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Topic: Two more editions of Just A Minute: #403 Sneezes & #417 The Boot

Message 1 / 8
Martin HoodMay 14, 2009
 

 
Two more editions of Just A Minute are now available for download.

#402 - Sneezes (CF, DN, PJ, PM)
Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?nmzjymymz2z

#417 - The Boot (CF, PJ, PM, Helen Lederer)
Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?wk2l03cukzd

These links are also available in the Links area,
- "Just a Minute" Episode Download Links,
- Dean's Extra Special Just A Minute Episodes

Many thanks to Dean Bedford who supplied the tapes of these episodes for encoding.

 
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Topic: Re: Two more editions of Just A Minute: #403 Sneezes & #417 The Boot

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cymro.gwirionMay 15, 2009
 

 
Thank you very much. Fantastic

--- In just-a-minute@..., "Martin Hood" <mhood@...> wrote:
>
> Two more editions of Just A Minute are now available for download.
>
> #402 - Sneezes (CF, DN, PJ, PM)
> Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?nmzjymymz2z
>
> #417 - The Boot (CF, PJ, PM, Helen Lederer)
> Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?wk2l03cukzd
>
> These links are also available in the Links area,
> - "Just a Minute" Episode Download Links,
> - Dean's Extra Special Just A Minute Episodes
>
> Many thanks to Dean Bedford who supplied the tapes of these episodes for encoding.
>

 
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Topic: Re: Two more editions of Just A Minute: #403 Sneezes & #417 The Boot

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Charles KerrMay 17, 2009
 

 
This is excellent news! Thank you both, Dean and Martin,
for making these available!

I think these were the final two "missing" episodes that were
known to be in circulation offline. The remaining missings
are likely to be harder to track down... ;)

Still missing:

series 1 - [3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12]
series 3 - [23, 34]
series 4 - [36]
series 7 - [140]
series 8 - [142]
series 9 - [182]
series 10 - [195]

cheers,
Charles

cymro.gwirion wrote:

> Thank you very much. Fantastic
>
> --- In just-a-minute@..., "Martin Hood" <mhood@...> wrote:
>> Two more editions of Just A Minute are now available for download.
>>
>> #402 - Sneezes (CF, DN, PJ, PM)
>> Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?nmzjymymz2z
>>
>> #417 - The Boot (CF, PJ, PM, Helen Lederer)
>> Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?wk2l03cukzd
>>
>> These links are also available in the Links area,
>> - "Just a Minute" Episode Download Links,
>> - Dean's Extra Special Just A Minute Episodes
>>
>> Many thanks to Dean Bedford who supplied the tapes of these episodes for encoding.

 
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Topic: Re: Two more editions of Just A Minute: #403 Sneezes & #417 The Boot

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Dean BedfordMay 17, 2009
 

 
On Monday, May 18, 2009, at 01:41 PM, Charles Kerr wrote:

>
> Still missing:
>
> series 1 - [3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12]
> series 3 - [23, 34]
> series 4 - [36]
> series 7 - [140]
> series 8 - [142]
> series 9 - [182]
> series 10 - [195]

* eppy 36 is actually part of season 4
* eppy 140 and eppy 142 are available, or should be. Both were played by
the ABC a couple of years back.
* eppy 195 is the one I mentioned a couple of weeks ago as having been
found by Martin.
* eppy 259, final show of 12th season is also missing.

So the list should read

season 1 - [3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12]
season 3 - [23, 34, 36]
season 9 - [182]
season 12 - [259]

We are also missing three of the TV shows, all from 1995

season 2 - [19, 27, 28]

Putting aside the TV shows, we now are missing only two shows, other
than in the first 15 months of the show's history.

This seems a colossal achievement.

Just a thought!

 
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Topic: Re: Two more editions of Just A Minute: #403 Sneezes & #417 The Boot

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Robert TorresMay 17, 2009
 

 

Any time episodes from the past are rediscovered and brought into circulation is a moment to celebrate, and its great having these brought into the context of the series as a whole, and this is great having all these rediscovered gems come into circulation in light of the recent passing of Clement Freud. --- On Sun, 5/17/09, Charles Kerr <charles@...> wrote: From: Charles Kerr <charles@...> Subject: Re: [just-a-minute] Re: Two more editions of Just A Minute: #403 Sneezes & #417 The Boot To: just-a-minute@... Date: Sunday, May 17, 2009, 9:41 PM This is excellent news! Thank you both, Dean and Martin, for making these available! I think these were the final two "missing" episodes that were known to be in circulation offline. The remaining missings are likely to be harder to track down... ;) Still missing: series 1 - [3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12] series 3 - [23, 34] series 4 - [36] series 7 - [140] series 8 - [142] series 9 - [182] series 10 - [195] cheers, Charles cymro.gwirion wrote: > Thank you very much. Fantastic > > --- In just-a-minute@ yahoogroups. com, "Martin Hood" <mhood@...> wrote: >> Two more editions of Just A Minute are now available for download. >> >> #402 - Sneezes (CF, DN, PJ, PM) >> Link: http://www.mediafir e.com/?nmzjymymz 2z >> >> #417 - The Boot (CF, PJ, PM, Helen Lederer) >> Link: http://www.mediafir e.com/?wk2l03cuk zd >> >> These links are also available in the Links area, >> - "Just a Minute" Episode Download Links, >> - Dean's Extra Special Just A Minute Episodes >> >> Many thanks to Dean Bedford who supplied the tapes of these episodes for encoding.

 
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Topic: Re: Two more editions of Just A Minute: #403 Sneezes & #417 The Boot

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dombell79May 20, 2009
 

 
(Medium-term group member, first time poster.)

First and foremost, I would like to join everyone in saying a colossal "THANK YOU!" to everyone who has made the episode collection what it is, particularly the inimitable Dean Bedford and Martin Hood. I have to wonder what it says about the BBC that the two people most responsible for making the rich history of "Just a Minute" accessible to the curious are from New Zealand and Australia! Nevertheless, Dean, Martin (Dean Martin?), and everyone else who has at some point ripped and otherwise encoded part of the surviving JAM catalogue, I salute you.

The thought has occurred that alongside assembling the current list of unavailable episodes (that this list is now down to the thirteen "officially missing" radio episodes - including the one Martin Hood recently managed to unearth, a transcript of which I see has appeared on Dean Bedford's website - is truly staggering), it might also be worth noting which episodes are available for download but are substantially incomplete or have particularly bad problems with the sound. By "substantially incomplete" I mean episodes where actual gameplay is missing - there are a fair few episodes where all or part of Nicholas' introduction is cut off, or all or part of the "Minute" Waltz at either the beginning or the end, or even sometimes all or part of Nicholas' salutatory "Welcome to 'Just a Minute'!", but all the important material is there. This way we will have a short list of the episodes for which upgrades would be most helpful.

I recently skimmed my entire collection to check that the files were labelled correctly, and I think the episodes where the most widely available downloads are incomplete are as follows (series and episodes numbered according to the standard on Dean Bedford's page):

Series 4 - [52] (missing most of intro)
Series 5 - [91] (GAMEPLAY INCOMPLETE - missing last round), [93] (missing start and end credits)
Series 16 - [307] (missing start and end credits), [313] (missing most of intro), [315] (GAMEPLAY INCOMPLETE - missing first few seconds of first round)
Series 18 - [340] (missing intro, starts with first round), [342] (GAMEPLAY INCOMPLETE - missing first few seconds of first round), [351] (GAMEPLAY INCOMPLETE - missing first three and a half rounds), [353] (GAMEPLAY INCOMPLETE - missing first round and part of second)
Series 20 - [369] (missing most of intro), [371] (missing most of intro)
Series 22 - [392] (GAMEPLAY INCOMPLETE - missing first few seconds of first round), [397] (GAMEPLAY INCOMPLETE - missing first few seconds of first round)
Series 24 - [414] (missing part of intro)
Series 28 - [448] (GAMEPLAY INCOMPLETE - missing part of last round)

As only eight of those are missing actual gameplay, that really means there are only eight incomplete episodes - the other eight listed above are missing less important things such as Nicholas introducing the panellists and/or explaining the rules.

The following episodes have particularly severe sound quality problems - in some cases it is difficult to make out what the panellists are saying through static or, in some cases, intereference from other radio stations:

Series 2 - [19], [22]
Series 3 - [25], [28]
Series 6 - [106], [108]
Series 19 - [360], [365]
Series 24 - [412]
Series 30 - [470]
Series 31 - [477]

There are a few other episodes with audio issues, but they can still be heard and understood and enjoyed for the most part. It seems fair to assume that ABC will broadcast some of the more recent ones at some point, but the older ones may require someone with a bit of sound software know-how to clean up a bit (sadly, I do not fit that bill or I'd try it myself).

Again, though, this still means that all but thirteen "Just a Minute" episodes from the over seven hundred that have aired since 1967 are available in some form for fans to listen to, and that is truly remarkable. Again, Dean, Martin, and everyone else who has contributed in some way to making this collection what it is, I salute you - my only sorrow is that I don't really have a way to contribute to this collection myself as "Just a Minute" seems to be pretty much unknown outside the British expat community here in the States!


-Matthew.

 
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Topic: Re: Two more editions of Just A Minute: #403 Sneezes & #417 The Boot

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Dean BedfordMay 22, 2009
 

 
Matthew - thanks for the very kind comments. I have been called many
things but not inimitable before so thanks for that! It is good to see
Martin getting some credit for his work too.

On incomplete shows, it would be good to work on singling out the better
recordings of course. Can I just say that I encourage EVERYONE to upload
copies of your shows or links to them, even those in more recent times
as your copy may be better quality than those already uploaded.

I can only think of one radio edition and one TV edition where there is
any actual play missing. The radio one is the 1984 show "Marie Celeste"
345/18/5 where about 10 seconds of the first round are missing, so I
would think there are better editions around on most or all of these
other shows.

On a related issue, someone asked about cutting together different bits
of different shows either for quality reasons or because parts were
missing in one version. I had one show where the interference was REALLY
bad and when it was played here in NZ, I was looking forward to
recording a better version. Unfortunately there was a power cut and I
only managed to record the second half of it. I cut them together and it
did work and was better than the alternative. I'm not so sure about a
more patchwork effort but I'd say it could work if you could control the
levels - it would be exceptionally annoying if you were continually
having to turn the volume up and down.

Perhaps Martin or Emile or someone else will have some thoughts on these
issues that I think are very important.

Thanks again for posting Matthew - hope to see you posting again here
soon. :)

Dean

 
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Topic: Re: Two more editions of Just A Minute: #403 Sneezes & #417 The Boot

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espen.kromkeJun 3, 2009
 

 
Thanks alot for this! *applause*

--- In just-a-minute@..., "Martin Hood" <mhood@...> wrote:
>
> Two more editions of Just A Minute are now available for download.
>
> #402 - Sneezes (CF, DN, PJ, PM)
> Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?nmzjymymz2z
>
> #417 - The Boot (CF, PJ, PM, Helen Lederer)
> Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?wk2l03cukzd
>
> These links are also available in the Links area,
> - "Just a Minute" Episode Download Links,
> - Dean's Extra Special Just A Minute Episodes
>
> Many thanks to Dean Bedford who supplied the tapes of these episodes for encoding.
>