Books

Kaleidoscope Publishing exists to promote the appreciation of British television in general and particularly ‘classic’ television programmes that many of us remember from years gone by.

“...a very enterprising group of people in the midlands called Kaleidoscope who specialise in looking at old programmes, gettings copies that everyone thinks have long disappeared and they find them and restore them, and they do credits lists for people like me.”   Alan Plater, CBE.

To this end we have published a number of guides to British television archive holdings. These guides include exhaustive information on the number of archived programmes and the format(s) that they are held in. We have created this website as a means by which visitors can get a flavour of just why our guides have been described as “invaluable resources for anyone wishing to research, or even with a general interest in, British television”.

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Tennis that Counts (2 DVD set)

Learn to play your best game of tennis in this six-part Channel 4 series, presented by Adrian Stonebridge.  Every player, from absolute beginner to serious enthusiast, can benefit from Adrian's unique system of tennis instruction, which aims to make tennis FUN!

 

All region PAL. 4.5 hours runtime.

 

 

Extras: 

 

See and Play Tennis With Adrian Stonebridge (one-hour commercially produced video, originally released in 1985)

 

Don't Forget the Numbers - unscreened pilot for Tennis That Counts, made for Channel 4 commissioner Adrian Metcalfe in 1982

 

Roustabout - Adrian interviewed by Mick Robertson, on The Children's Channel (1990s)

 

Sports Special - Adrian interviewed on a Croydon cable channel (1990s)

 

Accompanying 16-page booklet, colour illustrated with many behind the scenes photos.  .  With contributions from Adrian Stonebridge, producer Christopher Toyne, and Lesley Scoble (who created the on-screen cartoons and graphics for the series)

 

 

IN STOCK NOW

 

£23.00

Steptoe and Son - US 1965 pilot - DVD

Lost US TV pilot on DVD.

 

Only 4 copies left before stock runs out for ever.

£10.00

Sound and Vision - Individual Volume purchase

Definitive guide to pre-war television, grouped in years. Seven volumes to choose from.

 

Please state which volume you want at checkout.

 

Volumes 1-5 are actual information.

 

Volumes 6-7 are Appendices A and B.

 

£35.00

Sound and Vision

The definitive history pre-war television.

 

All transmissions pre war.

 

Seven volume set. Hardback.

£200.00

Shut That Door

Biography of Larry Grayson.

£32.00

Sherlock Holmes on Radio and Television

A highly detailed book about the UK TV appearances of Sherlock Holmes.

 

Includes a DVD of

 

Sherlock Holmes – The Peter Cushing Interview

 

Illustrated with clips from missing episodes of the famous BBC 1968 series

 

 

Broadcast in Avroskoop,  a series made by AVRO , this edition transmitted on 20th March 1971 saw Peter Cushing talk extensively about his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for the BBC in 1968.

 

 

Extras:

 

Found in Belgium, various missing clips from the famous BBC 1968 series, restored to full colour.

 

Colour

 

55 minutes

 

 

£24.99

Ronnie Wolfe A Life in Memoirs

The memoirs of Ronnie Wolfe, comedy writer of On the Buses and The Rag Trade amongst others.

 

Includes full copy of the 1989 comeback script for On the Buses that was planned but never made.

£17.99

Public Eye - The Missing Episodes (Audio)

Some episodes of Public Eye and Mystery and Imagination are sadly missing.

 

But a few were recorded off air on audio only from the TV.

 

Tapes donated to Kaleidoscope many years ago from a collector in Oldbury, have now been cleaned up and presented on DVD for the first time.

 

Extras:

An introduction to Public Eye by Richard McGinlay

32 page colour booklet about Public Eye

Surviving clips from Public and Eye and Mystery and Imagination - Casting the Runes.

Scripts for the missing Public Eye episodes so you can read along with the audios.

 

Single DVD with booklet. Reversible cover. Public Eye one side, Mystery and Imagination the other.

£16.00

Pipkins

All the episodes recorded off air by Nigel Plaskitt and other stars.

 

Extras:

New menus

Material recorded at Kaleidoscope events

New menus and links recorded by Hartley Hare

New insight from Hartley Hare into his career

ITV held episodes

MBW Online footage

 

18-disc set.

 

In stock.

 

 

 

£80.00

Out of the Unknown [UK postage]

Published in June 2004, this comprehensive book by Mark Ward has taken three years to produce.

£21.99

Out of the Unknown [Non-UK postage]

Out of the Unknown detailed book.

£22.00

Not Just About Managing

The memoirs of Lewis Rudd.

£20.00

Late Night Horror

A classic 1968 BBC horror play, The Corpse Can't Play, restored to colour.

 

Plus a book about the series Late Night Horror, and a specially-made trail from 1968.

 

SHIPPING NOW

 

£24.00

Kaleidoscope Television Archives Assets

Holdings of the Kaleidoscope Archives.

£30.00

Judging Pop Tunes

A definitive, detailed history of Juke Box Jury.

 

A huge book. Hardback.

£35.00