...there's the 1972 BBC2 Quintessence concert from a Cathedral (Norwich, I think)...

And the Mahavishnu Orchestra's missing June 1973 performance in a Paris TV studio, of course...

And Jan Akkerman's solo studio session with lute on OGWT (the ONLY one of several Akkerman/Focus OGWT sessions to be missing)...

And, for nostalgia - because I was mesmerised by it at the time and have never seen a clip since (hence assume it's lost) - David Attenburgh's early 70s childrens' series 'Fabulous Animals'.

The boys were discussing the old 'Marc' series from 1977 on their podcast this week.

If only those six episodes could find their way onto DVD...

only contains Marc's performances on the show and not any of the other bands.

I have em on DVd of course (coughs)

would be nice.

.....it's time for a Dennis Potter season, methinks.

There's plenty of old Dr Who lying around, but only a couple of episodes of Pete and Dud at their innocent and charming best.

but episode 4 of 'The Tenth Planet' (for non nerds final Hartnell story and first ever regeneration) would be nice.

It could still happen!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16136521

I've seen the badly damaged clip of Syd era Floyd doing See Emily play on TOTP, be nice to get some more 60's TOTPs

The BBC should be prosecuted ofr throwing away large chunks of the national culture. Bastards

Or even just some UK releases for these:

Wondershowzen
Next Day Air
Haven
Def Poetry Jam

All still only available in Region 1. I will get a multi-region player at some point, but in the mean time. Grrr.

that led to the cameraman having the footage in the first place. I can only assumed that Pan's People must have been in tip-top form for him to have snaffled parts of that particular episode.

(The above, by the way, is the oldest surviving colour footage - or frottage - from the TOTP "archives").

That BBC play with Bob Dylan? I'm no Dylan aficionado, but even I've heard plenty much about it. Could he act? How was his singing?

Details please folks...

I have the complete audio on CD...so surely the video must exist somewhere??

10 episodes "lost".
I always think they survive in Australia or New Zealand somewhere.

I would love to see Spike Milligan's "The Last Laugh before TV-AM" again. I remember it as being profoundly weird!

Johnny Walker Sounds of the 70's show on Radio 2. Sounds like he has some other stuff in his archive, hopefully TOTP from the same era. Anything from the mainly wiped 72-75 era would be cracking.

Not as thrilling as Jean Genie, but I know that Bowie recorded Time Will Crawl for TOTP but this was not shown because the single went down the charts. TOTP used to have strict rules around the fact that the single must be in the charts already and be going up. Makes me wonder how many other songs were recorded but not used?

with Kenny Ev, Germaine Greer and Jonathan Routh. Do these exist?
Did the BBC also wipe all the various 'alternative' music shows they screened with Barry Fantoni, John Peel et al?

could relax about RSG!

I saw the Floyd clip at was a great Midlands pop show from 1980 called 'Look! Hear!' which despite being a bit "Nosing Around" had some great acts - Sabbath with that bloke who joined for a week while Ozzy left, Diamond Head, Magnum (err), The Selecter and The Beat.

Was in blisteringly good quality (thanks to one of the presenters asking a tech for copies at the time) and I'd stump up cash for a DVD of that. Shame that unlike 'Revolver' it hasn't had a satellite repeat.

There are loads of great Jazz 625 shows from the mid 60s that were wiped by BBC philistines. A few survive and are rolled out on the extremely rare occasions when the BBC broadcasts any jazz. Not that I'm bitter or anything...
And there was also a series called 'Jazz Goes To College' which has also disappeared.

...that everything could be kept, even in the era when things could be recorded by the stations rather than broadcast live. But it's deeply regrettable that even a 'representative sample' policy wasn't operating at the BBC (the national/public service broadcaster, after all) during the 60s/70s.

For there to be so very few clips of 1960s TOTPs, just to give that one (well known) example is breath-taking. The Beatles et al were off conquering the world and changing society while the organ of the state was routinely destroying the evidence. Astounding stupidity.

That said, I've never been convinced that the Beatles appearance on Juke Box Jury - often mentioned as a Beatles Holy Grail - is a tragic loss. It's four guys on a panel talking about other people's records, and in any case off-air audio and stills exist. It was essentially a 'radio format' with not much to see - so I really don't believe history is worse off for its visual loss. We should, rather, be thankful that the Granada 1962 cavern footage was kept along with so much else from their performing career.

It's live performances, I think, that we should lament most - alongside, of course, representative moving-image (even if only mimed) material from artists all-but or totally missing from the visual record.

I've said before here that it's a tragedy - and, in a way, a subtle skewing of how the music past is viewed by future generations - that not one second of Johnny Kidd & The Pirates on film exists today, despite many TV appearances. Conversely, two of the three (from memory) extant Dickie Pride clips - generally regarded as the most gifted of the Larry Parnes stable, who (like Kidd) died young - are live performances of the same song.

Personally, I think its a shame that no vintage Duffy Power TV appearances (and he made many) seem to exist and I've tried but failed to locate a series of performances Anne Briggs - the greatest of all the British folk revival singers of the 60s - made on a regional ITV magazine show somewhere in the West Country, which would be the only film of her performing in her prime were it to still exist.

Likewise, Bert Jansch's TV debut in 1966 performing 'Needle Of Death' on a regional religious programme is long gone, as is a more dimly recalled solo appearance a year or so later on ITV and his only solo appearance on BBC's 'Once More With Felix' in 1970. The very earliest solo BJ extant is a brief 1967 interview and instrumental rehearsal with John Renbourn kept by Danish TV. Nothing then (bar the relative handful, vis a vis their slew of known worldwide appearances, of Pentangle clips) until 1974.

A representative sample (from memory, 11 episodes) of OGWT forerunner 'Disco 2' episodes does survive - we often see clips from the Small Faces and Moody Blues performances, for instance. But sadly not the half-hour taped by the first line up of Jethro Tull, which would be its only moving-image record (bar 30 seconds of Pathe verite from a Hyde Park concert) were it to have escaped the cull.

We should be grateful, then, that someone pointed an 8mm camera at a TV screen when Jimi Hendrix played live with Dusty Springfield on her (now gone) ITV series in 1968 - seeing this one-off bit of magic is like triumphing over the philistines, after all. Or at least salvaging something from the rubble.

is being much too kind. It was abundantly clear at the time that the cultural scene was undergoing massive change and, even more amazingly, that it was being spearheaded by British artists. These tapes were wiped on purpose by snobbish, high culture aficionados at the BBC who despised pop. German TV hung on to 'Beat Club' and the Americans were financially astute enough to preserve all their classic shows.
Thankfully, they've preserved myriad Trooping the Colour and hundreds of tapes of assorted, forgotten politicians pontificating at length over some forgotten issue.
As you state, it is terribly sad that there is no footage of the charismatic Johnny Kidd.

of the BBC's live broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing, obviously not condsidered historically important, then its a surprise than anything was left

I beliwve that the OGWT footage only exists cos Mike Appleton regularly used to the countermand any attempts to bin the film. Maybe one of the chaps can verify?

The 'lost' Bowie performance is being shown in a TOTP 2 Christmas Special tonight on BBC2 at 7.30pm!

they lose the "hilarious" captions and commentary for Christmas

...we want some 1973. Talking of which, very much looking forward to Bowie...

Wow.

Wowie!!!

Trying not to think of what the BBC has wiped...that was absolutely magical.

Just watched it on the BBC 10 o clock news.

I thought it was brilliant.

What other treats does this cameraman have waiting to see the light of day?

for those who missed it

Was sooooo exciting to see this. Wish Mark Radcliffe had shut teh fuck up, we didn't have those dumb captions and it wasn't, as someone said on Twitter, "filmed by the work experience lad" but wowzer, wowzer, wowzer.

Oh and here is the Dame performing it at teh Marquee for the shelved 1980 Floor Show US TV Special.*

* a nicely edited 4 DVD set of rehearsals and takes is out there people......

...of this:

Yardbirds - I'm A Man (live 1967):

This was recorded shortly before he died in a deserted Hammy O, the scene of Ziggy's final bow

might even as passed on when the show was broadcast. Shame the series isn't available on DVD, I'm guessing rights issues is why.