Wheels Across the Sahara.

[John Green]

Another title which sounds like a Ripping Yarn-or an early Top Gear: genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a96b6d320f2643ea841e61c1cb82e04e

Anyone know of a way of getting a full list of the Adventure titles?

[williammcgregor]

Here's some info John...

[John Green]

Thanks to Simon for this: collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150778499# (Click on 'episodes' on the right).

[Peter K]

Jul 22, 2015 11:23:38 GMT williammcgregor said:

Here's some info John...

Hello,

I am particularly curious to watch the piece 'Wheels across the Sahara', or obtain more information on it. Anyone seen it in full, or parts of it? I actually registered on the forum to be able to see the newspaper clips posted here in full resolution.

David Newman wrote a book describing the Sahara adventure, 'The Forgotten Path’. They crossed the Sahara down the old colonial piste, across Algeria via Tindouf to Mauritania, driving a Ford Zephyr.

There’s very little on the internet about the crossing, and I found only two mentions of the documentary they’d made - one here on the forum and the other on the BBC Genome page. This newspaper photo is the only photo of the actual car I could find.

Peter

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

Mar 8, 2020 11:28:14 GMT Peter K said:

Jul 22, 2015 11:23:38 GMT williammcgregor said:

Here's some info John...

Hello,

I am particularly curious to watch the piece 'Wheels across the Sahara', or obtain more information on it. Anyone seen it in full, or parts of it? I actually registered on the forum to be able to see the newspaper clips posted here in full resolution.

David Newman wrote a book describing the Sahara adventure, 'The Forgotten Path’. They crossed the Sahara down the old colonial piste, across Algeria via Tindouf to Mauritania, driving a Ford Zephyr.

There’s very little on the internet about the crossing, and I found only two mentions of the documentary they’d made - one here on the forum and the other on the BBC Genome page. This newspaper photo is the only photo of the actual car I could find.

Peter

I've been looking for this film for ages, but regret that as yet I have not located it - which is very annoying as I have discovered an awful lot of documentaries of a similar vintage in the past few months.

I am still looking and any ideas are welcome.

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

sahara-overland.com/2012/09/04/book-review-the-forgotten-path-david-newman/

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

Two other things found out - firstly an alternative title is 'Four Wheels Across the Sahara' and also that the BBC Programme was also shown in Australia, ABC, 12/02/1966.

[Stephen Byers]

Mar 8, 2020 22:16:54 GMT Ray Langstone (was saintsray) said:

Two other things found out - firstly an alternative title is 'Four Wheels Across the Sahara' and also that the BBC Programme was also shown in Australia, ABC, 12/02/1966.

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=&exactPhrase=Four+Wheels+Across+the+Sahara&anyWords=&notWords=&requestHandler=&dateFrom=&dateTo=&sortby=

Might be worth asking Channel 7. Or maybe ask on the Australian vintage t.v. forums

[Peter K]

Mar 8, 2020 22:14:05 GMT Ray Langstone (was saintsray) said:

sahara-overland.com/2012/09/04/book-review-the-forgotten-path-david-newman/

In the book, after a dash to London for spare parts and cash, Newman returns to the Sahara and to his car to continue the voyage, this time bringing with him David Bass, an experienced Sahara traveller. I presume the David Bass character is in fact Robert du Pontet, the co-author of the film, credited in the newspaper clip above and on BBC Genome site.

Newman mentions his camera and his plans to make a film several times throughout the book, including these:

“...he demanded a written contract giving him ten per cent of any money we made on the trip (from film rights, book sales, newspaper articles).” This is about his first - and failed - travel companion; they parted by page 17.

“...left my cine-camera with the hotel manager as a deposit for payment of a £74 hotel bill (it was worth £100 anyway, and the manager seemed to be quite pleased with the idea, he seemed to know it was going to be for ever).” This is in Bamako, Mali, just a few pages before the end of the journey.

[Stephen Byers]

www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b89f19bf0

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

Jul 22, 2015 10:29:29 GMT John Green said:

Another title which sounds like a Ripping Yarn-or an early Top Gear: genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a96b6d320f2643ea841e61c1cb82e04e

Anyone know of a way of getting a full list of the Adventure titles?

I only just re-read your post, and, because I'm nice....and a subscriber to tvbrain....

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08.05.1959 Love Among Fish B3 / B3
15.05.1959 Demon Bay B3 / B3
22.05.1959 Wrecks B3 / B3
29.05.1959 Our Ancestor – The Fish B3 / B3
05.06.1959 Once Upon a Time B3 / B3
12.06.1959 Underwater Quiz B3 / B3
19.06.1959 Sharks B3 / B3
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14.01.1960 Strange Partners B3 / B3
21.01.1960 The Mangrove Story B3 / B3
28.01.1960 The Lamp Wreck B3 / B3
04.02.1960 The Outsiders B3 / B3
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16.09.1960 On to Malaya B3 / B3
23.09.1960 Crab Mystery B3 / B3
30.09.1960 China Sea B3 / B3
07.10.1960 Shark Wreck B3 / B3
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12.10.1961 The Tunnel of Samos B3 / B3
19.10.1961 The Land of the Queen of Sheba B3 / B3
26.10.1961 Wings in the Malayan Forest B3 / B3
02.11.1961 Voodoo Island B3 / B3
09.11.1961 Crusaders' Path B3 / B3
16.11.1961 The Shrines of China B3 / B3
23.11.1961 Dyak B3 / B3
30.11.1961 Unknown Mountains of Nepal B3 / B3
07.12.1961 The Hidden Sanctuaries of Prester John B3 / B3
14.12.1961 Voyage Under the Earth B3 / B3
21.12.1961 The Lost Men of Malaya B3 / B3
28.12.1961 Mule Road to Sikkim B3 / B3
04.01.1962 The Peaks of Peru B3 / B3
11.01.1962 The Caviar Fisherman of the Caspian B3 / B3
18.01.1962 Sixty-Five Survivors B3 / B3
25.01.1962 The Wandering Herdsman of the Sahara B3 / B3
01.02.1962 The Cave of the Assassins B3 / B3
08.02.1962 North Through Afghanistan B3 / B3
15.02.1962 Lhasa, Forbidden City B3 / B3
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04.05.1962 Trail to Dawson City B3 / B3
11.05.1962 Magicians of the Black Hills B3 / B3
18.05.1962 Dragon Story B3 / B3
25.05.1962 The Cocaine Eaters of Columbia R3 / B3
01.06.1962 Search for the Hobolos B3 / B3
08.06.1962 Turkoman B3 / B3
15.06.1962 Bushmen of the Kalahari B3 / B3
29.06.1962 Dalai Lama B3 / B3
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09.08.1962 The Tombs of Petra B3 / B3
16.08.1962 Mandara B3 / B3
23.08.1962 Balloon from Zanzibar B3 / B3
30.08.1962 Balloon from Lake Manyara B3 / B3
06.09.1962 Balloon to Serengeti B3 / B3
13.09.1962 Diving Into History B3 / B3
20.09.1962 The Man Who Loves Snakes B3 / B3
27.09.1962 Desert Journey B3 / B3
12.10.1962 Lost Cities of Atlantis B3 / B3
19.10.1962 The Fate of Colonel Fawcett B3 / B3
26.10.1962 Twilight of the Maharahas B3 / B3
02.11.1962 Sulisgeir B3 / B3
09.11.1962 The Treasure of Marlik B3 / B3
16.11.1962 Travellers to Kurdistan B3 / B3
23.11.1962 First Look at Africa B3 / B3
30.11.1962 Kathakali B3 / B3
07.12.1962 Queer Fish in the Red Sea B3 / B3
14.12.1962 Eskimo Island B3 / B3
28.12.1962 One More River B3 / B3
04.01.1963 From Yarmouth to Paradise B3 / B3
11.01.1963 Wanderer's Return B3 / B3
18.01.1963 Drowning Pharaoh B3 / B3
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10.05.1963 Quest Under Capricorn – Buffalo, Geese and Men B3 / B3
17.05.1963 Quest Under Capricorn – The Artists of Arnhem Land B3 / B3
24.05.1963 Quest Under Capricorn – Bush Walkabout B3 / B3
31.05.1963 Quest Under Capricorn – The First Australians B3 / B3
07.06.1963 The Hunting of the Truffle B3 / B3
14.06.1963 Gautries Hole B3 / B3
21.06.1963 North from Zabul B3 / B3
28.06.1963 Dynamite to Yakutat B3 / B3
05.07.1963 Happy Lake B3 / B3
12.07.1963 The Devil's Thumb B3 / B3
19.07.1963 Journey to Patagonia B3 / B3
26.07.1963 Snakes Alive B3 / B3
09.08.1963 Mystery on the Desert B3 / B3
16.08.1963 Children of the Lake B3 / B3
23.08.1963 Men Without a Bow B3 / B3
30.08.1963 The Village B3 / B3
06.09.1963 Kon-Tiki B3 / B3
13.09.1963 The Riddle of Easter Island B3 / B3
20.09.1963 Two Days in the Crater B3 / B3
27.09.1963 Beacon Six B3 / B3
30.09.1963 Apa Tani B3 / B3
07.10.1963 The Last Frontier B3 / B3
14.10.1963 When the Sea Ran Dry B3 / B3
22.10.1963 The Doomed Kingdom B3 / B3
28.10.1963 The Gentle People B3 / B3
04.11.1963 Mountains of Glass B3 / B3
11.11.1963 The Elusive Volcano B3 / B3
18.11.1963 The Hunting of the Gruntfish B3 / B3
25.11.1963 The King Who Can't Grow Old B3 / B3
02.12.1963 Disciples of the Sword B3 / B3
09.12.1963 Maytime in Muscovy B3 / B3
16.12.1963 Siberia B3 / B3
26.12.1963 No Road Back B3 / B3
30.12.1963 Crusade B3 / B3
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13.01.1964 The Last Pearl Divers of Kuwait B3 / B3
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06.05.1965 Journey to War B3 / B3
13.05.1965 Search for a Lost City B3 / B3
20.05.1965 Black Cloud Over Bali B3 / B3
03.06.1965 The Road to Shangri-La B3 / B3
10.06.1965 Secrets of the Chasm B3 / B3
17.06.1965 Duel with a Volcano B3 / B3
24.06.1965 Neptune's Needle B3 / B3
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Only two are missing.

[robertreinstein]

Mar 12, 2020 17:09:42 GMT Ray Langstone (was saintsray) said:

Jul 22, 2015 10:29:29 GMT John Green said:

Another title which sounds like a Ripping Yarn-or an early Top Gear: genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a96b6d320f2643ea841e61c1cb82e04e

Anyone know of a way of getting a full list of the Adventure titles?

I only just re-read your post, and, because I'm nice....and a subscriber to tvbrain....

I would highly recommend that anyone using this forum is a subscriber to TVBrain as well. 
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[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

I may - note the word MAY have located the other missing 'Adventure', 'the Locks of the Cote D'Or', tx 17/02/1964.

It transpires this film was transmitted by CBC as late as 3rd August 1970 - there's a listing in the Ottawa Citizen.

The film was one episode that went under a series' umbrella title of 'Double Exposure'.
This was for CBC a new decade's retitle of their forerunner series 'Pick of the Week'.
Archives Canada have kinescopes of what seems to be most of the 1970 series.
There is a date for one from the next day - although as they were broadcast weekly, so all the dates show a different date to Ontario broadcasts.
Archives Canada seem to have 35 editions.

(NOT to be confused with the TV or radio 'Double Exposure' shows that were broadcast in the 80's.)

There are some outtakes of Quest Under Capricorn in the NFSA, by the way.