by grp2viva » Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:41 pm
Its strange how these things turn up. 20 years ago when I was a member of what was then the HB viva O.C. I had a friend who was a film editor at the BBC. I managed to track the original airing date for that episode of Blue Peter from the sister article that they ran in Motor Magazine at the time. After much searching in dark cupboards, he found the tape for the show. It was on some old Acetate type of film and it actually disintegrated as he put it through the machine to copy it to some Beta format tape that the Beeb used and then onto VHS. So the original ended up in the bin. I have the Beta tape and did a couple of copies for people, including Adrian M, and one for myself so the original is now kept safely stored away. Hadn't watched it for years until I saw this thread, and thought I'd recount its tale for posterity. The GT in the film was the car that prompted me to build my S&K replica many moons ago.
Oh well end of tale.
Darren Ramsay (Originally HB member 31).