Category Archives: Features
New Feature – STV Archives Come To YouTube
SINCE AUGUST of last year, websufers have been able to watch gems from the archives of Scottish Televison on video sharing site YouTube. Among the classic STV programmes made viewable on demand are popular drama Take The High Road, music … Continue reading
Filed under Episode Hunting, Features, ITV, Television, YouTube
New Feature: Hunting The Lost Episodes of ABC TV’s Countdown
It was repeats of surviving episodes of legendary Australian music show Countdown that got Troy Walters involved in the hunt for missing editions. Wiped News recently caught up with him to see how the hunt for the Oz equivalent of Top of the Pops was going. Continue reading
Filed under Episode Hunting, Features, Interview, Music
The Troubleshooters Recovery – Interview
An interview with the collector who recently returned a missing episode of The Troubleshooters is now up on Wiped. Oliver Ashmole chats about how he found the episode – “A Bird in the Hand” – and also about his experiences … Continue reading
Filed under Features, Finds, Interview, Site Updates
BSB Appeal
FOR A BRIEF but brilliant moment at the dawn of the 1990s, a new broadcaster emerged with the promise of high quality, high brow and high fidelity programming beamed down direct from the skies. BSB offered UK viewers original content … Continue reading
Filed under Appeals, Features, Television
New Feature Posted
FAN-MADE reconstructions of missing episodes of Doctor Who are getting ever more watchable and sophisticated. Wiped shines the spotlight on one such recon, of the end scene of ‘Power of the Daleks’ episode five, and speaks to the talent behind … Continue reading
Filed under Doctor Who, Features, Video
New Feature: Popdown Progress
BACK in April wipednews.com ran a feature about psychedelic music fan Peter Prentice’s to track down a copy of lost ’60s underground film Popdown. You can read the original article here but things have moved on quite rapidly in the … Continue reading
New Wiped Feature: The Avengers On The Radio
FANS of superlative spy shows, stylish settings and surreal scripts might enjoy a new feature on Wiped taking a closer look at the little-known radio spin-off to The Avengers. Alan Hayes of website The Avengers On The Radio – the … Continue reading
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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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Loose Cannon Recon Feature Up Now
I’ve just added a feature looking at the brilliant work of Loose Cannon Productions, which makes highly-regarded reconstructions of missing 1960s Doctor Who stories. Their latest release, “The Evil of the Daleks”, is available now and is definitely worth checking … Continue reading
Filed under Doctor Who, Features, Releases
Hancock’s Half Hour Article/CD Releases Update
I have written an article about the recent discovery of soundtracks to six missing TV episodes of Hancock’s Half Hour for comedy website Chortle. You can read it by clicking here. In addition to the forthcoming release of ‘The Flight … Continue reading
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