OK, this is pure fluff, but I think it is interesting.

QuoteBBC team have been working closely with Dr Venn's team to help recover the signals. BBC Television historian Peter Wells, explained "We now know these are original broadcasts. So far we have recovered about 7 weeks of old television signals from space. Every day in our lab is like traveling back in time. And speaking of which we have just started the digital recovery of signals that contain lost Doctor Who episodes.

http://www.rimmell.com/bbc/news.htm

>And speaking of which we have just started the digital recovery of signals that contain lost Doctor Who episodes.

Oh shit. There goes reddit.

That's really interesting.  It would be great if the signal was constant and we were able to collect in real time old broadcasts and archive them.  Historians must be very excited by the possibilities.

I'm not sure if I want to see Starsky & Hutch again.

Come on now RC, you know you miss Huggy Bear.

>Huggy Bear

Simply craptastic.

Quantum Leap, OTOH, at least had a different plot.  Most everything else was cowboys, cops, or (ugh!) the Dukes of Hazzard.

Dang rc you are just crapping all over my fond childhood memories.

1 April 2009

too bad.  Now I know the most effective time to take people in on an April Fools joke is not on April first.

>memories

Even back in the "Golden Age Of TV Content" when shows were supposedly good quality by today's standards, most were crap. If you watch them now they tend to make you squirm with the realization that you spent untold hours locked into that drivel. I did my seat time just like everyone else.  It's hard to recall them here without any sort of roster but, fwiw, here are some shows that I liked:

Bullwinkle

Twilight Zone

Outer Limits

Combat

The Fugitive

Laugh-In

SNL (Conehead era)

Second City TV

Flip Wilson

Quantum Leap

They don't say if they've gotten any live television for which there is no other record.

Historians might get excited. I'm a historian. If I could get broadcasts for the period I study, I'd be elated. Then again, my focus is the mid-sxiteenth century, so I think everyone would be quite surprised by that bounce anomaly

RC:  I'm surprised Alfred Hitchcocks weren't in that list...

I watched Hitchcock a fair amount and some of the plot twists were pretty cunning (like feeding the ground-up murder victim as chicken salad to the investigating sheriff) but I never really liked AH's style.

add:

I Spy

Man from UNCLE

The Defenders

The Jetsons

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Elvira ...but not for the show, hhh.. Correction, it was for 'the show' but not for the stories.

>I Spy

I was going to add that one.  Best show of the 60s in my opinion.
(watched it as a rerun in the 80s)

Quote from: JasonD on January 17, 2012, 11:03:31 PM
Check the date of the piece

totally missed that (obviously). I'm deeply disappointed with this. If the signals were indeed bouncing back, then we could live in confidence that one whole sector of space was being spared Milton Burl (sp?)

PS - if you're an Amazon Prime subscriber, a lot of these old shows are free for the streaming. Wife and I watched a handful of Twilight Zone episodes the other night.