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Post by KevMulrennan on May 18, 2004 8:11:45 GMT
From Birmingham Evening mail. ITV's 50th birthday will be celebrated next year with a major five-part series presented by Melvyn Bragg. His researchers are keen to hear from anyone who was a fan/viewer/victim/participant/audience member of early ITV - all stories are welcome! Please call Antonia on 0207 737 8379 or send her an e-mail to: antonia.bolingbroke-kent@granadamedia.comLooks interesting. Hopefully some interesting clips will be chosen. Granada must have a good archive, but we see so little of it. Any guesses as to what percentage of ITV stuff 55 to 59 still exists? |
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Post by Laurence Piper on May 18, 2004 8:26:53 GMT
They always make me laugh, these "celebratory" retrospectives; rather than being used as as a platform for a decent repeat season of quality material that hasn't seen the light of day for decades, they just end up as a selection of pundit talking heads mis-quoting TV's history.
You're right, a low percentage of stuff exists from '55 - '59. The largest selection and most interesting stuff from this era being probably Granada (who are completely indifferent to their own huge archive) and ATV. Supplemented by crumbs from Rediffusion, ABC, Anglia and Tyne Tees, I would think.
I'm sure Bragg will do a good job but it's frustrating that these programmes just TALK about how TV was in those days rather than SHOW any sizeable amount of it! We want to see it for ourselves.
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Post by KevMulrennan on May 18, 2004 16:40:59 GMT
Agreed.
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Post by LF Barfe on May 19, 2004 10:54:07 GMT
Well, from what I've heard, it sounds like its going to be a good, serious, rigorous documentary. Fingers crossed on the archive footage front.
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Post by Gary on May 19, 2004 18:49:39 GMT
Archive footage maybe but archive programmes no (sadly).
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Post by Gary Robinson on May 30, 2004 18:29:10 GMT
I'm wondering if they will be able to fit it in between 3 editions of Coronation St and Brides,Holidays or Kitchens from hell !still they do have itv 2 to use if you can get round the omnibus editions !
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Post by John Miller on Nov 16, 2004 20:40:54 GMT
Does anyone recall the 25th anniversary documentary, 1975? Be interesting if they could dig that up as apart from existing stuff; (Ernie Bishops first appearence Corrie St '68, Mrs Thursday - taxi scene and 'never mind the quality feel the width); they showed a T/R of Tony Hollands act on opportunity knocks (T/R 1964-65) which I recalled first time round. This item no longer seems to exist.
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Post by H Hartley on Nov 17, 2004 11:02:40 GMT
John I think it was the 21st anniversary show that revived interest in the Prisoner. Having been in the doldrums for a few years, suddenly it was being repeated around the country. In places like the Exchange and Mart there were desperate adverts like
"do you live in the Granada area? have you got a N1500
video recorder? could you please record 'dance of the dead' for me next Tuesday at 11.45pm".
I wonder what a 50 th anniversary show could do for other neglected programmes?
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