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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Jun 19, 2015 18:52:00 GMT
What would be the approximate duration of the Freewheelers (a great childhood favourite of mine) inserts Ian? The online catalogue doesnt appear to specify this. I guess the best we could hope for would be a release of Season 1 and `Doomsday' from Season 2 plus some of the inserts as a bonus if we are lucky.
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Post by Ian Wegg on Jun 19, 2015 20:05:10 GMT
Yes it's a shame the catalogue doesn't specify the lengths. The series 5 inserts I viewed this week totalled 60 minutes, so for a series of 13 x 25 minutes that represents about 18%. That surprises me because my feeling is that Freewheelers typically had a higher proportion of location footage than that. I will return and re-watch the other inserts at some point so I will note the timings then, unless anyone else knows?
A series 1 DVD release would be great, as would series 7 and 8 with cleaned up off-airs and re-inserted inserts.
~iw
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Jun 19, 2015 22:43:25 GMT
Thanks for the info Ian. Yes there was rather a lot of the series shot on location and the Season 5 inserts are I guess the equivalent of more than two episodes in terms of viewing time.
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Post by John Green on Jun 28, 2017 22:25:25 GMT
Series 7 of Freewheelers begins on Talking Pictures @ 6 PM on Monday 3rd July.
Wonderful if it was all the episodes...
(Thanks to Ian Beard for posting the information on Roobarb).
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Post by RWels on Mar 7, 2019 22:38:59 GMT
The Freewheelers ... for years I've been trying to remember the name to this series ... I used to watch it as a kid in Germany. What a great forum site this is. I had no idea that this was shown in Germany.It certainly looks as though there's hope that some of the series survived there. Someone brought this up elsewhere recently. But no matter how hard I google, I can't find any evidence. No German name, no fansite, no newspaper listing. So I am not sure. I did for example find evidence for a 1990 CITV repeat and the name and air dates for the Netherlands. Someone could email ZDF who are supposed to have been involved - they answer queries.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Mar 8, 2019 9:33:09 GMT
Must be worth checking but my understanding is that ZDF do charge a search fee for such queries.
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Post by RWels on Mar 8, 2019 11:00:57 GMT
Must be worth checking but my understanding is that ZDF do charge a search fee for such queries. In that case I must be behind in my payments. I made them confirm that they only have the German dubbed version of Engelbert with the Young Generation (no 2nd, original audio track). But as I said, I found no trace of it, as opposed to other series. For other series, I can eventually find the German name and other info.
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Post by Jon Preddle on Mar 11, 2019 19:27:40 GMT
I had no idea that this was shown in Germany.It certainly looks as though there's hope that some of the series survived there. Someone brought this up elsewhere recently. But no matter how hard I google, I can't find any evidence. No German name, no fansite, no newspaper listing. So I am not sure. I did for example find evidence for a 1990 CITV repeat and the name and air dates for the Netherlands. Someone could email ZDF who are supposed to have been involved - they answer queries. Are you looking at German papers online? Which ones, and through what site?
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Post by RWels on Mar 11, 2019 20:09:20 GMT
Someone brought this up elsewhere recently. But no matter how hard I google, I can't find any evidence. No German name, no fansite, no newspaper listing. So I am not sure. I did for example find evidence for a 1990 CITV repeat and the name and air dates for the Netherlands. Someone could email ZDF who are supposed to have been involved - they answer queries. Are you looking at German papers online? Which ones, and through what site? Some German websites such as www.fernsehserien.de and the pidax forum; and Dutch newspapers which include German TV listings, because they happen to be easily searchable and accessible until 1995. Freewheelers is conspicuously absent from all of those. Now it could be that if I used a German name, that suddenly, like an Open Sesame, it would all appear. But German webpages would still mention the original title or the actors' names once or twice - they do for other programs.
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Post by Ian Wegg on Nov 5, 2019 11:51:15 GMT
I guess most people are aware by now but just for the record, the new Freewheelers book is being launched at the Kaleidoscope event in Birmingham on 7th December.
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