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SECOND CITY FIRSTS
- 22.10.1973 Mrs Pool's Preserves (missing)
- 29.10.1973 If a Man Answers
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 05.11.1973 The Movers (missing)
- 12.11.1973 King of the Castle (missing)
- 19.11.1973 Patrons (missing)
- 18.02.1974 Humbug, Finger or Thumb? (missing)
- 11.03.1974 The Actual Woman
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 25.03.1974 Lunch Duty (missing)
- 28.10.1974 Pig Bin
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 04.11.1974 Sunday Tea (missing)
- 11.11.1974 Silence (missing)
- 18.11.1974 Fight for Shelton Bar
The only known complete copy is on a U-Matic videotape. - 02.12.1974 Too Hot to Handle (missing)
- 16.12.1974 The Festive Poacher (missing)
- 27.03.1975 Swallows (missing)
- 03.04.1975 Waiting at the Field Gate
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 24.04.1975 Released (missing)
- 01.11.1975 The Writing on the Wall (missing)
- 08.11.1975 How It Is (missing)
- 15.11.1975 On the Good Ship Yacki-Hicki-Doola (missing)
- 22.11.1975 Thwum
One or more sequences exist from a recording on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500), but the complete programme is lost.
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500).
- 20.03.1976 The Visitor
One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost. - 03.04.1976 Do You Dig It?
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 17.04.1976 Black Bird Shout
One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost.
- 21.11.1976 Knock for Knock (missing)
- 05.12.1976 Dreamboat
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 12.12.1976 Percy and Kenneth (missing)
- 10.05.1977 Postcards from Southsea (missing)
- 17.05.1977 Daft Mam Blues
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 24.05.1977 In the Dead Spell
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 06.06.1977 Fattening Frogs for Snakes (missing)
These productions, which exist in the archives, matched your search.
If the programme you were looking for isn’t here there could be a number of reasons: It’s worth double-checking that you typed in your search string correctly. But if you’re sure you have, please bear in mind that there are a lot of programmes we don’t have any information on at all.
If the programme you’re searching for falls into one of these categories:
Sports ProgrammesDocumentaries
Religious Broadcasts
Reality Shows
Quiz / Game Shows
Some Children’s Magazine and Music Shows then we probably don’t have any information on it, so it might be missing, particularly if it was made in 1979 or earlier.
Lastly, don’t forget that we only hold information on British TV programmes, you won’t be able to find any information about programmes made for American or Australian television, for example. Just because we don’t have a listing for your programme doesn’t mean that it isn’t of interest to us. It just means that we don’t have any information about it.
We’ve got details on more than 175,000 different episodes, almost 40,000 of which are not thought to exist in the ‘official’ archives. Now, before you get too depressed by this fact, some of these are really old shows which were made before television programmes were generally recorded at all. We realise it’s very unlikely that these older programmes will exist at all, but there’s always the chance that someone recorded some 8mm film footage of them off their television screen or maybe made a sound recording of them while they were being broadcast. That’s still of interest to us.
However, our main hope is that someone will be able to help us recover some programmes which were recorded, but which are now thought to be lost for ever. That’s what this search engine is for – to help you identify whether that old film print you’ve got in your attic, or that old video recording you made back in the early 1970s is missing from the archives.
You could type in a programme name, or an episode name and click on ‘Search’ and it will give you some summary information whether or not the programme is lost. You don’t have to enter a complete name, entering part of the name – unless it’s very short – should find it too. If some or all of that programme is lost, you can click on the link and get further details. If it’s a music or variety programme you have, you may be able to locate it by typing in the names of one of the main guests and clicking on ‘Search’. This information is far from complete, but it may help you to identify a particular edition.
Our information is good, but it’s not perfect. There will be mistakes in it, and we know it’s incomplete. In particular, information is very patchy on programmes in the some categories. This website only contains information concerning British broadcasts. Happy searching!