Six-Five Special extract FIND

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

Most of the excerpts, extracts and clips I find via BBC Motion Gallery are known of. Most, you will note....

First read this:-
""

08/11/75
Title:

PARKINSON
Description:
Chat show hosted by Michael Parkinson with guests Pete MURRAY, Frederick
FORSYTH & Blossom DEARIE.
>studio vt, cprght 16mm film
CLIPS: Transatlantic, with Pete MURRAY, Lionel MERTON (01m24s)
TV CLIPS:- Extract from Morcambe & Wise Christmas Show 1972, with Eric
MORECAMBE, Ernie WISE, Pete MURRAY (1st tx at 20.16.34 on 25.12.72)
- Extract from 6-5 Special, with Pete MURRAY (ex pres 6-5 Special),
Freddie MILLS & Josephine DOUGLAS (ex pres 6-5 Special) (1st tx
not known) (00m59s)
SONG: Blossom DEARIE - Isn't That the Thing to Do? (03m35s)

Duration: 00:59:05.000+01:00 ""

I saw this and thought it might be worth checking....

and here we are:-

""Missing episode in programme SIX-FIVE SPECIAL.

05.10.57 with Josephine Douglas, Pete Murray, Freddie Mills, Michael Holliday, Mike and Bernie Winters, Terry Wayne, Don Lang and his Frantic Five, The Don Rendell Jazz Six, Sonny Stewart and his Skiffle Kings (missing)""

This is the only Six-Five Special with all three appearing.

Yes I know it's only 59 seconds worth of a clip, but....as McCartney once said, and Egyptian Pot is an Egyptian pot. (and McCartney was talking about discovered rarities, not smoking....)

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[Simon Winters]

This is a real surprise to me. I had the oppertunity of asking Pete Murray about the recording of Six-Five Special recently.

He told me that he specifically remembers being told at the time this series went out that only one episode of this series was to be telerecorded and kept, and he was unhappy that they decided to preserve what he thought was the weakest episode from the whole lot.

Seems at least one other was once telerecorded as well!

[Rich Cornock]

Strange it survived till 1975 then went missing

[Deleted]

The 1957 episode that BBC 4 showed is unfortunately pretty poor. Jack Good wasn't producing that week so it's hardly representative of the show at it's best so hardly surprising Pete Murray felt disappointed by that one being recorded and retained.

Doesn't the final edition exist as well? I'm pretty sure that was talked about here a few years ago - it's sitting there in the BBC archive but hasn't actually been opened since 1958... that's the story I remember reading, so is there any truth in this?

[LanceM]

I seem to remember reading this as well Philip!

[John Green]

There are two listed at Unionsearch,31/8/1957 and 27/12/1958 unionsearch.bfi.org.uk/search.dhtml?fl.text=six-five&fl.online=
So Simon's right.
It looks as though the 22/11/1958 Six-Five Special Party (missing) was the last one? It does seem to ring a bell...

[Nathan Dickel]

How many actually exist, the only one I've seen is the one with Spike Milligan and it's pretty dire apart from Milligan's bit's.

[markg]

If that's "Ah, yes, that's a jelly all right!" then that was Ready Steady Go, I'm fairly sure.

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Nov 30, 2012 6:57:10 GMT Nathan Dickel said:

How many actually exist, the only one I've seen is the one with Spike Milligan and it's pretty dire apart from Milligan's bit's.

You ain't kidding... a very dire show though Milligan's cameos are worth seeing out of curiosity.

The biggest shame is the BBC opting to preserve one of Jo Douglas' productions and not a Jack Good edition since I believe at that time they were taking turns each week producing the show. Jo was going along with what the BBC wanted whereas Good was going against the BBC doing things his way and is how and why the show became a legend. Plus of course why Good fell out with the BBC and went off to do his own thing on ITV with "Oh Boy!"

[markg]

Hmm, I wonder why they deceded to preserve a Jo Douglas one then...?

[Nathan Dickel]

Slightly off topic, but I suggest watching the Australian Teen show "Six O'Clock Rock" compered by Johnny O'Keefe (their king of rock n' roll and who started the aussie music industry). It's based on the Six-Five Special, and although all the acts (except for a very breif appearance of US Teen idol Bobby Rydell in one episode) will mean nothing to anyone, it give's a glimse into what the Six-Five was probably like:

an episode from 1959 (and the earliest surviving and only complete 1 hour of the show, the other 4 that exist are only half hours, either the first, or second halves of the programs): www.youtube.com/watch?v=-huJdyqT0mE

1960 episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FPt0cB3x6