Kaleidoscope: Missing Believed Wiped
EventAbout Kaleidoscope: Missing Believed Wiped
TV archivists Kaleidoscope have been on the hunt for lost television programmes, and they’ve once again come up trumps with a whole host of rare footage thought lost to the mists of time.
Alongside lost episodes and rare footage from series like The Avengers, Letters From The Dead and Z Cars, they’ll also be joined by Annette Andre, best known for playing Jean Hopkirk in Randall and Hopkirk Deceased.
10am: Letters from the Dead (1969)
Southern TV thriller series that survives as fragments, with two complete episodes. Now presented with all surviving footage complete thanks to the editing of Simon Coward.
11am: Z Cars – Truth or Dare (1962)
Midday
Trims and off cuts from two James Bond films - From Russia with Love and Goldfinger - followed by a new discovery of further new unseen trims from the colour Diana Rigg series of The Avengers.
12.20pm: Men of Letters
Central Office of Information comedy film starring Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin, colourised by Mark Hevingham. Followed by examples of other re-coloured material including Year Of The Sex Olympics, Public Eye and Callan.
12.30pm: Greg Lanning Q&A
Best known for making Southern Report and Runaround, Greg worked for Southern Television for many years.
1pm: Treasures in Store – Museum at Sandhurst: The Indian Army Room (1976)
A missing documentary made by Greg Lanning.
1.25pm: Lunch
1.55pm The Story of Children’s TV from 1946 until Today
Lee Bannister joins Chris Perry to talk about the making of this Big Centre TV documentary.
2.30pm: Noel Edmonds’ Lucky Numbers (1979)
Our third guest of the day is Sue Allan, one of the contestants in this short-lived series.
3.30pm: Break
3.45pm:A Conversation with Annette Andre
Our final guest is better known for being Jean Hopkirk in Randall and Hopkirk Deceased, but her illustrious career includes The Avengers, The Saint, The Prisoner and Maigret.
4.45pm: Spotlight (1968)
A stellar cast including rarely-seen Benny Hill material in this ITV special found in Los Angeles.
5.35pm: Closedown
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Duration includes trailers, adverts and any Q&A/panel. For events such as NT Live, Colour Box and Reel & Meal there will be minimal advertising. We do not admit latecomers after the main feature has started and we have a limited food & drink policy.
MAC’s cinema programme has been generously supported by BFI Film Audience Network and Film Hub Midlands.
