1950s BBC TV series which survive intact
I read that these series survive intact. Hopefully there are others.
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- StarsBruce SetonRobert RaglanPhilip DaleDramatization of murder investigations and other criminal cases that Detective Superintendent Robert Fabian, a real-life Scotland Yard Inspector and the host of the show, worked on.
- In 1954, the BBC produced an outstanding documentary series on aerial warfare from 1935 to 1950, comprising fifteen half hour shows that was aired on the first Monday after Remembrance Sunday. Taking two years to make, and compiled from nearly 12 million feet of Allied and enemy film footage, there had been little to compare with it in terms of scale, depth and content. This landmark series represents an important piece of television history and will give every viewer an honest telling of the development of airpower. Some of the highlights include; amazing footage taken from the nose of a Mosquito during low level attacks, camera's placed on the wings of various aircraft and a dozen other earth grazing operations. This series will make your hair stand up on end.
- StarsOrson WellesOrson Welles recounts various stories from his life while drawing sketches of the events.
- CreatorMaria BirdFreda LingstromStarsPeter HawkinsMaria BirdEileen BrowneAdventures of a family of wooden dolls living on a farm.
- StarsJohn RobinsonMonica GreyHugh GriffithProfessor Quatermass is trying to perfect a dangerously unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine. After a disastrous test firing in Australia, his soon-to-be son-in-law, Captain John Dillon, draws the Professor's attention to a strange hollow meteorite which interrupted an Army Training exercise. Quatermass and Dillon investigate, and discover a vast government production plant which has some connection with the meteorites. After coming in contact with the noxious gas contained inside the meteorites, Dillon is taken away by the plant's security guards. When Quatermass presses this issue with an old civil service acquaintance, he learns that the plant is supposedly making synthetic food. Both men learn that this is untrue, and that the true products of the plant will threaten the world itself.
- StarsWayne MorrisRobert RaglanGeorge StreetBill Pierce is a public relations officer in a large London store who is always on hand when things go wrong behind the scenes.
- StarsDaphne SlaterStanley BakerDorothy BlackAfter a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.
- StarsMelvyn HayesIngrid SylvesterPat PleasanceOn a cold, dark night in Warsaw in 1942, the Balicki children watch in horror as Nazi stormtroopers arrest their mother. Now they are lone. With the war raging around them, food and shelter are hard to come by. They live in constant fear. Finally, they get word that their father is alive. He has made it to Switzerland. Edek and Ruth are determined to find him, though they know how dangerous the long trip from Warsaw will be. But they also know that if they don't make it, they may never see their parents again. Their gripping story is taken from actual accounts.
- StarsPhyllis CalvertKate CameronAndree MellyLouisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
- StarsPaul DanemanZena WalkerDavid McCallumIntertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in 1860s London.
- StarsAndré MorellCec LinderAnthony BushellA team of scientists search for the origin and purpose of a mysterious capsule found on a building site.
- CreatorCharles ChauvelElsa ChauvelStarsCharles ChauvelElsa ChauvelAlan SleathA thirteen episode series documenting Australia's vast outback and natural beauty made by Charles and Elsa Chauvel in 1958.
- StarsMichael RennieJonathan HarrisNaomi ChanceHarry Lime makes money dealing art and solves crime to save his life.
- StarsJohn FreemanJohn HustonCarl Gustav JungDespite the title, the face of interviewer John Freeman is rarely seen - instead, the camera scrutinises his guests as they answer probing questions of an existentialist nature.
- StarsDiana FairfaxColin JeavonsAndrew CruickshankA suspenseful tale about the injustices of the 19th Century English legal system.