I'm currently watching 25 or so Alan Clarke films, many of them rare, and writing notes here: http://enthusiasm.org/post/34698527722

THE GOLD ROBBERS: The Arrangement (tx: 25th July 1969, ITV) - available in a ltd ed 4xDVD set, UK, Network
THE LAST TRAIN THROUGH HARECASTLE TUNNEL (tx: 1st October 1969, BBC1, The Wednesday Play)
SOVEREIGN'S COMPANY (tx: 22nd April 1970, BBC1, The Wednesday Play)
THE HALLELUJAH HANDSHAKE (1970)
UNDER THE AGE (1972)
HORACE (1972)
TO ENCOURAGE THE OTHERS (1972)
THE EDWARDIANS: Horatio Bottomley episode / BBC2 tx 28/11/1972 - available in a 4xDVD set, UK, Acorn. Made in colour, but unfortunately only in B&W on this DVD (some other episodes are in colour).
THE LOVE GIRL AND THE INNOCENT (1973)
PENDA'S FEN (1974) in full on YouTube
A FOLLOWER FOR EMILY (1974)
FUNNY FARM (1975)
DIANE (1975) in full on YouTube
SCUM (TV, 1977) - available on DVD
DANTON'S DEATH (1978)
NINA (1978)
SCUM (Film, 1979) - available on DVD
BELOVED ENEMY (1981)
PSY WARRIORS (1981)
BAAL (1982)
MADE IN BRITAIN (1983) - available in UK Blu-ray set, "TALES OUT OF SCHOOL"
STARS OF THE ROLLER STATE DISCO (1984)
CONTACT (1985)
BILLY THE KID AND THE GREEN BAIZE VAMPIRE (1987) - available on Network DVD, OAR but non-anamorphic
RITA, SUE, AND BOB TOO! (1987) - available on DVD, but recently HD restored and in need of a Criterion Blu-ray!
ROAD (1987)
CHRISTINE (1987)
THE FIRM (1989) - available on DVD in full on YouTube
ELEPHANT (1989) - available in the 2004 Blue Underground Alan Clarke DVD boxset in full on YouTube
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Does anybody have access to:

HALF HOUR STORY: Shelter ITV tx 19/5/1967 director
HALF HOUR STORY: A Man Inside ITV tx 26/5/1967 director
HALF HOUR STORY: The Gentleman Caller ITV tx 16/6/1967 director
HALF HOUR STORY: Which of these Two Ladies is he Married To? ITV tx 12/7/1967 director
HALF HOUR STORY: George's Room ITV tx 30/8/1967 director
THE INFORMER: Sleeping Dogs Lie ITV tx 27/11/1967 director
A MAN OF OUR TIMES: Sally Go Round the Moon ITV tx 18/1/1968 director
A MAN OF OUR TIMES: Got Yourself Sorted Out At All? ITV tx 25/1/1968 director
HALF HOUR STORY: Goodnight Albert ITV tx 6/2/1968 director
A MAN OF OUR TIMES: Never Mind How We Got Here - Where Are We? ITV tx 14/3/1968 director
HALF HOUR STORY: Stella ITV tx 19/6/1968 director
HALF HOUR STORY: The Fifty-Seventh Saturday ITV tx 3/7/1968 director
HALF HOUR STORY: Nothing's Ever Over ITV tx 17/7/1968 director
HALF HOUR STORY: Thief ITV tx 24/7/1968 director
THE COMPANY OF FIVE: Stand By Your Screen ITV tx 8/12/1968 director
THE COMPANY OF FIVE: Gareth ITV tx 15/12/1968 director
SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE: The Piano Tuner ITV tx 8/3/1969 director
PLAYS OF TODAY: The Ladies - Doreen BBC2 tx 18/9/1969 director
PLAYS OF TODAY: The Ladies - Joan BBC2 tx 18/9/1969 director
SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE: The Comic ITV tx 29/11/1969 director
PLAY FOR TODAY: I Can't See My Little Willie BBC1 tx 19/11/1970 director
PLAY FOR TODAY: Everybody Say Cheese BBC1 tx 3/6/1971 director
PLAY FOR TODAY: A Life is for Ever BBC1 tx 16/10/1972 director
ACHILLES' HEEL ITV tx 18/3/1973 director
PLAY FOR TODAY: Man Above Men BBC1 tx 19/3/1973 director
ITV PLAYHOUSE: Fast Hands ITV tx 4/5/1976 director
VODKA COLA ITV tx 22/7/1980 director / producer
THE BRITISH DESK ITV tx 8/5/1984 director

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What I wouldn't give to have copies of some of this work, especially ROAD, CONTACT and CHRISTINE. So does this mean that anyone is planning to release any of these titles, Nick, or is it for some kind of Alan Clarke retrospective or just for your personal edification? I've always thought that both Alan Clarke's and Michael Haneke's unreleased TV movies would make awesome Eclipse sets.

I've been trying for years to speed up and enable their HD remastering and proper, comprehensive release. I'm now able to focus clearly on one project at a time and I'm devoting November to Alan, watching everything properly, making notes, whilst continuing to try and get some wheels turning.

[EDIT: I've put all the missing works in the top post so I can continue editing just the one post]

Acorn released the complete series of The Edwardians in 2009. Available from all the usual outlets.

One of non-Clarke episodes of The Company of Five has been released by Network on their Dennis Potter at LWT set so perhaps they'd have info on the whereabouts of other five.

Dennis Potter, too. It took me forever to get a copy of TENDER IS THE NIGHT (thanks, Reddit!) and BLACKEYES is a major work that deserves serious reappraisal.

Perhaps Criterion could license PLAY FOR TODAY/SCREEN TWO titles?

At least one UK distributor has been after Penda's Fen, but the BBC wanted a wholly unrealistic amount of money.

Incidentally, Nick, I assume you've read Richard Kelly's book on Clarke?

Thanks for THE EDWARDIANS tip! Just ordered it. Will be able to fit it in chronologically if it arrives soon.

Yes, all this ITV stuff will be in ITV's vaults. NETWORK the best hope for those. It needs someone there to have the vision to put them all together in a cracking looking boxset.

Have you stopped using Twitter?

Never really started.

I've been tweeting Clarkovsky quotes. Richard Kelly tweeted back. The Kelly ALAN CLARKE book is amazing.

Of course, they put out Made in Britain on Blu-ray as part of their excellent Tales Out of School set last year, so there's hope.

Thanks for that. Just ordered. Can't wait to see it on Blu-ray!

Yes, that's a good set (TALES OUT OF SCHOOL Blu-ray). I'll start to embellish the list above with known commercial releases (seeing as there are so few).

The Gold Robbers got a limited edition release by Network: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Gold-Robber ... B004EGITEU

Fantastic! Just ordered (from play.com for £24.99) Thanks.

Quite a lot are on YouTube in their entirety (ROAD is on there, but in parts. Worth it though!). I'm adding YouTube links to the top post if I think they're watchable and if they're not split up into parts.)

Just some maintenance here, the link for Diane is incorrect. It can be found here. Here's the only thing I can find specifically about the film - http://filmsociety.wellington.net.nz/db ... php?id=160

Thanks for doing this, Nick.

Thanks! I've fixed the DIANE link. I've recently seen A FOLLOWER FOR EMILY, FUNNY FARM, and DIANE and will be writing them up shortly. Also added a few more links.

Interesting that DIANE's credited screenwriter is "David Agnew", which is a pseudonym. Any guesses as to who the original writer was?

imdb says "Anthony Read", but the Faber Alan Clarke book has a number of folk describing how Jonathan Hales was the author of a 2-parter called ALL THE SAINTS, which Clarke turned into DIANE. Hales didn't like what Clarke had done, so they went with "David Agnew", which is the "Alan Smithee" of the TV world.

Maybe there's some confusion because Anthony Read did use the "David Agnew" pseudonym for the Doctor Who serial The Invasion of Time, which Read cowrote with the show's then producer Graham Williams. "Agnew" went on to write another Doctor Who, City of Death - in that case the writers were Douglas Adams and Graham Williams.

There's a good, long, piece on Contact over at British Television Drama. I'm surprised Contact was as late as 1985 and I'd always, mentally, placed it much earlier. Love the Morris Marina...

George

Teaser posters... all designed in high resolution as Quad posters, using a specific template (same fonts, placement, etc), to unify a series of films that have never had posters before and provide a basis for future DVD artwork:

Nice work, Nick. Those titles are the exact contents (with the addition of Made in Britain) of a British Council programme that was touring several years ago (and may still be, for all I know). Coincidence?

Thanks! -- (yes, MADE IN BRITAIN was made by ITV, and is out on Blu-ray, so doesn't need excavating, but I'd like to do a matching teaser poster for it!) Whereabouts did you see this touring programme?

...and here's ROAD: