TheVodkaYeti
New Member
Hi everybody!
I'm here under false pretenses as such, as in - I'm not a Sky Blues fan!
But before you get ready to boot me out the door, please let me explain, I come in peace and with a specific Coventry City-related purpose.
Between 1965 and 1967 there was a BBC football drama/soap opera United!, transmitted twice a week, about the day-to-day triumphs and tribulations around fictional team Brentwich United, and some scenes were filmed at Coventry's old Highfield Road.
Alas all 147 episodes were wiped in the late 60's/early 70's during the BBC's infamous purge, some of you will have heard about missing episodes of Doctor Who and Dad's Army, but have a look here at how much archive tv was lost, including the whole of United!.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lost_BBC_episodes
So where do I and you fit in to all this?
Well I'm compiling as much information and detail in order to launch a website dedicated to this long lost programme, and through this forum (with your Admin's kind permission) try to find any press clippings/articles and/or photos from the time, material that some City fans may still have in a scrapbook somewhere, material that can be shared online to the world and never lost! I'd also like to include any reviews from people who watched it.
I've already contacted the club, local newspapers, the British Film Institute, the BBC, and a few people who have already written the odd online article about this rarely known programme. Now I'm in the lengthy process of contacting all the surviving actors, actresses, writers and major production staff, to see if they have any items or anecdotes to share.
Unlike Doctor Who, it seems United! was not sold abroad at the time, which means it's unlikely copies were made, so we may never ever see one minute of it again, but who knows, a dedicated website may prompt someone to submit a photo, a script, an audio clip?
If you've got any information or input you'd like to share, please do so by private message or on this thread.
Many thanks and good luck in your new season!
I'm here under false pretenses as such, as in - I'm not a Sky Blues fan!
But before you get ready to boot me out the door, please let me explain, I come in peace and with a specific Coventry City-related purpose.
Between 1965 and 1967 there was a BBC football drama/soap opera United!, transmitted twice a week, about the day-to-day triumphs and tribulations around fictional team Brentwich United, and some scenes were filmed at Coventry's old Highfield Road.
Alas all 147 episodes were wiped in the late 60's/early 70's during the BBC's infamous purge, some of you will have heard about missing episodes of Doctor Who and Dad's Army, but have a look here at how much archive tv was lost, including the whole of United!.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lost_BBC_episodes
So where do I and you fit in to all this?
Well I'm compiling as much information and detail in order to launch a website dedicated to this long lost programme, and through this forum (with your Admin's kind permission) try to find any press clippings/articles and/or photos from the time, material that some City fans may still have in a scrapbook somewhere, material that can be shared online to the world and never lost! I'd also like to include any reviews from people who watched it.
I've already contacted the club, local newspapers, the British Film Institute, the BBC, and a few people who have already written the odd online article about this rarely known programme. Now I'm in the lengthy process of contacting all the surviving actors, actresses, writers and major production staff, to see if they have any items or anecdotes to share.
Unlike Doctor Who, it seems United! was not sold abroad at the time, which means it's unlikely copies were made, so we may never ever see one minute of it again, but who knows, a dedicated website may prompt someone to submit a photo, a script, an audio clip?
If you've got any information or input you'd like to share, please do so by private message or on this thread.
Many thanks and good luck in your new season!
