The Mausoleum Club Forum

Simon Mclean wrote:Watch out for the News At Ten theme turning up as incidental music in one episode!

It also worked in reverse - part of Division 4's theme was used as the theme to UTV Reports, Ulster Television's main news bulletin.

I vaguely remember being disappointed by the first Potter (vol 3) in comparison to the two Sendalls (vols 1 and 2), so perhaps I was put off by his style and that's why I didn't pick up a copy of 4 at the time. The Potter books are better than the Sendalls in that they are generally more objective....

I believe the same fate has befallen Getty's Motion Gallery which used INFAX as the underlying database, so it is not a trivial problem. Surely the BBC is being far too cautious - ITN Source and its many partners seem capable of furnishing very detailed listings without anyone suing them. The probl...

If I understood correctly, then episode 1 is technically not a telerecording or else it wouldn't have a clock after the break? A telerecording can have post-break VT clocks depending on the practices of the operators and broadcasters involved. Last year, UTV provided a telerecording transfer for a ...

The Times' article on this contains this 'interesting' description of telerecording:

"Television cameras at the time could not broadcast and record simultaneously, so the recording was made by pointing a second camera at the monitor of the one responsible for the live broadcast".

Also, is this an "all field" capture? It is far from clear to me whether what we have just seen was all sourced from the same flavour of recorder, but I'll stick my neck out and suggest that some was from 'suppressed field' recorders and thus less than 200 lines will be on the 35mm. I researched th...

I was wondering if a kind individual who has access to the ITV Yearbooks for 1965 and 1966 would enlighten me as to who was the listed as the programme controller for Ulster Television in those volumes and what page numbers the station's listing appears on?

I think that's the one I was looking for. It was being compared against a local UTV talent show called Tom and Tommy, which ran for seven extremely undistinguished episodes in November and December 1975.

I was wondering if anyone can assist me. I've encountered a reference in a newspaper clipping to a television series called "You're On" which I can find no trace of. It appears to have been broadcast during the mid-1970s and may have been quite low-budget judging by the context - "it makes 'You're O...

Another issue could be that there were substantial variations in the running times for some schools series. When I did research into UTV's schools series, Let's Look At Ulster, I found that the longest episode from its 1973 screening was 24:30 while the shortest was 16:50. The programme was official...

My nipples explode with delight.

I think that, at this stage, within the ITV network, only ITV Anglia and UTV still produce programmes on their original premises??

Wilmut lists the film library numbers of the existing pre-recorded episodes of series 4. For example, the first episode ("Erikson the Viking") is 35/T/5100, which translated is a 35mm telerecording made for transmission. A video tape wouldn't have had the "35" prefix. That seems pretty definitive t...

As it is, Network alone have already released well over 200 ATV shows (i.e. episodes) from 1963 or earlier which were originally either broadcast live, from VT or from telerecordings, and obviously plenty more (another 500 or so, I reckon) survive to this day. No doubt at least a few more survived ...

I was more thinking that the combined total - 40 tapes and 120 telerecordings wasn't possible. At this distance I'd have no means of working out exactly when programmes, which were originally on VT, were telerecorded. I have double checked my notes and the number of telerecordings I quoted is indee...

No, that can't be the case, not if you're saying that was the situation around 1964, which is the impression I got from your earlier post. I must admit that I was surprised when I saw the details too but it appears that ATV didn't really hold too many tapes for permanent archive purposes. Similar d...

Weren't these made as 35mm telerecordings, not VT? The reference I have for them being VT productions is: Goddard, Peter. "Hancock's Half Hour: A Watershed in British Television Comedy." In, Corner, John, editor. Popular Television in Britain: Studies in Cultural History. London: British Film Insti...

Do you mean they only had 40 VTs in total, which were being re-used constantly? Or they had 40 VTs on which material was being intentionally preserved, in addition to a working stock of tapes for time-shifting productions prior to broadcast? They had around 40 VTs which they were holding for archiv...

I also have some information on the archiving policies of the various ITV stations c. 1964. In terms of videotape archiving, the following stations did not retain archive VT aside from Border and Channel: Grampian, Scottish, Southern and Westward. Of the larger companies: Granada and ABC appear to h...

I've researched this extensively in the recent past. The first ITV company was an Ampex machine was A-R. The first VT programme transmitted on ITV was the episode of 'This Week' broadcast on June 26, 1958. I have no idea if it still exists. The BBC's first machine only turned up a couple of months l...

Who's on the commentary? Is it too much to hope for Sir Roger himself??

The BFI Southbank March guide suggests that on 6th March they are showing "the only surviving segment" from the 1979 Jackanory version of The Hobbit, originally shown in October of that year to mark the programme's 3000th edition. That's interesting. They should look harder though: they have VHS co...

I wonder if the moderators wouldn't mind this YT clip for just a short while? People have to see how ghastly Junior Showtime was That is ghastly, especially when you consider that the girl in the clip died at 35 due to anorexia which had suffered from since the age of 16. The dark side of child sta...

I wouldn't get that book just for the Underground material. There's very little else of note apart from that quote. Finigan's comment is basically a factual statement of the basics and that the situation was "the worst nightmare of all".

Regarding Underground, there is actually a little bit of additional material about what happened during the play in Standby Studio, a book about the early days of UTV by Anne Hailes. The reason why it features in a book on UTV is that two future UTV executives,Tony Finigan and Colin Lecky Thompson, ...

During the 1964 ITV strike, Border, Westward and UTV all managed to cobble together a local service run by management and clerical staff. The UTV one apparently featured some live news bulletins where office staff would presumably have been unleashed upon the cameras.

That's a very interesting explanation but I still don't fully understand the principles your talking about. I hope that the following - combined with Brian's answers - might help you out... There are two distinct tapes of splices - tape and cement. Tape splices involve the use of a special kind of ...

I splurged a little on the sale and bought some items that I had been holding out for a while, all B&W videotaped drama apart from Frankie Howard at ITV. I even picked up Public Eye: The ABC Years to see what all the fuss is about. I've never seen an episode before in my life so I hope it will be an...

Westengland wrote:I wonder what "tributes" are planned for Patrick Moore?

My cynical mind suggests the cancellation of the Sky At Night because he's 'irreplaceable'.