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Post by Alistair Gordon on Oct 10, 2012 5:51:17 GMT
We persuade the BBC (or an independant production company) to commission a monthly programme called "missing episodes hunt".The first programme would announce a pool of £1 M to be shared by everyone who returned an episode during the programmes run (1 share per returned item, so if we got 4 items back with one person returning 3 they would get £750,000).It would then have some stories about previous episode recoveries and interviews.There would be an update programme every month as well as a website detailing what was missing and what had been recovered giving the "share value" of each item.
Each update programme would follow up leads and show extracts of what had been recovered.
The series would last for 12 monthly shows and the final show would be a prizewinners edition.
This format would cover ALL BBC shows but would concentrate on warmly remembered classics and still popular shows like Doctor Who.
I realise that the BBC would baulk at paying out £1M as well as admitting that they had destroyed our national heritage but the sum is not great if it produces 12 1 hour TV shows (if no recoveries then the money could go to charity).
What do people think, and how could we get the show made?
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Post by John Wall on Oct 10, 2012 8:34:18 GMT
You're assuming that what you want is actually out there and that those with the material will see the show. There have been a couple of "campaigns" in recent years that have had a certain amount of success, but without offering a reward.
What happens if someone turns up with a pile of missing Crossroads episodes ?
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Post by stevendoig on Oct 10, 2012 8:44:12 GMT
Sorry, but 99.9% of the licence fee payers would go absolutely bananas if they heard that their money was being spent on asuch a venture!!
This couldn't ever happen, at least not through the BBC and its our money they are playing with!!
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Post by Paul Vanezis on Oct 10, 2012 10:02:52 GMT
Sorry, but 99.9% of the licence fee payers would go absolutely bananas if they heard that their money was being spent on asuch a venture!! This couldn't ever happen, at least not through the BBC and its our money they are playing with!! Steve is spot on. But unpicking the idea, you say "persuade the BBC to commission". Well, good luck. As a programme, it's a spectacularly bad idea and the BBC finds it difficult to commission good ideas due to the limited budgets it has to play with for programme making. The money; well, that will be licence fee payers money for a start, so that isn't going to happen. Monthly programmes are extremely difficult to schedule too and then there's the biggie. Why are we wasting time and money recovering material you didn't think was good enough to keep in the first place? And what happens if nothing gets returned? Paul |
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Post by Rob Moss on Oct 10, 2012 10:22:24 GMT
The first programme would announce a pool of £1 M to be shared by everyone who returned an episode during the programmes run (1 share per returned item, so if we got 4 items back with one person returning 3 they would get £750,000). [snip] I realise that the BBC would baulk at paying out £1M as well as admitting that they had destroyed our national heritage but the sum is not great if it produces 12 1 hour TV shows (if no recoveries then the money could go to charity). Er, you seem to be either spending the "reward" money on making the show, or imagining that the show will somehow be produced for free! Either way, completely bonkers idea for so many reasons. You'd be better off using your million pounds to invest in buying up film collections in the hope of finding something missing or something that you could trade with other collectors in the hope that they might have something missing. By the way, is Alistair Gordon your real name..? It seems a coincidence for someone who posts exclusively in the Dr Who section..! |
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Post by Alistair Gordon on Oct 10, 2012 13:25:10 GMT
Yes,i've been Alistair Gordon long before Lethbridge-Stewart used my name!
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Post by Greg H on Oct 10, 2012 16:30:28 GMT
What happens if someone turns up with a pile of missing Crossroads episodes ? If they were 60s episodes i would do a happy dance at any rate. Something strangely hypnotic about 60s Crossroads. |
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Post by John Wall on Oct 10, 2012 19:56:49 GMT
What happens if someone turns up with a pile of missing Crossroads episodes ? If they were 60s episodes i would do a happy dance at any rate. Something strangely hypnotic about 60s Crossroads. Keep taking the tablets... |
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Post by Greg H on Oct 10, 2012 21:54:33 GMT
Well thats a given  I notice these weird little touches in 60s Crossroads (the few I have seen), like focusing in on some garish mantlepiece ornament. I am never too sure what bits like that signify or are included for. Its good to have a few mysteries in life though........... |
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Post by George D on Oct 10, 2012 22:10:35 GMT
Soap operas from the 1960s can be very scarce. One of the few exceptions is all that one Dark Shadows episode exists, but thats the exception rather than the norm (although if it didnt, we'd all be calling it the missing classic)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2012 9:11:42 GMT
A programme about missing episodes, the finding of them, the restoring of them etc would be great. I'm not sure about encouraging people to buy up film collections and then trade them etc ... it would be better for this stuff to be available for everyone to watch ... or am I missing the point here???
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Post by dennywilson on Oct 11, 2012 10:29:54 GMT
When the BBC did their "Treasure Hunt" to find lost TV and Radio Shows a few years ago (is it really more than a decade ago?), they didn't do a big to-do about it or offer any money for recovery, they had a small small budget and got the word out. and found a few things.
The best publicity is that which is FREE,or cost little.
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Post by John Wall on Oct 11, 2012 12:04:01 GMT
I think it's largely established that offering rewards ain't a good idea.
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Post by Alistair Gordon on Oct 11, 2012 15:20:18 GMT
How about trying to get the BBC to do another "treasure hunt" style show, even without the finders fee?
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Post by Jon Preddle on Oct 11, 2012 18:08:51 GMT
There's always "Antique's Roadshow". They could 'stage' one segment where a 'film collector' (ie actor) brings along a 'fake' DW film can and film, and a nominal monetary value is given to it, but the presenter stresses the historical value of such items, and puts in a sort plea to have these returned.
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