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kindkitOh, BBC1, how your old 1960s-1970s habit of wiping programs makes me sad. Apparently there are hardly any episodes left of the first two series of Callan (which is sort of like the bastard child of kitchen-sink drama and John Le Carré, and stars Edward Woodward and the brilliant Anthony Valentine) and none whatsoever of Codename (another spy drama, also starring Anthony Valentine, and produced by Gerard Glaister who later made Colditz and Secret Army).
It's so frustrating to know something was recorded and so could still exist, but doesn't because people chose to discard it. It's a different feeling from "Oh, how I wish I could have seen Antony Sher play Shylock in 1987," because with the latter there's not the same feeling that it ought to still be possible.
1ETA: Oops, Callan wasn't actually a BBC show, it was made by ABC Weekend Television, later Thames Television. Apparently burnination was a widespread British TV habit. The Beeb still gets the blame for wiping all of Codename, though.
It's so frustrating to know something was recorded and so could still exist, but doesn't because people chose to discard it. It's a different feeling from "Oh, how I wish I could have seen Antony Sher play Shylock in 1987," because with the latter there's not the same feeling that it ought to still be possible.
1ETA: Oops, Callan wasn't actually a BBC show, it was made by ABC Weekend Television, later Thames Television. Apparently burnination was a widespread British TV habit. The Beeb still gets the blame for wiping all of Codename, though.
