FEBRUARY 2024 DISCOVERIES! PLEASE READ!!!!

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

Here we are; February 2024 discoveries; there's quite a lot from just over 4 weeks!

He's found another one....
Jonathan Kydd has just uploaded another thought-to-be-missing Pipkins episode and this one is entitled 'Quiet Please' and it's from 18/03/1980:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=00vS8pZzJm4
Congratulations to the 3 people who saw the upload before me....

Waiting for me on youtube there's a clip of the Fairey Band playing on Champion Brass in 1976. I don't have an exact transmission date for this, but having checked the BBC NW Archive at MMU, they don't have any complete recordings of this edition.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmEI8BWDjf4

Regular readers of my incessant posts here will know that there's an awful lot of Dusty Springfield audio about on youtube from wiped programmes.
What I didn't know is that about 12 years after my first discovery of any of these on youtube that I would have still missed uploads.
My only excuse for this is it comes from a different channel and I didn't see it because of that.
Here's Dusty singing 'But Alive' from Music My Way, 18/07/1973:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZEXaCtLxjw

This post is about a divisive movie. It's also off-topic post, mostly, sort-of, ish.
In 1976 a bizarre film was released - All This and World War II - musical documentary directed by Susan Winslow juxtaposing Beatles songs covered by a variety of musicians with WW2 newsreel footage and 20th Century Fox films. The film was rejected by critics and ran only two weeks in cinemas and has now become rare and never released on home media.
It was actually shown on British TV once - as part of the Rock Around the Clock night on BBC2 on 27/08/1983 - and has become a bit of a cult film in certain circles. This was actually its' British debut seeing as it never made it to the cinema over here. A double LP set was released which was highly successful despite the fact there was no film to see. The BBC don't have a copy any more as it's not their copyright involved. All in all, the film is unlikely to get shown on British TV again....
A DVD release of a film under a slightly different title in 2016 was in fact a similar but completely different movie.
The BFI now do have a print but access to it is restricted.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6LSdRtxDwA

Just over six weeks ago I rather smugly announced that I had located a colour copy of the Star Performance play 'Noon Wine' in the Paley Archive.
I am now please to announce that I missed the fact that it's been on youtube in colour for 8 months now!!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx8x2ouhCpE
AMENDED: John Green spotted this in 2012, not me. I only ascertained the fact that Paley's copy was in colour and I should have pointed this out in this post!!!!

Some folk wish I'd spend more time on finding audio of lost pop and rock appearances.... and they're probably right.
So.... on this site detailing 'collectors' items there are a number of 'lost' bits of audio:- the Animals appearance from Dee Time (17/08/1967), an extract of the Who from the wiped Ready Steady Go! from 24/12/1965; audio of the entire Jimi Hendrix appearance on ATV's It Must Be Dusty (12/06/1968); all of Miles Davis' set that was included in Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club (various dates in 1970, not all material transmitted, recorded 02/11/1969); at least one lost edition of Commonwealth Jazz Club starring Tubby Hayes (02/09/1965); Fleetwood Mac from Colour Me Pop (19/07/1968):- rhythmandbluesrecords.co.uk/
Most of these are known about but I hadn't heard of two of them, so....

(swears, spills coffee and almost drops cheroot).
While I concede this programme rarely top people's list of favourites I was rather bemused this was wiped to the extent I rechecked a few times, but by golly it is.
Yes, another Big Breakfast (as uploaded by the JMX TV Archive), but.... wait.... this is a one of those occasional-titled Bigger Breakfasts and the reason for this moniker is that the partial solar eclipse took place on that very day, 11/08/1999. While the programme probably added doodlysquat to the proceedings later on, it was rather a memorable day, historically.
I was convinced that all the Special editions of TBB had survived, but this is obviously not the case:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf5_wLmgnig

A missing Sit Up and Listen as uploaded by Group Member Aidan Lunn on his Sticky tape 'n' rust youtube channel just today. It's from 17/01/1983 and your reader is Michael Hordern:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UhugR9KPaM

Another one of Aidan Lunn's which I missed before - this upload includes a Sit Up and Listen from 25/03/1981; there's also IVC and a clock and a slide:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc-A2nrWLew

For the completist: if you'd like to watch the climax of an otherwise wiped Family Fortunes edition, well it's here from 13/07/1980 courtesy of the ADC TV Collection, only a few minutes long:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNOS5BOKmUk

This isn't something I spotted. Gary Jordan saw this.
The recent Ch5 show 'Most Shocking Moments - 1972' had footage of Murray Head performing Superstar from a Top of the Pops from 08/04/1971. Despite being a Channel 5 show, this programme was made by BBC Studios.
The clip used was that rare animal - a colour telerecording. It's a live performance too (vocalists the Trinidad Singers with the TOTP Orchestra and the Ladybirds). It's definitely TOTP; the backdrop is similar to ones used on some other shows of a similar vintage.
(Clip starts at 1.08.10:- www.channel5.com/.../most-shocking.../season-1/1972 - apologies if there are adverts and so forth....)
Anyway, the entire show that the Murray Head performance came from is the TOTP from 08/04/1971 was thought wiped. I have emailed the BBC to see if they have the entire show.
""8-4-71: THE SWEET – Funny Funny
ANDY WILLIAMS – (Where Do I Begin) Love Story (video)
RAY STEVENS – Bridget The Midget
DAVE & ANSIL COLLINS – Double Barrel (video)
PENTANGLE – Light Flight
JOHN LENNON & THE PLASTIC ONO BAND – Power To The People (crowd dancing and charts)
SEALS & CROFTS – Ridin’ Thumb
YVONNE ELLIMAN, MURRAY HEAD & THE TRINIDAD SINGERS – Everything's All Right
YVONNE ELLIMAN, MURRAY HEAD & THE TRINIDAD SINGERS – Superstar
(1) T-REX – Hot Love ® *exists as an orphan clip
(28) DIANA ROSS – Remember Me (crowd dancing) (and credits)""

Starburst was a LE series on ATV and subsequently Central and it ran from 1980 through to 1983. Last time I looked on ITV Archive when they gave public access - the listings were a bit haphazard to say the least.
In the ensuing years, tvbrain has been updated a bit and there are episodes missing. Six clips from the missing 1983 series are here; you'll note one has a VT date of 1982 and having checked the VT numbers it was actually shown in 1983. It's glaringly obvious that the uploader has a unedited broadcast tape of the programme(s) - it's currently impossible to tell whether these come from one show, two shows or more:- www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN6kw2cRjVCyRLVRev6zW7PwDWVNMkW48

A missing episode of Look, anyone? This is 'At Home with Foxes' (20/05/1968) and it is held at the University of Bristol on 16mm film:- archives.bristol.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DM2911%2F2%2F5%2F17&pos=217&fbclid=IwAR2x01SQmDZ0c4gcgu-7nOPYIfjSJ_sAkvFD3agO_MbGWAGABPUV-iryf1k

And then sixty seconds later I find this wee bit of audio of Margo and the Marvelettes on Dee Time from December 1967 - I think the date is 16/12/1967, but that is an educated guess.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e09LJGxU1Ek

Did I mention that John Lennon's X/Twitter account uploaded a very brief monochrome clip of the Lenonos on the Simon Dee Show which was transmitted on 08/02/1970?
Well, I have now, and here it is:- twitter.com/johnlennon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1755347715674820904%7Ctwgr%5Ea7ba517d45e5d84745ce7a978f6d4120733799da%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmissingepisodes.proboards.com%2Fthread%2F12653%2Ftime-simon-show-missing-guests%3Fpage%3D1&fbclid=IwAR2nrz8pUlaMb102WsVkvHfEEgFAlieWs-m_cPBaj9qpiI9dJiEPsmtXD1M

It's Simon Dee day.
Some audio I'd never heard before uploaded donkeys years ago and it's of Marilyn Powell singing Kiss Me Again and this is actually from Dee Time and the date is 18/05/1968:- www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=hqu8GeeIUuM

This has just been uploaded; it has appeared online before of course, but may be from a different source tape.
It's a C.A.T.S Eyes edition, SE2 E10, 'Crack Up' from 07/10/1986 and features the recently departed Michael Jayston.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv5uPEilGL4

A unique promo for an episode of Orson Welles' Great Mysteries? Yes! This one is from the US, starts 48 or so seconds in, as uploaded by the wonderful Obsolete Video channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_YoINGR0eQ

Nine minutes of audio of Mary Hopkin from a lost It's Lulu? Yes, tracks 25 to 27 inclusive - 01:01:35 to 1.10.49 from 17/07/1971.
(it's also interesting that all of Mary's performances of the six a Song for Europe selections are on here with a (radio) tx date of 18/01/1971. The subsequent performances on It's Cliff Richard were playback. The audios for those are archived here too, apparently retrieved from BBC Transcription Discs.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFgPon7HqO0&t=3695s

Here's something meant to be missing that never has been.
There's tons of bits of Late Night Line-Up that aren't archived. However the edition of 15/06/1971 mainly consisted of David Frost interviewing civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael. This exists and was retained by Paradine as is now with Reelin' in the Years with all the other Frost stuff as it was originally a part of the Westinghouse Frost Shows, dated 13/04/1970.
It was then shown 16/06/1971 as part of Frost Over America!

Right, it would take me ages to explain this, so read the 1966 bit of this article:- doctorindy.com/.../indy-500-on-television-part-2.../
So, now you've read that, a quick recap. This is the video - but not the original TV audio - to the Indianapolis 500 from 30/05/1966 that was shown by Pay TV in only a couple of cities in the UK (and also a few cinemas). Only the video is known to exist:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dui1t5ezfXg

It's always nice to locate jazz and this time you get the audio of two missing editions for the price of one as here's the audio from the 10/11/1966 and 16/01/1967 editions of Jazz Goes to College featuring the Horace Silver Quartet:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cRQ2nEV-y4

The Wessex Archive have a lot of TVS material, and they have in some cases complete runs of series, mainly, but not completely local programming rather than networked shows.
Occasionally, a few editions of programmes seem not to be there and this seems to be one of those....
This is a Facing South edition from 1987 (Series 3) and is entitled 'Bus Wars', which is all about the deregulation of buses back in the day. This features Southampton (home of the Mighty Saints, 21 games unbeaten....sorry, had to mention it....!), the Isle of Wight and Southend-on-Sea.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hltajs9dI6Y

Bit of housekeeping; Meeting Point 14/01/1962 The Brothers of the Desert is a repeat of 23/04/1961 Brothers of the Desert, unsurprisingly.
This bought-in film was something I spotted ages ago.
Not much to see here, but....

Also, something I don't have - the earliest Top of the Pops audio in existence from 15/01/1964:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdOsnGCHWQs AND www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzRLZBbYlwE

Look, this isn't wiped or lost....
it's notorious....
The unrepeatable Live Into '85 is here - well, the 50 minutes of it that was broadcast in England, Wales and Northern Ireland....
while I don't believe all things currently unreleased will never been seen again, this whole programme certainly won't be seen on TV in full - and this is the only programme I'd post on here because of that.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCd9_4xJj2Q

More housekeeping.
The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (also known as A Peapicker in Piccadilly in the US) was an ATV special shown on 31/12/1969 and only partially exists in UK archives in monochrome.
A few years back I noticed a colour VT of the complete programme at UCLA and it transpires there's also one at the Paley Archive:- www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=&p=1&item=B:72759
I wouldn't be surprised if NBC had a copy of it, but I've never been able to get that confirmed.

The very wonderful Jonathan Kydd has uploaded another Pipkins that was originally wiped. It's from his personal collection and the episode is called 'Clean Sweep', originally transmitted on 06/05/1980:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy21HAE4Q0I

There's an episode of Scene in Canada, and it seems to be with TVO. I'd noticed that one episode of Scene was a bought-in edition and I decided to go after it, so to speak.
The edition is called "What Do I Like About Tommy?", tx 18/11/1971, and after much research it seems the actual film was made in 1964(!), receiving a Special Mention Award from the Prix Jeunesse in Paris. It got a second wind of life with subsequent broadcasts in the South and Mid Western US in 1970 before being aired over here as above.
Without boring you on the research too much, the edition is retained on a domestic video format (1/2-inch) in monochrome - as it was made and transmitted in black and white originally. Some Scene episodes were shown in monochrome as late as November 1973.
search.worldcat.org/title/624417698?oclcNum=624417698&fbclid=IwAR3x8C2e8huU5RMcqfH1yvsAxbmtElDF4p4iobXnK0rQr22R6Mdtr7xSguk

As spotted by Alan Collins, Glen Campbell's ATV special "The Musical West" with guest stars John Wayne, Burl Ives and Michele Lee; a domestic off air recording of it from the States is on youtube; this was shown on ITV 22nd May 1974, although this recording comes from a US broadcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYwQwNwg0bc

A 5 minute snippet found on the end of a reel by Kevin Ellis and uploaded by him. Junior Points of View from 26th September 1969:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Pwt37RaIs

Just pointing out a database mistake here.... Glen Campbell's bits of his Talk of the Town show from 07/05/1972 certainly exist, despite tvbrain saying otherwise. Seven songs performed by Glen were released on DVD some years ago and all seven are part of this youtube playlist:- www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBzAmyk605zPTWiYrxCv6WsgogC2JariW
Pan's People were on this edition as well but I don't think that has surfaced yet - although I am very inclined to think that bit exists too.

As found by Simon McClean: BBC South West's That's Rich is missing, so here's one to tick off the list. The picture is cropped, sadly - but given the musical guests, crops are quite appropriate:- www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=PvQJdTSt3os&fbclid=IwAR0zt0JlxPzq8g1PNuOB_Tc64GZLYulIqjkcRTFA-RiAr4NaPmgGKkXqUBU

First of around half a dozen posts of stuff I've located today....but not this, as this was spotted by Group Member Nigel Derek Lamb. It's several audio extracts of the Sons and Lovers Colour Me Pop session, 11/01/1969:- www.youtube.com/@stephengreenfield9445/search?query=colour%20me%20pop

A bit off-topic, but this wiped radio features Sylvia Plath on World of Sounds, 'What Made You Stay' 07/09/1962 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NJRl7Y333M

Chris Kelly is your host for an edition of Folio from 12/09/1981. EAFA and the BFI don't have this, so I presume it's wiped. It's suggested an excerpt of this was used in a Clapperboard edition, but I haven't found conclusive proof of that yet.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEj4GTJ45V8

Not much to see here, it's a Thames Help from 1991 and came up on my suggested list. :- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePh8CjojchQ

I may as well inform you that on the previously mentioned BBC Compilation tape there is also an extract of a Roberta Flack performance. This comes from the otherwise missing Sounds for Saturday from 26/08/1972. AFAIK, the show it comes from is not logged at the BBC or outside.

This is an edition of Anglia Live, 16/09/1988:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y7NJgGB25k

Solved a mystery; The missing Al Green: In Concert 31/05/1973 (recorded 18/05/1973) was originally meant to be a BBC In Concert - a brief clip's inclusion on a BBC Compilation tape is from this performance. The tape in question has performances from the aforementioned series and Sounds for Saturday on this. Sounds for Saturday did not run into 1973. At least one database already counts this concert to be part of the In Concert series even though it was not billed this way. Please note there is a terrible buzz on the tape. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaz4HrQzF00

Insomniacs, eh?
I seem to have located the two missing episodes of Arab Ferment, a trio of films made about the Middle East in 1963 by Television Reporters International per pro ATV, presented by Ludovic Kennedy.
The two episodes are Saudi Arabia – A Land Awakening 12/03/1963 and Israel/Palestine* -A Land Apart from 19/03/1963. They are held on film in the archives of WNET in the US and as a bonus, a 16mm copy of the first one is in the Library of Congress.
*there were two titles used, according to internet sources.
licensing.wnet.org/content/arab-ferment-episode-3-saudi-arabia-a-land-awakening/?fbclid=IwAR1zG4TkCL53GMQjqmuMi0olpjbLYHvg1-gUoBFxrSzx8UtCgbQUaElXpoc

I couldn't resist having a look for more kitchen-orientated Home Counties passive-aggressive shenanigans. Home Cookery Club, oh yes.... my favourite oxymoronic double act are back and this time it's 'Ratatouille Pie', 30/10/1986:- www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1481177671923928 as uploaded by TV Ark.

A reupload of C.A.T.S Eyes episode Backlash by Philip England:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFCp-6i9mqk

I've spotted a wiped Play Away.... this is from 30/01/1982 and is another gem uploaded by the Neil Miles channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf-I4jNf0Nw

Some missing Channel 4 - apparently. This is War and Peace - the View from Moscow and it was shown on 01/04/1984 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIxEnBLFViA

Televised charity appeals anyone? I thought a few would exist in private hands - Huntley have one with Judi Dench and there are two different edits of the Bernard Cribbins RSPB film 'Round Robin' (one should still be on youtube).
What I always wondered though was whether ITV made the same type of show and I had no idea either way.
A wee bit of research led to me finding out that the third channel had a series entitled 'Give at Seven' which ran at least from 1962 to 1967, and that there were definitely editions missing....
One has turned up and it seems to have been archived all this time, just relatively unnoticed and it's 'War Memorial Appeal' made by Ulster TV and has a date of 14/03/1966. I doubt it's ever been missing as a fantastic transfer has been made by Northern Ireland Screen as part of their Digital Film Archive. Ken Griffin tells me that most Give at Seven edition were shot on 16mm and retained:- digitalfilmarchive.net/media/give-at-seven-war-memorial-appeal-5159?fbclid=IwAR2QxHXrg5D5BN2b_0jzrNhwRxEqc9MpR--tvavKUINR0X2uu0zYoe2k6Ak

5 Alive, TVS. Series One, Episode Three. 18/07/1987, just uploaded an hour or so ago, and wiped:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJgSYYnuwbc

NOTE: The date suggested by the uploader is wrong!
Here's a bit of off-air Nationwide for you which is from one of the non-archived editions - although in truth only about a minute and a half of this upload is 'in studio' and the rest is a filmed report that may exist. It's a report about the 50th Anniversary of the death of Arthur Conan Doyle, possibly the best forward line Glasgow Celtic never had.
The correct date for this is, in fact, 07/07/1980:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUXn-2nx1-4

I spotted this some time ago, but I couldn't actually tie it down to a date and now I have.
This is a telerecording of perhaps the earliest talkback in history; it's Bill Ward and his team from a 1959 performance of Moscow State Circus (tx 07/05/1960) as an ATV edition of Let's Go. The broadcast was exported and also won Bill Ward several awards. The talkback film was also copied and shown both at home and internationally for tuition purposes, although this is the only copy I've located, as held by the Huntley Archive; Amanda Huntley has confirmed this exists in their archive as a 16mm telerecording:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1EpCtoRo0A

My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, one of the last 4 missing Dramarama episodes, the Creature Beyond Torches End, 11/05/1987, as uploaded by the Made in Maidstone youtube channel. WOW!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIHS5uzKw5w
I've been looking for this for YEARS.

IT DOESN'T STOP!
A wiped Talking Animal, TVS, 12/07/1984, again from the Made in Maidstone youtube channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqFb0Ox7Sx4

If looks could kill they probably will...
A number of editions of Jeux Sans Frontières not kept by the BBC do survive in the archives of other European broadcasters. Got that? Well, this is one of them; 23/08/1967 - International Heat 6 from Blackpool with the German TV presentation, but obviously the Beeb's footage. The UK's representatives are Cheltenham.
Two things of note - this from the days when David Vine used to present the programme and also check out the rather wobbly credits at the end....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzTt8Wtgq-s

Show of the Week often featured bought-in programmes as well as BBC and co-productions and on occasions it's good to check that they're still held too.
One example is the Eartha Kitt edition from 24/06/1967 which does indeed exist over the pond. It was only transmitted in monochrome - with colour BBC2 broadcasts on starting a week later - but it is retained in the U.S in colour. Here's Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, yeah!:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u-CXyjHA5c

Those very nice people over at the The TV Museum have just posted this:
"Just FYI, discovered an episode of the TVS series "Toksvig" TX 28/09/1988. On a Betamax tape with some bearding evident. Will try on another machine but it's almost certainly caused by the recording machine in which case nothing can be done."

The following programme is meant to be missing, but it isn't.
I have had it confirmed on email today that RBB in Germany hold this.
17.02.1972 Lulu's Party
A BBC/SFB production.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Musical director Paul Kuhn; produced and directed by Dieter Finnern.
With Lulu (Herself), SFB Dance Orchestra (Resident Orchestra), The Carpenters, Peter Noone, The Hermits, Horst Jankowski.
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The following SERIES is meant to be missing, but this isn't either.
I have had it confirmed on email today that RBB in Germany ALSO hold this.
CHAMPAGNE ON ICE
A BBC production for BBC 2 made in association with SFB.
Usual duration: 45 minutes
14.11.1970
With Paul Anka, The Hollies, Dagmar Koller, Yonty Solomon, Jeff and Franzisca, Les Apollo.
21.11.1970
With Sandie Shaw, Donald Jackson, Frank Ifield, Hamilton Brown, Mark And Paula.
05.12.1970
With Daliah Lavi, Donald Jackson, Vincent Zara, The Selmas, Freddie Kenton, Jeff and Franzisca.
12.12.1970
With Marmalade, Maynard Ferguson, Sylvia McNeill, Mark And Paula.
19.12.1970
With Roger Whittaker, Mungo Jerry, Tanja Berg, David Rosaire's Pekes.
02.01.1971
With Baroness Diana Von Langendorff, Martin Mann, Bernard Ford, Diane Towler.
Kaleidoscope and the BBC have both been informed via email.

As weird as this looks, it may be missing. This is a TVS edition of Highway, and I have managed to date it to 24/05/1987. The BFI and Wessex don't have it and the hour I just spent double-checking that is sixty minutes of my life I won't get back.
So this is Harry, and he's in Rochester.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLHOkj62Y3E
(a Raymi brownie point to anyone who can tell me what makes Rochester unique compared to every other town in the UK....)

And lastly - another 'suggested' bit of viewing says youtube -Night Thoughts with Norman St John Stevas MP from April 1984 :- www.youtube.com/watch?v=tudXIHyiMFo

Sweeping up some errant programming material here.
One of the forgotten 'series' titles used by the BBC was Wednesday Show Time, running in 1968 and 1969. They were a disparate collection of shows that fell under the LE banner despite all their differences. It seems there were 31 shows billed this way in total and rather like the Show of the Week and Something Special strands of programming these included bought-in shows as well as BBC productions, such as a number of editions of the Good Old Days. A number are considered lost although I did locate a couple of copies of the non-BBC Production Monte Carlo - C'est La Rose a while back. I'll be looking for those soon too when I have the time.
Here's most of one of bought-in editions which is the Dean Martin Show from 09/10/1968 (originally shown in the US 19/10/1967):- www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvvYKOvJQlo

For the ultimate completist, this is an episode that wasn't made by the BBC that was bought in and that they have no current broadcasting rights to....
It's an edition of Show of the Week from 08/04/1967 and this is to confirm that 'Meet Marcel Marceau' exists in kinescope from over in the USA:- ""MEET MARCEL MARCEAU
1965
DVD; NTSC format; B&W, 52 min.
The most renowned of contemporary mime artists stars in a one-man show filmed for television. Ten different vignettes, including his famous "Bip" character, are featured. Voiceover narration by Marcel Marceau in English.
Vignettes include: "The Tango Dancer", "The Side Show", "The Magic of Mime", "The Magician", "The Kite", "Bip: Matador", "Bip at a Society Party", "Youth, Maturity, Old Age, and Death", "Bip Dreams He is Don Juan", and "Tribute" (Marceau's tribute to silent film stars).""
It's doing the rounds of collectors but it is probably archived over there too.

Also, a wiped Sit Up and Listen from 17/06/1981 with a wee bit of Thames IVC and all of that, adverts, slide, clock, all uploaded by the ADC TV Collection.
the Thames News Headlines is also fairly unique....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3N4YLb3Gg8

Stop Look Listen, 'Bricks', ATV from 1980 as retransmitted on 24/02/1986 and uploaded by the ADC TV Collection:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUHd32E0LOc

I have done a bit more researching and discovered another LE programme.
This is the missing Holiday on Ice from 26/12/1972.
The reason it still exists is down to SRF who still have a copy of this, presumably in or near Zurich. It was a co-production with them and I'm guessing they still have copyright.
You can even watch this one....:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFASaGc5zC0

Yes....two buses turning up at once would spring to mind here, but in truth IF you look for two buses....
Here's another unarchived Holiday on Ice.... I say unarchived but it's held overseas. This one's from Dortmund and despite the sparsity of credits, I have established that it's from 27/06/1974....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6sbLqDbQi0
(I'd like to point out that I can't ice skate and the only time I tried I twisted my ankle, so before today I'd never looked for Holiday on Ice instalments before....)

Hat-trick! My third and final Holiday on Ice discovery of the day is from 02/01/1972.
This was the very first BBC-televised one and it's here:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBNEQ6bSeps
(The only ice for the rest of the day will be in my coffee and the only atmospheric smoke will be coming from my medicinal cheroot....)

This is really just for completists as it's a programme made overseas that was shown as part of a UK run of productions.
That said.... it's a Play for Today, so perhaps 1/10th of a brownie point for me just for effort....
The play is entitled 'Reddick', synopsis here:- genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f10dff6e64cd4c8489b1802e6429caa5
As you can see it was made by CBC and it exists in Archives Canada as part of the PARC collection and it appears to be a 16mm kinescope; I'm presuming it's monochrome. recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?app=filvidandsou&IdNumber=183622&q=reddick&fbclid=IwAR0KjSQQwPalfEl1L_kC2oqcWlIqNmtUaBJ4wwZG_Z40mhSO9F1Mv5ztvH4

The Made in Maidstone youtube channel has come up with another one.
This is the Ultra Quiz final (SE02 E09) and had a transmission date of 01/09/1984:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmu_zk0I3UY

It's Made in Maidstone youtube channel time again and it's an episode of Dramarama that was lost, then Kaleidoscope acquired a copy and now.... there's one on youtube.
This is 'Just a Game', TVS, 08/09/1986, uploaded only minutes ago....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRn4mognEU0

Some things turn up in archives you just wouldn't expect.... there's an excerpt of Border TV's long-running local news magazine programme 'Lookaround' (or Deekaboot, if you're Cumbrian....) exists at the Open University.
search.worldcat.org/title/1287857120

Missing ITN and it's not a news programme? Yes.
Theft of a Thoroughbred was an ITN production, shown on 22/03/1983 and was all about the disappearance of the former Derby winner Shergar.
Well, the wonderful VHS Rewinds channel uploaded it a little while back and I missed it the first time....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDK84uklVgM

In 1977 and 1978, BBC North broadcast several shows entitled 'Beneath the Pennines'. which was all about exploring the caves in the region.
Some of the programmes were repeated, although this was true of a couple of episodes more than others. Kaleidoscope hold one edition which was transferred from a domestic format.
The BBC North Archive don't hold any of the editions and neither do the BFI. However, five of them are on youtube and they are the first programmes as listed on this playlist:- www.youtube.com/@cavingcameraman/search?query=%22beneath%20the%20pennines%22

You probably don't recall that around 8 months ago I located a couple of Profiles in Rock which was a series of programmes broadcast on ITV featuring interviews and videos of musicians. Despite being made in Canada in 1980 and 1981, they were shown on various ITV regions including Central and also got an airing on MTV in the days when MTV had music on!!!! For one reason or the other, they are occasionally counted as hemi-demi-semi British programmes although they aren't really.
Anyway, here's a third one - this is Bev Bevan's programme although due to copyright strikes the promo films are not included.
This aired on 13/02/1983 and was also repeated on 17th December that same year:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5gdjLnUp8s

Some missing Channel 4? 'Perlman Plays Beethoven' (04/12/1982) is one of those programmes made by noted classical music producer/director Christopher Nupen and his company Allegro Films hold the masters.
In addition, the programme was issued on VHS and Betamax and subsequently can be found in these formats in various libraries around the world, and this includes one in Vytautas Magnus University Library in Kaunas, Lithuania- although there are obviously copies in many other places too.

If you're wondering why I'm finding so much ITV stuff today, I've stumbled across an old ITV-related database I have, which might also explain the speed of my discoveries....
....and so it continues.... noted documentary maker Adrian Cowell left his collection of papers to the University of Washington in Seattle.
The lost documentary mini-series Rebel 'Raid Into Tibet' 09/05/1966 and 'The Unknown War' 16/05/1966 (both ATV Network Pathfinder Productions) and the Light of Asia (again ATV Network Pathfinder) 23/05/1966 "Thailand and Theravada Buddhism", 06/06/1966 "Tibetan Buddhists in Nepal and India" and 13/06/1966 "The Sokagakkai Sect in Japan" all exist on 16mm film there.
There will quite possibly be other missing programmes in the collection but....that's a good start. archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv28945/op=fstyle.aspx?t=k&q=adrian%20cowell&fbclid=IwAR0ebSY46Um81XmQlbYQU-JDEy2h3EgYsu5KXlogNnpBS-Sb-ZEdc8QOFMM#idm144

Made in Maidstone again with another bit of wiped TVS - this is the 27/12/1988 Xmas Special edition of 'Prove It!'.
Only uploaded about three minutes before I posted this....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xAWqzRNPuk

My friend Anonymous of Anglia has just spotted that the BFI have an edition of Format V that was meant to be missing.
The edition is called 'Out of the Mouths....' (22/02/1979) and it's held by them on U-Matic Low Band.

TVS Vinters Park Maidstone: Launch Promo...
As uploaded by Made in Maidstone:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=iriOjWW38TU

North Tonight Special - Grampian 1988 Shinty Match - Produced by the great Royston Mayoh! (Spotted by Lee Barnard).:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=1szUo0i2Xms

Quite possibly one of the smallest bits of missing footage ever....that wasn't missing at all and has always existed but no one ever clocked on....and this was spotted by my friend Anonymous of Anglia....
Bullseye; this was a clip from Series 2 showcasing Maureen Flowers’ dart-throwing abilities from the series prior which was originally shown on 05/10/1981.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU_eQJZUH8Q

Weirdness.
So I note that Made in Maidstone had uploaded a Frocks on the Box edition.
I checked to see if it was missing - which was not easy - and it exists, so naturally I thought that was the end of that.
But no, wiped episodes follow me around....
As I'm about to close the tab I spy the fact there's an off-air held by the City of Westminster Archives, 12/03/1987, which seems to be the only missing edition!:- www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk/title/3059/

You thought the missing footage was all discovered for the day.... and so did I.... we were wrong.
Here we are then, one of the only two current missing editions of Bric-a-Brac.... this one is 'W' and it was shown on 25/08/1982, as uploaded by Neil Miles' channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gxTyZufk6o
(point of trivia.... in Normandy, France there is a small town called Bricquebec and it's twinned with New Alresford in Hampshire.)

EDITED POST! Pop the Question was a TVS quiz show and a few are missing. The problem is that listings information is sketchy as to who appeared on which edition and when. Over half of the episodes aren't known to exist and after two or three seconds of deliberation I've decided to post this upload as a) it is more likely to be missing than not and b) it was uploaded today.
So this was recorded in 1985, possibly transmitted in 1986 and features (as well as Diddy), Carl Wayne from the Move - 'you know the one who married Miss Diane' as my dear old Auntie used to say. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsNluvb9VYc

Dougalling is not some bizarre practice involving a character in the Magic Roundabout, oh no. It's 'the art of casual discovery'.
This was in fact a Southern TV show presented by Donald Dougall and no episodes were known to exist until this great upload by Made in Maidstone - this being an episode from July 1981, this was put online about 20 minutes ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6gecd6F6ok

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells has written in to complain about the fact that the Barry Took Archive at the University of York only has 23 lost editions of Points of View there and for that reason he's not only refusing to pay his licence fee but his bum has exploded too. Well, Disgusted, I would mention the fact that the Montreux edition of Marty is in there too (but it's probably the same as the existing one), plus an unlogged and undated Look Who's Talking, but that's all we've got time for now....
borthcat.york.ac.uk/index.php/btoo-box-6

Good Health was an ATV schools series which made the transition to Central. Fortunately there aren't too many missing but Dr Sweet-Tooth (which appears to have appeared in some listings magazines as a standalone production, possibly an error) 02/09/1982 and repeated on 04/10/1982 does exist - in fact there are two different uploads on youtube, one of which has added Schools continuity: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZx5lOAsKT0 and www.youtube.com/watch?v=izwbrh3gSzc

I'm not even looking....
A missing Coast to Coast (East) from Made in Maidstone again and this dates from 14/09/1990:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ7ISuZjXxU

Housekeeping, part 8239.... I've noticed my 2019 discovery of a copy of the Douglas Fairbanks Jnr Presents episode 'Atlantic Night' (07/12/1955, Associated-Rediffusion) is still listed as missing on tvbrain. I did find a copy on DVD via the 'grey market' in the US. I've since found another vendor of the same episode (and others) today.
So while it's not a new discovery, it does exist, assuredly.

Quite trivial this, but in this upload of trails and so on from the wonderful ADC TV Collection youtube channel (uploaded today) there is a specially-recorded trail for Larry Grayson's Generation Game, 26/08/1980:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X9Nhkhm1to
Starts at about 1.04.

Aidan Lunn and his Sticky tape 'n' rust youtube channel have come up with another bit of wiped footage and it's the Night Thoughts edition here from 23/02/1984 featuring Michael Meacher MP.
It starts around 5.43 in, but there's also Thames continuity and so forth before that featuring Philip Elsmore.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKcjpS-M2aU

After spending the day with my eldest sproglet, I returned home and before I had even the merest chance to make an iced coffee and a medicinal cheroot, I come back and lo and behold the wonderful Made in Maidstone youtube channel has uploaded another wiped programme.
This one is an edition of Farm Progress (Southern TV) and it's entitled 'Making a Start'. I think it's possibly from 1980 as the end cap says.
(Personal comment- My dear old Grandad was a farmer in Hampshire just before the outbreak of WW1 and I was thinking about him today so.... quite apt.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xw1LKkURN0

Ever so slightly off-topic - but it's very television-related.... this is another upload by Made in Maidstone and it's a TVS-P Marketing Showreel from 1991.
Yes, it's not definite that it was ever broadcast as such, but within the video there are a few clips of wiped programmes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N0IYI-wtZg

Sometimes random searches come up with things.
The MACE Archive in Lincoln hold just over 8 minutes of footage of a 1973 episode of Women Only - which was an HTV show.
This is without doubt the earliest known footage from that programme - although it seems to be a filmed report held on 16mm. Details:- www.macearchive.org/films/women-only-platform-shoes

""14 hours ago@TheSaintsray
Loving all this. By the way, your upload of the Creature Beyond Torches End (Dramarama) is going to get lots of views, such is its' rarity. I have put a link to that upload on a Group with credit to the channel. THANK YOU.😁
@madeinmaidstone-xt5tn
1 hour ago@MadeinMaidstone-xt5tn
Which others are ‘lost’? 😄
@thesaintsray
1 hour ago@TheSaintsray
@madeinmaidstone-xt5tn 2 other TVS Dramaramas are missing with no extant copy known about:- (06.08.1984) Rachel and Rosie; (18.07.1988) Now You See Them."
A FEW MOMENTS LATER....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCi2WlBnEOQ

Teensy bit of wiped for you.... again from the Made in Maidstone youtube channel but it's not TVS - this is most of an edition of Weekend from Southern TV from 17/03/1980....and yes, I do recognize the presenter!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vywRZ8oGbAQ

Just to inform you that the audio for "Take A Sapphire", directed by Ned Sherrin, BBC, 04/01/1965 exists on a 1/4" master sound tape in a private collection. The audio was pre-recorded.
""Programme details:-Written by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin; music by Ron Grainer and Connell Bernard; musical director Peter Knight; choreography by Irving Davies; designed by Darrol Blake; produced and directed by Ned Sherrin.
Main regular cast: Georgia Brown, Angela Thorne, John Wood, Lydia Sokolova, Elisabeth Welch, Margo Horton, Max Adrian, Al Mancini, Mary Preston, Valentine Palmer, René Sartoris, Patsy Rowlands, Rose Hill, Ilarrio Pedro, Sheila Clarke, The George Mitchell Choir.""

I appear to have stumbled upon some TV in the Welsh language that was made by Granada TV, who stopped producing Welsh language programming in 1962. I believe it's a compilation tape so this may be something that ITV have as well, possibly. The tape is at the wonderful National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth and is called "Yesterday's News". It comes with the additional comment: 'Segment a - Granada Package' and my guess is it's extracts of Welsh language news from 1962 or before. Anyway, it's going to be a unique example of one of the rarest types of ITV regional programming and to my knowledge, the only example. discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991119197402419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,%22granada%20%22&sortby=date_a&offset=0

Aidan Lunn found this missing Keynotes from 09/11/1992:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aerhexr8Bxc

This may be some of the least important wiped footage I've spotted - and it IS an old upload - but when I saw this I did think of My Lovely Horse. Bless.
Anyway, many of you will have seen this but it's a Night Thoughts from 09/08/1984:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=emQuhYhdlLM

....and just while I'm doing a wee bit of TSW work here's an episode of Amoebas to Zebras from 25/03/1987.
I've been told that both all editions exist and all editions are missing by people over the years. I'm not entirely sure, either way.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSL_LgEjdCA

One I missed; this is an excerpt of an edition of Freeze Frame, the TSW childrens' programme, as uploaded by the wonderful ADC TV Collection.
It's a reupload of a previously blocked video and it's from 1994:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCCe1SlsZoQ

This is a bit of a weird discovery in that most of the film here was in the programme but not all of it and also the original broadcast was in monochrome, but this is in colour. Confused?
Look was a BBC Nature programme that ran from 1955 until 1969. Interestingly there was a massive mixture of self-produced BBC films and a number of bought-in productions. Just under 80 editions are meant to be lost which is just shy of 40% - although I've always been of the belief that rather like Survival the amount that exist is actually higher, because a number of the purchased programming is actually extant outwith the Beeb.
Here's an example; 'Swallows at the Mill' was a 1962 RSPB film that was shown in edited form as the Look edition of the same title 0n 02/01/1963. The BBC don't have a copy but as I understand it the RSPB do and it's also on youtube. It was filmed in colour but was transmitted in monochrome, obviously:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSgBEwm2uS0

This isn't exactly a lost programme but I suspect the confirmation of the existence of it will be welcomed in some circles.
For one of those rare occasions - and not for the want of trying - some drama! Play for Today was the BBC's most visible series of dramatizations and a few of them were co-productions with other broadcasters. 'The Write-Off' (12/11/1970) went a stage further and was actually acquired direct from dear old CBC in Canada.
It does exist in Archives Canada in videotape, kinescope and audio version, and here's the reference to the former:- recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?app=filvidandsou&IdNumber=28488&q=%22write-off%22&fbclid=IwAR128G2PW0GBWdiFH2Jh5dneQqLKSeqKLPncRTZaNjgdUAXvIB4Mdd6_TVU

I suppose I'd better mention I've just stumbled upon a Talkback edition from either 1967 or 1968 in Archives Canada. Only around 20% of editions are lost and there is no way to tell remotely which date it is from.
Details:- recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?app=filvidandsou&IdNumber=446737&q=%22british%20broadcasting%22

Made in Maidstone's youtube channel have come up with another bit of wiped footage - this is a solo guitar performance by Michael Conn on Scene Midweek, Southern from I would guess around 1980 - but that's completely a guess!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMfqvEbuur4

Well, this is something I'd never heard of.... (although I was a mite disappointed when I discovered this was not a tribute to my beloved Southampton FC.)
AnyPilgrimsWay, this is a Southern TV programme - another wee piece of televisual history from the wonderful Made in Maidstone channel and is entitled 'Stories of the Saints'. It's from 12/11/1975, apparently. This instalment covers Thomas (a') Becket.
I'm presuming it's wiped as it did not appear to either be in the Wessex or BFI Archives.
....and now I can't get the tagline of that John's Children record out of my head.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzJdvMCSENY

You won't have seen this recently.
It's an upload by Neil Miles' channel of a wiped Big Breakfast from 30/06/1997 - as uploaded a just few minutes ago:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhNMgqx8qVI

One could say this barely counts as a missing programme.... although equally one could say it's an instalment of a BBC series not held by the broadcaster or in any UK Archives.
Both are true; I'm researching 'Show of the Week' just the now and this is another bought-in episode. This is Cloris Leachman starring in 'Of Thee I Sing', which was transmitted Stateside on ABC in 1972 - and where this tape comes from - and was shown over here as a Show of the Week on 31/08/1972.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb2gcl94mIA

And another.... it's a No. 73 from Made in Maidstone and it's SE08 E03, 13/09/1987:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=6piyJ0K9Duw
This was wiped but Kaleidoscope have an off-air which I think is from a different source.

Empty holdings. It's not a Wings B-side, surprisingly, nor is it an obscure BBC 1 afternoon panel game introduced by John Junkin, this is a designation used on some databases to include things that MIGHT exist but also might not exist as there's been no definitive answer.
After something has appeared on a database in this form for 5 years I tend to regard it as lost, while still, of course hoping it will turn up in an archive.
So.... here's exactly that.... an empty holding and this is an edition of Highway from Harlow in Essex from Valentine's Day of 1988.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk8QTcMzvYY
(One of the few things I actually knew about Harlow was the St Mary's Church was the oldest building in the town - and I only learnt that today watching a youtube video completely unconnected with rare TV! How weird.)

James Hemery reports a missing episode of Dixon of Dock Green has turned up and Talking Pictures TV will show it 😀 It’s called Duffy Calls The Tune (a Series 5 episode broadcast 21 March 1959). Episode 86 (Series 5 Ep 26).
TPTV have now confirmed they will show it on 30th March.

Another upload of a wiped programme from the Made in Maidstone youtube channel and it's an edition of 'Do It' from 13/03/1985:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD31xGiAIkQ

And there's more.... TVS.
It's C.A.T.S Eyes again and another of those missing episodes that have more than one domestic recording existing, so.... yes, some of you will have seen the episode.
It's SE01 E02, 'the Black Magic Man', 19/04/1985 as uploaded by Archive Media Vault today.... like half an hour ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEcUXOWdKaY

Another one from Made in Maidstone's youtube channel and this wiped edition is TVS' Do It, SE04 E06, 13/05/1987:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=G32OtWw7F1U

'the speech of flowers excels the flowers of speech' (Sir Francis Crisp).
and so.... for gardeners everywhere....
I'd like to point out that an edition of Gardeners' World from 04/06/1982 from Ness Gardens exists on videotape at the University of Liverpool as part of its' Special Collections. Most GWs were erased from between 1972 and 1985. (I actually got an email to ask me to look for Gardeners' World editions a few years back.... only taken me until now to find one!)
Details:- sca-archives.liverpool.ac.uk/Record/112644/HierarchyTree?fbclid=IwAR1dp1N92Qhd1bOn6Nmi-acqCuZnx0YEQ0etzEgO4PLRpwIuZGiuT-qfzHA
For those of you still reading today's bit of completely irrelevant and useless information is that Paul McCartney exclaims 'Fanny Cradock! Fanny Cradock!' during that famous Beatles song 'Helter Skelter'. No, REALLY.

I'm checking on whether a number of purchased films shown as parts of BBC Series are still extant at the moment. As I previously explained, these features aren't held by the BBC who have no rights to show them any more as they didn't make the original programme. Nevertheless, I think it is still important to keep track of what exists anyway.
So, here's another Omnibus, this was 'Julius Monk's Plaza 9' and it was transmitted 19/03/1968, only four days after the US transmission date. This was originally a production of the National Educational Television and Radio Center (NET) and is held by the Library of Congress on color 2-inch tape. It was only shown in monochrome over here as it was on BBC 1 and they weren't transmitting in colour....
Details:- americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-pr7mp4wq12

What I like to call the WI version of Loose Women.
Yes, it's a lost edition of Southern's 'Houseparty' from 16/10/1981 and it's another upload from Made in Maidstone. This time, there's features on a feature on Crossword Bingo.... Drop in again!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbSr1c7ZIv0

It's my old friends the Billy Taylor Trio, so it must be time for, yes, Barry Norman, that terribly nice man in the suit doing what he does oh so well.... it's time for Film 80, from, indeed the 22nd September 1980. And why not?
This is likely to be unarchived in its' complete form; there are quite a few Film editions that still have the original filmed interviews and whatnot still extant within the caves that are BBC Archives, but, some would say strangely, without the studio bits featuring our man Norman himself. Make of that what you will. So I'm guessing our lad Barry's bits are gone while the Travolta interview is the vaults.
Of course, Young Barry later grew up into an accomplished television performer, most notably in the advertisements for the Mortgage Corporation filmed in the sunny climbs of Stanley Road, Woking, Surrey.
Uploaded by Telly Viewer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoFO7pXWE8g

Another Made in Maidstone upload and another bit of TVS that disappeared. It's an edition of No. 73 and this is the episode 'Hang On' (SE06, E02, 18/01/1986):- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ual1MSYvs6g
Kaleidoscope have a copy of this episode from domestic video although I don't know if it comes from this source tape.

A freshly uploaded Late Weather forecast from TVS by the Made in Maidstone youtube channel. It's all about the knitwear.
16th or 17th September 1990, presumably because Kent and East Sussex are in a different time zone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CE0NB4QqJo

More lost programming from Made in Maidstone and this is an edition of Do It from 29/03/1988:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw_o--7dY_s

Elements of Nimmo in New York (BBC, 05/04/1971) exist at the Library of Congress - on VT as part of the extant Dick Cavett Show broadcast on 26/04/1971.
The Cavett show was pre-recorded and the Nimmo programme is 30 minutes whereas the entire DC Show is 90 and there were 4 guests including Nimmo.
Noting that the Producer was raving about the Cavett Show and had taken a copy of the programme with him - TV historians should note that the said Producer Richard Drewett shortly became the Producer for another long running chat show - Parkinson - which started in July 1971.

More wiped from Made in Maidstone and it's Do It from 20/03/1985, SE02 E07, TVS, obviously.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVwWfCJ9cT0

Made in Maidstone again with another one; this is Worldwise (TVS) and it's SE01 E08 (27/12/1985). I was the first person to start watching this on youtube!:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EI77Bt4oTo

The Finders Keepers pilot edition from 1988? Three years before the series starting?
Erm, yes and yes. Made in Maidstone again!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bACCEMf6Nq8

This one's a mite confusing and I really am unsure if this is missing or not.
The Beeb ran a series called Adventure from 1959 to 1966 and this focussed on travel, exotic locations and.... adventure.
Most editions exists (although I haven't tracked down Wheels Across the Sahara yet....), but I came across one that was billed separately as a standalone programme - and although the BFI list it as an edition of Adventure they don't have it themselves. It was then repeated once as a standalone again - and then repeated again in 1972 as a World Around Us.
The episode in question is 'Balloon Over the Alps' and its' first broadcast was 14/01/1964.
This exists on 16mm film at the University of Georgia in the US.
bmac.libs.uga.edu/index.php/Detail/objects/451392
It also transpires the film was sold on 8mm film to the general public!

AND THAT'S IT!

I think that's been a pretty good month of discoveries and I may take most of April off!!!!!

[John Green]

I'd actually love these posted as they emerge, to brighten each day up! And it's so much to get through in one go. But better, much, much, better than having no discoveries.

Can't resist adding "Finally accessed the Palely catalogue,and there's Noon Wine." from 2012. (This was from the days when I didn't know how to post links). missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/7233/star-performance-dial-murder-added?page=3

Mind you, www.amazon.co.uk/Noon-Wine/dp/B0BSCDYSZT !

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

Mar 2, 2024 1:30:49 GMT John Green said:

I'd actually love these posted as they emerge, to brighten each day up! And it's so much to get through in one go. But better, much, much, better than having no discoveries.

I would love to post here on a daily basis, I really would, but there's so much to do....

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

Mar 2, 2024 1:30:49 GMT John Green said:

I'd actually love these posted as they emerge, to brighten each day up! And it's so much to get through in one go. But better, much, much, better than having no discoveries.

Can't resist adding "Finally accessed the Palely catalogue,and there's Noon Wine." from 2012. (This was from the days when I didn't know how to post links). missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/7233/star-performance-dial-murder-added?page=3

Mind you, www.amazon.co.uk/Noon-Wine/dp/B0BSCDYSZT !

Forgot the original of Noon Wine was one of your spots - will amend....

[John Green]

Have to admit, I never knew what to look for unless you'd started a tread on it. Boy, that must have been irritating...

[nathangeorge]

I had no idea Beneath the Pennines was missing. I have had three editions in my person collection for at least five years now. I was busy swelling with pride - fancy that I found missing material doop de doo clever me doop de doop (etc.) - but I'm now kicking myself for assuming these existed in an archive somewhere and not checking. I have a couple of other shows about caving from around 1978 - 83 stored on a hard drive so I will check those. I suspect things like this is why my teachers used to write 'could try harder' and 'no attention to detail' on my school reports!

I was researching a novel in which caves are featured and contacted several cave wardens up and down the UK. Some of the caves they managed had been the subject of a documentary and the caving association they represent had retained a copy, and in some cases transferred and uploaded them to YT. I don't know if that's a possible lead then.

I'll be looking forward to checking out the Big Breakfast clips later. Feels so strange to watch them all these years later with no sleep dust in my eyes! Cheers, Ray.

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

'via mobile?'. That's nice.... I don't have internet on my phone!

[John Green]

Love the footage of Southampton in Bus Wars www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hltajs9dI6Y including Shirley!

[robincarmody]

re. Rochester, its uniqueness is that it has ancient city status but lost that (seemingly by mistake) when Medway became a unitary authority in 1998.

I know the place from childhood but haven't set foot in Kent since we moved away 30 years ago ...

[robkeeley]

The Dixon episode (which I reported first, along with the Play Away, Bric-a-Brac and several of the TVS uploads!! was shown on Saturday and can now be seen here: www.tptvencore.co.uk/.

Another edition of Highway has just been uploaded, a compilation one with material from various ITV companies including TVS. TV Brain lists this one as 'existence unknown'.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGbMFZN5O5c&t=19s

Great to see so much 'lost' material surviving, at least in some form.

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

Apr 2, 2024 10:22:40 GMT robkeeley said:

The Dixon episode (which I reported first, along with the Play Away, Bric-a-Brac and several of the TVS uploads!! was shown on Saturday and can now be seen here: www.tptvencore.co.uk/.

Another edition of Highway has just been uploaded, a compilation one with material from various ITV companies including TVS. TV Brain lists this one as 'existence unknown'.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGbMFZN5O5c&t=19s

Great to see so much 'lost' material surviving, at least in some form.

I was aware of this one.

I subscribe to the youtube channel and speak to the uploader now and again; I DO suspect this one to be missing as it's a compilation episode and was probably recorded as a stand-by (which in fact how it was transmitted, in place of another edition0.

It's down as existence unknown which in this instance means it's an empty holding - which means that it's not certain whether it exists or not. I suspect it is lost as the footage aside from the unique end cap and Harry's linking material was meant to exist elsewhere (which is not the case with the TVS extract).

[Marie Griffiths]

Possible source for the Indy 500 and indeed F1. Goodyears were big sponsors and tyre suppliers in F1 and Indy 500 which were made in Wolverhampton England. They might have material. Alas the plant is shutdown but the archives might have ben preserved.