BBC 1980s Day of the Triffids

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Michael_Eve

26-11-2014

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour:
“There's a bit of a problem with releasing Doomwatch - only 10 of the 24 episodes that still exist are in their original format. The others are all NTSC copies returned from Canada, so any DVD release is going to look pretty sub-standard without some expensive restoration.

Black and white 16mm telerecordings exist of at least the 12 affected episodes from Season 2, so they could potentially go down the Doctor Who restoration route - re-colour using the chroma signal from the NTSC copies and VidFIRE them - but realistically that's just not going to happen for something as niche as Doomwatch.”

Thanks for the info....interesting. Guess just have to hope episodes might crop up on BBC4 or some such. Can't remember it being repeated, which probably explains my fruitless search on YouTube. Ah well.

chuffnobbler

27-11-2014

All the surviving episodes were repeated on UK Gold many, many years ago.

Tomorrow the Rat does have Robert Powell wrestling with a stuffed rat, but also has a very startling image of

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GDK

27-11-2014

I've just found that there is a DVD of 2 episodes (The Plastic Eaters and Tomorrow, the Rat). It must have been released on DVD years ago and now out of print. Only one Amazon re-seller is selling it new - for £120

There also seems to be a movie spin-off concerning an ecological disaster on a remote island and some mutated islanders.

Kieran Seymour

27-11-2014

Originally Posted by GDK:
“I've just found that there is a DVD of 2 episodes (The Plastic Eaters and Tomorrow, the Rat). It must have been released on DVD years ago and now out of print. Only one Amazon re-seller is selling it new - for £120 ”

Yeah. It was the same company that re-issued the two Doomwatch VHS tapes, years after the original BBC versions. They put out the edited Quatermass and the Pit omnibus and the two Adam Adamant Lives! episodes on DVD as well. Doomwatch aside, we've been lucky enough to get much better versions to watch in the years since.

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“There also seems to be a movie spin-off concerning an ecological disaster on a remote island and some mutated islanders.”

It's not that great, if anyone's tempted to pick it up. The regulars all get relegated right back into minor supporting roles so they can concentrate on Ian Bannen's new character.

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