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PUBLIC EYE
- The Public Eye: Dig You Later (missing)
- 23.01.1965 All for a Couple of Ponies (missing)
- 06.02.1965 They Go Off in the End – Like Fruit (missing)
- 13.02.1965 Dig You Later (missing)
- 20.02.1965 I Went to Borrow a Pencil and Look What I Found (missing)
- 27.02.1965 But the Joneses Never Get Letters (missing)
- 06.03.1965 A Harsh World for Zealots (missing)
- 13.03.1965 ''And a Very Fine Fiddle Has He'' (missing)
- 20.03.1965 My Life, That's a Marriage (missing)
- 27.03.1965 You Think It'll Be Marvellous – But It's Always a Rabbit (missing)
- 03.04.1965 Protection is a Man's Best Friend (missing)
- 17.04.1965 You Should Hear Me Eat Soup (missing)
- 24.04.1965 You Have to Draw the Line Somewhere (missing)
- 01.05.1965 Have It on the House (missing)
- 27.06.1966 All the Black Dresses She Wants (missing)
- 11.07.1966 I Could Set It to Music (missing)
- 18.07.1966 It's a Terrible Way to Be (missing)
- 25.07.1966 You Can Keep the Medal (missing)
- 05.08.1966 You're Not Cinderella, Are You? (missing)
- 19.08.1966 It Had to Be a Mouse (missing)
- 26.08.1966 Tell Me About the Crab (a domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing)
- 02.09.1966 No, No, Nothing Like That (a domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing)
- 09.09.1966 There Are More Things in Heaven and Earth (a domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing)
- 16.09.1966 Twenty Pounds of Heart and Muscle (a domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing)
- 23.09.1966 What's the Matter? Can't You Take a Sick Joke? (a domestic audio recording exists of the soundtrack, but the programme itself is missing)
- 20.01.1968 If This is Lucky, I'd Rather Be Jonah... (missing)
- 27.01.1968 But What Good Will the Truth Do? (missing)
- 03.02.1968 Memories of Meg (missing)
- 10.02.1968 Have Mud, Will Throw (missing)
- 17.02.1968 But They Always Come Back for Tea (missing)
- 24.02.1968 Mercury in an Off-White Mac (missing)
- 02.03.1968 Strictly Private and Confidential (missing)
- 09.03.1968 Honesty is the Best Policy – But Who Can Afford the Premiums (missing)
- 23.03.1968 It Must Be the Architecture – Can't Be the Climate
One or more sequences exist, but the complete programme is lost. - 30.03.1968 It's Learning About the Lies That Hurts (missing)
- 06.04.1968 There's No Future in Monkey Business (missing)
- 13.04.1968 Cross That Palm When We Come to It (missing)
ABC 1967 ADVERTISING PROMOTIONAL FILM
- 23.03.1968 Public Eye
The only known complete copy is on a U-Matic videotape.
CINEMA
- 08.07.1966 The Private Eye and the Public Hero (missing)
These productions, which exist in the archives, matched your search.
- THE FENN STREET GANG: Private Eye & Public Nuisance (14.01.1973)
- PEAK PRACTICE: Private Lives, Public Eye (13.02.2001)
If the programme you were looking for isn’t here there could be a number of reasons: It’s worth double-checking that you typed in your search string correctly. But if you’re sure you have, please bear in mind that there are a lot of programmes we don’t have any information on at all.
If the programme you’re searching for falls into one of these categories:
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Some Children’s Magazine and Music Shows then we probably don’t have any information on it, so it might be missing, particularly if it was made in 1979 or earlier.
Lastly, don’t forget that we only hold information on British TV programmes, you won’t be able to find any information about programmes made for American or Australian television, for example. Just because we don’t have a listing for your programme doesn’t mean that it isn’t of interest to us. It just means that we don’t have any information about it.
We’ve got details on more than 175,000 different episodes, almost 40,000 of which are not thought to exist in the ‘official’ archives. Now, before you get too depressed by this fact, some of these are really old shows which were made before television programmes were generally recorded at all. We realise it’s very unlikely that these older programmes will exist at all, but there’s always the chance that someone recorded some 8mm film footage of them off their television screen or maybe made a sound recording of them while they were being broadcast. That’s still of interest to us.
However, our main hope is that someone will be able to help us recover some programmes which were recorded, but which are now thought to be lost for ever. That’s what this search engine is for – to help you identify whether that old film print you’ve got in your attic, or that old video recording you made back in the early 1970s is missing from the archives.
You could type in a programme name, or an episode name and click on ‘Search’ and it will give you some summary information whether or not the programme is lost. You don’t have to enter a complete name, entering part of the name – unless it’s very short – should find it too. If some or all of that programme is lost, you can click on the link and get further details. If it’s a music or variety programme you have, you may be able to locate it by typing in the names of one of the main guests and clicking on ‘Search’. This information is far from complete, but it may help you to identify a particular edition.
Our information is good, but it’s not perfect. There will be mistakes in it, and we know it’s incomplete. In particular, information is very patchy on programmes in the some categories. This website only contains information concerning British broadcasts. Happy searching!