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Post by Stuart Douglas on Dec 1, 2008 18:21:55 GMT
[from the RT website: www.rtforum.co.uk/read.php?id=245299]"It’s just a quick announcement really. With thanks to the ‘Tony Hancock Appreciation Society’, a collection of previously ‘lost’ episodes from the fourth season of Hancock’s Half Hour has recently been recovered. The recordings are off-air audio recordings of varying quality and will need remastering, but bring some interesting gems back to the BBC archive. The episodes are: 4.3 Underpaid! Or, Grandad’s SOS 4.5 The Flight of the Red Shadow 4.6 The Horror Serial 4.8 Matrimony Almost 4.9 The Beauty Contest 4.10 The Wrong Man All from early 1959, of particular interest is ‘The Horror Serial’ which is a wonderfully observed pastiche of Nigel Kneale’s ‘Quatermass and The Pit’. The recordings are now back with the BBC. " Excellent news! Stuart |
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Post by Andy Howells on Dec 1, 2008 19:43:34 GMT
Christmas has come early this year.. Hancock, Dad's Army...
Lets hope we get to hear tese at some point even if we can't see them!
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Post by Peter Elliott on Dec 1, 2008 20:05:43 GMT
Brilliant news and tops off this years discoveries rather neatly!
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Post by Koen Br on Dec 1, 2008 20:51:23 GMT
That's fantastic news, and you can bet on it we'll get a CD release somewhere in the not too distant future!
Weren't some of these already circulating among fans anyway? I'm not really into this, but I thought I'd read at least The Horror Serial has been doing the rounds for ages, albeit very lo-fi.
Or am I talking ***?
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Post by Gary Critcher on Dec 1, 2008 21:25:36 GMT
THIS IS BLUDDY GREAT NEWS!! I can't wait to hear them.
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Post by Greg H on Dec 1, 2008 21:38:43 GMT
Massively awesome news!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope they get released in time for xmas  |
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Post by Paul Ryan on Dec 2, 2008 0:21:29 GMT
Just bloody wonderful!!! Well done!
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Post by Peter Chadwick on Dec 2, 2008 7:30:20 GMT
Am I the only person who thinks the only way to hear these will be when the BBC add them to the 'ultimate' Hancock box set?.
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Post by Adrian Gregg on Dec 2, 2008 9:19:03 GMT
hang on... most of these have been "doing the rounds" for donkeys.
Ok the quaility is quite bad.
They sound like this.....
Tape recorded at 1 3 quater IPS. then transferred with another deck with the heads (badly) out of alignment. then copied to cassette a few times (more Treble loss due to misaligned heads) then transfed to lowest quality mp3 and way way way too much "noise reduction" added giving an "underwater" quality to the tapes.
I spent a couple of years trying to track down the original tapes for a "new" transfer but no one at THAS wanted to know!!
Just recently I was offered the job of restoring the current mp3 versions. but as bugger all can be done to "Bad transfers/restoration" I had to decline. again asking for the tapes to be found so i could transfer them "properly" on my Revox.
I wonder if it's related?
still if the "original" tapes have been found that's great news all round.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2008 10:07:18 GMT
Am I the only person who thinks the only way to hear these will be when the BBC add them to the 'ultimate' Hancock box set?. Yes, the ultimate DVD set, which comprises fully cleaned up, restored and Vidfired recordings of all existing episodes. A few of the early ones are 35m t/rs too, so these should look particularly great Vidfired! Same goes for the ultimate Steptoe set as well. Two landmark series that deserve the very best treatment possible... Just to add my comment to everyone else's though - great news about the audio recordings being recovered. |
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Post by Joe Haynes on Dec 2, 2008 18:18:45 GMT
These are excellent finds! Will the lists on this site be updated?
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Post by Adrian Gregg on Dec 3, 2008 1:24:16 GMT
Umm as far as the people who ive spoken too these are indeed NOT FINDS.. just a bit of PR for a researcher like ourselves who wants to make a name for himself. In fact he contacted me on several occasions trying to get em cleaned up.. But on the other hand and they have taken my advice (well after 10 years of dithering) and located the "master tapes" then that is trully fantastic.
anyone have any news yet?
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Post by Greg H on Dec 3, 2008 16:29:48 GMT
I havent seen any news that has suggested that these are the dodgy copies that have been doing the rounds. I was working to the assumption that these were closer to the source, as it is announced as news, but thats just an assumption.
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Post by Rich Cornock on Dec 3, 2008 18:24:25 GMT
the main thing is that they are now in a place where the general public can get to hear them (hopefully). Its great that things are on the collectors circuit but that doesn't really mean that the wider public get to hear the recordings so this should be looked upon as a positive thing even if some people have known about them for a while.
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Post by Andrew Doherty on Dec 3, 2008 18:32:19 GMT
[from the RT website: www.rtforum.co.uk/read.php?id=245299]"It’s just a quick announcement really. With thanks to the ‘Tony Hancock Appreciation Society’, a collection of previously ‘lost’ episodes from the fourth season of Hancock’s Half Hour has recently been recovered. The recordings are off-air audio recordings of varying quality and will need remastering, but bring some interesting gems back to the BBC archive. The episodes are: 4.3 Underpaid! Or, Grandad’s SOS 4.5 The Flight of the Red Shadow 4.6 The Horror Serial 4.8 Matrimony Almost 4.9 The Beauty Contest 4.10 The Wrong Man All from early 1959, of particular interest is ‘The Horror Serial’ which is a wonderfully observed pastiche of Nigel Kneale’s ‘Quatermass and The Pit’. The recordings are now back with the BBC. " Stuart I am one of those who saw the above six Hancock shows when they were originally broadcast. Thankfully, 'The TV Set That Failed' was one of five recordings from the fourth series to survive, and 'The Horror Serial' along with the 'The Wrong Man' are of the same standard, i.e. superb. With computer reconstruction techniques coming along, I would say (if the film recording copies are not recovered) that the day will arrive when these comedies can be reconstructed to the point where they can be seen as well as heard. The sound recordings would be essential in such a restoration. The fourth series was the longest and the reason the five surviving 35mm telerecordings were kept was because the BBC had desired to sell the yet to be made fifth series to the U.S.A, but the Americans saw the five shows and decided the comedies did not translate too well. However, the Canadians were much more enthusiastic and bought the rights to show the fifth, sixth and seventh series, which is why the last three series exist in their entirety as 16mm telerecordings. So, this is even better news, for the above reason. Yours, |
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