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Post by John Green on Feb 5, 2013 0:27:19 GMT
Does anyone know if the series listed on Lost Shows is the same as the U.S. series,episodes of which have recently come out on DVD in the U.S? I admit the episode titles are different,and there are many more listed in the U.S.,but the dates and themes seem to overlap... ctva.biz/US/Adventure/PassportToDanger.htm www.lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=4bc4dc29-24a6-400d-b01f-c9e55979852d Just spotted:the CTVA site suspects that the Lost Shows titles are those given for the UK showings.Thus 'Antigua' in the U.S. becomes 'Coffee Cup' in the U.K.,and 'Marseilles' became 'Passport'.Maybe.These conjectures are highlighted in blue on the CTVA site. |
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Post by John Green on Feb 5, 2013 0:48:33 GMT
The UCLA seems to have most or all of them.Love the way that most episodes are shown as having been made sometime between 1954-1956,with no exact dates.'Antigua' and 'Marseilles' are there.
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Post by John Green on Feb 2, 2014 16:51:53 GMT
Not exactly a popular thread! I notice from episodes on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXdMhEgTJk0 that there are no opening-titles,rather the camera focuses on a map and zooms in on e.g. Casablanca.Maybe this encouraged local broadcasters to add their own,more interesting,titles? |
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Post by Peter Stirling on Feb 3, 2014 10:33:02 GMT
Quite a curiosity you have raised there John,as Lost Shows usually only lists UK made shows?
The US version has logical ep titles in keeping with 'Passport to Danger' ie place names.
Whereas the UK listing on LS has rather odd ep titles.
So it does make you wonder if there was a UK franchise version of the show?
However at that time it was probably cheaper to buy in the US show, as some in the US TV industry thought the UK was a small island with a few fishing villages and set their prices accordingly,it was only later they realised the UK was indeed a small island but with a LARGE population (the UK TV studios were not going to tell them LOL)that they started raising their prices,lessening the temptation to fill a slot with a 'cheap' import.
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Post by John Green on Feb 3, 2014 11:17:51 GMT
Hmmm.I couldn't help but think of the shaky title-change with Top Cat/boss Cat!
There's been a bit of off-topic discussion on the MC site about another U.S. 50s series called 'Frontier Doctor'.Some series from that date still aren't fully catalogued in terms of titles-for one thing it was fairly common for episodes to have alternate titles.An episode called 'Forbidden Frontier' is listed in the Radio Times',but there's no record of one with that title.It really is antediluvian...
Ah.By "UK franchise version" you mean with a British narrator added,but keeping U.S. footage?
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Feb 3, 2014 11:59:30 GMT
It would be great to check this. Great work, John, as usual.
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Post by Peter Stirling on Feb 3, 2014 12:50:43 GMT
Hmmm.I couldn't help but think of the shaky title-change with Top Cat/boss Cat! There's been a bit of off-topic discussion on the MC site about another U.S. 50s series called 'Frontier Doctor'.Some series from that date still aren't fully catalogued in terms of titles-for one thing it was fairly common for episodes to have alternate titles.An episode called 'Forbidden Frontier' is listed in the Radio Times',but there's no record of one with that title.It really is antediluvian... Ah.By "UK franchise version" you mean with a British narrator added,but keeping U.S. footage? No I meant like Law and order UK for example.ie selling the rights to make a series of your own. |
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Post by John Green on Feb 3, 2014 13:00:11 GMT
I notice that CTVA credit the BFI for confirming four episode titles.Either they hold copies of the U.S. series,and there was a UK-made one,or it really is one and the same series.Could it be listed at Lostshows because it was co-financed?
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Post by Peter Stirling on Feb 3, 2014 14:13:58 GMT
Just to throw another spanner in the works..
At that time Hal Roach Studios was in partnership with ITC to produce 'The Gale Storm Show'
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