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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2008 16:59:47 GMT
Do these serials exist anywhere? [glow=red,2,300][/glow]
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Post by Steven Sigel on Jun 18, 2008 18:26:42 GMT
I'm 95% certain that "The Trollenberg Terror" no longer exists.. Don't know about the "Strange World of Planet X T".....
You can - however - get the movie adaptation of "The Trollenberg Terror" which is excellent. In the USA it was released under the title "The Crawling Eye" . It is available (in the US anyway) on DVD...
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Post by eric lawton on Jun 18, 2008 18:49:32 GMT
Yes, I got hold of the movie version a while ago. My fave horror film as a kid. The Guy from Sexton Blake ( Laurence Payne ? ) and Forrest Tucker were in it. Bit cheesey to watch now but still a "good un".
Eric.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2008 18:58:42 GMT
I'm pretty sure both TV versions are non-existent as they probably went out live (and were presumably never recorded).
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Post by Greg H on Jun 18, 2008 19:33:07 GMT
Im pretty certain they are long gone as well.
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Post by Daniel O'Brien on Jun 19, 2008 8:19:16 GMT
'The Strange World of Planet X' was also remade as a feature film, with Forrest Tucker in the lead role. It's been released on video in the US but I don't think there's a DVD.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2008 7:42:30 GMT
Ishould have stated really that I was put in contact with someone who had certain episodes from these 2 serials but it ended there, so something is out there........lurking
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Post by Daniel O'Brien on Jun 20, 2008 19:10:06 GMT
Ishould have stated really that I was put in contact with someone who had certain episodes from these 2 serials but it ended there, so something is out there........lurking I've heard rumours that film recordings of 'Trollenberg Terror' exist in Canada but I'll believe them when I see them, so to speak. I've no idea if these serials were sold abroad, or if it's even possible to verify any foreign sales. 50 years on from their only known broadcasts, I wouldn't get my hopes up. Your contact seems to have broken off communication very quickly, which probably tells its own story. Call me a pessimist, but in these instances I doubt there's anything lurking anywhere. |
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Post by johnstewart on Jul 1, 2008 14:30:29 GMT
I suppose 'the man' on this would be the BBCs Andrew Martin.
He might know if theres record of direction to record the productions off air onto T/R?
This is the main factor with 1950s T.V. in Britain; it wasn't wiped it just was selective as to whether any T.V. pre VT was recorded off air.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2008 19:15:14 GMT
These were ITV shows, John.
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Post by johnstewart on Jul 8, 2008 15:10:30 GMT
Thanks - didn't realise!!!
ITV had VT from 1958 didn't they?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2008 15:37:47 GMT
Yes, the pre-recorded sections of the drama anthology "Women In Love" (Rediffusion) are from that year and seems to be one of the earliest existing UK VTs (I don't think i'm wrong in saying that I don't think the BBC has anything quite as early as this). I believe there are also one or two other programmes existing from around this time or just before that were made by Jack Hylton Productions for Rediffusion.
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Post by Andrew Doherty on Jul 8, 2008 16:58:16 GMT
Associated Rediffusion was the first British television company to install Ampex video tape recording machines at their Wembley Park complex in June / July 1958.
The BBC installed their first Ampex video tape recording machine on October 1st 1958 followed later by two more.
Yours,
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