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Post by Jonathan Coley on Mar 31, 2009 12:53:40 GMT
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Post by Ant Harvison - WIPED NEWS on Apr 1, 2009 7:39:29 GMT
According to Lost Shows.com:
Series 1
o 31.12.66 Episode 1 (missing)
Series 2
o 06.04.68 Episode 7 (missing)
Series 3
o 29.04.69 with Miriam Karlin, Arthur Mullard, Deryck Guyler, Robert Dorning, Eric Barker, John Scott, Robin Ford, Bob Todd, Bruce Wells, Eddie Connor (missing)
o 06.05.69 Episode 5 (missing)
o 20.05.69 Episode 6 (missing)
5 episodes are missing or incomplete out of a total of 20.
Trouble is, which episode is for sale?
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Post by John Wall on Apr 1, 2009 10:49:30 GMT
Some of the sketches are identified, that might help.
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Post by cperry on Apr 1, 2009 13:28:48 GMT
I don't think anyone knows which episode this is.
I don't know anyone who has ever seen all the surviving episodes to know what is in them.
And I know that no scripts exist.
We'll bid on it just in case, but it's unlikely to be missing.
c
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Post by W Olding on Apr 1, 2009 13:47:01 GMT
Comedy sketch series continuing from COOPERAMA, with Tommy Cooper. GB, ABC (Series 1-2) Thames TV (Series 3) Tx ITV: (Series 1) 1966/12/31 - 1967/02/04 (Series 2) 1968/02/24 - 1968/04/06 (Series 3) 1969/04/08 - 1969/05/20
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Post by Stephen Doran on Apr 1, 2009 14:38:12 GMT
Which show was the Autumn Leaves sketch on?
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Post by W Olding on Apr 1, 2009 18:17:16 GMT
My above message was clipped from the BFI web site... I couldn't leave any other details with it, as my keyboard was on charge...
The eBay listing says it's an ABC TV episode, so if that's correct, then the 2 later series can be ruled out... as they were shown on THAMES TV...
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Post by Graham Varney on Apr 1, 2009 19:20:02 GMT
Each episode had a title. Given the picture and the titles of the first two sketches, it could be "Call-to-Arms", Tx 9/3/68.
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Post by RWels on Apr 2, 2009 8:29:24 GMT
But you don't always know the title just by watching. I looked for the title of the ABC episode recovered from domestic video (not listed as such on lostshows), but I couldn't find it.
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Post by cperry on Apr 5, 2009 8:47:47 GMT
Someone paid a very high price for this print. £516.
The biggest waste of money they will ever spend for an incomplete telerecording.
You can buy them on VHS from Canal plus for £20 each lol!
It appears after investigation this wasn't a missing ep say Canal+.
I can't help feeling that people lurk on this forum and step in to try to buy 'missing' stuff that is flagged up. :-(
c
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Post by Mark Smith on Apr 5, 2009 13:47:45 GMT
I can't help feeling that people lurk on this forum and step in to try to buy 'missing' stuff that is flagged up. :-( If true, that would indeed be a rather sad state of affairs...  |
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Post by W Olding on Apr 5, 2009 16:32:57 GMT
The biggest waste of money they will ever spend for an incomplete telerecording. Possibly, if it is an incomplete episode. As he says, it runs for about 20mins (so could be slightly more), which could meen it actually has the same running time as a THAMES TV episode, which is around 22mins - if my 2 copies are anything to go by... So in fact, may even turn out to be complete... Also, despite it appearing not being a missing episode, wouldn’t the fact that it may be a very good quality transfer, better then the one that Canal + have in their archive, make it not exactly worthless? |
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Post by cperry on Apr 5, 2009 22:28:51 GMT
All the Life with Cooper eps exist on 16mm neg, you wont get much better Ted. It's just that the research copies were made very cheaply :-)
I've had a number of people email me behind the scenes agreeing that some collectors lurk here to sniff good deals. A very sad situation.
c
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Post by W Olding on Apr 5, 2009 22:36:09 GMT
All the Life with Cooper eps exist on 16mm neg, you wont get much better Ted. It's just that the research copies were made very cheaply :-) I've had a number of people email me behind the scenes agreeing that some collectors lurk here to sniff good deals. A very sad situation. c Happy to hear that what does survive, Chris, survives in such great condition. All we need now, then, is for them to be released on DVD - so they don't rot away in archive... As for the' lurkers'... surely all they need do, is keep an eye out on the big ‘e’ (if nothing else, it’s a good start...). |
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Post by cperry on Apr 6, 2009 6:21:29 GMT
Ebay lists lots of old TV but doesn't rate their archival status, people come here to find out what's valuable and what's not.
I suspect someone saw the word Tommy Cooper and thought 'big money' if I can sell his missing sketches.
Sadly Tommy sits in Canal+ hell where nothing is ever released because the TV rights are not cleared.
c
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