Missing Episode/Radio: Difference between revisions
m
→top: clean up, replaced: BLAM Episode → Non Sequitur Episode
m (fix hottip markup) |
m (→top: clean up, replaced: BLAM Episode → Non Sequitur Episode) |
||
Line 15:
* As late as 1984 [[The BBC]] wiped the pilot episode for a planned ''[[Dad's Army|Dads Army]]'' radio sequel, ''It Sticks Out Half a Mile'', because Arthur Lowe sounded drunk. He was in fact terminally ill. The series was recast with other ''[[Dad's Army|Dads Army]]'' actors and 13 episodes were made. Astonishingly, most of the series was also wiped - the last known major BBC purge. The pilot and all the lost episodes have been recovered from domestic recordings of varying quality.
* ''[[Adventures in Odyssey]]'' has several, mostly due to the character known as "Officer Harley" a rather buffoonish policeman. Parents thought the character would be a bad impression on the police force, so the charcter was removed. The trope is subverted as some of the episodes reair with Harley edited out of the episode or replaced with another character, such as Eugene Meltsner, but there are several episodes which really are missing, because of Harley being too important of a character or controversial issues, such as abortion.
** There's another episode called "Lights Out At Whit's End", which hasn't aired since it first did, not only because of Harley, but also because [[
* ''Dick Barton -- Special Agent'' was a popular adventure series which ran on BBC Radio from 1946 to 1951.<ref>It is widely perceived as having been axed by BBC executives due to its sensationalism in favour of the more sedate rural soap opera ''The Archers'', [[Long Runners|which has been on the air ever since.]]</ref> Of the 711 episodes, only ''three'' were preserved by the BBC, as well as a handful of clips. However, in February 2011, 338 episodes were recovered from the National Film and Sound Archive in Australia; though they are not quite identical to the original British recordings, they use the same scripts and music cues edited into a slightly different final format.
* Many episodes of Fred Allen's various shows are not known to exist (although some have come to light in recent years). Notably, the original episode that began the Fred Allen-[[The Jack Benny Program|Jack Benny]] feud '''does''' exist, but only the East coast feed. The West coast feed, in which Allen's ad-libbed insults of Benny were apparently much more elaborate and hilarious is apparently gone. The relative few episodes of Fred Allen's shows that are still available compared to Jack Benny's may explain in part why Benny is much better remembered today.
| |||