lost Sean Connery tv debut located

[sepiatone]

from BBC News Entertainment & Arts
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27665619" target="_blank

[JFK]

The broadcast digital TV channel Antenna TV, airs, among other programs,
The Burns and Allen Show...............................................Jack Benny Show
Tue. - Sat. 3am ET / 12am PT (2 episodes nightly) .......Weekdays 5am ET / 2am PT (2 episodes nightly)
Sat. Nights 11:30 pm ET / 8:30pm PT (2 episodes)........Sunday 1am ET / 10pm PT (2 episodes)

Part of the Benny TV package is a Europe-filmed episode with one of Connery's earliest appearances :

Season 7, Episode 9
Jack Hires Opera Singer in Rome (13 Jan. 1957)
Jack Benny
Don Wilson
Mary Livingstone
Sean Connery ... Porter
Alan Thornton ... Bellboy
Paul Stassino ... Desk Clerk
Gaylord Cavallaro ... Opera Star
Marne Maitland ... Emilio Garibaldi

[Spiny Norman]

It's just the audio that has been recovered.

[sepiatone]

Thanks. I got lost in the bold type when it said recording. Anything to do with the '50s, actors and recording I immediately think 16mm dupe from screen or U-Matic, though those videotapes came much later.

[Spiny Norman]

Thanks. I got lost in the bold type when it said recording. Anything to do with the '50s, actors and recording I immediately think 16mm dupe from screen or U-Matic, though those videotapes came much later.

Sadly not. Still, it's better than nothing.
In fact a lot of British stuff including ALL of the missing Doctor Who, Till Death, Frost Report and The 1948 Show still exists as "off-air audio-only".

A bit like the Vitaphone situation, really. Especially as there are also kinescopes of which the audio track was lost.