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These programmes, which we think are missing or somehow incomplete, matched your search.

VISION ON

  • Series 1
    • 06.03.1964 Looking at Horses (missing)
    • 20.03.1964 Circus (missing)
    • 03.04.1964 Spring (missing)
    • 17.04.1964 Dancing (missing)
    • 28.04.1964 Paper Birds and Paper People (missing)
    • 12.05.1964 Circus (missing)
    • 26.05.1964 Episode No. 7 (missing)
    • 09.06.1964 Episode No. 8 (missing)
    • 23.06.1964 Episode No. 9 (missing)
    • 07.07.1964 Trains (missing)
    • 21.07.1964 Try This One (missing)
    • 04.08.1964 Magic (missing)
    • 18.08.1964 Episode No. 13 (missing)
    • 01.09.1964 Episode No. 14 (missing)
    • 15.09.1964 Episode No. 15 (missing)
    • 30.09.1964 Episode No. 16 (missing)
    • 28.10.1964 Skating (missing)
    • 25.11.1964 Acting Without Words (missing)
    • 23.12.1964 A Christmas Tree (missing)
    • 19.01.1965 Episode No. 20 (missing)
    • 24.01.1965 Mostly on Reflection (missing)
    • 19.02.1965 Wheels (missing)
    • 16.03.1965 Episode No. 23 (missing)
    • 13.04.1965 Episode No. 24 (missing)
    • 11.05.1965 Episode No. 25 (missing)
    • 08.06.1965 Episode No. 26 (missing)
    • 06.07.1965 Episode No. 27 (missing)
    • 03.08.1965 Episode No. 28 (missing)
    • 07.09.1965 Boy and the Boat
      One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost.
    • 29.10.1965 Gardeners
      Picture only exists – there is no sound.
  • Series 2
    • 05.01.1966 Episode No. 1 (missing)
    • 12.01.1966 Episode No. 2 (missing)
    • 19.01.1966 Episode No. 3 (missing)
    • 26.01.1966 Episode No. 4 (missing)
    • 02.02.1966 Episode No. 5 (missing)
    • 09.02.1966 Episode No. 6 (missing)
  • Series 3
    • 21.09.1966 Episode No. 1
      One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost.
    • 28.09.1966 Episode No. 2
      One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost.
    • 05.10.1966 Episode No. 3 (missing)
    • 19.10.1966 Episode No. 5 (missing)
    • 26.10.1966 Episode No. 6 (missing)
  • Series 4
    • 01.02.1967 Episode No. 1 (missing)
    • 08.02.1967 Episode No. 2 (missing)
    • 15.02.1967 Episode No. 3 (missing)
    • 22.02.1967 Episode No. 4 (missing)
    • 01.03.1967 Episode No. 5 (missing)
    • 08.03.1967 Episode No. 6 (missing)
    • 16.03.1967 Episode No. 7 (missing)
  • Series 5
    • 19.07.1967 Episode No. 3 (missing)
    • 26.07.1967 Episode No. 4 (missing)
    • 02.08.1967 Episode No. 5 (missing)
    • 09.08.1967 Episode No. 6 (missing)
  • Series 6
    • 27.12.1967 Mostly to do with Animals (missing)
    • 10.01.1968 Mostly about 'Paper' (missing)
    • 17.01.1968 Mostly to do with 'Puppets'
      One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost.
    • 24.01.1968 Mostly on 'Reflection' (missing)
    • 31.01.1968 Mostly to do with 'Lines' (missing)
    • 07.02.1968 Mostly about 'Printing' (missing)
    • 14.02.1968 Mostly to do with 'Triangles' (missing)
    • 28.02.1968 Rounds and Curves (missing)
    • 06.03.1968 Mostly to do with Sea and Sand (missing)
    • 13.03.1968 Mostly to do with Machines (missing)
    • 20.03.1968 All Shapes and Sizes (missing)
  • Series 7
    • 03.06.1969 S for Seaside, Soap, Scrap and Several Surprises! (missing)
    • 17.06.1969 P for Pencil, Punch-Up, Paint and Poppycock! (missing)
    • 24.06.1969 Something Beginning with B such as Boats, Boots, Birds, Buildings! (missing)
    • 15.07.1969 W Is for Wet Water and Wiggly Worms and Whatevernext? (missing)
    • 22.07.1969 A Is for Animals, Archery and Aeroplanes and Almost Anything At All! (missing)
    • 29.07.1969 Something Beginning with D, such as Dunce and Dustbin and Dougal! (missing)
    • 05.08.1969 Something Beginning with H, such as Hats, Happiness and Hands and Humphrey Umbrage (missing)
    • 12.08.1969 Something Beginning with F, Such as Face, Flower and Farewell! (missing)
  • Series 8
    • 06.05.1970 Episode No. 3 (missing)
    • 13.05.1970 Episode No. 4 (missing)
    • 27.05.1970 Episode No. 6 (missing)
    • 10.06.1970 Episode No. 8 (missing)
    • 17.06.1970 Episode No. 9 (missing)

    • IN VISION

  • Series 1
    • 11.04.1974 "Art, Ern and Abe" / "Televising Parliament"
      One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost.
    • 18.04.1974 Philpott and His File / Documentaries Are Different
      One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost.
    • 25.04.1974 Where Do New Programmes Come From, Mummy? (missing)
    • 02.05.1974 Two Days to the Cup Final
      One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost.
    • 09.05.1974 Can I Really Have My Say? / Votes for Women
      One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost.
    • 16.05.1974 "The World at War"
      One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost.
    • 23.05.1974 The Roger McGough Film Animation Item
      One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost.
    • 07.06.1974 A Tribute to James MacTaggart
      One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost.
    • 29.05.1974 Comedy Playhouse (missing)
    • 06.06.1974 Oil, Oil, Underneath the Sea (missing)
    • 12.06.1974 "The Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg" (missing)
    • 27.06.1974 The Family (missing)
  • Series 2
    • Inflation (missing)
    • 11.10.1974 Television and the Election
      One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost.
    • 25.10.1974 Advertising on Television
      One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost.
    • 22.11.1974 Episode No. 9 (missing)
    • 29.11.1974 Episode No. 10 (missing)
    • 06.12.1974 Monty Python
      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.
    • 13.12.1974 Episode No. 12 (missing)
    • 08.01.1975 Episode No. 13 (missing)
    • 15.01.1975 Episode No. 14 (missing)
    • 22.01.1975 Episode No. 15 (missing)
    • 29.01.1975 BBC License Increase
      One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost.
    • 19.02.1975 Episode No. 19 (missing)
    • 26.02.1975 Episode No. 20 (missing)
    • 05.03.1975 Medicine and Television
      One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost.
    • 19.03.1975 Regional Television
      One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost.

    • WITHOUT VISION

    • 10.07.1956 Episode No. 1 (missing)

    • IN SEARCH OF ST. PAUL

    • 19.04.1964 After the Vision
      A 35mm black-and-white film print exists, but the programme was originally recorded on 35mm colour film.

    • DID YOU SEE UNA?

    • 31.01.1967 Sound and Vision / TV Commercials (missing)

    • A HUNDRED YEARS OF HUMPHREY HASTINGS

    • 14.12.1967 1932 – Vision and Sound
      A 16mm black-and-white film print exists, but the programme was originally made using 2" colour videotape.

    • QUEUE FOR SONG

    • 25.08.1938 Sound and Vision No. 7 (missing, believed never to have been recorded)
    • 26.08.1938 Sound and Vision No. 8 (missing, believed never to have been recorded)
    • 29.08.1938 Sound and Vision No. 9 (missing, believed never to have been recorded)
    • 02.09.1938 Sound and Vision No. 11 (missing, believed never to have been recorded)

    • THAMES TELEVISION STRIKE ARCHIVE

    • 03.09.1984 In-Vision Continuity
      The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500).
    • 03.09.1984 In-Vision Continuity
      The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500).

    • THE ELEVENTH HOUR

  • Series 1
    • 11.04.1983 Normal Vision (existence unknown)

    • PLAY OF THE WEEK

    • 18.12.1957 A Voice in Vision (missing)

    • ABOUT RELIGION

  • Series 1
    • 08.06.1958 An Artist’s Vision (missing)

    • THE MISFIT

  • Series 2
    • 01.03.1971 ... On the Army Stores Vision of Paradise
      A 16mm black-and-white film print exists, but the programme was originally made using 2" colour videotape.

    • PAUL TEMPLE

  • Series 2
    • 24.05.1970 Double Vision (missing)

    • DR. FINLAY'S CASEBOOK

  • Series 4
    • 26.12.1965 The Vision (missing)

    • THE APPLEYARDS

  • Series 8
    • 05.05.1956 Vision On (missing)

    • NEW FACES

  • Series 5
    • 05.03.1977 With Clifford Davis, Lee Curtis and Vision, Alan A. Freeman, Mickie Most, Muriel Young (missing)

    • These programmes, which exist complete, matched your search.

    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 Programmes
    Documentaries
    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!

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