Post by Colin Cutler on Sept 23, 2004 22:24:37 GMT
Pleasing to hear the interest in locating surviving clips from otherwise missing programmes. In regard to productions such as Out of the Unknown however, I'd be intrigued to know the full extent of the clips currently residing in the archives, but which haven't seen the light of day in years. We've had snippets of course in recent times ( fragments shown in The Late Show, Future Fantastic etc ), but it seems *probable* that there are still fragments yet to be given a re-showing:
This is fairly well-worn topic I know, but having located details of the original sixties documentaries in which these clips were first used ( and therefore became the source material for those later documentaries we're more familiar with ) I'd be interested to know if anyone can confirm their status in the archives:
1. A 1969 edition of the BBC science documentary ‘Towards Tomorrow’. This was broadcast on 25th March 1969 and was entitled “2001: An Earth Prophecy”. The surviving material from the Out of the Unknown play “Liar!” was first shown in this edition. Notably, a December 1967 edition of the same series also contains the only known surviving material from another Asimov OOTU tale ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’ ( I do know that this edition - entitled ‘Robot’ – definitely still resides intact in the BBC’s archives ).
2. Horizon ( tx. 28th July 1965 ) contained a feature on Science Fiction and was the original source of clips from the 1964 production The Caves of Steel' ( brief sections of which were later used in Future Fantastic ).
3. Further clips from The Caves of Steel were apparently also used in an edition of ‘Tomorrow's World’, broadcast on 9th December 1965. I'm surmising that the well-known title sequence/opening scene clip also hails from a feature on the Radiophonic Workshop which appeared in Tomorrows World during this era, although I’m not sure whether or not it was this particular December edition?
Can anyone provide any clarification as to whether the above programmes exist in full?
Regards
Colin
This is fairly well-worn topic I know, but having located details of the original sixties documentaries in which these clips were first used ( and therefore became the source material for those later documentaries we're more familiar with ) I'd be interested to know if anyone can confirm their status in the archives:
1. A 1969 edition of the BBC science documentary ‘Towards Tomorrow’. This was broadcast on 25th March 1969 and was entitled “2001: An Earth Prophecy”. The surviving material from the Out of the Unknown play “Liar!” was first shown in this edition. Notably, a December 1967 edition of the same series also contains the only known surviving material from another Asimov OOTU tale ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’ ( I do know that this edition - entitled ‘Robot’ – definitely still resides intact in the BBC’s archives ).
2. Horizon ( tx. 28th July 1965 ) contained a feature on Science Fiction and was the original source of clips from the 1964 production The Caves of Steel' ( brief sections of which were later used in Future Fantastic ).
3. Further clips from The Caves of Steel were apparently also used in an edition of ‘Tomorrow's World’, broadcast on 9th December 1965. I'm surmising that the well-known title sequence/opening scene clip also hails from a feature on the Radiophonic Workshop which appeared in Tomorrows World during this era, although I’m not sure whether or not it was this particular December edition?
Can anyone provide any clarification as to whether the above programmes exist in full?
Regards
Colin
