Where to get a copy of old TV shows?

[fatherfurlong]

After the showing of the excellent Abigail’s party last night there was a doc about the old Play for Today series in the 60’s-70’s which reminded me of one of the funniest dramas I watched as a child. I have never seen it repeated since.

It was called The Gorge and featured the actor Billy Hamon who played a teenager compelled to go on holiday to the West Country with his dreary parents.
I would love to watch it again but have checked out various sources and can’t find it. Does anyone else remember it or better still know where I could get hold of it?

Its on YouTube, if you put in The Wednesday Play, a whole list comes up and it's there

The Gorge…

m.youtube.com/watch?v=E1AwPM6j49o

Worth noting that a lot of older shows have been silently bowdlerised. Just in case you think they don't make sense.

I suspect that the ones linked to here haven't been but certainly older programmes that are rebroadcast can be edited (if not necessarily bowdlerised). Repeats of The Good Life are cut for time for example. The most recent editing I noticed was for the 1977 A Jubilee of Music repeat on BBC Four where Rolf Harris was cut out and erased from the closing credits (all a bit 1984 for me).

I wonder how much of love thy neighbour, would be edited these days.

Well, thank you so much! I looked on YouTube a couple of months ago but it wasn’t there- must have only recently been added. With nothing to do last night I watched it and found it just as funny as I remember it- have told so many people about it too.!

Thank you so much for bringing this up. I am watching right now and realised it is a programme that was on when I was a teen at my grand parents' home. They switched off in embarrassment when the young girl started getting undressed and coming on to the young lad. It hadn't entered my mind since then. It's funny indeed. Thanks.

Content owners are free to cut their content however they like.

My issue is the borderline (if not outright) dishonesty in not making it clear it's been tampered with. It infantilizes us and also removes our opportunity to know it's been removed much less make an informed choice.

So pleased I have thousands of dead tree books I can bequeath to curious minds when I'm gone. Let them come across the "difficult" words, rather than risking Amazon (or some other busybody woke promoter) quietly rewriting works under the cover of the Kindle.

Anyway, I digress.

Incidentally Play for Today would have pissed all over anything the BBC puts out these days. There were some corking editions. One about a cure for the common cold. Another about a by-election ("This Green and Peasant Land") where the Liberals beat the two main parties.

Flipside of Dominick Hyde ?

And at least one that had Billy Connolly in it. Acting too.