Re: Blackstar rox my world

[Paul Mison]

On 23/10/2000 at 19:12 +0100, Dave Cross wrote:

>This happened with Dr Who. There are still a large nubmer of episodes
>>missing following a purge in the 1970s.
>
>Every so often a missing episode turns up at some far-flung
>broadcasting company that bought it years ago.

This almost happened to Monty Python too, at which point one of them
smuggled out some then state-of-the-art VHS-style copies (which were
obviously of really poor quality) as a final record once the masters
were wiped.

Then some US company bought the rights, and the BBC decided it might be
a good idea to have something to sell them.

Apparently it was a close call.

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