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Post by Ian Wegg on Jul 23, 2015 21:02:10 GMT
A slightly longer (13'17") excerpt was uploaded to YouTube last Sunday: youtu.be/ZcvcbZpBrlY It includes Gordon Jackson's introduction and a couple of minutes of the next performance (also Jerry Goldsmith). This was a Southern Television production. One of the composers featured was Richard Addinsell, composer of Southern Rhapsody. ~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Jul 1, 2015 10:56:50 GMT
Thanks Ray, you youngster! That's the 1969 ITV Yearbook, it looks like some one has kindly scanned the whole thing. I bought it when it came out and still have it, although the binding has completely come apart over the years. Useful to have an electronic copy.
~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Jun 22, 2015 19:29:16 GMT
Chris Perry posted earlier on the Kaleidoscope Facebook page that they were not successful.
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Post by Ian Wegg on Jun 19, 2015 20:05:10 GMT
Yes it's a shame the catalogue doesn't specify the lengths. The series 5 inserts I viewed this week totalled 60 minutes, so for a series of 13 x 25 minutes that represents about 18%. That surprises me because my feeling is that Freewheelers typically had a higher proportion of location footage than that. I will return and re-watch the other inserts at some point so I will note the timings then, unless anyone else knows?
A series 1 DVD release would be great, as would series 7 and 8 with cleaned up off-airs and re-inserted inserts.
~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Jun 16, 2015 13:40:38 GMT
I will try and sort out what appears to be missing information in the Wessex Archive lists. As far as I am concerned they had all the important inserts of all 8 series but for some reason my original lists and theirs do not confirm this. Thanks Mike. So you have inserts for all the series - that is great great news. I'd love to see the series 5 Thruxton scenes. The online catalogue - calm.hants.gov.uk/Overview.aspx?s=av763 - now includes a lot more Freewheelers than it did 19 months ago which I take to be the full collection that Mike Womersley has lodged there. This means that you can now order any of them up on DVD from the archive and view them in the Records Office's single A/V booth (if it's free). It took me a while longer than expected but I finally managed to visit Wessex yesterday. The series 5 film inserts are really good, in particular the opening episode involving Lotus 59 Formula 3 cars in action at Thruxton. Scenes that are familiar from the Time Screen article include Mike and Max throwing milk churns in the path of Ryan and Burke (driving a very nice Citroen DS decapotable) and being buried alive in the foundations of the M3. Having escaped that and then, inevitably, being recaptured by the bad guys, Mike and Max are unexpectedly let free in the countryside - only to find it is the lion enclosure at Longleat. I took the opportunity while there to browse the series 1 inserts. As we know, series 1 exists as a telerecording in fairly bad condition but the film inserts are in a much better state. We owe a great debt to Mike W. for saving the material and lodging it at Wessex, its such a pity it can't be made commercially available. ~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Apr 27, 2015 9:10:14 GMT
I believe all exist. There is a special database regarding these shows at ITN Source. 10,000 hours worth, according to this link ITNSource.com/survival. So a good Survival rate! Did anyone play Anglia Multimedia's PC Game " Virtual Safari"? You could find a projector in one of the rooms in "Three Trees Lodge" and play clips of Survival films. ~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Apr 13, 2015 12:18:21 GMT
Purely guessing but to me 3 looks like Mt. T; 6 looks like Woody Allen and 15 Phil Silvers. (Not necessarily mid-eighties connections but then neither does Charlie Chaplin).
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Post by Ian Wegg on Mar 20, 2015 12:22:02 GMT
Shaw Taylor says that for the initial idea Stephen Wade had "been down to see the Metropolitan Police", a strange choice of phrase if you're in Southampton. Steve Wade was of course a veteran of Southern but I believe he didn't join them until 1966. So I'm inclined to go with the book, that Police 5 started on ATV in 1962. ATV was, of course, at that time the London franchise holder. Can anyone confirm if Steve Wade worked for ATV before Southern, ...? A bit late but I can now answer my own question. In this YouTube upload by ATVLand VOICES FROM ATVLAND Shaw Taylor, Shaw talks about working with Steve Wade who was "head of OB at ATV". He describes how he and Steve visited Moscow in 1961 and interviewed Nikita Khrushchev. A little later he confirms that Police 5 started at ATV and was soon copied by other regions. ~iw.
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Post by Ian Wegg on Mar 19, 2015 21:42:14 GMT
Police 5 was started by ATV for London and Midlands. In 1968 it went to LWT, and then Central in 82. I never new Southern had its own version. When did TVS get its own version? Take a look at the posts in the other thread Miscellaneous Archive Queries. Southern seemed to be making the programme as early as 1964. Of the South region programmes, Wessex have 42 TVS episodes catalogued as "Police Five" plus a further 10 "Police 5". I can't see any Southern editions. Whatever the facts the programme is widely believed to have originated in the South, maybe because Shaw lived there? The Noel Edmonds' Houseparty "gotcha" (which is on youTube) was made during the filming of the last TVS edition. Meridian's piece in now online at www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2015-03-19/looking-back-on-the-life-of-shaw-taylor/. Did any other ITV region (or BBC come to that) broadcast a tribute yesterday? ~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Mar 19, 2015 16:03:16 GMT
With the sad news that Shaw Taylor has recently died i was wondering how many of Police 5 still survive especially the earlier ones i think it was first shown in the London area around 1962. There were some nice tributes to Shaw Taylor yesterday evening on both ITV's Meridian Tonight and BBC's South Today. The Police 5 footage shown in both programmes were taken from this YouTube upload. Last night Fred Dinenage repeated the often made claim that the Police 5 originated on Southern Television, but as discussed in missingepisodes.proboards.com/post/60439, it does seem to have been on in London a couple of years earlier. ~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Mar 13, 2015 15:29:11 GMT
The Saturday Banana clip in 21 Years is not a musical item, it is a children's motorcycle display team, "The Imps", performing in the car park. It doesn't even feature Bill Oddie so as such is not really representative of the programme (perhaps Mr. Oddie refused to give permission, he is famously reticent to talk about the show). The performance of the novelty song Toast by Streetband on the show does exist, at least in domestic format but I can't off the top of my head remember whether it is on the episode held at Wessex.
The Time For Blackburn clip in that compilation is The Who performing "The Magic Bus".
It's been a while since I last visited Wessex. It used to be that anything transferred to DVD you order up and watch downstairs in the Hampshire Archives. At that time they had only one audio/video booth with CD and DVD players and a small TV set. If anyone else was already using it you just had to wait. If the material is only available in the Film archive then you need to make an appointment to view it. It may be different now but I suggest you ring before turning up.
~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Mar 13, 2015 15:03:49 GMT
Here is a listing of all the shows and clips and inserts held by the Wessex archive in the inventory ""AV1066 - ITV Meridian - Southern TV and TVS programmes"" It looks like they are making good progress on the online catalogue. But be aware that, as I posted last year, there may still be some more items that are not listed. The only way to be sure is to go to Winchester and look at the full catalogue there. Also note that there is Southern material in other places than AV1066, e.g. the film inserts lodged by Mike Womersley in AV763, which is where you will find some Freewheelers, Get This, Day By Day etc. ~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Mar 12, 2015 17:51:25 GMT
Due to all the conflicting articles online about the original Max Headroom shows, I decided to dig a bit deeper and get the original transmission dates for every UK episode using daily newspaper listings. THE MAX HEADROOM SHOW - Series 1 (1985) S01E03 Sat 20 Apr, 6.00pm Rock videos, including numbers performed by The Cocteau Twins. Excellent, thanks for the work Simon. The one recording I know I have features the Cocteau Twins performing "Aikea Guinea" but none of the sources cited in earlier posts included it. Thanks to your research I now know which episode I have. (For info, the excellent video of Godley and Creme singing "Cry" is in the same programme). I believe I may also have the final programme of that series but I have no written record (or memory) of which acts featured. ~iw
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Post by Ian Wegg on Mar 2, 2015 16:33:43 GMT
Indeed, that was my thought too. If so, I have one edition on tape myself, although it has got the dreaded white powder syndrome so will need care to rescue.
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Post by Ian Wegg on Jan 20, 2015 21:34:41 GMT
According to The Avengers Declassified the extras on the upcoming S04 Blu-ray release include: - UK animated bumper
- Alternative UK animated bumpers
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