Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Oct 2, 2023 21:10:08 GMT
In some ways, this has been a very good month for missing episode discoveries.
See what you think:-
You remember I spotted a couple of episodes of Running Loose recently, the TVS series from 1986-1988?
All episodes exist in both VHS form and on digital files.
That's ALL episodes from BOTH series.
Steve Shaw, the Director of Paddington Arts emailed me today to confirm this.
(4 episodes were meant to be lost.)
Spotted by accident and of only minor interest to most folk, but this upload (again from Neil Miles, thank you!) features a specially filmed promo for TVS' Afternoon Club and a blink-and-you'll-miss-it quick bit of a wiped Company.
The upload is from 07/09/1984.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fnN6Rap-w4
Another bit of minority interest this one....
This is a Close - Thames' closedown/epilogue programme - and it's from 21/02/1978. Starts at about 2.16.
Aside from that there's some IVC from Mr Elsmore, a Thames clock and a quick caption to show what's on Thames tomorrow. All as uploaded by Mr Betamax three years back and something I hadn't seen until this month! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjNnPj3jQ3U
Just so as you know....
Heroes II - The Return was a 1991 British/Australian mini-series about Operation Rimau during WW2 It was a sequel to the 1989 mini-series The Heroes (which is at the BFI).
The UK co-producers of both mini-series were TVS Films and the programmes were shown over here on the 15th and 16th December 1991.
The masters aren't held in the UK; they're held by Buckley Films in Australia and the episodes have been issued on DVD.
for some reason I've located another programme which is/was lost. I'll explain.
It's the ADC Collection youtube channel again and it's another episode of That's Love - this one is SE03 E03, and it's from 08/03/1990. As you'll probably note, it's been on youtube since the ARK! The reason I over looked this - while spotting 6 other episodes of the series over the years - is probably because I thought all the missing shows were from Season 1.
Well this DID get wiped, but Kaleidoscope have a copy now. It was flagged up as missing on a recent pdf thingy I got.
Anyway, enough of my yakking:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ZmHfv-qfo
This is quite something to behold....
Sky Channel made a 5th Anniversary Show in 1987: Sky Channel's 5th Birthday Celebration
This is prime 80s.
Mullets, drum machines, shoulder pads, self-congratulation by the Maestro-load. And then there's the Anniversary song.... (starts about 6.54. Is it called 'Join the Family?' What? The Murdochs?
?)
You can practically SMELL the hair gel....
The BFI don't have this. Sky's archiving before the 90s is.... a bit ca-ca, so I'm gathering it's wiped and even in the unlikely event it IS retained, there's a couple of clips from shows within that aren't.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1kr08TiXR4
(I'd like to apologize if I'm the only person who finds certain parts of this programme hysterically funny. Especially as I know a couple of people who appear in it....!!!!)
I'm going for a lie down.
Finally.... finally... I keep my promise to a friend of mine and spot a wiped episode of Three Little Words*.
This was uploaded by Neil Miles and comes from 24/04/1985.
It IS incomplete, but that said, it is the only example of anything from TLW in 1985 as all of Season 10 was junked.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKfVl5ghQSs
*A friend's parent were on it. Not THIS episode, but when I told her I'd never located ANY she was quite shocked, so....
I missed this.
It's a Night Thoughts from 23/12/1985, with IVC from Tom Edwards, as uploaded by the ADC TV Collection:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS73ch3pqS8
PiFs.
While the Charley sets covered a large amount of these Public Information Films, of course there were many more that for whatever reason weren't on the DVDs.
Well there were four in a row that TSW showed around Christmas time in 1985.
Were they short on advertisers?
Well, whatever.... the fact is that PiFs one and three on weren't on the DVDs although the other two are quite common and were. Tiswas fans will perhaps quite like the involvement of Bob Carolgees - and isn't that Alison Bettles of Grange Hill?
As uploaded by the JMX TV Archive channel like.... just now:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f8hKIBOCXU
So.... occasionally discoveries are flukier than you could believe.
10.53. Go onto youtube. Randomly put "bbc tv" and "1969" in the search engine in a halfhearted way and then drop down the 'This Year' filter.
10.54. Notice audio from Elvin Jones at Jazz at the Maltings, BBC 2, TX 27/02/1969 (wiped) is online.
10.55. Gasp.
11.00. Recover enough to put the link on the Missing Believed Wiped group on Facebook.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljl9SDVG6YY
Some days I can spend hours searching for stuff and I'll get nothing. Zilch. Not a sausage. Bugger all.
Other days, such as today, I think, 'what's easy to find?' and come up with a bit of audio from a wiped 'It's Cliff Richard' in thirty seconds flat. Utter fluke.
So presenting, Cliff'n'Hank going all Phil'n'Don and doing a rather splendid version of Bye Bye Love from the aforementioned series, the episode in question being from 24/01/1970:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10nUqM5WKI
Uploaded on her own channel, this is Lulu appearing on a wiped edition of Summertime Special (TVS), and this dates from 06/08/1988.
I didn't flag this one up before because I assumed as it was on her own youtube channel it wasnae wiped and as I'd only had a cursory look at the listings for that season I noticed she was on one of the existing editions.
I was wrong.
Lulu appeared on EVERY SINGLE EDITION of the third season of Summertime Special and she's here arseing about with Cannon and Ball.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpj-lPyngyY
According to TV Brain various eps of Bod have the Alberto Frog sequences missing, neither held by the BBC or the Michael Cole estate. One of those is now online.... as spotted by Robert Brown, not myself.
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ifmdg
This is more of a database correction than a discovery as it's not been missing and probably never has been - just it was THOUGHT to be missing because the information was wrong.
Rediffusion Television presented extracts from the London "Evening Standard" Drama Awards for 1966 under the title Accolade - which were broadcast live on 11/01/1967. It's listed as junked on tvbrain.
It's actually at the BFI and exists on 35mm.
see....:- collections-search.bfi.org.uk/.../Choic.../150005279
OFF-TOPIC!
I apologize to all those offended by this terrible straying from the subject, but I'm over it.
This is John Lennon appearing on the Today Show in the US and is from 17/12/1974. His lawyer Leon Wildes is there too.
It has been bootlegged, and there are off-air copies around, but I hadn't seen it on youtube. It is very rare. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzHF8o46IBI
and he goes off-topic again....
It's good to spot wiped ABC programmes because the very nature of a company named thus makes searching for stuff very difficult indeed.
So how exactly am I going off-topic? I'm talking about ABC in the U.S of A.... so not British.
Anyway, I've always been vaguely interested in a programme called Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell (which mustn't be confused with rival NBC's better-known Saturday Night Live. GOT THAT? Different shows on different networks.)
I've been interested in this show for several reasons; it's remembered as terrible; Cosell's wig is the funniest thing I've ever seen and it deserves its' own embassy and also the Bay City Rollers made their US debut on it to a huge fanfare.
I was gobfounded to discover only three full episodes exist in ABC's Archives. Anyway, I spotted a couple of audios and a TV promo a few years back on youtube.... now finally here's some video - from the edition transmitted on 15/11/1975:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS2BtthZOug
Before I post this clip here's a Q & A about it so you don't have to....
Is it missing? YES.
Do ITV, the BFI, the NFTVA or Kaleidoscope have a copy of it? NOT THAT I KNOW OF.
Is it known about? SLIGHTLY. IT GOT UPLOADED ON YOUTUBE OVER 16 YEARS AGO OR SO BUT ONLY 17000 VIEWS IN THAT TIME - THAT'S LESS THAN THREE VIEWS PER DAY.
So why post it, you scruffy eejit? IT'S WIPED, UNARCHIVED AND PEOPLE SEEM TO HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT IT.
This was originally flagged up by Mark Dixon in 2015.
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Anyway, here's the clip. It's of that shy retiring soul Mark. E. Smith and his ragtag symphony orchestra the Fall performing Solicitor in Studio on Granada Reports. The best date I have for it is a Friday in November 1982. And yes, the credits run way way too soon.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9P3DDiv18s
and....yes, that IS Richard Madeley introducing the clip....
Hot off the press....
As spotted by my friend Chris Dabbs a clip of the Rubettes performing Baby I Know from Multi-Coloured Swap Shop on 05/02/1977 has turned up.
The quality is not fantastic, but it's still watchable.
As uploaded by Tony Waddington:- www.facebook.com/tony.../videos/1495248491246447
I did let John Richardson know about and he replied and thanked me.
In the last month someone uploaded some continuity from 25/12/1975.
The interesting bit is, for me, a specially-filmed trail for the Mike Yarwood Show.
This:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d8kVVchGB8
Two days after I saw this, he died. RIP.
VHS Rewinds has uploaded another bit of wiped footage again.
We go back to the 80s (cue cheesy synthesiser music) and it's TVS' Summertime Special from 16/08/1986 and it's those Nolan Sisters - TV veterans by now, you know - www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoEvML-T_rg
A VHS containing off-air recordings of the first three missing episodes of the 1984 TVS drama "The Brief" have been recovered. The tape was recorded on original broadcast by the series' star, the much-missed Ray Lonnen. The VHS, discovered by Ray's widow Tara Ward, also contains all the commercial breaks. The tape has been carefully digitised and archived for the BFI by Paul Vanezis and David Palfreyman. An off-air of Episode 12 is also on YouTube.
I'm glad some people make my ""job"" easier....
VHS Rewinds have also uploaded a wiped episode of the Big Breakfast from 22/08/1995 in the last hour and just for you - here it is:-
Part 1:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEw4ZlBGcdQ
Part 2:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8hSW5TNIHA
Wolf It! Another missing one from the ADC Collection youtube channel. This is from 20/01/1994, SE01 E10:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pp-fNCg3HE
Not my find - I had nothing to do with it expect seeing this post just the now about the discovery of an audio of a missing Jackanory, "the Ogre Downstairs" from 02/12/1974.
missingepisodes.proboards.com/.../jackanory-audio
According to some folk, this is wiped, and there's even an archive that reckons that. I'm clueless about the archive status, to be honest.
This is a PiF that was possibly shown on TV - which would have just been ITV as it's sponsored - in 1965. That's if ITV broadcast them at all.... I read somewhere else that these were only shown in cinemas at the end despite being made for TV.
Fanta the Elephant wasn't a bizarre creation made to plug soft drinks - the creature was actually featured in five road safety cartoons. Our aforementioned pachyderm actually had the films funded jointly by BP and Shell. Anyway, a previous partial audio was known to exist but that's it.
Naturally these animations wouldn't have been on the Charly DVDs as they weren't made by the Central Office of Information.
Anyway, thanks to the maxustaxus channel for uploading this:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWrH-d74hE
A little bit of Nigerian TV continuity from 1985 - which contains a whole five seconds of what I believe is a wiped edition of The Entertainers (Tony Monopoly, probably 02/06/78, unless he did more than one.). As spotted by Simon Mclean. www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=BrNOEsnzGsw&fbclid=IwAR1cnmyh1kBhXyPfaDxbITCrNKg7H4b36kASI_vgW6fyPAesjZYAA8Qlzn4
I'm not driving a Mini Metro.
Yes, there's rebadging and there's this example of what dear old Auntie Beeb did with an episode of Merry-Go-Round that was apparently junked. They didn't junk it at all, they rebadged it.
This is a re-edit - with different titles, obviously - of the MGR episode 'Patterns Hold the Key' from 23/01/1978, remodelled into a new programme for Zig Zag on 31/10/1983.
Pam has till got her snazzy Christmas jumper on....
As uploaded on the Vintage Schools TV youtube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj4BdoZ-6vY
Really comes under the category 'possibly missing, whereabouts unknown, except a few collectors have copies....'
This is C.A.T.S Eyes, SE3 E2 'Carrier Pigeon'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM5Gz5JdpLo
It's ANOTHER missing Wolf It!.
This one dates from 27/01/1994 and was uploaded just around two hours ago by the ADC Collection youtube channel.
This is about the sixth missing one uploaded.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoApS6zVAIE
I missed this. Apparently....
This is another one of those Douglas Fairbanks Jr Presents melodramas and it's called Border Incident, shown on 04/04/1957.
Well bless my Ramones T-shirt if it doesn't feature Lord Summerisle himself playing the part of 'Official'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZpxV40TZks
(note the added 'not for broadcast' and rubbish timecode are not actually on the video copy of the print!!!!)
There's not that many Police 5 editions kicking about anywhere, but here's one that was uploaded two months ago and I didn't see at the time. Whatever the channel, most editions were not kept. This one is an even rarer example than most as it's a Central TV edition - which is less common than LWT or TVS.
It's another JMX upload and this dates from 22/12/1988:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ83n0vo83k
Just an update.
Not really much to see with this one, but the auld Rediffusion programme The Vise -which was a Danzigers Production - had a release on Network in 2022 which contained a number of episodes thought to be lost and I can confirm that the episodes The Gamblers / The Final Column/ Broken Honeymoon / Death on the Boards / Man in Demand DO exist as they're on the DVD set.
I expect most - if not all - Danzigers productions to exist but it is 100% definite these do, obviously.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC7c1C3_vEA
The very wonderful David King has posted a sound clip on the Crossroads Appreciation Society group from episode 1500 (which I think is 25/05/1971, but I could be a day out!) which is of Carl Wayne (ex-Move) singing the theme tune. This is a good 4 years prior to the instrumental version by Wings, so it is quite something! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XXHZrBFGtM
I am just posting something which is virtually unwatchable. It's not even Junior Showtime! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is a scrambled engineering test, shown after BBC 2 Closedown from 1987, a test for the upcoming BBC Select. ""The encryption is believed to be the French Discret11 system, but would later be replaced by Videocrypt when BBC Select was on the air.""
Ok, so what? This is a load of static, fuzz and gumph, right? Well, yes.... but hang on here a Fern Cotton-picking minute*....
The visuals are from 1974!!!! The abridged Showaddywaddy performance is Hey Rock and Roll and it seems to come from the strike-affected TOTP edition from 23/05/1974 (they only performed the song twice on the show, both wiped). The football is the 1974 FA Cup Final.
So my post is basically trying to find out if someone, somehow, could unscramble the signal. I've no idea if this is even possible.
Anyway, here's the fuzz:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl5faX9uAho
(* in-joke - if you know, you know.)
A bit of audio from a missing Zokko here*. It's from one of the lost episodes from between August and November 1969 as uploaded by the elviskline99 youtube channel:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkHdlsgVTrY
(* Zokko is actually mentioned around the 40-ish seconds mark)
As uploaded by the elviskline99 youtube channel a wee bit of audio from the wiped 05/08/1967 Opportunity Knocks edition featuring the Freelanders:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjNBJeO3cjg
Almost predictably.... a wiped episode of Wolf It! as uploaded by the ADC TV Collection - this dates from 03/02/1994:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=_li3Ca0E8B4
A tiddly wee discovery I was informed about by Anonymous of Anglia (a nameless contact of mine who provides me with leads and suggestions of things to look for) and it's Rediffusion!
Only a low-contrast mute reel, though and the programme is one featuring that notable song-and-dance man A.J.P Taylor with the 2nd instalment of his Revolution 1917 series of programmes entitled February: Revolution Old Style from 19/09/1967.
The other four parts are missing and this was thought to be too, but it does exist at the BFI.
I suppose this series sorted out the Mensheviks from the boys.
"" BFI identifier 6293
February: Revolution Old Style (Original)
Production company Rediffusion
Credits s A.J.P. Taylor lectures on the revolution in Russia, 1917. (NFA Catalogue)
Credits Director: Sheila Gregg
Production Company: Rediffusion
Producer: Sheila Gregg
Cast A.J.P. Taylor (Lecturer)
Film / Video
16mm TV (low contrast) Positive - Safety - Mute - Master
Series Work - 768322
Title February: Revolution Old Style
Film / VideoMaterials held in the BFI National Archive
Master - Restricted access to preserved film Film materials (1) 16mm TV (low contrast) Positive - Safety - Mute - 892 Feet - Stock date: 1967 - - C-54635 ""
This is one of only two (partially) missing episodes of the BBC Schools programme Watch.
It's from 11/01/1983, the episode being The Romans: 1 – Roman Beginnings and the reason the episode in question is unarchived is because - to quote tvbrain - ""A surviving 1" is damaged and untransferable."" Thanks to the Vintage Schools TV youtube channel for the upload.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzhE27OmvUA
Thanks to 'Anonymous of Anglia' again and let me know the BFI have a 2-inch tape that wasn't known about before (outside of Berkhamsted.)
It's an edition of 'the Get Set Picture Show' - and after a bit of trying* to work out what the transmission date was - I think it's 30/07/1983. There's not a lot of clues....
The thing is.... even if it's NOT that edition, none of the editions of the Get Set behemoth were known to exist on 2-inch!
Anyway:- collections-search.bfi.org.uk/.../Choic.../150187135
'm still here and I managed to stop sipping the iced coffee and put down the medicinal cheroot for a moment to post this very weird 'discovery'. I wasn't even looking for it, this came on my youtube recommendations which is truly spooky.
This is a clip from Pebble Mill, 24/01/1979. The group is called the Wedgewoods - I wonder if they were from Staffordshire? - and they're covering Ray Stevens 'Misty'. It was only uploaded today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DFAe0rHfn4
The odd thing was I thought I'd seen this before, and I had....
Ten years ago this was posted:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCb6ikXTb84
So the old clip has the continuity and intro - but it has a watermark - today's upload is just the performance and has been cropped, as they seem to both come from the same original tape.
What's weird is that Kaleidoscope have part of this otherwise-wiped episode and their section doesn't feature this performance.
I understand the original upload was by Rory Clark so thanks due to him.
It's another missing Wolf It! from the ADC TV Collection youtube channel.
This is from 10/02/1994 and is the penultimate episode from Season 1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak_I7hud7Bo
a very small discovery to inform you about....
It appears that Fremantle have at least part of one thought-to-be-lost edition of The World Around Us - this being the last edition of Season 44, 'Open Session', from 23/03/1976.
How do I know this? Well, six years ago they uploaded a couple of wee mute clips from the edition (which noone seems to have spotted came from a wiped show, not just me).
The clips are mute and there is the possibility that they just retained these as stock footage.
To be completist, here they are:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnSAyBQAyoU AND www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdpq7uPOYqo
Unforgettable.
(you'd forgotten about it, right?)
This was a C4 series featuring guest stars of yesteryear playing their greatest hits. The show was fairly successful and ran for a year and a half. Only around 4 shows are meant to exist, but personally I think a lot more survive*.
Here's one - there is a discrepancy on broadcast dates - so this is either 03/02/1983 or a fortnight later on 17/03/1983, but either way it's a missing one and this stars Chris Farlowe and also the Equals amongst others.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ltlgN7ETs
and another from 23/11/1982 (Jim Proby and the Nashville Teens):- www.youtube.com/watch?v=14DfYI2aahY
This is only about 99% off-topic and strictly one for completists!
The Wednesday Special was an umbrella title used for that oh-so-difficult ITV slot after News at Ten between 1975 and 1978 - and by golly did they vary their programming.... sport, concerts, events, doccos.... I was quite surprised there was no programme called the Kitchen Sink.
Anyway, several are missing, many exist, but, like the programming itself, it's a real hodge-podge.
This is the only example of a bought-in non-sport programme, being Fear on Trial, a tv film from the States. It's got George C. Scott in it too. This was the edition from 15/12/1976.
So while this is clearly not wiped, ITV don't have it and it's not held in UK Archives, but.... it wouldn't be!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qOPuYSy3Fo
You may have seen one or both of these uploads before but some new information for you.
There's a debate in certain circles as how Central TV started and I've solved it. Mike Prince is often credited with opening Central, but he didn't. What he DID do was make a Promotional programme for the station which was not shown on the ITV network as such, but is fortunately retained; I feel this would have been better:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r6M4xiuXzE
The actual first transmission was this:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwovripelvQ
Look, here's four different excerpts from missing editions of Southsport (Southern TV) that were uploaded over several years by John Tyrrel's son Noel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=06LyUO0XHOg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0T2w4hvHS4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlgBFUXbpgs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay8s9aUk2g4
Another one of these very minor discoveries that probably won't excite anyone.... but that's not the point!
Anyhoo, this is a Sit Up and Listen from the wee hours of 26/11/1981 and has a bit of IVC and a caption with ""tomorrow"" night's viewing - it's actually later the same day as dear old Peter Marshall is sitting in Euston at gone midnight (and I don't envy his drive back to Ascot).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuWs4VdX-TY
There'll probably be more minority interest discoveries today, Le Tiss help you all.
Another discovery. (They are going to turn up like buses today - maybe not the buses you actually want, but....)
This is a brief clip of Nick Beggs of Kaja (googoo) appearing on the last edition of the second series of the Saturday Picture Show, 21/09/1985. The show is junked, obviously.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYQRW3iM-G8
(I doubt if this could be any more '80s' than it is....)
A very rare - and very annoying - Channel 4 promo made and transmitted BEFORE 02/11/1982.
I wasn't looking for this - it came up on my 'recommended' and, technically, it's a small but important part of broadcasting history.
Whizzing through these, you know.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTL8U08bOSs
"you do find a load of rubbish mostly, but to be fair you find it quicker than anyone else...." (anon)
Continuing in my fine tradition of digging up lesser-wanted televisual gems, here's a Points of View that was wiped from 02/12/1983. There's a natty little bit of BBC reception information too:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrqK5ieOEI4
ADC TV Collection again.
Last November I mentioned I'd spotted an edition of the TVS programme online and there was a 90% chance it was missing.
Here's an update.
FIVE editions of Prove It!
These are difficult - nigh impossible to work out the dates of.
Suffice to say 13 episodes were made and 11 are wiped; ergo a minimum of 3 of these are missing episodes.
The episodes are the first five entries here:- www.youtube.com/@adctvcollection/search?query=%22prove%20it%22
Credit to the ADC TV Collection youtooobchannel.
A smidgin - literally a few wee seconds of a missing edition of HTV's Three Little Words from 22/10/1981 here, buried within this upload of Westward continuity.
I know what you're thinking here.... why the Reesmoggle would anyone be interested in 21 seconds of this?
Well, actually, this is the oldest extant footage of this show in existence!!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkBTH5A5XUA
As spotted on youtube by my good friend, acclaimed author, Villa fan and purchaser of a coffee for me that I haven't forgot that I still owe him Kevin Mulrennan, is this Dusty Springfield audio performance on the wiped 'Peter Sarstedt' show 'Sarstedt on Age' from 01/10/1969:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxBx86tu5MM
AND this:- youtu.be/5PCl83h_T74?feature=shared
and here's some audio from the wiped 'It Must Be Dusty' (ATV) from 23/05/1968 (recorded the day prior to transmission).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GSazXkf1Ys
Jeopardy, TVS, Season 1, 03/09/1990.
Not much more to say, really except there's more out there, but they're all later seasons which I've covered before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZHFuGbM-lU
A missing John Craven's Newsround?
Oh, alright then. This is from 19/05/1982 and was just uploaded last month - all of 19 views - so very unlikely most of you will have seen it in 40 years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDfWBuCprVw
(there's also an apology referring to a Play Away transmission....)
Ok, this may be a bit pointless to most of you, but here's literally a 'goodbye' from a wiped Jackanory (10/02/1975) which had Ed Bishop reading.
There's continuity and a junction.
First time I've located even a smidgy of Jackanory ever.... and it's almost nothing!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=39a7b0e8cHg
This particular series has given me nothing but trouble over the years; let me explain.
Murun Buchstansangur was a wonderfully leftfield cartoon, shown on Channel 4 between 1982 and 1987. They made 52 episodes, and the whereabouts of 16 of these are known about. The series was also exported to a few countries, including Norway.
The problem has been trying to ascertain whether all or even some of the episodes are with any of the creatives involved (I have not managed to get a hold of Timothy Forder, and moreover Bevanfield are no longer in existence) so I'm a rock stuck in a hard place, to busticate a phrase.
Anyswitchswaybutsluice, there are 16 episodes on youtube (an annoying number, as it's the same as what's known about) - but these are not all of the extant 16 episodes, some are and some aren't. So rather than spend even more hours than I already have on this project over the past 10 years, I'm just going to post the episodes that are on youtube so at least you can enjoy them. I'm well aware episodes are being traded by collectors, so the more keen fans of the show may have owned some or all of these.
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22MURUN+BUCHSTANSANGUR%22%22episode%22&sp=EgIQAQ%253D%253D
I don't know how common this is - but I'd not seen it and if you have, then please ignore.
It's the last Gus Honeybun's Birthdays, TSW, 31/12/1992, uploaded exactly 30 years later.
My thanks to Penny Garlick for spotting this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=og4pD9m1gkc
As Jimmy Cricket would say....'and there's more....'
Alrighty, hidden in the depths of this upload is a bit from a missing Pebble Mill* and it features those classical rockers Sky. It's from 22/05/1979. Yes, wiped. Starts at 04.45 on the upload.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ErkC22Pus
(* it had just reverted to being called Pebble Mill at One - it did chop and change a bit....)
You're not the first to know about this, I've messaged Glen, just two minutes ago.
Here is a part of the Rich Kids performing on Magpie. I haven't got the date of this yet, but I know it's a wiped episode as some of us have been looking for this for years. My guess is February or March 1978. I'll be close that's for sure, 2/3 are wiped and a lot of folk have been looking for this. Only uploaded a few weeks back and 205 views.
It doesn't have the famous interview, but hell, this is my personal favourite discovery of the year. I'm happy now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzYcNsh26t0
Here's just over half an episode of the partially lost Channel 4 series 'the Other Side of the Tracks', as presented by wee Gambo.
This episode partially concentrated on Lene Lovich and that is the bit presented here.
(incidentally, a few wags may be interested to learn that Ms Lovich did appear on a UK Number One hit, that being 'My Ding-a-Ling' by Chuck Berry. She was in the audience at the Locarno Ballroom in Coventry where it was recorded.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvp_nzrJDNk
....and that's kind of that for now. Toodly pip.
See what you think:-
You remember I spotted a couple of episodes of Running Loose recently, the TVS series from 1986-1988?
All episodes exist in both VHS form and on digital files.
That's ALL episodes from BOTH series.
Steve Shaw, the Director of Paddington Arts emailed me today to confirm this.
(4 episodes were meant to be lost.)
Spotted by accident and of only minor interest to most folk, but this upload (again from Neil Miles, thank you!) features a specially filmed promo for TVS' Afternoon Club and a blink-and-you'll-miss-it quick bit of a wiped Company.
The upload is from 07/09/1984.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fnN6Rap-w4
Another bit of minority interest this one....
This is a Close - Thames' closedown/epilogue programme - and it's from 21/02/1978. Starts at about 2.16.
Aside from that there's some IVC from Mr Elsmore, a Thames clock and a quick caption to show what's on Thames tomorrow. All as uploaded by Mr Betamax three years back and something I hadn't seen until this month! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjNnPj3jQ3U
Just so as you know....
Heroes II - The Return was a 1991 British/Australian mini-series about Operation Rimau during WW2 It was a sequel to the 1989 mini-series The Heroes (which is at the BFI).
The UK co-producers of both mini-series were TVS Films and the programmes were shown over here on the 15th and 16th December 1991.
The masters aren't held in the UK; they're held by Buckley Films in Australia and the episodes have been issued on DVD.
for some reason I've located another programme which is/was lost. I'll explain.
It's the ADC Collection youtube channel again and it's another episode of That's Love - this one is SE03 E03, and it's from 08/03/1990. As you'll probably note, it's been on youtube since the ARK! The reason I over looked this - while spotting 6 other episodes of the series over the years - is probably because I thought all the missing shows were from Season 1.
Well this DID get wiped, but Kaleidoscope have a copy now. It was flagged up as missing on a recent pdf thingy I got.
Anyway, enough of my yakking:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ZmHfv-qfo
This is quite something to behold....
Sky Channel made a 5th Anniversary Show in 1987: Sky Channel's 5th Birthday Celebration
This is prime 80s.
Mullets, drum machines, shoulder pads, self-congratulation by the Maestro-load. And then there's the Anniversary song.... (starts about 6.54. Is it called 'Join the Family?' What? The Murdochs?
?)You can practically SMELL the hair gel....
The BFI don't have this. Sky's archiving before the 90s is.... a bit ca-ca, so I'm gathering it's wiped and even in the unlikely event it IS retained, there's a couple of clips from shows within that aren't.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1kr08TiXR4
(I'd like to apologize if I'm the only person who finds certain parts of this programme hysterically funny. Especially as I know a couple of people who appear in it....!!!!)
I'm going for a lie down.
Finally.... finally... I keep my promise to a friend of mine and spot a wiped episode of Three Little Words*.
This was uploaded by Neil Miles and comes from 24/04/1985.
It IS incomplete, but that said, it is the only example of anything from TLW in 1985 as all of Season 10 was junked.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKfVl5ghQSs
*A friend's parent were on it. Not THIS episode, but when I told her I'd never located ANY she was quite shocked, so....
I missed this.
It's a Night Thoughts from 23/12/1985, with IVC from Tom Edwards, as uploaded by the ADC TV Collection:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS73ch3pqS8
PiFs.
While the Charley sets covered a large amount of these Public Information Films, of course there were many more that for whatever reason weren't on the DVDs.
Well there were four in a row that TSW showed around Christmas time in 1985.
Were they short on advertisers?
Well, whatever.... the fact is that PiFs one and three on weren't on the DVDs although the other two are quite common and were. Tiswas fans will perhaps quite like the involvement of Bob Carolgees - and isn't that Alison Bettles of Grange Hill?
As uploaded by the JMX TV Archive channel like.... just now:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f8hKIBOCXU
So.... occasionally discoveries are flukier than you could believe.
10.53. Go onto youtube. Randomly put "bbc tv" and "1969" in the search engine in a halfhearted way and then drop down the 'This Year' filter.
10.54. Notice audio from Elvin Jones at Jazz at the Maltings, BBC 2, TX 27/02/1969 (wiped) is online.
10.55. Gasp.
11.00. Recover enough to put the link on the Missing Believed Wiped group on Facebook.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljl9SDVG6YY
Some days I can spend hours searching for stuff and I'll get nothing. Zilch. Not a sausage. Bugger all.
Other days, such as today, I think, 'what's easy to find?' and come up with a bit of audio from a wiped 'It's Cliff Richard' in thirty seconds flat. Utter fluke.
So presenting, Cliff'n'Hank going all Phil'n'Don and doing a rather splendid version of Bye Bye Love from the aforementioned series, the episode in question being from 24/01/1970:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10nUqM5WKI
Uploaded on her own channel, this is Lulu appearing on a wiped edition of Summertime Special (TVS), and this dates from 06/08/1988.
I didn't flag this one up before because I assumed as it was on her own youtube channel it wasnae wiped and as I'd only had a cursory look at the listings for that season I noticed she was on one of the existing editions.
I was wrong.
Lulu appeared on EVERY SINGLE EDITION of the third season of Summertime Special and she's here arseing about with Cannon and Ball.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpj-lPyngyY
According to TV Brain various eps of Bod have the Alberto Frog sequences missing, neither held by the BBC or the Michael Cole estate. One of those is now online.... as spotted by Robert Brown, not myself.
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ifmdg
This is more of a database correction than a discovery as it's not been missing and probably never has been - just it was THOUGHT to be missing because the information was wrong.
Rediffusion Television presented extracts from the London "Evening Standard" Drama Awards for 1966 under the title Accolade - which were broadcast live on 11/01/1967. It's listed as junked on tvbrain.
It's actually at the BFI and exists on 35mm.
see....:- collections-search.bfi.org.uk/.../Choic.../150005279
OFF-TOPIC!
I apologize to all those offended by this terrible straying from the subject, but I'm over it.
This is John Lennon appearing on the Today Show in the US and is from 17/12/1974. His lawyer Leon Wildes is there too.
It has been bootlegged, and there are off-air copies around, but I hadn't seen it on youtube. It is very rare. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzHF8o46IBI
and he goes off-topic again....
It's good to spot wiped ABC programmes because the very nature of a company named thus makes searching for stuff very difficult indeed.
So how exactly am I going off-topic? I'm talking about ABC in the U.S of A.... so not British.
Anyway, I've always been vaguely interested in a programme called Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell (which mustn't be confused with rival NBC's better-known Saturday Night Live. GOT THAT? Different shows on different networks.)
I've been interested in this show for several reasons; it's remembered as terrible; Cosell's wig is the funniest thing I've ever seen and it deserves its' own embassy and also the Bay City Rollers made their US debut on it to a huge fanfare.
I was gobfounded to discover only three full episodes exist in ABC's Archives. Anyway, I spotted a couple of audios and a TV promo a few years back on youtube.... now finally here's some video - from the edition transmitted on 15/11/1975:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS2BtthZOug
Before I post this clip here's a Q & A about it so you don't have to....
Is it missing? YES.
Do ITV, the BFI, the NFTVA or Kaleidoscope have a copy of it? NOT THAT I KNOW OF.
Is it known about? SLIGHTLY. IT GOT UPLOADED ON YOUTUBE OVER 16 YEARS AGO OR SO BUT ONLY 17000 VIEWS IN THAT TIME - THAT'S LESS THAN THREE VIEWS PER DAY.
So why post it, you scruffy eejit? IT'S WIPED, UNARCHIVED AND PEOPLE SEEM TO HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT IT.
This was originally flagged up by Mark Dixon in 2015.
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Anyway, here's the clip. It's of that shy retiring soul Mark. E. Smith and his ragtag symphony orchestra the Fall performing Solicitor in Studio on Granada Reports. The best date I have for it is a Friday in November 1982. And yes, the credits run way way too soon.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9P3DDiv18s
and....yes, that IS Richard Madeley introducing the clip....
Hot off the press....
As spotted by my friend Chris Dabbs a clip of the Rubettes performing Baby I Know from Multi-Coloured Swap Shop on 05/02/1977 has turned up.
The quality is not fantastic, but it's still watchable.
As uploaded by Tony Waddington:- www.facebook.com/tony.../videos/1495248491246447
I did let John Richardson know about and he replied and thanked me.
In the last month someone uploaded some continuity from 25/12/1975.
The interesting bit is, for me, a specially-filmed trail for the Mike Yarwood Show.
This:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d8kVVchGB8
Two days after I saw this, he died. RIP.
VHS Rewinds has uploaded another bit of wiped footage again.
We go back to the 80s (cue cheesy synthesiser music) and it's TVS' Summertime Special from 16/08/1986 and it's those Nolan Sisters - TV veterans by now, you know - www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoEvML-T_rg
A VHS containing off-air recordings of the first three missing episodes of the 1984 TVS drama "The Brief" have been recovered. The tape was recorded on original broadcast by the series' star, the much-missed Ray Lonnen. The VHS, discovered by Ray's widow Tara Ward, also contains all the commercial breaks. The tape has been carefully digitised and archived for the BFI by Paul Vanezis and David Palfreyman. An off-air of Episode 12 is also on YouTube.
I'm glad some people make my ""job"" easier....
VHS Rewinds have also uploaded a wiped episode of the Big Breakfast from 22/08/1995 in the last hour and just for you - here it is:-
Part 1:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEw4ZlBGcdQ
Part 2:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8hSW5TNIHA
Wolf It! Another missing one from the ADC Collection youtube channel. This is from 20/01/1994, SE01 E10:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pp-fNCg3HE
Not my find - I had nothing to do with it expect seeing this post just the now about the discovery of an audio of a missing Jackanory, "the Ogre Downstairs" from 02/12/1974.
missingepisodes.proboards.com/.../jackanory-audio
According to some folk, this is wiped, and there's even an archive that reckons that. I'm clueless about the archive status, to be honest.
This is a PiF that was possibly shown on TV - which would have just been ITV as it's sponsored - in 1965. That's if ITV broadcast them at all.... I read somewhere else that these were only shown in cinemas at the end despite being made for TV.
Fanta the Elephant wasn't a bizarre creation made to plug soft drinks - the creature was actually featured in five road safety cartoons. Our aforementioned pachyderm actually had the films funded jointly by BP and Shell. Anyway, a previous partial audio was known to exist but that's it.
Naturally these animations wouldn't have been on the Charly DVDs as they weren't made by the Central Office of Information.
Anyway, thanks to the maxustaxus channel for uploading this:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWrH-d74hE
A little bit of Nigerian TV continuity from 1985 - which contains a whole five seconds of what I believe is a wiped edition of The Entertainers (Tony Monopoly, probably 02/06/78, unless he did more than one.). As spotted by Simon Mclean. www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=BrNOEsnzGsw&fbclid=IwAR1cnmyh1kBhXyPfaDxbITCrNKg7H4b36kASI_vgW6fyPAesjZYAA8Qlzn4
I'm not driving a Mini Metro.
Yes, there's rebadging and there's this example of what dear old Auntie Beeb did with an episode of Merry-Go-Round that was apparently junked. They didn't junk it at all, they rebadged it.
This is a re-edit - with different titles, obviously - of the MGR episode 'Patterns Hold the Key' from 23/01/1978, remodelled into a new programme for Zig Zag on 31/10/1983.
Pam has till got her snazzy Christmas jumper on....
As uploaded on the Vintage Schools TV youtube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj4BdoZ-6vY
Really comes under the category 'possibly missing, whereabouts unknown, except a few collectors have copies....'
This is C.A.T.S Eyes, SE3 E2 'Carrier Pigeon'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM5Gz5JdpLo
It's ANOTHER missing Wolf It!.
This one dates from 27/01/1994 and was uploaded just around two hours ago by the ADC Collection youtube channel.
This is about the sixth missing one uploaded.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoApS6zVAIE
I missed this. Apparently....
This is another one of those Douglas Fairbanks Jr Presents melodramas and it's called Border Incident, shown on 04/04/1957.
Well bless my Ramones T-shirt if it doesn't feature Lord Summerisle himself playing the part of 'Official'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZpxV40TZks
(note the added 'not for broadcast' and rubbish timecode are not actually on the video copy of the print!!!!)
There's not that many Police 5 editions kicking about anywhere, but here's one that was uploaded two months ago and I didn't see at the time. Whatever the channel, most editions were not kept. This one is an even rarer example than most as it's a Central TV edition - which is less common than LWT or TVS.
It's another JMX upload and this dates from 22/12/1988:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ83n0vo83k
Just an update.
Not really much to see with this one, but the auld Rediffusion programme The Vise -which was a Danzigers Production - had a release on Network in 2022 which contained a number of episodes thought to be lost and I can confirm that the episodes The Gamblers / The Final Column/ Broken Honeymoon / Death on the Boards / Man in Demand DO exist as they're on the DVD set.
I expect most - if not all - Danzigers productions to exist but it is 100% definite these do, obviously.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC7c1C3_vEA
The very wonderful David King has posted a sound clip on the Crossroads Appreciation Society group from episode 1500 (which I think is 25/05/1971, but I could be a day out!) which is of Carl Wayne (ex-Move) singing the theme tune. This is a good 4 years prior to the instrumental version by Wings, so it is quite something! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XXHZrBFGtM
I am just posting something which is virtually unwatchable. It's not even Junior Showtime! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is a scrambled engineering test, shown after BBC 2 Closedown from 1987, a test for the upcoming BBC Select. ""The encryption is believed to be the French Discret11 system, but would later be replaced by Videocrypt when BBC Select was on the air.""
Ok, so what? This is a load of static, fuzz and gumph, right? Well, yes.... but hang on here a Fern Cotton-picking minute*....
The visuals are from 1974!!!! The abridged Showaddywaddy performance is Hey Rock and Roll and it seems to come from the strike-affected TOTP edition from 23/05/1974 (they only performed the song twice on the show, both wiped). The football is the 1974 FA Cup Final.
So my post is basically trying to find out if someone, somehow, could unscramble the signal. I've no idea if this is even possible.
Anyway, here's the fuzz:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl5faX9uAho
(* in-joke - if you know, you know.)
A bit of audio from a missing Zokko here*. It's from one of the lost episodes from between August and November 1969 as uploaded by the elviskline99 youtube channel:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkHdlsgVTrY
(* Zokko is actually mentioned around the 40-ish seconds mark)
As uploaded by the elviskline99 youtube channel a wee bit of audio from the wiped 05/08/1967 Opportunity Knocks edition featuring the Freelanders:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjNBJeO3cjg
Almost predictably.... a wiped episode of Wolf It! as uploaded by the ADC TV Collection - this dates from 03/02/1994:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=_li3Ca0E8B4
A tiddly wee discovery I was informed about by Anonymous of Anglia (a nameless contact of mine who provides me with leads and suggestions of things to look for) and it's Rediffusion!
Only a low-contrast mute reel, though and the programme is one featuring that notable song-and-dance man A.J.P Taylor with the 2nd instalment of his Revolution 1917 series of programmes entitled February: Revolution Old Style from 19/09/1967.
The other four parts are missing and this was thought to be too, but it does exist at the BFI.
I suppose this series sorted out the Mensheviks from the boys.
"" BFI identifier 6293
February: Revolution Old Style (Original)
Production company Rediffusion
Credits s A.J.P. Taylor lectures on the revolution in Russia, 1917. (NFA Catalogue)
Credits Director: Sheila Gregg
Production Company: Rediffusion
Producer: Sheila Gregg
Cast A.J.P. Taylor (Lecturer)
Film / Video
16mm TV (low contrast) Positive - Safety - Mute - Master
Series Work - 768322
Title February: Revolution Old Style
Film / VideoMaterials held in the BFI National Archive
Master - Restricted access to preserved film Film materials (1) 16mm TV (low contrast) Positive - Safety - Mute - 892 Feet - Stock date: 1967 - - C-54635 ""
This is one of only two (partially) missing episodes of the BBC Schools programme Watch.
It's from 11/01/1983, the episode being The Romans: 1 – Roman Beginnings and the reason the episode in question is unarchived is because - to quote tvbrain - ""A surviving 1" is damaged and untransferable."" Thanks to the Vintage Schools TV youtube channel for the upload.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzhE27OmvUA
Thanks to 'Anonymous of Anglia' again and let me know the BFI have a 2-inch tape that wasn't known about before (outside of Berkhamsted.)
It's an edition of 'the Get Set Picture Show' - and after a bit of trying* to work out what the transmission date was - I think it's 30/07/1983. There's not a lot of clues....
The thing is.... even if it's NOT that edition, none of the editions of the Get Set behemoth were known to exist on 2-inch!
Anyway:- collections-search.bfi.org.uk/.../Choic.../150187135
'm still here and I managed to stop sipping the iced coffee and put down the medicinal cheroot for a moment to post this very weird 'discovery'. I wasn't even looking for it, this came on my youtube recommendations which is truly spooky.
This is a clip from Pebble Mill, 24/01/1979. The group is called the Wedgewoods - I wonder if they were from Staffordshire? - and they're covering Ray Stevens 'Misty'. It was only uploaded today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DFAe0rHfn4
The odd thing was I thought I'd seen this before, and I had....
Ten years ago this was posted:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCb6ikXTb84
So the old clip has the continuity and intro - but it has a watermark - today's upload is just the performance and has been cropped, as they seem to both come from the same original tape.
What's weird is that Kaleidoscope have part of this otherwise-wiped episode and their section doesn't feature this performance.
I understand the original upload was by Rory Clark so thanks due to him.
It's another missing Wolf It! from the ADC TV Collection youtube channel.
This is from 10/02/1994 and is the penultimate episode from Season 1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak_I7hud7Bo
a very small discovery to inform you about....
It appears that Fremantle have at least part of one thought-to-be-lost edition of The World Around Us - this being the last edition of Season 44, 'Open Session', from 23/03/1976.
How do I know this? Well, six years ago they uploaded a couple of wee mute clips from the edition (which noone seems to have spotted came from a wiped show, not just me).
The clips are mute and there is the possibility that they just retained these as stock footage.
To be completist, here they are:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnSAyBQAyoU AND www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdpq7uPOYqo
Unforgettable.
(you'd forgotten about it, right?)
This was a C4 series featuring guest stars of yesteryear playing their greatest hits. The show was fairly successful and ran for a year and a half. Only around 4 shows are meant to exist, but personally I think a lot more survive*.
Here's one - there is a discrepancy on broadcast dates - so this is either 03/02/1983 or a fortnight later on 17/03/1983, but either way it's a missing one and this stars Chris Farlowe and also the Equals amongst others.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ltlgN7ETs
and another from 23/11/1982 (Jim Proby and the Nashville Teens):- www.youtube.com/watch?v=14DfYI2aahY
This is only about 99% off-topic and strictly one for completists!
The Wednesday Special was an umbrella title used for that oh-so-difficult ITV slot after News at Ten between 1975 and 1978 - and by golly did they vary their programming.... sport, concerts, events, doccos.... I was quite surprised there was no programme called the Kitchen Sink.
Anyway, several are missing, many exist, but, like the programming itself, it's a real hodge-podge.
This is the only example of a bought-in non-sport programme, being Fear on Trial, a tv film from the States. It's got George C. Scott in it too. This was the edition from 15/12/1976.
So while this is clearly not wiped, ITV don't have it and it's not held in UK Archives, but.... it wouldn't be!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qOPuYSy3Fo
You may have seen one or both of these uploads before but some new information for you.
There's a debate in certain circles as how Central TV started and I've solved it. Mike Prince is often credited with opening Central, but he didn't. What he DID do was make a Promotional programme for the station which was not shown on the ITV network as such, but is fortunately retained; I feel this would have been better:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r6M4xiuXzE
The actual first transmission was this:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwovripelvQ
Look, here's four different excerpts from missing editions of Southsport (Southern TV) that were uploaded over several years by John Tyrrel's son Noel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=06LyUO0XHOg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0T2w4hvHS4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlgBFUXbpgs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay8s9aUk2g4
Another one of these very minor discoveries that probably won't excite anyone.... but that's not the point!
Anyhoo, this is a Sit Up and Listen from the wee hours of 26/11/1981 and has a bit of IVC and a caption with ""tomorrow"" night's viewing - it's actually later the same day as dear old Peter Marshall is sitting in Euston at gone midnight (and I don't envy his drive back to Ascot).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuWs4VdX-TY
There'll probably be more minority interest discoveries today, Le Tiss help you all.
Another discovery. (They are going to turn up like buses today - maybe not the buses you actually want, but....)
This is a brief clip of Nick Beggs of Kaja (googoo) appearing on the last edition of the second series of the Saturday Picture Show, 21/09/1985. The show is junked, obviously.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYQRW3iM-G8
(I doubt if this could be any more '80s' than it is....)
A very rare - and very annoying - Channel 4 promo made and transmitted BEFORE 02/11/1982.
I wasn't looking for this - it came up on my 'recommended' and, technically, it's a small but important part of broadcasting history.
Whizzing through these, you know.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTL8U08bOSs
"you do find a load of rubbish mostly, but to be fair you find it quicker than anyone else...." (anon)
Continuing in my fine tradition of digging up lesser-wanted televisual gems, here's a Points of View that was wiped from 02/12/1983. There's a natty little bit of BBC reception information too:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrqK5ieOEI4
ADC TV Collection again.
Last November I mentioned I'd spotted an edition of the TVS programme online and there was a 90% chance it was missing.
Here's an update.
FIVE editions of Prove It!
These are difficult - nigh impossible to work out the dates of.
Suffice to say 13 episodes were made and 11 are wiped; ergo a minimum of 3 of these are missing episodes.
The episodes are the first five entries here:- www.youtube.com/@adctvcollection/search?query=%22prove%20it%22
Credit to the ADC TV Collection youtooobchannel.
A smidgin - literally a few wee seconds of a missing edition of HTV's Three Little Words from 22/10/1981 here, buried within this upload of Westward continuity.
I know what you're thinking here.... why the Reesmoggle would anyone be interested in 21 seconds of this?
Well, actually, this is the oldest extant footage of this show in existence!!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkBTH5A5XUA
As spotted on youtube by my good friend, acclaimed author, Villa fan and purchaser of a coffee for me that I haven't forgot that I still owe him Kevin Mulrennan, is this Dusty Springfield audio performance on the wiped 'Peter Sarstedt' show 'Sarstedt on Age' from 01/10/1969:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxBx86tu5MM
AND this:- youtu.be/5PCl83h_T74?feature=shared
and here's some audio from the wiped 'It Must Be Dusty' (ATV) from 23/05/1968 (recorded the day prior to transmission).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GSazXkf1Ys
Jeopardy, TVS, Season 1, 03/09/1990.
Not much more to say, really except there's more out there, but they're all later seasons which I've covered before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZHFuGbM-lU
A missing John Craven's Newsround?
Oh, alright then. This is from 19/05/1982 and was just uploaded last month - all of 19 views - so very unlikely most of you will have seen it in 40 years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDfWBuCprVw
(there's also an apology referring to a Play Away transmission....)
Ok, this may be a bit pointless to most of you, but here's literally a 'goodbye' from a wiped Jackanory (10/02/1975) which had Ed Bishop reading.
There's continuity and a junction.
First time I've located even a smidgy of Jackanory ever.... and it's almost nothing!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=39a7b0e8cHg
This particular series has given me nothing but trouble over the years; let me explain.
Murun Buchstansangur was a wonderfully leftfield cartoon, shown on Channel 4 between 1982 and 1987. They made 52 episodes, and the whereabouts of 16 of these are known about. The series was also exported to a few countries, including Norway.
The problem has been trying to ascertain whether all or even some of the episodes are with any of the creatives involved (I have not managed to get a hold of Timothy Forder, and moreover Bevanfield are no longer in existence) so I'm a rock stuck in a hard place, to busticate a phrase.
Anyswitchswaybutsluice, there are 16 episodes on youtube (an annoying number, as it's the same as what's known about) - but these are not all of the extant 16 episodes, some are and some aren't. So rather than spend even more hours than I already have on this project over the past 10 years, I'm just going to post the episodes that are on youtube so at least you can enjoy them. I'm well aware episodes are being traded by collectors, so the more keen fans of the show may have owned some or all of these.
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22MURUN+BUCHSTANSANGUR%22%22episode%22&sp=EgIQAQ%253D%253D
I don't know how common this is - but I'd not seen it and if you have, then please ignore.
It's the last Gus Honeybun's Birthdays, TSW, 31/12/1992, uploaded exactly 30 years later.
My thanks to Penny Garlick for spotting this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=og4pD9m1gkc
As Jimmy Cricket would say....'and there's more....'
Alrighty, hidden in the depths of this upload is a bit from a missing Pebble Mill* and it features those classical rockers Sky. It's from 22/05/1979. Yes, wiped. Starts at 04.45 on the upload.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ErkC22Pus
(* it had just reverted to being called Pebble Mill at One - it did chop and change a bit....)
You're not the first to know about this, I've messaged Glen, just two minutes ago.
Here is a part of the Rich Kids performing on Magpie. I haven't got the date of this yet, but I know it's a wiped episode as some of us have been looking for this for years. My guess is February or March 1978. I'll be close that's for sure, 2/3 are wiped and a lot of folk have been looking for this. Only uploaded a few weeks back and 205 views.
It doesn't have the famous interview, but hell, this is my personal favourite discovery of the year. I'm happy now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzYcNsh26t0
Here's just over half an episode of the partially lost Channel 4 series 'the Other Side of the Tracks', as presented by wee Gambo.
This episode partially concentrated on Lene Lovich and that is the bit presented here.
(incidentally, a few wags may be interested to learn that Ms Lovich did appear on a UK Number One hit, that being 'My Ding-a-Ling' by Chuck Berry. She was in the audience at the Locarno Ballroom in Coventry where it was recorded.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvp_nzrJDNk
....and that's kind of that for now. Toodly pip.
