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Post by stevej on Feb 10, 2017 20:12:40 GMT
Mmm. As a regular weekend listener I can't say that fills me with any delight whatsoever. 'Sounds of the Sixties' shunted to an inconveniently early slot, then Dermot O'Leary where 'Sounds of the Sixties' used to be. I would have thought 6-8am is a trifle early for a programme that has a strong element of listener requests and feedback etc, especially given that many of those listeners will be at the mature end of the R2 audience. Will they really be listening at 6am? Why move the show back at all?
it feels rather like 'SOTS' is being gently moved out to grass, along with other hardy perennials like 'The Organist Entertains', 'Listen To The Band' and 'The Sunday (half)Hour' all of which have been moved to either very early or very late slots, almost as if they want to shake off their listeners.
By the way, what happened to the SOTS feature on Radio 4's 'Feedback'? I thought it was scheduled for today's programme, but it wasn't mentioned.
Steve
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Post by stevej on Jan 16, 2017 14:27:10 GMT
Fab! Thanks David (and Shazam)
Steve
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Post by stevej on Jan 15, 2017 16:36:17 GMT
I wonder if anyone on here has a good enough knowledge of library music to identify the piece used on the ATV Oxford transmitter colour promo, a rather iffy rendition of which is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIrtYYvdMq4I'd like to find a clean version to use for a promo for an internet radio station I contribute to. Steve
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Post by stevej on Jan 12, 2017 19:33:30 GMT
Thanks for the additional links, Stephen. The last one in particular is of interest as it lists the Australian tx dates for 'Gnomes'. The ABC regional stations in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney all aired it at different days and times, so would each have had their own film prints? I note the 1972 repeats too, so the series was held by the station(s)for some time. Even so, it's odds on that all copies were subsequently returned or destroyed in line with whatever the licensing agreement with the BBC required.
I've found an email contact address for ABC archives and have sent an enquiry. Don't hold your breath!
Steve
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Post by stevej on Jan 11, 2017 19:50:13 GMT
To return to this thread somewhat belatedly, I did receive a reply from TVNZ:
Hi Steve
Thank you for your email. I am very sorry to say that the TVNZ Archive collection holds no BBC material. There was a huge search carried out some years ago and I understand the full TVNZ collection was checked for any BBC programming – sadly by that time it had all been either returned or destroyed.
I’m so sorry we can’t be of more help in this regard. If we can be of any further assistance please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Kind regards
Saffron Solley Licensing Executive
So a dead end there unfortunately- and not just for the elusive Gnomes it would seem.
I wonder what written information would be available for this series. Would there be records of which countries film prints were sent to? Would copies of the scripts have been kept by the BBC?
I see that the series did at least get a repeat run on BBC1 in Jan/Feb of 1970. I guess it would have been wiped within a couple of years of that (were 'erase dates' were routinely logged?)
One point of note is that Barry Cryer was a guest in one of the episodes and must be one of the few performers still with us who had a connection with the programme. Does Jimmy Perry refer to the series in his 'Stupid Boy' autobiography?
Maybe the time is right for the 'Gnomes' idea to be pitched once more to the BBC. This 'Brexit' aftermath and the issues surrounding it would be fertile comedy ground indeed!
Steve
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Post by stevej on Oct 31, 2016 7:51:14 GMT
That's great, many thanks. And I see that happily it still exists in the archive.
Was Johnny Hamp effectively the Stanley Dorfman of ITV? Both seem to be closely associated with music shows on their respective channels.
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Post by stevej on Oct 30, 2016 14:25:06 GMT
This is an intriguing one; no credits to go on and the only clue is with Bill Grundy presenting, so would this be from Thames? www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Eb57jzyWUThe story of how the original poster came to record it is rather unusual: "T he programme was broadcast in late December 1969 and I had taken an Ampex VR7800 vtr home to record some of the Christmas output (on 1-inch reel-to-reel tape!) at the time. Since then the material has been transcribed onto U-Matic format, VHS and ultimately DVD". I wonder what else he recorded at the time... not to mention how he managed to have access to a colour VTR to take home...! Steve
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Post by stevej on Sept 27, 2016 18:21:09 GMT
It's an amazing period piece and I've been enjoying discovering various clips from it. The Ike & Tina Turner performance is the best so far in terms of technical quality. Oh and belated thanks to John for the link to the episode guide. The series attracted some stellar talent during it's relatively short run. I'm tempted to have a punt on the dvd set, assuming it's an official release.
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Post by stevej on Sept 24, 2016 20:25:38 GMT
Thanks for the info Robert. So it was a mix of chat and musical guests? I've never seen any clips from it before, but it seems to be a good resource of music performances. I see that there is a dvd set available, although the details of exactly what you get are a little sketchy. I gather there was an earlier series sometime around 1960.
Steve
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Post by stevej on Sept 24, 2016 19:25:10 GMT
This may turn out to be one of those series that everyone knows about but me, but I've only just stumbled across it and it's pretty groovy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7kjOPCxLC0It's an odd length at 15mins+ but seems to be complete. According to wikipedia 'Playboy After Dark' was taped at CBS Television City in LA and guests included Joe Cocker, Ike & Tina Turner, Sammy Davis Jr., Buddy Rich, Harry Nilsson, Grateful Dead, Moms Mabley (yikes!), Deep Purple, Fleetwood Mac, Three Dog Night, Steppenwolf, Grand Funk Railroad, James Brown, Iron Butterfly, Linda Ronstadt, Jack Jones and others Nice early Deep Purple performance of 'Hush' here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiXcqxms3Bsand Three Dog Night here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=87b5dLN7r4oSteve
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Post by stevej on Sept 20, 2016 20:29:34 GMT
Great stuff! My favourite sort of telly! Certainly leaves you wanting to see the complete shows. I was trying to guess whether it was made in the UK or US, but it seems it was taped in Canada. There's a great studio atmosphere in those clips with everyone grooving along and getting into the spirit of it. Nice musical direction too. Lulu and Mama Cass were regulars on the series (how on earth did Lulu find the time when she had her own prime time show over here?) BBC Genome lists the screening dates for the Ray Stevens Show in the UK: genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?adv=0&q=ray+stevens+show&media=all&yf=1923&yt=2009&mf=1&mt=12&tf=00%3A00&tt=00%3A00#searchSteve
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Post by stevej on Sept 18, 2016 20:51:05 GMT
This is a fascinating thread for me, as although I was just too young to have seen the series, my dad even now comes out with 'He/she used to be in The Newcomers!'(or equally 'Compact') when watching various programmes. For those of us that don't know, what was the actual premise of the series?
I love the idea of 'Give Me Your Word' - some of those editions look like they must have been terrific fun. Such a shame (yet again) that we'll never know.
Steve
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Post by stevej on Aug 24, 2016 20:13:17 GMT
It’s worth mentioning how important the introduction of colour to BBC2 in 1967 was to “Late Night Line-Up” (although most viewers with access to the channel would have still have been watching in black and white) Interesting that the excellnent LNLU Leviathan performance shown on the film clip further up-thread appears to be in b&w despite being watched a on a Baird 700-series dual standard colour television set- one of the first on the market.
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Post by stevej on Aug 11, 2016 19:10:03 GMT
My interest in archive programming extends to the tv sets in use when the shows went out. I collect and restore them- at last count there were 27! If you look at the link (memories of an ex-TV engineer) you'll see the first Philips colour set on the UK market. These were dual standard 625/405 of course. The photo captures what could perhaps be the only surviving image of BBC2 continuity from that historic first colour Christmas in 1967... www.philipstv.org.uk/blog/early-philips-colour-tv/nostelgia/Nice! Steve
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Post by stevej on Aug 8, 2016 9:43:45 GMT
Thanks for the excellent info, John. 7.25 on Sundays is a surprisingly prime spot for the Smothers series, particularly with it's barbed satirical content. It sounds like the BBC ignored that and treated it as a traditional variety show a la Danny Kaye, Andy Williams etc.
Interesting point about Rowan and Martin guesting on UK TV shows (I feel a need to find out which ones now). I'm sure I read somewhere they hosted a Royal Variety Performance one year.
Steve
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