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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Apr 13, 2023 14:36:19 GMT
'Junked' probably means that someone in the Glasgow film unit took home the 16mm b/w film, i.e. the telerecording. I must say that I rather admire your optimism!
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Mar 1, 2023 12:37:44 GMT
There was certainly a trailer for Episode 1 of the following serial Curse of Peladon. It was brief featuring the scene where the Dr and Jo are hiding in the castle and witness Ssorg pass by and possibly the Tardis falling from the cliff. This might have been after DOTD4 or during the following week. I'm sure a similar trailer was shown for the repeat in the Dr Who and the Monsters season ten years later.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Feb 28, 2023 15:15:50 GMT
I remember being annoyed at missing that as my school friend told me it had featured Daleks crossing a bridge. I watched intently for it but think it might only have been shown late at night or only once. That was an exciting week as we eagerly awaited the return of the Daleks on the Saturday after what seemed an eternity.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Dec 26, 2022 21:20:25 GMT
Well recently we have had a Glaswegian playing a leading role as a Londoner in Line of Duty and a man - even allowing for him being the writer - playing a womens role in in Mrs Browns Boys. Don't hear too many Cockney actors or females getting on their high horses about being deprived of an opportunity.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Dec 2, 2022 17:25:05 GMT
There are some film inserts for missing Crossroads archived I believe? Don't see any mention of these although 94 discs is rather a bumper release as it is.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Nov 30, 2022 17:46:30 GMT
Cassette tapes were not so expensive as some might have you believe. I have an Audio Boots C120 with a 1973 recording which still has the price sticker of 79 pence on the case - and yes it still plays. EMI or Philips brands cost a few pennies more. When I started recording Dr Who from Season 9 I used to capture two episodes on each side of a C90. Initially I would keep the opening theme from the first part then cut as the end credits began and leave out most of the second parts opening theme but leave the tape running to capture the end music on both sides. Eventually I realised there was still a fair bit of tape on the spool and chose to record each episode intact which was quite succesful until disaster struck during the final part of The Time Monster. I was always peering into the machine for the comfort of seeing the wheels spinning round, but just at the Benton/baby scene the wheels suddenly stopped! This resulted in panic stations as I frantically searched for another blank cassette but it was all too late as the episode was soon over. From then on all DWs were recorded complete on the more expensive C120s. The two Peter Cushing movies were a bit of a challenge as no tapes were long enough to record them without turning over to side B. The most suitable points were during incidental music but close to the end of side A.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Nov 22, 2022 12:24:08 GMT
Fantastic achievement. It's great that two of the first Dr Who regulars are still with us.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Nov 13, 2022 14:25:22 GMT
When I got my first cassette recorder in the early Seventies one of the first things I did was to make a compilation tape of the end themes of my favourite programmes. It was really annoying to hear a voiceover during the recording, and I recall this happening during the end of a Dock Green. You were dreading the announcer's voice ruining the moment and it always came close to the end when you felt you had just about captured the theme intact. These recordings were always scrubbed and taped over the following week with fingers crossed for no repeat interruptions. Perhaps it would have been better if I had preserved the `spoiled' broadcasts!
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Oct 6, 2022 14:06:10 GMT
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Aug 23, 2022 14:03:05 GMT
Here is the original article dated 29/11/1969. I shared Ms Rowes frustration at that long gap since waving the travellers goodbye at the end of Season Six. Attachments:
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Aug 23, 2022 13:49:48 GMT
Captain Kirk is the clear winner here amongst readers north of the border in the Scottish Daily Express shortly before Pertwees debut.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Aug 17, 2022 20:56:17 GMT
Things got even worse for Granny Crombie. This from the 9 January 1969 episode -
`It's panic stations in Caulton Court (STV 7.30) when Gran Crombie (Betty Henderson) is trapped in the lift. Gran and the other two ladies caught in this dilemma, Mrs McGill and Mrs Lambie, are virtually panic stricken by the time the caretaker, Dan Dunlop (Willy Joss) arrives' Daily Express
It's terrible what that poor old woman had to go through after the council rehoused her to that modern tower block.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Aug 2, 2022 21:43:59 GMT
Thanks for that Mark.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Aug 1, 2022 23:13:46 GMT
I was quite familiar with this in the late '60s. Only from the television not the radio which indicates it must have been shown fairly regularly. Fairly sure it featured on Blue Peter more than once.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Aug 1, 2022 20:15:40 GMT
Further to my queries at this thread, I managed to identify the Question Time episode in which an elderly friend of mine asked a question from 1998. The footage of him asking a question was then used the next time the series changed their opening titles. Surprisingly, and rather frustratingly, it was quite difficult to find out how long that version of the titles was used for. However, after paying to research at the BFI in London, I was eventually able to check enough episodes from the period to establish the first and last transmission dates for those titles. I then requested the episodes via BBC Contributor Access on behalf of my friend (the one in which he asks a question TX 04/06/1998, and the first episode in which he was seen in the titles TX 24/09/1998). I have received two video files from the BBC of these episodes. Just out of interest, can I ask if the files you received had a BBC watermark? A lot of the archive footage supplied to researchers now either has a watermark or a time code.
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