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Post by Mark Smith on Jun 9, 2009 22:04:47 GMT
Erm.................I'm not an enthusiast (well, I am), but I have helped produce stuff for the Formula 1 TV and BBC4 in the past. I shoot and edit my own motorsport DVD's & have worked in television for the past 25 years too, just not in this sort of field. Still didn't get an answer for the privce for all of this. Does anyone even have a BALLPARK figure for licencing series from the BBC? ..and of course no good deed goes unpunished as granny use to say. If you were starting from fresh You would need a thick skin to put up with what companies like Network have to put up with so called enthusiasts' IE you struggle to get copyright clearance and a release into the DVD packet , taking a gamble that somebody is actually going to buy it and then all you get is complaints "the advert breaks are missing" "the music coming out the radio in scene 10 is missing" " there is a blob of dirt on frame 111889900" "its in black and white" " there is a hum" " the Australian one is so much better" " the DVD case is terrible" moan! moan! moan ! and all you were trying to do is help these people relive their memories LMAO!! ;D Peter highlights yet another possible 'pit of vipers' to negotiate if trying to get an individual series release. Enthusiasm dampened yet...?
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Post by Peter Kane on Aug 2, 2009 10:55:30 GMT
I have added THE TROUBLESHOOTERS to the "TV series' you would most like released on DVD" thread.
Well, there ARE some episodes available.
It would be fantastic to see.
It's been so long since I saw an episode - I am almost starting to think I dreamt it all up in the first place!
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Post by Robert Shaw on Aug 5, 2009 12:02:47 GMT
i used to watch this as a kid, never got the 'joke' name though (oh for those innocent days) for philip lathams character (think it was his name) 'willy izard' ...
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Post by Peter Kane on Aug 17, 2009 20:31:17 GMT
i used to watch this as a kid, never got the 'joke' name though (oh for those innocent days) for philip lathams character (think it was his name) 'willy izard' ... Joke? I am sure it's just that his name was William . . .
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Post by Peter Kane on Aug 19, 2009 15:57:05 GMT
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Post by Peter Kane on Sept 9, 2009 16:19:25 GMT
I know this has it's own thread, but it should perhaps also be included in here for reference (The Troubleshooters thread) but Ray Barrett, who played Peter Thornton, has died aged 82.
Ray played Peter Thornton in 106 episodes, between 1965 and 1972.
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Post by Peter Kane on Sept 20, 2009 8:24:59 GMT
I have just found this, the opening credits from the series, preceded by the 'BBC Globe' of the time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf2OXiFO0n0I am really pleased with finding this, I had given up hope of ever seeing ANYTHING again! The credits feature Ray Barrett as Peter Thornton (which is particularly good at this time) but (sadly) not my own personal 'hero' from my younger days, Robert Hardy as Alec Stewart. This particular episode was called (shown at the end of the credits) "Boys and Girls Come Out To Play", and was from Season 6 (out of 7 seasons) being originally broadcast on 13th July 1970. Seeing the opening credits has (if I needed it) really made me even more keen (as in 'Geoffrey'!!) to actually see a full episode again, ONE DAY . . .
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Post by LanceM on Sept 20, 2009 22:20:17 GMT
Exellent clip,Thanks for posting Peter.This is a series which would be great to see further footage from. As have heard many recollections of this series as being a great one, and well remembered.
Thanks again for the great posting!
Cheers,Lance.
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Post by Peter Kane on Sept 21, 2009 8:17:51 GMT
I have also just been told by someone, that the 'BBC Globe' at the beginning of the clip, is not the BBC domestic globe of the time. It has been suggested that it is "from an an export print saved by another country".
You know, I thought I didn't 'quite' remember it (or that 'ding-dong' music) as ever being exactly like that - though I'm not too clear how good my memory is!
I wonder . . . if this clip is indeed from an "export print" (?) could this mean that prints of The Troubleshooters series itself, may still exist somewhere around the world?
I really hope so, but whether we will ever find out, I doubt it!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2009 16:48:16 GMT
Looks to me like the BBC-1 globe as was in use in the U.K. 1968-9 so the t/r was either made from a transmission here or the person who uploaded the clip has tagged it on himself!
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Post by Robert Shaw on Oct 22, 2009 16:23:49 GMT
i used to watch this as a kid, never got the 'joke' name though (oh for those innocent days) for philip lathams character (think it was his name) 'willy izard' ... Joke? I am sure it's just that his name was William . . . yes 'joke', a rude one too like the fabled 'master bates' off captain pugwash... willy iz ard
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Post by Andrew Martin on Oct 22, 2009 18:55:40 GMT
Looks to me like the BBC-1 globe as was in use in the U.K. 1968-9 so the t/r was either made from a transmission here or the person who uploaded the clip has tagged it on himself! It is the 68-69 globe indeed, complete with 'jingle' - unfortunately the episode "Boys and Girls Come Out to Play" was tx'd on 13/7/70 so it would have been preceded by the first colour globe when it actually went out...
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Post by Peter Kane on Oct 22, 2009 22:50:02 GMT
Joke? I am sure it's just that his name was William . . . yes 'joke', a rude one too like the fabled 'master bates' off captain pugwash... willy iz ard I tend to notice things like this, but I have to say, I simply NEVER noticed that one. Was it intended? Despite 40 odd years of "not noticing it", I can only say . . . PERHAPS it was!!!
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Post by Robert Shaw on Oct 29, 2009 14:55:05 GMT
dunno if it was intended... but tbh it MUST have been... 'izard' isnt a surname youd chose at random assuming it actually IS a real surname.
i suspect a schoolboy joke and writer having a right good laugh somewhere!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2009 15:33:27 GMT
There is a real surname Izzard (presume that was how it was spelled), as in Brian Izzard who produced or directed stuff at LWT, among others. So it could have been unintentional. Who knows? You can find double entendres in anything if you look hard enough (no pun intended!)
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