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Post by Peter Stirling on Aug 20, 2020 12:07:00 GMT
A Pocket Full Of Bones tx 29th Jan 1963 is NOT missing. A Pocketful of Bones is shown as extant on TVBrain, but I was assuming that that was an update. Has it always been archived? I think it was originally listed as missing and someone at the Brain tries to keep things updated asap? TPTV I believe independently do their own transfers to digital (when they come across material which is still on an old format) and usually add subtitles at the time as well. Obviously, if they buy in stuff from say ITV then its already on digital and adding subtitles might be a bit of a pain in one way or another? Shame about the Orbison archive as he did a fair in the UK including his own ATV series.
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Post by John Green on Aug 20, 2020 17:17:12 GMT
236 episodes made, according to IMDB, so with 25 known, we're past the 10% mark, at least!
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Post by Gary Wilson on Aug 21, 2020 6:38:04 GMT
The SNATLP being shown with Roy Orbison and the seekers is not a newly recovered episode, it's on the DVD releases. No word yet on when or if the two newly recovered editions will be broadcast. I imagine clearances may be more complicated than no hiding place.
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Post by John Green on Aug 21, 2020 14:04:30 GMT
The SNATLP being shown with Roy Orbison and the seekers is not a newly recovered episode, it's on the DVD releases. You're right, I see it there. Wish the set was in proper chronological order...
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Post by Peter Stirling on Aug 21, 2020 15:35:20 GMT
236 episodes made, according to IMDB, so with 25 known, we're past the 10% mark, at least! We are getting there LOL. One of the sought after missing episodes is "The By Boys" as it featured the beat music scene and the mod/rock culture of the time. It had some similarities to the Alfred Burke cinema feature "Farewell Performance" which is also long.long lost, probably after it's initial release? .
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Post by John Green on Aug 21, 2020 15:59:20 GMT
A member of a pop group appearing on television is murdered during the performance. Even though the performance is recorded, the police are still puzzled by how the murderer struck. Allan O'Keefe ... Jo By Neil Christian ... Eddy By Hugh Halliday ... Al By
Would have been so much funnier if they'd been called e.g. Ali By...
Shame it's missing! (20/4/1964).
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Post by John Green on Sept 3, 2020 8:38:33 GMT
I don't think we've actually heard what people think of NHP. I haven't got broadcast TV, so can't watch Talking Pictures, nor can I remember the show much from the 60s, so I'm womdering what you all think of the series?
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Post by richardwoods on Sept 3, 2020 16:58:44 GMT
Initial impression from the first episode shown is that it’s a fairly typical procedural from the early 60’s, not a lot of action as you would expect, much of the emphasis seems to be on the thought processes in solving the crime. Steady but pleasant enough. Please bear in mind that I’ve recorded but not watched the latest one yet.
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Post by richardwoods on Sept 4, 2020 6:02:31 GMT
Bit more action in the last episode including a good old punch up!
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Post by brianfretwell on Sept 5, 2020 8:17:52 GMT
An arrest worthy of "The Sweeney", I thought. Appropriate with the title of this episode.
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Post by John Green on Sept 5, 2020 9:53:33 GMT
An arrest worthy of "The Sweeney", I thought. Appropriate with the title of this episode. Took me a second to work that one out. As a child, NHP always seemed 'tough', if only because of the relentlessness implied by the title; of course, 'Lockhart' doesn't sound exactly chummy!
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Post by Peter Stirling on Sept 5, 2020 11:46:46 GMT
An arrest worthy of "The Sweeney", I thought. Appropriate with the title of this episode. Took me a second to work that one out. As a child, NHP always seemed 'tough', if only because of the relentlessness implied by the title; of course, 'Lockhart' doesn't sound exactly chummy! I was expecting with a long-running series that it had turned into a complacent soap opera with actors taking advantage of their audience worship and just machine-gunning their lines ...but no! The three leads are good and Inspector Lockhart has shown 3 dimensions in 3 episodes. I was also going to praise what they achieved in a week turn around but then realised that the US was doing much with the same time restraints with Star Trek etc. .
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Post by richardfitzgerald on Sept 6, 2020 11:44:57 GMT
Seemed a good quality print from the bits I saw - which raises the obvious question of where it came from originally. Was surprised to see Nigel Green though - surely he was a big star by then?
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Post by John Green on Sept 6, 2020 12:57:22 GMT
The one and only NHP review on IMDB reads: Pretty decent but hobbled by budget. I used to love this show, mainly for the dramatic opening - a police vehicle (a Wolseley I think) speeding around a bend with bells ringing and the authoritative music playing over the credits. Sadly, those episodes seem to have been dumped and the later ones are poor by comparison. The opening is far less impressive and if I'm not mistaken by this time the show was made on tape in a rather cramped studio. Dingy and cheap-looking. www.imdb.com/title/tt0159898/?ref_=ttep_ep_ttand I've borne that in mind for quite a time.
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Post by richardwoods on Sept 6, 2020 19:05:18 GMT
The one and only NHP review on IMDB reads: Pretty decent but hobbled by budget. I used to love this show, mainly for the dramatic opening - a police vehicle (a Wolseley I think) speeding around a bend with bells ringing and the authoritative music playing over the credits. Sadly, those episodes seem to have been dumped and the later ones are poor by comparison. The opening is far less impressive and if I'm not mistaken by this time the show was made on tape in a rather cramped studio. Dingy and cheap-looking. www.imdb.com/title/tt0159898/?ref_=ttep_ep_ttand I've borne that in mind for quite a time. Maybe the review is a little bit unfair, from what we’ve seen so far the surviving episodes seem to be quite reasonable fare by 1960’s standards and stand up well when compared to similar vintage episodes of Z Cars for example
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