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Originally Posted by andrewferguson
A while ago I was talking with a friend who recalled some early Scottish television series that they had watched when they were originally broadcast, and would love to see again. They were: - The Borderers (1968)
- Weir of Hermiston (1973?)
- The Flight of the Heron (1968)
Being too young to have ever seen any of these, my initial thought was to first determine if copies of these shows are even known to exist, as to continue looking otherwise would be a bit of a dead-end. I thought I would do this using lostshows.com (now tvbrain.info) and I was able to lookup 'The Borderers' on their site and find that the majority of season 1 is known to exist (and indeed it seems that a few episodes are available on YouTube, long may they last before a copyright claim is filed against them!).
Unfortunately TVBrain seems to require a 'Gold Subscription' to access the database for the other two shows, and I'm a bit reluctant to pay a £50 annual subscription just to look up two shows. I don't suppose there is anyone here that has such a subscription and would be willing to lookup both 'Weir of Hermiston' and 'The Flight of the Heron' and see what (if any) episodes are known to exist? |
According to Lost Shows both 'Weir of Hermiston' and 'Flight of the Heron'
entirely exist and that is why your not seeing much info on them on Lost Shows, if there were episodes missing or not in their master format then Lost Shows would be more detailed.
The IMDB has info on the cast in the episodes but not a plot description
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1417566/reference
and
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398466/reference
I seem to recall Moultrie Kessall got criticism as the writer of 'flight of the heron' and told he should have stuck to acting by one ungenerous critic.
Shows that were made for the network you could probably get directly from ITV.
https://www.itv.com/presscentre/content/contact
However they may charge a couple of hundred pounds for a bespoke DVD of a series that may not have got an official release yet.
Also the BFI may have them as well?
The other thing is that Scottish TV is a bit of a loose cannon on the network, so you may be able to get them directly from them?
BTW. 'Public Domain' is an American thingy and does not apply in the UK. Although if a brit show was shown in the US and the copyright was not renewed (after I think 50 years) then it would become PD over there.