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 | | Thursday, 8 November, 2001, 11:00 GMT BBC recovers 'lost' classics  Dad's Army: One of the nation's all-time favourites More than 100 "lost" BBC TV and Radio programmes have been recovered for the nation following a six-month appeal by BBC archivists. The programmes, including two episodes of classic comedy series Dad's Army, had either never been recorded or had been wiped from the archives. Click here to watch and listen to clips of the shows Members of the public responded to the BBC's Treasure Hunt appeal by handing over personal recordings of the shows. Using digital technology, the corporation copied the programmes for its archives. The recovered programmes are made up of 100 radio shows and a dozen television shows.
The BBC's head of information and archives, Paul Fiander, said: "We've had a great response to the Treasure Hunt appeal and some fantastic material has turned up. "We always knew it was out there and this has brought back a gratifying number of programmes back to the BBC." People who submitted copies came from all walks of life but included collectors, former producers and overseas broadcasters. Among the most exciting finds were two missing Dad's Army episodes and an audio tape from The Beatles' appearance on Jukebox Jury. The Dad's Army shows, from 1969, were recovered in June. They turned up in a pile of rusting film cans handed into the BBC by a man who wished to remain anonymous. One, called The Battle for Godfrey's Cottage, shows the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard reacting to an imagined German invasion. The other, Operation Kilt, has the platoon taking on a crack Highland regiment in night manoeuvres - with the help of a pantomime cow. The episodes were among 19 film cans pulled out of a skip at Elstree film studios in Hertfordshire in the 70s. Other classics unearthed by the Treasure Hunt appeal include an episode of Benny Hill - Portrait Of A Bridegroom. Also recovered is a 1931 radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol and the first edition of the long running panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue from 1972.
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