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I don't doubt that they planned for the characters to die. I just can't picture how on earth it would have worked without the slow-motion effect. And John Lloyd (who worked on Spitting Image, and was nearly driven insane by its logistical complexity) must surely have known at the script stage that s...

I've been reading Tony Robinson's autobiography, and he backs up a story John Lloyd often tells about the ending of Blackadder Goes Forth. The original idea was to have the characters jump out of the trenches in real time and be shot down. However, the studio session on that day ran behind schedule,...

Excellent - thanks, Dick. So these are held on the 1" C-format tapes Simon mentioned earlier, and are broadcast quality? Or at least good enough for a DVD?

'Who Dares Wins...The 1" C-Format Tapes' should have been one of the episode titles of course...

That's what I thought, although C4's archive policy has always been a mystery to me. (To what extent have they ever had a tape library of their own?) WDW was mainly Hat Trick, although some shows were co-productions with Holmes Associates. Back in 1983-88, what would normally happen to the (physical...

Can anyone on here confirm whether the masters of the C4 comedy show Who Dares Wins still exist? There seems to be a widespread belief (also held by Jimmy Mulville) that 'C4 wiped them', but does anyone know if that's actually true or not? I find it hard to believe, but then again it's odd that you ...

No, and yes.

Thanks for additional info, Simon.

The official title of this is Great Canal Journeys, but in our house it's been crowned Tim and Pru Do a Canal... Anyway, there appears to be a phantom edition. At the end of the third show in series three (8/11/15), they do a 'Next time...' trail for the following programme set in Stratford and Swed...

It's certainly worth it for the PDFs alone.

That and the mute rushes of James Mitchell wandering about in the rain.

The Black Nun wrote:Dr Who The Face Of Evil is now on Iplayer with the video look.

Not at my end. Just looks like a YouTube upload, really, albeit a high quality one.

All that reminds me of the continual choosing in years gone by of The Girl who was Death episode to show an example of The Prisoner when it came to ITV anniversaries and things. An entertaining episode but again not typical. For a while, wasn't TGWWD the only episode that had been cleared for a rep...

I remember both of them, but you'd think they'd go for a classic Cant episode.

Yeah, although you probably wouldn't pick Adam Ant's Vive Le Rock. It was atypical, but then so was the Play School edition they picked: no toys, no window, two (relatively) forgotten presenters. You know more about this, Gareth, but do you think that was because loads of the shows are tricky to cle...

Worth it for Laura's 'I can lip-read!' swing from the Routemaster though.

Mausoleum Clubbers should adore said moment: it's textbook 'You couldn't do that these days'.

I tried an episode of The One Show...still has that 'distancing' look to it. Sort of video, but not quite.

I don't really know what I'm doing wrong here: I'm watching the documentary in HD, but the video stuff still has a film look. I can obviously still see that it is video, but it doesn't have the 'in the same room as you' look that video footage has when I watch it on a TV. All the technical distincti...

Some nice clip research, but it did seem to give the extraordinary impression that kids' TV sort of fizzled out in about 1983. They blamed it on the arrival of satellite TV, ignoring the fact that most people were terrestrial-only for most of the 90s. It wasn't really a documentary anyway - just an ...

Other people have told me this, but I can't see it myself. I've got pretty decent broadband, but the VT clips in the BBC4 doc still don't have a video look. I tried an episode of EastEnders as well - I suppose it looks more videoey than I've seen before, but it still doesn't look quite right. It was...

The BBC hasn't repeated an episode of Python for 16 years.

I thought The Goodies themselves blocked complete-series sets (back when Network still had the rights), preferring to put out best ofs because they were embarrassed by some of the early shows?

I'd love to know where the original Young Ones house was - not the one in Bristol used for the series, but the one in the 'Demolition' pilot. Somewhere in Islington according to Paul Jackson on the DVD commentary.

For the record, here's a list of the 4 Extra repeats and what was/wasn't cut: SHOW 1 (31 March 1990; 8 May 2015) Richard Stilgoe sketch/phone call cut Post-credits ending to Process Music ('Bet you thought we'd finished, well we have now') missing SHOW 2 (7 April 1990; 15 May 2015) Uncut, including ...

I don't see the problem with this "slitty eyes" things at all. Orientals do tend to have the slitty eye appearance so why is it so bad to do things that highlight the differences between races. Oh Jesus. 'Orientals'? Brown was attempting to mimic Lee so she put a brown stocking over her face - I fa...

Also, there were loads of hypocrisies and inconsistencies back in the old days. When the Barron Knights doing slitty eye faces was perfectly fine but saying fuck wasn't.

"Tweak the show so it's suitable for a mainstream audience at 7:30."? You mean 1980s Top of the Pops isn't suitable for a mainstream audience at 7:30? My God, Thatcher's Victorian Values really have taken hold, haven't they? Bit disinigenuous of you there. There's all sorts of material which went o...

Whilst I decline to get too animated over the excising of an off the cuff line that would hardly be missed if people weren't aware of its presence in the first place, I do agree with you that as a general matter of principle it is the thin end of what is rapidly becoming a rather large wedge of rew...

Wasn't it the edition with the Record Breakers phone call? It might have been because the accompanying sketch was cut out (later to get a release on Nusiance Calls). There were all sorts of libel/censorship-worries with the show, though - show 5 of series 1 only runs at 25 minutes as well. I think i...

Did we ever find out why Infax was pulled from public use? Had people complained that there was too much 'sensitive'/hitherto confidential info on there?

The thing I really miss with Genome is the recording dates. And all the other oddities you'd find - eg, alternate/working titles for pilots.

Didn't they say it was launching in the autumn?

Apparently trials have been running for a while, but I haven't heard any feedback about what's in the 'collections' and what isn't.

That Monchengladbach cut's bizarre. There must have been a reason, though - any idea?

A few inevitable snips in these: the Richard Stilgoe parody/phone call from show 1, and a couple of Savile namechecks in show 3. Show 2 was uncut. The fake ending during the Nyman/Glass spoof ('Bet you thought we'd finished, well we have now') was also missing. Maybe Dr Dreyfuss cut it off. Shame ab...

Incidentally, 'Jimmy Savile asked me to give you a ring' was cut from the Adrian Mills prank phone call during 4 Extra's repeat of Victor Lewis Smith's 1990 Radio 1 show.