Editing Up Pompeii! (section)

==DVD release==
For many years, no complete home video release had been undertaken due to the nature of the [[videotape]] master materials. Like many television series of this era, most of the original videotapes were [[Lost television broadcast|wiped]].

In the late 1970s, missing episodes of ''Up Pompeii!'' were found in the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] (CBC) archive. Because of the differences in international broadcasting, these copies had been converted to the North American [[NTSC]] television standard, and so one chunk of the series remained in its native PAL format, but the majority were found in a poorly-converted (dating long before digital conversion methods) NTSC state.<ref>The lostshows.com website [http://lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=59daa675-704c-4fad-8739-ca26599302eb lists] 12 of the 17 surviving in the North American standard.</ref> The picture quality of some of the Canadian finds was not high, and so their marketability was severely limited. However, six episodes were released on [[VHS]] in 1991 by BBC Video. These tapes were re-released by Second Sight in 1999, with a small music edit made to the episode featuring Jamus Bondus.

In 2004–05, through the success of a group of BBC employees' restoration work on similar NTSC-only episodes of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the BBC decided to convert all their NTSC-only productions (as reclaimed from various international stations) back to their original PAL format using a new computer-controlled process, [[Reverse Standards Conversion]]. A PAL-like, higher-quality image resulted in a more stable picture. The newly-restored masters made their debut on BBC FOUR in August 2006, and the BBC's DVD distribution arm [[2entertain]] released a box-set of Series 1 and 2 - including the pilot episode - and the 1975 special as well as a brand new ''Frankie Howerd Collection'' set in mid-September.

“The Frankie Howerd Collection” set includes not only both original series of ''Up Pompeii!'', but also the 1975 [[BBC]] special ''Further Up Pompeii!'' (not to be confused with the 1991 [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] special ''Further Up Pompeii''), “The Best of Frankie Howerd” DVD, and another Howerd series along a similar vein, ''[[Then Churchill Said to Me]]''.