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Post by John Green on May 13, 2021 14:00:45 GMT
new.networkonair.com/maigret All 52 episodes plus 90-minute feature • Limited edition packaging • Exclusive new book on the making of the series by Andrew Pixley • Ron Grainer’s original soundtrack CD • Art Cards Not quite "Unseen for decades" since all the episodes were released in Germany, with no Eng.-language option. (Raisin questions at the time about a possible UK release). Another classic crime series out!
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Post by Richard Marple on May 13, 2021 20:28:55 GMT
I've heard the reason for it's non-release for decades was an agreement between Georges Simenon & the BBC to only screen them once in the UK.
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Post by John Green on Jul 16, 2021 8:56:15 GMT
"Basil Sydney starred as Maigret in the live presentation of Maigret and the Lost Life as part of BBC tv’s Sunday Night-Theatre in 1959, Rupert Davies then starred as Maigret in four runs of Maigret each of which comprised thirteen editions from 1960 to 1963, and then Rupert returned as Maigret in a one-off Play of the Month – Maigret at Bay – aired in 1969. The forthcoming Network set presents all the existing material: i.e. the 52 episodes and the 1969 play." cstonline.net/maigret-et-le-programme-en-diffusion-by-andrew-pixley/I'd barely registered that the 9/2/1969 play is also on the set. Good news!
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Post by John Green on Aug 17, 2021 14:23:39 GMT
Now sold out.
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Post by John Green on Aug 17, 2021 15:04:31 GMT
What seems like a longer trailer was uploaded on Aug.2nd.
From the comments section:
Exterior shots would have been shot on film. In this trailer they look as if they have been transferred at a higher frame rate - which makes them look like 'video'.
Network Distributing reply 1 week ago Exterior shots were indeed shot on film but sadly the original inserts are not known to exist. Neither the studio nor the exterior footage has been processed to look like video as the broadcast master was a tele-recording. Therefore, any such apparent video look in the trailer is purely down to the hardware used for viewing it online.
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According to IMDB trivia, Simenon's wife had it written into the BBC contract that all copies had to be destroyed after only one showing being allowed.
Between that and the fact it was BBC (who basically wiped most of everything back then...!), this release is frankly a (French accent) grand miracle.
I don't know who kept these copies all these years, but they deserve a big round of applause 👏
Mateja Đedović reply 1 week ago The BBC kept all the episodes on 35mm film. IMDb took that information from Simenon's autobiography which is full of similar apocryphal tales. But the only one showing clause is correct which is why the series hasn't been seen much since the 60s.
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