Restoration File: The Persuaders!

Classic seventies buddy TV series is restored back to it’s gritty best and they found some rare footage too that made the extrasBBC Studios and Post Production’s Digital Media Services team has digitally restored the complete series of the 1970s hit show, The Persuaders! for home entertainment label Network. Starring two great actors of the era, Roger Moore and the late Tony Curtis, the classic ITV series was given an HD digital makeover to celebrate its 40th anniversary with a Blu-ray box-set release. 

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Restoration of a TV Icon

After 18 months testing the restoration of The World At War has begunThe World At War was an iconic Thames Television series of 26 episodes first seen in the early 1970s (it was commissioned in 1969 and took four years to make). Those who saw it, remembered it. You remembered the breadth of footage from newsreels, propaganda reels, footage from on-board fighter planes, hand held in battle and many other sources.

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'World At War' Documentary Gets HD Restoration

(c) 1973 Thames Television Ltd. Courtesy of FremantleMedia EnterprisesIn the years since its initial broadcast, this BAFTA and Emmy award-winning series has had many imitators but ‘The World at War’ remains one of the most revered documentaries ever made

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