APRIL 2024's Discoveries!!!!

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

Here's a list of discoveries from April 2023; this is mainly done in a sort of diary format so sometimes discoveries are grouped and sometimes not:-

Another Made in Maidstone upload - this is TVS' Concentration and the edition seems to date from 23/10/1988.
While the TVS version of this is not on tvbrain, I did a quick reckie of what Wessex and the BFI hold; the former don't seem to have anything and the latter have three episodes but not this one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=azCRWmrU-Cw
The edition is timecoded.

TVS Public Meeting Presentation (SE): RX 16.10.86....
""Featuring clips from: Khalid Aziz, Coast to Coast, Agenda, The Spice of Life, Unit 731, The Berlin Wall, Boys of ’66, Secret Hunters, Hello Campers!, Titanic: The Nightmare and the Dream, Squaring the Circle, The Brief, C.A.T.S. Eyes, 92 Grosvenor Street, Murrow, Strong Medicine, Murder by the Book, The Haunting of Cassie Palmer, The Boy Who Won the Pools, The Witches and the Grinnygog, Travellers by Night, Letty, The Young Persons’ Guide to Getting Their Ball Back!, Worldwide, Do It, No. 73, Catchphrase, 5 Alive, Bobby Davro on the Box, Magic Moments, Summertime Special, Knights of God.""
As uploaded by Made in Maidstone.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f__5u-VtBYM

My friend Anonymous of Anglia has emailed me to alert of me of some recently uploaded audio from a missing edition of the Blackpool Show, ABC, 30/07/1967.
The uploaded is of the Shadows performance from that day and it's also in fairly good nick, a welcome discovery, this:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwBqNMDzhg0

More audio from a missing show and it's more Dusty Springfield from Darren Carstairs youtube channel.
This is Dusty's appearance on the Ken Dodd Show on 11/09/1966.
While it has been on youtube for sometime, it's only gathered about 75 views a year....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6i-Vdocqx8

More audio Shadows from the Shadows Collectors Corner and this is John Rostill playing a piano-led version of Wonderful Land from the ATV Xmas Special 'Wish Upon a Wishbone' from 25/12/1965 and very nice it is too.
All of the audio for this special is out there somewhere, but I don't have a copy of it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERe75DBpr-0

Just a wee fragment from a wiped show, this. It's an extract from an edition of Get Set from 1983 as uploaded by the ADC TV Collection about 18 months ago which I overlooked.
I've been unable to ascertain which April 1983 edition this is from, but as none are known to exist apart from a domestic video recording of a Flock of Seagulls from that month, it's safe to say this is from a missing episode:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=HACJI2VBALg

Egads, zounds and Heaven to Betsy Ford and all who sail in her!
This Shadows Collectors Corner comes up with another bit of wiped material.
It's the Shadows appearing on Cilla 02/03/1974. According to tvbrain the tape was 'bought by NFA in 1980 and now lost, tape is missing believed wiped.'
Yes, yes, I know it's been on youtube 8 years, but nobody had spotted it was from a missing episode.... and it is:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=njEjNVhUgo0

Complicated story....
The Very First Glen Campbell Television Special (16/09/1973, 47.12) is the US NTSC version of the UK Glen Campbell and Company (19/08/1974, 51.43). I'd go as far to say that the UK version was regarded as a lesser version, because despite being longer by a few minutes the UK programme was shown almost a year later.
Well, I ascertained the US Programme existed after firstly acquiring a dodgy copy myself and then finding a watermarked version on youtube. The UK version was considered lost.
Then today, out of nowhere, I see the BFI have a copy of the US-titled version.... except it quite clearly states that the tape is the longer version and it's PAL!!!!
collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20150323386?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3CXRVKCQxxWBNHTUvkB6d2EEgPdhv9rUgtc7FL27jaNZ97uGkL85v5sWw_aem_AZzLBVtzMN4qeIKl0gcPF1Kmnb6yaVieYfmyzhNMeG6OA7t5tgxeU8m8vxw2fp4bw3Lqcncc8FeVY38Py2Eg925Z

Did you know that there were Miss ATV contests in 1971 and 1972? Well, now you can sleep soundly knowing that your life has been enriched by this fact. There's about 15 seconds of mute footage from each contest at the MACE Archive which is of the winners of both aforementioned competitions along with footage of the winners of the 1973-1979 pageants in this compilation:- www.macearchive.org/films/miss-atv-compilation

Housekeeping - about an ATV show....
The Heart of Show Business was an all-star LE extravaganza which was made to support the Aberfan Fund, created after the tragic events that happened in the aforementioned Welsh village in 1966.
According to tvbrain it only exists in monochrome, which is, of course typical for something broadcast in the mid-60s (the actual tx date was 26/03/1967).
However, it DOES exist in colour. A clip of Lulu was shown at a MBW event in colour in 2005 - and then there's this clip of 'Les Trois Charlies' uploaded to youtube in 2023:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jIkqPDqZMk
That's all well and good, but it ponders the question was this shot BOTH in monochrome and colour? It's something ATV did with a few New London Palladium Shows of a similar vintage which also occurred a few years later with Season 1 of This is....Tom Jones. I'm very aware that the show was sold to the US and I feel it unlikely that it would have been a monochrome transmission over there.

I'm concentrating on ATV today.... not 'ATV Today' today, if you follow me.... so I decided to have a look for some LE shows from the 1950s.... and.... I found a missing one. 21/06/1958, the Saturday Spectacular 'The Johnnie Ray Show', starring Johnnie Ray, The Treniers, Anne Shelton, Channing Pollock, The John Tiller Girls, Cyril Ornadel and The London Palladium Orchestra.
According to the uploader, transferred directly from a 16mm telerecording. I've got to say, I'm pretty pleased about this one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EpwjXjMalk

About five years ago I spotted Count Basie's appearance on Jazz at the Maltings (tx 05/12/1968, BBC 2); my friend Fabio Baglioni has a copy of this on DV.
It's still listed as missing on tvbrain which is bizarre, but it definitely exists. Proof:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OiBwdkVSBc
By the way excerpts were also shown on the 27/12/1968 and 10/04/1969 editions, which I don't think I mentioned before.

Well, here's a thing....
This is a corporate, if you like. It's a video about TVS People and Programmes from 1987. TVS made quite a lot of these things.
It's been on youtube for 8 years but less than 100 people have seen it a year. It also includes clips of a few wiped programmes and a few which have been discovered. Somehow I missed this and it's been reappearing on my suggested videos for weeks!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7YAoJxwGYI

Not exactly wiped, but features some wiped programming - this is a TVS Corporate Reel from 21/06/1990 and it features clips from the following shows:- Coast to Coast, Moneywise, Agenda, Music Makers, That's Gardening, Spitfire Summer, Countryside Close, Country Ways, A Royal Vision, The Time The Place, TV Weekly, Airport '90, A Marriage of Inconvenience, Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Perfect Scoundrels, The Magistrate, Murderers Among Us - The Story of Simon Wiesenthal, The Storyteller, Eye on the Whitehouse, Facing South, Charlie Wing, Art of the Western World, Káťa Kabanová, Jenufa, Living with Dinosaurs, Greek Myths, Grandpa, Motormouth, Streetwise, The Castle of Adventure, Back Home, Davro, That's Love, The Help Squad, Catchphrase and Concentration. Over 10 of those previously mentioned have at least one edition or episode that was or is lost.
As uploaded by Made in Maidstone:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7fwuY07Tzc

Jaws was never my scene and I don't like Stars on Sunday.
This is housekeeping but also some additional information. Many many years ago an optical transfer of some monochrome 405-line recordings of Patricia Cahill performing on the edition from 25/11/1973. They are very well-known about and the video in question has been on youtube for 16 years.
What is somewhat less-known is the fact that 6 years ago another video of Ms Cahill performing on the same show from the same collection of tapes appeared on youtube. This one has 245 views, not even 2% of the other one's total.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbLz6_OIl7M

This was something I spotted years ago and it disappeared from youtube.
It's turned up again today - this is Cliff Richard and Mensi from the Angelic Upstarts having a wee chit-chat about religion and wombats. Ok, I made that wombat bit up, but I reckon they should have talked about them. The programme is ATV's 'Something Different' and it's from January 1980.
web.archive.org/web/20161007023426/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgBIVq6rHVM

Additional information; 'Spring in Ethiopia', which was an Intertel production for Rediffusion (28/03/1967) exists not only in the State Library of NSW which I noted years ago, but also at Thirteen - New York Public Media (WNET) on 16mm film; the Library of Congress on 16mm film and also on the same format at Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive.
americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-59q2c275

I'm still doing ATV research.
Puzzlingly the 26/10/1969 edition of Music Hall shows up as an empty holding on tvbrain. Surely NBC have a copy on 2-inch of the US version (which is almost identical apart from the titles and credits)?
Well, either way, the episode is one of 8 that seems to have got a legit DVD release:- www.sandlerandyoung-legacy.com/live-from-london.html

It's another upload by Made in Maidstone of an episode that was wiped; this one is an edition of Sunday 7T3 and it's from 13/12/1987:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd5YMK8sMDA

....and another one from out of the Shadows, so to speak....well, I knew I was hungry and Anonymous of Anglia also emailed to say that on the same youtube channel is an audio copy of an appearance by Hank Marvin on Thames TV's Sooty Show from 20/08/1969:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MJpsz8eh3g

I would like to apologize to the entire population of Northern Europe for swearing as loudly as I just did, I wasn't expecting this....
There are excerpts of the Saturday Stars (ATV) series featuring Mireille Mathieu from 1968 held at INA in France.
(note, this was NOT found by searching their archive, this was found on youtube).
It's very difficult to work out, but on this reel there are three clips of Mireille duetting with UK artistes; Cliff is the episode from 23/11/1968; Des O'Connor's duet is from 21/12/1968.... but there's also one with Engelbert and that doesn't tie up exactly - I'm deducing it's probably the first show 05/10/1968 as he appeared on that.
THEY ARE ALL MEANT TO BE WIPED.
I'm calling this the Saturday Stars showreel until further notice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFcataId8D4

As uploaded by the wonderful elviskline69 youtube channel some audio of a missing edition of Opportunity Knocks (ABC), 15/07/1967:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxufCJg10Tk

Aidan Lunn has come up with another missing edition of Sit Up and Listen which is on his Sticky tape 'n' rust youtube channel.
This one is from 27/11/1982 and features Barbara Leigh-Hunt:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=esGemJJOIEs

The audio of Judy Garland's performance on the London Palladium Show (ATV), 19/01/1969.
This was Ms Garland's last televised UK TV appearance. While the film of her taking bows ONLY exists as part of an Omnibus edtion (YES, I know that's BBC and yes, really....) and 21 minutes of the show - mainly of host Jimmy Tarbuck - exists ex-CV-2000, and the Judy bits are on youtube.
However, the audio of Judy from this performance wasn't known to exist in public until this upload last year. Credit to Buzz Stephens here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_SHCYz0j3s

Some of the audio of the tv show 'The Shadows Show', ATV, 31/08/1962 has turned up on bootleg....in Poland....
www.kameleonrecords.pl/en/sklep/the-shadows-en/on-tv-vol-1-1961-1963-2/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR14ETYWzvmnhrLqHvA-v6dZ206o1_P2ioRKQJpogVPKEu-hEP32iPUy3Jo_aem_AZwSVUYwGTJlg0fshuELsfyX0ffYga-sr7K6FDv2_1_D2ktFqyOsAuto0jXqfoUqe2KOScQwlO-pAWOvFWi0pKvf

Just uploaded by the elviskline69 channel is this audio extract from Sportsview on 11/11/1964:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELnRBeMU2pU

'Why didn't I post this previously?' is a question that will remain unspoken for the remainder of all time. The author blames Nathan Jones for what was a temporary poor run of form.
This is a wiped edition of On Safari from 21/02/1984, again uploaded by Made in Maidstone.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwjqzwuI2bA

Part of an audio recording of Joni Mitchell's subsequently-wiped Sounds for Saturday (10/06/1972) has been flying under the radar for years.
Not any more.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1y8p-_CXng
UPDATE; (00:00) This Flight Tonight (03:17) Electricity (06:28) Big Yellow Taxi (09:26) See You Sometime //// (30:47) Joni talks (33:59) Carey (37:16) You Turn Me On (I’m a Radio) - these songs are recordings from the lost Sounds for Saturday with Joni Mitchell, 10/06/1972.
The whole tape does exist; this is a slightly longer version of what I posted earlier.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CWEYIFQJ74

Junior Points of View?
Yes, the last few minutes of audio of the edition from 26/09/1969 is captured here on this upload by elviskline69:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Pwt37RaIs
The tape is a bit distorted.

This is actually great....
The Top of the Pops-aired promo film for Maroc 7 aired 13/04/1967. Only uploaded last month:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3xuMLEqNyE
This was thought to be lost and now appears in fantastic quality.
Credit to the Shadows Collectors Corner.

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

I saw this last month and decided not to post about it. I've now changed my mind, so let me explain....
The Pyramid Game was a long-running game show; originally by LWT, The show first appeared in 1978 as a segment of Bruce Forsyth's Big Night, then was a segment on The Steve Jones Games Show in 1979, before becoming a series in its own right in 1981. After it finished its' LWT run in 1984 it later re-emerged on TVS and ran from 1989 to 1992. It was later revived for Challenge TV in 2007.
So the LWT editions all exist; there were 80 TVS editions broadcast and all I can find are two at the BFI.
Made in Maidstone uploaded this edition last month (08/03/1989) and it's not one of the two held. Tvbrain does not list any TVS editions currently. So, I'm not completely certain it's a missing edition, but.... it's not looking good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3eCB5vf2rk

No, it's NOT an upload by Made in Maidstone! They've uploaded a Get Fresh today which isn't missing....and I didn't think any were lost....but....one is lost.
And here is PART of that lost edition from 23/05/1987, this being an Anglia production, as uploaded by the ADC TV Collection last year:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxGSgR_t1Tk

This is a programme that's listed as an 'empty holding' on tvbrain, which means there's not enough information to confirm the existence of a work.
However, there is, and this programme has never been missing. In fact, you can watch it.
The marvellous Digital Film Archive at Northern Ireland Screen have this instalment of About Britain 'Johnny Doughboy' (UTV, 01/02/1982) all transferred and digitized and it's here:-
digitalfilmarchive.net/media/johnny-doughboy-the-gis-in-northern-2176?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0p2rbGmjrlWDgiAm8tfQJmZd3KTUBn_HaTJMiwYgF2j2benPFosaglz8Q_aem_AZxllroCH_JTA8JwajoBXfGywzMdv7VGkadp8zTjYsileYwRkLEJ_o_h-GGQmZ1bRvasFI91YSEwWt4zQc36mWXM

Another Opportunity Knocks from a reel to reel recording.
youtu.be/y1_-Ou9E8Jo
Transmission 22nd July 1967
Returning winner Linda Jordan.
Other acts
Tony Sadar & Margie
Blue Grass Ramblers
Maytone Trio
Jennifer shaw
Boston Braves Steel Band and limbo dancers
as uploaded by elviskline99

I get asked to find idents occasionally and I've located a couple in the past including the 1980 BBC Wales Xmas ident.
To complete the decade I thought I'd spend 30 or 40 seconds looking for the 1989 one and bless my Billy Cotton socks if I didn't stumble across it with almost zero effort.
It's here at 1.15:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaNgqE18N3U

""In 1972 a children’s series (Dream Castle) starring Roy Castle got as far as a pilot episode (called variously ‘Dandylion’ or ‘The Lion That Lost Its Roar’). Castle plays a toyshop keeper called the Dream Man, who gives two children puppets of themselves, and sets them on a quest that they will pursue, as these puppets, in their dreams. It’s worth noting that it was written by Dorothy Dee, who wrote the “Smokey” story at the head of your article, and that the puppet/children’s guide in the dream world was a mole called Moodywarp!)

The music for “Dream Castle” was composed and recorded by Barry Gray, best known for his work on Gerry Anderson’s series. Gray had worked with George for many years: “Moreno” and “George & Fred” turn up regularly in the studio recordings list that appeared online a little while back."" (text - bearalley.blogspot.com/2011/02/george-moreno.html)
Anyway, the whereabouts of said pilot was not known about and was meant to be missing....until today.... as it's in the vaults of the BFI (under the alternative title of 'Dandylion') on colour film and ting.
collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150688310?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1Dr80Fb706bAfWvnJpwyDGwg0vYFfjnYFACMNdsDWBvx152XEW6vLkWHU_aem_AZwYv-92jrnIph70TiuPNadtQU30CzE2907BcX64Jpd_m_mQjMTtSBjUdrq9WPl78f3Ft2dLLemnyMG2QRkox7nh#

The 1975 Yorkshire TV drama 'Robert', part of the Handle with Care series starring John Alkin, Rachel Davies, Fanny Rowe, Kay Gallie and Robert Hartley exists on colour film at Concord Media.
It wasn't retained by YTV as they did not hold the copyright.
While I announced this find some while back, I have additional information and it transpires that Yorkshire commissioned SIX episodes - all held on C1 at Concord - but not all shown:-
Handle with Care - Alec
Handle with Care - Anna
Handle with Care - Aunt Harriet
Handle with Care - Judy
Handle with Care - Mike
Handle with Care - Robert
www.concordmedia.org.uk/products/handle-with-care-robert-3520/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR37EI4Pe2-e7RkKhE1o4XP3MOE3I35ozDHMdDyANk3tE9L4M5LALBrazKU_aem_AZxYePaIQEZq8gd3bhEhz_QJ6psfBAO5ZFkgIBF1pHYorBPpfQHWwthlcFwxqjK2LdkGmWo6sBuwT3wFTuhfiRvG

The BBC Natural History programme Look ran for 15 years and many of the films were bought in; some were edited, some were filmed in colour but transmitted in monochrome and.... there's all sorts of variations.
Just to clear up one thing;
16.06.1967 1: Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees; 23.06.1967 2: Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees; 04.12.1967 repeated
11.12.1967 repeated.
Not held by the BBC but exists on C1 in many collections across the world. Transmitted in monochrome on BBC 1, but the colour versions are well-known. Please note that this was narrated by Orson Welles (who keep showing up in my life, bizarrely).
The films are available everywhere, exist on colour film and have been issued on DVD!

I personally think this is brilliant and I apologize to everyone in the world for feeling smug and perhaps even more deluded than I was already, if that's possible.
1971: on 16th through to the 18th September the BBC broadcast a three-part biopic on George Bernard Shaw starring Max Adrian. It's made by David Frost's Paradine Productions who retain copyright.
2023: Screenbound acquire the distribution rights from Paradine and it reappears again! Hurrah!
screenbound.co.uk/title-item/george-bernard-shaw-series/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2hHnQ2TpvKaM2h_gSzp6G6gu3MjFNOjm1AUMkyRRycwmSSCPDUBcaisgI_aem_AZxd4NBR2m59yhGWl_rcJdIgPrjrLOxhE1uaQWUZAADxOZs1CJaznckCsMq37LbLZ1eqTVCtVr9y-H_p1vaUZanZ

I would like to apologize in advance if this exists. There are no losers if it does; if it IS in the Wessex Archive, so well and good and if it's not, well we have this upload here.
The thing is, I couldn't find it in the Wessex Archive and after 30 minutes of pickling my brain not finding it I'm just posting the link to the upload. Wessex have a number of Facing South editions, but not everything.
This here edition is called 'Water', and it's from 13/04/1989: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtC5SFhApno
Another wonderful upload from Made in Maidstone.

This is a bit of an odd one. It's going to be a long post too, but that's ok, it's not a war crime.
When one thinks of a TV show called Rainbow, one thinks of Zippy, George, Bungle, that Dundee United supporter and Peter, Paul and Mary or whatever they were called. Facetiousness aside, there was a Rainbow before Rainbow.... of sorts. I will explain. It's a scary ride....
....the adventures of a radio-controlled doll called Rainbow. According to The Stage (14/01/1960) nine episodes had been made out of a projected series of 39. The films were made in various locations, including Switzerland, in twos, to allow them to be paired to make a half-hour television film. The talent behind this was Honoria Plesch, who was a designer and producer who had worked on a large number of classic films of the immediate post-war period.
So, yes a radio-controlled doll.... and what did it look like?
This:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9xemsld-gA
There is a point I'm getting to, trust me..... anyway the 39 episodes never materialized, but 9 had been filmed and it was thought they'd disappeared.
But wait, finding this is the sort of thing that your cap-wearing coffee-swilling medicinal-cheroot smoking Albaphile practically LIVES FOR, right? Yes, indeedy.
So, it transpires that the episodes were not junked as thought by Kaleidoscope and 78rpm and others and at some point some of them robotically made their way to the BFI where they are logged as the Rainbow's Adventures, six extant on colour film (!) and one in monochrome.
There are rumours that episodes were indeed shown in France and Switzerland, but I cannot confirm that.

My thanks to the wonderful Audio Only youtube channel for this - it's an edition of the Val Doonican Show from 16/12/1967 - and the guests are Lulu, Duck Shawn, Los Zafiros.
It's not the complete show, it's 40 minutes of audio only, only uploaded in the last 2 hours.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbok-VhKhh8

Did you see the rather stunning Radio Times Treasure Hunt audio recoveries list? Congratulations to all involved.
The thing is, there's a number of audio recordings of wiped TV programmes, so I have waded through the list and.... these missing episodes now have a soundtrack.....
""Apollo 8,13,14,15 and 16 coverage BBC and ITV. Pretty Comprehensive Good
Apollo 11 Moon Landing TV coverage Fairly Good
Aly Bain & His Fiddlers for McLeod's Scotland (Pebble Mill at One 1976) 2 Good
Peter Morrison Aviemore Centre (Pebble Mill at One 1982 poss) tape 1 Very Good
Peter Morrison Aviemore Centre (Pebble Mill at One 1982 poss) tape 2 Very Good
Apollo 11 BBCTV coverage Good
Val Doonican Show Tx 21.2.70 BBC1 rpt 15.8.70 BBC2 OK
Make Way for Music Tx 8.7.59 BBCTV Good
Make Way for Music Tx 18.8.59 BBCTV Good
Jackanory Tx 7.2.74 w Alex Marshall & Ray Brooks BBC1 Good
Tony Joe White in Concert 1 Tx 8.5.74 BBC2 Excellent
Tony Joe White in Concert 2 Tx 10.7.74 BBC2 Excellent
Eric Sykes int about 'VIP' prob Film Club 12.4.61 BBCTV (Film rel 20.4.61 in UK) Excellent
Film Night Special - Caesar's the Name of the Game Tx 28.12.69 BBC2 OK
On the Margin (19 mins only) Nov or Dec 1966 Poor to good
Bobbie Gentry Tx 24.5.69 (rpt 17/08/1968) BBC2 Poor
Show of the Week - Glen Campbell Tx 6.5.70 BBC2 OK
The Harry Secombe Show Tx 17.7.71 (rpt of 03/10/1970) BBC2 OK
In Concert - Bobbie Gentry 30/10/1970 Good
Gentry Tx 1.2.71 BBC2 poor
Gentry Tx 8.2.71 BBC2 poor
Gentry Tx 15.2.71 BBC2 poor
Film Night BBC2 10.4.74 2315 OK
Film Night BBC2 22.5.74 2250 OK
Film Night Special - int w Frederico Fellini Tx 1.5.74 2010 OK
Film Night Tx 4.5.73 4'30 only OK
Film Night Tx 11.1.75 BBC 2 (16' only) Good
Film Night 3.4.74 2215 BBC2 (inc the Optimists) OK
Film Night 12.6.74 2135 (Mel Brooks - Blazing Saddles) OK
Film Night 15.5.74 BBC2 2330 OK
Film Night 17.7.71 BBC2 OK
Film Night 30.5.74 2330 Good
Film Night BBC 21.8.74 2230 (last in series) OK 14
Film Night BBC2 5.6.74 2310 OK
Film Night BBC2 7.8.74 2330 Good
Film Night BBC2 8.5.74 2215 OK""
(these are extractions from the list and are copied with only annotations from myself about repeat dates and spelling; the comments are obviously descriptions of the quality.)

Another found Opportunity Knocks on a reel to reel this one from 15th July 1967
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxufCJg10Tk
Acts :
Returning winners - The Dyffryn School Choir
Steve Faye
Greg Mayer Dancers
Linda Jordan
& The Riot Squad
As uploaded by elviskline99; please note David Bowie does NOT appear on this.

Back in 2013 I'd heard there was an audio tape of a great Scottish band called Beggar's Opera playing live on Grampian TV. This was confirmed by the group's website and.... that was that.
Ten Years Later (not the band....) I do a bit of web-surfing and it transpires that the tape was uploaded to youtube on Xmas Day last year. Holy Schmokes! This has been uploaded by the band's own website as well. (Also thanks for the namecheck!)
So, what was the show. It appears to be Grampian's Sounds '73 which is otherwise completely missing. The edition is question is most likely to be 03/08/1973.
I would also like to thank William McGregor for his assistance with the history behind this discovery.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJQ8Q_UmgLk

Shhhhh!
Castaway (also known as the Castaways in some territories) was a STV co-production with companies in (West Germany) and Australia and the German version exists on colour film whereas the English-language version has gone walkies.
So whisper the fact that 5 editions of the English dub exist in a private collection on VHS.

Sometimes I plough through multiple databases and I think 'Haven't I seen that?' about some programme that's meant to be missing.
Donkey's yonks ago I stumbled upon 'Test Tube Explosion' a TVS show (02/02/1982) that had gone walkies and located it in the possession of The British Universities Film & Video Council. That was that.
Then this evening the programme came up on another database and I wondered if it MIGHT be on youtube.... and by the Lord Harry, the trailer for it is, as uploaded by Concord Media, who quite obviously have the whole thing.
So just to recap - this is just the trailer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1jeTJNvuk

Just a wee thing this - as spotted by Gareth Joy -this is an edition of Reflections, Grampian's closedown programme and it dates from 23/06/1998.... this may be the latest extant example of a Closedown show. Grampian's branding disappeared soon after this too, so this is something for ident and continuity fans too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJXJzt9nzlU
Reflections starts around 11.45 in.

Made in Maidstone have uploaded an edition of How, which is fantastic; SE16 E10 and VT no 4239 with a recording date of 17/04/1980.... tx date 03/09/1990.
This is one that was wiped but Kaleidoscope do have a copy of it in their collection on DV.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMwzc30qtaM

Anonymous of Anglia has tipped me off to another programme the BFI have that was thought to be lost.
Law and Life's edition 'A Roof Over Your Head' (BBC 08/03/1966) exists on Digital File at the BFI and is viewable at Mediatheque:-
collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20154359280?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0x6NCcXhMcKULNR957Q3-Ax6q7YNj_es7igKZ6Za2zlBZz8j6zM9LBZTg_aem_AZzZGgGco2hlMDs6Kr_y4l-1Ph5jBH4pQW6-GEk4vNTKin6zPVcIUerApmLGCrfuQhwMVlO7VnNcoD9s0BZ1JDKF

This is a wee bit Transatlantic....
Back in 1958 when Jacob Rees-Mogg was celebrating his first centenary, there was an Associated Rediffusion show called Target, 'a half-hour syndicated drama series that.... focuses on lives that become targets of conflicting human forces..'
Some episodes were made in the UK although the majority weren't and only two were actually shown on ITV. Sam Kydd and John Le Mesurier appeared in one of the 6 episodes that was known to exist.
What of the others though?
There's been no DVD or anything and the original company that produced it appear to have disappeared.
Fear not though, because your resident iced-coffee freak has located all 39 episodes in the archives of Wisconsin Historical Society on 16mm film.
digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;cc=wiarchives;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=uw-whs-target

A wiped edition of Motormouth?
Look no further. It's Made in Maidstone again and this is from 23/09/1989:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JjFbUHEi_Y

A repeat.
Highway, 'Christ's Hospital' (TVS, 26/11/1989) has a second copy on youtube as upload by the Archive of Recorded Church Music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=acZ9AFFCAlI

Well....
Here's what I believe are 4 wiped editions of Sky's Sale of the Century, so just to make that clear it's not the Anglia version with dear old Nicky Parsons and Peter Fenn and his organ....no no, this is Peter Marshall doing the compering duties and these seem to be from February 1989.
Yes, yes, they've been on youtube for ten years, but I wasn't really looking for them and they've had about three views a day.
Also, it's very much a time capsule of the period....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8skKtFpWbg
AND www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtiY-uBbEqg

Well, I was looking for something else entirely....
You may well be aware that I've spotted a lot of supposed-to-be-missing programmes that were part of the About Britain ITV series that were made by the regional companies that weren't part of the 'Big Five'. This is NOT one of those.
It transpires there was an earlier series called 'About Britain' and the programmes were made by the BBC. These were travelogue documentaries made in various places up and down these islands and there were about 13 episodes* made between 1952 and 1954 of which 1 is meant to exist (Bristol).
So, well and good, but I stumbled upon an episode in the rather wonderful National Library of Scotland and it's the instalment 'Visit to the Isle of Skye' and this was transmitted on the 10th September 1954. I was also rather stunned to discover that the presenter was Richard Dimbleby.
movingimage.nls.uk/film/17914?search_term=bbc&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0CEd38XuD6jfrlhQN8k5W1iky-GLrwvs1S3-mnXJ_agsdp1MoxvVkQfOc_aem_AZxLrxFJmrvN_MRqDJVh4iyRQzANkinnHr3IfxG79VkhVXZpw0znH3ImUjwIgY2D6rEJqRSm_CPkHuxTqQy6WBkC
*if anyone can actually work out how many episodes there were I would be grateful as it appears a couple were repeated at least but some weren't. 13 is an educated guess; tvbrain lists 4, but it's certainly more than that.

Early BBC Scotland programming is mostly gone, no?
Enough of my RhettButleroric; I realize many of you won't give a damn. But I do.
Shall Brothers Be: Robert Burns, 1759–1796 BBC Scotland, Saturday 24/01/1959.... well a wee bit of this actually exists at the NLS; it's a 5 minute insert of Holy Willie's Prayer as read by Harold Wightman accompanied by illustrations by Edward and Elizabeth Odling. It's not 1961 as stated on the site.
movingimage.nls.uk/film/3650?search_term=bbc&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2fW4eSuLv3DjcB3ViTrJejltfg90YV97dNOOh9rd8Vq3i3PJl8So5dLPw_aem_AZx8DT2I0CZqEPJocCwLFEZbNKq3VyVsW_ytM0JuPPqLTFd8VcAcG9K9TbtYXRi6C6vq0NP3HngJiV8XkXDAOD-c
(Also thanks to wiki.scotlandonair.com/ ; without information from this site I would never have been able to find the TX year (the actual day was pretty obvious....))

(Deep breath....)
It's another Highway. I wasn't even looking for this, it came up on my youtube suggestions.... and you might be thinking, 'so what?'
This is a TVS edition and it's from Skate Central, P*rtsmouth and the edition is from 1991, but I couldn't actually find an exact tx date for this, but Harry says it's Remembrance Sunday, so looking at the calendar for that year it seems to be 10/11/1991 which works for me as that's not even listed on tvbrain.
I suspect this is wiped as it's a TVS production and many Highways made by them are gone.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=noA5YHQO9ew

This is an upload of an edition of Play School that was wiped. Kaleidoscope have this one now. This is from 24/02/1982 and it was uploaded by Nigel Hunter this year:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln56ap7Hn0E

No. 73, 'Hang On', SE06 E02 (TVS), missing.
Uploaded minutes ago....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CskIYAx_KI

I thought I may as well look for something difficult today. Something unlikely to survive, like early 60s Grampian TV.
Ten minutes later.... Bothy Nichts was a series that ran from 1964 to 1971 featuring traditional Scottish music and not one bit of it was retained....or so the commonly-held thought goes, but that's not so.... an album was pressed of the recordings of one edition from 1966 and released on Thistle Records.
Well, anyway, it's here in various bits, I'm not sure what the track order is:- www.youtube.com/@egg654/search?query=angus%20cronies

A missing Suggs on Saturday from 23/03/1991 is held on VHS by De Montfort University:- specialcollections.catalogue.dmu.ac.uk/records/A09/B/16/04/006?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3BZABv60IV3jHWP3iNAkmb03GSOmQ0oNmzoFYMqdns5AdW0NUK_NQk4FQ_aem_AZwaGV_e-tC2k7NgZRlTorS7gW4XEZKj_En9j5mlNZk5eRVQCzap6MwUs_pCfsQ7jnVjrHwFdb-7Ap8DqMwXvNOa

I apologize to 99% of you for today's efforts.
There will be a lot of minority-interest viewing discoveries today. I can smell the nature of the beast like the waft of medicinal cheroots and iced coffee.
Right, so.... 4 editions of STV's closedown programme Late Call exist at the University of Glasgow's School of Culture and Creative Arts. There's also some news programmes and continuity and other stuff such as ad breaks. The Late Call editions are from 20/02/1983; 11/03/1983; 06/04/1984 and an unknown date, all from off-air recordings.
Details:- tftsarchive.gla.ac.uk/vod/fulltext/?q=stv&x=0&y=0

For reasons far too boring to explain I always ignored the Pyramid Game (TVS) while looking for lost programming.
So, just while I have a moment of uncommon clarity I'd like to point youse in the direction of these uploads by the ADC TV Collection - many dating from years ago, although one playlist was only updated six weeks back. Not every episode is wiped, but there are significant gaps in holdings. The BFI hold two editions from 1989.
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLohd5UVV10lwF58x9ymlRpbRzLmyJfrFA
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLohd5UVV10lz-HSBxm-I1kq5dxSCezfOY

Some things just all turn up like buses; this to me is very much like the 179 Carlisle to Annan bus via Langtoon....
Anyways, I get it confirmed to me that the STV First Series of the Art Sutter Show (Grampian) exists in full.... and two minutes later my youtube recommended suggests me watching a partial recording of an Art Sutter Show from Season 2 that I've got flagged up as an empty holding which I've never seen before and has only been uploaded 5 days....
Truly bizarre to the point of creepy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aLoGzo8u9o

This is not exactly missing, but there's enough to warrant a post.
Tugs, if you don't recall, was a childrens' series which ran for 13 episodes in 1989. It's not exactly wiped.... but it may not exist the way int was broadcast.
Let me explain - the episodes from the series were released on a number of obviously-long-deleted VHS tapes some 33 years back.
These were not the same as the broadcast versions with many scenes being added or deleted.
Since then, a DVD of one episode has been released with a run of 150 copies which was from a U-Matic tape.
There are rumours that the complete series will be issued piecemeal over ensuing months and while I suspect this will happen several questions remain; are they going to be unedited versions or broadcast versions or new edits? Are they going to be taken from first generation sources? No one seems to know at this juncture.
In the meanwhile, the VHS released edits are on youtube and I think it's of reasonable importance to post about them:- www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh4SCqVIs7f9CBNe5HsX1tk18z2KPHblz

O Canada! Home of the lumberjack, maple syrup and of course, more latterly, the Cheeseburger Picnic....
(LONG POST)
CTV (in Ottawa, in this instance) were the main party behind a few series of the Amazing World of Kreskin (the second season being shown over here just titled Kreskin), two of which were co-financed by Tyne Tees.
This was not a very common practice for one of the smaller ITV companies, but a good move, as it sold well in English-speaking territories.
Following up from my discovery of a few episodes on youtube a while back it transpires that CTV appear to hold both entire series. What's my evidence?
There was a DVD set issued a few years back containing 10 full episodes and also clips and extracts from the episodes in the first two series.
Well.... the first two series had 30 editions in total, and a normal edition lasts around 24 minutes, 10 were on the DVD in full and the full set is 510 minutes, so the remaining 270 minutes must come from the other 20 editions - an average of 13 and a half minutes of every 24 minute programme, and as none of these bits on the DVD set are 'full' shows, that means it would be a veritable impossibility that there aren't extracts from at least 13 editions, which would make a bare minimum of a total of 23 existing in total from 30. Tvbrain says only a handful of shows exist in some format or other and there are obviously much more extant than that....
While I'm not saying this proves irrefutably that all the episodes exist in full, the intimation is that they do. Kreskin himself had a production company which was also a co-financier of the programmes and he's still around and was involved with the DVD set.
So I'm extremely confident that the entire two aforementioned seasons/programmes exist in full in Canada - probably on 2-inch tape transferred to Digital and definitely in NTSC format.
www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Moments-Amazing-Kreskin-Region/dp/B000ESSSZ2?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2hHnQ2TpvKaM2h_gSzp6G6gu3MjFNOjm1AUMkyRRycwmSSCPDUBcaisgI_aem_AZxd4NBR2m59yhGWl_rcJdIgPrjrLOxhE1uaQWUZAADxOZs1CJaznckCsMq37LbLZ1eqTVCtVr9y-H_p1vaUZanZ

It's not very often I look for wiped Westcountry because there's nothing really significant on any databases.
However there is Birthday People, which is one of those blink-and-you'll-miss-them-but-thats-ok-because-the-kettle-was-boling Birthday programmes that many of the smaller ITV regionals did, normally with the IVC people. I guess Gus had retired.
Here's a recently uploaded one from 30/06/2001 that came upon my recommended list:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl_DqLWiaVY
It's one of only two known editions although I wouldn't be surprised if the Box had more which aren't well known about.

In the swirls of the past I may have not spotted the odd youtube upload of a wiped edition and this is one by Group Member Aidan Lunn on his Sticky tape 'n' rust channel that I missed.
If I was going to miss something it was going to be a Night Thoughts edition and so it is; this one is from 17/09/1985:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXzJvHni-FE

This is an edition of Brass Beat featuring Geoff Love and the Todmorden Brass Band (BBC North West, 25/06/1982). This copy exists with Kaleidoscope but it was not kept at the time and I had never reported it here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBcD4iUCwO8
(The theme tune to this series is actually the cover of a theme from a completely different completely wiped series and a brownie point for anyone who can name it.... I already know, obviously....)

The audio recordings of Free on Colour Me Pop 12/04/1969 are now completely up on youtube.
Thanks and due credit to Tony Rees and Adam Smith. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpeka_49VCOvCAexzxZ5A8UgMgmtyxL2P

I am delight to report that the BFI have a copy of the very first edition of Festival, this being a version of the Noel Coward play Fallen Angels from 09/10/1963.
The BFI have a digital version of this only, from loaned material.
My thanks to Anonymous of Anglia for his invaluable assistance here.

More rare-as-hen's-teeth No 73 as uploaded Made in Maidstone.
This is S06 E10, dating from 15/03/1986.
The episode is called 'the Quest' (although tvbrain have it as 'Who Dunnit') and this is only meant to exist on DV.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq5QEyeoi4M

A few years ago it was announced that the soundtrack of the final edition of A for Andromeda had been discovered.
Not so many people have heard it.... until today when it was uploaded by the excellent Audio Only youtube channel.
It's called 'the Last Mystery' and it's from 14/11/1961
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmYgL9rAKuc

It was wiped. It was recovered.
This is possibly in the best quality yet seen, it's a Houseparty from Southern and this is 30/12/1981:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3M4UHIBNc0
AFAIK This was saved by a Southern engineer originally.
As uploaded by Made in Maidstone about 10 minutes ago.
(I can manage a waffle too, but possibly not as well.)

I'm posting a 'feem toon'.
Yes, you read that correctly. There is a good reason and this is probably a one-off, so don't let it spoil your day (or anything else.)
This is a very slightly squiffy recording of the theme to BBC Bristol's Brainchild, which was somewhat predictably a TV quiz show and hosted by John Craven. This upload was spotted by Marie Griffiths on the ME Forum years back and I missed it.
So why the post? What's even relevant about this?
This, incredibly, is the only existing trace of Brainchild.
The lack of anything existing from what was JC's first solo venture outside of Newsround was even mentioned on the One Show some years back.
Anyway, a jaunty tune:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee7YOtEG7RY

'Some people say it with flowers, some people say it with Lloyds....'
So this upload has less than 1000 views in three years, which equates to less than 1 view a day.
Well, today that viewer was me.
This is actually an appearance of Neil Innes on Pebble Mill at One on 09/02/1984 which is a wiped edition.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy0nRkNQvfc

Just an off-air I spotted by accident that the Sainsbury Archive have - it's part of a Coast to Coast edition from 30/01/1986.
It's about their Basingstoke depot.
www.sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/search/sapr18124-itv-tvs-coast-to-coast-and-bbc-south-today-items-on-basingstoke-depot?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2VAZfueya5TxQG2Aj1KXmuWK06CkZaqyHflaDK1Kr1HxKNLG_ejbCHF5E_aem_AZzwseCHVJBWVG4d074qetE2P0bIp7cFVDNFAwjB3ii1UGgZWim6wmv7DsL2aZ0p-fIbyD9_sOo4pzjqct5X8RSP
(*contains no Vikings.)

I am being a bit completist here.
I have discovered that the audio of the entire Tubby Hayes Big Band's appearance on Jazz Scene[/b[ at the Ronnie Scott Club (BBC 2, tx 30/09/1969) was issued on CD in 2004. I gather this was an off-air recording.
This is the full broadcast, including the small part of the performance that did not surface on youtube a while back which originated from a enthusiast's domestic video recording.

A How 2 promo for This Morning as uploaded by Made in Maidstone from 16/10/1991;- www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0PQdQiriV8

Another edition of No.73 from Made in Maidstone and this is from S06 E04, 01/02/1986 and it's entitled 'Sit'. This is only known to exist on domestic tape.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B7y_O8mrfU

This is a bit of a curio; it's also possibly the first time I've posted about a Carlton programme!
Wayne Dobson - Close Up was made by Carlton in 1995 and was never aired; apparently it's not held on its' original format according to tvbrain.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=icjgmSHCqMw

This is quite confusing and.... just read on....
Babar was a mostly-live action but semi-animated childrens' programme that ran on the BBC over 26 episodes in 1969, which were all shown in monochrome.
The origins of this series were outre-Manche; the visuals were entirely of French origin as they were firstly broadcast by ORTF in 1968 as Les Aventures de Babar; the English version had stories written by Peggy Miller and told by Eric Thompson.
They were also made in colour; the BBC didn't retain copies as they didn't hold copyright of the visuals. ORTF retained copies of the French version - in fact they were showing this version in Canada as late as the 1980s.
So what happened to the English-language version of the series? Well, as I discovered AN English dub is on youtube.
Is it the Eric Thompson-voiced version? I'll be honest I'm not sure. This upload seems to have come from a VHS release in Canada in from around 40 years back.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPxEAgn2cSE&list=PLQMo2wi7c2sQAxtoJoblZaM0DOUqdifLt

Having been called a 'Scottish Communist' on the bus, I thought that was without doubt a good inspiration on looking through the papers of a left-of-centre politician to see if I could find a wiped programme.
Neil Kinnock's papers are at the University of Cambridge they contain a April 1985 edition of Coast to Coast.

This upload is four years old; the programme was meant to have been wiped and to exist only as a domestic video recording.
This is an Open University programme and the module is entitled T321 Telecommunication Systems - Television (15/08/1984).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvD5cTORgb4
This seems to have been uploaded because it contains an OU-branded F testcard.

Superchannel? Funbus?
Yes, this is one of only three clips that are confirmed to exist from a little-remembered satellite TV show from 1987; Kaleidoscope and TV Ark have the others.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bbl2YfypMc
The clip may have been on youtube 11 years but it's only been viewed about 3 times a month....

let it roll....
I stopped looking for things for the night, prepared an iced coffee and a medicinal cheroot for myself and as I refreshed the page.... my recommended youtube suggests a missing Gardeners' World from 16/04/1982.
Well, most of it.... it's not the complete episode.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN2q8q9-zds

NOTE:- The missing bit is at the very end of the upload.
Now you've all read the above text, you can scroll through to 54.57 on this upload and discover the audio of a specially-recorded promo by Alan Bennett for his forthcoming episode of Six Plays by Alan Bennett 'All Day on the Sands'.
The promo was shown on LWT 18/02/1979.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLn0K2VcrJk

Until around 10 minutes ago I had no idea there had been any Play for Today editions wiped or lost after 1975.
There was one, Commitments, broadcast on 26/01/1982 which only exists as a domestic video recording and immediately on finding this out I thought I'd see if there was a copy anywhere.
There is, as uploaded in 2023:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC7nXVi-pdE

Right, there's been a bit of research with this one....
Highway.... yes, AGAIN. The ADC TV Collection has uploaded another edition. But is it wiped?
Well, it's from 11/01/1987 and it focusses on Aberdeen. The tvbrain entry for that date says 'Arundel' which is several hundred miles away.... the only entry for Aberdeen is an 'empty holding' for a 1983 edition and it's not that. So I turn my attention to the BFI database and there is a listing for a 1987 edition of Highway in Aberdeen.... which they don't have.
So unless STV turn this up on their other holdings database when I ring them in the near future, I expect this is lost.
Kudos also to Lee Barnard who spotted this upload around the same time I did and submitted a post as I was writing this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bsz_ggfuJU

Let's get one thing straight here - the quality of the clip I'm mentioning here is not terribly good.
Now you know that, please enjoy those Woking wonders, the Jam. as interviewed on Tiswas 29/03/1980:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH8MZqywuNA

I was meant to be taking a day off looking for stuff and then up pops Made in Maidstone with another wiped programme. It is my duty....blah blah....
This is S03 E02 of TVS' Do It (16/07/1986) and it was just uploaded about 10 minutes or so ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TcZYwE9keU

Daniel Mullins reports that he has located an extract of a lost Tiswas, a 6 minute VHS recording, featuring most of Compost Corner and Phil Collins singing "I Missed Again" (VT clip) from 07/03/1981.... and here it is:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kSfNYqccFs
The other bits featuring Mssrs Daltrey and Jones exist on DV.

I thought I'd just take it easy today.
So here's some Cliff.... almost as likely as discovering a religious show or an epilogue is stumbling over some missing Cliff....so, taking about 45 seconds I spied an audio I hadn't heard from the wiped Cliff Richard Show from 13/02/1971 featuring the eponymous entertainer duetting with Roger Whittaker and Hank Marvin.
Incredibly, this is not on one of the European bootlegs I mentioned previously....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNAaZtdthtY
(it's not that bad, actually....)

Some ELEVEN years ago, I spotted some uploads by Alan Rushton. Alan is a noted jazz drummer and he also had a daytime job being the percussionist for the Play Away house band.
I didn't really do anything after that as Kaleidoscope were in touch with him, but having a quick scan this morning it seems much broadcast information about the clips are lacking.
The excerpts from Bringing in the Corn are from 31/12/1977 (junked); Watch This Space is probably from 20/03/1976 (junked).
It's been impossible to ascertain which edition the Doddington Fair clip from 1975 is from (although many are wiped) and the same with Old Macdonald.
Anyway, they're all here:- www.youtube.com/@alanrushtondrums/videos

Just some additional information about one of my discoveries from a while back.
The Seeing and Doing edition 'the Tower of London' (18/05/1970, Thames) held on DV by Yorkshire Sculpture Park as part of the NAEA appears to be a rebadged version of the Rediffusion Series 1 edition from 07/11/1967. This would make it the oldest existing edition - beating the aforementioned semi-repeat....
('It's called a Rover Metro now.')

I wasn't even looking for this.
Grampian ran a programme called Gather Round which was a religious programme aimed at Primary School pupils which was broadcast between 1982 and 1990.
This edition comes from sometime in 1986.
The BFI don't possess any copies of this show and as of the last time I enquired, neither did STV.
This edition is called 'Birthdays'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4nXvTFUlLI

It's very difficult to work out if this is missing or not.
Yes, it's another Made in Maidstone upload, an edition of Watch This Space (TVS) from some time in 1982.
There's no entry on tvbrain and my gut feeling is it's probably in the Wessex Archive, as it's a similar type of show to the retained TV Weekly.
I could only find one edition at Wessex and I've been told there were 12 or 13 broadcast with tx dates for only a few online, It's definitely not the edition from 06/01/1982 as there's an off-air for part of that one.
Anyway:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdrcBlWywrE
(Please note this is a totally different show to the 1970s STV programme.)

Some years back I managed to get it confirmed that several episodes of the UK BBC Johnny Morris-voiced versions of Tales of the Riverbank existed, ex-VHS from a commercial release in the 1980s. The whereabouts of the films of the BBC series are not known - despite several people's attempts to trace them via a number of avenues.
What I didn't notice was that in 2019 three episodes were uploaded in better quality than the previous ones that I'd seen. Just for your perusal, here they are:- The Night the Moon Came Down to Bathe (25/09/1960); Aeroplane Ride (04/01/1963) and Bubbles (22/02/1963). I presume very few other people noticed these either with 63 views in under four years....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMyZCojFxg8

This is a bit unusual.
The National Library of Wales have a VHS of a programme that ITV have on film. You may be at this point questioning my sanity, like many others over the years.
However, this is complicated: "" The film on the VHS is titled .... A Celtic Celebration. The Welsh Office Film Catalogue gives the run time for ‘A Celtic Celebration’ as 45 minutes. The VHS copy of the film is 57 minutes long. The version of this film held in the ITV collection is 35 minutes long. The shotlist for 'A Celtic Celebration' indicates what footage the ITV version lacks in comparison with the VHS copy.... The ITV version contains 'extra' end credits"" So, just to recap, the VHS is 57 minutes, the film only 35 minutes despite having extra credits.
A Celtic Celebration is the portrait of the 800th National Eisteddfod at Cardigan. It was shown 26/07/1977.
discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99253616502419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,%22vhs%22&sortby=date_a&facet=searchcreationdate,include,1977%7C,%7C1990&offset=0

Quite frequently I let you all know about discoveries that are nothing to do with me and this is one of those.
Anonymous of Anglia regularly trawls the BFI website comparing the current database with various lists he has and if he spots any anomalies, he checks them with several people.
The BFI now list a holding of an episode of the 1956 serial The Black Tulip. The instalment is entitled 'Threats' (tx: 11/09/1956) and exists on nitrate film.
It's been mooted that the BFI have had this for years, if not decades and it was omitted from previous entries either in error or because it had not been viewed and positively identified. While I have no idea on the validity of this possibility AoA assures me that it was not listed as extant on the BFI database previously.
collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150481527?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2G7JXP9UuqgkP4x4JS998I9I8XWixRzPC4sglnhvgOB06oIXkyUPDOy0A_aem_AZzyQi1NhVd5-XH6Fpv8pWoNBPp0bVe7bNTmRERONk1CqkP2icosi7ew8LFPry-JUUD3t50Mn3e0_BevcS4kqjFJ

There's not much wiped to see here - just the studio bits, but nonetheless here's a partly-lost Scotsport from 14/05/1983 which is a bonus to all Dundee United fans....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiKdb-QhGkY

Robert Brown says ""Came across a reference to a play called Summer in Normandy today on the wonderful Transdiffusion’s All Talk : Broadcasting History group. Broadcast 20.10.55 (only a month into ITV's early days) as part of the London Playhouse strand, it is logged as missing on TV Brain, with only a trailer in existence. The BFI actually hold separate film and audio materials for the whole show
Plus the BFI also hold another episode, Two For One, which isn't listed on TV Brain and may never have been broadcast, but made in 1955,
Made for Associated Rediffusion by Future Productions Ltd, and shot at Shepperton Studios on 35mm film, hence they have survived. Quote: "Associated-Rediffusion needed a bank of programmes shot on film to get them through the first few weeks of broadcasting. Their Wembley television studios were only just going to be ready in time for the first transmission date" (TVstudiohistory website). Both directed by Alan Bromly. Several other editions of the strand held at the BFI, the sort of thing Talking Pictures could be showing!""

A wee thing this - a trail, not a lost show per se.
This is a No. 73 trail from 01/01/1982 as uploaded by Maid in Maidstone.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lp_dllXkFE

Every now and then I seem to locate another concert from the Video Sounds series, shown late in most ITV regions in 1982.
Not all of the concerts were shown on TV, a few were released on that new-fangled invention, the VHS; the programmes were made by WOT Productions who no longer appear to be going. Most concerts were filmed in Nottingham.
One I seemed to have missed is this concert by a group called Tank, and here it is:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-P4dytG-K8

K. Tisdall says:- ""I apologise if this is not the place to report a once-missing piece of American television. However, if one knows anything about Christine Chubbuck, the video shared below is a truly historic find. Don't worry, it is not the infamous tape that has been widely discussed across the internet. This recording is far more valuable in many respects. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Kt3mkpeg8

Sometimes 'missing' programmes aren't missing at all, just overlooked.
I have emailed Kaleidoscope about Afloat which for those of you who don't know was a Southern TV programme about all things nautical. I figured there was more than the one stated that exists and there are, in fact four, the other three having been in the Wessex Archive since they were donated some while back.
In addition to the Tall Ships edition from 06/01/1977 which Kaleidoscope have as mentioned on tvbrain there are three others at Wessex; Episode 5 (otherwise undated but certainly not involving Tall Ships); an Admiral's Cup edition from 1979 and lastly a 1980 edition covering Bursledon Regatta and Brighton Marina.
Details:- calm.hants.gov.uk/Overview.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&r=(((Title%3d%27afloat%27)))+And+((Format%3d%27Video+recording%27))

It's another Made in Maidstone upload and it's a Motormouth edition from Season 1. So far, so good.
But which edition is it? I'm guessing it's Episode 2; the date given on the upload is 08/09/1988 - which was a Thursday, so not the tx date and that suggests it was at least partly recorded just prior to transmission giving us a likely date of 10/09/1988....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiIvM5Nvu34

Additional information - and nothing really to get excited about in terms of rarity (although the programme is good!).
Personal Appearance was a Granada programme and centred around varying types of entertainment from music and comedy to ballet. Most were British productions but a few were bought-in.
Just Polly and Me was one of those purchased from CBS across the wee puddle and was transmitted here 24/01/1962. It stars the excellent Phil Silvers with Polly Bergen.
It exists in the US as a telerecording.

I apparently missed spotting this missing programme.... well, so did everyone else! 🤣
This won't interest a whole lot of people, but here's an edition of Mr and Mrs (Border, 27/03/1984) presented by the ever-smiling perma-tanned Derek Batey filmed in Harraby, CA1, as uploaded by the ADC TV Collection:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkVKTBzmQUk

This is something I didn't know about.
Yorkshire TV had an epilogue programme of sorts too - this one is called Five Minutes - and this is about three minutes of it.... as uploaded by 80s and Retro TV Clips.
There's no easy way to check it's lost and while I know YTV had a much better library than most, I have not yet found one ITV company that kept even a majority of these programmes - and some wiped all of them....
So I think I'm on pretty safe ground with this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYtQJ8AnHBw

I can't honestly recall if I've posted this before, but anyway, this is an audio of a long-lost edition of one of BBC Birmingham's editions of Contact from 19/12/1972 entitled A Worcester Carol.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfv2mSnAkA

Some Top of the Pops audios - partial and complete - from Soundcloud.
The editions in question are 10/02/1966; 30/05/1968; 17/10/1968; 01/01/1970; 09/12/1971; 30/05/1974; 12/12/1974:- soundcloud.com/reeltoreel-2?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1AViyenZHnAXJERuvhpPwfZ-aeJkIWMhBc2fvkqlcvmAs_9OrlQoWWm_c_aem_AZxLUMV84CkmwRJpl226bopXEUv-tB_19Re47S-m6Fi8gXRfsLsRgQSZzSS2wFOwVPtvNBSTrzAaG_JEdJnbnv-Y

Another upload of some audio of a wiped show on his elviskline99 youtube channel and it's an edition of that rarely-spotted beast Quiz Ball. Only 4 editions of it exist (and three feature Arsenal, which I think shows bias....🤣)
This edition is from 26/01/1967 and features West Bromwich Albion and (Dirty) Leeds United. Scholars may wish to note that this is four years before Jeff Astle's glorious off-side goal....
Who knew Percy Thrower was a Baggie?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftY0cM6s0qc

Another Top of the Pops uploaded to SoundCloud 151st Edition 1st December 1966, Simon Dee is the DJ, and includes a mistake in his running order as uploaded by elviskline99. soundcloud.com/kevin-ellis-12/totp-01-12-1966-151st-edition?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1&si=9E07A6DF8FC74769B751CD1893429E01&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

This is known about, but it was wiped.
Here's a Bob Monkhouse-presented edition of Family Fortunes (31/07/1982, Central) that was junked but Kaleidoscope have a copy now.
I have no idea whether it's from the same tape as this or not.
There is a slate at the beginning, for those interested in that sort of thing.... and it's an ATV clock. In fact the whole thing is completely ATV in genesis with an endcap as well, despite them being replaced with Central's branding by then.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMWKUBlHuY0

Yet again Kevin Ellis has uploaded the audio of a wiped Opportunity Knocks on his elviskline99 youtube channel.
This is another ABC show, dating from 10/06/1967.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlrHMqcxDhU

What's that? Another audio of a lost edition of Opportunity Knocks from 25/05/1968 as uploaded by Kevin Ellis on his elviskline99 youtube channel.
(Mentioning Royston Mayoh here as he produced it....)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXzwR870nHA

and another wonderful audio from Kevin Ellis from his elviskline99 channel; this is an Opportunity Knocks from 12/09/1964 - and is actually the earliest extant audio of this show that is currently known to exist!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZpni01CasY

Kevin Ellis (elviskline99) had also uploaded the lost 24/12/1964 TOTP to soundcloud.
soundcloud.com/kevin-ellis-12/totp-24-12-64?si=15bb3d98b8ed4d4aa5f0a0b6ae9827a8&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1vOLXKMktqS27Ue8-nOv_4kfjcKTRq9dxtmCLuvrwPLhND2jabiLqPsAk_aem_AZxzEMEAQLQPSrNwcAEGXZWoYxJWkjJi3C1u5rjqiS1KeuiuoWElyUq3q_9zpM8fAWQuQ8_QduTA-f5ZjemIXCoQ

It may not be of much interest (but when would that stop me....?) but just to prove my point that 'Chris Bonington - the Everest Years' (Border 27/12/1987) has two different edits, I'm posting both of them so you don't have to compare them (which I did).
Original Channel 4 broadcast:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgYKVmfck-s
US Broadcast with announcement:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKJVK-MV5Gs

Every time I spot something I should have seen years ago I groan like a contestant in Britain's Strongest Man lifting weights. I then get over it because at least I've spotted it....!
So here's some MORE wiped Dusty Springfield, audio that is, and this long medley is from Decidedly Dusty, BBC 21/10/1969, which is of course a missing show.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNHARSnlX8w

This was not retained by the broadcaster, basically because it was produced independently. The director and producer was Bryan Izzard a man responsible for many a UK TV show, who'd just finished doing work for Southern.
This programme is Great Black Music and features the very wonderful Art Ensemble of Chicago, first shown on Channel 4 on 11/12/1982. As the uploader says 'initially aired on Channel 4 in the UK, and judging by this dub, saw a home video release at some point in Japan.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=miaQbIfon9I

INFORMATION FOR THE COMPLETIST ONLY!
STV bought the rights to ZDF's Starparade - to be more accurate they bought the rights to the 37 colour editions - and these were shown over a 6 year period between 1979 and 1985 with STV 'removing the German compere and adding new English continuity....each episode was 60 minutes long.'
Well, hang on a Goombay Dance Band fire-eating moment....
the ZDF versions are 90 minutes long, so STV removed 1/3 of each episode despite adding new brief continuity.
Trotzdem, the STV edits are still partly held by them (21 out of 37 editions), but of course ZDF have the full shows from the colour period.

U2 aren't perhaps the most loved band in the world but I raise you the Cheeky Girls, Milli Vanilli and my ex-wife singing karaoke.
So here's their full musical appearance on Get Set, 08/05/1982 in staggeringly good quality for an off-air. Yes, it's wiped....:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1CY-AWJBiE

That Family Fortunes I posted the other day caused a bit of discussion. Why did it have a slate at the front? (Probably taken from the master which was subsequently wiped.) Why did it have ATV logos? (Probably because it was recorded by ATV and subsequently shown by Central.) Is it from Bob Monkhouse collection of tapes? (Yes, it's quite probable seeing as it was meant to be the only existing copy.)
That all said.... I have no proof.
Similarly I don't have any certainty that this episode will follow my mooted theories.
So here's another edition, this is 12/02/1982, it's Clancy v Edwards and it follows the same premise as the previous discovery - only exists on domestic video, ATV slate and all, subsequently shown by Central and the only copy known to exist is the one Kaleidoscope have that Bob Monkhouse had.
Please note that this comes from Group Member Gordon Beattie youtube channel gbgameshows.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDtMK8Tjdi0

I previously overlooked these and then stumbled upon them by accident today.
This is a wee extract of Motormouth at Christmas (TVS, 23/12/1989) and while there's not much of it and the quality is not perfect it's better than nowt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5VUBz-01Kk
also:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBiNrLCF244
I've edited this post as 2 minutes after posting I spotted the second upload....

ok, the history of this is complex....
Assaulted Nuts was a British-American comedy series (financed by HBO) that ran between 1984 and 1986 over here and in other countries as well.
This is the US version of S01 E03. It's a different edit to the UK version which debuted on 31/01/1985. The master tapes of both are missing but copies of both edits are held on domestic video, the US one by a Museum in Chicago and the UK one by Kaleidoscope.
If we didn't know it before, the title of this instalment is 'Hard Sell Low Budget'. Plus ça change....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEXC6Cstj6U

It's great when I don't actually have to do any 'work', so thank you Made in Maidstone for another wonderful bit of 'wiped'.
It's TVS, it's an edition of Motormouth and it's from 14/10/1989, S02 E06.
I have sent the link of the upload to Marcy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fIAIo3iZJs

Many of you may have been aware that the soundtrack to the Mystery and Imagination episode the Tractate Middoth (26/02/1966, ABC) existed somewhere in the fermented ether of....... I don't know, Esher?
Few of you have heard it, though?
Well, now you can hear it because it's been uploaded by the good folk of Audio Only - like five minutes ago - and it's here:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6cvrxj4YR0

Like buses - or perhaps ex-girlfriends of mine - Mystery and Imagination soundtracks seem to turn up at once.
Audio Only have just uploaded the soundtrack to Room 13 22/10/1966. This stars a very young Tessa Wyatt and the voice of Homepride Cook-In Sauce, Joss Ackland*.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ-QBjbF7Ro

I've no idea how I missed this in the past 9 years, but I did and it's still listed as missing without trace on tvbrain.
So, here's the audio to the wiped Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School instalment Bunter's Party from 24/09/1960 as uploaded by the wonderful Audio Only youtube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PHaW8oA8I0

I sort of apologize for the 2 repeats in this posting about 4 wiped episodes, but it makes sense to deal with them all.
Family Fortunes; here's all 4 episodes on the gbgameshows channel made by Group Member Gordon Beattie.
09/01/1982: Jenman/Pountain - www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbUYORNsYKs
12/02/1982 Farestvedt/Jones - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fkMLWl75Gg
10/06/1982 Minter/Thompson - www.youtube.com/watch?v=sokMa_rYQJM
31/07/1982 Evans/Weadock - www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMWKUBlHuY0
So just to recap, there are 4 episodes here that were wiped. They all exist now from domestic recordings. I have no idea if these are Bob's recordings or not, and frankly at this point I'm not really bothered, I'm just very glad they exist.

Kevin Ellis says "3 more Top of the Pops added to my soundcloud.
8th April 1964 (15th Edition)
on.soundcloud.com/qAnLvvfPpJBVHqFf7
22nd April 1964 (17th Edition)
on.soundcloud.com/PK2PcJzuDKHC9rSU8
&
6th May 1964 (19th Edition)
on.soundcloud.com/Xf2LPamaiLidMa7Q7 "

A bit of updated and corrected information; the discovery of an off-air of the ATV Schools programme 'Believe It or Not' edition 'Are We Free' (NOT 'Our Freedom') is from a 1980 rebroadcast of the 24/01/1978 edition.
That itself was a partial reworking of two similarly-titled editions from 29/01/1973 and, weirdly, 29/01/1975 (even weirder to me when you consider those were my 4th and 6th birthdays....)
Re-making a schools programme was a regular occurrence across the range of educational shows in the 60s and 70s as there were remounts of Merry-Go-Round, Living and Growing, Zig Zag, Seeing and Doing, Going to Work, Stop Look Listen and many many more.
I suppose you want to see the programme now?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W3bVjhFVN0

While I know that locating a few minutes of silent film of a BBC programme broadcast in 1951 entitled 'Places with Problems' is not entirely going to interest a huge amount of people, a wee bit of mute footage from the edition concerning Bolsover (28/02/1951) does exist at the wonderful award-winning Huntley Film Archive.
www.huntleyarchives.com/preview.asp?image=1004046&itemw=4&itemf=0003&itemstep=1&itemx=32&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0-Lj5DBhZ4meRChe3PaaWo6c2EYZc35bcR6VINUD2BZCs92mJN0PyW0dc_aem_AZylyNckBv2sVXyxXMIA3X4r2N5m3_EdxYYqJSdajMA-zUkIwIsTWEO562-CcIdl_aOtUmGgiF-zh-GPNCZQGE2p
I know the synopsis states it's behind-the-scenes footage, but some of it is clearly from the programme.

Speaking as the world's second most boring bloke (the champion lives in West Harptree, Somerset), while collating a list of maybe half a dozen discoveries of melodramas I'd stumbled upon in the last 4 years.... I found another one.
This one is from the 1950s, 11/09/1956 to be more exact and a collector from Kansas has a copy of Rediffusion's 'Douglas Fairbanks Jr Presents' with the episode being entitled 'the Lovely Place'.
The leading part in this is played by a young actress by the name of Diana Dors. The copy appears to be 16mm-transferred-to-VHS-transferred-to-digital, which means the quality may not be perfect. The owner has a huge collection of TV and films and I am currently going through his catalogue.... slowly.

Audio Only have uploaded four more Mystery and Imagination soundtracks....
the Body Snatcher 05/02/1966:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_MbHGyU9R0
AND Lost Hearts 05/03/1966:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cG20DZ1X84
AND The Lost Stradivarius 29/01/1966:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=judBLmjYJSU
AND The Canterville Ghost 12/03/1966:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPgZJlGfcSg

One I missed.
This is most of an edition of the 'Bigger Breakfast' of the Big Breakfast from 08/04/1988.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbNN4IyvkdI

Nothing too amazing here, but as you know any discovery gets reported.
This is another Night Thoughts from April 1984 featuring Norman St John Stevas - and it's different from the previous one I spotted on youtube and subsequently posted about here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHnVjlhAJIo

Daw i'r amlwg fod gan Lyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru drac sain i Wasanaeth Eglwysig Cymraeg a ddarlledwyd yn gynnar. Efallai na fydd hyn yn cyffroi llawer o bobl, ond mae dau beth pwysig i'w nodi; yn gyntaf mae'n ddigon posib mai dyma'r recordiad sain hynaf wedi'i recordio o sioe deledu grefyddol yng Nghymru ac yn ail, nid yw hyd yn oed y bobl dda yn y llyfrgell wedi adnabod y teledu.
'Boreol Weddi' yw'r rhaglen, ac mae'n dyddio o 05/08/1962 ac yn dod o Lanelli. Mae ar ddisg sain. Nid oes unrhyw gwmni teledu yn cael ei gydnabod ond mae'n rhaglen gan y BBC o'r diwrnod hwnnw.
discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99366848102419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,%22Howard%20Williams%22&sortby=date_a&offset=0
It transpires that the National Library of Wales have a soundtrack to an early televised Welsh Church Service. This may not excite many people, but there are two important things to note; firstly it's quite possibly the oldest recorded audio recording of a religious TV show in Wales and secondly, it's not one even the good people at the library would have known is TV.
The programme is 'Boreol Weddi' (Morning Prayer), and it dates from 05/08/1962 and comes from Llanelli. It's on a sound disc. No TV company is credited but it's a BBC programme from that day.

Do you recall that I got details over the bits of the Electric Theatre Show that STV have?
Basically they have extracts of a lot of episodes but very few full editions; a deal was struck some years ago between Network and the copyright holder of the programme so clips from it were licensed as extras for DVD releases.
So, let me add to the story by informing youse that the wonderful National Library of Scotland have a number of full episodes on Colour Film.
The editions in question are numbers 163 to 169 inclusive; editions 171, 172, 175, 176, 177 and 179; 182 to 186 inclusive; 188, 190, 191 and an undated programme.
movingimage.nls.uk/search?search_term=%22electric%20theatre%20show%22&search_fields=All%20fields&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes&search_mode=main&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1AViyenZHnAXJERuvhpPwfZ-aeJkIWMhBc2fvkqlcvmAs_9OrlQoWWm_c_aem_AZxLUMV84CkmwRJpl226bopXEUv-tB_19Re47S-m6Fi8gXRfsLsRgQSZzSS2wFOwVPtvNBSTrzAaG_JEdJnbnv-Y

This is VERY boring information which really will only appeal to an ITV Schools completist. For them, though this is pretty good.
The thought-to-be-lost final edition of Finding Out 'Telling a Story - Coppelia' (Thames 26/07/1979) exists on 2" transferred to Digibeta at the BFI.
This is because it appears to be exactly the same as the edition 'Coppelia' (14/06/1976) and not a remount as the longer-title is the name given to the 1976 programme at the BFI.
Confused? It gets worse....
....the BFI have the other 'Telling a Story' (Hansel and Gretel) edition on the same formats but also with a 1976 airdate (the same one!!!!) AND a longer title, despite tvbrain only having a 1979 airdate. It appears the two shows were transmitted consecutively.
While it is well-documented that remounts were common for schools programmes on all channels it seems unlikely in the extreme to me that the 1976 and 1979 versions would be any different as it would be weird if they were keeping one half of a programme from one year and keeping the other half from three years later.

DISCLAIMER: This is a reconstruction.
Almost four years ago this was uploaded; it's part of the launch programme of Apollo 11 as shown by the BBC. It's the audio synched to CBS' feed, pretty much.
"(the) audio is from the T-5 minute point and lasts all the way to orbit. This audio has been heard before from other sources, but perhaps, not in this complete form."
Audio is from the Furniss family's tape and 'Captions and logos are imagined for the reconstruction.' 16/07/1969:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbkiUFD9cfQ
Credit to Rory Langstone for suggesting I look for this.

Remember the Beat? (Or the 'English Beat' to our friends across the pond?). Rather good weren't they? They were another group to be featured on the 'Video Sounds' programme that was made independently by WOT Productions and transmitted on the ITV network before being released fairly quietly on VHS and then disappearing into a cloud of smoke.
This was first transmitted 13/03/1982:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncQA3TLlErE

While I don't have an actual transmission date for this other than 1985 and only (good) circumstantial evidence this is wiped, I'm pretty confident this compilation doesn't exist in any archive.... let me explain.
Who Dares Wins was a comedy show shown on Channel 4 between 1982 and 1988.
It wasn't archived by Channel 4 as it wasn't produced in-house and all copies of the non-compilation editions (bar one) are archived instead by the BFI.
But wait! There was a compilation of the series 'the Best of Who Dares Wins' shown in 1985 which the BFI don't have - and as Channel 4 didn't produce it, I would be more than amazed if they had a copy....
However, Greg Scott DID have a copy on VHS and he uploaded it some years ago which everyone seems to have overlooked:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6S9MLkAHLw&list=PL3BdSW4T2E1YbpbpXMEzOGlUZQIbghiUG&index=2

Right. I'm exhausted!

Missed off previous listing:- Well this WAS missing.
The fact is, as the uploader states.... ""This episode is inexplicably absent from All 4, Prime and iTunes, and so is presented here for everyone to enjoy.""
So, this is Season 1 Episode 2 of Absolutely (Channel 4), which was shown on 30/05/1989 and was the only one that wasn't kicking about in the archives.
Kaleidoscope have got a copy, but.... in case you haven't seen it, it's here:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH_RKMt-fd0

[John Green]

Cripes, Ray, there's a lot there that needs/deserves individual mentions. Not least:

"This is a wee bit Transatlantic....
Back in 1958 when Jacob Rees-Mogg was celebrating his first centenary, there was an Associated Rediffusion show called Target, 'a half-hour syndicated drama series that.... focuses on lives that become targets of conflicting human forces..'
Some episodes were made in the UK although the majority weren't and only two were actually shown on ITV. Sam Kydd and John Le Mesurier appeared in one of the 6 episodes that was known to exist.
What of the others though?
There's been no DVD or anything and the original company that produced it appear to have disappeared.
Fear not though, because your resident iced-coffee freak has located all 39 episodes in the archives of Wisconsin Historical Society on 16mm film.
digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;cc=wiarchives;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=uw-whs-target "

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

I kind of have to apologize for collating everything into monthly breakdowns; it's sometimes very hard to keep on top of things and it's increasingly difficult for me to collate everything and posting daily is an impossibility at the moment and life gets in the way, so I made the decision to concentrate on signposting as much as possible and to investigate leads and check youtube daily if possible.

There's some good stuff in there and that's credit to the archives and the uploaders and the copyrights holders.

I'm very happy with things but quite exhausted!!!!

[Paul Rumbol]

Wow Ray! Such a treat to see the Johnnie Ray ATV Saturday Spectacular (21/06/1958). What a fast-paced action packed show that was..a real belter! It hit the ground running! The opening number 'Oh What A Night' could have been the show closer it was that good.

The rousing spiritual 'Up Above My Head' was also a Jack Good favourite ...and he closed several of his 'Oh Boy! shows with it too around this time.

Great to see The Treniers also. It was their dance steps that inspired The Shadows to create their 'Shadows Walk' of course.You can see the Treniers doing the 'Shadows Shuffle' towards the end of their act.

This show is of personal interest to me as more than a decade ago the 16mm telerecording of it was listed on Ebay.I alerted Chris Perry about it and I think he secured its purchase with very little competition. Did ask for a copy of the transfer but never got to see it until now!

[Bernie King]

Amazing as always. Thanks for all your hard work and dedication. I really look forward to these monthly posts. This month seems an especially good one IMHO. What with the Film is Fabulous discoveries it's an exciting time to be alive. Thanks again.