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Post by David Brunt on Jun 17, 2004 17:54:07 GMT
Hi
Many of you will be aware of the missing 1965 Z Cars episode - "Brotherly Love" guest starring Francis Matthews - on eBay last week, indeed many of you chipped in to pay for it.
Further to this sale, I can now announce that the seller also had a second missing episode for sale which has been purchased by the same pooled consortium as the first.
This episode - also from 1965 - is entitled "A Matter of Give and Take" and features guest star Wilfrid Lawson in a location heavy tale set around the murky world of canal boats.
Both episodes will be back at the BBC within the next week.
Many thanks also to all of those who came to the aid of the party...
David Brunt
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Post by The Wooksta on Jun 17, 2004 22:25:19 GMT
Oh that is excellent news. It's just a shame that the returned episodes will in all probability never be screened again.
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Post by Ted Rogers on Jun 18, 2004 1:55:43 GMT
I for one, certainly hope these shows will be screened one day soon… If we’re to encourage people to partake in returning lost shows, then this will be the least they may expect.
Not sure if there’s one or not, but I think it would be an idea to have a central fund/pot, maybe held by the guys/consortium who won this show/s on eBay recently, which could give those, with a wish to participate and interest in such things, a chance to get involved, and maybe into the bargain, receive (for their only viewing pleasure) a VHS or DVD copy of show/s their money helps recover ? An account set up on PayPal, of similar, could be a way to go, for the collection of such funds. I only mention PayPal, as it’s probably the easiest way to payments… Just a thought. This is obviously going on now, but may be an idea, to try and make it a bit more wide spread, somehow…?
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Post by Dick Fiddy on Jun 22, 2004 14:21:35 GMT
Great news. Well done on this and if the episodes do get back to the BBC on time, I'll request at least one of them for this year's Missing Believed Wiped in December at the NFT.
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Post by Richard Fitzgerald on Jun 22, 2004 23:27:24 GMT
Great news. Well done on this and if the episodes do get back to the BBC on time, I'll request at least one of them for this year's Missing Believed Wiped in December at the NFT. Dick, could you expand a little on your quotes in the Daily Express article this week regarding Not Only..But Also? You seem to imply there are more episodes out there waiting to be recovered - just optimism or do you have more concrete info? And does the New York museum of Television hold any other episodes? |
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Post by Dick Fiddy on Jun 29, 2004 14:32:59 GMT
I haven't seen the article so I don't know what was actually printed but when I spoke to the journo I said that as this one had turned up it was feasible that others might have survived. Actually, I always say this in the hope that it might alert someone who may have an old copy somewhere - no harm in trying. Yes MOB in New York have another edition but it is one the BBC already held.
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Post by Laurence Piper on Jun 29, 2004 19:50:05 GMT
I always wonder why no later colour episodes have ever surfaced. At the very least it's entirely possible that the best of compilation shown in 1974 (and repeated in '76) may survive on someone's off-air Philips tape or similar...
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Post by William Martin on Jun 30, 2004 14:42:12 GMT
I always wonder why no later colour episodes have ever surfaced. At the very least it's entirely possible that the best of compilation shown in 1974 (and repeated in '76) may survive on someone's off-air Philips tape or similar... highly likely, but since so little off air video has turned up its a case of either they've rubbed over it (or otherwise dispose of it), don't know about missing episodes or don't think that the quality's good enough. also form a psychological point of view many people just don't make the connection between missing material and personal recordings odd thing but the familiar can often be overlooked. |
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