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Post by John Green on May 2, 2024 19:40:55 GMT
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Post by John Green on May 2, 2024 19:25:09 GMT
For what it's worth, IMDB till has "This episode no longer exists in the BBC archives."
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Post by John Green on May 1, 2024 23:46:50 GMT
TVBrain's still showing:
PROBATION OFFICER Series 1 21.09.1959 Episode 2 (missing) 05.10.1959 Episode 4 (missing) 09.11.1959 Episode 9 (missing) 23.11.1959 Episode 11 (missing) 30.11.1959 Episode 12 (missing) 07.12.1959 Episode 13 (missing) 14.12.1959 Episode 14 (missing) 21.12.1959 Episode 15 (missing)
Worth noting that all the episode-synopses on the DVD sleeve are different to the ones given on IMDB. Sam plot, same characters, but different e.g. Series 1 episode 6 is
"Iris Cope is given the task of helping Carrie West, a doctor's daughter given a two years probation for stealing. Her parents are unable to control her behaviour so Iris has no choice but to hand her over to senior colleague Miss Randell." on IMDB,
but runs
"An aimless, rebellious teenage girl gets into trouble..." on the sleeve.
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Post by John Green on Apr 30, 2024 23:35:41 GMT
Cripes, Ray, there's a lot there that needs/deserves individual mentions. Not least:
"This is a wee bit Transatlantic.... Back in 1958 when Jacob Rees-Mogg was celebrating his first centenary, there was an Associated Rediffusion show called Target, 'a half-hour syndicated drama series that.... focuses on lives that become targets of conflicting human forces..' Some episodes were made in the UK although the majority weren't and only two were actually shown on ITV. Sam Kydd and John Le Mesurier appeared in one of the 6 episodes that was known to exist. What of the others though? There's been no DVD or anything and the original company that produced it appear to have disappeared. Fear not though, because your resident iced-coffee freak has located all 39 episodes in the archives of Wisconsin Historical Society on 16mm film. digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;cc=wiarchives;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=uw-whs-target "
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Post by John Green on Apr 30, 2024 17:33:55 GMT
I hadn't realised that it was the entire series that's on 1Player (for a year).
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Post by John Green on Apr 30, 2024 10:45:40 GMT
"Recently, the UCLA Film & Television Archive got hold of a rare video and they did a restoration on it. It's an episode of the Kraft Music Hall and it's the oldest entertainment program known to survive on color videotape. The show aired October 8, 1958 on NBC and to be honest, it ain't all that wonderful. But it does have a cameo appearance by Bob Hope, a musical number featuring Lou Jacobi and the opening has a few moments from The Price is Right when it was hosted by Bill Cullen. And it's a piece of history…" www.newsfromme.com/
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Post by John Green on Apr 30, 2024 1:21:47 GMT
" New episodes of Dixon are being found all the time – so do keep your eye on the schedules." renownfilms.co.uk/Eh? Or even: Huh? On the latest What's On TPTV, Neil says "We found one or two more episodes...". Who "we"? Does it mean episodes we already know about?
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Post by John Green on Apr 30, 2024 0:56:37 GMT
A.K.A William Comes to Town. Jon Pertwee plays the Circus Superintendent. A serial, later edited into a feature film, it's being shown in the original episodic format on Talking Pictures Saturday mornings from 11th May at 11.15 a.m.
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Post by John Green on Apr 29, 2024 18:53:10 GMT
Batman's 'New Look' from 1964,had pretty much phased out his trips to other worlds, and gaining incredible super powers, at least in his solo books. Covers and art by Carmine Infantino, when it happened, definitely gave a more mature look to the comics. Still the exception, but at least they were trying!
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Post by John Green on Apr 29, 2024 10:29:52 GMT
Given how out of touch the show was with the grimmer iteration of Batman, it;s a blessing that it did come out! Remember at the time, a lot of, shall we say, the more “purist” for want of a better word, super hero fans were very upset with the 60’s version of Batman as they, quite rightly, perceived that it was taking the mick! Given the way DC were handling Batman in the early 60s, it could be argued that they were the ones taking the pee...though, oddly Batman's exploits against flying aliens and inter-dimensional beings didn't seem so silly in World's Finest (a comic in which he teamed up with Superman) or in Justice League.
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Post by John Green on Apr 28, 2024 20:55:03 GMT
Given how out of touch the show was with the grimmer iteration of Batman, it;s a blessing that it did come out!
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Post by John Green on Apr 28, 2024 19:23:01 GMT
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Post by John Green on Apr 28, 2024 19:14:14 GMT
There was certainly a widely-held conviction that the celebrity cameos would make a DVD/blu-ray release impossible, and the set was actually one of the last of the big-guns US series to be released.
I was a bit disappointed to hear that TPTV were showing it, because I'd rather it was something rarer. Still, if it brings viewers in...
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Post by John Green on Apr 28, 2024 16:22:44 GMT
I can't get the link to work, Bernie?
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Post by John Green on Apr 27, 2024 19:26:18 GMT
The Fulchester site is terrific, but I find it very hard to navigate. On 'Euthanasia': "Written by: David Fisher (1929- ) Mr Fisher would eventually write more episodes of Crown Court than anyone else, but (this being the way of things) is probably most famous for writing four Doctor Who stories for Tom Baker’s last three series. The first (and best – in fact it’s my favourite Who story of all), 1978’s The Stones of Blood, takes an unexpectedly Crown Court turn in its second half, with the Doctor donning a barrister’s wig and defending himself against deadly alien justice machines! Mr Fisher also wrote The Androids of Tara (1978), The Creature from the Pit (1979) and The Leisure Hive (1980), as well as providing the original idea that the show’s script editor, Douglas Adams, would rework into City of Death (1979), one of Doctor Who‘s all-time greats.... " Best known as 1980s Coronation Street villain Alan Bradley (another man with the killing of his partner on his mind), Mr Eden has been a familiar face on British TV since the 1950s (his first screen appearance was in Quatermass and the Pit in 1958). He played Marco Polo in seven episodes of Doctor Who in 1964 (and had a cameo in the 2013 drama An Adventure in Space and Time, celebrating 50 years of the programme). He was a regular in the BBC’s popular 60s soap The Newcomers, and guest starred in cult favourites like The Avengers, Man in a Suitcase and The Prisoner. He also got the odd leading role in movies at the bargain basement end of British cinema, like 1968’s Curse of the Crimson Altar. At the time of this Crown Court case he would have been fresh in viewers’ minds from his appearances as Inspector Parker in the BBC’s Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries." fulchestercrowncourt.wordpress.com/2017/04/18/case-4-euthanasia/
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