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Post by Laurence Piper on Dec 17, 2003 9:36:46 GMT
The instance of NOBA being wiped MUST have happened earlier than the early '80s as this quote from Steve Bryant's book "The Television Heritage" makes clear:
"The early '70s saw widespread wiping, followed in the mid '70s by a period of intense public debate. Dudley Moore attacked the BBC on Parkinson show for wiping much of Not Only...But Also". Incidentally, anyone know which edition of Parkinson this happened? I'd like to see it.
Seems more likely that it happened in the early '70s rather than early '80s. Still, as someone above says, wiping the relatively new colour series of NOBA like that (and many more) was a curious thing to do when the line we were given was that the junking was mainly to clear a hoard of "unuseable old b/w shows, now that everyone wants colour"!
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Post by David Savage on Dec 17, 2003 10:33:33 GMT
"was a curious thing to do when the line we were given was that the junking was mainly to clear a hoard of "unuseable old b/w shows, now that everyone wants colour"!"
The first series of Monty Python was *almost* wiped - good thing they made those overseas sales.
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Post by Jim Schwartau on Dec 17, 2003 12:41:47 GMT
I agree. The Archive Selector post was well established during the "early Eighties" (a post specifically created to make some coherent sense of the BBC archiving "policy") and this simply would not have happened. I think Sue Malden took up the post of Archive Selector in 1978. The thing I've never understood about the Cook anecdote is that if it happened as late as is alleged (and let's face it, VHS wasn't launched in this country until 1978, so it couldn't be earlier than that), he would be entitled to copies of any of his programmes under the BBC's "Contributor Access" scheme (which was founded under Sue Malden's tenure, I believe.) It HAS to have happened in a "less enlightened" age (ie pre-1978) - Cook possibly requested 16mm film kinescopes or something equally accessible (but expensive to produce). He'd have had no use for 2" video tapes; earlier domestic video tape formats are a possibility, but would involve getting a suitable machine into the BBC. There are simply too many holes in the story for it to have happened in the 1980s. Jim.
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