man
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EYBbybzWrI
26.04.1985
With Vinegar and Brown Paper
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOH845mobKM
03.05.1985
Under Plain Cover
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Fpbcelz1Q
10.05.1985
Something Nasty Down Below
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP6uUp649y8
17.05.1985
Cross My Palm with Silver
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqsbQAy1uCc
24.05.1985
Frightmare
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4QNhoBMvRk
31.05.1985
The Double Dutch Deal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G5PYVRw4L8
07.06.1985
My Father Knew Lloyd Mbotu
NOT ON YOUTUBE
14.06.1985
Love Byte
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DCLNbGBEpg
21.06.1985
Fingers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtKDYU4vhzw
28.06.1985
Blue for Danger
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGuHfuLLJgU
UNFINISHED
Sweet Toothed Barracuda
NOT ON YOUTUBE
SERIES 2
Date
Episode Title
05.04.1986
One Away
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKi9v4RPVGw
12.04.1986
Powerline
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImbrBYbuIyQ
19.04.1986
Hit List
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMViVIahIA0
26.04.1986
Good as New
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQwxNUKko-w
03.05.1986
Rough Trip
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCoEs7zi9qc
10.05.1986
Passage Hawk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFHt3oXfAYU
17.05.1986
Freezeheat
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uwsTXN19xA
24.05.1986
Fit
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5J1YlIBLNg
31.05.1986
Honeytrap
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGeq-iMhPiE
07.06.1986
Crack Up
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxqR6iQLUAU
14.06.1986
Tranmere Dan and Tokyo Joe
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx_7m7LTJ6o
SERIES 3
Date
Episode Title
25.04.1987
Twelve Bar Blues
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFhLPhlPSMQ
02.05.1987
Carrier Pigeon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUOF2tf7eAE
09.05.1987
Country Weekend
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2xjS8ey990
16.05.1987
The Big Burn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ1l0jRrhNs
23.05.1987
A Naval Affair
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPtRbhfFG64
30.05.1987
Family Tradition
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTGJne70Jis
06.06.1987
Backlash
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MudEHOzqRG0
(I have located a copy of that elusive C.A.T.S Eyes episode 'My Father Knew Lloyd Mbotu' (the only one not on youtube) on """grey market""" DVD.
Kaleidoscope apparently already have a copy of it, but this is from a different source tape and I was particularly annoyed it wasn't on youtube.)
Did I mention that the supposedly lost About Britain HTV episode 'Quest for Arthur' (tx 27/06/1980) exists at the National Library of Wales on 16mm colour film?
Well, it does.
About 90% of the 'wiped' episodes of Catchphrase are handily on this playlist.
These aren't new finds at all, but it's very handy to have all of them in one place. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNgMDrhgVj0_cEuQnVDtaaUmG3DbXiWON
This isn't anything to do with me, but the BBC have unearthed a filmed insert from a missing edition of Tom Tom from 26/11/1968 and it includes a wee bit on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0n1R0xZhLI
Only 19 minutes of material from the 6 series was previously known to exist.
Discovering a tiddly bit of a wiped show can be quite amusing. In this case I think it's fairly indicative that the broadcaster of the excerpt has the whole programme, in this instance, so this is good news all round, even though it's just a listing....
A DRAMA! (I do find dramas, you know....)
The play in question is 'A Hatful of Rain' which was a part of Rediffusion's 'Star Performance' and was transmitted in 26/04/1968 and I've located an excerpt of it.
An except of the final scene of the play exists in the ABC Archive in the US AND also at Paley; this was shown as a part of the extant ABC's Silver Anniversary Celebration (Peter Falk was in attendance to see it).
The thing is, if the play existed until 1978 in ABC's archive, it most likely is still there now....but there's no way I can check.
(Note, the ABC Archive I mention and all previous mentions of them in this post refer to the American broadcaster, just in case anyone had a brainfart.)
and another thing.... the 1984 series 'Ian Breakwell's Christmas Diary', listed as completely missing on tvbrain, is held by Ian Breakwell, was released on DVD through the LUX Shop or the BFI. It was also shown in an online event in 2021.
Here's a wiped Saturday Picture Show from the youtube channel that keeps on giving, the JMX TV ARCHIVE.
This lengthy clip I have managed to date and it's from the missing 19th July 1986 edition (I was surprised JMX didn't managed to ascertain the date which is very very easy to spot....).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYawza1VS0g
A tiddly wee bit of audio of Alma Cogan appearing on Stars and Garters (Rediffusion, 15/03/1965), as introduced by Ray Martine. Wiped? Obviously.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuFktImJEBE
Well, my my my, this is something new that I didn't know about....
This is an audio recording of dear old Arthur Brown and his Crazy World performing Fire on TOTP from 25/07/1968 (audio only).
This is not the same version as the commonly aired one, as Arthur is singing live. (I've compared the two versions so you don't have to....)
(and just to think they thought Robert Wyatt was a fire hazard!!!!)
(I REALLY LIKE BRACKETS.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyIeHWogrbU
A specially-filmed trail (after the adverts) of the Muppet Show.
This dates from 12/09/1981 and is part of the ADC channel on youtube.... and it's been online two years and I missed it.
That is, of course, until now.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t5cSNlqJB4
Dodgy quality recording of Wings' interview on Thames TV's 'Today' on 19th October 1976.
This has been on youtube since 2001 and I'd never spotted it - but then again, with less than 800 views in that time I don't think many people had. It's interesting in that the non-McCartney members of Wings get chatted to by Eamonn is his.... shifting, whispering way....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGiFQeBr_CA
(I am VERY aware of the Beatles audio from the 1965 ABC Eamonn Andrews shows....)
I missed this. That said, it's only been on youtube less than a year.
Also, I think this episode probably exists at Fremantle - but I have no proof, just a load of circumstantial evidence.
This is The English Progamme episode "The Real Thing" (Thames, 28/11/1977) and it's uploaded on the excellent treffynnon 19 youtube channel.
So:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=atuEe46tkyo
And the 'misses' keep on coming.
I've scrolled by this clip maybe 1000 times as I didn't notice that it came from an episode of Glen Michael's Cavalcade (STV).
This dates from 24/12/1987 and features a wee section featuring a clip of Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson.
Almost a 'Before They Were Famous' bit this, no?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G1-tcmtFyA
Wiped? Well, I'm not sure.
I have decided to err on the side of incaution and actually post a few wee clips that comes from the most archived show on British TV. Let me explain....
Ok, Corrie has one episode missing. This isn't it.
There were some Coronation Street VHS releases in the 1980s and one of the first ones includes some specially-filmed linking scenes.
So, let me make it clear, these bits weren't shown on terrestrial TV.
However, this is material doesn't appear to be in the archives of ITV or the BFI, so either I've missed it (very possible) or they don't have it (also possible).
Anyway, I thought it might be better to include this as I came across it by accident.
This discovery is also for a friend who lives t'other side of the Pennines and is watching the entire series bit-by-bit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HcpnQK7icQ
Would you like to hear some wiped RSG?
Well those nice young scallywags at the Brian Jones Resource have uploaded 18 - EIGHTEEN - audio performances of the Rolling Stones on the show. A few exist, quite a lot are on bootleg and the odd one I've pointed out before, but this is a full list, and they're pretty much in date order as well.
It is a work in progress, so there may be more additions, too.
www.youtube.com/playlist...
Approximately 2 minutes and 16 seconds of a wiped John Craven's Newsround from 07/06/1982. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltWPTDXkZdA
09/01/1982. Swap Shop. One reel exists.
Now.... I'm not sure which part of the show is missing.
The thing is, this is from an off-air and it's that part of the show which features the recently dearly departed Dame Edna.
It's here:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyqpu_FXGDQ
Like I said, I have no idea if this is from the missing bit, but assuredly part of the show is lost.
I Love Keith Allen, BSB. Show 12, Wiped:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCqyHWFjCUQ
Audio from a missing show here.
February 1969; Cinema (Granada). The guest with Parky is that old scoundrel Dean Martin!
Huge thanks to the Dean Martin Association for uploading this:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOFSERzCeYI
Well, this was only put on youtube 9 minutes before I saw it!
This is a partial upload of a wiped episode of Chips' Comic, the CH4 series that ran for two seasons in 1983 and 1984.
20 episodes were made, 1 exists and the BFI and another 3 exist in parts with Kaleidoscope.
Over the course of a few minutes, I watched bits of it and I've managed to ascertain that this is a repeat broadcast of the missing second season episode 'Travel', originally shown on 17/11/1984 and subsequently repeated on 01/06/1985.
Here you go:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=in3faMsf_9s
Well, this is interesting - not just the rarity, but the material itself.
This is apparently the wiped part of an edition of 24 Hours, presented by the excellent Ludovic Kennedy and it's all about that naughty young man Rupert Murdoch trying to buy LWT in an early attempt at world domination.
And just as a bonus we have one of LWT's Directors - a chap named Jimmy Hill, yes, THAT one being one of the guests in the studio
It's from 22/02/1971 and I'm informed the studio material presented here does not exist at the BBC, although filmed insert material does. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyURjtuJIC4
I wasn't looking for this.
I spotted it by accident.
Bobby Davro's TV Weekly, TVS.
The only missing episode was 26/03/1988.
It's not lost any more, it's here:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgdyVNS87ZY
Well, a very good quality audio of the re-recorded TOTP version of Sugar Me has turned up.
I am guessing this is from an ex-studio tape of some sort as it's not from an off-air and has no audience noises or anything like that.
Lynsey would have most likely re-recorded the backing track in the 48 hours prior to performance and then mimed on screen.
(She could, theoretically have had a live mic on as well and sang on top of her re-recorded vocal. You'd be amazed how many artists did this!)
anyway.... here it is:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6HmC7Wo1hg
Well this is random.
Despite me having zero interest in fishing it appears I have located a 1980 episode of Angling Today (ATV, no better tx date yet) on domestic VT in a private collection. A number of ATV editions are missing.
I have the gentleman's contact details, so I'll get onto him soonish.
I'm quite pleased with this discovery.
This is Dionne Warwick performing on Pebble Mill at One on 27/04/1984. This visual quality isn't all that, but it's way better than nothing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXOCf3TMD1c
Here's a wiped Sit Up and Listen that I missed from 23/06/1982 with a wee bit of continuity and a Closedown and all that from the JMX channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ea8fJ90v_w
Season 1 Episode 3 of Max Headroom (abridged), wiped. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgiaWtaffAY
Some people get very happy even if a few seconds of a wiped programme are discovered - and here are two examples of clips from missing shows that are on the same tape from the wonderful ADC youtube channel....
Firstly, Talking Animal's first episode 'Elephants' (28/06/1984) features in a clip on this TVS compilation promo film (from 6.02 to 9.33 approximately) and On Safari from 21/02/1984 is featured from 9.33 until 10.48.
I'll go through all the TVS bits on the promo films soonish.
In the meantime:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEUHLs3VAFQ
Another TVS promo clip discovery!
The Brief was a drama series that ran for 13 episodes in 1984 and only one exists.
This is from a missing episode, even though I'm not sure which one as I've got a copy of the existing one (On the Edge) which I sent to Kaleidoscope all those moons ago and just whizzed through it and this clip isn't from that episode.
Anyway - it's from 6.59 to 10.37 of this upload:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLw1MtOtZWk
Here's the audio to episode 7 of A for Andromeda (the Last Mystery, 14/11/1961).
This was recovered a while back and I understand this has not been issued officially yet.
(This was spotted online by a Caledonian compatriot of mine who wishes to remain nameless, but deserves your secret plaudits.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-5PCglKBY
Lee Barnard of the very wonderful Transdiffusion has located a lost HTV programme.
This is 'the Evergreen' and it was broadcast by HTV on Christmas Eve night 1977.
Lee went the extra mile to check this was missing, as tvbrain lacks this information; he has contacts at the National Library of Wales and they confirmed this is one they don't have. Since then I've checked with the BFI who don't have this either.
Well done, Lee!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjxGdn4sE3Q
It's good to report things exist sometimes when common wisdom suggests they don't.
Remember Ad Mags? Well, all the ITV companies ran them in some form or other, but for some reason it's forgotten that Granada made them.
Well, the BFI have a copy of one edition of 'On Show Tonight' from 1959 and it's on 16mm.
collections-search.bfi.org.uk/.../Choic.../150621187
Something I neglected to mention from 5 years ago.
Jack Benny's appearance at the 1965 Royal Variety exists on audio in a private collection.
The Pete'n'Dud appearance was known to exist in audio only but this find never received that much publicity.
Anyway, that's a list of a few discoveries from the last few months.
Some of them, anyway.
