Comments | marah_sarie: OKAY THIS IS EXCITING

marah_sarie

OKAY THIS IS EXCITING

Sep 13, 2010 22:26

Hundreds of hours of previously believed lost British drama broadcast between 1957 and 1970 has been found in WNET's archive collection at the Library of Congress.

According to this list of the recovered dramas, amongst these are the ITV/Rediffusion Play of the Week The Typewriter (1962) and Theatre 625's The Queen and the Welshman (1966), both ( Read more... )

zomg awesome, general flailing

Comments 11

lycoris September 13 2010, 22:12:41 UTC

Oh wow, how utterly made of win is that? :D It's really exciting in a lovely geeky way - and hee, Patrick Troughton! :D

marah_sarie September 14 2010, 12:47:13 UTC

There's another thing with Troughton on the list, too, I've discovered - The BBC's Twentieth Century Theatre's Insect Play.

(I know these are all plays that have been discovered, but I hope they've checked really hard to make sure they don't have any Doctor Who hidden away...)

stargazy September 13 2010, 23:52:23 UTC

YESSSSSS! :D :D :D

*celebrates*

marah_sarie September 14 2010, 20:18:28 UTC

I may have flailed about a bit when I heard about this. Possibly. :D

reajeasa September 14 2010, 00:22:49 UTC

I are very excite! But that's not the real purpose of this comment. The real and very secret purpose is this: can I friendy?

marah_sarie September 14 2010, 12:35:47 UTC

By all means! I have been quite appreciate of yours and stargazy's efforts to make sure that my tumblr dash always has plenty of Jeremy Brett and other great stuff on it, so add away! :D

brewsternorth September 14 2010, 03:05:08 UTC

I <3 LIBRARIES. that is all.

marah_sarie September 14 2010, 20:21:08 UTC

Hooray for libraries and the Public Broadcasting Service! :D

snowgrouse September 14 2010, 08:04:07 UTC

FUCK FUCK FUCK OMG OMG OMG FLAIL FLAIL FLAIL OMFG :D:D:D:D:D:D

I dread the copyright mess that's going to take a while to solve before any of these are available to the public, but maaaaaaaannn :D WANT. Why am I not a member of the BFI and why can't I go there to see all this stuff? Aaah.

marah_sarie September 14 2010, 12:31:38 UTC

Oh man, right now I'm just like EEEEEEEEE that these actually, you know, haven't been completely lost forever, but I do hope that they're able to re-air or release these at some point...

...like this Much Ado About Nothing that's got Derek Jacobi and Caroline John and Maggie Smith and omg.

snowgrouse September 14 2010, 13:25:31 UTC

*FLAIL* yes! Just the sheer number of awesome actors in all these things is mindboggling. Guuuh.