Taxi! - Sid James - '63-'64 ???

[Ted Rogers]

Taxi! - Sid James - '63-'64

Hi all, again!

Anyone know how many of the 26 episodes made. still exist ? Also, does anyone know the titles of those 26 ? Was there more then on series (as I'd imagine there must have been) ?

Many thanks in advance ;-)

[andrew martin]

There were two series:

10/7/63 It's Lonely Up Front
17/7/63 Barricade in Bailey Street
24/7/63 Everybody's In - Goodnight!
31/7/63 The Outing
7/8/63 The Villain
14/8/63 The Runaway
21/8/63 A Long Way to Go
28/8/63 The Accident
31/8/63 Benefit of the Doubt [changes tx day!]
7/9/63 Who's Taking Who for a Ride?
14/9/63 Ten Years Hard
21/9/63 Can You Drive a Little Faster?
28/9/63 Don't Do as I Do

4/4/64 Get Me to the Church
11/4/64 The Scousers
18/4/64 Two Little Ducks
25/4/64 It's a Long Way Home
2/5/64 The Price of Smoked Salmon
9/5/64 Tich
16/5/64 Sunday Mornings are for Sleeping
23/5/64 Three Bags Full, Sir
30/5/64 Christmas in May
6/6/64 Will You Marry Face? (sic)
13/6/64 We've Got to Live in the Winter
20/6/64 Two-Five-Two
27/6/64 It's a Mug's Game

The only complete existing episode is "The Villain"; there is a clip from "The Accident" in a programme called "More Than Meets the Eye" tx'd 20/5/65 (it was about tv violence, the clip doesn't feature Sid James, as far as I remember).

[Ted Rogers]

Thanks for that Andrew!

Are you sure, only one episode remains ? As I do seem to remember someone (somewhere) suggesting, they'd seen at least 4 episodes...

[andrew martin]

That's definitely all the BBC has... Can't speak for anyone else!

[Ian]

There was a thread on the MC site that stated four surviving eps - knew I should have queired it at the time...

[Ted Rogers]

Ian, that may be where I saw it. I'll go over there now, and have a look...

[Ian]

Ha!

Looks like I did question it - and the poster had confused it with CITIZEN JAMES.

[Ted Rogers]

Indeed Ian. That's what I discovered. Looks like there may be 4 remaining, though, from what I could gather...

[Gary]

4 episodes? you sure it wasn't only 3-2-1, Ted?

[Ted Rogers]

Gary, Wondered how long it'll take, before someone made a moc of my name ;-)

[Gary]

I didn't let you down then!

[carryonline]

I was the poster on MC who thought a tape I received contained Taxi, but it did in fact contain 5 season 1 episodes of Citizen James.

[Ted Rogers]

carryonline said:

I was the poster on MC who thought a tape I received contained Taxi, but it did in fact contain 5 season 1 episodes of Citizen James.

Hi carryonline! Any chance of divulging the quality of the 5 episodes you have on that tape ? Only I have 4 episodes, but they leave a very lot to be desired, quality wise :-(

[carryonline]

Episode 1 is a veritable drop out party, so much so that the first 5 minutes are pretty much unwatchable. The remainder is surprisingly good, as are the other episodes I have. They're a little dark, but the picture and sound quality is perfectly respectable. Not broadcast quality, but not too far below it.

[Ted Rogers]

carryonline said:

Episode 1 is a veritable drop out party, so much so that the first 5 minutes are pretty much unwatchable. The remainder is surprisingly good, as are the other episodes I have. They're a little dark, but the picture and sound quality is perfectly respectable. Not broadcast quality, but not too far below it.

Hi carryonline! Many thanks for you response ;-) As I said, I also have five episodes of this series, but unfortunately, they all sound only as good as your episode 1. Any chance of copies of those ohter 4 you have, that are much better quality ? If you'd like to discuss it, please email here: [e-mail]. As I appreciate, this is not the place... BTW, I may have something to in my own archive/ collection, that I could trade...