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Post by thomgray on Dec 19, 2015 13:36:56 GMT
Hi all, I've been trying to track down a copy of the obscure mockumentary 'The Return of the Magic Roundabout', originally shown on Christmas Day 1991 on Channel 4, and repeated a week or two later and never seen or heard of since. The one-off programme told the fictional story of the Planer brothers trying to recover the Magic Roundabout and bring the show back to the public, following various issues surrounding drug references and suspicious missing episodes. It sounds hilarious, and while there is a YouTube video of the last few minutes (mainly featuring Nigel Planer awakening to discover the whole event was a dream), there appears to be barely any other mention of it online. I contacted the film company behind it, but sadly their archives were destroyed in a fire and no other copies are known to exist. Does anyone have any suggestions of where to go to next, or perhaps have a copy they can share?? Many thanks
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Post by thomgray on Oct 26, 2015 20:54:45 GMT
It seems like a lot of the opinions on this release, now that it's finally here, are very negative. Low quality? Poorly put together? Shoddy? Worthy of complaining? Considering this product was abandoned once already, hundreds of people petitioned for its release and moaned about it being shelved, it feels like we need to appreciate what we have and be thankful that we got what we asked - Underwater Menace on DVD.
A little gratitude goes a long way.
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Post by thomgray on Aug 13, 2015 11:41:24 GMT
Thanks for the link, it's very in-depth.
It certainly seems that the 90s were pretty poor in terms of finding complete episodes. You'd think the success rate would slow down, but if anything the decade between 2004 and 2014 had far more discoveries, even if many were redundant duplicates. It's a promising sign.
I guess the frustrating thing about this ongoing search is that while the odd film can may turn up, the more episodes we find the rate of duplicates increases! What if 100 episodes DID show up somewhere and they turned out to be 100 copies already in the archives? Now that would suck...
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Post by thomgray on Aug 12, 2015 22:44:25 GMT
I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry at the fact that the one episode from the Space Pirates that was filmed in such a groundbreaking way turned out to be in the archive already!!
If only he'd recorded it a week later :S
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Post by thomgray on Aug 12, 2015 22:36:09 GMT
Hi all, I'm new here so be nice Looking at a lot of posts prior to Phil Morris' discoveries, there seems to have been a general consensus that the number of returned episodes had dwindled significantly since the Tomb of the Cybermen in 1991, and this was a worrying sign that things had dried up. Obviously eleven returned episodes later, we may feel a bit more positive about the future, but I was wondering how many episodes have been found through various sources that already existed in the archive? Surely if the twenty years between TOTC and Airlock/UM had been padded out with duplicates its only a matter of time before lost episodes turn up? Or was it totally quiet the whole time and we've just been really lucky this decade?
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Post by thomgray on Aug 12, 2015 22:04:16 GMT
Wow thanks for the pictures!
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