Francis Matthews

[Lord Brett]

Originally Posted by image45 Sadly I feel the reasons for wiping are larger than just believing that it was a production that should have been made by commercial TV rather than wasting BBC videotape and time on such a production.

Oh crikey yes. The corporation had no remit to keep a permanent archive, so when the time came that it was decided more space was needed, burocratic minds decided just to dump anything from, say, shelves 1 to 58, unless the producer had put a specific preservation order on it, which is why Blue Peter survives almost unscathed.

[batman]

Originally Posted by image45 I have seen six Paul Temple episodes and I must say I liked them all indeed, I have heard that the German episodes are edited very differently to the UK versions as well as been in German too of course!

I have watched several recently and I think the series is very good and, apart from some dodgy fashions and technical limitations, it has hardly dated at all. Francis gives a fine performance as PT and with the lovely Ros Drinkwater as Steve it is extremely entertaining.

[Moor Larkin]

Heres another one Mr. Francis may recall........ my boy........
(Click on the pictures and you get a bigger version)





As a kid, it seemed to me that David Kossoff was never not on the telly!

[Francis]

Originally Posted by Moor Larkin Heres another one Mr. Francis may recall........ my boy........ (Click on the pictures and you get a bigger version) As a kid, it seemed to me that David Kossoff was never not on the telly!

Thank you M.L. Another segment of my past that I'm truly proud of. Written by the great Jack Pulman, and directed by the much missed Cliff Owen We did 13 Episodes and the material was matchlessly funny. But.......Jack was jewish, writing about a jewish family, our boss Sydney Berman of Granada.....and it was axed because he said it was too Jewish!! Go figure, as they say.

[Harbottle]

A couple more FM appearances.

The Reverend Matthews in Z Cars: Brotherly Love (1965):



An alas blurry Francis as "Elmo Dent" in the Hancock episode 'The Writer' (1963), seen wth Tony Hancock and John Junkin:

[Francis]

Originally Posted by Harbottle A couple more FM appearances. The Reverend Matthews in Z Cars: Brotherly Love (1965): An alas blurry Francis as "Elmo Dent" in the Hancock episode 'The Writer' (1963), seen wth Tony Hancock and John Junkin:

Memories! Memories! How on earth do all you "Seniors" find this stuff. More than that...........how do you put them onto the Forum ?! Thanks.

[alan gowdy]

One of the larger broadcasters (might have been the BBC but could easily have been one of ITV's big 5, I can't recall which now) disposed of many videotapes after a fire inspection by the London Fire Brigade. It seems that piles of 2" quad tapes were being stored rather untidily in corridors and so on and the Brigade deemed them a hazard. Rather than go to the trouble and expense of increasing their proper storage facilities, some middle management type ordered that the offending tapes be dumped.

I've heard this from two or three old timers, so it might be true.