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Post by Ant Harvison - WIPED NEWS on Apr 6, 2009 8:42:29 GMT
Charles, have or are the THAS copies of missing HHH radio shows The Diet, How Hancock Won the War, Sid James' Dad and The New Radio Series going to be returned to/released by the BBC?
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Post by Charles Norton on Apr 6, 2009 9:37:15 GMT
Not sure. I'll look into it.
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Post by Charles Norton on Apr 6, 2009 11:32:00 GMT
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Post by Ant Harvison - WIPED NEWS on Apr 6, 2009 19:09:29 GMT
Thanks Charles. Hopefully the others will get a restored airing at some point as well.
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Post by adriane17 on Apr 7, 2009 17:20:35 GMT
Well there must be plenty of "rare" material that the BBC could release but we will just have to wait and see....
The TV soundtracks seem to have been abandoned so what about the radio material at least?
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Post by Ant Harvison - WIPED NEWS on Apr 7, 2009 17:33:53 GMT
I wouldn't say that. Two of the soundtracks are being released by BBC Audiobooks later this year.
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Post by Charles Norton on Apr 7, 2009 19:59:38 GMT
Just to clear up any confusion... There has been a lot of discussion on this board about the recent return to the BBC of some missing episodes of Hancock’s Half Hour from 1959. For those of you who don’t already know, six audio recordings from the fourth television series of HHH have been found to exist within the archives of the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society. The society has been extremely helpful and co-operative, and the episodes are now back with the BBC. As some of you also know, two new CDs have been prepared to show off the newly recovered episodes. The two episodes on the first disc are ‘The Flight of the Red Shadow’ from 23rd January 1959 and ‘The Wrong Man’ from 6th March 1959. The second disc will feature ‘The Horror Serial’ from 30th January 1959 and ‘The Beauty Contest’ from 20th February 1959. Special sleeve notes have been written for both CDs. The first CD will hopefully be in the shops for July 2nd. The second disc will be available around November. If anyone’s interested, you can pre-order the first disc directly from the online BBC shop now: www.bbcshop.com/Comedy/Hancock-+quotLost+quot-TV-Eps-Flight-of-the-Red-ShadowWrong-Man/invt/9781408426821 I hope you all enjoy them: Charles Norton |
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Post by Ant Harvison - WIPED NEWS on Apr 8, 2009 8:24:36 GMT
Can't wait to hear these stories in all their glory, especially The Horror Serial. If anyone's interested I've written an article on Hancock's Half Hour and the recent discoveries - though not in as much detail as I would have liked - for comedy website Chortle. www.chortle.co.uk/correspondents/2009/04/08/8693/the_half_hour_that_changed_comedyMany thanks Charles, and the rest of THAS, for your hard work getting these classics back for all to enjoy. |
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Post by Charles Norton on Apr 8, 2009 10:17:54 GMT
I've just had a look at your article, I'm glad that you're so interested in the CDs and thanks for your kind comments.
There's just one thing I'd like to point out. You imply in your article that the original videotapes of these 'lost' episodes were wiped by the BBC and that's why they are missing. That's not 100% true. It's an easy mistake to make (and lots of others have made it). However, the vast majority of episodes of Hancock that were recorded to videotape still survive.
The main reason why many episodes are lost is because they were transmitted live. They were never recorded by the BBC in the first place. Series four was the last to go out live. All the episodes from series five onwards still survive.
You'll be able to read more about it in the sleeve-notes, but I just wanted to point out that in this particular instance the BBC are not guilty. There never were any videotapes of these episodes.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2009 11:13:24 GMT
The water is often muddied though when people refer to videotapes as "prints" and vice versa (and also often say something was "filmed" when in fact it was "taped"). Some other early HHHs were also telerecorded prior to the taped series (5 - 7) and it's these that were actually junked at some point - so everything that was recorded at the time doesn't survive now, although a lot does.
Also, although all the originally taped episodes exist nowadays, they don't exist actually ON TAPE; we only have (slightly sub-standard) sales prints of series 5 to 7 as the VTs WERE all wiped. The fact that any copies survive is not due to BBC care but (as with a lot of other series way back) the fact that they never got around to junking them before a proper archive system was put in place in the late '70s.
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