I've just done the Parent and Child profiles on this dvd (submitted and approved). Given that the Australian tv series ran between 1972 - 1977 and that the date at the end of the episodes says copyright Cash Harmon Television 1972 (I went with 1972). My question is considering these episodes are in colour (colour tv started in Australia in 1975) and that in the commentary the TV historian Andrew Mercado says they were made in 1975, should I ignore the copyright date and go with the tv historian; bearing in mind that I do know the series was shot in B&W from '72 - '75 (it was all shot on VT, no film). I should mention that The Pantyhose Strangler was a complete storyline and all 32 eps. of that storyline are uncut and back-to-back and presented on this dvd, eps 649 - 680.
Help, suggestions gratefully accepted.

Cheers
Bill

I also did the profile on the Number 96 movie which came out a couple of years ago. I mention this because on that release they had a 1 hr documentary where they showed clips from the show in B&W. Also cast & crew went on to talk about the transition to colour and how everything looked so "vibrant in colour"; read "LOUD" in todays' terms. The movie was made in 1974 in colour on film. Also, having done some research just now, there's an official Number 96 homepage sanctioned by Cash Harmon productions the producers of the show. See Here

The relevant page about changing from B&W to colour is Here

In essence it says after ep. 504 was shot on 19 March 1974 the studios were rigged for colour production.

'On Good Friday, 20th April, the show was pre-empted by a telethon. Over Easter, Channel 10 in Sydney converted its studio for colour production. Even then, although all scenes were being taped in colour, completed episodes would still be compiled in black and white for several more weeks.'

So, 1975 is looking good for PY.

Cheers
Bill

Quoting Sidrat:

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(colour tv started in Australia in 1975)

Sorry about the slight derailing of this thread, but WOW, this piece of trivia blew me away.

Does anyone know why Australia delayed the transition to colour TV for so long?

KM

Quoting Sidrat:

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I've just done the Parent and Child profiles on this dvd (submitted and approved). Given that the Australian tv series ran between 1972 - 1977 and that the date at the end of the episodes says copyright Cash Harmon Television 1972 (I went with 1972). My question is considering these episodes are in colour (colour tv started in Australia in 1975) and that in the commentary the TV historian Andrew Mercado says they were made in 1975, should I ignore the copyright date and go with the tv historian; bearing in mind that I do know the series was shot in B&W from '72 - '75 (it was all shot on VT, no film). I should mention that The Pantyhose Strangler was a complete storyline and all 32 eps. of that storyline are uncut and back-to-back and presented on this dvd, eps 649 - 680.
Help, suggestions gratefully accepted.

Cheers
Bill

Personally, I would go with 1975. We know that it was made and broadcast then to take advantage of the new colour TV standard. I would use the commentary on disc as the source for the contribution.

Interesting point, Bill. One I have ponered for awhile, since I know there are many soap opera fans  out there. Assuming the film stock is available (or kinescopes) how would you handle release of some of the soaps that have been on the air forever, like Days of Our Lives, for example. Would you call them Years or Seasons, would you have to break them down into volumes to make them more affordable.Let' see based on what seems to be current pricing policies from Hollywood a ypical soap would be 150-170 hours of material per year, that would make an individual season in the vicinity of $300-500 <gasp> and with, in some cases 50 years of material how fast could they be released without overloading the consumer.(yikes) Even at 3 per year that could 16+ years of releases to deal with 50 years. (cough)

Skip

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Interesting point, Bill. One I have ponered for awhile, since I know there are many soap opera fans  out there. Assuming the film stock is available (or kinescopes) how would you handle release of some of the soaps that have been on the air forever, like Days of Our Lives, for example. Would you call them Years or Seasons, would you have to break them down into volumes to make them more affordable.Let' see based on what seems to be current pricing policies from Hollywood a ypical soap would be 150-170 hours of material per year, that would make an individual season in the vicinity of $300-500 <gasp> and with, in some cases 50 years of material how fast could they be released without overloading the consumer.(yikes) Even at 3 per year that could 16+ years of releases to deal with 50 years. (cough)

Skip

As someone who used to watch soaps (at my old job, long story), I think it would be logical to break them up by years.  Now, you could break the year up into volumes for price (year 1: vol 1, year one: vol 2, etc), but with the longest running shows (Days is 43 years, and Guiding Light is 56 years with 15 years of radio serial before that) it would be nigh impossible to release them in any reasonable time frame.  Some of the shorter ones might be feasible (Bold and the Beautiful has only been on for twenty one years, Ryan's Hope was on for fourteen, so not much longer than Dallas, and that's out on DVD), but the long ones ...

Maybe once we make the transition into downloadable media ....