Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Dec 30, 2023 8:06:56 GMT
Right, look there may be some repeats here....
I'll explain; the October/November list was only put up on December 9th - so there's an overlap of a week and so some of these discoveries may be on that list too.
If you've got as far as reading this, then I'm sure you'll cope....
This will be very low-interest - it's a couple of wee kids playing accordion - but this is a bit of footage from a wiped show.
The show in question is the Glen Michael Cavalcade, which under various titles ran on STV regionally for something like 23 years.
Anyway, this is for Graham Gourlay. There are a few more clips of the show on youtube, but I'd referenced them all before including the Alan Cumming one (which I understand he's now seen), but I'd missed this one.
All I can tell you is it's either from 1981 or 1982 and they're pretty much all missing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QraRFoSYuJg
This was found and located by Aidan Lunn, not me! He owns the tape"
The Big Breakfast, 12/07/1999:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=788YrCy283M
Is this a missing episode? Probably.
Is this the complete episode? No. Copyright spoilsports.
Am I posting this partly to ensure discussion or am I just doing it to prove I'm alive? BOTH.
Right, here's part of an episode of Murun Buchstansangur, as shown on Channel 4 on 02/12/1985. There are a few Murun excursions at the BFI, but a lot of them are considered lost and I can't trace Bevanfield, who made them. I am also VERY aware of all the other Murun editions on youtube that have been on there for a while. This is a new one as uploaded by the ADC TV Collection yesterday:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta94LSD2gAI
Torbay or not Torbay, that is the question.
Well, if it is, here's the answer....
This is a weensy bit of footage, believed to have come from an edition of Westward Diary from sometime in 1971, as presented by the Plymouth company's very own John Doyle. You may note it's in monochrome and that is because it was transmitted in monochrome as WWTV was gradually going colour throughout this year:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZYwCb8s3-s
The Computer Channel. Not exactly well-remembered, but it was there in 1990, another offspring of the Astra satellite. Whether or not you think that takes minority viewing to another level and beyond is up to you, but the first broadcast - the Launch Show - would be rather historic, especially it's somewhere in the ether rather than in the archives.
And also here:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdKwcskgk5M
Missing Sport?
Yes, of course, there's plenty of it missing - and I for one do not have that many contacts within the semi-autonomous divisions of the BBC and ITV that deal with it.
That all said, the Mid Week Match (part of the 'Wednesday Special' umbrella-brand of ITV's entertainment schedule) from 11/05/1977 - the ECWC Final for aficionados of footy - is meant to be missing.
Except it's here, Brian Moore commentary and all.
I wouldn't be surprised if ITV Sport do have a copy, but the match was a Dutch TV presentation, and that means copyright hell. (I expect dear old Uncle Brian was safely wrapped up in the warm of Kent House enjoying his pipe and a tote of medicinal whisky.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5t1zJg_vCg
(Of course, my beloved Saints went out in the quarter finals to the eventual runners-up.)
Here's one I missed, sort of....
I couldn't find out the tx date for this - and I still can't - other than it's an edition of Sale of the Century from 1982.
The reason I'm posting about this edition is that with the exception of one episode from that year, all are missing, and it's not THAT edition, *ergo.... it's a missing one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvbkAupGqfQ
I'll be honest with you, I THINK this is from a wiped programme but I couldn't find the listing on tvbrain. I remember a partial off-air being found some years back, but not the whole thing.
Anywayanyhowanywhere, this is the audio ONLY of the Royal Gala in Aid of the Mexico Olympic Fund from 1968.
It was only uploaded yesterday, so it's pretty new.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuNraQSfDmk
Thanks to the elviskline99 channel for this.
As I note every discovery on here, just to let you all know that a part of a series that was meant to be completely missing, does in fact partly exist. Literally PART of it.
That lesser remembered HTV series Regional Flavour (a show mainly focussing on cookery) is meant to be completely gone.
There's actually a sepmag at the wonderful National Library of Wales, and that is just one item, rather than the whole show!
discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99281100802419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,%22REGIONAL%20FLAVOUR%22&offset=0
This is a repeat find - my original discovery being taken off youtube for copyright strikes - and the interest in this wiped episode is going to be minimal.
That all said, I don't care.
You may or probably may not recall two episodes of Eastenders were junked due to either a paperwork error or faulty tape (I've heard both stories).
AnyOldKentRoad, I located them both. The latter one - 09/11/1989 - got taken off youtube. However, it has since reappeared and here it is:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDNTYa47xsc
This is off-topic.
It's missing radio (apparently).
The Radio 4 play 'A Morbid Taste for Bones', a Cadfael story, as broadcast 29/11/1980 is meant to be lost, according to tvbrain.
It's on youtube, only uploaded this year.
I apologize in advance if this has been known about - my knowledge of missing radio is somewhat scanty to say the least - but anyway:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoxelAllaVM
XTC from a partially wiped Multi-Coloured Swap Shop? Oh, golly, YES!
Wiltshire's finest performing Paper and Iron (Notes and Coins) from the partly-junked edition from 21/02/1981, as uploaded by the excellent ScottishTeeVee channel.
I'd also like to dedicate this discovery of a modern antiquity to a very good Irish musician acquaintance of mine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl0hDF7OzPY
More from XTC shortly....
(sigh).
So this is 1984 wiped episode of Gambit, or, well.... most of it.
The 1984 series is completely missing.
Also, it's an optical transfer of a domestic VT.
So the upload quality is what it is, it's like an upload from a mobile phone.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozI_bvSl6M4
A missing Wolf It! from 02/11/1994? Yes.
Thanks again to the ADC TV Collection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSPqhHuJOM
Some more wiped programmes.
ATV Schools, this.... Believe It or Not, the edition is actually called 'Are We Free?' (rather than 'Our Freedom'), originally shown on 24/01/1978, here from a 1980 rebroadcast, ex-N1700:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W3bVjhFVN0
and then 'Who Am I?', originally shown 10/01/1978, again from a 1980 rebroadcast:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbxB6eTw9tQ
Huge thanks again to the Vintage Schools TV youtube channel.
Oooh, and there's also this - 'Christianity - Roman Catholic and Baptist', from 09/02/1981:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwTout0eRao
And....another wiped ATV Schools programme....
The reason this is a discovery NOW is because it only got added to the tvbrain database in recent months as lost, so I had no idea it was gone.
AnyWaylonJennings, this is Stop Look Listen and the edition is called 'Baker' and it was originally shown on 02/12/1981.
Many thanks to the ADC TV Collection for the upload:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFxrhzaq-Mg
So.... most of this exists, but not all of it - and although this is not the complete edition, I'm guesstimating that there's around two minutes of wiped on this audio.
This is most of the audio of the Frank Zappa special edition of the Old Grey Whistle Test from 16/11/1971. Beatle watchers will also note Ringo's appearance as this was all around publicizing their latest film 200 Motels:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfit4ORRZio
....and while I'm here, here's the Judee Sill audio from the Old Grey Whistle Test from 21//11/1972:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeV8TCpE3Fg
Another missing Wolf It! here for you, 09/11/1994:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG2X355_s6Q
Thanks to the ADC TV Collection again.
Just to dispel a myth, and to quote the wonderful tvbrain re Sooty's Amazing Adventures:- ' There are claims that Richard Cadell has destroyed the master tapes but that is just rubbish from Wikipedia. Kaleidoscope can confirm ITV have them all. '
Whatever people's view of the series it's not wiped.
Oh, and 96% of it is on youtube.
Here:- www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrd7t8Vjn2n7ejozhbp9D_Cz7azKdnBpi
Excuses first: I was looking for something else. OFF-TOPIC ALERT.
Here are two radio shows - yes I know, radio - that are meant to be missing according to tvbrain.
These are from the 1982 revival of the show 'Workers Playtime' and these are from 04/11/1982 (the first one of the revival):- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc7DIAGgMuQ
and from the last one of that week, 08/11/1982:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpDf15bmjLk
A specially-shot Christmas promo from BBC1 as shown on 10/12/1983, upload by the ADC TV Collection:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=w09qBn9hQJc
It's another wiped Wolf It! from the ADC TV Collection from 09/11/1994:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=55-1PsQRLYE
Something I missed....
You see, John Craven's Newsround is a show with gazillions of editions and so it takes a while to wade through the list, plus every time you think you've spotted one that was not retained, the chances are it does exist, or you or someone else had reported it before. Well.... apparently I missed this, and it's been on youtube 5 years.
This is 18/11/1982 and it's from the Neil Miles channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNQMPuwqOMI
(One of my favourite TV trivia questions is 'Which show can you hear Ted Heath on every edition...?)
Some gloriously low-fi audio of the pre-fame Adam and the Ants appearing on BBC Wales' Twndish, from 30/07/1979:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4CLWX2KOxw
AND www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW1BrzqWg0A
Peth sain godidog o low-fi o'r enwog Adam and the Ants yn ymddangos ar Twndish BBC Cymru, o 30/07/1979
From the elviskline99 youtube channel (thanks again); this is some audio from a wiped Opportunity Knocks from 22/10/1966, and the group featured are the Vogues:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u5v5xOY0Zw
....and another (elviskline99 again, kudos, gratz etc) and this is an audio segment from the wiped Opportunity Knocks from 31/08/1970:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3uUwKLyhjA
The TV curios get more and more curious.
'At the End of the Day' was, for a time, the Anglia closedown programme, the Norwich-based cousin the other regional closedown bits such as Sit Up and Listen, Late Call, Close, Reflections and many, many more, as K-Tel would say.
(And up until the end of today I'd never heard of it, so there was Norfolking chance of me finding one.)
Well, I've heard of it now, and I've found one.
This is from 27/11/1985 and it's been uploaded by Television Heaven UK's youtube channel.
One I missed.
It's yet another Sit Up and Listen as uploaded by the Antarctica TV Channel 2 channel and this is from 14/11/1981:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLWEvMIotgU
One wee thing that didn't seem to get announced previously was that Kaleidoscope have recovered an audio of an edition of the Newcomers. It's Episode 294, 26/07/1968.
The discovery had nothing to with me, it just seems to have gone unreported.
Thanks to Anonymous of Anglia for reminding me of this.
A chap called David Sinck spotted this, rather than me! (he's on the TVS Group)
""Here's an oddity. Sally Harrison with a TVS closedown - which she then has to repeat. "The whole thing!" ""
youtu.be/dBbEAlVrB4o?feature=shared
So, I've found another Home Cookery Club. The world might not care, but I do and I take great pleasure in finding anything missing.... honestly (even those PPBs I found in Canada).
So here is 'Apple and Cheshire Flan', the edition from 03/10/1985, as repeated here on this upload by the wonderful ADC TV Collection channel from 06/05/1987. There's also some TVS IVC and adverts and a lot of other stuff for enthusiasts of continuity and commercials.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK_fvnwgHYY
Richard Sleeman found this recently on a Philips N1500 tape, Peter Doyle's promo film for Friday on My Mind, believed to have been shown on Saturday Scene.
Thanks
youtu.be/A5sLxH9jZ54?si=dn1YMC2WNO6jPq6m
Well, ok, it's just a trailer and it's been up on youtube for less than a year, but can anyone identify the year this is from? It's a trailer for Crossroads.
Most trailers are wiped from the 1970s, but the quality of this is excellent so I am not sure if it is. This is from 1976.
Thanks to the Noele Gordon Archive for this:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDTt5eEriyo
Perhaps this doesn't really count as missing, but.... let me explain the post. This is part of an SE01 E01 of Assaulted Nuts, a version of which was broadcast 17/01/1985.
Now as far as I know, the US series and UK series differed ever so slightly in content with the odd sketch being dropped or moved around, so the cuts are not exactly the same.
That said, the UK version does exist at the BFI.
So while you could argue very well it exists in full, it kind of does and doesn't simultaneously. A Schrodinger's comedy if you will. I am also very aware that I am using the Kitten Kong argument for something far less important.
Thanks to Garrett Gilchrist for flagging this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkjtBT55Zqc
Wha? I've just noticed that the wonderful ADC TV Collection has uploaded another missing Wolf It! just the now and it's not even a Sunday!
This edition is from 23/11/1994 and it's Season 2 Episode 10.
(I'd also like to thank youtube for their 'subscriptions' filter which made this so very very very easy.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_1FUh_G9Cw
Time for an iced coffee and a medicinal....
Small roast potatoes, this.
The partial audios to bother of Sir Cliffy's 1965 and 1966 similarly-titled Christmas Specials 'Wish Upon a Wishbone' (both for ATV, 25/12/1965 AND 25/12/1966) are both held in a private collection, which I didn't know or notice before and the information about this comes from cliffrichardsongs.com.
There's also a description on the site of some of the performances.
www.cliffrichardsongs.com/crseries/
A tiddly widdly wee find if there ever was one....
TSW used to do those closedown programmes too, you know.
One of theirs was Postscript and despite the fact this clip has been on youtube for 9 years or so, I never noticed it and it doesn't have appeared to have been mentioned on any Forums or Groups, so....
This is Derek Burrell of Truro School giving his two'pennath and the edition appears to come from sometime in 1982 or perhaps 1983, which makes it probably the earliest surviving example of this programme.
NB: It is not Faith for Life, as described on the channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ3ixrnru6Y
As you may know, Tony Bennett died this year and I thought at some point I'd see if there was any lost shows of his with audio. This is better.
Well, this particular TV show isn't held by the BBC, but it does exist as it was reshown in 1975 on US television (as the 'Second Super Special', erm.....great title?!?!, tx 12/10/1975), and was, I'm told issued on VHS but hasn't been reissued on DVD.
To those of us on these islands, though, it's known as 'Tony Bennett at the Festival Hall', as broadcast on 27/12/1974 on BBC 2, and thus it's logged as junked because the BBC and BFI don't hold it although it quite clearly isn't lost.
Does this look like a PAL-to-NTSC conversion to you?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pkzrSOmyWo
I cannot remember if I flagged this curio before - but after searching the group I couldn't locate a post for it, so.... Bob Mills be jealous.
This is a promo asking for contestants for the 1976 Miss Thames TV contest, so as the uploader posted it's likely this is from August 1976 (or even July). The clips contained are from the very first Miss Thames TV contest (06/08/1975) which was wiped but Kaleidoscope have a copy of, ex-domestic tape. Peter Marshall is doing the voiceover, but it would be Tony Bastable who would doing the honours on the actual day itself.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvxTCQsBibE
Excuses, excuses. This WAS wiped, but Kaleidoscope have a copy now. And, yes, yes, yes, it has the Grampian slate, but that was over 20 years ago and STV don't have it.
31/12/1992 Hogmanay in Auchterturra!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpsztIHC3fg
Do you recall seeing that clip of an impish 14 year-old Mick Jagger playing basketball which reappears on those Before They Were Famous-type shows? You do? Well that comes from an ATV programme called Seeing Sport and it was thought to be the only bit of that series to exist.
Well, erm.... no it isn't.
So.... on 6th June 2011, I noticed there was 6 minutes and 26 seconds of the edition of Seeing Sport from the 29/10/1962 existing on two reels of film at the Wessex Archive in Winchester. It concerns Trosnant School in Leigh Park.
It's still not listed as existing on the tvbrain database, so I've emailed them. Just an oversight.
And here's some more wiped....
this is the audio from a repeat broadcast of Esther and Abi Ofarim (original transmitted on 18/05/1968, the repeat is from 20/09/1968 featuring Donovan), as recorded on a domestic reel-to-reel off the telly.... and only uploaded today.
Thanks hugely to the elviskline99 channel for this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoce_MbAnwI
Some more wiped, from the ADC TV Collection again and this is another Wolf It! from 30/11/1994:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEgOcXpYzhA
.... and here's the other missing episode from the early 80s run of Stop Look Listen.
This one is called 'Big Store' and it was originally broadcast on 01/12/1982. This is from a 1986 rebroadcast.
Thanks again to the ADC TV Collection for the upload:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a1AMNY04wY
Time for another evening's look at something that got wiped, except now it's been preserved for future generations wherever in the world they may be. Kaleidoscope have got a copy, which may be this very same off-air. And why not?
This is Film 81, a television extravaganza, if you will, presented by the erstwhile Barry Norman. And let's face it, who could me more erst than Barry?
Made on a modest budget, this short-but-sweet piece is just a snapshot showing of what we the Licence-paying viewers exactly what was being shown at the cinema around the week of September 29th 1981. While we perhaps don't see Norman at the height of his powers here, as he was perhaps in his solo starring vehicle 'Advert for the Mortgage Corporation', shot on location in Stanley Road in leafy Woking in 1987, I've got to say this was a smooth excursion into the cinematic for this viewer and it made my popcorn taste even sweeter than usual. Which certainly surprised me, as it was meant to be salty.
While I think the cast and crew won't be bothering the BAFTAs - or, indeed the Oscars - at any time yet, one has to say, that was never the point, was it? And that, rhetorically, is that.
(cue:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUSdyZ4P26c)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYgoM19LNTU
Also not my find, but I get a free pass as at least I worked out the date....
These fragments of film - and 8mm silent optical transfer dubbed with some music - are of Sid Millward and his Nitwits and they come from the BBC 2 show Something Special, the edition being 13/04/1967, rather than what the poster says (1966).
These were spotted on youtube only this evening by Group Member Nigel Derek Lamb. They've been on youtube a while but missed by everyone including me (some might say 'especially me').
And here they are:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=sazuXSuHuqc
NOT a new find.
Just to repeat, this isn't lost. I'm just housekeeping, if you will.
There's an extant film clip of Count Basie on R1, in which Jo Douglas interviews him.
This is from Six Five Special - appears to be their Star Spotlight section - and is from the edition of 20/04/1957.
It's just that the edition is meant to be completely lost, but this has always existed. I have emailed Kaleidoscope so as they can amend tvbrain.
Look, this is just continuity, so don't get excited.
This is from 09/10/1974 and it's the preamble before the transmission of Microbes and Men. That series isn't missing although this continuity is. The uploader has said it's 17/10/1974, but.... it isn't. It's basically just me correcting the date.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7vv4R5l_uw
I just spotted another Night Thoughts that I hadn't flagged up.
This is 06/05/1986 and it's another one from the ADC TV Collection.
There's also a Thames trailer, some adverts and some IVC featuring good ole Phil:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PGL1qZISiI
Something I apparently forgot to mention was my discovery of the last remaining missing edition of Channel 4's 'Writers on Writing', which was the Susan Hill episode from 06/05/1983.
It exists on VHS at Sheffield University.
[www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.521306](http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=71fe2139a887ad501313cd8cce3053c5&subId=125448&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sheffield.ac.uk%2Fpolopoly_fs%2F1.521306)!/file/HoggartPapers.pdf
Another discovery of low, low, low interest..... although it only took me 30 seconds to find it.
'We'll Call You' was a BBC North West regional talent show.
It aired for 6 editions in 1977. It's all gone.
Well, all gone, that is, apart from the title sequence!
Manchester Metropolitan University inherited this as part of the the BBC NW Documentaries bequest. So the Beeb didn't wipe it, they just gave it away.
The title sequence is also mute, which makes this even less interesting!
www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/bbc/bbcnw/default_twocolumn.php?skip=0&date=&ProgrammeTitle=&SelectedForWebSite=&AvailableOnline=&Global=&submit=&title=WE%27LL%20CALL%20YOU
The Wednesday Special; that wonderful ITV umbrella title that they could use for anything - a concert, a chat show, an edition of Survival, or.... more often than not, that sub-stratum 'the Mid Week Match'.
Well, according to tvbrain, the Wednesday Special from 01/10/1975 is missing. Let me tell you it isn't, and if you want to know why, well that's because ITV Sport have it and moreover it's on youtube so you can watch it if you so wish.
And it's here:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoJlt_1U2p8
(And, yes, that IS the back of Charlie George's head on the thumbnail. He'd left Arse the year before and he was yet to embark on his finest achievement - playing for Southampton.)
My friend Robert Brown reminded me of a series made by a number of the smaller ITV companies that I'd forgotten about called Treasures in Store.
Today, I remembered it again while flicking through a database and see if I could locate any missing episodes, and.... obviously I did or I wouldn't be writing about it.
The episode concerned is the only missing HTV one, entitled 'Yanks Come Home'. And this is because it's VERY mislabelled in the National Library of Wales, who are excellent, but like all the rest of us, make mistakes.
Let me explain-the video cassette concerned is ex-HTV. It has a tx date of 24/05/1977, which ties up too as NLW dates are not always accurate to the month -tvbrain has the tx date as 23/06/1977. That, and there is always the possibility that it could have been shown in HTVlands first before being networked.
The thing is the entry says 'Yanks Go Home'. This was a comedy about US GIs in Lancashire that ran during the same sort of period - 1976/77. So why am I so sure that this VT is not THAT?
Several reasons. Firstly that was Granada, not HTV and the chances of HTV having an already extant Granada tape - and keeping it - are slim. The tape specifically is an HTV one. The there's also the fact it says 'American Museum -fdt' on the record. There wouldn't be a comedy with an episode about an American Museum set in a time when there weren't any. Add to the fact that Treasures in Store IS about museums and I think my argument is compelling. (I can also add further circumstantial evidence that this is a Treasures in Store episode by the fact the HTV kept all their others, plus the Granada comedy did not screen in May or June of 1977) discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991088622402419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,yanks&offset=0
Really trivial stuff, this.
The National Library of Scotland seem to have a bit of excised footage from the extant 'Treasures in Store' episode 14/07/1977 'The Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther' (Grampian). It's a mute 16mm colour clip and it lasts around four minutes.
A missing Jon Pertwee interview?
Sort of, but not really.... just unreported!
Yes, incredibly, the world of DW and this cap-wearing eejit finally collide....
JP had an interview with Jan Leeming for HTV's 'Women Only', which was apparently filmed AND broadcast on 01/05/1976.
JP was one of the judges in a painting competition held by HTV for their show Paint Along with Nancy and his fellow judge was Nina Baden-Semper.
Anyway, it's a filmed insert on 16mm lasting 13 mins in total and I expect JP's bit doesn't last very long at all, but.... for the DW completist, at last I found something for youse.
Details here, more information about 'lost' Women Only editions to follow soonish.
discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99709139102419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,%22women%20only%22&offset=0
Just to give this a wee bit more publicity as it deserves, Robert Brown has just spotted the 13/08/1973 episode of Doing Things 'Afloat' (episode 5, Southern) in the Wessex Archive on DV, which was thought to be lost.
There are also two further episodes in the same archive coming from the later regional episodes of Afloat broadcast homogenously in 1978 or 1979.
calm.hants.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=AV1066%2f1%2f20%2fV1&pos=14
Early missing Channel 4? You'd think this is, but, it's not.
This is just a specially filmed trailer for the Paul Hogan Show, but.... despite being quite obviously for a Channel 4 show, this was broadcast on ITV and comes from some time in late October 1982 before C4 had started.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwQ0i0vbggA
I thought I'd see if I could find another 'lost' ITV Various show by the end of the week, but steer clear of the usual About Britain and Highways. That didn't leave a lot left....
However, Doing Things was a series of hobby and recreation-based programmes made by the smaller regionals in 1973/4 and a fair few an unsurprisingly lost.
One of the HTV excursions 'Ditch Crawling' (18/06/1973) (which is about canal restoration) was meant to be lost, except it's not.
The NLW have this, but the 16mm is slightly damaged and has just under a minute missing.
NLW do have 2 Cans A & B Rolls Negative Masters.
discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99709836302419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,Ditch%20Crawling&offset=0
Just a Thames Closedown from 21st December 1977 (or technically, the early hours of the 22nd). This one features David Hamilton. Diddy tells us at around 49 seconds in that he's working on the 27th. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t7l7PUg-0A
It was wiped, honest, guv. (I mean let's be technical, a thing can only be wiped once, right?)
Enough of the rhetoric and other phrases my ex-wife wouldn't know the meaning of....
This is an edition of Play School which was erased, has since been recovered and just got uploaded to youtube. It's from 24/02/1982. Kaleidoscope have a copy of it now, but I've no idea if it's from the same source tape. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln56ap7Hn0E
I wasn't looking for this, but....
I can tell you that an hour or so of the Big Breakfast episode from 02/07/1999 exists in a private collection and has been digitized.
How do I know?
vhistory.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/the-big-breakfast-tape-2474/?fbclid=IwAR0TGNxhSM-FjOjxMzrPIX_Fz8gZdKbV-eh2oiijeREC2XaCngW65fJFfWg
I get very little success in finding old drama, my ex-wife was far better than I ever could be at that, but.... still.... even though the next things barely count as discoveries, they are plays from the monochrome age.
This evening I learnt that three editions of Television Playhouse actually originated in Canada. For most people with any common sense, that would be that.
I decided to actually do a bit of rummaging about to see if the three episodes did actually survive in Canadian archives - which I thought would still be unlikely as only just over 50 of the nearly 400 editions broadcast in the UK did.
And you know what? They all do!
"One of Our Men is Guilty" (28/02/1957), "Heir For A Shoestring" (07/12/1961) and "The Prizewinner" (14/12/1962) are in in Archives Canada held on kinescope.
Yes, not strictly British TV, but.... it's a good thing they exist and I thought I ought to tell someone.
The Electric Theatre Show, Grampian.
Do you recall me getting a list of what cans and tapes STV had from this show? No, you probably don't, but I took a deep breath and wandered through it. It's not in ANY order.
Well, after two hours of my life that I won't get back I can now reveal that STV have AT LEAST partial holdings - normally interviews and not the complete show from the following editions that were down as lost:-
Season 1:- 16/07/1976 and 08/10/1976
Season 2:- 11, 18 and 25/02/1977; 11 and 25/03/1977; 22 and 29/04/1977
Season 3:- 10 and 24/10/1977; 7, 14 and 28/11/1977; 05/12/1977 and 09/01/1978
Season 4:- all May episodes; 05 and 12/06/1978; 11/07/1978 and 01/08/1978
Season 5:- 28/12/1978; 02, 08, 22 and 29/01/1979; 5th February, 5th, 12th and 26th March; 9th, 16th, 19th and 23rd April; 7th and 14th May 1979.
Season 6:- 24 and 31/07/1979.
Season 7:- 1st, 8th, 15th and 29th November 1979; 4th and 10th January 1980; 6th and 27th March 1980.
Season 8:- 2nd September to 14th October inclusive; 11th November; 9th and 1th December 1980.
Season 9: all editions except 29th January and 5th and 12th March 1981.
Season 10:- all editions.
Season 11:- all editions except 22/10/1981
Season 12:- all editions except 4th May and 8th June 1982.
Season 13:- all editions.
Season 14:- 14/04/1983 to 02/06/1983 inclusive; 14th July 1983.
Season 15:- 3rd and 11th November 1983.
Season 16:- 6th and 27th June; 10, 17th and 31st August 1984.
Add to this the handful of editions that were known on Digibeta and thinks look a bit healthier than they did. I reckon that's about 92 episodes that partially exist.
This isn't a find of new footage, it's just good housekeeping. On 03/01/1977 ITV broadcast Granada's Clapperboard and the edition was 'Holiday Clapperboard Review of 76'. It exists.
However, like a fair amount of these Review of the Year shows, it contained but from other editions, so as no one had done it before I thought I'd try and work out which editions they were, and.... I have.
16/02/1976; 23/02/1976; 29/03/1976 (one of my discoveries, exists in full on DV); 05/04/1976; 10/05/1976; 12/07/1976; 26/07/1976; 06/09/1976 and lastly 13/09/1976.
Those shows were otherwise junked.
Schools Programming time.
Going to Work. Yes, I've found another one of those and this is hiding at Manchester Metropolitan University on 16mm, it's the episode from 02/02/1970 entitled 'Hospital Work':- www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/viewVideo.php?token=5547agw55446b491282513m8561b&fbclid=IwAR0D-v5xMpkUO6byMLV0wkaZScf3eLpqZy7kJ5PZuS5wKkUVpP_sACvO9XU
By sheer fluke I have found another Doing Things, sort of.....
Well in truth, they're actually promos for the otherwise wiped edition 'Skiing in Scotland', STV, 16/04/1973 and the footage - all 1 minute and 42 seconds of it - is in the National Library of Scotland. ....and this is from it too!:- movingimage.nls.uk/film/T2119?search_term=episode&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes&fbclid=IwAR3trhb6NzIpe-155SCY_dWXE5W0WfGNxAANwWOrWLqk3CKeNcge_Ui8rLE
NOT my find.
These are down to Group Member Garrett Gilchrist.
You know season 2 of Assaulted Nuts - the HBO/Arte broadcasted series without TBT? The one that's gone walkies?
Well, some clips from multiple episodes have come online on a German youtube channel this year in reasonable off-air quality (albeit with German subtitles, which is something Goodies' fans know all about....)
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3YGp3P946pCyjuzzI35Y5G-BT7LqvW9C
The rest of the Women Only discoveries in the wonderful National Library for Wales:
03/11/1971 - a 3 minute 16mm colour insert.
15/08/1972 - a 3 minute 16mm colour insert.
22/04/1975 - a 5 minute 16mm colour insert.
discover.library.wales/discovery/search?query=any,contains,%22women%20only%22&tab=NSSAW_ITV&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&offset=10
I missed spotting this wiped and slightly incomplete Sky Star Search and I would feel guilty if I didn't all let you all know about it.
It's from 1989, which narrows the date down to about 250 days as it was only practically every weekday of the entire year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj0wddOlF30
(I do know about the others on youtube, and YES, that is Suzi Quatro on the panel.)
Didn't I spot these YEARS ago? I probably did.
If so, a repeat from me and the reason is that tvbrain is wrong. These things happen.
Anyway, should you be thinking that there were four episodes missing of TVS' Mr Majeika, well, NONE are.
SE2E06 'Jim Genie' (04/02/1989):- www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvE_0bc3CNI
And the episodes that are meant to missing from Season 3:- 17/01/1990 'Catch a Falling Ball'; 24/01/1990 'Someday My Doodles Will Come'; 31/01/1990 'I've Grown Accustomed to His Face' are all here :- www.youtube.com/playlist...
Thanks to the ADC TV Collection.
So just to recap, everything has been found even if sometimes the quality is a bit low.
This isn't THAT important, but here's an HTV West promotional film from 1994 from the Antarctica TV youtube channel. These sorts of things tended to get wiped and I couldn't find it in the archives it might have been in, so.... it's probably lost, unless I missed it or it's somewhere I hadn't thought of.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-qa8MLB1zo
Another bit of HTV here to note that wasn't logged on tvbrain and I've spotted;
The BFI have the episode of Definition from 04/06/1985 on 1-inch transferred to Digibeta and this appears to be a newish addition.
For those of you who didn't grow up in the Thames TV/LWT region, Help, or, as it later became and is below, Thames Help was one of these wee five minute shows that the ITV network channels used to love. This particular schedule-gap-filler tended to focus on Charities, Voluntary Groups, Appeals, Crises, Advice and so forth.
It appears that most of these did not survive.
So, here's one of those lost ones, coming from the latter days of Thames, 18/12/1992. This one focuses on the Salvation Army and there's not a Thora Hird in sight. Starts at around 1.18.
Thanks to the ADC TV Collection again:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS4XNdSYHcU
I located an edition of Thames Help yesterday and I've repeated the fluke by locating one -which also seems to have unbroadcast material - on 3 U-Matic tapes in the Archives of the British Deaf Association. The date of transmission is not known.
www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk/title/19095/ AND www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk/title/19304/ AND www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk/title/19172/
....an edition of the BBC's Meeting Point, it's about Braille, the episode is called the 'Seeing Hands', and it was first shown on 02/05/1965.
Where is it? In a private collection in Watford. Format is 16mm; I am unable to show any details, but the guy who has a copy has posted a couple of screenshots and.... you'll just have to trust me it's out there, quite obviously, if you know where to look.
A 19 minute upload of the Xmas Day edition of ITV's Disney Club from 1990. I've been told this was wiped, but it's not on tvbrain, so I'm not certain. The subsequent three Xmas Specials are on tvbrain, the first two being missing and the last one being a recovery. So, it's probably junked, I would say, in all likelihood.
Although 19 minute sounds a bit paltry, if one takes out the commercial breaks and two festive cartoons shown (one being Mickey's Christmas Carol which is 26 minutes approximately in unedited form), this is most of the show.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXqxWkRxLFE
(by the way, the answer to this rhetorical Scottish joke is, 'na, he stays in an' reads books')
At approximately 1.30 am on the 19th December 2023, an ageing invalid wearing a cap and looking dishevelled followed a hunch to try and locate one or maybe two episodes of Police 5 before bedtime.
Perhaps you read the posts of this man? Well don't have nightmares, that's another show entirely.
It transpires that in the Media Archive for Central England, based at the University of Lincoln - a place that Greg Davies most famously dissed in the Inbetweeners - our Dickensian urchin got away with discovering that the Archive had 236* complete or partial editions of the very show he had been looking for.
These, of course are the ATV and Central versions of the show from between 1977 and 1986.
So, there we are, another couple of hundred allegedly missing episodes turned out not to be missing at all and the moral of this story is that there isn't one. There's 236.
Keep 'em peeled.
www.macearchive.org/search?sort=field_date&order=desc&for=%22police%205%22%22shaw%22&from=&to=
*and now, on loan from Grandstand, the BBC Vidiprinter:- 236 (TWO-HUNDRED-AND-THIRTY-SIX).
This is good housekeeping and it's back to pointing out database errors and oversights. This is also for you if you have a brother called George.
Liberace did a season of shows for ATV in the UK in 1969, imaginatively titled 'The Liberace Show' - which were also shown in the US as well and although none of them are missing as such, about half of them are meant to only exist on monochrome kinescopes only.
Piffle, as Richard Wattis would have probably said.
They all exist in the US on 'color' VT and excerpts from all the episodes were released on DVD in 2007.... yes, 16 years ago....
You want proof? Oh, alright then.... this is from 25/05/1969, so the oldest show that was only meant to be in monochrome. Ooooh, and Dusty's on this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4i5IEaKB2A
You know why I never located Pentangle's "Songs from a Country Church*" audio, despite the fact I knew it was on bootleg, don't you?
Because I've spent the last 10 years looking for it thinking it was at least 25 minutes long and using filters accordingly.
Of course I never noticed it actually only ran for 15 minutes and it's been hiding in plain sight on youtube for three years.
It was broadcast on 25/12/1970 on BBC 2.
So here it is:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhBBZaMbyFs
*the ACTUAL title of the programme is 'the Pentangle'. The folk cognoscenti don't call it that, because a) it's a bit bland and b) it's a bit confusing.
And so our intrepid diminutive cap-wearing weedy bloke continues in his quest to actually find some decent drama that's missing and stumbles up something that exists in monotone that actually exists over the pond in colour. (I mean it was only shown in monochrome on Rediffusion, but it exists in colour....)
So, what we have is 'Noon Wine', which was part of the Star Performance strand of programming on good old Rediffusion London on 09/04/1968. It exists as a telerecording at the BFI and has been there for ages in that format. Not a lot to see so far.
However, during a curious moment of clarity, I figured that it would have been shown over the pond in NTSC Color as ABC in the US had already been broadcasting this was for a while.
Some five minutes later, lo-and-behold there's a colour copy in the Paley Archive. www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=&p=1&item=T77:0159
This has only been uploaded for two months and it's a wiped programme. Yes, it's another large chunk of the Big Breakfast and this is the Bigger Breakfast and this features the guest presenting of those Light Entertainment behemoths Ant and Dec alongside Melanie Sykes. It's from 08/04/1998 and while this wasn't the gruesome twosome's first sortie into presenting programmes for a more adult demographic, their ascent into puberty probably started here. There's no need to tell me if it ever gets completed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbNN4IyvkdI
This isn't a BBC programme at all, it's just from a BBC series. Confused?
'Show of the Week' was the title of a number of programmes that BBC 2 would transmit to fulfil our light entertainment needs through the late 60s, continuing well into the 1970s. It was baffling in the sense that some LE staples would get lumbered with the aforementioned behemothian title despite doing-very-well-on-their-own-thanks independently, sometimes even on the main channel.
Despite the fact that the majority of the programmes were produced in-house, quite a few shows were also bought in from other broadcasters. At some point - when I can be bothered - I'll make a list of all of these and see how many are known to be in existence. One of the earliest examples of a bought-in Show of the Week is from 14/06/1966 - yes, two days before the Beatles on TOTP -and this was the Bernard Show, a show with its' focus on Swiss cabaret star and comedian Bernard Haller. It won the Bronze Rose at the Montreux Festival.
Anyway, this was retained by RTS in Switzerland, and although I couldn't get the player to work, you can see the evidence here as they've uploaded two clips:- www-rts-ch.translate.goog/archives/tv/varietes/rose-d-or/9912746-le-bernard-show.html?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc&fbclid=IwAR2q9MEC39LhdjTos-NrO_iZhSypQT3XI5mCJz8LL-sLgPFdQOO3yzPbzRM
Only uploaded this morning, my fellow Southampton FC supporter Dickie Davies is in festive mood in the World of Sport studio wishing us all seasonal greetings from December 1983.
This wee gem is from the DP's Captures youtube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMOGfDlSfSQ
and there's also this specially-filmed trailer from 11/12/1981:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNu4F6nEB6c
Right, some audio discoveries that have been preserved on issued on CD; these discoveries are nothing to do with me and although many of them were located an issued some 10 years ago these have been added to and a new CD set issued.
The show in question is Boy Meets Girls (ABC). Four complete episodes have been found over the years and there are extracts from many of the others.
The following episodes are either full of have lengthy extracts - episodes 5, 15, 19, 20 to 25 inclusive and there are partial recordings of many of the other editions.
TV-am.
You'll notice I never post about them.
Let me explain why....
TV-am's programmes are now partly held in an Archive on the outskirts of London; it's apparently very extensive and I'm told everything is in good quality. It's just that we don't know exactly what they have and in some cases, allegedly, neither do they, and that's where the issue lies.
Until Kaleidoscope/the BFI/ the short invalid in the cap find out what TV-am have exactly, there's not much point looking for stuff.
That all said, I thought if any TV-am is missing it would probably be some filler material. So while I cannot say that this is definitively lost, I'd stake money on this at least not to have been transferred to digital and never likely to be reshown and the continuity at the start is very unlikely to have been preserved.
This is from 22/12/1985, and it's a start-up from them with a bit of TV-am IVC from Arabella Warner and Thought for the Day which is not some twannock in a tanktop giving us his views on one of Aesop's Fables, but actually the boys of the Wandsworth School Choir singing Hurry Up Harry by Sham 69.
(that was a joke to see if any of you were still reading. Would have been nice though, wouldn't it? It's actually 'O Come All Ye Faithful'.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkY-s_U_fyo
Ooooooh, almost forgot, credit to the Neil Miles youtube channel.
This has been mentioned before.
Below is an upload, ex-torrent site, of some fragments of TV from 1973, 1974 and 1975. Most of you will have seen it.
My post is basically more good housekeeping, nowt more than that.
The Play School snippet is from 22/01/1974 (that was a Tuesday) and not the 21st as stated.
The unique thing about this compilation is that at about 13.25 minutes in there is a 4-and-a-half minute segment of BBC Scotland's Top Score. While the programme will never make a list of the most wanted lost TV shows, this upload contains the only existing footage of it at all. Other than telling you it's from the 1974 season, I couldn't work out a tx date for it. When I flagged this up before I never even noticed it was on there.
Thanks to the studio2television youtube channel for the upload.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0dk7wMrMiE
We've probably come to the end of an era with this upload - it's the final wiped Wolf It!, SE02 E012, 07/12/1994, just uploaded today:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-E6ZN6fedU
Credit to the ADC TV Collection, thanks for this and the other Wolf It! episodes.
Is it stretching it to include a show that's missing in colour in the UK, although it's quite happily sitting in colour in an Archive in the US?
Normally, I suppose the answer would be no.
Ok, now what if I said the Archive was owned by Disney.... because it is! ABC TV in the US are owned by the mouse....
So, just to complete my bingo card with this one, here's the colour copy of the UK-monochrome-archived episode of the Julie Andrews Hour from 28/07/1973 starring Jim Nabors and Eydie Gorme.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETakeM0PFr0
Christmas Eve 1973 saw the transmission of the Robert Meyer Carol Concert which had actually been held on 06/12/1973.
This was attended by the Queen Mother and also by some enthusiastic conductor by the name of Ted Heath. No, not the band leader, this chap was the sitting Prime Minister.
And by gollygosh, conduct he did - that's the orchestra, not electricity, which would of course be frequently cut later on when the Three-Day Week was introduced on New Year's Day 1974.
Anyway, the wiping machine obviously worked as the video of the concert is no longer in existence, however, despite the vinyl shortage of 1974, Heath's conductive powers are preserved as an LP of his baton-bearing was issued.
Before I look like I'm completely dissing this, the Concert did involve John Dankworth and was introduced by Richard Baker.
This:- www.discogs.com/release/12345710-Edward-Heath-John-Dankworth-At-The-Robert-Mayer-Christmas-Concert?fbclid=IwAR1b43ekyEuTriR8nAQgLhPCFhspke5g6R_UaxVcV80sb0jNp_LuH1BRjZc
Right, some more Crossroads audios have been uploaded. Which is all well and good but I can't post the links here as the way the files have been presented on the Facebook Group of the Crossroads Appreciation Society by the anonymous poster leaves it impossible for one to cut-and-paste. I'm sure that's just a minor inconvenience.
The episodes that have been featured are:- 04/01/1973; 05/01/1973; 09/01/1973; 16/01/1973; 17/01/1973; 18/01/1973; 19/01/1973; 23/01/1973; 25/01/1973 and 26/01/1973. The episode from 22/12/1972 was uploaded a day earlier.
Anyway, these recordings were made by a lady in Lincolnshire who recorded a staggering amount of Crossroads from around 1971 onwards, and that's wonderful.
However, she did tell me in one of the phone calls we had in the Spring of this year that quite a few years ago she lent some tapes out to someone and she never got them returned.
I trust these are not the same ones.
Simon Kelly says ""You missed a few, Ray! In total, they posted 15 audios: 1832, 1833, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843 (partial episode as apparently the rest of the tape had been chewed by the cassette recorder), 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1850 and 1851. So that's two from December 1972 and the rest an almost complete run of January 1973...""
The Third Man, 'Mars in Conjunction'; I know this is about something I spotted in March, but now we have a thumbnail:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ01Y6VpsJw
The extract of Dixon of Dock Green on this promo is from the otherwise missing episode 'the Specialist'. DoDG's bit starts 21 seconds in:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTXDPaa1iiU
Before Christmas gets a bit fuzzy for you, here's some prime analogue TV as uploaded only yesterday.
Simon Andrews has uploaded a fair bit of Southern TV from the last days of its' franchise and more appeared last night, this being a recording of the Day by Day edition from 24/12/1981.
Fans of a certain programme featuring a time-travelling Doctor maybe interested in an interview with the Third One, albeit with him wearing his full Kings Somborne attire. That starts around 6.40 in.
The picture is a bit wobbly because this was being recorded in Kent via pictures from Hannington - which reminds me that I wasn't the only out of area person to tune into a fuzzy warbled Southern picture as I used to do this in Bagshot now and again.
While the quality of the visuals is not perfect, the sound is good and at least Simon kept his recording even if Southern didn't!
Prime local TV!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFKplD6ZhSQ
""Whenever I say the Searchers to someone, they immediately think of Merseybeat and Sugar and Spice and Needles and Pins things that go well together in a yeahyeahyeah Merseybeat way, but not many of them, I would rhetorically imagine, would think of another pairing that goes together oh-so-very-well and sont-les-mots-qui-vont-tres-bien-ensemble as John and Wayne. Shuster, I can only presume, didn't like the movies and I can only think he's now selling second-hand automobiles in Potters Bar.
But for me, Barry, it's a very nice time of the year to settle down with a natty piece of knitwear on, some slacks and some slippers and watch my favourite toupee-wearing bigot - a man who kicked Charlton Heston into a veritable cocked cowboy hat - or maybe should that be cowboy cocked hat - although this was years before Brokeback Mountain. Because Wayne, like me, doesn't start sentences very well, but he always wonderfully finishes everything he starts, even the split infinitives. For this is from the BBC's telecast of the Searchers, with a incisive preamble from yours truly, from Christmas Eve, 1988. Or, should I say, the early hours of Christmas Day for those of us who have sleeping problems because we spend all our time in cinemas and aren't used to natural daylight.
The most intriguing thing about this showing of the John Ford classic is that it will live forever, but my pithy comments before the Christmas Eve showing on BBC1 wouldn't be retained by my current bosses and will be unceremonially wiped. Junked, erased, if you will and gone from posterity to posterior. Oh dear.
Fortunately, a young man called Aidan Lunn managed to find a home-recorded video tape of my dry observations, which was uploaded today on his ever-so-nattily-titled Sticky tape 'n' rust youtube channel, no less.
Now I am in Heaven - which I can honestly say is the biggest and best-made film set I have ever seen - I can settle down with a large port and lemon and some macaroons and watch myself knowing that my words are no longer as lost as Madonna on a film set. And that, quite literally, is that.""
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ5v5--7MBw
Well I do have a quick rummage through uploads even on Christmas Day and I've found a tiddly wee bit of a lost show as uploaded today - even though I'm sure the whole show is out there somewhere. This was only uploaded today.
This 23 minute upload by the JMX TV Archive includes a lot of the usual adverts and continuity but also contains around six minutes only of the missing Unforgettable Swingtime, which was transmitted on C4 24/12/1983. This was a one-off spin-off of the Unforgettable series of programmes which regularly featured pop music performers of the 50s and 60s doing their thing in the 80s. Unforgettable Swingtime was a tribute to the big band era and was presented by Pat Phoenix.
I did locate the Kay Starr performances from this special earlier this year. I am confident that this and all the other Unforgettable shows are out there somewhere, I just don't have concrete proof right now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=08nL5lEZ7K0
The partially existing Multi-Coloured Swap Shop edition from 21/02/1981 has had a couple of extracts uploaded before, and here's some more from the ScottishTeeVee youtube channel as uploaded 2 hours ago.... and it's the very wonderful XTC!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETUfft7gxQQ
This is a random collection of continuity and other bits and pieces cobbled together once again from an old torrent site. The recorded bits on here seem to start from 1977 and carry on into the 80s. There's various bits of extant school programmes, an Omnibus, a PPB which is not really to my tastes, some news programmes slides, trailers and.... a Points of View from 03/04/1981 which was wiped but Kaleidoscope have now got a copy of. I have no idea if it's from this same recording or not.
Credit to the Timewarp with a Television youtube channel.
By the way, this was only uploaded on youtube in the last 24 hours.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuKsCxoaC5E
If there's one thing I can be pretty much certain of every year - especially at Xmas - it's spotting lost Cliff Richard - even with zero effort.... and this was, I have to say, almost effortless.
The wonderful VHS Rewinds youtube channel have uploaded After Noon Plus from 15/10/1980 today and the guest is the honky tonk angel himself, Cliff Richard.
Fremantle do have a wealth of clips from Good Afternoon/ After Noon/ After Noon Plus/ A Plus and any similarly-titled shows I may have missed out, however they don't have anywhere close to everything and this one's down as listed on tvbrain as missing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA99L0894TY
Without looking for anything in particular, this upload from the JMX TV Archive youtube channel and it's a bit of TSW.
The reason I'm mentioning the upload of ITV TSW News and Weather and Continuity and Commercials is not because of any of that; it's because there's one of those rare TSW Postscript editions and it dates from 29/04/1987, the veritable jam (or the cream) in the scone.... or the other way around....:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHVF8sJ9EAw
Just a quick thing.
Tvbrain is now listing two of the Mind Your Language Season 4 episodes as existing and just over 15 minutes ago, the first three minutes of one of the recovered episodes 'Everybody's Out' (14/09/1986) has been uploaded to youtube. Yes, yes, it's just the first 3 minutes....
Apparently a private collector has around 10 of the lost episodes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=efW7L1L1nmM
....and that's about it for December 2023....
I'll explain; the October/November list was only put up on December 9th - so there's an overlap of a week and so some of these discoveries may be on that list too.
If you've got as far as reading this, then I'm sure you'll cope....
This will be very low-interest - it's a couple of wee kids playing accordion - but this is a bit of footage from a wiped show.
The show in question is the Glen Michael Cavalcade, which under various titles ran on STV regionally for something like 23 years.
Anyway, this is for Graham Gourlay. There are a few more clips of the show on youtube, but I'd referenced them all before including the Alan Cumming one (which I understand he's now seen), but I'd missed this one.
All I can tell you is it's either from 1981 or 1982 and they're pretty much all missing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QraRFoSYuJg
This was found and located by Aidan Lunn, not me! He owns the tape"
The Big Breakfast, 12/07/1999:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=788YrCy283M
Is this a missing episode? Probably.
Is this the complete episode? No. Copyright spoilsports.
Am I posting this partly to ensure discussion or am I just doing it to prove I'm alive? BOTH.
Right, here's part of an episode of Murun Buchstansangur, as shown on Channel 4 on 02/12/1985. There are a few Murun excursions at the BFI, but a lot of them are considered lost and I can't trace Bevanfield, who made them. I am also VERY aware of all the other Murun editions on youtube that have been on there for a while. This is a new one as uploaded by the ADC TV Collection yesterday:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta94LSD2gAI
Torbay or not Torbay, that is the question.
Well, if it is, here's the answer....
This is a weensy bit of footage, believed to have come from an edition of Westward Diary from sometime in 1971, as presented by the Plymouth company's very own John Doyle. You may note it's in monochrome and that is because it was transmitted in monochrome as WWTV was gradually going colour throughout this year:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZYwCb8s3-s
The Computer Channel. Not exactly well-remembered, but it was there in 1990, another offspring of the Astra satellite. Whether or not you think that takes minority viewing to another level and beyond is up to you, but the first broadcast - the Launch Show - would be rather historic, especially it's somewhere in the ether rather than in the archives.
And also here:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdKwcskgk5M
Missing Sport?
Yes, of course, there's plenty of it missing - and I for one do not have that many contacts within the semi-autonomous divisions of the BBC and ITV that deal with it.
That all said, the Mid Week Match (part of the 'Wednesday Special' umbrella-brand of ITV's entertainment schedule) from 11/05/1977 - the ECWC Final for aficionados of footy - is meant to be missing.
Except it's here, Brian Moore commentary and all.
I wouldn't be surprised if ITV Sport do have a copy, but the match was a Dutch TV presentation, and that means copyright hell. (I expect dear old Uncle Brian was safely wrapped up in the warm of Kent House enjoying his pipe and a tote of medicinal whisky.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5t1zJg_vCg
(Of course, my beloved Saints went out in the quarter finals to the eventual runners-up.)
Here's one I missed, sort of....
I couldn't find out the tx date for this - and I still can't - other than it's an edition of Sale of the Century from 1982.
The reason I'm posting about this edition is that with the exception of one episode from that year, all are missing, and it's not THAT edition, *ergo.... it's a missing one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvbkAupGqfQ
I'll be honest with you, I THINK this is from a wiped programme but I couldn't find the listing on tvbrain. I remember a partial off-air being found some years back, but not the whole thing.
Anywayanyhowanywhere, this is the audio ONLY of the Royal Gala in Aid of the Mexico Olympic Fund from 1968.
It was only uploaded yesterday, so it's pretty new.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuNraQSfDmk
Thanks to the elviskline99 channel for this.
As I note every discovery on here, just to let you all know that a part of a series that was meant to be completely missing, does in fact partly exist. Literally PART of it.
That lesser remembered HTV series Regional Flavour (a show mainly focussing on cookery) is meant to be completely gone.
There's actually a sepmag at the wonderful National Library of Wales, and that is just one item, rather than the whole show!
discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99281100802419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,%22REGIONAL%20FLAVOUR%22&offset=0
This is a repeat find - my original discovery being taken off youtube for copyright strikes - and the interest in this wiped episode is going to be minimal.
That all said, I don't care.
You may or probably may not recall two episodes of Eastenders were junked due to either a paperwork error or faulty tape (I've heard both stories).
AnyOldKentRoad, I located them both. The latter one - 09/11/1989 - got taken off youtube. However, it has since reappeared and here it is:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDNTYa47xsc
This is off-topic.
It's missing radio (apparently).
The Radio 4 play 'A Morbid Taste for Bones', a Cadfael story, as broadcast 29/11/1980 is meant to be lost, according to tvbrain.
It's on youtube, only uploaded this year.
I apologize in advance if this has been known about - my knowledge of missing radio is somewhat scanty to say the least - but anyway:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoxelAllaVM
XTC from a partially wiped Multi-Coloured Swap Shop? Oh, golly, YES!
Wiltshire's finest performing Paper and Iron (Notes and Coins) from the partly-junked edition from 21/02/1981, as uploaded by the excellent ScottishTeeVee channel.
I'd also like to dedicate this discovery of a modern antiquity to a very good Irish musician acquaintance of mine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl0hDF7OzPY
More from XTC shortly....
(sigh).
So this is 1984 wiped episode of Gambit, or, well.... most of it.
The 1984 series is completely missing.
Also, it's an optical transfer of a domestic VT.
So the upload quality is what it is, it's like an upload from a mobile phone.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozI_bvSl6M4
A missing Wolf It! from 02/11/1994? Yes.
Thanks again to the ADC TV Collection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSPqhHuJOM
Some more wiped programmes.
ATV Schools, this.... Believe It or Not, the edition is actually called 'Are We Free?' (rather than 'Our Freedom'), originally shown on 24/01/1978, here from a 1980 rebroadcast, ex-N1700:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W3bVjhFVN0
and then 'Who Am I?', originally shown 10/01/1978, again from a 1980 rebroadcast:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbxB6eTw9tQ
Huge thanks again to the Vintage Schools TV youtube channel.
Oooh, and there's also this - 'Christianity - Roman Catholic and Baptist', from 09/02/1981:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwTout0eRao
And....another wiped ATV Schools programme....
The reason this is a discovery NOW is because it only got added to the tvbrain database in recent months as lost, so I had no idea it was gone.
AnyWaylonJennings, this is Stop Look Listen and the edition is called 'Baker' and it was originally shown on 02/12/1981.
Many thanks to the ADC TV Collection for the upload:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFxrhzaq-Mg
So.... most of this exists, but not all of it - and although this is not the complete edition, I'm guesstimating that there's around two minutes of wiped on this audio.
This is most of the audio of the Frank Zappa special edition of the Old Grey Whistle Test from 16/11/1971. Beatle watchers will also note Ringo's appearance as this was all around publicizing their latest film 200 Motels:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfit4ORRZio
....and while I'm here, here's the Judee Sill audio from the Old Grey Whistle Test from 21//11/1972:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeV8TCpE3Fg
Another missing Wolf It! here for you, 09/11/1994:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG2X355_s6Q
Thanks to the ADC TV Collection again.
Just to dispel a myth, and to quote the wonderful tvbrain re Sooty's Amazing Adventures:- ' There are claims that Richard Cadell has destroyed the master tapes but that is just rubbish from Wikipedia. Kaleidoscope can confirm ITV have them all. '
Whatever people's view of the series it's not wiped.
Oh, and 96% of it is on youtube.
Here:- www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrd7t8Vjn2n7ejozhbp9D_Cz7azKdnBpi
Excuses first: I was looking for something else. OFF-TOPIC ALERT.
Here are two radio shows - yes I know, radio - that are meant to be missing according to tvbrain.
These are from the 1982 revival of the show 'Workers Playtime' and these are from 04/11/1982 (the first one of the revival):- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc7DIAGgMuQ
and from the last one of that week, 08/11/1982:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpDf15bmjLk
A specially-shot Christmas promo from BBC1 as shown on 10/12/1983, upload by the ADC TV Collection:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=w09qBn9hQJc
It's another wiped Wolf It! from the ADC TV Collection from 09/11/1994:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=55-1PsQRLYE
Something I missed....
You see, John Craven's Newsround is a show with gazillions of editions and so it takes a while to wade through the list, plus every time you think you've spotted one that was not retained, the chances are it does exist, or you or someone else had reported it before. Well.... apparently I missed this, and it's been on youtube 5 years.
This is 18/11/1982 and it's from the Neil Miles channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNQMPuwqOMI
(One of my favourite TV trivia questions is 'Which show can you hear Ted Heath on every edition...?)
Some gloriously low-fi audio of the pre-fame Adam and the Ants appearing on BBC Wales' Twndish, from 30/07/1979:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4CLWX2KOxw
AND www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW1BrzqWg0A
Peth sain godidog o low-fi o'r enwog Adam and the Ants yn ymddangos ar Twndish BBC Cymru, o 30/07/1979
From the elviskline99 youtube channel (thanks again); this is some audio from a wiped Opportunity Knocks from 22/10/1966, and the group featured are the Vogues:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u5v5xOY0Zw
....and another (elviskline99 again, kudos, gratz etc) and this is an audio segment from the wiped Opportunity Knocks from 31/08/1970:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3uUwKLyhjA
The TV curios get more and more curious.
'At the End of the Day' was, for a time, the Anglia closedown programme, the Norwich-based cousin the other regional closedown bits such as Sit Up and Listen, Late Call, Close, Reflections and many, many more, as K-Tel would say.
(And up until the end of today I'd never heard of it, so there was Norfolking chance of me finding one.)
Well, I've heard of it now, and I've found one.
This is from 27/11/1985 and it's been uploaded by Television Heaven UK's youtube channel.
One I missed.
It's yet another Sit Up and Listen as uploaded by the Antarctica TV Channel 2 channel and this is from 14/11/1981:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLWEvMIotgU
One wee thing that didn't seem to get announced previously was that Kaleidoscope have recovered an audio of an edition of the Newcomers. It's Episode 294, 26/07/1968.
The discovery had nothing to with me, it just seems to have gone unreported.
Thanks to Anonymous of Anglia for reminding me of this.
A chap called David Sinck spotted this, rather than me! (he's on the TVS Group)
""Here's an oddity. Sally Harrison with a TVS closedown - which she then has to repeat. "The whole thing!" ""
youtu.be/dBbEAlVrB4o?feature=shared
So, I've found another Home Cookery Club. The world might not care, but I do and I take great pleasure in finding anything missing.... honestly (even those PPBs I found in Canada).
So here is 'Apple and Cheshire Flan', the edition from 03/10/1985, as repeated here on this upload by the wonderful ADC TV Collection channel from 06/05/1987. There's also some TVS IVC and adverts and a lot of other stuff for enthusiasts of continuity and commercials.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK_fvnwgHYY
Richard Sleeman found this recently on a Philips N1500 tape, Peter Doyle's promo film for Friday on My Mind, believed to have been shown on Saturday Scene.
Thanks
youtu.be/A5sLxH9jZ54?si=dn1YMC2WNO6jPq6m
Well, ok, it's just a trailer and it's been up on youtube for less than a year, but can anyone identify the year this is from? It's a trailer for Crossroads.
Most trailers are wiped from the 1970s, but the quality of this is excellent so I am not sure if it is. This is from 1976.
Thanks to the Noele Gordon Archive for this:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDTt5eEriyo
Perhaps this doesn't really count as missing, but.... let me explain the post. This is part of an SE01 E01 of Assaulted Nuts, a version of which was broadcast 17/01/1985.
Now as far as I know, the US series and UK series differed ever so slightly in content with the odd sketch being dropped or moved around, so the cuts are not exactly the same.
That said, the UK version does exist at the BFI.
So while you could argue very well it exists in full, it kind of does and doesn't simultaneously. A Schrodinger's comedy if you will. I am also very aware that I am using the Kitten Kong argument for something far less important.
Thanks to Garrett Gilchrist for flagging this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkjtBT55Zqc
Wha? I've just noticed that the wonderful ADC TV Collection has uploaded another missing Wolf It! just the now and it's not even a Sunday!
This edition is from 23/11/1994 and it's Season 2 Episode 10.
(I'd also like to thank youtube for their 'subscriptions' filter which made this so very very very easy.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_1FUh_G9Cw
Time for an iced coffee and a medicinal....
Small roast potatoes, this.
The partial audios to bother of Sir Cliffy's 1965 and 1966 similarly-titled Christmas Specials 'Wish Upon a Wishbone' (both for ATV, 25/12/1965 AND 25/12/1966) are both held in a private collection, which I didn't know or notice before and the information about this comes from cliffrichardsongs.com.
There's also a description on the site of some of the performances.
www.cliffrichardsongs.com/crseries/
A tiddly widdly wee find if there ever was one....
TSW used to do those closedown programmes too, you know.
One of theirs was Postscript and despite the fact this clip has been on youtube for 9 years or so, I never noticed it and it doesn't have appeared to have been mentioned on any Forums or Groups, so....
This is Derek Burrell of Truro School giving his two'pennath and the edition appears to come from sometime in 1982 or perhaps 1983, which makes it probably the earliest surviving example of this programme.
NB: It is not Faith for Life, as described on the channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ3ixrnru6Y
As you may know, Tony Bennett died this year and I thought at some point I'd see if there was any lost shows of his with audio. This is better.
Well, this particular TV show isn't held by the BBC, but it does exist as it was reshown in 1975 on US television (as the 'Second Super Special', erm.....great title?!?!, tx 12/10/1975), and was, I'm told issued on VHS but hasn't been reissued on DVD.
To those of us on these islands, though, it's known as 'Tony Bennett at the Festival Hall', as broadcast on 27/12/1974 on BBC 2, and thus it's logged as junked because the BBC and BFI don't hold it although it quite clearly isn't lost.
Does this look like a PAL-to-NTSC conversion to you?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pkzrSOmyWo
I cannot remember if I flagged this curio before - but after searching the group I couldn't locate a post for it, so.... Bob Mills be jealous.
This is a promo asking for contestants for the 1976 Miss Thames TV contest, so as the uploader posted it's likely this is from August 1976 (or even July). The clips contained are from the very first Miss Thames TV contest (06/08/1975) which was wiped but Kaleidoscope have a copy of, ex-domestic tape. Peter Marshall is doing the voiceover, but it would be Tony Bastable who would doing the honours on the actual day itself.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvxTCQsBibE
Excuses, excuses. This WAS wiped, but Kaleidoscope have a copy now. And, yes, yes, yes, it has the Grampian slate, but that was over 20 years ago and STV don't have it.
31/12/1992 Hogmanay in Auchterturra!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpsztIHC3fg
Do you recall seeing that clip of an impish 14 year-old Mick Jagger playing basketball which reappears on those Before They Were Famous-type shows? You do? Well that comes from an ATV programme called Seeing Sport and it was thought to be the only bit of that series to exist.
Well, erm.... no it isn't.
So.... on 6th June 2011, I noticed there was 6 minutes and 26 seconds of the edition of Seeing Sport from the 29/10/1962 existing on two reels of film at the Wessex Archive in Winchester. It concerns Trosnant School in Leigh Park.
It's still not listed as existing on the tvbrain database, so I've emailed them. Just an oversight.
And here's some more wiped....
this is the audio from a repeat broadcast of Esther and Abi Ofarim (original transmitted on 18/05/1968, the repeat is from 20/09/1968 featuring Donovan), as recorded on a domestic reel-to-reel off the telly.... and only uploaded today.
Thanks hugely to the elviskline99 channel for this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoce_MbAnwI
Some more wiped, from the ADC TV Collection again and this is another Wolf It! from 30/11/1994:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEgOcXpYzhA
.... and here's the other missing episode from the early 80s run of Stop Look Listen.
This one is called 'Big Store' and it was originally broadcast on 01/12/1982. This is from a 1986 rebroadcast.
Thanks again to the ADC TV Collection for the upload:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a1AMNY04wY
Time for another evening's look at something that got wiped, except now it's been preserved for future generations wherever in the world they may be. Kaleidoscope have got a copy, which may be this very same off-air. And why not?
This is Film 81, a television extravaganza, if you will, presented by the erstwhile Barry Norman. And let's face it, who could me more erst than Barry?
Made on a modest budget, this short-but-sweet piece is just a snapshot showing of what we the Licence-paying viewers exactly what was being shown at the cinema around the week of September 29th 1981. While we perhaps don't see Norman at the height of his powers here, as he was perhaps in his solo starring vehicle 'Advert for the Mortgage Corporation', shot on location in Stanley Road in leafy Woking in 1987, I've got to say this was a smooth excursion into the cinematic for this viewer and it made my popcorn taste even sweeter than usual. Which certainly surprised me, as it was meant to be salty.
While I think the cast and crew won't be bothering the BAFTAs - or, indeed the Oscars - at any time yet, one has to say, that was never the point, was it? And that, rhetorically, is that.
(cue:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUSdyZ4P26c)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYgoM19LNTU
Also not my find, but I get a free pass as at least I worked out the date....
These fragments of film - and 8mm silent optical transfer dubbed with some music - are of Sid Millward and his Nitwits and they come from the BBC 2 show Something Special, the edition being 13/04/1967, rather than what the poster says (1966).
These were spotted on youtube only this evening by Group Member Nigel Derek Lamb. They've been on youtube a while but missed by everyone including me (some might say 'especially me').
And here they are:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=sazuXSuHuqc
NOT a new find.
Just to repeat, this isn't lost. I'm just housekeeping, if you will.
There's an extant film clip of Count Basie on R1, in which Jo Douglas interviews him.
This is from Six Five Special - appears to be their Star Spotlight section - and is from the edition of 20/04/1957.
It's just that the edition is meant to be completely lost, but this has always existed. I have emailed Kaleidoscope so as they can amend tvbrain.
Look, this is just continuity, so don't get excited.
This is from 09/10/1974 and it's the preamble before the transmission of Microbes and Men. That series isn't missing although this continuity is. The uploader has said it's 17/10/1974, but.... it isn't. It's basically just me correcting the date.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7vv4R5l_uw
I just spotted another Night Thoughts that I hadn't flagged up.
This is 06/05/1986 and it's another one from the ADC TV Collection.
There's also a Thames trailer, some adverts and some IVC featuring good ole Phil:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PGL1qZISiI
Something I apparently forgot to mention was my discovery of the last remaining missing edition of Channel 4's 'Writers on Writing', which was the Susan Hill episode from 06/05/1983.
It exists on VHS at Sheffield University.
[www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.521306](http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=71fe2139a887ad501313cd8cce3053c5&subId=125448&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sheffield.ac.uk%2Fpolopoly_fs%2F1.521306)!/file/HoggartPapers.pdf
Another discovery of low, low, low interest..... although it only took me 30 seconds to find it.
'We'll Call You' was a BBC North West regional talent show.
It aired for 6 editions in 1977. It's all gone.
Well, all gone, that is, apart from the title sequence!
Manchester Metropolitan University inherited this as part of the the BBC NW Documentaries bequest. So the Beeb didn't wipe it, they just gave it away.
The title sequence is also mute, which makes this even less interesting!
www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/bbc/bbcnw/default_twocolumn.php?skip=0&date=&ProgrammeTitle=&SelectedForWebSite=&AvailableOnline=&Global=&submit=&title=WE%27LL%20CALL%20YOU
The Wednesday Special; that wonderful ITV umbrella title that they could use for anything - a concert, a chat show, an edition of Survival, or.... more often than not, that sub-stratum 'the Mid Week Match'.
Well, according to tvbrain, the Wednesday Special from 01/10/1975 is missing. Let me tell you it isn't, and if you want to know why, well that's because ITV Sport have it and moreover it's on youtube so you can watch it if you so wish.
And it's here:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoJlt_1U2p8
(And, yes, that IS the back of Charlie George's head on the thumbnail. He'd left Arse the year before and he was yet to embark on his finest achievement - playing for Southampton.)
My friend Robert Brown reminded me of a series made by a number of the smaller ITV companies that I'd forgotten about called Treasures in Store.
Today, I remembered it again while flicking through a database and see if I could locate any missing episodes, and.... obviously I did or I wouldn't be writing about it.
The episode concerned is the only missing HTV one, entitled 'Yanks Come Home'. And this is because it's VERY mislabelled in the National Library of Wales, who are excellent, but like all the rest of us, make mistakes.
Let me explain-the video cassette concerned is ex-HTV. It has a tx date of 24/05/1977, which ties up too as NLW dates are not always accurate to the month -tvbrain has the tx date as 23/06/1977. That, and there is always the possibility that it could have been shown in HTVlands first before being networked.
The thing is the entry says 'Yanks Go Home'. This was a comedy about US GIs in Lancashire that ran during the same sort of period - 1976/77. So why am I so sure that this VT is not THAT?
Several reasons. Firstly that was Granada, not HTV and the chances of HTV having an already extant Granada tape - and keeping it - are slim. The tape specifically is an HTV one. The there's also the fact it says 'American Museum -fdt' on the record. There wouldn't be a comedy with an episode about an American Museum set in a time when there weren't any. Add to the fact that Treasures in Store IS about museums and I think my argument is compelling. (I can also add further circumstantial evidence that this is a Treasures in Store episode by the fact the HTV kept all their others, plus the Granada comedy did not screen in May or June of 1977) discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991088622402419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,yanks&offset=0
Really trivial stuff, this.
The National Library of Scotland seem to have a bit of excised footage from the extant 'Treasures in Store' episode 14/07/1977 'The Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther' (Grampian). It's a mute 16mm colour clip and it lasts around four minutes.
A missing Jon Pertwee interview?
Sort of, but not really.... just unreported!
Yes, incredibly, the world of DW and this cap-wearing eejit finally collide....
JP had an interview with Jan Leeming for HTV's 'Women Only', which was apparently filmed AND broadcast on 01/05/1976.
JP was one of the judges in a painting competition held by HTV for their show Paint Along with Nancy and his fellow judge was Nina Baden-Semper.
Anyway, it's a filmed insert on 16mm lasting 13 mins in total and I expect JP's bit doesn't last very long at all, but.... for the DW completist, at last I found something for youse.
Details here, more information about 'lost' Women Only editions to follow soonish.
discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99709139102419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,%22women%20only%22&offset=0
Just to give this a wee bit more publicity as it deserves, Robert Brown has just spotted the 13/08/1973 episode of Doing Things 'Afloat' (episode 5, Southern) in the Wessex Archive on DV, which was thought to be lost.
There are also two further episodes in the same archive coming from the later regional episodes of Afloat broadcast homogenously in 1978 or 1979.
calm.hants.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=AV1066%2f1%2f20%2fV1&pos=14
Early missing Channel 4? You'd think this is, but, it's not.
This is just a specially filmed trailer for the Paul Hogan Show, but.... despite being quite obviously for a Channel 4 show, this was broadcast on ITV and comes from some time in late October 1982 before C4 had started.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwQ0i0vbggA
I thought I'd see if I could find another 'lost' ITV Various show by the end of the week, but steer clear of the usual About Britain and Highways. That didn't leave a lot left....
However, Doing Things was a series of hobby and recreation-based programmes made by the smaller regionals in 1973/4 and a fair few an unsurprisingly lost.
One of the HTV excursions 'Ditch Crawling' (18/06/1973) (which is about canal restoration) was meant to be lost, except it's not.
The NLW have this, but the 16mm is slightly damaged and has just under a minute missing.
NLW do have 2 Cans A & B Rolls Negative Masters.
discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99709836302419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,Ditch%20Crawling&offset=0
Just a Thames Closedown from 21st December 1977 (or technically, the early hours of the 22nd). This one features David Hamilton. Diddy tells us at around 49 seconds in that he's working on the 27th. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t7l7PUg-0A
It was wiped, honest, guv. (I mean let's be technical, a thing can only be wiped once, right?)
Enough of the rhetoric and other phrases my ex-wife wouldn't know the meaning of....
This is an edition of Play School which was erased, has since been recovered and just got uploaded to youtube. It's from 24/02/1982. Kaleidoscope have a copy of it now, but I've no idea if it's from the same source tape. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln56ap7Hn0E
I wasn't looking for this, but....
I can tell you that an hour or so of the Big Breakfast episode from 02/07/1999 exists in a private collection and has been digitized.
How do I know?
vhistory.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/the-big-breakfast-tape-2474/?fbclid=IwAR0TGNxhSM-FjOjxMzrPIX_Fz8gZdKbV-eh2oiijeREC2XaCngW65fJFfWg
I get very little success in finding old drama, my ex-wife was far better than I ever could be at that, but.... still.... even though the next things barely count as discoveries, they are plays from the monochrome age.
This evening I learnt that three editions of Television Playhouse actually originated in Canada. For most people with any common sense, that would be that.
I decided to actually do a bit of rummaging about to see if the three episodes did actually survive in Canadian archives - which I thought would still be unlikely as only just over 50 of the nearly 400 editions broadcast in the UK did.
And you know what? They all do!
"One of Our Men is Guilty" (28/02/1957), "Heir For A Shoestring" (07/12/1961) and "The Prizewinner" (14/12/1962) are in in Archives Canada held on kinescope.
Yes, not strictly British TV, but.... it's a good thing they exist and I thought I ought to tell someone.
The Electric Theatre Show, Grampian.
Do you recall me getting a list of what cans and tapes STV had from this show? No, you probably don't, but I took a deep breath and wandered through it. It's not in ANY order.
Well, after two hours of my life that I won't get back I can now reveal that STV have AT LEAST partial holdings - normally interviews and not the complete show from the following editions that were down as lost:-
Season 1:- 16/07/1976 and 08/10/1976
Season 2:- 11, 18 and 25/02/1977; 11 and 25/03/1977; 22 and 29/04/1977
Season 3:- 10 and 24/10/1977; 7, 14 and 28/11/1977; 05/12/1977 and 09/01/1978
Season 4:- all May episodes; 05 and 12/06/1978; 11/07/1978 and 01/08/1978
Season 5:- 28/12/1978; 02, 08, 22 and 29/01/1979; 5th February, 5th, 12th and 26th March; 9th, 16th, 19th and 23rd April; 7th and 14th May 1979.
Season 6:- 24 and 31/07/1979.
Season 7:- 1st, 8th, 15th and 29th November 1979; 4th and 10th January 1980; 6th and 27th March 1980.
Season 8:- 2nd September to 14th October inclusive; 11th November; 9th and 1th December 1980.
Season 9: all editions except 29th January and 5th and 12th March 1981.
Season 10:- all editions.
Season 11:- all editions except 22/10/1981
Season 12:- all editions except 4th May and 8th June 1982.
Season 13:- all editions.
Season 14:- 14/04/1983 to 02/06/1983 inclusive; 14th July 1983.
Season 15:- 3rd and 11th November 1983.
Season 16:- 6th and 27th June; 10, 17th and 31st August 1984.
Add to this the handful of editions that were known on Digibeta and thinks look a bit healthier than they did. I reckon that's about 92 episodes that partially exist.
This isn't a find of new footage, it's just good housekeeping. On 03/01/1977 ITV broadcast Granada's Clapperboard and the edition was 'Holiday Clapperboard Review of 76'. It exists.
However, like a fair amount of these Review of the Year shows, it contained but from other editions, so as no one had done it before I thought I'd try and work out which editions they were, and.... I have.
16/02/1976; 23/02/1976; 29/03/1976 (one of my discoveries, exists in full on DV); 05/04/1976; 10/05/1976; 12/07/1976; 26/07/1976; 06/09/1976 and lastly 13/09/1976.
Those shows were otherwise junked.
Schools Programming time.
Going to Work. Yes, I've found another one of those and this is hiding at Manchester Metropolitan University on 16mm, it's the episode from 02/02/1970 entitled 'Hospital Work':- www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/viewVideo.php?token=5547agw55446b491282513m8561b&fbclid=IwAR0D-v5xMpkUO6byMLV0wkaZScf3eLpqZy7kJ5PZuS5wKkUVpP_sACvO9XU
By sheer fluke I have found another Doing Things, sort of.....
Well in truth, they're actually promos for the otherwise wiped edition 'Skiing in Scotland', STV, 16/04/1973 and the footage - all 1 minute and 42 seconds of it - is in the National Library of Scotland. ....and this is from it too!:- movingimage.nls.uk/film/T2119?search_term=episode&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes&fbclid=IwAR3trhb6NzIpe-155SCY_dWXE5W0WfGNxAANwWOrWLqk3CKeNcge_Ui8rLE
NOT my find.
These are down to Group Member Garrett Gilchrist.
You know season 2 of Assaulted Nuts - the HBO/Arte broadcasted series without TBT? The one that's gone walkies?
Well, some clips from multiple episodes have come online on a German youtube channel this year in reasonable off-air quality (albeit with German subtitles, which is something Goodies' fans know all about....)
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3YGp3P946pCyjuzzI35Y5G-BT7LqvW9C
The rest of the Women Only discoveries in the wonderful National Library for Wales:
03/11/1971 - a 3 minute 16mm colour insert.
15/08/1972 - a 3 minute 16mm colour insert.
22/04/1975 - a 5 minute 16mm colour insert.
discover.library.wales/discovery/search?query=any,contains,%22women%20only%22&tab=NSSAW_ITV&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&offset=10
I missed spotting this wiped and slightly incomplete Sky Star Search and I would feel guilty if I didn't all let you all know about it.
It's from 1989, which narrows the date down to about 250 days as it was only practically every weekday of the entire year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj0wddOlF30
(I do know about the others on youtube, and YES, that is Suzi Quatro on the panel.)
Didn't I spot these YEARS ago? I probably did.
If so, a repeat from me and the reason is that tvbrain is wrong. These things happen.
Anyway, should you be thinking that there were four episodes missing of TVS' Mr Majeika, well, NONE are.
SE2E06 'Jim Genie' (04/02/1989):- www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvE_0bc3CNI
And the episodes that are meant to missing from Season 3:- 17/01/1990 'Catch a Falling Ball'; 24/01/1990 'Someday My Doodles Will Come'; 31/01/1990 'I've Grown Accustomed to His Face' are all here :- www.youtube.com/playlist...
Thanks to the ADC TV Collection.
So just to recap, everything has been found even if sometimes the quality is a bit low.
This isn't THAT important, but here's an HTV West promotional film from 1994 from the Antarctica TV youtube channel. These sorts of things tended to get wiped and I couldn't find it in the archives it might have been in, so.... it's probably lost, unless I missed it or it's somewhere I hadn't thought of.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-qa8MLB1zo
Another bit of HTV here to note that wasn't logged on tvbrain and I've spotted;
The BFI have the episode of Definition from 04/06/1985 on 1-inch transferred to Digibeta and this appears to be a newish addition.
For those of you who didn't grow up in the Thames TV/LWT region, Help, or, as it later became and is below, Thames Help was one of these wee five minute shows that the ITV network channels used to love. This particular schedule-gap-filler tended to focus on Charities, Voluntary Groups, Appeals, Crises, Advice and so forth.
It appears that most of these did not survive.
So, here's one of those lost ones, coming from the latter days of Thames, 18/12/1992. This one focuses on the Salvation Army and there's not a Thora Hird in sight. Starts at around 1.18.
Thanks to the ADC TV Collection again:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS4XNdSYHcU
I located an edition of Thames Help yesterday and I've repeated the fluke by locating one -which also seems to have unbroadcast material - on 3 U-Matic tapes in the Archives of the British Deaf Association. The date of transmission is not known.
www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk/title/19095/ AND www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk/title/19304/ AND www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk/title/19172/
....an edition of the BBC's Meeting Point, it's about Braille, the episode is called the 'Seeing Hands', and it was first shown on 02/05/1965.
Where is it? In a private collection in Watford. Format is 16mm; I am unable to show any details, but the guy who has a copy has posted a couple of screenshots and.... you'll just have to trust me it's out there, quite obviously, if you know where to look.
A 19 minute upload of the Xmas Day edition of ITV's Disney Club from 1990. I've been told this was wiped, but it's not on tvbrain, so I'm not certain. The subsequent three Xmas Specials are on tvbrain, the first two being missing and the last one being a recovery. So, it's probably junked, I would say, in all likelihood.
Although 19 minute sounds a bit paltry, if one takes out the commercial breaks and two festive cartoons shown (one being Mickey's Christmas Carol which is 26 minutes approximately in unedited form), this is most of the show.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXqxWkRxLFE
(by the way, the answer to this rhetorical Scottish joke is, 'na, he stays in an' reads books')
At approximately 1.30 am on the 19th December 2023, an ageing invalid wearing a cap and looking dishevelled followed a hunch to try and locate one or maybe two episodes of Police 5 before bedtime.
Perhaps you read the posts of this man? Well don't have nightmares, that's another show entirely.
It transpires that in the Media Archive for Central England, based at the University of Lincoln - a place that Greg Davies most famously dissed in the Inbetweeners - our Dickensian urchin got away with discovering that the Archive had 236* complete or partial editions of the very show he had been looking for.
These, of course are the ATV and Central versions of the show from between 1977 and 1986.
So, there we are, another couple of hundred allegedly missing episodes turned out not to be missing at all and the moral of this story is that there isn't one. There's 236.
Keep 'em peeled.
www.macearchive.org/search?sort=field_date&order=desc&for=%22police%205%22%22shaw%22&from=&to=
*and now, on loan from Grandstand, the BBC Vidiprinter:- 236 (TWO-HUNDRED-AND-THIRTY-SIX).
This is good housekeeping and it's back to pointing out database errors and oversights. This is also for you if you have a brother called George.
Liberace did a season of shows for ATV in the UK in 1969, imaginatively titled 'The Liberace Show' - which were also shown in the US as well and although none of them are missing as such, about half of them are meant to only exist on monochrome kinescopes only.
Piffle, as Richard Wattis would have probably said.
They all exist in the US on 'color' VT and excerpts from all the episodes were released on DVD in 2007.... yes, 16 years ago....
You want proof? Oh, alright then.... this is from 25/05/1969, so the oldest show that was only meant to be in monochrome. Ooooh, and Dusty's on this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4i5IEaKB2A
You know why I never located Pentangle's "Songs from a Country Church*" audio, despite the fact I knew it was on bootleg, don't you?
Because I've spent the last 10 years looking for it thinking it was at least 25 minutes long and using filters accordingly.
Of course I never noticed it actually only ran for 15 minutes and it's been hiding in plain sight on youtube for three years.
It was broadcast on 25/12/1970 on BBC 2.
So here it is:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhBBZaMbyFs
*the ACTUAL title of the programme is 'the Pentangle'. The folk cognoscenti don't call it that, because a) it's a bit bland and b) it's a bit confusing.
And so our intrepid diminutive cap-wearing weedy bloke continues in his quest to actually find some decent drama that's missing and stumbles up something that exists in monotone that actually exists over the pond in colour. (I mean it was only shown in monochrome on Rediffusion, but it exists in colour....)
So, what we have is 'Noon Wine', which was part of the Star Performance strand of programming on good old Rediffusion London on 09/04/1968. It exists as a telerecording at the BFI and has been there for ages in that format. Not a lot to see so far.
However, during a curious moment of clarity, I figured that it would have been shown over the pond in NTSC Color as ABC in the US had already been broadcasting this was for a while.
Some five minutes later, lo-and-behold there's a colour copy in the Paley Archive. www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=&p=1&item=T77:0159
This has only been uploaded for two months and it's a wiped programme. Yes, it's another large chunk of the Big Breakfast and this is the Bigger Breakfast and this features the guest presenting of those Light Entertainment behemoths Ant and Dec alongside Melanie Sykes. It's from 08/04/1998 and while this wasn't the gruesome twosome's first sortie into presenting programmes for a more adult demographic, their ascent into puberty probably started here. There's no need to tell me if it ever gets completed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbNN4IyvkdI
This isn't a BBC programme at all, it's just from a BBC series. Confused?
'Show of the Week' was the title of a number of programmes that BBC 2 would transmit to fulfil our light entertainment needs through the late 60s, continuing well into the 1970s. It was baffling in the sense that some LE staples would get lumbered with the aforementioned behemothian title despite doing-very-well-on-their-own-thanks independently, sometimes even on the main channel.
Despite the fact that the majority of the programmes were produced in-house, quite a few shows were also bought in from other broadcasters. At some point - when I can be bothered - I'll make a list of all of these and see how many are known to be in existence. One of the earliest examples of a bought-in Show of the Week is from 14/06/1966 - yes, two days before the Beatles on TOTP -and this was the Bernard Show, a show with its' focus on Swiss cabaret star and comedian Bernard Haller. It won the Bronze Rose at the Montreux Festival.
Anyway, this was retained by RTS in Switzerland, and although I couldn't get the player to work, you can see the evidence here as they've uploaded two clips:- www-rts-ch.translate.goog/archives/tv/varietes/rose-d-or/9912746-le-bernard-show.html?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc&fbclid=IwAR2q9MEC39LhdjTos-NrO_iZhSypQT3XI5mCJz8LL-sLgPFdQOO3yzPbzRM
Only uploaded this morning, my fellow Southampton FC supporter Dickie Davies is in festive mood in the World of Sport studio wishing us all seasonal greetings from December 1983.
This wee gem is from the DP's Captures youtube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMOGfDlSfSQ
and there's also this specially-filmed trailer from 11/12/1981:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNu4F6nEB6c
Right, some audio discoveries that have been preserved on issued on CD; these discoveries are nothing to do with me and although many of them were located an issued some 10 years ago these have been added to and a new CD set issued.
The show in question is Boy Meets Girls (ABC). Four complete episodes have been found over the years and there are extracts from many of the others.
The following episodes are either full of have lengthy extracts - episodes 5, 15, 19, 20 to 25 inclusive and there are partial recordings of many of the other editions.
TV-am.
You'll notice I never post about them.
Let me explain why....
TV-am's programmes are now partly held in an Archive on the outskirts of London; it's apparently very extensive and I'm told everything is in good quality. It's just that we don't know exactly what they have and in some cases, allegedly, neither do they, and that's where the issue lies.
Until Kaleidoscope/the BFI/ the short invalid in the cap find out what TV-am have exactly, there's not much point looking for stuff.
That all said, I thought if any TV-am is missing it would probably be some filler material. So while I cannot say that this is definitively lost, I'd stake money on this at least not to have been transferred to digital and never likely to be reshown and the continuity at the start is very unlikely to have been preserved.
This is from 22/12/1985, and it's a start-up from them with a bit of TV-am IVC from Arabella Warner and Thought for the Day which is not some twannock in a tanktop giving us his views on one of Aesop's Fables, but actually the boys of the Wandsworth School Choir singing Hurry Up Harry by Sham 69.
(that was a joke to see if any of you were still reading. Would have been nice though, wouldn't it? It's actually 'O Come All Ye Faithful'.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkY-s_U_fyo
Ooooooh, almost forgot, credit to the Neil Miles youtube channel.
This has been mentioned before.
Below is an upload, ex-torrent site, of some fragments of TV from 1973, 1974 and 1975. Most of you will have seen it.
My post is basically more good housekeeping, nowt more than that.
The Play School snippet is from 22/01/1974 (that was a Tuesday) and not the 21st as stated.
The unique thing about this compilation is that at about 13.25 minutes in there is a 4-and-a-half minute segment of BBC Scotland's Top Score. While the programme will never make a list of the most wanted lost TV shows, this upload contains the only existing footage of it at all. Other than telling you it's from the 1974 season, I couldn't work out a tx date for it. When I flagged this up before I never even noticed it was on there.
Thanks to the studio2television youtube channel for the upload.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0dk7wMrMiE
We've probably come to the end of an era with this upload - it's the final wiped Wolf It!, SE02 E012, 07/12/1994, just uploaded today:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-E6ZN6fedU
Credit to the ADC TV Collection, thanks for this and the other Wolf It! episodes.
Is it stretching it to include a show that's missing in colour in the UK, although it's quite happily sitting in colour in an Archive in the US?
Normally, I suppose the answer would be no.
Ok, now what if I said the Archive was owned by Disney.... because it is! ABC TV in the US are owned by the mouse....
So, just to complete my bingo card with this one, here's the colour copy of the UK-monochrome-archived episode of the Julie Andrews Hour from 28/07/1973 starring Jim Nabors and Eydie Gorme.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETakeM0PFr0
Christmas Eve 1973 saw the transmission of the Robert Meyer Carol Concert which had actually been held on 06/12/1973.
This was attended by the Queen Mother and also by some enthusiastic conductor by the name of Ted Heath. No, not the band leader, this chap was the sitting Prime Minister.
And by gollygosh, conduct he did - that's the orchestra, not electricity, which would of course be frequently cut later on when the Three-Day Week was introduced on New Year's Day 1974.
Anyway, the wiping machine obviously worked as the video of the concert is no longer in existence, however, despite the vinyl shortage of 1974, Heath's conductive powers are preserved as an LP of his baton-bearing was issued.
Before I look like I'm completely dissing this, the Concert did involve John Dankworth and was introduced by Richard Baker.
This:- www.discogs.com/release/12345710-Edward-Heath-John-Dankworth-At-The-Robert-Mayer-Christmas-Concert?fbclid=IwAR1b43ekyEuTriR8nAQgLhPCFhspke5g6R_UaxVcV80sb0jNp_LuH1BRjZc
Right, some more Crossroads audios have been uploaded. Which is all well and good but I can't post the links here as the way the files have been presented on the Facebook Group of the Crossroads Appreciation Society by the anonymous poster leaves it impossible for one to cut-and-paste. I'm sure that's just a minor inconvenience.
The episodes that have been featured are:- 04/01/1973; 05/01/1973; 09/01/1973; 16/01/1973; 17/01/1973; 18/01/1973; 19/01/1973; 23/01/1973; 25/01/1973 and 26/01/1973. The episode from 22/12/1972 was uploaded a day earlier.
Anyway, these recordings were made by a lady in Lincolnshire who recorded a staggering amount of Crossroads from around 1971 onwards, and that's wonderful.
However, she did tell me in one of the phone calls we had in the Spring of this year that quite a few years ago she lent some tapes out to someone and she never got them returned.
I trust these are not the same ones.
Simon Kelly says ""You missed a few, Ray! In total, they posted 15 audios: 1832, 1833, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843 (partial episode as apparently the rest of the tape had been chewed by the cassette recorder), 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1850 and 1851. So that's two from December 1972 and the rest an almost complete run of January 1973...""
The Third Man, 'Mars in Conjunction'; I know this is about something I spotted in March, but now we have a thumbnail:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ01Y6VpsJw
The extract of Dixon of Dock Green on this promo is from the otherwise missing episode 'the Specialist'. DoDG's bit starts 21 seconds in:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTXDPaa1iiU
Before Christmas gets a bit fuzzy for you, here's some prime analogue TV as uploaded only yesterday.
Simon Andrews has uploaded a fair bit of Southern TV from the last days of its' franchise and more appeared last night, this being a recording of the Day by Day edition from 24/12/1981.
Fans of a certain programme featuring a time-travelling Doctor maybe interested in an interview with the Third One, albeit with him wearing his full Kings Somborne attire. That starts around 6.40 in.
The picture is a bit wobbly because this was being recorded in Kent via pictures from Hannington - which reminds me that I wasn't the only out of area person to tune into a fuzzy warbled Southern picture as I used to do this in Bagshot now and again.
While the quality of the visuals is not perfect, the sound is good and at least Simon kept his recording even if Southern didn't!
Prime local TV!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFKplD6ZhSQ
""Whenever I say the Searchers to someone, they immediately think of Merseybeat and Sugar and Spice and Needles and Pins things that go well together in a yeahyeahyeah Merseybeat way, but not many of them, I would rhetorically imagine, would think of another pairing that goes together oh-so-very-well and sont-les-mots-qui-vont-tres-bien-ensemble as John and Wayne. Shuster, I can only presume, didn't like the movies and I can only think he's now selling second-hand automobiles in Potters Bar.
But for me, Barry, it's a very nice time of the year to settle down with a natty piece of knitwear on, some slacks and some slippers and watch my favourite toupee-wearing bigot - a man who kicked Charlton Heston into a veritable cocked cowboy hat - or maybe should that be cowboy cocked hat - although this was years before Brokeback Mountain. Because Wayne, like me, doesn't start sentences very well, but he always wonderfully finishes everything he starts, even the split infinitives. For this is from the BBC's telecast of the Searchers, with a incisive preamble from yours truly, from Christmas Eve, 1988. Or, should I say, the early hours of Christmas Day for those of us who have sleeping problems because we spend all our time in cinemas and aren't used to natural daylight.
The most intriguing thing about this showing of the John Ford classic is that it will live forever, but my pithy comments before the Christmas Eve showing on BBC1 wouldn't be retained by my current bosses and will be unceremonially wiped. Junked, erased, if you will and gone from posterity to posterior. Oh dear.
Fortunately, a young man called Aidan Lunn managed to find a home-recorded video tape of my dry observations, which was uploaded today on his ever-so-nattily-titled Sticky tape 'n' rust youtube channel, no less.
Now I am in Heaven - which I can honestly say is the biggest and best-made film set I have ever seen - I can settle down with a large port and lemon and some macaroons and watch myself knowing that my words are no longer as lost as Madonna on a film set. And that, quite literally, is that.""
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ5v5--7MBw
Well I do have a quick rummage through uploads even on Christmas Day and I've found a tiddly wee bit of a lost show as uploaded today - even though I'm sure the whole show is out there somewhere. This was only uploaded today.
This 23 minute upload by the JMX TV Archive includes a lot of the usual adverts and continuity but also contains around six minutes only of the missing Unforgettable Swingtime, which was transmitted on C4 24/12/1983. This was a one-off spin-off of the Unforgettable series of programmes which regularly featured pop music performers of the 50s and 60s doing their thing in the 80s. Unforgettable Swingtime was a tribute to the big band era and was presented by Pat Phoenix.
I did locate the Kay Starr performances from this special earlier this year. I am confident that this and all the other Unforgettable shows are out there somewhere, I just don't have concrete proof right now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=08nL5lEZ7K0
The partially existing Multi-Coloured Swap Shop edition from 21/02/1981 has had a couple of extracts uploaded before, and here's some more from the ScottishTeeVee youtube channel as uploaded 2 hours ago.... and it's the very wonderful XTC!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETUfft7gxQQ
This is a random collection of continuity and other bits and pieces cobbled together once again from an old torrent site. The recorded bits on here seem to start from 1977 and carry on into the 80s. There's various bits of extant school programmes, an Omnibus, a PPB which is not really to my tastes, some news programmes slides, trailers and.... a Points of View from 03/04/1981 which was wiped but Kaleidoscope have now got a copy of. I have no idea if it's from this same recording or not.
Credit to the Timewarp with a Television youtube channel.
By the way, this was only uploaded on youtube in the last 24 hours.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuKsCxoaC5E
If there's one thing I can be pretty much certain of every year - especially at Xmas - it's spotting lost Cliff Richard - even with zero effort.... and this was, I have to say, almost effortless.
The wonderful VHS Rewinds youtube channel have uploaded After Noon Plus from 15/10/1980 today and the guest is the honky tonk angel himself, Cliff Richard.
Fremantle do have a wealth of clips from Good Afternoon/ After Noon/ After Noon Plus/ A Plus and any similarly-titled shows I may have missed out, however they don't have anywhere close to everything and this one's down as listed on tvbrain as missing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA99L0894TY
Without looking for anything in particular, this upload from the JMX TV Archive youtube channel and it's a bit of TSW.
The reason I'm mentioning the upload of ITV TSW News and Weather and Continuity and Commercials is not because of any of that; it's because there's one of those rare TSW Postscript editions and it dates from 29/04/1987, the veritable jam (or the cream) in the scone.... or the other way around....:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHVF8sJ9EAw
Just a quick thing.
Tvbrain is now listing two of the Mind Your Language Season 4 episodes as existing and just over 15 minutes ago, the first three minutes of one of the recovered episodes 'Everybody's Out' (14/09/1986) has been uploaded to youtube. Yes, yes, it's just the first 3 minutes....
Apparently a private collector has around 10 of the lost episodes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=efW7L1L1nmM
....and that's about it for December 2023....
