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Post by Adam Duncan on Oct 22, 2003 13:56:54 GMT
Does anyone know if there is any footage from Q5 on the BBC Video release from the mid-80's?
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Post by David Savage on Oct 22, 2003 18:32:45 GMT
I'm pretty certain that there wasn't. I think it's from Q6 onwards.
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Post by dubs on Oct 22, 2003 20:10:24 GMT
The only surviving colour (14/4/69) Q5 has the following listed as appearing:
Philip Le Bars, Anthony Trent, Alan Clare, Charlie Young, Fanny Carby, Michael Malnick, Denys Graham, Yvonne Ash, Diana Van Proodsy. Guest Voice - Harry Secombe, Special Guest: Raymond Francis.
So if none of the above appear I doubt this ep has been screened (even in clip form) since first TX.
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Post by Ian Beard on Oct 26, 2003 21:38:29 GMT
there was a compilation programme of Q5 broadcast on BBC1 14th Sept 1969
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Post by dubs on Oct 27, 2003 0:35:58 GMT
Regrettably I think this has been junked also.
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Post by Andy Henderson on Oct 27, 2003 20:49:54 GMT
I doubt if that single vt Q5 will ever see the light of day again. It features a sequence involving a coffin and the national anthem, which in the light or recent Royal events, would be in poor taste.
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Post by David Savage on Oct 30, 2003 22:33:04 GMT
Has anyone actually seen this surviving colour edition of Q5 in recent times, though? I'm suspicious about it existing. Namely because, as I heard it, the whole series was wiped - this was announced when that Best of Q video came out and Spike seemed very annoyed about it, quite understandably - and only two or three black and white film copies later turned up.
Also, whenever a clip of Q5 is shown in documentaries, they always pick a black and white film copy clip. If the colour vt one really did exist, it would make sense that they'd actually show a clip from that one instead rather than one from the poorer quality b/w film material.
(And, if it does exist, how did it survive the wiping?)
Does anyone know if any of Oh In Colour exist, incidentally, apart from one b/w film copy?
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Post by Andy Henderson on Oct 31, 2003 0:29:00 GMT
Like many other areas of missing television, there is a smiple answer despite your worries. Yes, it does exist and it is in very good condition.
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Post by Laurence Piper on Oct 31, 2003 1:47:58 GMT
I believe that a clip from the colour Q5 was used in a documentary some years ago (can't recall what offhand) which was a sketch where a zoo keeper was talking to someone inside an elephant (voiced by Harry Secombe). This was a location / filmed sketch though - like you, i've never seen a colour VT clip, which made me wonder about it's survival. The compilation shown when Spike died also used - ironically - b/w t/r Q5 clips!
I've also wondered how / where those three Q5 eps came from (very glad they did surface though). The sources for some things that are recovered are widely publicised while other items just seem to quietly creep back into the archives without any real explanation...
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Post by Andrew Stevens on Oct 31, 2003 10:53:55 GMT
Maybe they were returned from Australia. Most of the "Q" series screened regularly on the ABC in the 70's and 80's. Not sure about Q5 though as I don't remember it.
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Post by Andy Henderson on Oct 31, 2003 15:37:06 GMT
They were returned with the help of Neil Ingoe.
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Post by Laurence Piper on Oct 31, 2003 17:48:51 GMT
Good on Neil Ingoe is what I say! But where did HE locate them? Private collections? And was that just the b/w prints or the colour edition too?
Could be the other four are out there somewhere too then...
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Post by Andy Henderson on Oct 31, 2003 20:12:39 GMT
You'd have to ask him, but I recall it was someone connected with the programme. The colour tape has always been there (as far as I know). There could be more material. When watched today 'Q5' is a bit different from the later programmes. 'Oh is Colour' is in fact more typical of the later 'Q'. All that is left of 'Oh in Colour' (in colour) is the title sequence.
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Post by David Savage on Oct 31, 2003 23:09:39 GMT
" The compilation shown when Spike died also used - ironically - b/w t/r Q5 clips!"
Yes, and, as I recall, didn't the recent Heroes of Comedy on Spike also only use b/w film copy Q5 clips?
(I'd thought the elephant gag was from Q6 or later ...? Might well be wrong.)
I think I was told that the b/w film copies of Q5 were, indeed, returned from abroad, though I'm not sure where from. The colour tape - maybe it has always been there, though I do recall reading in the press at the time of the 'Best Of' release that it was all wiped, and that's why no Q5 was on the compilation. Maybe it went missing for a while?
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Post by Andy Henderson on Nov 1, 2003 0:00:23 GMT
Well, the colour episode is very much with us, regardless of its past. Anyone digging up clips might not know a tape has survived.
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