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Post by Stephen Byers on Jun 1, 2016 8:34:37 GMT
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Post by RWels on Jun 1, 2016 9:01:21 GMT
The Hidden Valley was also an Australian kids series of which many episodes exist. If these shows are not listed in LostShows perhaps someone can compile a list here? That's Secret Valley. They were output from the recently deceased Reg Grundy, weren't they? Australian, so it wouldn't be on lostshows. I missed the first episodes of Poopsnagle on both occasions that they were on TV in my area. Never saw them. With some guesswork it'd be for Secret Valley: 01. Big Plans 03. Secret Weapon 04. Battle Stations ... 10. ?Runaway? ... ??. I spy 12. ? 12. The Great Mini Bike Race 13. Save the bunyip 16. Super scoop 17. Spider McGlurk meets his match 18. The Trojan Bull 20. The worm turns 21. Lost in the bush 22. The Bildara Bank Bust 23. Secret Valley Bush Fire 24. The oily bird catches the worm 26. End Of The Rainbow Poopsnagle - each substory consisted of 4 episodes, in the UK they were shown edited together and therefore probably abridged: 1 ? 2 ? 3. Lost in the desert 4. Commando raid 5. Race to the finish 6. The last mineral
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Post by Stephen Byers on Jun 1, 2016 13:00:26 GMT
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Post by Chris Keating on Jan 30, 2017 0:56:38 GMT
So far as I'm aware, all the Roger Mirams-produced kid's shows exist - Terrible Ten / Ten Again, Magic Boomerang, Adventures Of The Seaspray. I picked up a pile of Terrible Ten episode on 16mm years back, close to a dozen or so. There are plenty of copies around... Several Magic Boomerang episodes were recently uploaded to YouTube by series star David Morgan: www.youtube.com/channel/UCcY263_RKMXCc54JCigKfrg/videos?view=0&shelf_id=0&sort=ddI also picked up DVD copies of another four or five from later series star Gary Gray. Also had a couple of "Adventures Of The Seaspray" on 16mm, and there's a few floating around on DVD.
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Post by Chris Keating on Jan 31, 2017 0:22:54 GMT
The "Seaspray" clip is from my YouTube channel, as it happens...
Here's a scene:
Roger's film technique was excellent, vastly better than what Crawfords were doing during the same period. "Seaspray" was a quality production, very little skimping. First Australian-produced drama series to be shot in colour (1955's "Adventures of Long John Silver" was a US production, shot in Australia).
Screen Gems effectively covered his costs, but he made no money from it.
He did a pilot in 1968 called "The Adventurers" which was later rejigged by NLT as "The Rovers", but was quiet until 1971 and "Spyforce" - those episodes cost $23,000 to produced and were only recouping $18,000, so he did a co-production deal with Paramount that covered the shortfall, but he again made no money from it.
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Post by Alan Turrell on Jan 31, 2017 9:29:33 GMT
Yeah I recall Mr. Piper was on Southern TV, it was either Canadian or American the show featured a rather tubby actor as 'Mr.Piper', dressed in a minstrel piper's outfit with cloak and a hat, who lived in an extraordinary place full of wonderment - he'd produce items like a magic arrow or a viking helmet etc then tell stories that went into mini adventures, normally he was in one or two, another tale he told went on 'down at Animal Farm'....the camera panned down to a sort of large mousehole in the wall and went into a section of filmed adventures featuring real life trained animals - a cat and a couple of dogs were regulars etc... Mr.Piper told tales of giants, dragons etc,there was a cartoon feature too, the actor sang the theme song I think Southern TV screened them on Fridays, I think it was still on TV in the early seventies... Mr Piper was a Canadian / ITC production in colour. It was a 30 minute slot show in the Canada/UK with a varied menu of items- however when it was shown in the US it was cut down to about 5/10 minutes, showing just the cartoon with a morale story.. these appear to be the only things currently on YT and give a false impression of what it actually consisted of. I remember Mr.Piper being on Southern as well and quite often watched it, i'd like to know whether the complete shows exist or whether it's just the cartoon segments i can also remember it being shown on Midlands itv as well.
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Post by Stephen Byers on Jan 31, 2017 11:11:47 GMT
'Just Add H2O' is being aired late at night on the Pop Channel on Freeview 125.
Why not email them to see what they are holding re: other Australian kids series?
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Post by Stephen Byers on Jan 31, 2017 11:33:51 GMT
"As at February 2005, the 'Fifeath Ban' was being used under her television name 'Seaspray' for tourist cruises out of Fiji. A majestic boat by any standard, her obvious appeal for tourists is enhanced by her claim to fame as the 'star' of a television series." Also see www.imdb.com/title/tt0163430/classicaustraliantv.com/AdvSeaspray.htm"Although Adventures Of The Seaspray was made in colour, it has not been shown in Australia for over 20 years. Maybe one day, as the powers-that-be at Columbia Pictures go through the Screen Gems archives, it will appear once again on our screens as a DVD and/or Pay-TV release. But don’t hold your breath."
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Post by Stephen Byers on Jan 31, 2017 12:10:30 GMT
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Post by Stephen Byers on Jan 31, 2017 12:39:46 GMT
Wow - what a guy - what a project home.iprimus.com.au/toddemslie/archive-TV.htmlHere is his thoughts about searching for 'lost' recordings. My thoughts are maybe, just maybe, there might be some Brit. stuff out there in Brit. educational facilities like he found in Australian educational facilities. "Sources of Supply Video tapes from the 1970s were primarily used by educational facilities (e.g. schools, colleges, universities). Some facilities may still stock 1970s format video formats in their audio-visual department. Hence, it may be worth contacting these departments. Indeed, colleges and schools are one of the main sources in terms of my U-matic tape collection." "For most domestic households, VTR or VCRs were prohibitively expensive during the 1970s. For example, the U-matic VCR cost at least $5,000. This explains why 1970s commercial TV recordings are relatively hard to find compared to ABC TV schools material. Most 1970s era VCRs were used for recording ABC TV schools programs."
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Post by Chris Keating on Oct 16, 2017 4:39:37 GMT
Me, as previously noted. I have / had three or four episodes on 16mm, and have picked up dubs of others from a few other sources. There was some plank selling DVD copies of a couple of episodes, one of which had a recent (1990's) Columbia tag on the end, as though it had been shown on-air somewhere.
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Post by RWels on Oct 16, 2017 11:05:22 GMT
Me, as previously noted. I have / had three or four episodes on 16mm, and have picked up dubs of others from a few other sources. There was some plank selling DVD copies of a couple of episodes, one of which had a recent (1990's) Columbia tag on the end, as though it had been shown on-air somewhere. Well done on "Ruth" by the way - maybe not the find that anyone had hoped for, but any recovery is a good recovery.
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