Monthly Archives: August 2009
New Wiped Feature About Hunt For Missing Motor Racing Footage
JUST a quick note to let you all know that there’s an interesting feature now up about Gary Critcher, a motor racing fan who has located hours’ worth of footage documenting the sport’s past glories: A Driving Passion: ‘Reclaiming’ Missing … Continue reading
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‘Lost’ Kenneth Williams Script Gets Radio Airing
A NEW BBC production based on a ‘lost’ Kenneth Williams radio script gets its first broadcast this September. Twice Ken Is Plenty was written in 1966 by Kenneth Horne and his ghost writer, Mollie Millest, and was intended to be … Continue reading
Filed under Broadcasts, Radio
Desperately Seeking Doomwatch
A new fan-based website dedicated to 1970s BBC TV series Doomwatch is appealing for anyone with missing material to get in touch. Scott Burditt of www.doomwatch.org hopes to track down more episodes, or soundtracks to episodes, of the highly-regarded science-fiction … Continue reading
More Missing Hancock Set For Release
THIS year is turning out to be a treat for fans of Hancock’s Half Hour, with two new releases featuring missing episodes set to hit the shops in time for Christmas. Hancock: The Lost Radio Episodes: Sid James’s Dad and … Continue reading
No Longer On The Margin Thanks To BBC Audio
SKETCHES from acclaimed writer Alan Bennett’s first and only full-blown comedy series are to be released in October by BBC Audiobooks. Six-part show On The Margin, which aired from September 9th to December 14th, 1966, featured satirical, political and musical … Continue reading
Major TV Discovery – Two Episodes of Till Death Us Do Part Found
TWO long-lost episodes of Johnny Speight’s classic BBC sitcom Till Death Us Do Part have been recovered with the help of classic TV organisation Kaleidoscope. The show, transmitted between 1965 and 1975, was one of the most important in television … Continue reading
Filed under Discoveries, Television
