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Post by Kev Mulrenan on Oct 10, 2008 16:52:16 GMT
What's the archive status of this show aimed at the American market?
It was a variety show, full of crooners and girls in sassy dresses, cabaret comedians, jugglers etc. with middle of the road popsters like Freddie and the Dreamers thrown in.
An entertaining little show.
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Post by Matthew Brannigan on Oct 11, 2008 5:52:28 GMT
I'm really interested in the status of this show too - because it was aimed at a US audience it was made in NTSC colour - it would be great to see some clips...
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Post by Kev Mulrenan on Oct 11, 2008 7:41:35 GMT
Well I can confirm that 2 exist as black and white kines for sure.
The performers seemed to have been briefed to mention America as many times as possible.
Filmed by ATV in London apparantly.
Any experts know where? And is London used here to include a 100 mile area incorporating the home counties!
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Post by LanceM on Oct 11, 2008 11:16:36 GMT
A while back I was researching the fate of the 16mm film prints to the United States Library Of Congress, and found through research of deposited films, and references to British Television that I located 16mm prints of the 1967 ATV show Spotlight, which was also marketed in the USA, with Van Bernard Productions at the helm of the US side of marketing and screening of the series.Here are the episodes discovered to be held on film: Episode 3: Featuring Shelly Berman, Shani Wallis, Englebert Humperdnick Episode 6: Trini Lopez, Frank Gorshin Episode 7: Paul Anka, Lana Cantrell, Benny Hill Episode 9 : Eddie Fisher, Connie Stevens, Roy Castle There was a thread a while back on the subject of Van Bernard, and US/UK screened shows. Also, ran a search for Spotlight on lostshows.com : www.lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=1bae1346-a24b-408a-b751-da65728b9a6fWhich stated that only a single edition from 1960 is missing. Also found this bit of info: Address : www.atvaudio.com/ata_search.php?current_page=2&month=&day=&year=&keywords=George+Gobel#4511: SHOWTIME 1968-09-03, WCBS 52 min. Georgia Brown, Soupy Sales, George Gobel, The Peddlers, Kenneth McKellar, Ray Alan, Finn Jon, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders June 11, 1968-September 17, 1968. This hour-long variety series was hosted by a guest celebrity each week. Hope this is of some assistance here. Will continue looking for further information on the archive status of this series. Cheers, Lance. |
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Post by Phil Leach on Oct 24, 2008 15:21:25 GMT
This series was broadcast right at the end of the existence of ATV London in 1968 under the title 'The Big Show'. Judging by the guests listed in The Times it looks similar to Sunday Night at the London Palladium (in fact it's in the same slot...) Some weeks it's replaced by Spotlight (another show made by ATV aimed across the Atlantic). The Big Show also took over from the last ATV series of Morecambe and Wise - which is another series often discussed but never seen. I've found details for 13 shows from 7 April 1968 up to 28 July 1968. Perhaps they made more for America but ran out of time to show them here?
It seems probable that they made them in 67 and they then sat on the shelf for a while.
There's some interesting guests: Jimmy Edwards, Roy Castle, Michael Bentine, Dave Allen, Terry-Thomas, Lulu and Cliff and the like but also lots obviously aimed at the Americans (Liberace!) plus as has been already said some pretty middle of the road musical guests: Acker Bilk, Freddie and the Dreamers, Frank Ifield, the Dallas Boys (Leicester harmony group who often seem to turn up in MOR ATV programmes...) plus the Dave Clark Five! Might be nice to see some of these sometime but I wouldn't expect too much from the likes of Ted Kavanagh's Irish Dancers and the Five Luxors......
Several episodes do apparantly exist as well.
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Post by William Martin on Oct 24, 2008 15:54:35 GMT
who in britian would have had ntsc colour equipment, was it specific studios or would they be hired, and then set up in a normal studio?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2008 10:48:46 GMT
Companies like ATV and Rediffusion had NTSC 525 line equipment from the mid '60s and shot some material in this format for overseas use.
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Post by William Martin on Oct 26, 2008 11:55:07 GMT
like the muppet show?
so it likely that the australian show was made by one of these?
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Post by Martin Dunne on Oct 27, 2008 7:52:55 GMT
Totally lost me there; the Australian show?
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Post by William Martin on Oct 27, 2008 17:44:00 GMT
sorry I meant american show I should have just said "show time", that which was aimed at the US, perhaps it was also videod in 405 line in parralel as in
tom jones /englebert humperdink
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2008 18:04:52 GMT
so it likely that the australian show was made by one of these? Er, yes! It was stated near the top of the thread that it was made by ATV! |
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Post by William Martin on Oct 27, 2008 19:07:14 GMT
I wouldn't know half the thread is missing on my screen, I'll try logging out and logging back in.
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Post by Peter Bradford on Oct 27, 2008 20:30:37 GMT
Companies like ATV and Rediffusion had NTSC 525 line equipment from the mid '60s and shot some material in this format for overseas use. I'm not sure Rediffusion had much colour equipment - certainly ABC had a fair bit at Teddington where much of the ITA/ITV colour research was taking place. Intertel used to provide mobile NTSC colour recording facilities and so could be 'booked' to any location throughout Europe and the UK. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2008 20:43:22 GMT
Rediffusion had colour VT equipment from around 1966 and they made several series and dramas at their Wembley studios as try-outs and for the American market (e.g. The Hippodrome Show, Star Performance, Half Hour Story etc.) Some of these still exist. One play, "The Human Voice", has been released as a region 1 DVD.
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Post by Peter Bradford on Oct 28, 2008 10:22:29 GMT
Rediffusion had colour VT equipment from around 1966 and they made several series and dramas at their Wembley studios as try-outs and for the American market (e.g. The Hippodrome Show, Star Performance, Half Hour Story etc.) Some of these still exist. One play, "The Human Voice", has been released as a region 1 DVD. I think Intertel provided the kit for many Rediffusion efforts - they were based a couple of miles away in Stonebridge Park and only had to drive up the road. When LWT took over at Wembley they took a share in Intertel, when the OB van was working on an Intertel 'job' they put an Intertel sign on the side - when it was working for LWT they stuck an LWT sign on the side! - I knew a couple of (retired) chaps who used to work on the OB trucks - some lovely stories of going round bends too quickly and the VT literally falling over on its side - they had to pick some of the valves up off the floor and plug them back in! Not to worry - its the fact that the progs were made in colour (in color!) in the first place that's the main point. |
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