Reply With QuoteThis has been slated for release by NETWORK VIDEO for a while now ; you never know, 2006 may be the year....
SMUDGE
Ace of Wands Episode Guide - Ace of Wands Season Episodes - TV.com
I know that there had been a lot of talk about a dvd release of this but nothing materialised.
Does anyone have access to any episodes?
I'm willing to trade or cover costs.
Thanks
This has been slated for release by NETWORK VIDEO for a while now ; you never know, 2006 may be the year....
SMUDGE
There are apparently rights issues (I've read on other forums).(smudge @ Feb 12 2006, 08:22 PM)
This has been slated for release by NETWORK VIDEO for a while now ; you never know, 2006 may be the year...
After chatting with a friend about all manner of '60s and '70s TV he mentioned 'Ace of Wands' (1970-1972), which I have to confess I've never seen, but now would like to.
Does anyone here happen to have any episodes?
there are copies of this series on e-bay on dvd
batty
I have half a dozen. Please PM me.
Cheers,
Smudge
I remember it quite well. I recall being particularly shocked at the expanse of female thigh in one episode.
There are plans for a DVD release of some of this series.
Let's hope so!
Sadly the first two series (1970 and 1971) were wiped and no longer exist in any form, which could explain the lengthy delay in getting this series onto DVD.
There is another thread for Ace of Wands at Latest DVD Releases. Maybe that can be reserved for the surviving Series 3 and this one for the first two?
It's a few years since I saw the interviews, included in a Special Feature documentary on the DVD, but I remember Judy Loe saying she was "devastated" by the loss and think it was producer/director Pamela Lonsdale who talked about the original tapes being taken away and destroyed. God willing, copies of these long lost episodes can be found somewhere, though I'm more optimistic we'll see them in TV Heaven.
From the 22nd August 1970 edition of the Daily Mirror:
Three days later, Part 2 of The Mind Robbers was shown.
I watched that documentary again last week (Story with No End). "Heartbroken" was the word Judy used to describe the loss of her episodes. Pamela Lonsdale said "devastated", I think.
Daily Express, 27th July 1970
Two days before the show's first broadcast:
A WHISTLE is as good as a wink to Fred, the owl. He does both when he's excited.
And he's having lots of excitement lately making a TV series with Judy Loe (above).
The programme is called "Ace of Wands" and billed as being all about a twentieth century
Robin Hood with a pinch of Merlin and a dash of Houdini. That does sound a lot to whistle about.
If Fred gets too flustered Judy's always there to calm him down, to give him her shoulder to perch on.
Last edited by cornershop15; 22-07-13 at 07:20 AM.
Yes, at the moment, all that exists is the last season featuring Roy Holder - nothing exists (at present) other than audio's of the 1st 2 seasons - great shame, as like a lot of people on here I'd love to see them.
The last season had an official release via Network DVD about a year ago ?
Michael Mackenzie in the 'Doctor in the House' episode Getting the Bird (1969)
This will be a brilliant addition to Where Were They Then? - where I've just posted. Michael, far left (as opposed to out)
is more of an extra/background artist than '2nd Medic', merely handing a hat to Simon Cuff to give to Yutte Stensgaard:
In front of the criminally-wasted Yutte are Barry Evans and Geoffrey Davies. Behind the bar is 'Welshman' Martin Shaw,
Logically, the future Ace of Wands star should be one of these three actors:
The actor in the middle is definitely Robert Tayman - '1st Medic'. But who
are the others? If one is Martin Aubrey the other Medic must be Michael.
During normal viewing I thought he was - then I spotted him at the back
as I was screencapping. The lookalike is standing next to him (1st image).
I'll have a better idea of what Martin Aubrey looked like, in 1969, when I watch the last episode of Series 1 in a few weeks time.
Last edited by cornershop15; 20-02-14 at 02:42 AM.
Just seen it. He's second on the right (hand on chin), in front of Robert Tayman. And I saw him a couple of nights ago in Manhunt - murdered in the first scene of the series. In Doctor in the House, Martin Aubrey announces himself as "McArthur" and Michael Mackenzie as "Mickleton" when they find out if they've passed or failed their exams. So now we know. But who is on Martin's left in the above capture? I thnk he should have been credited as 'Second Medic' rather than Michael, who is more of an extra in that scene. Speaking of extras ...
In the first part of Ace of Wands story Sisters Deadly (1972), a mysterious lady appears behind Roy Holder in the post office.
She popped up again in an early Dennis Potter play the other night, Moonlight on the Highway. Does Simon knows who she is?:
The chap on the left with the pint looks rather like Jack Shepherd to me, cornershop.
Do you mean the actor holding the pint (second capture)? I can assure you Jack Shepherd wasn't in this.
I'll find a better image of this man and post it at 'Who are these people?'.
That's a very good question, but I don't have a clue, I'm afraid. The camera script for that episode specifies "No extras", but of course that's just referring to the activity in the studio, it doesn't include that kind of detail for the already-shot film sequences.Originally Posted by cornershop15
I sometimes confuse her with another unidentified extra but am sure she's the David Bobin-lookalike in this capture
from Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) - The Trouble with Women (1969), with Kenneth Cope and unknown actor.
Judy Loe with Fred the Owl in The Australian Women's Weekly, 2nd September 1970 (from the same photoshoot as #11):
Credited as "Ossie the Owl" there (as opposed to Aussie). Judy was a guest in an episode of Travelling Man last
week (I'm watching the series on DVD). One of her friends was played by the sadly-late Sara Roache, wife of Bill.
Last edited by cornershop15; 25-04-14 at 09:20 PM.
One of the strange things I remember about watching Ace of Wands at the time was it's intro. Although we had a black and white TV in those days, part of the intro showed a vertical white line which suddenly zig-zagged and waved across the screen. As it did this, the white line actually looked purple/violet. Not sure why but it must have been an optical illusion of some sort.
Anyone else remember this?
Don't remember it, but the colour might not have been an illusion. An engineer long ago spotted that sometimes colour would show on black and white (especially videorecordings). He believed this was due to the fact that the video recording 'remembered' the colour it was transferring to B&W (think paint-by-numbers). Testing old B&W video with colour stills of the same scene, he was able to 'colourise' old B&W with remarkable accuracy - much used on the Jon Pertwee Doctor Who's that only existed in 16mm B&W film form.
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