Ev'rybody down! [Fx: loud crash]
This site has been neglected for quite a while due to various other jobs taking priority, but a change of webhost has meant that I have had to at least look at the pages and try to update them and give them a little bit of a spring clean.
The intention is, as in the past, to try to add more of the same: news, reviews, and features, but foremost, to provide a web presence for the society, and this will mean that there will not be any overlap with the lavishly produced printed newsletters. Contact detials and some examples of content will follow shortly.
For those of you who are using this site to check about missing shows, I would like to point out that the episode guide is continually being upgraded so may not be accurate, however, if you feel you have a lost show, here are a few guidelines:
- If you have a missing show as an mp3 file, then you can almost be certain I have already downloaded it. Thanks for the offers,but there is no need to contact me.
- If you have a missing show on tape, reel, or wet string that you recorded off air, please drop me a line giving as much detail as possible - date, condition, speed (if applicable). This will enable me to judge how best to deal with it.
- If you have a missing show on tape, reel, etc, that you have copied off of someone else, please see if the original is available. This will reduce the amount of restoration needed, and will speed up any work.
- If you are not sure what your recording is, but you think it may be a missing show, please send me the full opening line and a full end credit cast list so that I can check to see what episode it is
Shows listed as missing are missing in broadcast quality. This does mean that recordings may still exist but are in a condition where restoration is necessary or they are too poor to do anything with. Whilst this may cause some confusion, I would rather listen to the same show several times and hit the jackpot by finding a better copy thanhave someone read that it exists and ditch their taped copy which is of much better quality. Basically, if in doubt, contact the society.
Hopefully we can locate some of the early shows as they are needed for the forthcoming collectors sets. Any shows that are sent to me will be forwarded directly to Ted Kendall for restoration and will be returned on the completion of the process.