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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on May 2, 2024 21:29:56 GMT
While I started that thread, 'Softly Softly episode called Recovery [NOW RECOVERED]', I realise that Paul added the last two words, which sound pretty emphatic! Well that does sound promising......
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on May 2, 2024 14:07:04 GMT
Rather than do an Angel and resurrect a nine year old thread, the link is here for anyone who wishes to trawl through the full six pages - missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/10994/softly-episode-recovery-recoveredThe point of the thread was to highlight the auction of a print of Recovery (believed lost), which prompted the response that a digital copy had been with the BBC for some time but not catalogued. I note that Lost Shows no longer has the recently returned third seasons The Good Girl listed as missing. However Recovery still shows as lost. This is the most relevant entry from Paul Vanezis on page 3, hinting that the situation was well in hand. Further down there is a suggestion it would be available for screening at the forthcoming Missing Believed Wiped event. OK. Now something has happened which does at least bring some happy closure to this sorry state of affairs. I've just taken a call from someone who used to work at the BBC. Fifteen years ago he transferred an episode of 'Softly, Softly' to digi-beta which was from a collector. He still has the tape and it is the episode 'Recovery'. The tape will be properly catalogued and in the BBC archive later this week and it's only an oversight that it hasn't already happened.
I think this highlights several points. Firstly, this material doesn't just magic itself out of thin air. It was offered for sale 15 years ago for £50 and nobody purchased it because it was way over priced then. Any film that turns up now could well have been transferred previously. When people try and profit from such things, stuff like this can happen and bite them on the arse.
Of course, I'm sure that the BBC would love to get the original film recording back, but the digi-beta was made fifteen years ago, before the film changed hands several times and before it was slapped on projectors of various sorts, so in all likelihood it is a superior copy. Nevertheless, it is safe. Regards, Paul
Do we know if the episode is indeed archived or was there a further issue? Does anyone recall if it was shown at Missing Believed Wiped 2015? It may be that Lost Shows just did not get around to updating the shows status.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Mar 13, 2024 11:33:20 GMT
As robkeeley has pointed out on another thread, this was a two-part story, but the second part is missing. Hats off to Talking Pictures for still showing it. In the unlikely event part one was shown on a mainstream channel someone would likely complain.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Mar 7, 2024 15:35:53 GMT
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Jan 26, 2024 15:00:29 GMT
If my memory is correct there was a suggestion Ian was feeling left out after Phil got all the publicity following the missing Troughton recoveries and he may have been indulging in a bit of attention seeking hence the hoax - if that is what it was. Don't have any verification of this of course.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Dec 15, 2023 21:39:43 GMT
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Dec 15, 2023 20:48:20 GMT
Just heard the run commences on 13th January? The first episode listed will clearly be an indication of which of the existing episodes will be shown. 7.20 pm. Postman's Knock (1956). Great that will be the news many of us have been hoping for then. Looks like all the surviving episodes.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Dec 15, 2023 14:38:05 GMT
Just heard the run commences on 13th January? The first episode listed will clearly be an indication of which of the existing episodes will be shown.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Nov 30, 2023 14:42:45 GMT
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Nov 8, 2023 14:42:39 GMT
Although the information we have says that David Holman recorded right up to the end of 'The Three Doctors' (and this overview supports that), I wonder if there is any indication that he didn't record every episode up to the end of that story? After all, Graham Strong stopped recording after 'The Wheel in Space' and we know that viewing figures were much lower for Season Six, so I wonder if there were factors which made Holman stop recording then, also, and then maybe commence again during the Pertwee era? Hence, the BBC only having the Australian recordings available as the 'best' source when they released 'The Space Pirates' CD in 2003? Apologies I can only throw up more questions, rather than providing an answer, but I would be interested to find out more. Of course people did go on holidays at various times of the year where they may not have had access to a television set. When the first Peter Cushing movie was shown for the first time on BBC1 we were in a holiday chalet which had a TV and it was no problem to take the portable cassette recorder in the car to capture the soundtrack. However a more bulky reel to reel tape recorder would have been more of a challenge particularly if travelling by train or coach. Equally a two week holiday would still allow someone like Holman to record some episodes of a six parter.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Oct 31, 2023 21:42:39 GMT
Do we know if it is black and white or colour? Good news indeed, regardless.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Oct 1, 2023 23:28:15 GMT
I think the problem with so many threads and rumours been resurrected or Frankensteined is that the majority is coming from new members to the forum. They may have been around for ages until joining up or complete newbies to missing tv as a whole which if you put into perspective is understandable for someone completely new to say Dr Who. This makes it very difficult to weed out which is genuine discussion from new or old members and hyped up red cordial "I've made a connection!" syndrome. There needs to be a fine balance between yes resurrecting old threads for re-evaluation and just blatant wringing and old sock out till its completely dry. Q: can we please do better than this? A: it's over to you the members and public. A lot of the resurrected threads could actually be started as new. It just looks bizarre to see a gap of say four years for example between posts on the same thread. I guess one solution might be to lock or delete old threads after a certain time span but that said nobody forces anyone to read the `resurrections.`
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Oct 1, 2023 20:44:48 GMT
Angel stop bringing up long dead threads back up. You do this all the time and add nothing to the discussion. I am tired of you and I am sure other members are too. I think Angel is the new Jake. Or perhaps even the old Jake!
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Sept 22, 2023 20:54:35 GMT
Ok thanks, George, so there definately was a 3 part TP VHS bootleg knocking about in the UK in the 80s? There were bootleg copies of all the existing episodes in the UK from at least the mid 1980s.
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Aug 23, 2023 9:14:53 GMT
Yes a fine series for sure. It was released on DVD and coincidentally I watched the last episode the other day. Won't spoil it for anyone but there's this really good scene towards the end when..................................
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