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Post by David Buck on May 8, 2016 20:32:08 GMT
the seventh and eighth items listed in the Kaleidoscope BBC drama guide are the original titles sequence on colour film and a specially filmed trailer ; these two listings seem to have been confused as episodes in the count on the lost tv site.
At least there's some bonus material for a DVD if Network did consider it as a stand-alone release like they did with Little Lost Robot - I'd have thought it was more likely to turn up on BBC store though - if enough people ask.
lost tv site has not been updated with the episode as they have always listed it as existing - although the owner was unknown
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Post by David Buck on Apr 5, 2016 12:39:32 GMT
At the point which would have been the 10th Anniversary of S.N.A.T.L.P. - the series had become the New London Palladium Show which doesn't have any appearances from Helen Shapiro listed; there is however a programme (which is listed as missing in the Kaleidoscope Light entertainment guide ) featuring Helen Shapiro from 19.11.65 called The Anniversary Show
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Post by David Buck on Mar 8, 2016 22:19:48 GMT
Hi all - My last dvd recorder has now packed in and before I shell out on a blu-ray recorder does anyone have a better method these days for making domestic recordings - if you have a particular set-up that you think is good value and provides good quality recordings I'd appreciate some advice ; I feel distinctly retro as I still burn from my HDD DVD recorder to dvd-r and I'm sure I should have moved over to some form of external HDD archiving before now. The number of recorder models on the market is pretty small these days as people are embracing streaming and pvr's with limited capacity ( or being forced to abandon ownership of media is another way of looking at it! )
Or can anyone point me in the direction of a good AV site where this stuff is covered ?
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Post by David Buck on Dec 14, 2015 23:45:14 GMT
on Christmas day R4extra have scheduled at 6.00 a broadcast of "Oh Whistle And I'll Come To You" -it's confusingly listed as the 1963 broadcast which I thought was lost - but with a credit for Jonathan Miller which would be incorrect - presumably due to both the '63 radio & '68 Tv versions featuring Michael Hordern.
Has this been in the archives all along ?
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Post by David Buck on Nov 18, 2015 20:57:32 GMT
sorry but it's just not credible, all the evidence contradicts that statement. apart from the odd slip like the early 90's destruction of children's shows there has been no ongoing policy of junking completed scripted programming since the mid 70's. so regarding British comedy - name BBC sitcom episodes junked since 1977 (the year Sue Malden had the job of stopping the junking and turning the film library into an archive) If the anonymous person's quote is accurate this will be an easy task as it will be a huge list.
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Post by David Buck on Nov 13, 2015 22:26:06 GMT
To be honest as far as television is concerned that sounds like a reply from the 1970's not today ; If that were true then obviously there would be loads of Drama, comedy and light entertainment series from 1977 to the present that fail the "dad's Army" test of iconic status which would be only represented by a first and last episode - can anyone name one ? or even more than a handful with any significant gaps ?
I'll quote here from the Kaleidoscope BBC Drama guide, % of individual drama episodes missing from the BBC archive: 1970-1974 37.9%; 1975-1979 6.5%; 1980-1984 0.2%; 1985-2006 0%
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Post by David Buck on Nov 11, 2015 20:46:21 GMT
Hi all - my print is complete, the closing titles have split off from the rest of the print . I did check it a while back and the credits are for the Canadian narrator; so not a johnny morris version.
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Post by David Buck on Nov 5, 2015 21:36:49 GMT
It's a little sparse on older material , but there's certainly stuff that hasn't been commercially available before, most of the Dennis Potter's for example, and Tom Baker's version of Sherlock Holmes ( though I believe that was on Virgin's TV on demand for a while; years ago ), obscure material - well I don't think the BBC series "The New Statesman" can be classed as mainstream interest these days, but then I'd expect them to include some series like this to measure interest in less obvious material.
downsides are the pricing and why on earth can't you search by year?
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Post by David Buck on Oct 27, 2015 20:58:06 GMT
so many potential pitfalls with this release , really wish it had ended up with the BFI like OOTU. Still, regardless of how it turns out - it's a lot better than there being no release of course and they might pull out all the stops and go for RSC etc.
Does anyone know if it was ever determined whether all the cuts to the NTSC versions transmitted by UKgold were down to them trimming them for time or whether they are cuts on the source material ; I can't see simply trying to re-instate material off the B&W film prints
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Post by David Buck on Oct 10, 2015 12:56:09 GMT
from the last ITV drama guide, when only the 9 episodes were known to survive, no idea why I'd said 8 before, 2 episodes from the purported batch of 28 remained unidentified. the transmission dates were given for first Midlands showing, moving the data to lost tv site I guess they've changed them all to earliest ITV screening dates known, with "The Comet" It looks like they just haven't found an earlier broadcast yet.
Mrs. Gilson's murderer listed by 78 rpm Is in fact "Two Faced Murder" , the transmission date they give of 05.11.55 coincides with Kaleidoscopes date for TFM on ATV London and the monologue at the start references the murder of Mrs. Gilson
the lack of on-screen titles is behind the youtube confusion where someone else confused the episode with Identical twins one as well; in the same way I did earlier re: Kleptomaniac/halloween - in that the two titles could both apply
the plot concerns a murderess forcing a plastic surgeon to alter her face , he does so - but then reveals he's altered it to match another wanted murderess , I think the identification as Two Faced Murder is fairly sound
the UCLA print, which was spotted a few years back, is likely to be multiple episodes with a 1200 ft running length. ( plus that's how the two lots of episodes that have come from the USA are presented )
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Post by David Buck on Oct 10, 2015 12:05:03 GMT
right - I've just refreshed my memory by spinning through the SWV release , so yes, Kleptomaniac and Halloween are indeed different episodes , I have Kleptomaniac on the SWV rlease and Halloween on 16mm, the BFI will hold a copy of Halloween from my print so might not mean they hold that on 35mm, unless you've see it detailed as such.
The Halloween episode ends with the girl identified by the Q stealing a coat , which is why I mis-remembered it as being Kleptomaniac
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Post by David Buck on Oct 10, 2015 11:34:45 GMT
just seen this in WHSmiths - for anyone interested there's a 2 page article featuring an interview with a designer from Softly softly, though it is linked to the DVD release so might just be re-using material from any text bonus features from there
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Post by David Buck on Oct 7, 2015 20:44:14 GMT
yes , sorry , 2 formerly missing episodes , 1 upgrade, 1 probable upgrade (though there's a slim chance it might be one Kaleidoscope coouldn't find a title / screening for instead)
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Post by David Buck on Oct 7, 2015 20:37:20 GMT
Just curious about the scope of use for a 405 line converter as mentioned by Phillip Morris, so did the old 405 line equipment from british broadcasters end up in the colonies/commonwealth after they'd finished with it ? I've seen comments before that redundant tv equipment followed that route - was it true of entire VT formats ?
the BBC & Granada (& Anglia?) had most of the surviving 405 line tapes , and I guess the BBC's are now with the BFI, but we know from the Callan DVD's that even the BFI had been dumping 405 line tapes after doing less than stellar optical conversions, so would a modern 405 line converter solely be useful as a service to convert the few hundred UK tapes that are left?
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Post by David Buck on Oct 7, 2015 20:12:03 GMT
at the time of my post - the only known episodes were those I had - 3 on 16mm & the 5 episodes featured on something weird video's Tv rarities DVD - hence the domestic format notation , it seems Kaleidoscope have found some in an archive somewhere since if they now reckon only 8 are missing , 2 of which and an upgrade appearing to be at the BFI
the upgrade? - well, the episode the BFI have titled Halloween will most likely be The Kleptomaniac episode as it is set at a Halloween party, that one was screened at raiders at BAFTA a few years ago to universal bemusement (It's not a great series and that was a particularly naff ep.)
None of the 8 episodes I have access to have on screen titles, or credits and are presented in multi episode omnibus form ; so it would be interesting to see how individual episodes were presented originally , though it's incredibly unlikely anyone would go to the expense of transferring 35mm material for this series
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