MARCH 2024 DISCOVERIES! PLEASE READ!!!!
Apr 2, 2024 15:42:21 GMT
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Apr 2, 2024 15:42:21 GMT
Despite the fact I was as cream-crackered as a pile of dry Jacob's, I decided to trudge on through my lonely furrow of discovery and see if I could somehow dredge a few more forgotten shows up from the Scots Mist of the internet.
And, by jolly Bobby G, I think I have. Sure as Sandie, this has been a little bit easier due to the efforts of the Made in Maidstone youtube channel - a special thank you to the uploader of this channel - and consequently there are quite a number of TVS and Southern discoveries this month, a much higher percentage than usual.
Please note that these are written in a semi-chronological order, so at the beginning are things I generally spotted at the turn of the month.
Well, without further a do ron ron ron a do ron ron, here's March 2024's Discoveries....
We start with some wiped from Made in Maidstone and it's Do It from 20/03/1985, SE02 E07, TVS, obviously.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVwWfCJ9cT0
Nothing much to see here, unless you like your sport frosty and dancey, in which case this is for you.
What looks to be the final wiped Holiday on Ice from the 1970s here and it's the programme from 25/12/1974.
This is presumably held by the Swiss TV service, but even if wasn't, it's on youtube for for you to see:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAfrn-JpWnM
This is the documentary 'Path of the Rain God' as shown by Channel 4 on 27/04/1986. I understand Michael Fish is not featured.
I'm not sure if it was shown as edited in these 4 parts, but.... at any rate it's all here and it's meant to be missing from UK Archives - well it was in 2022 when my database was updated.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCwgIaKPk80 AND www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5qfyY81faM AND www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERdmw1i3F6M AND www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EmsE9G0E1M
A few hours ago Gareth Joy posted this uploaded to the History of Anglia Television from 1959 by The Transdiffusion Organisation group and it transpires that it's a wiped programme.
It's the About Britain instalment 'Fantasy on a String' (27/08/1981).
My thanks to Chris Bowden-Smith and Transdiffusion’s All Talk : Broadcasting History for bringing this to my attention.
I'm a mite confused about this; one of my databases/spreadsheets has 'the Satellite Game' (BSB Galaxy) being missing? I'd always assumed it was archived.
Several attempts to clarify whether it's safe have proved unsuccessful so I'm going to temporarily assume it's lost - remember as well it was shown within Cool Cube (which was a wrap-around) and a lot of those are gone.
So, if it is missing - here's 5 episodes from youtube.
I'm hoping that I'm just unnecessarily concerned about this show, and it does exist and I can delete this thread later.
(In the meantime, do these count as science fiction finds?
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More housekeeping.
Petula was a TV Special featuring Ms Clark with special guest star Harry Belafonte that aired in the US on 02/04/1968 and was shown in the UK on BBC 1 04/08/1968 (details here:- genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/26d23a54188a4e9bb476e101c83c9884).
So what? Well, while it was ostensibly an NBC programme and appeared to have nothing to do with UK TV further inspection proves it did. Produced by Yvonne Littlewood? Yes, the legendary UK TV Producer/Director!
I quote Yvonne's Guardian obituary about the programme: ""In 1968, the BBC released her for six weeks when she was asked to co-produce an American TV special for Clark on the NBC network. The programme, Petula, featured Harry Belafonte as the guest star. After Clark held his arm while singing a duet, the director insisted on reshooting it, with the stars standing apart, because of objections from the show’s sponsor on racial grounds. Clark subsequently objected, Littlewood wiped the second version and the original was used."" More about the incident here:- www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/04/harry-belafonte-petula-clark-1968-civil-rights-arm-touch-national-commotion
The BBC transmitted the programme in monochrome as it was BBC 1. Later of course. both Ms Clark and Ms Littlewood would be involved in the very first BBC 1 colour broadcast on 15/11/1969.
Anyway, while not strictly a BBC production there was a rumour in some parts that the programme was junked, which is untrue. Not so; NBC still retain a copy, as do my friends at the Paley Archive on color tape:- www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=&p=1&item=T:92745
'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/.../HierarchyTree
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.
One of my last 'housekeeping' posts as such, which is just tidying up some loose ends.
Just to confirm that Rick Wakeman's appearance on the Old Grey Whistle Test from the otherwise wiped 16/01/1972 edition does exist as part of a BBC compilation. It even has a caption saying so.
Here he is performing one of those numbers from one of his opuses the Six Wives of King Arthur Journeying to the Centre of the Earth on Ice or whatever it's called. And despite my ribbing, the boy can play.
The toon is called Catherine Howard, no relation to Frankie or the Duck.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdt0tWIR1Eg
PS: I haven't watched this; bet you he's wearing a bleeding cape, though.
Update. You probably don't recall, but back in 2021 I located 200 copies of the supposedly missing Survival edition 'Saguaro' (19/06/1969) at libraries and universities that were chiefly in the US.
On a whim, I decided to see if this was still true.
It isn't.
There are now 261 (VIDIPRINTER: TWO-HUNDRED-AND-SIXTY-ONE) copies globally, still all in North America:- search.worldcat.org/title/79303008?oclcNum=79303008
It's a religious programme....
The story behind this footage existing is it was rescued from a skip!
29/06/1958; it's an excerpt from the BBC's Sunday Special.
This film is held by the Archive of Recorded Church Music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcF5O1M1jfU
More wiped stuff from Made in Maidstone; it's an edition of Do It - SE03 E06, 20/08/1986:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HSwLofJqgY
Yes, wiped BSB. Playabout, presented by Floella Benjamin is not the most widely remembered programme, but it seems the vast majority of the episodes are wiped with only one other on youtube.
Here's an undated edition from 1990 - obviously - and it's not the same as the other show I edition:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQEdtkDZkDY
UPDATE: It appears that Kaleidoscope have acquired a large number of Playabout editions from Floella Benjamin herself, but these have not been added to tvbrain yet.
For my next trick, here's the last missing episode of Chock-a-Block.
This is an optical transfer and so the quality is a bit poor, but well done to the uploader for sharing it.
It's actually called 'Magpie', rather than 'Fly' (though it's very easy to see how anyone would have got the title wrong!) and this is the last episode that was missing and hadn't been spotted in some shape or form and it's from 25/06/1981.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0_aG86GDx8
More wiped from Made in Maidstone and this transpires to be one of the only editions of No. 73 under not only the 7T3 banner but the Sunday 73 moniker that was thought to be completely missing with no copy in circulation at all.
This edition is from 20/12/1987: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiHM_6UAfuI
More wiped from Made in Maidstone - it's another No.73 and this is SE06 E13 (Dramatics), tx 12/04/1986:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9tvhEo7jpM
Actually, don't get TOO excited about this upload. This is one of the few editions that exists.
It's the 25/11/1978 edition of Southern's Saturday Banana and it WAS wiped but does exist, copied from tape. That said, it does appear to be at least one generation up from the copy that's circulating (points to pile of DVDs).
It nice to see in this quality and like I said, it was missing at one stage.
This was uploaded by Made in Maidstone with thanks again:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-qBjYR35A
Another Made in Maidstone upload and this is from 24/07/1980. It's a wiped edition of Day by Day, Southern TV:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPlkPBR0BL8
Sometime last year, the very wonderful Jonathan Kydd uploaded a wiped episode of Pipkins ('the Allotment') from his collection and due to whatever crisis I was dealing with at the time I missed it.
So for those of you who haven't seen it, here it is, transmitted 19/02/1980. Written by Gail Renard. 🙂
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LqP5IgjWwY
This is.... not exactly missing....but intriguing....
This is an uncut studio recording - including unaired footage - of the 14/02/1986, SE01 E07 edition of That's What You Think (TVS) - which has again been uploaded by Made in Maidstone - but does have a timecode on it.
Whether this is an exact copy of what exists in the archives is unknown. Initial research suggests this might not be the case, but I don't know either way for sure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hFez0zXjbA
A couple of editions of Sky Star Search here; they're domestic recordings and the second one is incomplete. Both are from 1989 although I have no better tx date than that.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K21SkEIBJ5w
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0M4AVc_muI
More wiped* from Made in Maidstone!
This is the 22nd edition of Countryside Close from 16/10/1989 (TVS).
What's less well-known is that several editions of the programme are in the Wessex Archive, but not this one. The BFI have nothing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SrFf74_ahk
This was missing.
Then all of a sudden, the BFI got an off-air of the programme.
If you would like to see an off-air recording - in fairly spiffing quality - then now is your time.
This is an edition of Jools Holland's Happening from 13/09/1991 as shown on Channel 4. www.youtube.com/watch?v=psXv4De_ik0
I may have overlooked these two audio recordings from Disco 2.
Firstly, Duncan Browne - 'Today And The Day Before Today' S02E10 on 14/11/1970. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-CDWWT3adU
and also Yes - 'Astral Traveller' S01E12 on 28/03/1970. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgVIhe4MGT8
According to Daisy (tvbrain) ""Synopsis: This was a pilot episode written for Su Pollard. Her character was a journalist who needed help to keep her unruly kids out of trouble. Advertising for a Home Help, along came strict George Pym. Although recorded, transmission was held back until a full season was commissioned. Unfortunately Su Pollard was tied up with other projects until late 1989, by which time Gordon Jackson had fallen ill. Although Jeremy Brett was considered to replace Gordon, the project was shelved.""
""Tape currently missing from shelf at ITV Leeds. Copy held at ITV 1 in Wales.""
Probably this then:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=p886ImIk0iQ
I think.... think.... that this is lost.
This is Francis and Rick of Status Quo being interviewed by Gambo on Pebble Mill at One, and the date is December 1982, which I believe is from the first two weeks of that month.... and not from a Friday - which means it's most likely wiped.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTBYqADWk90
MORE INFORMATION: The tx date is actually 08/11/1982. Thanks to Tony Rees. It is a lost episode, confirmed.
""The Kelloggs BMX Track Wars was a hugely popular TV show hosted by Mick Brown and Andy Ruffell. The show was broadcast on the UK's Channel 4 in 1984 and 1985.""
and the series is not held by any known TV or Film Archive in the UK....
but it is on youtube
E01:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7mEyNKImd8
E02:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=efl2iIJghOM
E03:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQP8ApKGpVo
E04:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW4oF0z3ElY
E05:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djx35SjoB4A
E06:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUwJx1zB6ng
That theme tune.... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggh.
I think this one has been possibly mentioned elsewhere but not here.
This is Space Invaders - A World Without Frontiers; a TVS Production for Channel 4 25/01/1984.
As I understand it, it was missing but a copy is now held by Kaleidoscope. As uploaded by the ADC TV Collection:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gNQVk9csQU
Here's a clip of the Naughty Boys playing on Granada Reports in 1987; almost all Granada Reports from before 2000 are gone although many filmed reports exist.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7CBYKqPfIo
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
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
UPDATE: Confirmed as 1980.
More lost TVS from Made in Maidstone and it's Motormouth SE01 053 - which seems to be the edition from 11/03/1989:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbyAjU4Ab2M
Right, this is more Made in Maidstone material and it's unusual.
A No. 73 upload again, probably from Season 5 (1985) which is meant to be fully in existence.... but hang on.... these are inserts....and it doesn't hook up with any of the existing titles of any of the editions.
So I'm mystified if it was broadcast or not.
Anyway, I'm still grateful for it, it's entitled 'How Many for Dinner' and here it is:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvyxJ3RekeY
More wiped from Made in Maidstone. Yes, indeedy, this is an episode of Motormouth from 03/01/1990 (SE02 E17) and it was regarded as missing.... until about an hour ago.....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yKb03HTh8M
Another missing Night Thoughts from 12/04/1986 as uploaded by Aidan Lunn on his Sticky tape 'n' rust youtube channel just about 5 minutes ago. There's continuity and slides and all of the rest you'd associate with an LWT closedown too:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4zdGaqcR7I
Crime Case Book was a virtual mini-series of crime anthology dramas that were shown by HTV in the 1980s 'based on the casebooks of Percy Hoskins, Chief Crime reporter of the Daily Express.' Most of these were actually filmed several years previously.
And so it is with 'Poor Billy Render', first shown 04/09/1986 but actually made over 10 years earlier.
I am pleased to report not only does in exist on Colour Film at Studio Canal but there's also a copy in the NFSA in Australia and details of the latter holding are below:- www.collection.nfsa.gov.au/title/19013
Sweeney fans will be delighted to note that Garfield Morgan appears in this.
56 North Farming?
Yes, that was the title of an STV agricultural programme, mostly forgotten and wiped.... aside from this wee insert that exists at the National Library of Scotland from 1967.
movingimage.nls.uk/film/T1009?search_term=stv&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes&fbclid=IwAR3HaK7ckvH2qaaE0WrCjhLlshMM225FRAEV_vvEL892rHU7GaGuq7spUmo_aem_ASBBc7eEn8V-jz2gnb7GuSRDpCSssT1whOAwRi3HNBmnxsrRqci0Dq9vrWEsXM68gx0z_gDt8E9qpuRxceKHy59e
I've spotted another 5 minutes of film from the ITV 'non-big-five' series 'Doing Things'.
This is from the episode 'Skiing in Scotland' (STV), and that was shown on 16/04/1973. This is the third bit of film that exists at the National Library of Scotland and in total they run to approximately 20 minutes which is pretty much all of the show.
movingimage.nls.uk/film/T2055?search_term=stv%20series&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes
Another wee bit of wiped - it's that 'Blue Peter for the pensioners' show again, Years Ahead featuring that most erst of erstwhiles Robert Dougall. The tx date is 09/02/1988 and it's uploaded by Group Member Aidan Lunn on his Sticky tape 'n' rust youtube channel. Not all the Years Ahead editions are missing - the BFI have quite a few examples of this show - but this one is lost. Starts around 8.20 in:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_oDLhvugPE
Right. (sigh). Three of these are lost, two aren't. The trouble is, I don't actually know which two exist.
Ace of Aces was a one-off series made by TVS that covered the sport of grasstrack motorcycle racing, aired over 5 episodes in 1988. The series was filmed on Salisbury Plain. I hadn't even heard of the programme until just the now.
I checked up to see if either the BFI or Wessex had episodes and Wessex have two.... but I can't work out the transmission dates for the two extant ones....
www.youtube.com/@terraman2010/search?query=aces
This was something I spotted before, but.... this is better.
This is the audio to In Concert with Stephen Stills and Manassas, from 16/11/1972.
The reason for this post is the version here is better quality and longer too, due to the continuity announcement at the start.... and there's also one at the end namechecking next week's edition featuring Linda Lewis (that edition also being a discovery of mine!). Also, the original upload was at a much lower volume.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lknod54MGQ
I thought I'd look for some lost Channel TV for a change....
and here's a lost Puffin's Pla(i)ce that I overlooked, as uploaded by the ADC TV Collection, and it's from 03/12/2001. It comes in two parts:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjRh9U1SOGQ
AND www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5j0pADWahI
Well, it WAS missing....
Made in Maidstone again with another Motormouth and this is the edition from 14/03/1992 which only exists as an off-air held by Kaleidoscope.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lelSuzsO2fE
The last hour of my life has been very tough indeed.
I have been wading through various Keynotes editions. As you may recall, group member Aidan Lunn uploaded a missing instalment on his youtube channel the other week.
Having watched parts of all the other HTV Keynotes uploads and looked in a couple of archives it transpires that one other edition on youtube is a missing one and it's this one which I've dated to 06/11/1992.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBvpkEOuFl8
I'm off-topic. It's radio.
(My family are standing with me at this difficult time.)
Anyway, it's a drama from 14/05/1977, a Saturday Night Theatre entitled 'the Detective Wore Silk Drawers'.
There are actually two copies on youtube even though it's meant to be missing. Way she goes....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTFEyIMgDbo
Mindnumbingly boring housekeeping.
The allegedly-missing Omnibus 'Blow the Wind Southerly' (09/02/1969), which was about the life and works of Kathleen Ferrier does exist on monochrome film at the BBC. It was a straight-forward repeat of the same programme which was aired as an Omnibus episode on 06/10/1968 which was repeated much later as a standalone on 30/09/1978.
This is another one of those episodes - in fact, in this case a complete series - that was wiped but has been recovered.
It's Season 1 Episode 1 of TVS' Henry's Leg, again uploaded by Made in Maidstone - the first two minutes of this was uploaded to youtube some 13 years ago, and subsequently the full thing was uploaded - albeit under the wrong title - 3 years ago. This new upload is also in better quality.
Kaleidoscope have now got copies of the entire series on digital video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDOKAHMefyc
A presumably-missing edition of Southern TV's Houseparty from some time in 1980 as uploaded by the Made in Maidstone youtube channel just the now:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLFsUJnLeaM
More missing TVS found? Yes.
On youtube? NO.
In Boston, Massachusetts....
Mary O'Hara and Friends is not the best remembered TVS show, but there were 13 editions (and a pilot) and only the pilot and one edition and a few clips on youtube I spotted some time ago are all that was known to exist....until now.
Mary O'Hara gifted her papers to Boston College and within that collection there are DVD-transfers from domestic recordings of at least lengthy sections from four editions. There may be more; it's quite difficult to ascertain exactly what is in the collection from the descriptions but I am confident that DVD 13 contains large extracts of the 19/08/1984 and 26/08/1984 episodes (Van Morrison and Maggie Moone being the respective guest stars); DVD 14 seems to contains a large mount of the 29/07/1984 episode as a minimum (special guest Alan Price) and DVD 15 contains at least a significant chunk of the New Year's Special edition from 01/01/1984 (special guest Georgie Fame). I suspect there is at least one other partial episode on one of the other DVDs, from 1985, but this has proved difficult to confirm currently.
findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/264
You won't have seen this recently as it was uploaded just a minute or two ago.
Toksvig, TVS, SE01 E04 28/09/1988.... another wiped episode from Made in Maidstone:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6NWboBu5LE
Not specifically a new find, but something for you to see....
A lengthy excerpt of 'Members Only', an episode of the Third Man
BBC co-produced TV series. While this edition does not seemed to have aired on British television, it certainly was transmitted elsewhere in the world - and in re-runs as a brief onscreen graphic would suggest.
A copy of this exists on DV with Kaleidoscope, obtained from a North American source.
Incredibly, as it's an extract, I had never seen this before on youtube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=exsanETuMMw
Blahhhhh. Housekeeping....
It transpires that there are actually two What's In Store? (ABC Television) instalments in existence. As you may or not know, Kaleidoscope have an example from 1959. The BFI also have one from 1960, held on 16mm film. This must be a visibly new addition to their catalogue from sometime in the last 18 months as I've certainly checked before. collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/154479503?fbclid=IwAR0BTHGeTGGkDZW4zLftVKWVmON5eL2FOaLV675xDndyxD9UAUbgCioiEl4_aem_ASDaoSFZrAoYmwNrg4pxxOT50Yfo4yl7ZphQm9z6XyX486ZeLiXWHYFpe5XaXzE4vsDHoAy3SnUfZrN9idL0KU4i#
A wee little find - much of the 21/02/1977 edition of Nationwide (London and South East region) appears to exist in London Metropolitan Archives. I say much as the programme's description states the tape 'featuring the London Fire Brigade' which suggests that they have more than just the filmed report.
The recording exists on helical scan open-reel videotape.
www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk/title/15630/
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It's missing! It's Doctor Who!
(it's just not missing Doctor Who....)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVkukbbPx2E
Disney Club, 1994.
While I'm on the subject of Ad Mags I located one I didn't know about.
This is one of only three known existing TWW Ad Mags, and is the most recent, the given date is 01/05/1963.... but hang on a tikka masala.... Ad Mags were no longer shown after the end of March 1963.... so either the date is wrong or it wasn't broadcast, or potentially trimmed down for use as just an advert - which seems likely as this remaining bit of film is around a minute long. The Ad Mag concerns Butlins, it was filmed in Minehead and is on 16mm film at the National Library of Wales:- search.worldcat.org/title/1244142985
This isn't complicated.
It's another Made in Maidstone No. 73 upload and it seems to be the edition 'Man Talk' from 25/10/1986. The earlier date shown on the title segment seems to only refer to the title sequence which has been added.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1q5sqhi7lI
Look, I've no definition if this IS one of the many editions of Houseparty that are missing or one of the dozen or more surviving at Wessex, mainly ex-VHS. I'd expect this to be one of the surviving ones, as it is probably the penultimate Southern edition from 30/12/1981. However, Made in Maidstone has also included 20/12/1981 as a date - which it couldn't be as that was a Sunday. I can't be sure of the tx date and therefore I'm posting the link to this edition, although my gut feeling is it's 30/12/1981 and exists.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEFLfqp8aYA
Quite often I get suggested viewing options on youtube and one that's come up countless time is this, Selkirk Common Riding, Border TV:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaEbjTxNfUM
While looking for something else entirely, it transpires this was part of the About Britain strand of programming - so probably a standalone Border TV documentary before that - and that the BFI have it on colour film. I suspect it was shown 29/10/1974. collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150018624?fbclid=IwAR3ucDpBwdAQXQPRvnAIdMU2_MOE8hic1V9NW6HR9tVs51HnW3B3ux7gTRw_aem_ASA51IpXk3DhzulzGS06JExRsngicdZ4hXVQVszC3UBYssHYDjE75Ja4gz31iOPRlsqB_b4giCvz5GzBUC2QJFp7
This is an optical transfer, and has also got added graphics, added more recently.
That all said, it's still missing material; this is the Telham Tinkers performing on Scene South East, and I believe the date is July 1981. This was spotted by Lee Barnard, not me! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-7Gn416Hkw
More housekeeping, not really anything wiped as such.
The 1971 Royal Variety Performance (ATV) also exists in an abridged 86 minute form in comparison with its' UK running time of 135 minutes. The was an ITC edit and it was for export only. I've heard Australia took the RVP but I've not got confirmation. Anyway, the BFI have the ITC edit.
More SSE, more Woking and more lost programming....
Southern Affairs was the Sunday local magazine programme for the Southern TV region and it originally ran on Sundays in 1958 and 1959.
Screen South East have a lengthy film from 1959 used in the programme, formerly held by the Ockenden Venture (of Woking) and donated some years ago.
The description of the programme on their website is now much more informative than it was in 2007 and I am pretty sure that the film was transmitted in December 1959 - possibly 20/12/1959.
Details:- screenarchive.brighton.ac.uk/detail/7059/
I think you'll also find that this is one of the ten oldest pieces of extant Southern programming in existence.
Here's one I found earlier.... (sort of).
Well, there's a Blue Peter film of a puppy being handed over to the (former) Southern Railway Orphanage held by Screen South East. I spotted it YEARS ago. The thing is, back in the day, I couldn't tie it down to an episode so I just made a note of it and then completely forgot about it.
I had a look just the now and it matches to a tx date of 24/06/1963 rather than the 1965 as stated by SSE. Also, it does not seem to have been retained by the Beeb or anyone else. Lastly, the film lasts 3 minutes or so, nearly two minutes longer than what was actually shown.
screenarchive.brighton.ac.uk/detail/1589/
Dial-a-Carol anyone?
It's the seasonal edition of Dial-a-Hymn from TVS, from 18/12/1988, as uploaded by the Made in Maidstone youtube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7qZNUmepZU
Nothing earth shattering here - it's a TSW Postscript from 29/30th October 1985 which starts around 6.50 in.
There's adverts and continuity and this upload is from Neil Miles' youtube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-9w_B2Y8Ps
Two missing programmes published by Aidan Lunn today. Firstly a Central News (South) from November 1992: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqI1DtwL9II
also And a Sit Up and Listen from Thames on 11th May 1983: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D57BnL4c2lY
Duty-bound as I feel to report anything missing, here's an STV 🏴Late Call from 18/11/1987. As the uploader says, the continuity is fairly solemn as this was the same day as the Kings Cross fire.
Adverts and so forth are on here too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fChHSya6kbE
I wake up, switch the PC on and lo-and-beholdbelowthewaterline I spot a missing Night Thoughts from 22/10/1986. There's an advert, IVC with the wonderful Tom Edwards and this is all uploaded by the fantastic ADC TV Collection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzAYGPyA3V4
The Best of Bobby Davro on the Box, 20/06/1987 (TVS) is one of those pesky wiped shows. It's not even on tvbrain.
'Compilation of some impressive moments from the first series.', says the Times.
ANYWAY, a copy of the show has been found but it hasn't been made public yet.
A bit of an apology to most of you. There may be a temporary increase in wiped 'filler' programming in the next week or so, which is basically mainly down to youtube algorithms. Basically, if I locate one, I get a load of suggestions to watch more.
That said, this is most of a wiped filler programme and part of a thought-to-be-missing show.
Action South West was one of those lesser-remembered community action shows - which is due to TSW having a smaller demographic than the audience for Thames Help - but that said it fulfilled its' televisual role nicely.
Following on from that, there's about two minutes of a probably lost edition of That's My Dog as only one edition is definitely known to exist from Season 4, and it's not this. (That's My Dog rans for FIVE SEASONS!). The upload is from 21/05/1987 and it's courtesy of Neil Miles' youtube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRU9tROxzBk
"One very special moment will come on their show, More Abba At The BBC, after the Beeb found a tape of their 1974 Top Of The Pops performance in the archives (05/12/1974). The recording, which shows them singing So Long was thought to be lost but will now be shown in full for the first time in 50 years." YES, I gave a copy of this on DVD to the BBC and Kaleidoscope by hand in 2011 or so which was bought from the PVL Archive by the Abba Fan Club of Great Britain which they very generously shared after separate negotiations by myself and them. I mean, it's been on youtube since 2013!:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFYcbKoztz0
Right, part of this show exists.
I don't know which bit, that's the problem, so erring on the side of non-caution and all that here's a chunk of Multi-Coloured Swap Shop from 06/12/1980.
If this bit exists, great, and if this bit doesn't, well it's known to exist now.
As uploaded by the JMX TV Archive youtube channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8DJJSqoDpM
Housekeeping....yadda yadda.
Holiday Clapperboard Review of 76 (03/01/1977, Granada) features extracts of the following editions; 16/02/1976 (wiped); 23/02/1976 (wiped); 29/03/1976 (DV); 05/04/1976 (wiped); 15/05/1976 (wiped); 12/07/1976 (audio exists) and 26/07/1976 (wiped).
More Made in Maidstone and this is an edition of Sunday 73 (TVS) and the best I've managed to do is to think this is Season 8. The edition is called Nice Brunch and it's from 1987. Over 95% of the editions were originally missing from the last two seasons.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=paMh6ZFuuKw
It's an off-topic post, although a few boxes are ticked.... at least this is about rare TV and something unarchived in the UK....but that's about it.
The first full day of colour TV on BBC 1 was 16/11/1969, and I had always wondered what the big draw of that first evening's entertainment would have been....
The answer to that rarely-considered and mindbummingly anoraknaphobic question is.... An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte, which was an NBC production and is probably still in their archive. Unlike a lot of the LE special programmes that were bought in by the BBC in those days, this was a pretty new programme - it had only been shown in the US exactly one week previously. This is a rare copy, as to my knowledge it's never been released commercially.... I know, excuses, excuses, it's not a wiped UK show.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNBDippDciA
Uploaded by the Julie Andrews Archive youtube channel.
I'll be quite honest, it's very difficult to work out if this Made in Maidstone upload is a wiped programme or not. The Wessex Archive have around 8 editions of Countryside Close, plus a title sequence and a compilation. I can rule out at least 4 of those extant 8 Wessex-held programmes as being the same as this, but I'm still not sure if this is a missing one.
Anyway, Countryside Close, 17/07/1992:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=twI2TJFiJ8A
There is an extant audio of the 26/12/1967 transmission of Titipu. For those not familiar, this in an adaptation of the Mikado as shown on BBC2 with a stellar cast including Harry Worth, Hattie Jacques, Richard Wattis and - in a very early role - John Inman.
At this time the reels are not on youtube.
Paul Hillam has discovered a 4 minute section of a missing edition of How? from 10/06/1981.
While wraparounds aren't the most sought after bits of wiped programming, they do appear from time to time.
Here's part of an Afternoon Club from TVS with Una Stubbs chatting to Roy Plomley. This dates from Bonfire Afternoon in 1984 and is uploaded by the DP's Captures youtube channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv3jjjg6HV0
as you can see there's also a TVS News and also adverts.
What I like to call the WI version of Loose Women.
Yes, it's a lost edition of Southern's 'Houseparty' from 27/11/1981 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
Regional and minority-interest viewing? Boxes ticked. This is 'Junior Motorcycling Spectacular', which was the first ever junior indoor speedway event to ever be held in Cornwall.
It's Westward TV and all I can tell you is this is from a domestic recording and it's 1981.
Is it wiped? Probably.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5GYjg32fCk
More veritable TV bric-a-brac for you*, this one being something I completely missed.
This is Bananarama's performance of Rough Justice on Cheggers Plays Pop from 15/05/1984 as uploaded by my friend Simon B Kelly - which I totally missed when it appeared on youtube at the beginning of the last decade!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeIYOOeDSuE
(* not bric-a-brac as in the show, only one of those missing now....)
Some audio from a wiped show, although there is a section of existing film from it - just not this excerpt.
This is an extract from the 16/11/1966 edition of On the Margin, 'Kafka's Underpants', as uploaded by Roger Wilmut today....like 40 minutes ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=22t31bMkTFg
I'd juist like tae let ye know the 'empty holding' for the Season 4 edition of The Entertainers (STV) wi' Chas and Dave exists on digital video. This number, from 29/03/1982 is entitlit 'Don't Anyone Speak English Anymore' an is actually aboot American Englishisms, please note, nowt else. A decidit this was a guid time tae post, for the only time, in Scots, legally my first leid. 🏴
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0uJPsCtj2k
Here's another wiped programme that exists....
A Beetle Called Derek, 'Time Out', 06/07/1981 is on VHS cassette tape as part of the collection of Jeffery Boswall at the University of Bristol:- archives.bristol.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DM2911%2f2%2f3%2f21
Über-anoraks may wish to note that the recording date is given as 29/06/1981 which suggests that the order of broadcasts may tie up with different tx dates to what is given on tvbrain.
This took zero effort.
It's another wiped Big Breakfast and this is from 21/11/2000. It was only uploaded recently and it appeared on my youtube recommended about three minutes ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uA-CD7sHHw
I had no idea that one of the many Big Breakfast missing editions was the one from 30/12/1999.
The one David Bowie appeared on. WIPED. This one:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xRy1pHdULE
This is another formerly missing Houseparty as uploaded by Made in Maidstone. This is from 09/12/1981 and might well be one of the editions that Kaleidoscope also have, but it's very difficult to tell because out of the 12 that they have they've only identified two editions' transmission date.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyvgH-pP7K4
In my defence, I was looking for something else entirely....
Around two years ago, Neil Miles' excellent youtube channel uploaded one of those epilogue programmes, an instalment of 'At The End of the Day', Anglia, from 30/05/1984, which I didn't see at the time. However, today, I stumbled upon it today, or perhaps crashed into it in the style of Randy jumping the cheeseburger*.
A couple of things of note; Father Philip Greystone was the Religious Adviser to Anglia TV at the time and was resident in Wells-Next-The-Sea. Also, this is the oldest existing example of this programme.
Also.... adverts, IVC, clock and that Sex Pistols classic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBTfxH1D5eg
*you won't get this reference. I'm not bothered, I'm not a pessimist, I'm an optometrist.
Tiny wee bit of wiped here; this is a Jim Kerr interview from the 13/08/1991 edition of the O Zone.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcWmcjexNpo
This is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it excerpt of a wiped show.
Something that TV Ark have is this wee clip of Preview, 'Song and Dance Man', STV, 22/04/1982. I have no idea if they have any more of it:-
tvark.org/preview
In ground-breaking news - literally, rather than metaphorically - it does transpire that there are three extant editions of ATV's Gardening Today in the MACE Archive, rather than zero.
One is from 1979 and the other two from 1981.
www.macearchive.org/search/audio/sound-54?for=%22gardening%20today%22&from=&to=
A miniscule discovery, this, but at least my response time was good....🤣
This is part of a Night Thoughts from 19/10/1986, which I seem to have spotted 8 minutes after it was uploaded by the wonderful ADC TV Collection.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zilQ00Ozh94
Trails and the voice of Peter Lewis are present on this upload too.
I've been dreading this. I spotted this a few months ago and conveniently forgot to report it.
The actual audio clip itself is fine and glorious; it's Dusty Springfield giving it all singing Soulville on a show from 13/01/1968.
It's from the R*lf H*rris Show.
It's not Dusty's fault.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUVFCvEzNDc
This is probably missing.... let me explain....
There are two existing episodes of Keynotes (HTV) at NLW from 1992 - which is the worst year of coverage of episodes. At least 50 (possibly exactly 50) editions were made during that year, and I can confirm it's not the extant 18/12/1992 show.
So there's a 98% chance this is a lost programme.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp4SM1Rd6NM
It's time to sprinkle some fairy dust on the.... programme Pebble Mill at One.
This is the Troggs, from 11/04/1984 performing their magnum opus forged from the veritable prima materia of music, that growling rock'n'roll classic Wild Thing. It's here, live, ocarina and all.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksRjtBMm1yY
This was wiped. Kaleidoscope have a copy now, but the fact remains it WAS wiped. The upload comes from the ADC TV Collection just the now and it's an edition of Highway from 26/11/1989 and this week Harry is in Christ's Hospital which is in West Sussex, if you don't know, so it's another TVS programme.... a lot of them this month, no?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOV-u44guIg
New information; minority interest programming and then some....
Anonymous of Anglia has informed me (and Kaleidoscope) that STV's edition of Homework, 11/06/1984 entitled 'Alterations and Extensions' is not wiped and is at the BFI on 2-inch tape.
Look, this isn't strictly wiped as it's not strictly a programme, but I feel posting the upload IS a good thing.
Made in Maidstone again and this is the TVS Staff Address from 17/01/1990:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItqBlDwjEY8
About 5 minutes ago I decided to look to see if I could find anything wiped by midnight, preferably with as little effort as possible as I'm still feeling rough.
Bristol University have an audio of a lost edition of Women Only (HTV) from 16/03/1978: archives.bristol.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DM2123%2F1%2FArchive%20Boxes%2079&fbclid=IwAR0-NAn2x9b4kC8VqioTCGGiklV5dEP7vxHs2W_suxFfkEfadU5neXGD6UQ_aem_ASAV3wDGs05lpKBxJIJIUHvWPBLTDalGj4B_I-mAYBxV7aMpOm-Sf-71I1jOl7lfi2XUe26R1WsfTB9W9Vi79d03
More Made in Maidstone just uploaded the now; this is a REHEARSAL for an edition of 7T3 (TVS) from 1988.
May not be wiped per se, but it is rare as a hen going to the dentist:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMsk2gd9vSs
Made in Maidstone is still uploading wiped programming and this evening's offering (from about 10 minutes ago) is an edition of Outlook (TVS) from 27/08/1985, a wee bit of filler; effectively some trails and weather featuring the very wonderful Keith Martin:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXOZRfIky7g
A very random edit of several excerpts from several editions of the BSB Power Station show Power Up from various dates in 1990, courtesy of the Jer youtube channel. :-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCiJP4_DSr0
(There used to be a horse called Jer, you know, not that he was responsible for the upload.)
Made in Maidstone again and it's a No. 73 Series 2 compilation.
Ordinarily, I wouldn't post anything from the first two Series, as they're meant to exist in full.... but hang on a neep-picking minute.... this would be the last one in the Series, right?
Well, no, as it turns out.... the synopsis for that edition is completely different, so it wasn't that.
Was this compilation broadcast at all? No idea. Is it archived? Well, the BFI don't have it. Very oddskins bodskins as Timothy Claypole would have said.
Also Junior Giscombe singing live with Sandi Toksvig on backing vocals it not something I'd never thought I'd see. 🙂
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hghvDkf7EQo
I'm not going to be online a lot today but just long enough to mention another upload by Made in Maidstone of a wiped show.
This is the No. 73 edition from 28/02/1987 and it's entitled 'Love Wars'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=39FbA3g2Wcs
How the (expletive) did I miss this?
Alerted by my friend Anonymous of Anglia, this has been on youtube for years (only about 3 views a day, as if that's an excuse....).
This is the Jimi Hendrix Experience performing Hey Joe 19/01/1967 Top of the Pops. And it's BRILLIANT.
The notable difference between this and the existing audio for 29/01/1967 is the backing vocals by the Breakaways. It's a completely different version.
This is LIVE.
No miming, Hendrix, Mitchell and Redding live. I love this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA1G55nRutA
More from Made in Maidstone.... and this was uploaded mere minutes ago.
This is a December 1980 edition of Southern TV's Houseparty.
Most of the extant editions are from 1981 and the majority of them are on ex-domestic video. I have no way to date this any more accurately.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu9RGMTTbdU
This really looks in such good quality my first thought was this must exist.... but.... this recently uploaded trail (so recently uploaded it was done after midnight today....) has brief fragments of the wiped editions of We Want to Sing and Play Away from 24/02/1973.
The trail itself is from two days prior.... as I said my immediate thought is it must exist - maybe tagged on the end or beginning of a Blue Peter recording - but it's not listed on tvbrain, so....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkD20pbPuh0
uploaded by Appropriated Subdiffusion.
THIS IS NOT A NEW DISCOVERY.
I spotted this in 2019 and it's one of my least remembered discoveries, probably because it's regional ITV and fairly short.
The reason I'm posting this now is because I didn't get everything correct in my description of it and I didn't have the date exactly and I also have some additional information.
This is an About Anglia Special and the tx date is 21/02/1980 and it concerns the rather spectacular demolition of the chimneys of the Coronation Brickworks in Stewartby, Bedfordshire. (By the way, before anyone mentions it, I am aware the BBC sent a crew to the site as well and that they still retain their footage, although it is much shorter.)
Additionally, it transpires that a private collector has an About Anglia Special from 07/06/1977 on a domestic video format which is all about the Queen's Jubilee and showing reports from around the televisual region. I haven't seen this yet.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV-rMOWExtI
Something I missed.
This is a bit of TVS' Afternoon Club from 1985 featuring Christopher Robbie. It's literally 30 seconds long, but.... I missed it at the time; as uploaded by Neil Miles.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRsWHD18PF4
I'm very tired and I will have to return to the safety and sanctity of my wee snoreshelf but in the meantime here's something I spotted at 6.55 a.m. Yes, another wiped edition of the Big Breakfast.... in fact several. I swear these things just turn up....
In fact youtube uploader jeffrey44 has the following ones: 04/09/2000 through to 08/09/2000 (first three mentioned before, fourth one exists at the BFI, final one is a new one to here); 20/09/2000 (partial and exists anyway); 21/11/2000 (wiped but mentioned before); 06/08/2001 through to 10/08/2001 (first one exists, Friday one mentioned before, three unmentioned ones which are all missing) and 22/11/2000 (not mentioned before and wiped - only uploaded 12 days ago).
So that's five previously unheralded junked editions which is around 8 hours of wiped material. I would also like to apologize for potentially even worse grammar than usual as I'm exhausted.
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkoU7Y0uvdH9HziR_8wb9G_KESyiAPNFH
There's a Fortunes track 'Things I Should Have Known (1965 live BBC TV)' on a Fortunes at the BBC compilation that comes from the Ken Dodd Show (31/10/1965), which is wiped.
One of the 1983 editions of Nationwide that isn't meant to exist in full is the 27/05/1983 programme.
Well, certainly part of the Welsh opt-out does as about 10 minutes is held by the NLW on domestic tape.
discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99413088302419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,%22bbc%201%22&sortby=date_a&offset=0
I said to myself, whatever you do Raymi, don't look for any religious shows today. You'll get more of a reputation than you already have.
So, I switch youtube on and there's an edition of Highway being suggested. Well, a majority exist, you know, so I thought I'd check.... it's a 'replacement' edition as shown on 08/03/1987 (which I might add isn't an Easter edition or Special per se). I'm guessing the edition has the title 'Favourites' as it's a compilation so it has a unique production credit at the end (please note Chris Bowden-Smith) and featured footage from editions made by Tyne Tees, Grampian, Channel, HTV, TVS, Ulster and Border! So this is the programme with the most ITV company credits.... see the end board....
Anyways is it missing? My radar says yes. Tvbrain list it as an empty holding. I couldn't find it in the BFI archive. Apart from Harry's specially recorded linking bits, all the episodes that provided material exist except the TVS bit.
So, I'm dubbing this edition 'Favourites' as there's no on-screen title.
As uploaded by the rather wonderful ADC TV Collection.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGbMFZN5O5c
Gary Jordan has located a missing Going for a Song edition from 1970 in France.
This isn't missing, but this five minute 'filler' programme does deserve a mention for a number of reasons.
This segment is not held - and has never been retained - by the broadcaster, or the BFI. In fact for the best part of 37 years it was sitting on a shelf gathering dust in Soho Square until a 2007 DVD release. So what?
Well, the programme wasn't billed in many publications, some TV historians don't know this was transmitted.
The programme was called Paul McCartney and it literally consisted of the song Maybe I'm Amazed accompanied by some rather stunning photographs of the aforementioned Macca taken by Linda. This was transmitted on the ITV network on 19/04/1970 at 6pm, and was ostensibly to promote Kintyre's most famous stoner's first solo album.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdDPR8GzXy8
I am ploughing through a list today, alphabetically....
So, here's the first half of what for Scottish🏴 viewers could be considered as an historic programme - or at least part of one....😕
This is the first half of the final edition of the Glen Michael Cartoon Cavalcade (STV), which had in one form or tother had been running since 1966! This instalment is from 27/12/1992. I missed this one when it was uploaded MANY MANY YEARS AGO because at the time I couldn't actually date it and it was also a partial recording.
The quality of the recording is a wee bit shan, but it is what it is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-CPiNjnrW8&list=PLt_j24ltH7sUGCpX80fR9q-34W56OGtp3
Well that's it for the month.
I will be taking a few day's break.
And, by jolly Bobby G, I think I have. Sure as Sandie, this has been a little bit easier due to the efforts of the Made in Maidstone youtube channel - a special thank you to the uploader of this channel - and consequently there are quite a number of TVS and Southern discoveries this month, a much higher percentage than usual.
Please note that these are written in a semi-chronological order, so at the beginning are things I generally spotted at the turn of the month.
Well, without further a do ron ron ron a do ron ron, here's March 2024's Discoveries....
We start with some wiped from Made in Maidstone and it's Do It from 20/03/1985, SE02 E07, TVS, obviously.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVwWfCJ9cT0
Nothing much to see here, unless you like your sport frosty and dancey, in which case this is for you.
What looks to be the final wiped Holiday on Ice from the 1970s here and it's the programme from 25/12/1974.
This is presumably held by the Swiss TV service, but even if wasn't, it's on youtube for for you to see:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAfrn-JpWnM
This is the documentary 'Path of the Rain God' as shown by Channel 4 on 27/04/1986. I understand Michael Fish is not featured.
I'm not sure if it was shown as edited in these 4 parts, but.... at any rate it's all here and it's meant to be missing from UK Archives - well it was in 2022 when my database was updated.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCwgIaKPk80 AND www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5qfyY81faM AND www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERdmw1i3F6M AND www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EmsE9G0E1M
A few hours ago Gareth Joy posted this uploaded to the History of Anglia Television from 1959 by The Transdiffusion Organisation group and it transpires that it's a wiped programme.
It's the About Britain instalment 'Fantasy on a String' (27/08/1981).
My thanks to Chris Bowden-Smith and Transdiffusion’s All Talk : Broadcasting History for bringing this to my attention.
I'm a mite confused about this; one of my databases/spreadsheets has 'the Satellite Game' (BSB Galaxy) being missing? I'd always assumed it was archived.
Several attempts to clarify whether it's safe have proved unsuccessful so I'm going to temporarily assume it's lost - remember as well it was shown within Cool Cube (which was a wrap-around) and a lot of those are gone.
So, if it is missing - here's 5 episodes from youtube.
I'm hoping that I'm just unnecessarily concerned about this show, and it does exist and I can delete this thread later.
(In the meantime, do these count as science fiction finds?
?) 🤣https://www.youtube.com/@malthusdire4348/search?query=satellite%20game%23More housekeeping.
Petula was a TV Special featuring Ms Clark with special guest star Harry Belafonte that aired in the US on 02/04/1968 and was shown in the UK on BBC 1 04/08/1968 (details here:- genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/26d23a54188a4e9bb476e101c83c9884).
So what? Well, while it was ostensibly an NBC programme and appeared to have nothing to do with UK TV further inspection proves it did. Produced by Yvonne Littlewood? Yes, the legendary UK TV Producer/Director!
I quote Yvonne's Guardian obituary about the programme: ""In 1968, the BBC released her for six weeks when she was asked to co-produce an American TV special for Clark on the NBC network. The programme, Petula, featured Harry Belafonte as the guest star. After Clark held his arm while singing a duet, the director insisted on reshooting it, with the stars standing apart, because of objections from the show’s sponsor on racial grounds. Clark subsequently objected, Littlewood wiped the second version and the original was used."" More about the incident here:- www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/04/harry-belafonte-petula-clark-1968-civil-rights-arm-touch-national-commotion
The BBC transmitted the programme in monochrome as it was BBC 1. Later of course. both Ms Clark and Ms Littlewood would be involved in the very first BBC 1 colour broadcast on 15/11/1969.
Anyway, while not strictly a BBC production there was a rumour in some parts that the programme was junked, which is untrue. Not so; NBC still retain a copy, as do my friends at the Paley Archive on color tape:- www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=&p=1&item=T:92745
'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/.../HierarchyTree
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.
One of my last 'housekeeping' posts as such, which is just tidying up some loose ends.
Just to confirm that Rick Wakeman's appearance on the Old Grey Whistle Test from the otherwise wiped 16/01/1972 edition does exist as part of a BBC compilation. It even has a caption saying so.
Here he is performing one of those numbers from one of his opuses the Six Wives of King Arthur Journeying to the Centre of the Earth on Ice or whatever it's called. And despite my ribbing, the boy can play.
The toon is called Catherine Howard, no relation to Frankie or the Duck.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdt0tWIR1Eg
PS: I haven't watched this; bet you he's wearing a bleeding cape, though.
Update. You probably don't recall, but back in 2021 I located 200 copies of the supposedly missing Survival edition 'Saguaro' (19/06/1969) at libraries and universities that were chiefly in the US.
On a whim, I decided to see if this was still true.
It isn't.
There are now 261 (VIDIPRINTER: TWO-HUNDRED-AND-SIXTY-ONE) copies globally, still all in North America:- search.worldcat.org/title/79303008?oclcNum=79303008
It's a religious programme....
The story behind this footage existing is it was rescued from a skip!
29/06/1958; it's an excerpt from the BBC's Sunday Special.
This film is held by the Archive of Recorded Church Music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcF5O1M1jfU
More wiped stuff from Made in Maidstone; it's an edition of Do It - SE03 E06, 20/08/1986:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HSwLofJqgY
Yes, wiped BSB. Playabout, presented by Floella Benjamin is not the most widely remembered programme, but it seems the vast majority of the episodes are wiped with only one other on youtube.
Here's an undated edition from 1990 - obviously - and it's not the same as the other show I edition:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQEdtkDZkDY
UPDATE: It appears that Kaleidoscope have acquired a large number of Playabout editions from Floella Benjamin herself, but these have not been added to tvbrain yet.
For my next trick, here's the last missing episode of Chock-a-Block.
This is an optical transfer and so the quality is a bit poor, but well done to the uploader for sharing it.
It's actually called 'Magpie', rather than 'Fly' (though it's very easy to see how anyone would have got the title wrong!) and this is the last episode that was missing and hadn't been spotted in some shape or form and it's from 25/06/1981.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0_aG86GDx8
More wiped from Made in Maidstone and this transpires to be one of the only editions of No. 73 under not only the 7T3 banner but the Sunday 73 moniker that was thought to be completely missing with no copy in circulation at all.
This edition is from 20/12/1987: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiHM_6UAfuI
More wiped from Made in Maidstone - it's another No.73 and this is SE06 E13 (Dramatics), tx 12/04/1986:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9tvhEo7jpM
Actually, don't get TOO excited about this upload. This is one of the few editions that exists.
It's the 25/11/1978 edition of Southern's Saturday Banana and it WAS wiped but does exist, copied from tape. That said, it does appear to be at least one generation up from the copy that's circulating (points to pile of DVDs).
It nice to see in this quality and like I said, it was missing at one stage.
This was uploaded by Made in Maidstone with thanks again:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-qBjYR35A
Another Made in Maidstone upload and this is from 24/07/1980. It's a wiped edition of Day by Day, Southern TV:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPlkPBR0BL8
Sometime last year, the very wonderful Jonathan Kydd uploaded a wiped episode of Pipkins ('the Allotment') from his collection and due to whatever crisis I was dealing with at the time I missed it.
So for those of you who haven't seen it, here it is, transmitted 19/02/1980. Written by Gail Renard. 🙂
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LqP5IgjWwY
This is.... not exactly missing....but intriguing....
This is an uncut studio recording - including unaired footage - of the 14/02/1986, SE01 E07 edition of That's What You Think (TVS) - which has again been uploaded by Made in Maidstone - but does have a timecode on it.
Whether this is an exact copy of what exists in the archives is unknown. Initial research suggests this might not be the case, but I don't know either way for sure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hFez0zXjbA
A couple of editions of Sky Star Search here; they're domestic recordings and the second one is incomplete. Both are from 1989 although I have no better tx date than that.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K21SkEIBJ5w
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0M4AVc_muI
More wiped* from Made in Maidstone!
This is the 22nd edition of Countryside Close from 16/10/1989 (TVS).
What's less well-known is that several editions of the programme are in the Wessex Archive, but not this one. The BFI have nothing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SrFf74_ahk
This was missing.
Then all of a sudden, the BFI got an off-air of the programme.
If you would like to see an off-air recording - in fairly spiffing quality - then now is your time.
This is an edition of Jools Holland's Happening from 13/09/1991 as shown on Channel 4. www.youtube.com/watch?v=psXv4De_ik0
I may have overlooked these two audio recordings from Disco 2.
Firstly, Duncan Browne - 'Today And The Day Before Today' S02E10 on 14/11/1970. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-CDWWT3adU
and also Yes - 'Astral Traveller' S01E12 on 28/03/1970. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgVIhe4MGT8
According to Daisy (tvbrain) ""Synopsis: This was a pilot episode written for Su Pollard. Her character was a journalist who needed help to keep her unruly kids out of trouble. Advertising for a Home Help, along came strict George Pym. Although recorded, transmission was held back until a full season was commissioned. Unfortunately Su Pollard was tied up with other projects until late 1989, by which time Gordon Jackson had fallen ill. Although Jeremy Brett was considered to replace Gordon, the project was shelved.""
""Tape currently missing from shelf at ITV Leeds. Copy held at ITV 1 in Wales.""
Probably this then:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=p886ImIk0iQ
I think.... think.... that this is lost.
This is Francis and Rick of Status Quo being interviewed by Gambo on Pebble Mill at One, and the date is December 1982, which I believe is from the first two weeks of that month.... and not from a Friday - which means it's most likely wiped.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTBYqADWk90
MORE INFORMATION: The tx date is actually 08/11/1982. Thanks to Tony Rees. It is a lost episode, confirmed.
""The Kelloggs BMX Track Wars was a hugely popular TV show hosted by Mick Brown and Andy Ruffell. The show was broadcast on the UK's Channel 4 in 1984 and 1985.""
and the series is not held by any known TV or Film Archive in the UK....
but it is on youtube
E01:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7mEyNKImd8
E02:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=efl2iIJghOM
E03:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQP8ApKGpVo
E04:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW4oF0z3ElY
E05:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djx35SjoB4A
E06:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUwJx1zB6ng
That theme tune.... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggh.
I think this one has been possibly mentioned elsewhere but not here.
This is Space Invaders - A World Without Frontiers; a TVS Production for Channel 4 25/01/1984.
As I understand it, it was missing but a copy is now held by Kaleidoscope. As uploaded by the ADC TV Collection:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gNQVk9csQU
Here's a clip of the Naughty Boys playing on Granada Reports in 1987; almost all Granada Reports from before 2000 are gone although many filmed reports exist.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7CBYKqPfIo
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
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
UPDATE: Confirmed as 1980.
More lost TVS from Made in Maidstone and it's Motormouth SE01 053 - which seems to be the edition from 11/03/1989:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbyAjU4Ab2M
Right, this is more Made in Maidstone material and it's unusual.
A No. 73 upload again, probably from Season 5 (1985) which is meant to be fully in existence.... but hang on.... these are inserts....and it doesn't hook up with any of the existing titles of any of the editions.
So I'm mystified if it was broadcast or not.
Anyway, I'm still grateful for it, it's entitled 'How Many for Dinner' and here it is:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvyxJ3RekeY
More wiped from Made in Maidstone. Yes, indeedy, this is an episode of Motormouth from 03/01/1990 (SE02 E17) and it was regarded as missing.... until about an hour ago.....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yKb03HTh8M
Another missing Night Thoughts from 12/04/1986 as uploaded by Aidan Lunn on his Sticky tape 'n' rust youtube channel just about 5 minutes ago. There's continuity and slides and all of the rest you'd associate with an LWT closedown too:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4zdGaqcR7I
Crime Case Book was a virtual mini-series of crime anthology dramas that were shown by HTV in the 1980s 'based on the casebooks of Percy Hoskins, Chief Crime reporter of the Daily Express.' Most of these were actually filmed several years previously.
And so it is with 'Poor Billy Render', first shown 04/09/1986 but actually made over 10 years earlier.
I am pleased to report not only does in exist on Colour Film at Studio Canal but there's also a copy in the NFSA in Australia and details of the latter holding are below:- www.collection.nfsa.gov.au/title/19013
Sweeney fans will be delighted to note that Garfield Morgan appears in this.
56 North Farming?
Yes, that was the title of an STV agricultural programme, mostly forgotten and wiped.... aside from this wee insert that exists at the National Library of Scotland from 1967.
movingimage.nls.uk/film/T1009?search_term=stv&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes&fbclid=IwAR3HaK7ckvH2qaaE0WrCjhLlshMM225FRAEV_vvEL892rHU7GaGuq7spUmo_aem_ASBBc7eEn8V-jz2gnb7GuSRDpCSssT1whOAwRi3HNBmnxsrRqci0Dq9vrWEsXM68gx0z_gDt8E9qpuRxceKHy59e
I've spotted another 5 minutes of film from the ITV 'non-big-five' series 'Doing Things'.
This is from the episode 'Skiing in Scotland' (STV), and that was shown on 16/04/1973. This is the third bit of film that exists at the National Library of Scotland and in total they run to approximately 20 minutes which is pretty much all of the show.
movingimage.nls.uk/film/T2055?search_term=stv%20series&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes
Another wee bit of wiped - it's that 'Blue Peter for the pensioners' show again, Years Ahead featuring that most erst of erstwhiles Robert Dougall. The tx date is 09/02/1988 and it's uploaded by Group Member Aidan Lunn on his Sticky tape 'n' rust youtube channel. Not all the Years Ahead editions are missing - the BFI have quite a few examples of this show - but this one is lost. Starts around 8.20 in:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_oDLhvugPE
Right. (sigh). Three of these are lost, two aren't. The trouble is, I don't actually know which two exist.
Ace of Aces was a one-off series made by TVS that covered the sport of grasstrack motorcycle racing, aired over 5 episodes in 1988. The series was filmed on Salisbury Plain. I hadn't even heard of the programme until just the now.
I checked up to see if either the BFI or Wessex had episodes and Wessex have two.... but I can't work out the transmission dates for the two extant ones....
www.youtube.com/@terraman2010/search?query=aces
This was something I spotted before, but.... this is better.
This is the audio to In Concert with Stephen Stills and Manassas, from 16/11/1972.
The reason for this post is the version here is better quality and longer too, due to the continuity announcement at the start.... and there's also one at the end namechecking next week's edition featuring Linda Lewis (that edition also being a discovery of mine!). Also, the original upload was at a much lower volume.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lknod54MGQ
I thought I'd look for some lost Channel TV for a change....
and here's a lost Puffin's Pla(i)ce that I overlooked, as uploaded by the ADC TV Collection, and it's from 03/12/2001. It comes in two parts:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjRh9U1SOGQ
AND www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5j0pADWahI
Well, it WAS missing....
Made in Maidstone again with another Motormouth and this is the edition from 14/03/1992 which only exists as an off-air held by Kaleidoscope.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lelSuzsO2fE
The last hour of my life has been very tough indeed.
I have been wading through various Keynotes editions. As you may recall, group member Aidan Lunn uploaded a missing instalment on his youtube channel the other week.
Having watched parts of all the other HTV Keynotes uploads and looked in a couple of archives it transpires that one other edition on youtube is a missing one and it's this one which I've dated to 06/11/1992.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBvpkEOuFl8
I'm off-topic. It's radio.
(My family are standing with me at this difficult time.)
Anyway, it's a drama from 14/05/1977, a Saturday Night Theatre entitled 'the Detective Wore Silk Drawers'.
There are actually two copies on youtube even though it's meant to be missing. Way she goes....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTFEyIMgDbo
Mindnumbingly boring housekeeping.
The allegedly-missing Omnibus 'Blow the Wind Southerly' (09/02/1969), which was about the life and works of Kathleen Ferrier does exist on monochrome film at the BBC. It was a straight-forward repeat of the same programme which was aired as an Omnibus episode on 06/10/1968 which was repeated much later as a standalone on 30/09/1978.
This is another one of those episodes - in fact, in this case a complete series - that was wiped but has been recovered.
It's Season 1 Episode 1 of TVS' Henry's Leg, again uploaded by Made in Maidstone - the first two minutes of this was uploaded to youtube some 13 years ago, and subsequently the full thing was uploaded - albeit under the wrong title - 3 years ago. This new upload is also in better quality.
Kaleidoscope have now got copies of the entire series on digital video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDOKAHMefyc
A presumably-missing edition of Southern TV's Houseparty from some time in 1980 as uploaded by the Made in Maidstone youtube channel just the now:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLFsUJnLeaM
More missing TVS found? Yes.
On youtube? NO.
In Boston, Massachusetts....
Mary O'Hara and Friends is not the best remembered TVS show, but there were 13 editions (and a pilot) and only the pilot and one edition and a few clips on youtube I spotted some time ago are all that was known to exist....until now.
Mary O'Hara gifted her papers to Boston College and within that collection there are DVD-transfers from domestic recordings of at least lengthy sections from four editions. There may be more; it's quite difficult to ascertain exactly what is in the collection from the descriptions but I am confident that DVD 13 contains large extracts of the 19/08/1984 and 26/08/1984 episodes (Van Morrison and Maggie Moone being the respective guest stars); DVD 14 seems to contains a large mount of the 29/07/1984 episode as a minimum (special guest Alan Price) and DVD 15 contains at least a significant chunk of the New Year's Special edition from 01/01/1984 (special guest Georgie Fame). I suspect there is at least one other partial episode on one of the other DVDs, from 1985, but this has proved difficult to confirm currently.
findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/264
You won't have seen this recently as it was uploaded just a minute or two ago.
Toksvig, TVS, SE01 E04 28/09/1988.... another wiped episode from Made in Maidstone:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6NWboBu5LE
Not specifically a new find, but something for you to see....
A lengthy excerpt of 'Members Only', an episode of the Third Man
BBC co-produced TV series. While this edition does not seemed to have aired on British television, it certainly was transmitted elsewhere in the world - and in re-runs as a brief onscreen graphic would suggest.
A copy of this exists on DV with Kaleidoscope, obtained from a North American source.
Incredibly, as it's an extract, I had never seen this before on youtube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=exsanETuMMw
Blahhhhh. Housekeeping....
It transpires that there are actually two What's In Store? (ABC Television) instalments in existence. As you may or not know, Kaleidoscope have an example from 1959. The BFI also have one from 1960, held on 16mm film. This must be a visibly new addition to their catalogue from sometime in the last 18 months as I've certainly checked before. collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/154479503?fbclid=IwAR0BTHGeTGGkDZW4zLftVKWVmON5eL2FOaLV675xDndyxD9UAUbgCioiEl4_aem_ASDaoSFZrAoYmwNrg4pxxOT50Yfo4yl7ZphQm9z6XyX486ZeLiXWHYFpe5XaXzE4vsDHoAy3SnUfZrN9idL0KU4i#
A wee little find - much of the 21/02/1977 edition of Nationwide (London and South East region) appears to exist in London Metropolitan Archives. I say much as the programme's description states the tape 'featuring the London Fire Brigade' which suggests that they have more than just the filmed report.
The recording exists on helical scan open-reel videotape.
www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk/title/15630/
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It's missing! It's Doctor Who!
(it's just not missing Doctor Who....)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVkukbbPx2E
Disney Club, 1994.
While I'm on the subject of Ad Mags I located one I didn't know about.
This is one of only three known existing TWW Ad Mags, and is the most recent, the given date is 01/05/1963.... but hang on a tikka masala.... Ad Mags were no longer shown after the end of March 1963.... so either the date is wrong or it wasn't broadcast, or potentially trimmed down for use as just an advert - which seems likely as this remaining bit of film is around a minute long. The Ad Mag concerns Butlins, it was filmed in Minehead and is on 16mm film at the National Library of Wales:- search.worldcat.org/title/1244142985
This isn't complicated.
It's another Made in Maidstone No. 73 upload and it seems to be the edition 'Man Talk' from 25/10/1986. The earlier date shown on the title segment seems to only refer to the title sequence which has been added.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1q5sqhi7lI
Look, I've no definition if this IS one of the many editions of Houseparty that are missing or one of the dozen or more surviving at Wessex, mainly ex-VHS. I'd expect this to be one of the surviving ones, as it is probably the penultimate Southern edition from 30/12/1981. However, Made in Maidstone has also included 20/12/1981 as a date - which it couldn't be as that was a Sunday. I can't be sure of the tx date and therefore I'm posting the link to this edition, although my gut feeling is it's 30/12/1981 and exists.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEFLfqp8aYA
Quite often I get suggested viewing options on youtube and one that's come up countless time is this, Selkirk Common Riding, Border TV:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaEbjTxNfUM
While looking for something else entirely, it transpires this was part of the About Britain strand of programming - so probably a standalone Border TV documentary before that - and that the BFI have it on colour film. I suspect it was shown 29/10/1974. collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150018624?fbclid=IwAR3ucDpBwdAQXQPRvnAIdMU2_MOE8hic1V9NW6HR9tVs51HnW3B3ux7gTRw_aem_ASA51IpXk3DhzulzGS06JExRsngicdZ4hXVQVszC3UBYssHYDjE75Ja4gz31iOPRlsqB_b4giCvz5GzBUC2QJFp7
This is an optical transfer, and has also got added graphics, added more recently.
That all said, it's still missing material; this is the Telham Tinkers performing on Scene South East, and I believe the date is July 1981. This was spotted by Lee Barnard, not me! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-7Gn416Hkw
More housekeeping, not really anything wiped as such.
The 1971 Royal Variety Performance (ATV) also exists in an abridged 86 minute form in comparison with its' UK running time of 135 minutes. The was an ITC edit and it was for export only. I've heard Australia took the RVP but I've not got confirmation. Anyway, the BFI have the ITC edit.
More SSE, more Woking and more lost programming....
Southern Affairs was the Sunday local magazine programme for the Southern TV region and it originally ran on Sundays in 1958 and 1959.
Screen South East have a lengthy film from 1959 used in the programme, formerly held by the Ockenden Venture (of Woking) and donated some years ago.
The description of the programme on their website is now much more informative than it was in 2007 and I am pretty sure that the film was transmitted in December 1959 - possibly 20/12/1959.
Details:- screenarchive.brighton.ac.uk/detail/7059/
I think you'll also find that this is one of the ten oldest pieces of extant Southern programming in existence.
Here's one I found earlier.... (sort of).
Well, there's a Blue Peter film of a puppy being handed over to the (former) Southern Railway Orphanage held by Screen South East. I spotted it YEARS ago. The thing is, back in the day, I couldn't tie it down to an episode so I just made a note of it and then completely forgot about it.
I had a look just the now and it matches to a tx date of 24/06/1963 rather than the 1965 as stated by SSE. Also, it does not seem to have been retained by the Beeb or anyone else. Lastly, the film lasts 3 minutes or so, nearly two minutes longer than what was actually shown.
screenarchive.brighton.ac.uk/detail/1589/
Dial-a-Carol anyone?
It's the seasonal edition of Dial-a-Hymn from TVS, from 18/12/1988, as uploaded by the Made in Maidstone youtube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7qZNUmepZU
Nothing earth shattering here - it's a TSW Postscript from 29/30th October 1985 which starts around 6.50 in.
There's adverts and continuity and this upload is from Neil Miles' youtube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-9w_B2Y8Ps
Two missing programmes published by Aidan Lunn today. Firstly a Central News (South) from November 1992: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqI1DtwL9II
also And a Sit Up and Listen from Thames on 11th May 1983: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D57BnL4c2lY
Duty-bound as I feel to report anything missing, here's an STV 🏴Late Call from 18/11/1987. As the uploader says, the continuity is fairly solemn as this was the same day as the Kings Cross fire.
Adverts and so forth are on here too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fChHSya6kbE
I wake up, switch the PC on and lo-and-beholdbelowthewaterline I spot a missing Night Thoughts from 22/10/1986. There's an advert, IVC with the wonderful Tom Edwards and this is all uploaded by the fantastic ADC TV Collection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzAYGPyA3V4
The Best of Bobby Davro on the Box, 20/06/1987 (TVS) is one of those pesky wiped shows. It's not even on tvbrain.
'Compilation of some impressive moments from the first series.', says the Times.
ANYWAY, a copy of the show has been found but it hasn't been made public yet.
A bit of an apology to most of you. There may be a temporary increase in wiped 'filler' programming in the next week or so, which is basically mainly down to youtube algorithms. Basically, if I locate one, I get a load of suggestions to watch more.
That said, this is most of a wiped filler programme and part of a thought-to-be-missing show.
Action South West was one of those lesser-remembered community action shows - which is due to TSW having a smaller demographic than the audience for Thames Help - but that said it fulfilled its' televisual role nicely.
Following on from that, there's about two minutes of a probably lost edition of That's My Dog as only one edition is definitely known to exist from Season 4, and it's not this. (That's My Dog rans for FIVE SEASONS!). The upload is from 21/05/1987 and it's courtesy of Neil Miles' youtube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRU9tROxzBk
"One very special moment will come on their show, More Abba At The BBC, after the Beeb found a tape of their 1974 Top Of The Pops performance in the archives (05/12/1974). The recording, which shows them singing So Long was thought to be lost but will now be shown in full for the first time in 50 years." YES, I gave a copy of this on DVD to the BBC and Kaleidoscope by hand in 2011 or so which was bought from the PVL Archive by the Abba Fan Club of Great Britain which they very generously shared after separate negotiations by myself and them. I mean, it's been on youtube since 2013!:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFYcbKoztz0
Right, part of this show exists.
I don't know which bit, that's the problem, so erring on the side of non-caution and all that here's a chunk of Multi-Coloured Swap Shop from 06/12/1980.
If this bit exists, great, and if this bit doesn't, well it's known to exist now.
As uploaded by the JMX TV Archive youtube channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8DJJSqoDpM
Housekeeping....yadda yadda.
Holiday Clapperboard Review of 76 (03/01/1977, Granada) features extracts of the following editions; 16/02/1976 (wiped); 23/02/1976 (wiped); 29/03/1976 (DV); 05/04/1976 (wiped); 15/05/1976 (wiped); 12/07/1976 (audio exists) and 26/07/1976 (wiped).
More Made in Maidstone and this is an edition of Sunday 73 (TVS) and the best I've managed to do is to think this is Season 8. The edition is called Nice Brunch and it's from 1987. Over 95% of the editions were originally missing from the last two seasons.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=paMh6ZFuuKw
It's an off-topic post, although a few boxes are ticked.... at least this is about rare TV and something unarchived in the UK....but that's about it.
The first full day of colour TV on BBC 1 was 16/11/1969, and I had always wondered what the big draw of that first evening's entertainment would have been....
The answer to that rarely-considered and mindbummingly anoraknaphobic question is.... An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte, which was an NBC production and is probably still in their archive. Unlike a lot of the LE special programmes that were bought in by the BBC in those days, this was a pretty new programme - it had only been shown in the US exactly one week previously. This is a rare copy, as to my knowledge it's never been released commercially.... I know, excuses, excuses, it's not a wiped UK show.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNBDippDciA
Uploaded by the Julie Andrews Archive youtube channel.
I'll be quite honest, it's very difficult to work out if this Made in Maidstone upload is a wiped programme or not. The Wessex Archive have around 8 editions of Countryside Close, plus a title sequence and a compilation. I can rule out at least 4 of those extant 8 Wessex-held programmes as being the same as this, but I'm still not sure if this is a missing one.
Anyway, Countryside Close, 17/07/1992:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=twI2TJFiJ8A
There is an extant audio of the 26/12/1967 transmission of Titipu. For those not familiar, this in an adaptation of the Mikado as shown on BBC2 with a stellar cast including Harry Worth, Hattie Jacques, Richard Wattis and - in a very early role - John Inman.
At this time the reels are not on youtube.
Paul Hillam has discovered a 4 minute section of a missing edition of How? from 10/06/1981.
While wraparounds aren't the most sought after bits of wiped programming, they do appear from time to time.
Here's part of an Afternoon Club from TVS with Una Stubbs chatting to Roy Plomley. This dates from Bonfire Afternoon in 1984 and is uploaded by the DP's Captures youtube channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv3jjjg6HV0
as you can see there's also a TVS News and also adverts.
What I like to call the WI version of Loose Women.
Yes, it's a lost edition of Southern's 'Houseparty' from 27/11/1981 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
Regional and minority-interest viewing? Boxes ticked. This is 'Junior Motorcycling Spectacular', which was the first ever junior indoor speedway event to ever be held in Cornwall.
It's Westward TV and all I can tell you is this is from a domestic recording and it's 1981.
Is it wiped? Probably.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5GYjg32fCk
More veritable TV bric-a-brac for you*, this one being something I completely missed.
This is Bananarama's performance of Rough Justice on Cheggers Plays Pop from 15/05/1984 as uploaded by my friend Simon B Kelly - which I totally missed when it appeared on youtube at the beginning of the last decade!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeIYOOeDSuE
(* not bric-a-brac as in the show, only one of those missing now....)
Some audio from a wiped show, although there is a section of existing film from it - just not this excerpt.
This is an extract from the 16/11/1966 edition of On the Margin, 'Kafka's Underpants', as uploaded by Roger Wilmut today....like 40 minutes ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=22t31bMkTFg
I'd juist like tae let ye know the 'empty holding' for the Season 4 edition of The Entertainers (STV) wi' Chas and Dave exists on digital video. This number, from 29/03/1982 is entitlit 'Don't Anyone Speak English Anymore' an is actually aboot American Englishisms, please note, nowt else. A decidit this was a guid time tae post, for the only time, in Scots, legally my first leid. 🏴
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0uJPsCtj2k
Here's another wiped programme that exists....
A Beetle Called Derek, 'Time Out', 06/07/1981 is on VHS cassette tape as part of the collection of Jeffery Boswall at the University of Bristol:- archives.bristol.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DM2911%2f2%2f3%2f21
Über-anoraks may wish to note that the recording date is given as 29/06/1981 which suggests that the order of broadcasts may tie up with different tx dates to what is given on tvbrain.
This took zero effort.
It's another wiped Big Breakfast and this is from 21/11/2000. It was only uploaded recently and it appeared on my youtube recommended about three minutes ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uA-CD7sHHw
I had no idea that one of the many Big Breakfast missing editions was the one from 30/12/1999.
The one David Bowie appeared on. WIPED. This one:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xRy1pHdULE
This is another formerly missing Houseparty as uploaded by Made in Maidstone. This is from 09/12/1981 and might well be one of the editions that Kaleidoscope also have, but it's very difficult to tell because out of the 12 that they have they've only identified two editions' transmission date.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyvgH-pP7K4
In my defence, I was looking for something else entirely....
Around two years ago, Neil Miles' excellent youtube channel uploaded one of those epilogue programmes, an instalment of 'At The End of the Day', Anglia, from 30/05/1984, which I didn't see at the time. However, today, I stumbled upon it today, or perhaps crashed into it in the style of Randy jumping the cheeseburger*.
A couple of things of note; Father Philip Greystone was the Religious Adviser to Anglia TV at the time and was resident in Wells-Next-The-Sea. Also, this is the oldest existing example of this programme.
Also.... adverts, IVC, clock and that Sex Pistols classic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBTfxH1D5eg
*you won't get this reference. I'm not bothered, I'm not a pessimist, I'm an optometrist.
Tiny wee bit of wiped here; this is a Jim Kerr interview from the 13/08/1991 edition of the O Zone.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcWmcjexNpo
This is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it excerpt of a wiped show.
Something that TV Ark have is this wee clip of Preview, 'Song and Dance Man', STV, 22/04/1982. I have no idea if they have any more of it:-
tvark.org/preview
In ground-breaking news - literally, rather than metaphorically - it does transpire that there are three extant editions of ATV's Gardening Today in the MACE Archive, rather than zero.
One is from 1979 and the other two from 1981.
www.macearchive.org/search/audio/sound-54?for=%22gardening%20today%22&from=&to=
A miniscule discovery, this, but at least my response time was good....🤣
This is part of a Night Thoughts from 19/10/1986, which I seem to have spotted 8 minutes after it was uploaded by the wonderful ADC TV Collection.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zilQ00Ozh94
Trails and the voice of Peter Lewis are present on this upload too.
I've been dreading this. I spotted this a few months ago and conveniently forgot to report it.
The actual audio clip itself is fine and glorious; it's Dusty Springfield giving it all singing Soulville on a show from 13/01/1968.
It's from the R*lf H*rris Show.
It's not Dusty's fault.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUVFCvEzNDc
This is probably missing.... let me explain....
There are two existing episodes of Keynotes (HTV) at NLW from 1992 - which is the worst year of coverage of episodes. At least 50 (possibly exactly 50) editions were made during that year, and I can confirm it's not the extant 18/12/1992 show.
So there's a 98% chance this is a lost programme.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp4SM1Rd6NM
It's time to sprinkle some fairy dust on the.... programme Pebble Mill at One.
This is the Troggs, from 11/04/1984 performing their magnum opus forged from the veritable prima materia of music, that growling rock'n'roll classic Wild Thing. It's here, live, ocarina and all.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksRjtBMm1yY
This was wiped. Kaleidoscope have a copy now, but the fact remains it WAS wiped. The upload comes from the ADC TV Collection just the now and it's an edition of Highway from 26/11/1989 and this week Harry is in Christ's Hospital which is in West Sussex, if you don't know, so it's another TVS programme.... a lot of them this month, no?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOV-u44guIg
New information; minority interest programming and then some....
Anonymous of Anglia has informed me (and Kaleidoscope) that STV's edition of Homework, 11/06/1984 entitled 'Alterations and Extensions' is not wiped and is at the BFI on 2-inch tape.
Look, this isn't strictly wiped as it's not strictly a programme, but I feel posting the upload IS a good thing.
Made in Maidstone again and this is the TVS Staff Address from 17/01/1990:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItqBlDwjEY8
About 5 minutes ago I decided to look to see if I could find anything wiped by midnight, preferably with as little effort as possible as I'm still feeling rough.
Bristol University have an audio of a lost edition of Women Only (HTV) from 16/03/1978: archives.bristol.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DM2123%2F1%2FArchive%20Boxes%2079&fbclid=IwAR0-NAn2x9b4kC8VqioTCGGiklV5dEP7vxHs2W_suxFfkEfadU5neXGD6UQ_aem_ASAV3wDGs05lpKBxJIJIUHvWPBLTDalGj4B_I-mAYBxV7aMpOm-Sf-71I1jOl7lfi2XUe26R1WsfTB9W9Vi79d03
More Made in Maidstone just uploaded the now; this is a REHEARSAL for an edition of 7T3 (TVS) from 1988.
May not be wiped per se, but it is rare as a hen going to the dentist:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMsk2gd9vSs
Made in Maidstone is still uploading wiped programming and this evening's offering (from about 10 minutes ago) is an edition of Outlook (TVS) from 27/08/1985, a wee bit of filler; effectively some trails and weather featuring the very wonderful Keith Martin:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXOZRfIky7g
A very random edit of several excerpts from several editions of the BSB Power Station show Power Up from various dates in 1990, courtesy of the Jer youtube channel. :-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCiJP4_DSr0
(There used to be a horse called Jer, you know, not that he was responsible for the upload.)
Made in Maidstone again and it's a No. 73 Series 2 compilation.
Ordinarily, I wouldn't post anything from the first two Series, as they're meant to exist in full.... but hang on a neep-picking minute.... this would be the last one in the Series, right?
Well, no, as it turns out.... the synopsis for that edition is completely different, so it wasn't that.
Was this compilation broadcast at all? No idea. Is it archived? Well, the BFI don't have it. Very oddskins bodskins as Timothy Claypole would have said.
Also Junior Giscombe singing live with Sandi Toksvig on backing vocals it not something I'd never thought I'd see. 🙂
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hghvDkf7EQo
I'm not going to be online a lot today but just long enough to mention another upload by Made in Maidstone of a wiped show.
This is the No. 73 edition from 28/02/1987 and it's entitled 'Love Wars'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=39FbA3g2Wcs
How the (expletive) did I miss this?
Alerted by my friend Anonymous of Anglia, this has been on youtube for years (only about 3 views a day, as if that's an excuse....).
This is the Jimi Hendrix Experience performing Hey Joe 19/01/1967 Top of the Pops. And it's BRILLIANT.
The notable difference between this and the existing audio for 29/01/1967 is the backing vocals by the Breakaways. It's a completely different version.
This is LIVE.
No miming, Hendrix, Mitchell and Redding live. I love this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA1G55nRutA
More from Made in Maidstone.... and this was uploaded mere minutes ago.
This is a December 1980 edition of Southern TV's Houseparty.
Most of the extant editions are from 1981 and the majority of them are on ex-domestic video. I have no way to date this any more accurately.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu9RGMTTbdU
This really looks in such good quality my first thought was this must exist.... but.... this recently uploaded trail (so recently uploaded it was done after midnight today....) has brief fragments of the wiped editions of We Want to Sing and Play Away from 24/02/1973.
The trail itself is from two days prior.... as I said my immediate thought is it must exist - maybe tagged on the end or beginning of a Blue Peter recording - but it's not listed on tvbrain, so....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkD20pbPuh0
uploaded by Appropriated Subdiffusion.
THIS IS NOT A NEW DISCOVERY.
I spotted this in 2019 and it's one of my least remembered discoveries, probably because it's regional ITV and fairly short.
The reason I'm posting this now is because I didn't get everything correct in my description of it and I didn't have the date exactly and I also have some additional information.
This is an About Anglia Special and the tx date is 21/02/1980 and it concerns the rather spectacular demolition of the chimneys of the Coronation Brickworks in Stewartby, Bedfordshire. (By the way, before anyone mentions it, I am aware the BBC sent a crew to the site as well and that they still retain their footage, although it is much shorter.)
Additionally, it transpires that a private collector has an About Anglia Special from 07/06/1977 on a domestic video format which is all about the Queen's Jubilee and showing reports from around the televisual region. I haven't seen this yet.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV-rMOWExtI
Something I missed.
This is a bit of TVS' Afternoon Club from 1985 featuring Christopher Robbie. It's literally 30 seconds long, but.... I missed it at the time; as uploaded by Neil Miles.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRsWHD18PF4
I'm very tired and I will have to return to the safety and sanctity of my wee snoreshelf but in the meantime here's something I spotted at 6.55 a.m. Yes, another wiped edition of the Big Breakfast.... in fact several. I swear these things just turn up....
In fact youtube uploader jeffrey44 has the following ones: 04/09/2000 through to 08/09/2000 (first three mentioned before, fourth one exists at the BFI, final one is a new one to here); 20/09/2000 (partial and exists anyway); 21/11/2000 (wiped but mentioned before); 06/08/2001 through to 10/08/2001 (first one exists, Friday one mentioned before, three unmentioned ones which are all missing) and 22/11/2000 (not mentioned before and wiped - only uploaded 12 days ago).
So that's five previously unheralded junked editions which is around 8 hours of wiped material. I would also like to apologize for potentially even worse grammar than usual as I'm exhausted.
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkoU7Y0uvdH9HziR_8wb9G_KESyiAPNFH
There's a Fortunes track 'Things I Should Have Known (1965 live BBC TV)' on a Fortunes at the BBC compilation that comes from the Ken Dodd Show (31/10/1965), which is wiped.
One of the 1983 editions of Nationwide that isn't meant to exist in full is the 27/05/1983 programme.
Well, certainly part of the Welsh opt-out does as about 10 minutes is held by the NLW on domestic tape.
discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99413088302419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,%22bbc%201%22&sortby=date_a&offset=0
I said to myself, whatever you do Raymi, don't look for any religious shows today. You'll get more of a reputation than you already have.
So, I switch youtube on and there's an edition of Highway being suggested. Well, a majority exist, you know, so I thought I'd check.... it's a 'replacement' edition as shown on 08/03/1987 (which I might add isn't an Easter edition or Special per se). I'm guessing the edition has the title 'Favourites' as it's a compilation so it has a unique production credit at the end (please note Chris Bowden-Smith) and featured footage from editions made by Tyne Tees, Grampian, Channel, HTV, TVS, Ulster and Border! So this is the programme with the most ITV company credits.... see the end board....
Anyways is it missing? My radar says yes. Tvbrain list it as an empty holding. I couldn't find it in the BFI archive. Apart from Harry's specially recorded linking bits, all the episodes that provided material exist except the TVS bit.
So, I'm dubbing this edition 'Favourites' as there's no on-screen title.
As uploaded by the rather wonderful ADC TV Collection.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGbMFZN5O5c
Gary Jordan has located a missing Going for a Song edition from 1970 in France.
This isn't missing, but this five minute 'filler' programme does deserve a mention for a number of reasons.
This segment is not held - and has never been retained - by the broadcaster, or the BFI. In fact for the best part of 37 years it was sitting on a shelf gathering dust in Soho Square until a 2007 DVD release. So what?
Well, the programme wasn't billed in many publications, some TV historians don't know this was transmitted.
The programme was called Paul McCartney and it literally consisted of the song Maybe I'm Amazed accompanied by some rather stunning photographs of the aforementioned Macca taken by Linda. This was transmitted on the ITV network on 19/04/1970 at 6pm, and was ostensibly to promote Kintyre's most famous stoner's first solo album.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdDPR8GzXy8
I am ploughing through a list today, alphabetically....
So, here's the first half of what for Scottish🏴 viewers could be considered as an historic programme - or at least part of one....😕
This is the first half of the final edition of the Glen Michael Cartoon Cavalcade (STV), which had in one form or tother had been running since 1966! This instalment is from 27/12/1992. I missed this one when it was uploaded MANY MANY YEARS AGO because at the time I couldn't actually date it and it was also a partial recording.
The quality of the recording is a wee bit shan, but it is what it is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-CPiNjnrW8&list=PLt_j24ltH7sUGCpX80fR9q-34W56OGtp3
Well that's it for the month.
I will be taking a few day's break.
