'You Can't See the Join!' - Recovering Morecambe and Wise Posted by BBC Research and Development on 29 Dec 2017, last updated 30 Dec 2017 A regular TV tradition at this time of year is the repeat of the Morecambe and Wise Christmas specials and 2017 is no exception - there is even a special BBC FOUR drama about the pair on air this evening too . We thought readers might enjoy a good tale of some work we're involved with - to recover an episode of the comedy duo's TV series that was previously considered 'lost'. It involves some pretty advanced tech development work - a 'diseased' film, a trip to Nigeria, dentistry, lasers, X-ray tomography, algorithms and some goo... Television archiving expert Charles Norton writes about his involvement with the work in the first of this three part series . In 1968, ITV lost Morecambe and Wise . The famous comedy duo‘s contract with Lew Grade’s ATV company came up fo
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