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Post by John Green on Dec 30, 2014 23:34:38 GMT
There's a list here www.wurzelmania.co.uk/gig-tv.php which is interesting,but has a few problems.I'm not sure that Ruby Flipper is really "the scantily-clad girl pursued through various Bristol locations",though one of them might be. They say that bits from 'The Great Western Thunderbox' were later reused,but I'm still trying to work out where! |
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Dec 31, 2014 10:36:42 GMT
I have so far tracked down a few seconds of Adge on the Great Western Musical Thunderbox. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuG1ypsFyr0I found this a couple of years ago. So far that's it. |
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Post by Ian Wegg on Dec 31, 2014 11:59:49 GMT
I have a partial recording of The Wurzels singing "I Hate J.R." on Pebble Mill at One on 25 Mar 1980. It isn't on that list.
~iw
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Post by John Green on Dec 31, 2014 20:25:40 GMT
These uploads are a labour of love: www.youtube.com/user/WurzelWorld/videos but I wouldn't fancy trying to match them with the list! The 22 second clip from 'Thunderbox' is there.Recorded off another programme,presumably,but it meant than some of the series was surviving up to a later date.Even if we don't know when that date was... |
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Post by Stephen Doran on Jan 1, 2015 12:25:30 GMT
Police Five was ITV its listed as BBC
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Post by John Green on Jan 1, 2015 12:42:43 GMT
Up Sunday: In Search of Merry England 25/11/1973,which survives,is missing from the list.
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Post by Paul Vanezis on Jan 2, 2015 13:52:29 GMT
Very interesting thread!
In 1988 when I was a student at Newport Film School, one of the first year students, Ian Smith was rummaging through our film cupboard and found a black and white film of an old TV show. When he watched it he called me over because instead of having a film countdown on it, it had a studio clock.
It turned out to be an FR positive (the actual film in the film recorder) of a BBC West pilot entitled 'The Scrumpy and Western Show' and was a show fronted by Adge Cutler and the Wurzels. It featured Adge and the boys, with specially shot film inserts in Bristol city centre and special guests The Blue Notes. Apparently it was amongst a pile of old films donated to the film school by BBC Bristol some years earlier. It was still in its original can and didn't look to me like it had ever been run before. I stopped him playing it any more and contacted the BBC archive. Adam Lee wasn't that interested until he discovered that it had been TX'd on the network (BBC1) back in (I think) 1967. I sent it to Adam and they made a negative and soundtracks for the archive before sending the original back to me.
Some years later, I sent the original film back to the BBC Archive as it is in fact the original and therefore the best quality print available. It was a great little show. A while after I discovered that some 35mm film inserts featuring Adge and the Wurzels, catalogued as an unknown programme insert must in fact be the inserts from 'The Scrumpy and Western Show'.
It was a remarkable find and fantastic early footage of Adge and the Wurzels.
Paul
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Post by John Green on Jan 3, 2015 1:56:57 GMT
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Post by Rich Cornock on Jan 3, 2015 17:45:14 GMT
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Post by John Green on Jan 3, 2015 20:28:40 GMT
Hi Rich,
The Thunderbox clip has come up a few times before e.g. when I spotted it two years after Ray! I'm wondering if it came from a tribute show,and if so,what more might be on it?
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Post by Rich Cornock on Jan 4, 2015 19:16:46 GMT
I wonder if this is all that remains of this clip. The link is to the wurzels YouTube page and they only have the partial clip uploaded on there. You would think they would upload the whole song if they could
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Post by John Green on Jan 4, 2015 19:54:46 GMT
Hi,Rich.It's more a question of where the clip came from,where it was found if it was re-used.
I'm guessing that the fans got it from a tribute/retrospective show and don't have any more,much as I hoped in the past that they did.
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Post by rmackenziefehr on Aug 22, 2017 18:20:42 GMT
Several years late, I admit, but I've found both a probable source for the clip, and several minutes' more of clips from the same program: www.youtube.com/watch?v=76dewfRXpYAThis seems to confirm that something existed as recently as 1991- what it was and where it is now, on the other hand..... |
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Post by John Green on Jan 14, 2021 18:27:45 GMT
I think it's worth mentioning that The Radio 1 Roadshow with the Wurzels is an extra on the Never Too Young to Rock DVD release.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Jan 23, 2021 3:16:31 GMT
Just to update things - a number of inserts from The Great Western Musical Thunderbox exist; these seem to feature Adge and the Wurzels predominantly; they are are all at the NLW.
NO COMPLETE PROGRAMMES EXIST, BUT....
this is good news, isn't it!
This would explain the excerpt on the HTV show as mentioned above....
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