Flipside 024: The Black Panther

[GaryC]

I've just received a copy of this (an early Christmas present) - haven't watched it yet though I've had a look through the booklet so far.

Minor nitpick: Ian Merrick is in error in saying that he was interviewed by Sue Lawley on Newsnight, as that programme didn't start broadcasting until 1980. I think that should be Nationwide, the BBC's early-evening magazine programme of the time, of which Sue Lawley was a regular presenter at the time. In fact I remember the film being featured on Nationwide - including a clip of Neilson dragging Lesley Whittle towards the ventilation shaft (IIRC) prefaced by a "some viewers may find this disturbing" warning - so I may well have seen that interview on broadcast.

I don't know if the interview still exists, because Nationwide was a live programme, not recorded off air, and very little of it survives in the BBC archives. I understand that there are domestic video recordings in existence, held by the National Film Archive.

[JamesF]

VHS artwork that may raise a few eyebrows: