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Post by Bobby Clark (synthpopalooza) on May 4, 2006 20:16:17 GMT
Hi ...
I was wondering if anyone knew the original airdates of the colour Jon Pertwee Doctor Who episodes in Canada? And also, the original airdates of the ones which were shown on WNED 17 in Buffalo, NY (the ones from which VHS tapes were used in recolorizing the Silurans, Terror of the Autons, and others) ...
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Post by Martin Dunne on May 5, 2006 11:06:03 GMT
These are excellent questions, and I'm jealous I didn't think of asking first!
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Post by stevewilliams on May 9, 2006 11:47:52 GMT
I guess somebody (me?) could go to the Toronto Public library and look through the TVguides and Star listings. Finding the half-hour TVOntario airing times would be relatively easy, since it was the same evening each week and the story and episode numbers were described. Getting a handle on the WNED airings is much more difficult since they were scattered and frequently part of the Pledge weeks, with the omnibus stories not always named.
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Post by Martin Dunne on May 9, 2006 15:56:28 GMT
Sorry, don't mean to put it on you--I have Globe and Mail at my State Library, so I could even do it myself! But if any Canadian fans want to do this, a history of the transmissions there would be a great project!
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Post by Bobby Clark (synthpopalooza) on May 9, 2006 16:19:00 GMT
Seems to me, for the WNED listings, maybe a look through the old TV Guide listings of the day might be of use? I don't know ... just a thought.
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Post by stevewilliams on May 9, 2006 16:30:11 GMT
Seems to me, for the WNED listings, maybe a look through the old TV Guide listings of the day might be of use? I don't know ... just a thought. My comment, above, was that the WNED showings were poorly documented. Being plege week showings they frequenltly didn't have the stories listed in any but the daily listings. The TVO schedule though was petty accurate. I don't think the Globe and Mail gave as much detail as TVguide or Toronto Starweek. I may look these up.
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Post by Bobby Clark (synthpopalooza) on May 9, 2006 20:52:31 GMT
I found a website: www.oldtvguides.comI don't know if they can do any TV listing searches, but it probably wouldn't hurt to ask them, I suppose. Still looking around ...
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Post by Martin Dunne on May 10, 2006 5:52:51 GMT
I'm starting a thread on TV listings reseach on the An Uneathly Child forum <http://timeandspace.proboards34.com/index.cgi>, the more the merrier. Martin... -- sfsa.org.au/, the South Australian Doctor Who Fan Club, Inc.
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Post by Martin Dunne on May 10, 2006 8:02:37 GMT
I'm checking out the TV Guide site; they do offer to find articles but the emphasis is on sales...
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Post by stevewilliams on May 10, 2006 11:20:04 GMT
I'm checking out the TV Guide site; they do offer to find articles but the emphasis is on sales... Yes and after all checking the schedule for a particular program over an 8-year period is not "looking up an article" but intensive research with a lot of note-taking taking a full day or more! That's not something they would do.
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Post by Martin Dunne on May 11, 2006 2:36:41 GMT
More pertinently I'm asking for a quote. If they respond I'll know what my time's been worth!
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Post by LanceM on May 12, 2006 1:44:27 GMT
What about that storehouse of CBC film material ? Was anything ever found ? Or is this just another hoax ?
Lance.
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Post by stevewilliams on May 12, 2006 11:51:53 GMT
What about that storehouse of CBC film material ? Was anything ever found ? Or is this just another hoax ? Lance. Hoax?? The CBC has just about a complete archive of everything it has ever produced since 1953. Nothing is missing except a few early live series. And a couple of critical tapes have "walked." Everything produced since 1960 has been specifically kept on two copies, quad and kinescopes at first, and later two videotape copies. Even all news programs from the beginning of the colour era were archived in some form. All programs of popular, jazz, and classic music have been saved. Some miracles have surfaced from the archive, 1950s jazz programs with everyone from Duke Ellington to Benny Goodman, dramas with the debut performances of William Shatner and Sean Connery, - Glenn Gould's several series and concerts all exist. The list is boundless. If the CBC was involved in any production of the last fifty years, they have it. The main problem of course is deterioration of early tapes, so a massive dubbing effort has been underway. archives.cbc.ca/info/281g_en1.shtml
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Post by LanceM on May 12, 2006 21:39:52 GMT
what about aired non CBC programs, like series from the BBC. What do you think happened to those film prints?
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Post by stevewilliams on May 13, 2006 1:23:27 GMT
what about aired non CBC programs, like series from the BBC. What do you think happened to those film prints? The only Who story of interest that they had was Journey to cathay. That seems to have been one set of prints that was bicyled from CBC affiliate to affiliate ending up in the West. At that point it was probably destroyed vis a vis the contract or returned to the BBC for them to burn. For VT The CBC has returned episodes of Moonbase and Up Pompeii among other colour items wiped by the BBC. Let us remember the other good archive keeper was TVOntario. Even though they did not have a specific mandate to hang on to them they returned over HALF of the Jon Pertwee missing colour episodes. Pertwee's Doctor would be in much worse shape without them! I have been in one of the TVO archives a few times.. They were the last broadcaster in Southern Ontario to drop 2" Quad, going straight to Betacam D, skipping 1" entirely, thus many 2" masters lasted until the late 80s, then were not needed for new programs. I myself have about 180 Quad tapes in my parents' garage from the CBC, TVO, CHCH, and an ad agencies. ('nuff said ;D )
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