'The Best of Baxter'.

[John Green]

Lost Shows has two of these,both from 1971,and both missing.The ITN database has one from 1974.Does anyone know how many there were altogether?

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Stanley Baxter? I suppose, judging by the title, these are compilations of other material. So presumably the originals these were compiled from will exist? Who made them? LWT?

[Stephen Doran]

Was the One with Blackfoot Sue ever on DVD?

[John Green]

If the link works,here's the LWT 14/12/1974 one: www.itnsource.com/en/shotlist/ITVProgs/1974/12/14/9L09509/?s=%22best%20of%20baxter%22 with sequences from the 1972 series and The Big Picture Show 1973 and The Moving Picture Show 1974.

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Nov 9, 2014 12:15:15 GMT John Green said:

Lost Shows has two of these,both from 1971,and both missing.The ITN database has one from 1974.Does anyone know how many there were altogether?

Lostshows has a full title, The Stanley Baxter Show: Best of Baxter. This is separate from the 1974 compilation LWT, which is made up of sequences as John
has just described. The Shows that the sequences are from, Lostshows has as existing under Stanley Baxter.

Best Of Baxter 1971 was shown on BBC 1, so the following two dates are the tx dates shown on BBC 1. Usual duration 30 minutes.
13/12/71 Cast as on Lostshows. Written by Neville Phillips, Stan Mars, Denise Coffey and Ken Hoare. A 16 mm b/w telerecording exists on an excerpt.
20/12/71 Cast as on Lostshows + Eileen McCallum, Harry Glass and the BBC Scottish Radio Orchestra. Written by Iain McIntyre, Hector Nicol, Jack Raymond and
Denise Coffey.

[Stephen Doran]

Once had We Are Stanley Baxter 1968 LP on Philips.

[John Green]

Thanbks,Stephen.
So there really were two 'Best Ofs' in 1971.We used to so look forward to the Stanley Baxters,as we did with Benny Hill,but his reputation doesn't seem huge now.