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Post by Luke Phelps on Nov 24, 2009 20:47:06 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2009 22:33:32 GMT
These sort of programmes are never talked about archivally so it'd be interesting to know. I've seen film clips in the past with William Woollard so something will exist (if not all?) It's certainly a different programme to what it was though!
I often wonder about the archive status of it's predecessor, Wheelbase, too.
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Post by Warchild on Nov 24, 2009 23:20:15 GMT
The earliest show to survive (according to the BBC motion gallery) is from 13/07/1978 presented by Angela Rippon and Barrie Gill and all 10 episodes in that series exist. It looks like everything from then on also exists but these late '70s magazine shows probably look far too dated to bother repeating on UK Gold
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Post by Peter Stirling on Nov 25, 2009 10:15:35 GMT
1970s Top Gear (IIRC) was a copy of a "with it" motoring programme from ITV called 'Drive in' with Shaw Taylor .
The BBC had previously made 'Wheelbase' which was typical BBC effort(IMHO) from the era IE slow,stuffy and a bit pompous.
Drive In had good presentation,exciting films, location VTR and was well put together for an off peak filler programme.It was no 'flash in the pan' programme either with good long episode runs each season.
I would suspect nothing exists of Drive In anymore? which is a shame as Top Gear owes it something.
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Post by davemachin on Nov 25, 2009 10:31:22 GMT
Which of the ITA companies made Drive In, Peter?
Looks like I'll be registering with motion gallery as well. Thanks for the tip, Don.
Dave
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Post by Andrew Martin on Nov 25, 2009 13:58:28 GMT
The earliest show to survive (according to the BBC motion gallery) is from 13/07/1978 presented by Angela Rippon and Barrie Gill and all 10 episodes in that series exist. It looks like everything from then on also exists but these late '70s magazine shows probably look far too dated to bother repeating on UK Gold Motion Gallery presumably only go from network transmissions - the first Top Gear was part of the Midlands strand "Contact" tx'd 22/4/77, and still exists. The show was monthly to begin with, but became weekly when it was relaunched on the network in July 1978. There are about 4 episodes that seem not to exist, all from the first couple of years. There are lots of existing episodes of "Wheelbase" too... |
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Post by davemachin on Nov 26, 2009 12:34:16 GMT
Wow. That's very interesting Andrew. So they all survive apart from four. Which is a very good survival rate for programmes that would seem to date very quickly. A bit of social history though that would be good to look back at. I don't know what the lad's tv version that is the modern Top Gear would say about life in 2009 though  Dave |
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Post by Mark Tinkler on Nov 26, 2009 17:26:58 GMT
Yeah I mean can you imagine, Top Gear was originally about reviewing cars - how quaint...
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