Top of the Pops dates

Actually the problem is that the guy got the VHS tapes of a huge amount of TOTP shows. He wanted to sell those tapes to a couple of collectors (I was a member of 2 different groups of people trying to get them from him), but when the transaction should take place, he suddenly disappeared. He stopped replying to emails, removed his youtube videos and even removed his website. I thought he's in jail or something or the BBC lawyers contacted him and he got scared, that's why I'm asking if he contacted anybody else. A few months ago a third attempt was done to get the tapes from him (by AGAIN a DIFFERENT group of people which included me), again with no success.

So as far as I know "we" have now just the short SSOR samples which were downloaded by various people from his old youtube channel and re-uploaded. I'm not sure if the footage is in "public hands" or if it's slowly deteriorating in let's say BBC archives. I hope the footage is in "good hands" and the "good hands" will release it someday.

When I've seen your post I was hoping you're a part of a FOURTH group of people, which was successful :-)

pittrek wrote:



When I've seen your post I was hoping you're a part of a FOURTH group of people, which was successful :-)

No, "we" didn´t get that far :-)
That´s one of the problems of bringing this public before the negotiations.
I don´t think he´s in jail, unless those tapes were stolen wich i don´t think to be the case. Maybe he was successful selling it to someone.

Can you post the YT you have so "we" can appreciate it?

Amazing to see that the whereabouts of this footage has been "known" for almost 2 years, yet nothing has come of it so far because there's a collector somewhere hiding it - even though there are lots of people willing to pay for it...

Does the footage really exist?

Sorry for bumping an old thread but this might be interesting

http://missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/10755/ronnies-39-tape-listing

TAPE 13 and TAPE 40

TAPE 13
1975 TOTP QUEEN NOW I'M HERE 3MIN 10SEC

TAPE 40
JAN 75 TOTP QUEEN NOW I'M HERE / HIGH ENTRY 1MIN

HEY HEY HEYYYYYYY

Just for remember, the only that we know about NIH at TOTP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84zf_5p02fI

page 2 of the text:
##/##/75 TOTP Queen 'Now I'm Here' (3.10) unsure if exists
30/01/75 TOTP Queen 'Now I'm Here' (1.00) PVL

Granada TV '45 with Kid Jensen 25th December 1974

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https://www.facebook.com/BayCityRollersNewsPage/photos/a.272100696211725.67113.232326590189136/786917144730075/?type=1&comment_id=787033741385082&offset=0&total_comments=8

Good spot. John Deacon and Roger Taylor on the right of the pic, with possibly Brian May just behind them. No sign of Fred.

Some dodgy geezers in that one for sure!

Holly2003 wrote:

Good spot. John Deacon and Roger Taylor on the right of the pic, with possibly Brian May just behind them. No sign of Fred.

Here is Fred ;)

<img src="http://s12.postimg.org/xpn95mdrx/bez_tytu_ud.jpg">

Were those programmes broadcast live? If so, then the second SSOR cannot be from the 14th of March as the band were playing a gig in Cheltenham that evening. If they were recorded in advance, then nevermind n_n

I think you can see half of Freddie's face behind John's.

Is the black group to the right Manchester 'one hit wonder' band Sweet Sensation?
If so then I know one of the members quite well as i used to work with him. I 'll ask him if he remembers the day and if he met Queen (i'm sure years ago he told me he had).
Who know maybe they were given an old copy of the show? (doubt it!)