Fantastic discovery!

[Sam]

Call this a missing programmes site? The most interesting discovery for several years is being discussed elsewhere, and not a word here. Keep up, people.

Well, Dennis Potter's play 'Shaggy Dog' has been recovered from LWT. Given the stature of Potter, this is a pretty phenomenal discovery - I can't think of anything that rivals it from the last few years at least, if not a decade or more.

Now, discuss that. Or you could just keep discussing the chances of yet another three seconds of generic Dr Who turning up; that’s something to get really excited about, after all.

[Kev]

Guest-Sam said:

Call this a missing programmes site?

Er yes. That's why it's called Missing Episodes.

The most interesting discovery for several years is being discussed elsewhere, and not a word here. Keep up, people.

Sorry us mere mortals can't keep up with your superhauman powers.

Well, Dennis Potter's play 'Shaggy Dog' has been recovered from LWT. Given the stature of Potter, this is a pretty phenomenal discovery - I can't think of anything that rivals it from the last few years at least, if not a decade or more.

Now, discuss that.
Or you could just keep discussing the chances of yet another three seconds of generic Dr Who turning up; that’s something to get really excited about, after all.

I am not a Who fan but if people want to talk about that, I defend their right to do so, just as I defend your right to discuss Potter, whose work may have no significance to certain people. Certainly he doesn't mean a thing to me.

I have taken an instant dislike to you and your condescending manner as it saves time.

Kindly go and crawl back wherever you came if all you can do is slag people off.

[Helpful Hartley]

WoW hold your horses Sam babe!!.Shaggy Dog has never really been missing. It was part of a group of plays produced by Stella Richman for LWT in 1968. The series was called Company of FiveWhich funny enough had five principal actors in each week.

The rest of the plays have always been in the archive. The Dennis Potter tape was probably just propping some door open somewhere in LWT. Yet because it was a Potter there has been a load of hysterical nonsense about it being missing/wiped?

Might be unique in one way though! as it is a slapstick comedy, and a therefore a chance to reappraise Potter's comedy talents.
At least a change from the other sanctimonious garbage Potter has written?

[Gary]

The Shaggy Dog play has been missing officially for years.Its listed as a missing item in Dick Fiddys book in the section on missing Potters!

[H Hartley]

As i said more likely mislaid rather than actually missing
from the building.

[Anthony Harvison]

I know this is trivial in comparison but on the Mausoleum Club thread it states that the five missing episodes of Ian Hendry's The Adventures of Don Quick were also found. Is this the case?

[h Hartley]

Not at all trivial Anthony! There is much speculation about Don Quick. One persistant rumour is that when LWT tried to transfer some of the Don Quicks to digital (along with the rest of its archive) in the 1990s, the tapes were in a delicate state and the transfer was abandoned. The transfer house may or may not have discarded the tapes as their remit and budget from LWT may have been "transfer what you can and junk the rest" but who knows?
There is beleived to be just one surviving broadcastable Don Quick

the technology for certain restorations just was not available in 1991 hopefully if the tapes survive then maybe something can be done with them?

[RWels]

So what other boards are there that supposedly are better up-to-date?

[clippie]

I'm very pleased that still things are turning up.

If Dick Fiddy lists something as missing that means it was missing when Mr Fiddy went to press.
AND allow for errors - the Kal Guide (for example) lists Milligan In Autumn as missing but it isn't.

Stop the silly bickering though as it really lets you (us) down.

[Gareth R]

Guest-h said:

There is beleived to be just one surviving broadcastable Don Quick

When I spoke to LWT's ex-archivist Trevor Popple about Don Quick some years ago, he confirmed that the only extant edition was The Love Reflector, and that it was in a "pretty poor condition". The quad exists at the NFTVA and LWT does not have its own copy.

In fact, LWT does not have its own transfers of many of its old programmes that now live at the NFTVA.

[Deleted]

on the Mausoleum Club thread it states that the five missing episodes of Ian Hendry's The Adventures of Don Quick were also found.

If I read that MC thread right, an Granada sales list said they still existed, but when Kal checked they were still actually missing, just a case of a clump of archive lists being edited together with little basis in reality. Sad, really.

[Elliot]

I don't suppose Potter's The Confidence Course has turned up has it?