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Post by David Savage on Jan 31, 2004 18:48:18 GMT
"They didn't keep Do Not Adjust Your Set or Sexton Blake complete either."
They've kept at least quite a few Do Not Adjust Your Set, I believe.
I'd like to see The Queen Street Gang and their battles with Greenface and Dr. Sturgeon - I love Children's Film Foundation style shananigans - but it's all gorn.
Robert's Robots is kept, as is Pardon My Genie. LWT this, but people might be interested to know that all of early 70s fantasy 'Jamie' survives.
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Post by Laurence Piper on Jan 31, 2004 23:24:12 GMT
Untypically, most of the Do Not Adjust Your Sets that survive are Rediffusion editions (9 of them). The last I knew, there were only a couple of the later Thames editions that definitely existed: the Xmas show and one (or two, if the rumour was true) from the second series. Does anybody know how many Thames editions definitely survive?
Shame about Sexton Blake too. Thames made quite a few series but none seem to be around at all (the only one is a Rediffusion edition). Another forgotten series that looks like it'll stay that way!
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Post by H Hartley on Feb 1, 2004 12:12:18 GMT
regarding do not adjust your set,does anyone know if any of the marvelous Captain Fantastic stuff with David Jason and( i recall ) Denis Coffey survives?
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Post by Laurence Piper on Feb 2, 2004 11:05:40 GMT
The Captain Fantastic stuff survives in the episodes that survive of DNAYS, yes. If you meant do the film inserts survive, then - as far as I know - none have turned up. I remember that Captain Fantastic then went on as a feature in Magpie for a while. Going by the survival rate of early Magpie though, I doubt any editions with it in are still around.
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Post by dubs on Feb 2, 2004 11:50:17 GMT
Theres nothing of Magpie prior to a film insert of 01/04/71.
The first complete episode is a special of 15/02/72, the first regular edition is one with a recording date of 12/09/72.
Of course curiously the very last Magpie episode of 06/06/80 had a clip of the titles from b/w film, so something prior colour may have existed at that point - but no more it seems. (the last edition exists only on VHS)!
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Post by Jezza on Feb 2, 2004 12:55:51 GMT
Hurrah for good ol' VHS ;D
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Post by William Martin on Feb 2, 2004 17:22:02 GMT
how many times was AOW repeated? there is still a chance of home video of something, otherwise seems to be urine a chips all round
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Post by John Miller on Nov 16, 2004 21:23:54 GMT
I would have thought that if the telerecordings by Thames were junked in the nineties then it would have only been after transfer. I think everything was gone through thoroughly. Rumours of black and white prints have been around for years. I know some are knocking around of series 3 episodes, so it seems likely that some earlier ones are out there as well. A friend of mine was working in a store next to Euston tower at the time & said there were skips full of junked stuff, knowing my interest invited me to visit. What we retrieived were 3 U-matic tapes, plus piles of slides. This revealed that all that seemed to have been junked were mainly sales talk slides (depicting statistics) with two or three slides of the Thames logo. Of the tapes these were also sales talk material. Only the third contained a programme which was an off line 'dupe' of a 1979 edition of 'Thames news'. Being commercially minded, Thames would have retained all of its material for sales purposes as it was planning to continue as a programme production company for broadcasters.
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Post by John Miller on Dec 8, 2004 19:11:48 GMT
Just to add, the handful of B/W surviving prints were from series 3 I believe Peacock pie 2 & 3 and Beautiful people 4 as well as the meddlers. There was a rumour Michael Mackenzie had a film print of the first episode. Andrew Pixley alledged the sound from 'Seven serpents' survived. I suspect the majority of missing output from Thames first 2 years was transferred to film stock which was later removed, possibly as copies went to Thames enterprises, hence the big gap for the first 2 or 3 years (archive).
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Post by Jonathan Flaxton on Dec 8, 2004 23:25:11 GMT
"Theres nothing of Magpie prior to a film insert of 01/04/71."
There's a clip, at least, from 1969 going round which has THS (Thames) in its corner, so is from the Thames archive.
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Post by restipolutio on Dec 9, 2004 20:25:18 GMT
I remember the "Eye of Ra" episodes clearly. Frightened the life out of me to see the diamond turn people to chalk. They have to exist somewhere (please!)
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Post by John Miler on Dec 14, 2004 19:09:54 GMT
I remember the battle scene of 'seven serpents' best, imaginative use of CSO with a snake and raven keyed into the pupils of the Mr Stabs & Tarot characters. The set looked like stonehenge.
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