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Has anyone ever seen this movie- Certain Honorable Men?
Was it ever rerun on local stations?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173717/
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Sad to say, it is apparently lost: a few years back I wrote to Alexandra and she replied that the movie is considered lost. Mind you, she used to work for the Paley Center when it was the Museum of TV & Radio, so she must have tried to find a copy of the tape or a kinescope. And it's a shame when you consider it was written by no less than Rod Serling! Perhaps someone can do a remake as the script still exists among Serling's papers. Amazing that a major production from a date as late as 1968 (and in color!) hasn't been preserved. But then, look at the horrid state of affairs with the BBC and how they have spent the past 20 years trying to recover stuff they erased or junked- far worse than the US networks!
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But then, look at the horrid state of affairs with the BBC and how they have spent the past 20 years trying to recover stuff they erased or junked- far worse than the US networks!
This is so true!! There's a great early 70's sci-fi show called Doomwatch that ran for 3 seasons on the BBC. Huge cult following, never released on DVD, but a huge chunk of the episode master tapes were simply erased over because they were too cheap to buy new tapes! Incredible really.
That's what is such a treasure for us DS fans that it didn't receive a similar fate. Thank the heavens for kinescope copies!!