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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Jul 19, 2011 11:21:49 GMT
Clearly a sad attention seeking individual. Best to ignore him completely.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Jun 29, 2011 20:52:30 GMT
josh 1994 wrote: "All the doctor Who episodes are probably out there in the hands of collectors" I refer you to the title of this thread because if you are naive enough to believe that you really are being silly!
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Mar 4, 2011 20:37:33 GMT
Paul, are you sure of the date for the recovered Sportsreel edition as 23/11/63? I thought it was the 07/09/63 programme which certainly does exist?
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Feb 18, 2011 20:40:05 GMT
There was actually an episode of Terry and June on ITV3 earlier today.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Jan 28, 2011 21:29:50 GMT
You're spot on there - it was "The Last of the BIg Spenders" (now amended in the above post!). I actually got the info from the Amazon review so Mr Angry got it wrong too - unless he was forced to pay for an episode he already had!
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Jan 28, 2011 14:50:04 GMT
One of those episodes - `The Last of the Big Spenders' - was previously missing and turned up from a collector a few years back. I don't know the full story but I believe its existence was fairly well known and the print had changed hands on more than one occasion. There's a review on Amazon of the boxed set where the angry reviewer claims to have been "forced to buy the boxed set" as the said episode was not on the previous Likely lads DVD release!
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Dec 23, 2010 19:07:03 GMT
`180 Leeds Goals' seems to indicate there are plenty of Leeds games still in their archive'.
Not necesarily. Both BBC Scotland and STV junked most of their highlights after broadcast but did edit the goals together on compilation reels. There are some highlights archived but much is lost and people always make the mistake of assuming because they've seen the goals from a particular game the whole match exists. One ex STV employee recently told me how he came accross a skip full of film reels of edited football ready to be dumped a few years back which he managed to save "what he could from" before persuading the powers that be to get the footage digitalised. He wasn't able to rescue the entire contents though. I believe most of the ITV Sport archive consists of either highlights or complete games but there is much more football which they don't have in the hands of the various regions who may or may not have had a similar policy to their Scottish counterparts.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Dec 20, 2010 19:25:01 GMT
A black and white 1968 edition of `Star Soccer' on 16mm went for £156 on ebay recently. The featured match was Man Utd v Stoke.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Nov 25, 2010 23:17:53 GMT
Part of the problem is that those growing up in the video age have no conception of what it was like to watch television in the 1960s. You either saw a programme or you missed it whereas if you cant catch it now someone will have a copy or you can wait on the disc coming out. Programmes were meant to be shown once and once only then forgotten - and when the occasional repeat was shown there were complaints from viewers. When I watched `Power of the Daleks' I fully expected it to be the only time I would see it and I suspect one of the reasons older fans have such vivid memories of episodes was precisely because of that. I fully understand the reasons shows were junked but no ammount of reasoning or explanation will convince some people that there were sound financial and other factors in the decision.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Sept 15, 2010 18:52:47 GMT
Well you could certainly buy edited releases of many of the Gerry Anderson series in a variety of versions. 200 and 400 foot versions of selected episodes were available in both colour and black and white and in sound or silent on both 8mm and Super 8. Thunderbirds and Stingray for definite and also Fireball XL5. Infact there's a Joe 90 one on eBay at the moment. I've still got a b&w print of `Trapped in the Sky' somewhere and `Thirty Minutes After Noon.' These were released by Walton films. I recall carousels in camera shops showing off home movies in colourful boxes but these were mostly feature films - like the cut down versions of the Peter Cushing Dalek movies - , cartoons, or Laurel and Hardys/Chaplins. I can't remember too many tv programmes being available other than the Anderson stuff and soccer such as Cup Finals and internationals matches.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Apr 16, 2010 12:34:47 GMT
Rich Cornock said on April 14th `this is getting a bit off topic and maybe better in the Dr Who section!'
I came to the same conclusion about three pages ago Rich!
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Nov 25, 2009 15:33:30 GMT
The BFI database IS available online - I look at it all the time. The full catalogue is there and there is a search facility. Can't do the link on my works pc but if you google BFI database you will find it - surprised you didn't think of that actually!
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Oct 15, 2009 18:48:34 GMT
Well there are certainly some examples in existence from the mid `70s. The 15 May 1976 edition is represented as this covered the Scotland V England game live from Hampden Park. All the material from the end of the match until the closing credits has been kept totalling several minutes. This includes not only post match analysis and interviews but also the racing results, Australian Pools news and a sports round up at the shows conclusion. The edition for 24 May 1975 - featuring live coverage from Wembley of England V Scotland - has a link at the end of a commercial break featuring a brief appearance of Dickie Davies handing over to the outside broadcast. I suspect others are likely to be represented in this manner too, most likely at the end of major events - the FA Cup Finals would be a good bet.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Jul 7, 2009 14:41:48 GMT
The sad fact is the majority of any surviving tapes turning up after all this time are most likely to end up with the rubbish. Lets face it if some random member of the public came across some unplayable tapes on a long obsolete format it would not be unreasonable to consider them worthless. The chances are they would not go to the trouble of listing them on eBay or anywhere else.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Mar 1, 2009 21:12:05 GMT
Bill Tenants show was a magazine programme and cookery with Fanny Craddock making dougnnuts was one of the items on the edition in question. Closing at the end Tennant apparently wished the viewers goodnight before adding "and I hope your doughnuts turn out like Fannys."
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