A-R/Rediffusion London Shows and Series

[williammcgregor]

Numbers 12 and 13 on the list...

Melody Maid and Laurier Lister's Late Show

TV Times






Any updates on either of these shows will be welcomed!

[Alan Turrell]

Melody Maid and Laurier Lister's Late Show these seem really obscure shows William i reckon finding even a few seconds of some of these would be like finding goldust but fascinating looking up info on them .We know that shows from the 1960s have taken a right hammering as far as missing or wiped is concerned , i know i've said this before but these 1950s shows have been hit even worse where nothing survives at all with a lot of them but we must keep looking.

This is from the bti British Television TV Site.

Friday 14th October 1955 (14/10/55)

ITV London Associated-Redifussion Ltd.

10.30 Testing
11.00 Sixpenny Corner
11.15 Pop Goes the Weasel
11.30 Testing
11.45 The Other Screen
12.00 News
12.10 Friday's Man
12.15 Small Time - Johnny and Flonny
12.30 close
17.00 Bubble & Squeak
17.15 Colonel Crock
17.30 Mick and Montmorency - Jobstoppers
17.45 The Little Round House
18.00 close
19.00 Time, News and Weather
19.15 Melody Maid
19.30 Pet's Parade
20.00 Take Your Pick
20.30 Dragnet - The Big Youngster
21.00 Confidentially
21.30 Personal Calls
22.00 News and Newsreel
22.15 Visitor of the Day
22.20 Laurie Lister's Late Show
22.50 And So to Bed
23.00 Epilogue

[Alan Turrell]

Oct 16, 2015 19:31:52 GMT williammcgregor said:

there are 181 lost episodes of this serial


please see this Lost Shows link...www.lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=03cff8e7-a2aa-40ac-8618-8b323e4bd02a


Number 25 on the list...

Sixpenny Corner

TV Times listing...



and TV Times article...




can anyone add any more details about Sixpenny Corner?

Sixpenny Corner was the very first day time soap opera on ITV.
It was followed by
Round at the Redways (A-R)
This began Wednesday September 28th 1955 and ran until at least February 1956.
A mere 15 minute weekly series about a local London ironmonger Bill Redway and his family plus Ben their helping hand.
Regular Cast: Howard Greene (Bill Redway), Marjorie Lawrence (Ruth Redway), Jacqueline Wall (Maureen), Andrew Irvine (Nokle), and Leonard Sharp (Ben).
Also appearing: Sept 28th 1955 Grace Arnold as Mrs Catt,
Oct 26th 1955 Joyce Cummings as Mrs Matthews,
Nov 23rd 1955 Richard Pearson as Toyshop Proprietor,
Feb 8th 1956 John Crocker as Bert Arnold.
Script: Bill Evans.

[John Green]

Colnel Crock gets a little mention in one of the newspaper listings.It was good news a few years back,when thanks to an updating of the BFI catalogue,Lostshows was updated to read:
Missing or incomplete episodes for programme COLONEL CROCK.

07.02.56 The Sunken Treasure Car
Sound only exists – there is no picture.

Out of an original total of 13 episodes, one episode is missing.

It's a 15-minute puppet series with Annette Mills.I've got one of the books.
This is a fun site for obscure older children's shows:

www.turnipnet.com/whirligig/tv/children/other/other.htm

[williammcgregor]

Thanks Alan and John,

you are right Alan the programmes are very obscure, and finding even a few secs is probably nigh on impossible as 50's TV probably took a right hammering, thanks for the 14/10/55 TV schedule and the Sixpenny Corner information.

John thank you for the run down on Colonel Crock; so the entire series exists apart from the 07.02.56 episode, and even then we at least have sound! and you've got one of the books as well.

[John Green]

Colonel Crock isn't mentioned on IMDB.Here are some episode summaries: unionsearch.bfi.org.uk/search.dhtml?fl.text=colonel+crock

[williammcgregor]

brilliant research John thank you

[John Green]

Funnily enough,the BFI's entry for Sunken Treasure Car (see above) doesn't show that it's sound-only:


35mm Original Negative - CTA - Sound - Master
view all

Unless it's the "CTA".I'm sure I should know what that is.

[williammcgregor]

Number 2 on the list...

The High-Flying Head

18/10/55...

The synopsis on the filmographic record is
Two schoolgirls find a book of magic recipes and decide to yest them out.
First billed is..Helena De Crespo
Production Company: Future Productions.


Number 30 on the list...

Confidentially

The filmographic record says
Production Company: Future Productions
Regular Cast includes..Reg Dixon, Dorinda Stevens.

No film or video for the above two are currently held at the BFI.

Does anyone know anymore about Future Productions?


Number 28 on the list...

Youth Takes A Bow

6 episodes 1955-6
This is a Jack Hylton Production for Associated-Rediffusion..
Episode 13/12/55 included The Teenagers
Episode 11/1/56 included Jim Dale

Does anyone know anymore about Youth Takes A Bow please?

[Ken Griffin]

Oct 19, 2015 18:12:42 GMT John Green said:

Funnily enough,the BFI's entry for Sunken Treasure Car (see above) doesn't show that it's sound-only

Colonel Crock is a series where the film negatives consist of two parts: a separate mute piece of film for the picture and a separate sound element with no picture. In the case of Sunken Treasure Car, only the latter appears to have survived. Then again, it is quite possible that the picture element is somewhere within the BFI but hasn't been located yet.

[williammcgregor]

Thanks John and Ken

[John Green]

Oct 20, 2015 8:35:38 GMT Ken Griffin said:

Oct 19, 2015 18:12:42 GMT John Green said:

Funnily enough,the BFI's entry for Sunken Treasure Car (see above) doesn't show that it's sound-only

Colonel Crock is a series where the film negatives consist of two parts: a separate mute piece of film for the picture and a separate sound element with no picture. In the case of Sunken Treasure Car, only the latter appears to have survived. Then again, it is quite possible that the picture element is somewhere within the BFI but hasn't been located yet.

Thanks,Ken.
Yeah,several mute films turned up a while back-including an interview with Edward Heath,I believe,,,It's irritating that they were done that way.One episode of Yak-a children's series from 1971 is missing sound; the only episode where there's a problem.I was hoping with CC that maybe the two elements had been married at some stage.No such luck.

[Alan Turrell]

Oct 20, 2015 8:01:55 GMT williammcgregor said:

Number 2 on the list...

The High-Flying Head

18/10/55...

The synopsis on the filmographic record is
Two schoolgirls find a book of magic recipes and decide to yest them out.
First billed is..Helena De Crespo
Production Company: Future Productions.


Number 30 on the list...

Confidentially

The filmographic record says
Production Company: Future Productions
Regular Cast includes..Reg Dixon, Dorinda Stevens.

No film or video for the above two are currently held at the BFI.

Does anyone know anymore about Future Productions?






Number 28 on the list...

Youth Takes A Bow

6 episodes 1955-6
This is a Jack Hylton Production for Associated-Rediffusion..
Episode 13/12/55 included The Teenagers
Episode 11/1/56 included Jim Dale

Does anyone know anymore about Youth Takes A Bow please?

Tuesday 13th December 1955 (13/12/55)

ITV London Associated-Redifussion Ltd.

11.00 Sixpenny Corner
11.15 People Worth Meeting
11.25 Dear Miss Ashley
11.40 Twenty-To-Twelve
13.00 Tea-V Time - Elizabeth Fanfare
17.15 Stop Press
17.20 Celebrity
17.30 Michael Gwynn - The Magic Fishbone
19.00 Time, News and Weather
19.15 One Night Stand
19.30 By Request
20.00 The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel - The Ambassador's Lady
20.30 Cavalcade of Sport
21.30 Granville Melodramas - Clara, The Drunkard or The Fallen Saved
22.00 Jack Hylton Presents - Youth Takes a Bow
22.30 Man's Best Friend
22.45 News


Jack Hylton invited Eric Morecambe to join a revue called Youth Takes a Bow at the Nottingham Empire, where he met the then Ernest Wiseman. The two soon became very close friends, and with Sadie's encouragement started to develop a double act.I think Sadie was Eric's mother .
Apparently Youth Takes A Bow was a talent show.

[williammcgregor]

Thank you to John and Alan for the interesting information (much appreciated)

[Alan Turrell]

Boxing Day Monday 26th December 1955

Associated Rediffusion


11.00am Sixpenny Corner

11.15am Musical : Once Upon a Bank Holiday

11.30am Draw up a Chair with Anthony Oliver

11.43am 1-2-3 Click panel game

11.58am Hopalong Cassidy New Mexico Manhunt, with William Boyd

12.25pm News and Newsreel

12.30pm For Under Fives : Small Time

12.45pm Penny for a Song

2.00pm Motor Racing from Brands Hatch

3.15pm Round the World with Orson Welles

3.45pm Frolics on Ice from Streatham Ice Rink

4.30pm Children's Play : Flying Visit

5.00pm Italian puppets in Aladdin

5.15pm Juno the Home Help a film

5.25pm Return Fare to to Laughter extracts from early comedy films

6.00pm Closedown

7.00pm Time, News and Weather

7.07pm Visitor of the Day

7.15pm Quarter Measure- Jill Day

7.30pm Panel game- What's It About ?

8.00pm Drama : Our Mr Dundas

8.30pm Musical : Rum Punch

9.30pm Trudy a film, with Joan Fontaine

10.00pm Confidentially with Reg Dixon

10.30pm Noel Barber in "Assignment Unknown"

10.45pm News and Newsreel

10.58pm And So to Bed





Evening viewing began at 7pm with a time signal.

7.00 Time, News and Weather.

7.15 The World On Wheels
"The RAC presents an up-to-the-minute magazine of topics to interest the motorist and his wife."

7.20 Friday's Girl
The TV Times called this an "unsophisticated, informal programme", featuring singer Sheila Matthews and "Malcolm Lockyer and his Music". Matthews sung three songs of varying types - "bright, point, and ballad" - for the entertainment of the viewing public.

7.30 Sports Club
"The most exclusive club in television," TV Times boasted, featuring snooker star Joe Davis demonstrating shots.

8.00 Take Your Pick
The first UK game show to give away a cash prize. If contestants could get through quizmaster Michael Miles' "yes/no" quiz, they then had to answer three questions correctly. If they did that, they got to choose a key to one of 10 boxes, which could contain a prize, or a booby prize. Miles would try to buy the keys from them, offering increasing amounts of money. The show ran until 1968, before being revived in the 1990s.

8.30 Dragnet
The US cop show was one of the early ITV's big draws.

9.00 Confidentially
"Reg Dixon in a light-hearted half-hour", with guests.

9.30 Round The World With Orson Welles
A travelogue fronted by Welles, who the TV Times told viewers was "a great cosmopolitan".

10.00 News and Newsreel
"Newsreel brings to the screen outstanding events".

10.15 Visitor of the Day
"Personalities face the television cameras".

10.20 Out of Town
A series about country matters, tonight featuring "how radio-active materials are being used to help farmers".

10.50 And So To Bed
Previews of programmes to come.

11.00 Epilogue and closedown.

This was probably the theme tune to Confidentially that Reg Dixon wrote.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-ve_TgPx58