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Post by Greg H on Dec 3, 2007 14:48:10 GMT
Hi all! I have a question thats been bugging me for ages and I havent managed to find a definitive resource to satisfy as yet. I was wondering if anyone has a complete list of all of the Nigel Kneale TV shows that are missing along with transmission dates if possible. I have looked around for one, couldnt see one though. Also if anyone has any information about wether any of these had 16mm prints made or were sold abroad etc that would be even more excellent. Speculations and so forth would also be interesting. Anyhow, hope someone has the info im after  |
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Post by Daniel O'Brien on Dec 3, 2007 17:27:40 GMT
This is by no means a definitive list, but it's a start:
1953 The Quatermass Experiment, episodes 3-6: live broadcasts, no recordings made.
1955 The Creature: two live broadcasts (I don't know if the second performance was telerecorded; if so it got junked).
1963 The Road: videotape, with 16mm film inserts (I think). No recording known to exist.
1970 Wine of India: videotape; erased
1971 The Chopper: videotape; erased
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Post by Greg H on Dec 3, 2007 18:05:10 GMT
Interesting stuff. So there is an admittedly slim possibility of wine of India or the chopper possibly existing on home recordings I guess.
Can anyone clear up if the second performance of the creature was telerecorded? Does any documentation exist to suggest this?
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Post by lpmoderator on Dec 3, 2007 22:04:50 GMT
Here's Kneale's screenography. Stuff in red is thought to be non-existent. If i've got anything wrong as regards archive status, let me know and i'll amend...
Kneale, Nigel (1922-2006)
Film & TV credits
Television credits
ARROW TO THE HEART BBC tx 20/7/1952 additional dialogue
MYSTERY STORY BBC tx 17/8/1952 adaptation
THE CATHEDRAL BBC tx 26/10/1952 adaptation
THE LAKE BBC tx 29/3/1953 adaptation (uncredited)
THE AFFAIR AT ASSINO BBC tx 1/1/1953 adaptation
THE COMMONPLACE HEART BBC tx 13/1/1953 adaptation
WEDNESDAY THEATRE: Curtain Down BBC tx 21/1/1953 script
NUMBER THREE BBC tx 1/2/1953 adaptation
THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT BBC tx 18/7-22/8/1953 (pts 3-6 missing) script
GOLDEN RAIN BBC tx 2/8/1953 adaptation
WUTHERING HEIGHTS BBC tx 6/12/1953 adaptation
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR BBC tx 12/12/1954 adapted for television by
THE CREATURE BBC tx 30/1/1955 script
THE MOMENT OF TRUTH BBC tx 10/3/1955 adaptation
QUATERMASS II BBC tx 22/4-26/6/1955 (6 pts) script
SUNDAY-NIGHT THEATRE: ARROW TO THE HEART BBC tx 1956 additional dialogue
MRS WICKENS IN THE FALL BBC tx 8/8/1957 script
QUATERMASS AND THE PIT BBC tx 22/12-26/1/1959 (6 pts) screenplay
PANORAMA BBC tx 26/1/1959 on-screen participant
WUTHERING HEIGHTS BBC tx 11/5/1962 screenplay
FIRST NIGHT: The Road BBC tx 29/9/1963 script
STUDIO 64: The Crunch ITV tx 19/1/1964 script
LATE NIGHT LINE-UP BBC2 tx 27/11/1965 on-screen participant
THEATRE 625: The World of George Orwell 1984 BBC2 tx 28/11/1965 script
THEATRE 625: The Year of the Sex Olympics BBC2 tx 29/7/1968 script
THE WEDNESDAY PLAY: Bam! Pow! Zap! BBC1 tx 5/3/1969 script
THE WEDNESDAY PLAY: The Wine of India BBC tx 15/4/1970 script
OUT OF THE UNKNOWN: The Chopper BBC2 tx 16/6/1971 script
THE STONE TAPE BBC2 tx 25/12/1972 script
BEDTIME STORIES: Jack and the Beanstalk BBC2 tx 24/3/1974 script
AGAINST THE CROWD: Murrain ITV tx 27/7/1975 script
BEASTS ITV tx 16/10-20/11/1976 (6 edns) script
THE BOOK PROGRAMME: Tales of Horror BBC2 tx 16/12/1976 interviewee
LATE NIGHT STORY: The Photograph BBC2 tx 24/12/1978 script
QUATERMASS ITV tx 24/10-14/11/1979 (4 pts) screenplay
KINVIG ITV tx 4/9-16/10/1981 (7 eps) script
UNNATURAL CAUSES: Ladies' Night ITV tx 6/12/1986 script
THE ITV PLAY: Gentry BBC tx 31/7/1988 script
THE WOMAN IN BLACK BBC tx 24/12/1989 screenplay
STANLEY AND THE WOMEN BBC tx 28/11-19/12/1991 (4 pts) script
THE LATE SHOW: Rudolph Cartier: Television Pioneer BBC2 tx 1/7/1994 interviewee
SHARPE: Sharpe's Gold ITV tx 12/4/1995 adaptation
KAVANAGH Q.C.: Ancient History ITV tx 17/3/1997 script
SF:UK: When Aliens Attack Channel 4 tx 1/4/2001 on-screen participant
SF:UK: Big Brother Goes Hardcore Channel 4 tx 1/4/2001 on-screen participant
TIMESHIFT: Watching You BBC Four tx 22/5/2003 on-screen participant
THE KNEALE TAPES BBC Four tx 15/10/2003 interviewee
TIMESHIFT: Fantasy 60s BBC Four tx 26/6/2004 interviewee
THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT BBC Four tx 2/4/2005 original script
TIMESHIFT: Live on the Night BBC Four tx 2/4/2005 interviewee
Film credits
THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT / THE CREEPING UNKNOWN / SHOCK!! 1955 original television play
QUATERMASS 2 / ENEMY FROM SPACE BBC tx 1957 screenplay / original story
THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN / THE SNOW CREATURE / THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN OF THE HIMALAYAS 1957 screenplay / story
LOOK BACK IN ANGER 1959 screenplay
THE ENTERTAINER 1960 screenplay
H.M.S. DEFIANT / DAMN THE DEFIANT / THE MUTINEERS 1962 screenplay
FIRST MEN IN THE MOON UK/US, 1964 screenplay
THE WITCHES / THE DEVIL'S OWN 1966 screenplay
QUATERMASS AND THE PIT / FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH 1967 screenplay / original story
THE QUATERMASS CONCLUSION 1978 script
HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH US, 1983 screenplay (uncredited)
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Post by Greg H on Dec 3, 2007 22:56:13 GMT
Thanks for the info. Interesting stuff indeed. An awful lot of gaps there as well. but of course we should be greatful that classics like Quatermass and sex olympics still exist at all.
Now of the missing stuff there, has anyone come across research that would indicate what was telerecorded and subsequently junked and what was simply shown and wiped?
Lamentably I havent found much evidence so far that the road or the creature were ever telerecorded, but then nothing is impossible.
Does anyone have any further info please?
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Post by Greg H on Dec 3, 2007 22:59:27 GMT
Sorry, additionally, to save repeating anyone elses footsteps, is research into possible foreign sales publicly available at all? I know this sort of info is sketchy, missing or often unreliable, but it all helps.
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Post by johnstewart on Dec 4, 2007 20:45:34 GMT
Thanks for the info. Interesting stuff indeed. An awful lot of gaps there as well. but of course we should be greatful that classics like Quatermass and sex olympics still exist at all. Now of the missing stuff there, has anyone come across research that would indicate what was telerecorded and subsequently junked and what was simply shown and wiped? Lamentably I havent found much evidence so far that the road or the creature were ever telerecorded, but then nothing is impossible. Does anyone have any further info please? It's certain that both 'WEDNESDAY PLAY' and 'OU OF THE UNKNOWN' series 4 were telerecorded and sold abroad. BBC Senior Andrew Martin has posted in recent years stating that recently European sources returned prints of various entries from WEDNESDAY PLAY on T/R. Additionally; censored clips from OOTU series 4 - fragments of film copies - were returned from New Zealand or Australia in the 1990s I believe. |
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Post by Greg H on Dec 5, 2007 10:44:13 GMT
Ok, thats quite interesting stuff. So there is the possibility of recoveries of 3 items from the above list, either through foreign sales or the slim chance of a 16mm slipping through the junking process in the UK.
Now does anyone know if there is any possibility of any of the versions of Wuthering heights, the creature or the road having been telerecorded for some purpose?
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Post by Jonathan E Coley on Dec 16, 2007 13:41:43 GMT
Wuthering Heights (the 1962 remake by kneale) still exists as a 16mm film print at the bbc.
Main image of Wuthering Heights (1962)
If you have access to a local library or university library, you can watch clips at the bfi's screenonline site.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
BBC, tx. 11/5/1962
95 minutes, black & white
Producer Rudolph Cartier
Script Nigel Kneale
From the Novel by Emily Brontë
Photography A. Arthur Englander
Cast: Claire Bloom (Cathy); Keith Michell (Heathcliff); Ronald Howard (Lockwood); Jean Anderson (Ellen); Patrick Troughton (Hindley); David McCallum (Edgar)
It was also broadcast on bbc4 a few years back i believe.
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Post by lpmoderator on Dec 16, 2007 18:40:34 GMT
OK, thanks. The listing has been amended now.
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Post by Andrew Martin on Dec 17, 2007 14:07:50 GMT
Wuthering Heights (the 1962 remake by kneale) still exists as a 16mm film print at the bbc. It was also broadcast on bbc4 a few years back i believe. This version is held by the NFA, the BBC do not have a copy - and it has not been repeated by the BBC in recent years, sadly. |
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Post by Greg H on Dec 17, 2007 16:51:08 GMT
Great to hear it exists though. Maybe it will get a DVD release one day? It not impossible, having the cast and general pedigree it has.
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