Not only intact,but aired in Japan over a decade ago .Brian Himes said:While I am not 100% sure but I heard that the pre-syndicated year of Soul Train (70) is either lost or destroyed. If it does indeed still exist, it may only be a few scattered episodes since the show aired live during this period.
I assume that the entire syndicated run from 1971 to 2006 still exist intact.
Gordon:Gordberg said:I'd like to make my first ever contributon to this forum by mentioning the BBC's "Adam Adamant Lives!" - series/season 2, of which only 2 episodes still exist.
Most filmed shows were shot in 35mm. New York and Los Angeles network stations would usually run 35mm prints for their time zones. 16mm prints were made for some stations. Syndicated prints would usually be 16mm, although I remember KTLA (Channel 5) in L.A. ran 35mm Big Valley shows in syndication.jimmyjet said:what is the difference between 16 mm and 35 mm film ?
from what i gather, original filming was done with 35 mm, and then working copies are on 16 mm, which apparently is not as good as 35 mm ?
Some of Son Of Svengoolie was saved, but not all. The story I've heard is that Rich Koz had a friend at WFLD (where the show was produced) who called him up and told him he better get down here because they're throwing them in the dumpster. A bunch were recovered, but I don't know how many. I'm told that there have been occasions when a movie runs short on his current show, they sometimes have used "classic" clips from his older shows.DeWilson said:What was lost in the vault fire were working copies, copies used for syndication - all the "lost" shows and films stll exist in in master storage off-lot.
The studio just doesn't want to go through the expense of mastering shows and films from the 35mm elements with little marketable value. Also, the costs to do transfers (The highly inflated fees the studio charges itself) makes is cost prohibitive for any licencer to get the rights.This is why they've gone looking for 16mm prints in other storage vaults that can be transferred "off the shelf" and licensed out to say TIMELESS- which has been done on several recent releasesTIMELESS in the past, for their early MCA Release, would buy 16mm prints from the collectors and dealers of shows they have licensed to save costs - A Brilliant Idea - I know one dealer who sold 100's of 16mm hours and half hours TV prints that TIMELESS has released.The sets would be far less complete,or with more episodes of lesser quality if it wasn't for these prints. The shows represents every MCA show they released. Not complete runs sadly, but good chunks of many series, as well as fill-in episodes they couldn't find from other sources.
Again, see above comment
Well, the MY LIVING DOLL situation is well know (Rumor is they found more episodes recently) but I've not heard of the Webb situation.
Nope, still save in the master-vaults untransfered.
About 2 years of WHAT'S MY LINE? (1952-1953) No longer exist (about 100 odd shows) along with 16 other episodes after that - not a bad survival rate with a show running 1950-1967. Even with color shows existing only as B&W - they still exist. That's the point.Every show was kinescopes - live or tape. What's missing is shows that were lost (supposedly around the time of the 1974 retrospect special) or destroyed as with the missing two years which is why G&T started making show they got the prints.
Metromedia was the successor to DuMont,and I'm not sure how ABC got involved into all of this.Gleason DID NOT save any of the DuMont "Honeymooners", what exists is due to what's been found at UCLA ,and from a private collection. He didn't start saving shows till his move to CBS, it was in his contract as his DuMont contract didn't give him owmership of his shows.
He could have easily saved his shows on 3/4 U-Matic tapes (2 per week wouldn't have killed his budget) but didn't - lack of forsight by the "Johnny Carson of Horror Hosts".
The 1969-70 season (under the title The Archie Comedy Hour) is indeed a mess. There is an Archies website run by a guy known as WindsorBear, and on his forum he explained in great detail what happened. This was the season that introduced Sabrina The Teenage Witch. The following season, Sabrina was spun off onto another show, Sabrina And The Groovie Goolies. Later on, they were split into two separate shows. And you are correct, some material got lost in the shuffle. For The Archie Comedy Hour, the longer cartoon segments (featuring The Archies and Sabrina) ended up as part of Sabrina The Teenage Witch. Other segments took place in the "funhouse" where the characters do short skits, tell jokes etc. They expanded this format the following season when the show was retitled Archie's Funhouse. The "funhouse" segments from The Archie Comedy Hour ended up being recut into half-hours and had the openings and closings from the later Archie's Funhouse series added to them. (Confused yet?) A real mystery is what happened to the song segments from the 1969-70 season. All the songs from the first season (Archie, 1968-69) and third season (Archie's Funhouse, 1970-71) remain but the musical segments from the 1969-70 season appear to be mostly gone. Only two ("Sugar Sugar" and "Jingle Jangle," which happen to be the Archies' biggest hits) made it to the Archie's Funhouse DVD set, and those survived because they were played on The Ed Sullivan Show. Even when reruns of the various Archie series were syndicated in the mid-1970s, the Season 2 songs were not intact -- for those shows, they re-edited the visual portions and dubbed on newly-produced "spoken songs" with Dallas McKennon's voice as the cartoon Archie. I have no idea why (since, again, songs from other seasons were left intact). Meanwhile, more Sabrina segments (featuring the Groovie Goolies) were produced for Sabrina And The Groovie Goolies. So when they started to release all this stuff on DVD, the Groovie Goolies half-hours came out as one collection, while Archie's Funhouse (1970-71) was released as a complete series set with some (but not all) the "funhouse" segments from The Archie Comedy Hour (and the two songs mentioned above) as extras. Most (but not all) of the Sabrina cartoons (with the Archies from The Archie Comedy Hour and the Groovie Goolies from Sabrina And The Groovie Goolies) were released as Sabrina The Teenage Witch: The Complete Series, which wasn't really 100% complete. The Sabrina set also has one half-hour episode of The Archie And Sabrina Surprise Package (a retitled cutdown of the 1977 series The New Archie/Sabrina Hour) as an extra.derosa said:Likely not a popular title, so many won't care, but the Second season ofthe animated series "the Archie's Comedy Hour" from 1969 was butchered.Missing are Archie's song segments, bridges and teasers, likely gone forever.The DVD sets have PAL speed up, and the shows are chopped into syndicatedprices, and released on separate sets as Sabrina & Groovie goolies.In general, multi-segment anthology type animated shows that aired in a blockhave faired very poorly on DVD. The experience of watching them as airedhas been destroyed.
This is one of the many things that makes Dark Shadows unique. It is one of the few (perhaps only) daytime soap prior to 1978 to have survived 99.99% intact. If it hadn't been for the syndicated reruns that began in 1975, the show could have been destroyed years ago.AndyMcKinney said:I know most Dark Shadows fans would like to see the missing colour episodes turn up and see those as "lost" (though not as "lost" as the one that only exists on audio).
Actually, a home recording of the CBS broadcast of Super Bowl I on a primitive video tape machine is now confirmed to exist and has been restored by the Museum of TV/Radio. But the NFL has not been able to work out a deal with the original taper to obtain it for marketing purposes.AndyMcKinney said:I'm not sure if this was mentioned, but the very first Super Bowl broadcast was aired on two networks (CBS and NBC, due to it being AFL/NFL), and both of them wiped their tapes! OF course, the NFL filmed the game for their own archives, but the TV telecasts (with play-by-play, etc) doesn't exist in full (a colour videotape of the 1st, 2nd and 4th quarters was discovered a few years ago).
many other early sporting events were wiped or otherwise not retained. Most (but not all) World Series games before 1975 are incomplete.
By the way, in response to my comment on the colour What's My Line CBS episdoes: though a B/W kinescope of a programme made in colour does mean that the episode isn't "completely" missing, the original colour version of the episode is still considered by many (including me) to be "lost" and worth being recovered (I read elsewhere about 3/4 of the colour WML?s were actually recorded onto colour tape first--not live--and also onto B/W film, just that the tapes were later junked).
Is it possible they were being saved for potential use as re-runs and/or syndication (like later happened with the color ones)?Jack P said:Actually, a home recording of the CBS broadcast of Super Bowl I on a primitive video tape machine is now confirmed to exist and has been restored by the Museum of TV/Radio. But the NFL has not been able to work out a deal with the original taper to obtain it for marketing purposes.
Years ago I once wrote a letter to Gil Fates, the executive producer and asked why videotapes of WML had not been preserved by Goodson-Todman considering that they did so for the syndicated run of the show and also retained the original B/W videotapes of the nighttime Password show from 1962-1965. He wrote back and said it was a matter of economics because CBS only charged them $10 for a kinescope print and that was more economical from their standpoint. That didn't explain why the Password videotaes survived.
Is it perhaps also possible one reason for high survival rate of Dark Shadows episodes is down to it being an "outside" production (Dan Curtis rather than ABC), and that Curtis might have even had a say in whether they were preserved or not (maybe ABC didn't have sufficient rights to wipe/destroy independently-produced shows without that company's permission, while they could, it would seem, do as they wish with shows they owned outright).Brian Himes said:This is one of the many things that makes Dark Shadows unique. It is one of the few (perhaps only) daytime soap prior to 1978 to have survived 99.99% intact. If it hadn't been for the syndicated reruns that began in 1975, the show could have been destroyed years ago.
I would be more interested in having the one trully lost episode be found before the missing color masters are found. I just know that the lost episode is out there somewhere. It's probably in the hands of a collector. It has always been my suspicion that the tape was stolen from the vault for some reason. Since that episode only aired the one time in 1971, I really don't think it was misplaced. The container it was stored in exists, so at one time it did contain the tape. Perhaps one day it will turn up.
Possible, which might also explain why B/W daytime To Tell The Truth videotapes were being saved from as early as late 1965 and not just color daytime tapes of 1967-68. Goodson may have considered a syndication repeat deal for these daytime TTTT shows before they were able to sell the syndicated version.AndyMcKinney said:Is it possible they were being saved for potential use as re-runs and/or syndication (like later happened with the color ones)?
I do know that NBC has been adamant that they did not destroy anything that they didn't get prior permission from the owners to destroy. ABC could have been in the same boat. So yes, Curtis many not have given permission to destroy any Dark Shadows tapes, but depending on when ABC destroyed their stuff (I've heard anything before 1978 is gone) Dark Shadows was probably safe due to the series being in syndication as of 1975.AndyMcKinney said:Is it perhaps also possible one reason for high survival rate of Dark Shadows episodes is down to it being an "outside" production (Dan Curtis rather than ABC), and that Curtis might have even had a say in whether they were preserved or not (maybe ABC didn't have sufficient rights to wipe/destroy independently-produced shows without that company's permission, while they could, it would seem, do as they wish with shows they owned outright).
I, too, think the completely missing episode is a higher priority, but it is probably a much less likely recovery. Why? Firstly, because ABC stopped making back-up kinescopes by the time that episode aired. That is why there was no B/W print of it. I guess about the only chance of it turning up (assuming the master was destroyed and not just mis-filed/missing) would be if a school or library happened to record it on one of the early pre-VCR tape machines (like UCLA did with stuff like ABC Password). The likelihood of an institution happening to record during that specific week is small, but not out of the realms of possibility (I assume Jim Pierson has probably contacted the likes of UCLA and other big institutions who did this sort of recording). Far stranger things have happened (like the first-season Avengers "Hot Snow" discovery at UCLA, which would seem impossible since season one was never sold to the USA).
As was said previously, the Bill Armstrong-hosted season of Liar's Club was rerun on USA in the mid '80s (more than once). I never saw a Ludden episode (or any earlier Serling ones) during that run.Frank Soyke said:Two of the later 70's series I'm wondering about are Liar's Club and Make Me Laugh. I can't say I've heard one thing about either since about 81.