At Last The 1948 Show/Do Not Adjust Your Set

[Paul Vanezis]

Further Do Not Adjust Your Set recoveries.

Tonight I have been going through the collection of a comedy enthusiast who recorded many radio and tv shows from the early sixties onwards on audio tape.

He has 13 episodes of DNAYS. The missing ones are:
#2 - 11/01/68
#15 - 26/02/69
#17 - 12/03/69
#18 - 19/03/69
#24 - 30/04/69
#26 - 14/05/69

Obviously, if anyone from the appropriate copyright owner is interested I'd like to know. In the meantime I'm not sure as they are ITV who else would be responsible for preserving them.

Any ideas, please let me know.

Regards,

Paul

[Tygerbug]

The 1948 Show release was a huge cockup. There are indeed something like six actual episodes which exist, which weren't released on this set, because the people putting it together probably didn't know they existed, blah blah.

My site has an old guide to stuff known to exist.

orangecow.org/pythonet/1948show

I used to offer four episodes for download at my site, three and a half of which are not on the DVD. I was shut down by the people making the DVD!

As stated earlier, there are at least two second series Do Not Adjust Your Sets that survive - Do Not Adjust Your Stocking and the first episode of the second series, which has the Bonzos doing Beautiful Zelda. I don't know if any more exist except in audio form. (There are audio recordings of second series DNAYS out there.)

I do have both these episodes, though. When repeated on TV about a decade ago, David Jason requested that he be cut out of Do Not Adjust Your Stocking. I do have the uncut version, though.

Hm.


(tygerbug at yahoo dot com)

[Tygerbug]

Hey Paul, by the way, I'm close with Laurie and Bonnie who run the official Neil Innes site, NeilInnes.org - any chance of getting copies of those lost DNAYS audio tracks? We could send 'em to Neil, he'd love 'em.

tygerbug at yahoo dot com.

[Moriarty01 pending]

Some further information to try and clarify (or even further confuse) matters regarding the 1st series of DNAYS.

I provided the list of episodes on the www.iankitching.me.uk/music/bonzos/dnays.html website from information I received from the National Film & TV archive back in 1996. Sadly, the details listed on the website are not the info I originally provided.

In summary; the episodes that the NFTVA hold (in 1996) are the Do Not Adjust Your Stocking episode from 25 December 1968 and the following episodes from the 1st series :

Episodes 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13. It is these nine episodes that are on the DVD release.

There is still some mystery over the 1967 Christmas Show. Wilmut's "From Fringe To Flying Circus" book states that Episode 1 was mistakenly broadcast on that date instead of the intended show and it overran as the Christmas Show did not have a commercial break. This suggests to me that the 1967 Christmas Show may have only been a 10-20 minute special possibly?

Hope this helps.

Andy

[Ian Beard]

Ian said:

...the TV HEAVEN run - which did include 1/1 in the 1967 night, (technically correct of course!).

My mistake, 1/1 turned up in the 1968 edition, (which still makes it sorta "technically correct".

[Matthew K Sharp]

Tygerbug said:

The 1948 Show release was a huge cockup. There are indeed something like six actual episodes which exist, which weren't released on this set, because the people putting it together probably didn't know they existed, blah blah.

My site has an old guide to stuff known to exist.

orangecow.org/pythonet/1948show

Wow, that's great! Do you know if the guy who wrote the guide has any plans to update it?

[Glen]

Maybe his update schedule mirrors that of ITV"s ouptut circa 1967?

[Matthew K Sharp]

Or maybe it's already been updated but the guy is wondering about circulating it widely if it's just going to get ripped off again...

But you'd have to ask the author about that.

[Stephen Doran]

my dvd arrived thursday from play.com,iwatched last night,good to see the bonzos again too. ;D i was very pleased with it.i have now ordered at last the 1948 show.

[RWels]

Matthew said:

Or maybe it's already been updated but the guy is wondering about circulating it widely if it's just going to get ripped off again...

But you'd have to ask the author about that.

And you are a completely different Matthew, isn't that right?


OK, so concluding, the '1948 show' DVD set contains only the compilations recovered in Sweden.
So it's not a matter of more to come because then they'd have tried to put it back in the original order.

Stupid bastards. With this DVD already released, the chances of another, proper, release will become a lot smaller.


Less silly, but also strange, is the fact that they put 172 minutes on 2 discs. Why not just put it on 1 disc?
And the comedy family tree omits How to irritate people.

[RWels]

What about DNAYS? I didn't have time to watch that yet, is that any better?

PS Matthew, if there is an updated list, could I please see it (under your conditions)?

[John Stewart Miller]

A point that occured to me actually is why 'Do not adjust your stocking' is held as a T-R ? (unusual for Thames). I wondered if it had anything to do with terry Jones. Which brings me onto a question previously asked, whether the film inserts for 'Captain fantastic' (i.e. like 'complete and utter history of britain') survive ?

Is that right, what someone said that a couple of the 'missiing' rediffusions were actually damaged, not missing ? Pity they aren't seen, I ws dying to know how fantastic 'got his legs back', and somewhere in the missing interim should be the introduction of the blit / blip men. I wonder what the bit I recalled where they appeared to have kidnapped the robots tea cup spaceship, was ? I also seem to recall it as a tea pot, unless it was a Thames continuation ? The blip men were definitely circling round and getting out of the spaceship.

[Stephen Doran]

Tygerbug said:

The 1948 Show release was a huge cockup. There are indeed something like six actual episodes which exist, which weren't released on this set, because the people putting it together probably didn't know they existed, blah blah.

My site has an old guide to stuff known to exist.

orangecow.org/pythonet/1948show;my dvd set arrived this morning[the 1948 show]ive watched disc one and thought it was hilarious,one question ive just looked at your tx dates and thought that are the shows on the dvd edited from other shows or the full shows?

;D

[RWels]

You should edit your post again. I still haven't got a clue what you are trying say.
I'll just guess that you want to ask why this version of the 1948 show?
Well, as you could have read yourself, there were some compilations discovered in Sweden. There is much more material in existance, but not on these DVDs. Sadly, this is only the Swedish material. Everything else has been ignored.

stephendoran said:

Tygerbug said:

The 1948 Show release was a huge cockup. There are indeed something like six actual episodes which exist, which weren't released on this set, because the people putting it together probably didn't know they existed, blah blah.

My site has an old guide to stuff known to exist.

orangecow.org/pythonet/1948show;my dvd set arrived this morning[the 1948 show]ive watched disc one and thought it was hilarious,one question ive just looked at your tx dates and thought that are the shows on the dvd edited from other shows or the full shows?

;D

[Stephen Doran]

thanks norman;im so glad the sydney lotterby sketch is included on disc 2 watch that later;a snippet was played on radio in 1999 to mark the 30 yrs of python. ;well i watched disc 2 last night and was very impressed too.