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Post by Rob K on Oct 17, 2013 14:50:09 GMT
This is probably nonsense, but a small memory just resurfaced... Ages ago on one of the strands about the British Fraggle Rock, someone asked if they'd been repeated on another channel. Weren't at least some of them repeated on Channel 4 on weekend mornings around the late eighties/1990ish? I've a vague memory of watching them on 4 as a kid on a Saturday or Sunday morning. I suppose it's too daft to suggest C4 might still have anything? (Even if they'd had tapes they'd probably have been sent back to TVS?) It was definitely the live action and not the cartoon version.
Clutching at straws maybe! I still can't get over FR or Mr Majeika going AWOL. (After the earlier discussion on here I did find that the BFI seems to list about half the Majeikas including all of series 1.)
Can't we get the guy who found those Doctor Whos onto this? He seems to be able to achieve the impossible.
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Post by Alex Taylor on Oct 17, 2013 15:46:58 GMT
There have been repeats, although I'm not aware of anything on C4. Most of the repeats were done using the US tapes rather than the UK ones, though.
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Post by anthonyforth on Oct 25, 2013 12:10:32 GMT
Done a quick check and there seem to have been regional repeats of Fraggle Rock on ITV up to 1994. Presumably these would've been the UK versions? Last screening was on 02 Sept 1994 at 11 - 11.25 on Anglia and Central.
In 1995 it started to be shown on the Disney Channel
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Post by Alex Taylor on Oct 26, 2013 9:42:54 GMT
It's possible, but so far no evidence has emerged as to which version was shown. The only confirmed repeats of the UK version that I know of occurred during the show's original run.
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Post by christian bews on Apr 19, 2016 21:46:40 GMT
on BBC1's 'the TV that made me' a few weeks ago, they showed a clip from the UK version with fulton McKay as the lighthouse keeper. is this the only TVS footage from 'fraggle rock' still exist?
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Post by Alex Taylor on May 8, 2016 10:01:09 GMT
No. Almost all the episodes survive, albeit mostly as a collection of domestic off-air recordings - see the link in my signature for details :-)
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Post by mattdoe on Mar 8, 2018 23:18:44 GMT
No. Almost all the episodes survive, albeit mostly as a collection of domestic off-air recordings - see the link in my signature for details :-) Hi Alex, Your list in the signature for Fraggle episodes is great, as you are aware the 9 missing episodes on your list also exist now which is great. Just a shame nothing can be worked out to release the episodes again, like everything I guess supply and demand also and the effort to go into a project like that.
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Post by T. Kielland on Mar 2, 2021 0:00:15 GMT
Here in Norway we got the US version dubbed into Norwegian, but a couple of years ago someone mentioned the show at work and a colleague mentioned that he had grown up watching a British version of the show as he had spent much of his childhood in Africa with medical aid worker parents (IIRC). Has African broadcasters been looked into?
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Mar 2, 2021 0:49:37 GMT
Here in Norway we got the US version dubbed into Norwegian, but a couple of years ago someone mentioned the show at work and a colleague mentioned that he had grown up watching a British version of the show as he had spent much of his childhood in Africa with medical aid worker parents (IIRC). Has African broadcasters been looked into? I'm delighted to say all of the UK Fraggle Rock episodes are essentially now recovered; I believe a couple are lacking end credits, but....otherwise....full house!
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Post by Nigel Lamb on Mar 2, 2021 14:16:44 GMT
Brilliant news Ray.
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Post by George D on Mar 2, 2021 15:40:07 GMT
That's apparently the case but many are vhs. Any broadband quality prints would be an important find
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Post by Stephen Byers on Mar 2, 2021 17:11:53 GMT
Here in Norway we got the US version dubbed into Norwegian, but a couple of years ago someone mentioned the show at work and a colleague mentioned that he had grown up watching a British version of the show as he had spent much of his childhood in Africa with medical aid worker parents (IIRC). Has African broadcasters been looked into? I'm delighted to say all of the UK Fraggle Rock episodes are essentially now recovered; I believe a couple are lacking end credits, but....otherwise....full house! And the opportunities to view them are ... ??
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Post by RWels on Mar 2, 2021 18:49:19 GMT
Here in Norway we got the US version dubbed into Norwegian, but a couple of years ago someone mentioned the show at work and a colleague mentioned that he had grown up watching a British version of the show as he had spent much of his childhood in Africa with medical aid worker parents (IIRC). Has African broadcasters been looked into? I also heard that a lot of bootlegs made it to South Africa. It could also be that expats managed to get tapes sent to them. Still potentially interesting.
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Post by Richard Marple on Mar 2, 2021 22:17:39 GMT
Victor Pemberton managed to have copies all the episodes he wrote, has his video collection being donated to Kaleidoscope?
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Mar 3, 2021 0:17:16 GMT
Victor Pemberton managed to have copies all the episodes he wrote, has his video collection being donated to Kaleidoscope? As far as I know, yes.
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