Take Three Girls - promo and episode 1 closing credits (1969)

[westersprings]

james bolan wife

[yumyummoany]

I loved this series so much, watching this brings so many memories of hopes, failures and achievements.

[juliaagordon]

Thank you!!! Been trying to remember who they were....

[MrDayday58]

colour videos arrived about 1975, we had one then and our first colour tv in 1967.

[SenhorBundy]

@MrDayday58

I take it you were/are rich? Not being picky or anything, it's just that virtually no-one had a video recorder full stop in the mid-1970s, let alone a colour one.

[mnemonyxx]

Oh the memories… thank you, sir ( I assume it is sir)

[terryjohn]

were in the hell , did you find these and talkin by presenter, AMAZING.

my hero

[dunebasher1971]

@terryjohn This is actually part of the BBC's own official posterity recordings of the first week of BBC-1 colour broadcasting. Ironically, the recordings were made on B&W 16mm film because all their colour VT machines were busy making or transmitting the programmes, they didn't have a spare one available to record BBC-1 output. These recordings "escaped" from the BBC archive many years ago and have been circulating among collectors ever since.

[Matt571]

How come the end titles are in black and white?

[Conniptions886]

@Matt571 - Shouldn't really need explaining - off-air recording from the original screening, no colour video-recorders back then...

[Matt571]

@Conniptions886 Sorry - I didn't think about this! Video recorders must have been rare in 1969. I remember reading that the early recorders were reel-to-reel. There are a few other recordings from these early machines on YouTube, including a 1973 BBC 2 closedown.

[MrDayday58]

Sadly BBC policy then, wipe tapes and re-use them, so great tv lost, due to crazy employees in those days. With a station like Gold, the series if they existed could be show again, but only 10 of 24 programmes remain.

[Daveynewport]

@MrDayday58 as you say 10 remain but there is no logic to the ones that are left so although they were stand alone episdodes to a degree no real series could be shown but I agree BBC Four would love a night of it the fact they haven't makes me think there are rights issues.

[coolitababy]

Actually, quite a few episodes still exist.

[Daveynewport]

@coolitababy sadly they don't 10 still exist some at the BBC and some at the BFI it was the cost of videotape at the time that meant iot was wiped but also the Equity negotiated agreeements with actors for repeat fees which meant after so many showings the tape was of no use to the BBC

[gazzah54]

the bbc are such cunts, rewriting over gems like this

[Melodysk]

I would love to see this again if anyone has it

[ianjayne05]

Please come on, it is not available on dvd and i am only just too young to remember it, my mother talks about the series all the time i would love to see it. please please please put the series on you tube all that has not been distroyed at least. if it were on dvd i would def buy it.

[gazzah54]

amazing

[perciful1]

please someone put this play on youtube .

[dergrossen]

@perciful1 The BBC destroyed the tapes. What can you expect of them?...a lot of the BBC employees back then were public school products..not naturally bright or intelligent. This series was THE record to so many parts of the British culture in the lates 60..from womens' emancipation to the social class structure.