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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jan 23, 2020 1:30:18 GMT
And they've been made Private again...
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jan 21, 2020 22:19:27 GMT
Lulu, "You've Got To Believe In Love" is from a surviving Savile episode, broadcast 14th January 1971. Kinks, "Apeman" was shown 3rd December 1970, 7th January 1971 and 21st January 1971 but only the latter two were presented by Blackburn. Petula Clark, "The Song of My Life" is taken from 21st January 1971.
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jan 4, 2020 20:05:18 GMT
All 26 episodes (plus the pilot) of Get This are listed as missing on tvbrain.info
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Dec 22, 2019 23:55:10 GMT
Maybe the Beeb are holding Macra Terror back for BritBox?
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Dec 1, 2019 22:32:50 GMT
Nice, that's the 2nd snippet of Rocket Man from TOTP, the other one being this --->> The girl standing behind Elton (and singing along) in the TOTP studio looks remarkably like Heather Mills! It's obviously not her as she would've been only four at the time but there's a striking resemblance...
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Sept 20, 2019 5:02:29 GMT
It appears to be the default mode on 4K TVs. My Samsung is HD and doesn't have it, although having seen how it messes up movies on a friends new TV I wouldn't want it anyway...
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 21, 2019 6:18:32 GMT
I think the OP needs to re-read the Wikipedia article that he linked to - that explains all about the colour recovery, half of which was completed for the 2002 VHS release, with the remainder of the serial colourised for the 2012 DVD
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 16, 2019 5:59:29 GMT
Parts of Africa and Asia didn't go fully colour until 1984 so I can imagine many programmes were still being made and broadcast in black and white during the switchover.
When I finally got my first colour set in the eighties I clearly remember many of the Open University programmes that the BBC were showing were still in black and white.
I'm sure there are many local and regional programmes from the 70s and 80s that no longer exist in colour...
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jun 30, 2019 8:03:08 GMT
I believe that Mike Read read a reverse answer, saying that Andy White played on the single, and Ringo played on the LP. Indeed! And that was the question set by Ringo Starr who has always believed his version is on the album. The full quickfire round can be seen here:
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jun 29, 2019 6:59:39 GMT
It was the quickfire round so it was just question, answer and move on. No debate or argument in the programme as broadcast 37 years ago. I'll upload a clip of that section when I get home from work later today so you can see it in context (the show itself features loads of Beatles music so would get blocked instantly). It would be worth checking newspapers and magazines published just after 28th December 1982 to see if any of them picked up on the historical disagreement.
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jun 28, 2019 21:05:13 GMT
I've just watched the Christmas 1982 show which included questions specially set by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, such as: Who played drums on the single version of Love Me Do? What is N.E.M.S. short for? (None of the contestants knew the answers to those questions!)
The only contentious question was: How many Number One singles did the Beatles have? Hank Marvin buzzed in first and said "Seventeen" which Mike said was correct. Obviously, if you include "Please Please Me" then they had 18 chart-toppers, but most sources still quote it as only 17, as that's how many they list in the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles compiled by Mike Read.
If it was an early show as your source recalls, then it's most likely to be that one, rather than either of the Dave Dee shows which were from 1984 (Series 4 and the last year Mike hosted the show) or 1994 (the TOTP special)
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jun 26, 2019 20:32:02 GMT
I'm trying to find info / a transcript / audio / or video of a question on Pop Quiz that resulted in a disagreement/argument. The question was: what was The Beatles first #1 record? I've been told that Dave Dee was on the show, and that he got into a 'heated' discussion with host Mike Read over the answer to this. And many BBC viewers wrote in to complain as well. It wasn't either of the shows that Dave Dee appeared in. I have complete copies of both and have just watched them back to back. The only mention of the Beatles was on the 1994 show where Dave Dee was played 3 different versions of "With A Little Help From My Friends". So, if the question was asked on Pop Quiz, it definitely wasn't with Dave Dee! I'll be re-watching the other Pop Quiz shows that I have in my collection soon and will let you know if I come across that question. I don't have every episode, though. I'll still missing eleven shows, and of the rest, seven of them are incomplete. I'm still hoping that one day the Beeb repeat the series or make it available on a streaming service...
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jun 13, 2019 7:51:49 GMT
The destruction of master recordings isn't anything new as multi-track tapes have often been junked or re-used to save money. Most audiophiles would argue that the final mixes that were originally released are what that want to hear and not a re-mix (even though it may be sonically superior).
Personally, I enjoy listening to session tapes and there are numerous collections of out-takes from The Beatles, Elvis, The Beach Boys and Bing Crosby for us to indulge ourselves with, but the truth is that although we may have lost half a million master recordings, anything worth releasing should have already been released and is still available for us to enjoy indefinitely.
I can understand Universal not wanting to publicize the loss as it's embarassing that the majority of multi-tracks would not have been digitized, but at least it wasn't a deliberate destruction of our cultural heritage that so many other companies are guilty of!
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Post by Simon B Kelly on May 28, 2019 12:21:15 GMT
The MP situation reminds me of a few years back where Ian Levine was told by someone that said person was uploading MP for people to see. I myself remember sitting ready to watch the file, only to discover it was all bulls**t. Does anyone else remember this? I remember it. The file turned out to be a link to Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up". Obviously someone thought it funny to rickroll Doctor Who fans...
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Apr 21, 2019 10:25:10 GMT
The show Graeme was referring to was an episode of "Free Thinking", subtitled "Whatever Happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?". The shows are available INDEFINITELY as BBC "Arts and Ideas" podcasts so there's no excuse for not listening to it (or any of the other 800 episodes broadcast so far if you're that way inclined): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0144txn/broadcasts/2019/03The interview was more a celebration of their careers, starting with The Likely Lads and covering their TV series: Porridge, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Lovejoy, plus their movies: The Likely Lads, The Commitments and The Rock. The interviewer, Matthew Sweet, mentions that it's being recorded on March 12th 2019 and that he has watched The Likely Lads BluRay containing two recently recovered episodes, but there's no discussion about missing episodes.
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