LOST recordings from the early career of legendary comedy due Morecambe and Wise have been unearthed in a garage.
Around 45 hours’ worth of material was discovered by Ernie’s widow Doreen while preparing to move home six months ago. The double act had paid the sound engineer a few shillings at a time to make [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Discoveries’
February 21, 2010
Garage Find Brings Us Sunshine
February 14, 2010
Missing Play back on the Scene
A MISSING play by veteran TV writer Alan Plater has been returned to the BBC after years hidden away in academia.
‘Let There Be Light’ (tx 22/01/70) in an early work from the Hull-born playwright and scriptwriter, whose notable works include episodes of The First Lady, Oh No, It’s Selwyn Froggitt!, Dalziel and Pascoe, The Beiderbecke [...]
February 8, 2010
Get on the Bus for Missing Top of the Pops
A MISSING Top of the Pops performance featuring The Hollies in their heyday has come to light on Youtube.
Standing in front of a distinctly groovy Sixties stage, the Manchester band perform “Bus Stop”, a hit single from the summer of 1966.
The black and white film clip is generally in good condition and runs to 2″58′. [...]
January 20, 2010
A Lost Scene From The Lost Tribe
THE TWENTY Tens are off to a good start with the discovery of a missing sketch from The Goodies, only months after footage from another episode emerged from Down Under.
The newly recovered 30-second clip is a parody of an advert for Shredded Wheat shown at the time. Entitled “Dreaded Wheat”, the skit features a young [...]
December 7, 2009
All In A Tiswas!
TWO previously missing editions of fondly-remembered Saturday morning kids’ show Tiswas have emerged, reports Tiswas Online.
The discovery of the shows has delighted fans of the anarchic programme, presented by stars including Chris Tarrant, Lenny Henry, Bob Carolgees, John Gorman and Sally James.
Tiswas, produced by ATV and broadcast on ITV between 1974 and 1982, was famed [...]
November 21, 2009
Sweet Dream For Tull Fans
FANS of classic rock band Jethro Tull are briefly living in the past thanks to the emergence on the Internet of a clip from a missing edition of Top of the Pops.
A 32-second excerpt from the group’s November ‘69 performance of ‘Sweet Dream’ has been uploaded to YouTube, seemingly originating from an unidentified German documentary.
The [...]
November 8, 2009
What A Bargain! Lost Chaplin Short Bought On Ebay
IT’S AMAZING what you can pick up on eBay for a pittance, as Morace Park discovered to his delight recently.
For Park, an antiques dealer and inventor, has wowed the movie community by stumbling upon a previously unknown, uncatalogued film starring the silent era’s king of comedy, Charlie Chaplin.
He bought the film for £3.20, not knowing [...]
October 30, 2009
Clip Find Broadens Our Minds
A BRIEF sketch from one of the precursors to classic comedy show The Goodies has been discovered, restoring valuable seconds’ worth of footage to an almost completely erased series.
The 10-second colour excerpt shows Tim Brooke-Taylor seated inside a house while a voice-over provided by Graeme Garden asks, “Do you know where wasps go in the [...]
October 23, 2009
YouTube Clip Is A Real Sweet Find
A LOST Top of the Pops clip featuring glam rockers The Sweet has surfaced on video sharing website YouTube.
The band’s first of two Top of the Pops performances of hit single ‘Action’, which reached #15 in the UK charts, comes from the 10th July, 1975 edition – which is officially missing from the BBC archives.
It [...]
October 19, 2009
Real Goodies Discovered In Australia
THE MISSING “rude bits” from an early episode of 70s BBC comedy classic The Goodies have been discovered filed away in an Australian archive
The near-legendary ‘Sex Test’ scene from season two’s “Commonwealth Games” (aka “Sporting Goodies”), tx 8/10/71, features a group of geriatric, bowler-hatted politicians lining up in front of a sexy young woman’s bedroom [...]
