“Missing presumed wiped. Unless they
find it in some old bloke’s shed…”
We can’t
claim to have planned it that way, but it’s interesting how Episode Three of
‘Round The Archives’ mostly talks about series that have more than a few
missing episodes. Maybe we should have just called it Episode Four and claimed
that Three was itself missing?
Our article
on ‘Pipkins’ was greatly helped by consulting Uncle’s Programme Guide and
Tortoise’s Tape List on pipkins.net which provided the sort of detail we
always love. Hurrah for the Philips N1500 format and no mistake!
We also
covered ‘Callan’, which admittedly has a better survival rate than some shows,
but still has a number of gaps from its early years. Our chosen episode was
‘The Worst Soldier I Ever Saw’, an episode which was reconstructed from the
existing studio recording.
In the
interview bits (and again, it was nothing more simple coincidence) Nick talked
about what ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Doomwatch’ he would like to see returned and
Warren, enthusing about the output of Southern TV, touched upon ‘Freewheelers’.
Happily,
Episode Three was recorded at the time of the Kaleidoscope announcements of all
sorts of things coming back, including ‘The Avengers: Tunnel Of Fear’ and the
two ‘Z Cars’ stories ‘Family Feud’ and ‘Affray’. These recoveries were most
exciting and we would be very interested if someone could release Season One of
‘Z Cars’ on DVD.
Here’s
hoping that 2018 will see some more material being returned to the archives.
Fingers crossed! Though it does make typing on this keyboard a little
difficult…
(By Andrew
Trowbridge)
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