The Footage Detectives

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  • Premiered: Sep 2021
  • Episodes: 162
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Season 6
6x1
156: 60s Flights, 40s, 'Sunny Jim'
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 05, 2025
It's a new year and we have a new look! We go on a 60s flight across Europe, go cycling in the 40s but when and where? We've had a lost reel of Harry Tate's sent in and who had a 'sunny Jim'?
6x2
157: Pete Murray, Model Airplanes
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 12, 2025
There's reels a plenty with Pete Murray appearances behind the scenes stories from Maureen Evans and Karen Kay, some 60s pop to take us back in time and footage of a model aircraft competition.
6x3
158: Footballers, Scopiatone Tornadoes, The Housecoat
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 19, 2025
There's special footage of some iconic footballers, a great scopiatone of the Tornadoes, there's traffic in the 50s, we celebrate The Housecoat and who remembers Alan Freeman's record shops?
6x4
159: Hampstead travelogue, New Odeon, The Pretty Things
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 26, 2025
Mike and Noel take a trip to the flicks with wonderful footage announcing the 'new' Odeon's opening up there's a travelogue to Hampstead in the 30s and a lost film of The Pretty Things from 1966!
6x5
160: 60s Aberdeen, 40s Mills, Needle Time, 50s Muswell Hill
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 02, 2025
We take you to Aberdeen in the 60s and to the mills in the 40s, but with a modern jazzy twist. Who remembers 'Needle Time'? And who frequented the Athenaeum Dance Hall in Muswell Hill in the 50s?
6x6
161: 1950s Projection, Fanny Cradock, 1950s Cars
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 09, 2025
Mike and Noel share an educational reel on 1950s projection, then it's time for Fanny Cradock and omelettes in a brilliant lost reel and there's footage from the 1950s for car enthusiasts.
6x7
162: Dick Emery, Birmingham 1964, 'Give Us a Show' Projector
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 16, 2025
We have a fascinating lost reel of Dick Emery you won't want to miss; we take you to Birmingham in 1964 with a brilliant reel and how many of you still have your 60s 'Give Us a Show' projector?
6x8
163: Larry Adler, 'Oak Apple Day', Cabdrivers Cough Mixture
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 23, 2025
We treat you to a very rare reel featuring Larry Adler from the late 50s, then we're off to celebrate 'Oak Apple Day', look at a wonderful reel on clay and who remembers Cabdrivers cough mixture?
6x9
164: Cinebox, 60s New Technology, Music for Silents
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 02, 2025
It's time to turn on the Cinebox, with a bit of Cinebox magic! There's a brilliant reel looking at the 'new technology' of the 60s and a reel that Noel's uncovered on making music for silents.

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