Paid Members Jazzy G Posted June 4, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted June 4, 2019 1 hour ago, Hannibal Scorch said: Eranamus Microman, Round The Bend and Palace Hill. Don’t think either have ever been repeated/released and only Round The Bend I have more vivid memories of Round The Bend was crazy. Doc Croc and some of the parodies of stuff they did were quite imaginative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted June 5, 2019 Awards Moderator Share Posted June 5, 2019 10 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said: Eranamus Microman, Round The Bend and Palace Hill. Don’t think either have ever been repeated/released and only Round The Bend I have more vivid memories of Erasmus Microman. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147764/ Round The Bend was brilliant, very influential on me. Like a TV version of Oink! magazine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted June 5, 2019 Moderators Share Posted June 5, 2019 If you're a sucker for punishment and somehow make it through the first 8, the 9th episode of Payne is on YouTube even though it never aired on tv. This is one of the three different attempts to remake Fawlty Towers for US TV. It's fucking gash, obvs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted June 5, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted June 5, 2019 12 hours ago, Tommy! said: Has more than the 1 episode of Heil Honey I'm Home ever seen the light of day? Not in full. Eight episodes were recorded, and apparently there's clips out there from the unaired episodes, but only the pilot exists in full. I have seen an animated title sequence that wasn't on the pilot episode, but was intended to be used for the series, though. Apparently a YouTuber has copies of the remaining tapes, but they've not surfaced yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted June 5, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted June 5, 2019 (edited) 13 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said: Eranamus Microman, Round The Bend and Palace Hill. Don’t think either have ever been repeated/released and only Round The Bend I have more vivid memories of 2 hours ago, Onyx2 said: Erasmus Microman. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147764/ Round The Bend was brilliant, very influential on me. Like a TV version of Oink! magazine. I remember Erasmus Microman very well - he was played by Ken Campbell, whom I mainly remember from Fawlty Towers "The Anniversary" episode, but he was in loads of stuff. Round The Bend was fucking insane. Basically that grotty kids' toilet humour that was so popular in the 80s - like you say, Onyx, a TV version of Oink!, which I also used to read. I don't know if anyone else remembers, but there was a series of programmes called Your Mother Wouldn't Like It, and it was basically the kids' arm of "Yoof TV". It seemed to be an umbrella brand, because I'm almost certain that Palace Hill and Round The Bend came under it. EDIT: Seems Palace Hill was a spin-off. But Round The Bend wasn't, it was actually made by the people who did make Oink! so that explains a lot. Edited June 5, 2019 by Carbomb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted June 5, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted June 5, 2019 I had a Round the Bend game on the Amiga. Standard platform fair but the humour was still intact Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted June 5, 2019 Share Posted June 5, 2019 My Holy Grail is something I don’t think I’ll ever see again. Many moons ago, a friend and I had a favourite VHS compilation of documentaries that we would watch when stoned. One of the things on here was a programme called Lifters, which I think he taped off UK Horizons or one of those now defunct channels. It followed shoplifters, and documented their lives and one lad in particular called Simon who was absolute TV gold. Memorable scenes included him turning up to a new job (his first ever I think) in a Millwall shirt, collar up and then being sent home after half a day for attacking his boss with a plank of wood, and being filmed in the back of a car on the way home from his parole hearing, screwing up his parole plan and throwing it out of the window with the immortal words: “See ya later parole, no one gives a fuck about ya!” (This would become something we would paraphrase for years) I have searched for years. I’ve tried every single archive website. I actually didn’t even know the name of it until a few months ago when I found it on the BBC Genome website. I have even emailed the production company, to no avail. I would give anything to see it again. My true Holy Grail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted June 5, 2019 Share Posted June 5, 2019 The original season of the UK Max Headroom episodes are lost, being music video shows they were never going to be released on any kind of home format and we're still waiting for any bootleg recordings. Now the later two seasons are around but they're being held by some archivists who won't just release them to anybody, which sucks, just upload them as an anonymous torrent or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bellenda Carlisle Posted June 5, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted June 5, 2019 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Merzbow said: The original season of the UK Max Headroom episodes are lost, being music video shows they were never going to be released on any kind of home format and we're still waiting for any bootleg recordings. Now the later two seasons are around but they're being held by some archivists who won't just release them to anybody, which sucks, just upload them as an anonymous torrent or something. I always thought Max Headroom was really cool, do you know any good places to read about his history? It's crazy that he had two different drama series, he hosted a music show, had a hit single, was the face of loads of advertising campaigns etc, he was everywhere when I was a kid. Also who would be the "archivists" who are holding on to them? Are they people with the only copies taped off tv or do they somehow own the original tapes? Doesn't it belong to the channel it was aired on? Sounds interesting. Edited June 5, 2019 by Bellenda Carlisle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted June 5, 2019 Share Posted June 5, 2019 Just now, Bellenda Carlisle said: I always thought Max Headroom was really cool, do you know any good places to read about his history? It's crazy that he had two different drama series, he hosted a music show, had a hit single, was the face of loads of advertising campaigns etc, he was everywhere when I was a kid. This page seems to be the best I've found so far, they're also the guys with a lot of the episodes. http://www.maxheadroom.com/index.php?title=Welcome_to_the_Max_Headroom_Chronicles! And here's a documentary from 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TibBo Posted June 5, 2019 Share Posted June 5, 2019 (edited) I think I've got all of the Round The Bend's on dvd. Downloaded them years ago when the guy who created them posted them on his website. Actually, here is the site, if you've got Flash on your computer it might still work:http://www.tonyhusband.co.uk/rtbvideowall.html I think this should give you the direct link to download the files (just change the numbers for the different episodes):http://www.tonyhusband.co.uk/flash/rtb/series1/s1e1.flv You'll most likely need to convert them from Flash to a more viewable format if you want to burn them etc... Edited June 5, 2019 by TibBo more info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted June 5, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted June 5, 2019 Thanks for that, TibBo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TibBo Posted June 5, 2019 Share Posted June 5, 2019 No worries matey! Let me know if it works as I haven't got flash anymore.... If not, I can rip them from my DVDs if folks want them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted June 5, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted June 5, 2019 Round the Bend has been easily available over YouTube for years. How is it a rarity? Out of interest, I went searching for something that was on Children's BBC for a while when I was a kid called Treasure in Malta. I think I only watched it because it was made in Malta and we'd been there on holidays a few times. From what I found out on Wikipedia, it was apparently edited down from a Children's Film Foundation movie into a TV serial but the original film may be lost even though the series is on YouTube. It was made in 1963, why the hell were BBC1 showing that in the late 80s on CBBC? Also, the uploads on YouTube are in four parts yet the Wikipedia entry says it was released in six. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_in_Malta I also noticed there's hardly any footage of Pob's Programme about, and I can't see any DVD releases of it anywhere. It'll be one of those that some kid taped all the episodes of and they're up in his or her mum's loft waiting to be rediscovered. What's Channel 4's archiving like in general? As shit as BBC's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted June 5, 2019 Author Moderators Share Posted June 5, 2019 WIth Channel 4 stuff, with it being a publisher broadcaster, could the rights as regards archiving and stuff belong to the production company? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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