02-03-2024, 06:19 PM
Yeah, at one time Kaleidoscope's own portal was listing episodes of Family Fortunes and Bullseye that were in rotation on Challenge, and numerous episodes of other things that the BFI's searchable database shows they hold in broadcast form at the very least even if the broadcasters or production companies don't. And the way the "Big Breakfast archive needs cataloguing" quickly turned into "most Big Breakfast episodes are wiped". It's a minefield.
Sadly the aformentioned Mark Brown's missing episodes forum itself ends up with a lot of conjecture being passed off as fact on it these days. A show I enquired about getting from the broadcaster itself back in 2008, which they had complete in their archives at the time, has had people on there have recently insisting has every episode wiped- probably because it ended up on a "lost media" list and that got chinese whispered into actually being lost. Unless said major broadcaster actually has gone on a wiping spree of modern shows in the last 16 years, which is unlikely.
Sadly the aformentioned Mark Brown's missing episodes forum itself ends up with a lot of conjecture being passed off as fact on it these days. A show I enquired about getting from the broadcaster itself back in 2008, which they had complete in their archives at the time, has had people on there have recently insisting has every episode wiped- probably because it ended up on a "lost media" list and that got chinese whispered into actually being lost. Unless said major broadcaster actually has gone on a wiping spree of modern shows in the last 16 years, which is unlikely.