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Post by Simon Smith on Mar 12, 2012 17:14:22 GMT
Is this the right forum? Does anyone have any information about the upcoming 'Dixon Of Dock Green' DVD set?  Thank you |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2012 17:26:12 GMT
That's a new one to us all here but i'm sure that - if true - it'll please a few people!
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Post by davidstead on Mar 12, 2012 17:27:19 GMT
Well going by Amazon's listing, it could be any of the colour episodes, as it states it contains the first 7 colour episodes. It ought to say the first seven existing colour eps if it is indeed that. That series has suffered terribly over the years regarding what survives, but then was it ever sold abroad?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2012 18:34:16 GMT
It'll be a welcome release that'll help to fill the BBC void, DVD-wise. A shame there are so few episodes existing. I wonder if they'll release the rest and whether it'll open the door for other BBC series as well?
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Mar 12, 2012 18:54:57 GMT
I was watching Crime and Punishment this morning (a new series on BBC1) and it included a clip of Dixon of Dock Green from 1956. It was an old telerecording and I was thinking it would be nice if they vidfired all of those old episodes and made them available again.
Of course, that was before I'd checked LostShows.com which says that out of an original total of 436 episodes, only 33 complete shows exist. Ouch!
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Post by Joe Haynes on Mar 13, 2012 20:43:35 GMT
Oh please let this be true! im desperate to get this series and Z-Cars on DVD
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Post by Robert Manners on Mar 15, 2012 15:14:30 GMT
Of course, that was before I'd checked LostShows.com which says that out of an original total of 436 episodes, only 33 complete shows exist. Ouch! This might be the most wiped BBC show from a total out putted number of episodes verses the number of actual existing number in the archive today. Gosh and some Doctor Who fans think we have been badly done by with the number of gaps in the archives for who episodes. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2012 15:59:43 GMT
A shockingly bad survival rate indeed. From what I remember, there's a batch of very early episodes from 1956 and a whole bunch of later colour episodes, with not very much left from in-between... 2 or 3 episodes from the entire 1960's.
I've seen some of those later episodes and found them enjoyable if poignant given how old Jack Warner was by then, hence they generally confined him to the studio as opposed to any action sequences. One episode was unusually entirely on film and featured Gwyneth Powell in a major part, a few years before she gained immortality as Mrs McCluskey in Grange Hill.
Either way, a DVD release is very welcome but I doubt will sell too well since a large percent of it's original audience are sadly no longer around to enjoy them again. This is why I think it's kinda urgent that these older shows get given a repeat or release. My Gran who died a few months ago would had loved to have seen Dixon and Z Cars again, but sadly, it wasn't to be so had to endure the rubbish we get dished that passes for "daytime TV" instead.
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Post by davidstead on Mar 15, 2012 19:01:17 GMT
I did the original listing for Steve Bryant of what was missing of Dixon and apart from a few Phillips1500 colour recordings found when production rooms were cleared, nothing has ever been recovered f/r wise of any pre1970 episode (please correct me if I'm wrong).
I wouldn't have thought it was likely to have been sold abroad due to the nature of what it was , so probably one of the rarer programmes to ever find!
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Post by davidstead on Mar 15, 2012 19:01:53 GMT
ooops! lol unlikely to have been sold abroad I meant...lol
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Post by simoncurtis on Mar 15, 2012 23:27:50 GMT
Of course, that was before I'd checked LostShows.com which says that out of an original total of 436 episodes, only 33 complete shows exist. Ouch! This might be the most wiped BBC show from a total out putted number of episodes verses the number of actual existing number in the archive today. Gosh and some Doctor Who fans think we have been badly done by with the number of gaps in the archives for who episodes. [/quote What about the bbc's 1960's soap opera's' 'Newcomers' (only 5 out of 430 eps exist) and 'united' (147 eps - nothing exists). Unbelievable isn't it...what was going on back then? |
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Post by Ken Griffin on Mar 15, 2012 23:56:09 GMT
ooops! lol unlikely to have been sold abroad I meant...lol But wouldn't at least some of the pre-1959 episodes have been telerecorded onto film in advance? Does anyone know what happened to them? |
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Post by davidstead on Mar 16, 2012 0:22:12 GMT
There seems to have been a fair amount of 35mm film recordings done of programming around 1955/56, not sure why. After all those specific 2nd season episodes of Dixon for a start. Most of the 50's ones were probably done live in any case as mostly studio bound in those days. It's odd that nothing else from the 50's and only a small number of f/r's from the 60's survive to this day. You may be right in that the surviving 60's ones were prerecorded on f/r for transmission and hence survive due to that.
I haven't been able to find anywhere that specifically states whether it was sold at all by the BBC during it's 21 year run. Disgraceful that the only transmittable full season is the final one from 1976.
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Post by Richard Marple on Mar 16, 2012 12:48:24 GMT
Compact has only 4 episodes out of 373 surviving.
The BBC seemed to try a few soaps in the 1960s, & none of the seemed to last long.
Angels was the first soaplike continuing drama for many years to become a long runner.
It indirectly helped launch Eastenders & Casualty.
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Post by Dean Williams on Mar 16, 2012 23:00:40 GMT
Why would Dixon have been so unsaleable abroad? I'd have thought demand for a cosy series about a British bobby would be fairly good in Commonwealth countries like Canada and Australia in particular. And the US is often keen on such typically British series?
Was a sale even attempted? I can't see the series being so untouchable, especially given that it starred a film star (Warner) who would have some sort of name abroad for things like the Huggetts and his many other 40s and 50s films?
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