Sunday Night at the London Palladium DVD question

I've noticed that there is a 3-disc DVD containing episodes of Sunday Night at the London Palladium that has been released, and another 2-disc DVD set is due for release in July.

Now I know my sources are pretty rubbish, but the Wiki entry for the show claims that only five of the 126 shows exist. Now, I'm assuming the five episodes didn't get their own disc, so is there more than meets the eye on this box sets, or am I an idiot for taking a wiki entry seriously?

This is what comes up from the BFI search:

http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/search.php?needle=Sunday+Night+at+the+London+Palladium&category=Everything&catSubmit.x=28&catSubmit.y=8&searchField=title

Some are not complete: its, but did the Great Bob monkhouse also not make copies of some of Sunday night shows? maybe there more after aswel.

1. SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM, Great Britain, 1998
2. SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM: SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM[28/10/73], Great Britain, 1973
3. VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM: VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM[03/12/61], Great Britain, 1961
4. VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM: VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM[22/03/64], Great Britain, 1964
5. VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM: VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM[20/11/60], Great Britain, 1960
6. VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM: VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM[24/11/57], Great Britain, 1957
7. VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM: VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM[17/04/60], Great Britain, 1960
8. VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM: VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM[10/04/60], Great Britain, 1960
9. VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM: VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM[16/10/55], Great Britain, 1955
10. VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM: VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM[06/05/56], Great Britain, 1956
11. VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM: VAL PARNELL'S SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM[13/04/58], Great Britain, 1958

The Sunday Night ones from the 50s to the 70s called Sunday Night At the London Palladium are on DVD Volume One. The second volume appears to be The New London Palladium Show or whatever it was called, (same show, different name) with Jimmy Tarbuck with possibly the odd new find of older material.

There is loads of ITC film cans that are not logged or weren't logged. They keep finding more material as time goes on.

All on the BFI list are I think (bar the 90s remake) on Volume One.

http://www.lostshows.com/default.aspx?search=palladium

I would put money on it that bob record some of that list!

The copies Bob Monkhouse had were a bit ropey it seems from his documentary. But Network DVD are very good at putting out material from home recordings if its not too bad quality wise. There are 3 Crossroads episodes on the DVDs from domestic tapes so they may include Monkhouse on this release - although if they did you'd think he'd be on the front sleeve with Tarbuck.

Maybe there planing a Monkhouse Palladium Volume?

The problem with the Bob Monkhouse recorded editions is that they were made on a 1/2 inch open-reel format - Sony CV2000 I seem to remember. The tape on these reels is very "sticky" and will need considerable work to recover. The currently available copies are from Betamax dubs made optically sometime in the 80s. Unfortunately these weren't very good and have lots of geometric distortion, poor contrast and even occasionally, someone moving between camera and screen.

It should also be noted that the Monkhouse recordings are only excerpts - mainly featuring Bob's act.