Ditto - Lines from my Grandfather's Forehaead. The Beeb has currently aired 'shortened' versipns of most episodes from series 1 and 2.
Series 3 is still with Keith Wickham - the Beeb issn't interested. However the Beeb has not aired S01E01 / S0103 / S02E04 since about the late 1900s. This is due to copyright restrictions from contibutors. I've heard that Harold Pinter is one. Quite simply the Beeb cannot or wont obtain permission to air various items. Another case in point in the Christmas Special from 1971. At the end is a Dylan Thomas spoof. But not anymore - this was edited out many years ago. BTW if anyone has older versions - or even any versions - of the missing episodes we'd love to hear from you. CJB On 05/02/2020, Mark Goodge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 05/02/2020 10:35, Dave Liquorice wrote: >> On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 09:57:16 +0000, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: >> >>> Thanks, but I knew that, and it seems to me rather strange that an own >>> BBC 30 years' old series should be subject to such a constraint, and >>> wondered if anyone happened to know anything more specific. >> >> Depends on the rights the BBC obtained, or could obtain or can obtain, >> for >> anything included in that episode. Incidental music, "guest" >> actor/actress, >> etc... > > Older stuff can, possibly a little counter-intuitively, be more > problematic than recent material, as, at the time it was made, there was > no expectation that the BBC would ever want repeat transmission rights > for anything other than broadcast TV. The only other distribution > method, at the time, would have been home video, and the rights to that > were often negotiated separately so that those involved in the > production could get their cut there, too. Since iPlayer is neither home > video nor broadcast, there's nothing to cover it in the original contracts. > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer > _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
