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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 15, 2011 19:28:49 GMT
Maybe the original star logo BBC videos (of which there were only seven Doctor Who titles that I'm aware of) may still hold their value - the early ones cost £40 when they were first released which would be the equivalent of £100 in today's money - but the majority aren't worth much.
I remember having over 30 copies of "Snakedance" in stock at one time, which we used to try and sell for £1, and even that was a struggle!
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 15, 2011 18:26:32 GMT
I worked as manager of a second-hand video store in the late 1990's/early 2000's, during which time I bought and sold many Doctor Who collections. At their peak, the rarest videos were selling for up to £30 each. The double-packs and special edition tins would regularly sell for £50.
We did sell some ultra-rare (non Doctor Who) videotapes for £100-£150 but certainly nothing for £250! Someone may have foolishly bid that amount on eBay but I doubt they would follow through and complete the sale...
Of course, these days, with most of Doctor Who available on DVD, the video values will have decreased, so you'll be lucky to get much more than a tenner for any Doctor Who release. :-(
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 15, 2011 2:50:14 GMT
Is there any update on the recovery of missing episodes from this series yet?
I found a thread over at the Mausoleum Club Forum where David from STV stated they were "uploading all currently available episodes of Take The High Road to YouTube".
Out of the 1517 episodes, 1494 have now been uploaded (plus 3 specials), which suggests they are missing 23.
As these are all from the 1980s, 1990s and one from 2002(!?) they shouldn't be too difficult to track down.
I've compiled the following list of episodes that are not on the STV channel:
Episode 123, Mar 7, 1982 Episode 194, Oct 25, 1983 Episode 355, May 22, 1986 Episode 369, Jul 10, 1986 Episode 370, Jul 15, 1986 Episode 373, Jul 24, 1986 Episode 374, Jul 29, 1986 Episode 416, Dec 86-Feb 87 Episode 417, Dec 86-Feb 87 Episode 418, Dec 86-Feb 87 Episode 419, Dec 86-Feb 87 Episode 521, Mar 8, 1988 Episode 534, Apr 19, 1988 Episode 575, Sep 12, 1988 Episode 602, Dec 16, 1988 Episode 622, Feb 20, 1989 Episode 626, Mar 7, 1989 Episode 678, Sep 15, 1989 Episode 679, Sep 18, 1989 Episode 681, Sep 25, 1989 Episode 849, May 13, 1991 Episode 850, May 17, 1991 Episode 1491, Jun-Sep 2002
I'm sure some fans somewhere must have copies of these episodes from the original broadcasts?
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 12, 2011 21:13:10 GMT
The most absurd part of the DISCO performances is how the audience just sat there, hardly moving at all. I thought the whole point of a disco is dancing! Here's the same set again, three years later, and no-one is dancing to ABBA's biggest hit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhB-HQtpn7sThank goodness they never introduced seating to TOTP!
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 12, 2011 16:19:06 GMT
Presumably the BBC version doesn't keep cutting between the TOTP studio and the DISCO studio? Interestingly, Tony Christie appeared live on DISCO just over a year later performing his next single, "Avenues and Alleyways", this time without his glasses. Notice how the DISCO set hadn't changed at all: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj4UFqKG5YI
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 12, 2011 14:59:45 GMT
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 11, 2011 22:15:40 GMT
Amazingly this lot sold at the starting price of £50.00.
Just the one bidder but that's all you need to make a sale...
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 9, 2011 23:13:30 GMT
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 8, 2011 14:07:14 GMT
It seems hard to imagine that the New Years Eve 1982 episode is "believed never to have been recorded". I would have expected all live broadcasts from the 70s onwards to have been taped as broadcast and stored temporarily for reference purposes, even if only onto U-Matic low band.
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 8, 2011 6:55:42 GMT
It doesn't like the winner paid for them as they're not showing in the sellers feedback.
No sign of them in Completed Listings either, although that only includes sales from the last 15 days.
It'll be interesting to see what they go for this time. I certainly won't be bidding three figures for them...
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 7, 2011 16:26:45 GMT
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 5, 2011 17:54:47 GMT
Assuming that the podcasts contain all the available recordings then the only years that are held complete are 1948, 1955, 1969 and 1976 onwards.
Every other year has two or more of the lectures missing, as follows:
Reith 1949 - Robert Birley: Britain in Europe: Reflections on the Development of a European Society * 1. The Problem of Patriotism * 2. The Meeting of Britain and Europe * 3. Problem of a Common Language * 4. Britain's Contribution to a European Society
Reith 1950 - John Zachary Young: Doubt and Certainty in Science * 1. The Biologist's Approach to Man * 2. Brains as Machines * 3. The Human Calculating Machine * 4. The Establishment of Certainty * 5. How We Learn to Communicate * 6. The Changing Symbols of Science * 7. The Mechanistics Interpretation of Nature * 8. Made in What Image?
Reith 1951 - Cyril Radcliffe: Power and the State * 1. Power and the State 1 * 2. Power and the State 2 * 3. The Fairy Story of Natural Rights * 4. Makers of the American Constitution * 6. The Individual and the State * 7. Power, and the Problem of its Control
Reith 1952 - Arnold Toynbee: The World and the West * 1. The World and the West: Russia * 2. The World and the West: Islam * 3. The World and the West: India * 4. The World and the West: The Far East * 6. The World and the Greeks and Romans
Reith 1953 - Robert Oppenheimer: Science and the Common Understanding * 1. Newton: the Path of Light * 2. Science as Action: Rutherford's World * 3. A Science In Change * 4. Atom and Void in the Third Millennium * 5. Uncommon Sense
Reith 1954 - Oliver Franks: Britain and the Tide of World Affairs * 1. Britain and the Tide of World Affairs 1 * 2. A Fellowship of Free Nations * 4. The End of the Old World * 5. The Balancing Act * 6. The Will to Greatness
Reith 1956 - Edward Appleton: Science and the Nation * 1. Our National Need of Science * 2. The Lessons of the War * 3. Science for its Own Sake * 4. Government and Science * 6. Science and Education
Reith 1957 - George Kennan: Russia, the Atom and the West * 1. The Internal Soviet Scene * 2. The Soviet Mind and World Realities * 5. The Non-European World * 6. Strengthening Nato: To What End?
Reith 1958 - Bernard Lovell: The Individual and the Universe * 1. Astronomy Breaks Free * 2. The Origin of the Solar System * 3. The New Astronomy * 4. Astronomy and the State
Reith 1959 - Peter Medawar: The Future of Man * 1. The Fallibility of Prediction * 2. The Meaning of Fitness * 3. The Limits of Improvement * 4. The Genetic System of Man * 5. Intelligence and Fertility
Reith 1960 - Edgar Wind: Art and Anarchy * 1. Art and Anarchy: Our Present Discontents * 2. Aesthetic Participation * 3. Critique of Connoisseurship * 6. Art and the Will
Reith 1961 - Margery Perham: The Colonial Reckoning * 1. The Colonial Reckoning: Anti-Colonialism and Anti-Imperialism * 3. The Politics of Emancipation * 5. The Colonial Account * 6. The Colonial Reckoning; Prospects for the Future
Reith 1962 - George Carstairs: This Island Now * 1. Stability and Change in Social Environment * 2. The First Years * 4. The Changing Role of Women * 5. 'Living and Partly Living' * 6. The Changing British Character
Reith 1963 - Albert Sloman: A University in the Making * 1. A University in the Making; Tradition and Innovation * 2. The Pursuit of Learning * 3. The Training of Minds * 5. A University Town * 6. The Need for Renewal
Reith 1964 - Leon Bagrit: The Age of Automation * 1. The Extension of Man * 2. The Range of Application * 3. Education for an Age of Automation * 4. Industrial And Economic Consequences * 6. Automation: political considerations
Reith 1965 - Robert Gardiner: World of Peoples * 1. Racism * 2. Patterns of Race Relations * 5. Political Meetings * 6. Roberto Burle Marx
Reith 1966 - J K Galbraith: The New Industrial State * 1. Planning and Technological Imperatives * 2. The Modern Corporation * 3. Control of Prices and People * 5. The Bearing on Socialist Developmente * 6. The Cultural Impact
Reith 1967 - Edmund Leach: A Runaway World * 1. Men and Nature * 2. Men and Machines * 4. Men and Morality
Reith 1968 - Lester Pearson: In the Family of Man * 1. Peace in the Family of Man * 2. Balance of Fear * 4. Co-operation through Economics * 5. A Poor Thing, But Our Own * 6. Which way will it go?
Reith 1970 - Donald Schon: Change and Industrial Society * 2. Dynamic Conservatism * 3. The Evolution of the Business Firm * 4. Spread of Innovation * 5. Government as a Learning System * 6. What can we know about social change?
Reith 1971 - Richard Hoggart: Only Connect * 1. Taking for granted * 2. Talking to yourself * 3. In Another Country * 4. There's no home * 5. Private Faces in Public Places
Reith 1973 - Alastair Buchan: Change without War * 1. The New Climate of World Politics * 2. The Emerging Agenda * 4. The Asian Quadrilateral * 5. Maintaining peace in Asia
Reith 1974 - Ralf Dahrendorf: The New Liberty * 5. The Improving Society * 6. Steps in the right direction
Reith 1975 - Daniel Boorstin: America and the World Experience * 2. Pilgrim Fathers to Founding Fathers * 3. The Therapy of Distance * 4. The Dark Continent of Technology * 5. The Enlarged Contemporary * 6. The Future of Exploration
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 4, 2011 18:32:13 GMT
I love CRT too. However, analogue has already been switched off in most areas and will be completely dead within a year: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12994183The TOTP repeats are digital copies of an analogue source and are being broadcast on a digital only channel. There's little chance of us ever viewing them in analogue again. :-( Their final analogue transmission would have been on UK Gold in the nineties, as they used Betacam SP dubs for all their early programming.
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 3, 2011 21:54:18 GMT
The quality of iPlayer, Youtube etc is all dross. Can never compare to DVD recording in HQ mode from a Freeview broadcast. Actually, iPlayer HD streams at 1280x720 which exceeds the DVD HQ spec of 720x576. In fact, it's a great way to watch telly in HD without a HD box! The iPlayer SD streams currently offer up to 832x468 (for 16:9 content) or 640x468 (for 4:3) which is close enough (for me, anyway) to the 704x576 transmitted by Freeview SD.
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 3, 2011 10:14:19 GMT
All the unedited editions have been available logo-free on iPlayer. Only the 3 edited episodes (15/4,22/4 & 29/4) had the DOG over them. ;-)
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