I can't agree with that, I'm afraid, Denis.denis rigg wrote:Hi Alan
Glad to hear you.I agree with all the points you indicated. Despite, in our time there still are surprises when find the films even from the era of silent movies. It seems that never know what is really lost and what is not. For some kind of film can be devoted whole detailed topic about how many copies there were, where they were shown, to whom they were sold, where and when (with the mass of evidence) was destroyed and why this can not exist. But suddenly the film is found, after many many years. Frankly, I often am amazed at such cases when you actually begin to believe that there can not be any options for the existence of those or other films, and suddenly...
I think that for the existence of some lost Avengers series 1 tapes it's 50/50 percent (and I do not exclude it for the episodes of the Avengers radio series too).
I think there's a very small chance that further film prints survive - and an even smaller chance that soundtracks do (these, by the nature, being home recordings and not archived anywhere official) - but that it's about 1% they survive, 99% they don't survive.
There were so few prints made (certainly less than 10 of each episode, probably more likely to be 2 or 3 per episode)... and the silent film analogy doesn't hold water in this case, as films were distributed to multiple screening locations at once, internationally, too. Hence hundreds of prints.
With TV you have 1 print going out to millions of viewers, wherever it is screened, so you're talking a handful of physical prints.
This is before we even consider that Series 1 was never repeated in the 60s or 70s and was never sold overseas.
It's an absolute miracle that we have anything at all, it really is.
