Talk:Rentaghost

message: "Some master copies of Rentaghost episodes were junked by Adam Lee of the BBC archives in 1993 on the assumption that they were 'no use' and that examples of some other episodes were sufficient. However, the BBC Enterprises had requested copies of the first three series a couple of years earlier and indeed they were showing at the time on UK Gold - these were later recovered by the BBC Archive."
I would appreciate some background information on these "junkings" - such the reasons behind them, and which other programmes were affected. Was this a decision made by Adam Lee alone or was this BBC policy at the time?
Most people are aware of the junking/wiping which took place in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly due to the "Missing Believed Wiped" campaigns which crop up every so often. Very few people know that BBC programmes were junked as recently as 1993, and it is inexplicable given the rise of home video and "nostalgia" TV. I imagine it's something that the BBC want to keep quiet about. 217.155.20.163 16:08, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiped?

message: 1. The "DVD" section states (albeit without references) that rights issues of various sorts are likely to preclude any further DVD releases. Surely this can't go on indefinitely? It's just ridiculous to have a situation where 1970s-era rights clauses are rigidly adhered to in the totally different media landscape of 2007. I wouldn't expect that to happen in my (admittedly non-TV) job. At this rate it'll be about 2100 before all the various copyrights have expired and the series can be released! Something has to give at some point, surely.
:Copyright law (and associated legislation) doesn't have a "this is silly" clause, unfortunately! Some might say that Sonny Bono et al wouldn't have got anywhere otherwise... Having said that, if person X signs a contract on the basis that they'll have a veto on move Y, then unilaterally changing their contract to remove that veto would be asking for huge legal problems. (IANAL etc.) Loganberry (Talk) 22:40, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Broadcast rights and DVD rights are two different things. For example, I believe that the BBC has an agreement that allows it to use any piece of music on a broadcast - but this does not extend to DVD (or, in earlier days, video) releases. This is why some soundtracks have to be altered for DVD release. I don't know whether a repeat on broadcast TV would be possible, but my guess (note emphasis!) is that it would. We can't know for sure without seeing the contracts, which is not likely to happen! Loganberry (Talk) 00:02, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rights and repeats 

message: Was Nadia Popov meant to be Dutch? Perhaps my memory is playing tricks on me but I thought she was Russian. Of course, in real life there are Dutch people who have Eastern European names because they are descended from emigrants - but it is not the kind of thing you would expect in a children's comedy show.
81.145.242.107 (talk) 12:21, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought she was Dutch, of the top of my head. Ged UK (talk) 18:35, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

text: I think that she was probably Russian. The accent suggested that too. She was allergic to flowers so perhaps there were a lot of tulips to confuse us... Minirof (talk) 11:57, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

text: The character Nadia Popov was indeed Russian, but for some reason (hence the confusion) the character was often seen in Dutch national dress!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.145.161.114 (talk) 13:46, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

text: The character was supposed to be a cousin of the Dutch ghost Tamara Novak who had appearec in series 5 though the name Popov and her accent suggest she was Russian or of some kind of Slavic nationality Penrithguy (talk) 21:31, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nadia Popov was Dutch? 

message: Having stumbled across the news that Bob Block sadly passed away last month, I was surprised to find that he didn't have an entry on Wikipedia.  I've now put that right, but it's just a stub.  Paul Holloway (talk) 17:08, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Bob Block - FYI

message: There's no mention of the Buster Comic, Rent a Ghost which preceded the series and was I suspect the source for the premise of the series. Which may go some way to explain the cryptic, "...due to complicated rights...". Does anyone have any information that could confirm or refute this suspicion? Fourisplenty (talk) 21:18, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buster Rent a Ghost  and IPC Magazines Ltd. 

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