Category Archives: Video
Lost Edition Of BBC Show Presenting Peter Nero Bought Off Ebay
A LOST TV showcase for the talents of American musician Peter Nero has been recovered after being bought off eBay. Presenting Peter Nero (tx 20/9/66) was one of only three BBC shows made by the celebrated pianist and composer. The … Continue reading
Top Ten Lost Horror Films
WITH Halloween just around the corner, one of my favourite sites – Cinemassacre – has posted a video countdown of the top 10 lost horror films. Chosen by the Angry Video Game Nerd himself, James Rolfe, the list features some … Continue reading
Filed under Cinema, Lists, Silent Era, Video
Showaddy Waddy Top of the Pops Clips Recovered
MISSING Top of the Pops performances by pop group Showaddy Waddy including UK number one single Under the Moon of Love are heading back to the BBC after being spotted on YouTube. Continue reading
Filed under BBC, Clips, Kaleidoscope, Music, Top of the Pops, Video
Ready Steady Go! – The Home Movie
BRIEF clips from one of TV’s pioneering chart shows have come to light… as part of a home movie. Amongst familial scenes of camper vans and country get-aways, the silent movie features tantalizing snippets from ‘Sixties pop/rock music series Ready … Continue reading
Arrows Find Has Pop Fans A-Quiver
MISSING episodes enthusiast Ray Langstone has found more missing TV footage, weeks after discovering a lost BBC arts film. This time he has discovered two missing performances from Top of the Pops, both featuring ’70s pop band The Arrows. The … Continue reading
Filed under Finds, Kaleidoscope, Music, Top of the Pops, Video
A Bird in the Hand…
AN EARLY episode of drama series The Troubleshooters has been returned to the BBC. The series two episode “Birdstrike”, from 1966, was handed over earlier this month after the intervention of Kaleidoscope. The classic TV organisation had been called upon … Continue reading
Filed under Discoveries, Television, Video
Weekly Round-Up – 25/04/10
EACH WEEK Wiped will be bringing you the best of the rest: smaller stories that might have passed you by, but are worth checking out all the same. So to begin… OPRHANED OUT OF THE UNKNOWN CLIPS ON YOUTUBE The … Continue reading
Filed under Cinema, Clips, Discoveries, Releases, Restoration, Television, Video, Weekly Round-Up
Guys And Dolls Clip Discovery
A MISSING performance from Top Of The Pops has been returned to the BBC after being spotted on the internet. Guys n’ Dolls performance of ‘If Only For The Good Times’ hails from a wiped 1976 edition of the BBC … Continue reading
Filed under Discoveries, Music, Television, Video
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 … Continue reading
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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
