Paul Temple

As far as the BBC Archives are concerned only 16 of the 52 editions are currently known to survive: 11 on the BBC's original colour masters as transmitted, with the final five episodes existing only as monochrome film prints returned from New Zealand. BetaFilm and/or ZDF in Germany do hold 35mm colour telerecordings of all 39 episodes from the second season onwards; however the vast majority of these only have the dubbed German soundtracks and not the English originals. (Amongst these does remain an English-tracked edition not held by the BBC, A Family Affair (1971)). To further muddy the waters, some German prints feature alternative footage which UK viewers never saw, and vice versa. Such differences even extend to the credits (the German prints retain the John Levene "running man" credit sequence even on later episodes where it had been supplanted in the UK originals).

Referenced in The Morecambe & Wise Show: Episode #6.1 (1971)