Posted on 12/31/2015 5:44:01 PM PST by keat
I'm watching the TZ marathon on SyFy. The current episode, "A Most Unusual Camera" is from 1960 and looks like it was shot on videotape. Did they do that back then? Looks like a cheesy soap opera.
They’re great; except for the last one; the face should be Hillary’s.
KICK THE CAN and there’s also one other one, look different from all the others and I’ve seen these shows ( including the first runs ) so many times, I’ve lost count.
Jackie Gleason saved the early episodes of the Honeymooners on Kinescope before it became a series on its own. I think they called it the “lost episodes” of the honeymooners when he released them in the 1980’s. The story was that he had them in his vault all that time.
Why? In that episode the actual lady was desperately trying to warn the people boarding the alien space craft that the alien's book which she finally managed to decipher was a cook book! The aliens were bringing earthlings back to their planet to eat them!
As a child, I met some people who worked in early T.V., so I was able to ask them all kinds of questions, when they visited my parents. I’m talking 1949-1950.
I’ve seen every TZ episode a million times over.
Now, let me know when there’s an Outer Limits marathon, and I’ll be there!
OL used to scare the bejesus out of me as a little kid.
The one with Bill Shatner FREAKING out at the sight of the gremlin, who in this still has been replaced by Trump's face.
I have watched a lot of that marathon. It is amazing how many episodes I originally saw and still remember most of them. enjoy.
Right you are but they’re called something else besides THE LAST TAPES.
Not as entirely bad as that. “Margie,” “Riley,” “Joan,” and even “I Led Three Lives” do actually survive, although I don’t think any have been re-mastered from their 35mm sources. MGM/UA seems to now have control of the Ziv library, and they did re-master a number of their series, although perhaps not the older ones, like “I Led Three Lives,” “Boston Blackie,” or “Mr. Distict Attorney” (at least, to my knowledge). Weiss-Global used to syndicate “Joan,” and they had the whole run in 16mm in syndication back in the 1980s/90s. I think Fox owns the rights to “Life of Riley,” but I don’t know how on earth that might have happened.
But, when you get to “live” series of the 1950s, or “taped” series of the 1960s (like game-shows, soap-operas), the majority is long-gone. In the early-1950s, there were also a lot of filmed series that were independently-produced, and I suspect many of those are semi-lost. Shows like “Front Page Detective” or “Cases of Eddie Drake,” and things in that vein, where a few scattered 16mm prints circulate amongst collectors, but whether the original elements still survive is likely a big question mark.
I bet that was fascinating.
Yeah, one of my favorites.
There used to be FANTASTIC shows on T.V.; plays, operas, operettas, musicals and pops...all gone.
I'd also give my eyeteeth for the original OMNIBUS series, with Alistair Cooke.
Yes, it all was VERY interesting !
Much MUCH better ! :-)
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