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Post by LanceM on Oct 8, 2009 1:21:31 GMT
Hello Again, Was looking around online, and found what looks to be an interesting organization based in the US which has been archiving and storing pilot TV shows, rejected shows,material not meant for broadcast,etc. lost-episodes.com/cblog/index.php?/pages/pagetitle.htmlHave apparently been working since 1961 as a secure repository for shows produced,however never broadcast.Has an edition of Star Trek,Lost In Space,Planet Of The Apes,and even an episode from The Benny Hill Show "Show #23 Benny runs quickly around a picnic table in order to catch a shapely female. Guest Stars: None. 19-Feb-1975" Nothing new there for Benny,seems like all he ever had on his mind! Given the apparent scope of the collection,might be worth a message to see if they might have material from other series not listed on their online site.However can't seem to access the contact page for some reason? Would appreciate a second opinion on this organization if at all possible.Seems like a good research prospect? Cheers,Lance. |
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Post by RWels on Oct 8, 2009 15:25:39 GMT
Reminds me a bit of "The best TV shows that never were".
what do you make of this?
"For 40 years, the archive's existence was a secret, known only to the highest-ranking members of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the CIA and the catholic church."
Doesn't that simply spell J O K E?
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Post by LanceM on Oct 8, 2009 22:10:01 GMT
That is what made me think twice about the site,is why I was hoping for a second opinion in regards to this organization.
Would be nice to think this organization was a legitimate one.
Again, any further thoughts,info, etc here would be much appreciated.
Cheers,Lance.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2009 8:10:52 GMT
Sounds like pure X-Files territory to me!
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Post by B Thomas on Oct 10, 2009 20:30:44 GMT
Sounds like they're pulling yer whistle to me...
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Post by Steven Sigel on Oct 11, 2009 4:14:24 GMT
In the words of Senator Claghorn - "It's a Joke, Son - A Joke".
I didn't spend much time there, but take a look at the so-called Star Trek episode:
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Episode 67: The Center of The Valley of Machinekind
The crew beams down to Ipsilon-Beta-9, a planet on which all technology works flawlessly. Scotty, tired of constantly repairing the perpetually dilapidated Enterprise, vows to stay on the planet and start a family with a comely robot girl. When the robot tries to seduce Kirk and shorts out her own circuitry, Scotty returns to the Enterprise, realizing that both love and radiation-powered logic processing units don't last forever.
Guest Stars: Connie Stevens (Nebula Five-One-Six). 13-Dec-1968
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Come on!!!
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Post by LanceM on Oct 12, 2009 3:06:10 GMT
Hello Again,
Many thanks to all for the assistance and thoughts concerning this joke-website,is very much appreciated again!
Cheers,Lance.
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Post by Bobby Clark (synthpopalooza) on Oct 12, 2009 4:35:54 GMT
One thing that should have been a giveaway:
There are no missing Star Trek episodes, except for sections of the pilot episode "The Cage", bits of which were later used in "The Menagerie" with different voice overs for the Talosian aliens. The bits with the original voice that got used in "The Menagerie" are, I think, lost forever.
The original color version was missing, but somehow turned up somewhere.
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Post by Steven Sigel on Oct 12, 2009 4:51:02 GMT
One thing that should have been a giveaway: There are no missing Star Trek episodes, except for sections of the pilot episode "The Cage", bits of which were later used in "The Menagerie" with different voice overs for the Talosian aliens. The bits with the original voice that got used in "The Menagerie" are, I think, lost forever. The original color version was missing, but somehow turned up somewhere. Actually, the original version (with the original Talosian voices) is NOT lost forever. They have it - but when they did the video release, they used the Menagerie footage with the newer voice because it was higher quality (35mm neg instead of 16mm print). At first, they only had a B&W print (Gene Roddenberry used to bring it to his talks - I saw it in the 80s at MIT) and the first released video of the cage was a merged version of the color footage from the menagerie and the B&W footage filling in for stuff that was removed. Several years later, they found a color print and re-released it all in color with Menegarie footage used whereever possible and Cage print footage used to fill in. In both of these cases, the voices in the parts from the Cage print are the old voice, and the parts from the Menagerie are the new vocie -- very bizarre in some places where the voice changes mid-sentence. I'm not sure what they did for the DVD release... The really rare bit of Star Trek is the original pilot version of "Where No Man Has Gone Before" where there's a prologue and a few minor extra scenes, plus different credits and music (and Quinn Martin style 'Act 1' cards) . So far as I know there are no official releases of this version - the only copies around are some 16mm prints (and bootleg videos). |
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Post by Phillip Culley on Oct 20, 2009 13:19:42 GMT
The really rare bit of Star Trek is the original pilot version of "Where No Man Has Gone Before" where there's a prologue and a few minor extra scenes, plus different credits and music (and Quinn Martin style 'Act 1' cards) . So far as I know there are no official releases of this version - the only copies around are some 16mm prints (and bootleg videos). Although it's reportedly going to be on the Blu-Ray release of Season 3  |
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