The SOTCAA ‘Crappy Old Real Video Captures Found On An Old CD-ROM’ Bonanza
While going through an ancient backup disc for reference for the And Now, In Colour TV pilot the other week, we found a shitload of old Real Video captures of things previously covered - or intended to be covered - on the site. So while we’re busily preparing the next batch of articles, why not have a gander at them yourself. Some of them are, y’know, quite interesting. Even in the form of a blotchy 320 x 240 picture running at 15 frames per second…
Note: These are all Megaupload links
Not The Nine O’ Clock News - ‘pilot’ show (49.7mb) Or, more accurately, the infamous withdrawn Show 1. For more info on this we refer you to our old article here. |
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Red Dwarf - Smeg-Ups (rough cut) (51.3mb) A half-hour early assembly of the first Red Dwarf out-takes release, lacking the post-production sound effects and the Kryten linking material (’Link Goes Here’ captions ahoy). As far as we can recall this also boasts a few bits of studio chatter which didn’t make it to either Smeg-Ups or Smeg-Outs. No idea if they feature on the DVDs. Next Week: that elusive ‘Black Guitar’ session tape… |
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Monty Python at the BAFTAS (11.0mb) As quoted on the old site, the Pythons receive the Michael Balcon Award from Princess Anne. Rather nice. Spot the 80s comedians in the audience. |
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The Nualas - The Big Shiny Dress Tour (94.7mb) Ahh, remember The Nualas? Remember those angelic harmonies? Remember those odd Beckettian songs? Remember Danny Wallace using his BBC page to sneakily diss the return of their Radio 4 show? Remember that second series eventually not happening and co-writer Nev Fountain becoming very cagey when asked the reasons why? Remember Paul Jackson turning down their TV proposal? Remember Supergirly lowering the bar generally? At the turn of the century The Nualas represented a wee bit of hope - the vaguest inkling of a good attitude prevailing in the comedy industry. This is their one and only video release, from 2000. All 90 minutes of it. Genuinely delightful and silly. Accept no substitutes. |
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The Beatles - David Frost Show Theme Tune (1.31mb) Quick bit of rushes footage from 1968. Probably on YouTube a dozen times over but it was on the same disc so sod it, here it is. Lovely bit of Macca trying to make a suggestion at the start and then shrinking back as Lennon counts in their rendition of the Frost sig tune. |
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Dr Scrote - Kitchen Safety (7.25mb) Great clip of Roland Rivron on The Last Resort, C4, 1988-ish. The whole show was coming live from some family’s house that particular week (the studio audience were set up in the street outside watching on monitors). Rivron played Dr Martin Scrote, the show’s resident physician. |
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The Day Today - pilot additional material (19.4mb) Ah, now, isn’t this the section of the pilot showreel which didn’t make it to the DVD? Includes an alternate ‘Genutainment’, the 999 pisstake without the narration, a brief Business News and a bunch of randomly-scattered Alan Partridge sports commentry. |
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Going Live - Ade Edmondson (8.93mb) A bit of Ade Edmondson - with daughters in tow - being interviewed by Sarah Greene in the early 90s. Note: Richard O’Brien was also a guest on this particular edition and had dropped hints that he was writing a Rocky Horror sequel (’Revenge of the Old Queen’, incidentally, which never got made). Edmonson had played Brad Majors in a then-recent Rocky stage production - hence Greene’s question about whether he’d appear in the sequel. |
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September 14th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Thanks for all these dial-up era encoded treasures. It was a bit startling to see that the Not The Nine O’Clock News pilot appeared to be a pilot for Spitting Image on the side. I also think that the advanced age of a lot of the original ‘pilot show’ performers may have had something to do with the attitude towards satire at the time. That somehow it was the preserve of the David Frost generation, all knocking on forty, and not something the younger surreal set were interested in. As creationist morons say though, it’s only a theory.