strange report[london tx dates]

[stephen doran]

does anyone have them in the right order please?

[John Green]

Well,it's the only Strange Report thread...

Andrew Pixley pointed out this blog, the first of two: sundayinoldmoney.blogspot.com/2023/08/report-0876-repeat-no-choice-for-viewer.html

"In the early 90s, a few ITC series began appearing as pre-recorded video tapes, and Tim (Beddows) excitedly reported that Strange Report was due out in this format. One afternoon in 1994, we went into Birmingham where we obtained the tapes from the HMV store. The four episodes released included a couple of decent examples – Heart and Cult – alongside the lightweight Covergirls and the misery fest that was X-Ray.

When the series next appeared in a home media format, it was Tim himself who was responsible. Having set up the Network DVD label in 1997, by 2004 he was able to persuade ITV to agree to a one-off release of his favourite series, using brand new copies prepared for BBC Studios by remastering genius Jonathan Wood. It says a lot about Tim’s loyalty to this oft-overlooked series that he chose it as the very first ITC release on his label, and during the preparation of special features for the release, he met and made a lifelong friend of Anneke Wills. He also asked me to design the sleeve – my first work for the label – as he deemed Network’s in-house designer insufficiently sympatico with Adam Strange. It was a good move, for I would go on to design the packaging for the bulk of Network’s ITC releases. Now, almost twenty years on, it’s mildly gratifying to see my old Strange Report sleeve design being used as iconography on imdb.

Network would go on to release the series' soundtrack in our curious 'CDs in DVD cases' format. A vinyl release was mooted (I went so far as to design a cover) but never materialised. A solitary episode – Kidnap – was upgraded to blu-ray as part of Network's HD sampler series Retro Action. Unfortunately, Tim got his titles mixed up when ordering up the master: he mistook Kidnap for Hostage (our favourite episode) and the error went overlooked. And for anyone wondering why Strange Report never got the full series blu-ray treatment, the answer is simple: Tim was quite happy with the 2004 DVD restoration, and considered a blu-ray upgrade low priority. That's not to say that it wouldn't have come along eventually – like Adam Strange's taxi – but without Tim, and without Network, Strange Report looks destined to remain in standard definition for the forseeable future."

[Stuart Douglas]

Also, since nobody ever seems to have answered the original question, here's the answer, only 20 years late

LONDON WEEKEND Strange Report 19 Sep 1969, 8:00 pm
Report 5055: Cult - Murder Shrieks Out
LONDON WEEKEND Strange Report 26 Sep 1969, 8:00 pm
Report 0846: Lonely Hearts - Who Killed Dan Cupid?
LONDON WEEKEND Strange Report 3 Oct 1969, 8:00 pm
Report 0649: Skeleton-Let Sleeping Heroes Lie
LONDON WEEKEND Strange Report 10 Oct 1969, 7:30 pm
Report 8319: Grenade "What Price Change?"
LONDON WEEKEND Strange Report 17 Oct 1969, 7:30 pm
Report 2641: Hostage If you won't learn-die
LONDON WEEKEND Strange Report 24 Oct 1969, 7:30 pm
Report 1021: Shrapnel-the wish in the dream
LONDON WEEKEND Strange Report 31 Oct 1969, 7:30 pm
Report 8944: HAND: 'A matter of witchcraft?'
LONDON WEEKEND Strange Report 7 Nov 1969, 7:30 pm
Report 1553: Racist - A Most Dangerous Proposal
LONDON WEEKEND Strange Report 14 Nov 1969, 7:30 pm
Report 7931: Sniper - When is Your Cousin Not?
LONDON WEEKEND Strange Report 21 Nov 1969, 7:30 pm
Report 4821: X-Ray-Who Weeps for the Doctor?
LONDON WEEKEND Strange Report 28 Nov 1969, 7:30 pm
Report 2493: Kidnap - Whose Pretty Girl Are You?
LONDON WEEKEND Strange Report 5 Dec 1969, 7:30 pm
Report 4407: Heart - No Choice for the Donor
LONDON WEEKEND Strange Report 12 Dec 1969, 7:30 pm
Report 3906: Cover Girls-Last Year's Model
LONDON WEEKEND Strange Report 19 Dec 1969, 7:30 pm
Report 3424-Epidemic
LONDON WEEKEND Strange Report 20 Mar 1970, 7:30 pm
Report 4977: Swindle-Square Root of Evil
LONDON WEEKEND Strange Report 27 Mar 1970, 7:30 pm
Report 2475-Revenge: When a Man Hates