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Post by richardwoods on Jul 24, 2021 20:56:55 GMT
The newly discovered episode is Series 4 Episode 6, 08/10/1970. I've been surprised that nobody seems to want to say so explicitly. The ITV press release said it was the first episode on BBC1 (previous episodes were on BBC2), and somehow this became simply the 'first ever episode' in the Daily Mail as linked above (and elsewhere), presumably for dramatic effect. It was the only missing episode outside Series 1. Cheers for the clarification
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Post by Marie Griffiths on Jul 29, 2021 8:37:35 GMT
It was great to see the clips but I wanted the whole episode and in colour too. The appearance fees of the celebs would have covered this surely. The celebs added nothing. The interviews with the family and the lady that worked with them did. There seemed to be some PC box ticking going on. Strangely they left in the grapefruit visual gag that is problematic. I'd happily burn any tape with Bonnie Langford in it. Last week's show about Ronnie Corbet was better as the home movies did need contextualizing with the help of the family, they also had entertainers who had worked with them....except Robbie Williams who added nothing.
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Post by andrew shutt on Jul 29, 2021 10:47:29 GMT
It was great to see the clips but I wanted the whole episode and in colour too. The appearance fees of the celebs would have covered this surely. The celebs added nothing. The interviews with the family and the lady that worked with them did. There seemed to be some PC box ticking going on. Strangely they left in the grapefruit visual gag that is problematic. I'd happily burn any tape with Bonnie Langford in it. Last week's show about Ronnie Corbet was better as the home movies did need contextualizing with the help of the family, they also had entertainers who had worked with them....except Robbie Williams who added nothing. Glad you managed to sit through it all ,I gave up after 10 minutes . Hoping the BBC will do the magic and restore it and broadcast it in full, but i could actually see them not bothering airing it or they just put it on Britbox as it is without restoration
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Post by mattg on Jul 29, 2021 18:15:14 GMT
It was great to see the clips but I wanted the whole episode and in colour too. The appearance fees of the celebs would have covered this surely. The celebs added nothing. The interviews with the family and the lady that worked with them did. There seemed to be some PC box ticking going on. Strangely they left in the grapefruit visual gag that is problematic. I'd happily burn any tape with Bonnie Langford in it. Last week's show about Ronnie Corbet was better as the home movies did need contextualizing with the help of the family, they also had entertainers who had worked with them....except Robbie Williams who added nothing. Glad you managed to sit through it all , I gave up after 10 minutes . Hoping the BBC will do the magic and restore it and broadcast it in full, but i could actually see them not bothering airing it or they just put it on Britbox as it is without restoration Well you lasted longer than me! My TV remote has never been worked so damn hard fast-forwarding through all the intrusive banal commentary courtesy of the egregious Izzard, Wossy, and a smattering of Z-list nobodies just to get to the footage I and everyone else had tuned in to see. At times we barely got 10 bloody seconds of ‘lost’ Eric and Ernie before it cut back to the aforementioned gaggle ‘reacting’ to it all. One can only assume that much el vino was flowing at ITV when they decided that the very best way to present priceless M&W footage was to fuse it with an even worse version of celebrity Gogglebox!
One (very slender) consolation though at least was the participation of Eric’s family, Ann Hamilton and Derek Griffiths et al all of whom were naturally good value. Over all though what an utter waste of everybody’s time. 😩
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