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Post by Alex S on May 13, 2015 20:51:11 GMT
Hi all,
I am wondering what the current situation is in regard of Steptoe and Son archive. I understand that all but one of the episodes from Series 1 to 4 survive as 16 mm telerecordings. The only episode that does not is 'My Old Man's a Tory' which survives as a poor optical recording.
From Series 5 to 8, the whole of Series 7 and 8 survive as original master, colour recordings, along with two episodes of Series 6. The rest of the colour episodes only survive as low quality 405-line recordings except for 'A Winter's Tale' which was recovered in 2008 as a b/w telerecording.
I am wondering if, like the Dad's Army episode, Room At The Bottom, could A Winter's Tale be restored into colour using the chroma dots. If so, why has this not been done already?
Also, apart from this, do none of the colour episodes missing survive in any other form than the 405-line VT recordings? Could these not be restored in some way (audio restoration, picture improvements, etc.) to make them more watchable?
Many thanks
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Post by Pete Morris on May 13, 2015 23:51:45 GMT
You can search for information about the archive status of many shows at Lostshows.com Here's the info for Steptoe & son. It may be a little out of date. www.lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=9f519a97-670f-4d7a-b0ed-69ede0da8e0dThere are no missing episodes from the series itself. There was a short sketch for Christmas, only a few minutes long, that is missing, and another that partly survives.
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Post by David Buck on May 15, 2015 0:38:16 GMT
Hi all, The rest of the colour episodes only survive as low quality 405-line recordings except for 'A Winter's Tale' which was recovered in 2008 as a b/w telerecording. I am wondering if, like the Dad's Army episode, Room At The Bottom, could A Winter's Tale be restored into colour using the chroma dots. If so, why has this not been done already? Also, apart from this, do none of the colour episodes missing survive in any other form than the 405-line VT recordings? Could these not be restored in some way (audio restoration, picture improvements, etc.) to make them more watchable? Many thanks only the first half of the episode was recovered on film , and colour recovery has been done on it - it looks very good, IIRC I saw it at the Raiders event at BAFTA. If the whole episode had been found on film I'm sure the BBC would have found a slot for it on BBC2
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Post by Jeff Leach on Jan 8, 2021 2:42:47 GMT
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Post by Stephen Byers on Jan 8, 2021 18:44:44 GMT
How many radio episodes are missing?
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Post by Dan S on Jan 8, 2021 19:54:28 GMT
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Post by Stephen Byers on Jan 8, 2021 20:50:02 GMT
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Post by Paul Rumbol on Jan 11, 2021 14:36:48 GMT
The restoration of the 'Oh,What A Beautiful Mourning' episode on YouTube was done by my good friend Appzzzman. He also worked tirelessly restoring many of the grainy poorer quality b/w episodes with some superb results, albeit sourced from DVDs and not the original film elements of course. Within days of uploading these they were all too-quickly banished by YouTube citing the usual copyright infringement I'm afraid.
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Post by Kevin Wilson on Jan 19, 2021 11:47:59 GMT
I might be wrong, but were a better set of prints recovered from somewhere maybe last year or the year before
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Post by stevefreestone on Jan 23, 2021 10:59:12 GMT
I might be wrong, but were a better set of prints recovered from somewhere maybe last year or the year before I believe Phil Morris found an episode of Steptoe called My Old Man's a Tory which was a better quality version to the one that we had originally.
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Post by robkeeley on Feb 12, 2024 22:00:05 GMT
I might be wrong, but were a better set of prints recovered from somewhere maybe last year or the year before I believe Phil Morris found an episode of Steptoe called My Old Man's a Tory which was a better quality version to the one that we had originally. Does anyone know if the recently recovered BBC comedy episodes (apart from the two Morecambe and Wise) are likely to see the light of day? The Steptoe episode 'My Old Man's a Tory' aired tonight on That's TV but was still from the poor quality transfer made for Galton and Simpson (with horizontal lines clearly visible) even though a 16mm print was recovered.
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Post by Rob Moss on Feb 14, 2024 0:53:59 GMT
I might be wrong, but were a better set of prints recovered from somewhere maybe last year or the year before I believe Phil Morris found an episode of Steptoe called My Old Man's a Tory which was a better quality version to the one that we had originally. Did he actually return it, or just admit to having found it..?
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Post by RWels on Feb 14, 2024 9:46:16 GMT
I believe Phil Morris found an episode of Steptoe called My Old Man's a Tory which was a better quality version to the one that we had originally. Did he actually return it, or just admit to having found it..? Yeah, I don't recall that specific story specifically. He also said he very probably has The Goodies' missing Kitten Kong (1st version). But as far as I know that was never followed up.
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Post by Paul Vanezis on Feb 15, 2024 1:37:18 GMT
Did he actually return it, or just admit to having found it..? Phil returned prints of various episodes in 2018 and 2019. They are listed in the TIEA 2018 thread. 'My Old Man's a Tory' was amongst them and it was indeed an original 16mm print. In addition, I have secured for the BBC Archive a second 16mm print of 'My Old Man's a Tory', a better print of 'The Likely Lads: Entente Cordiale', also the original prints of 'A Star is Born' and 'Faraway Places', plus an original BBC Enterprises print of 'Dad's Army: The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage' as an alternative to the current archival print which has some scratching. Paul
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Post by Henri Phillipps on Feb 15, 2024 2:24:35 GMT
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