Rose

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Rose
GenreDrama
Created byPeter Davids
Written byVarious
Directed byVarious
StarringVarious
Composer(s)Various
Country of originGandoor
No. of programmesAlimore: 29 (radio-only)
ATV: 7 (television; includes three years on both TV and radio)
GBN: 69 (television)
Total: 105
No. of episodesAlimore: 1370 (radio-only)
ATV: 375 (radio [until 1953] & TV)
GBN: 3589 (TV-only)
Total: 5334 (1565 missing)
Production
Running time
  • 15 minutes (1924-1952)
  • 25 minutes (1952-1971)
  • 45 minutes (1971-present)
Production company(s)Alimore Productions (1950-1957)
GBN Productions (1957-present)
Release
Original networkAlimore (1924-1953)
ATV (1950-1957)
GBN (1957-present)
Picture format480i (1950-2005)
1080i HDTV (2005-present)
Audio formatMono (1924-1989)
Stereo (1990-2005)
5.1 Surround Sound (2005-present)
Original releaseAlimore:
5 March 1924 (1924-03-05) - 27 May 1953 (1953-05-27)
ATV:
7 June 1950 (1950-06-07) - 14 August 1957 (1957-08-14)

GBN:
21 August 1957 (1957-08-21) - present (present)

Rose is a Gandoorese television drama. It has been broadcast since 7 June 1950, overlapping a 29-year broadcast on radio from 1924 until 1953. The series is the first and longest-running drama series in Gandoorese history and focuses on the lives of the Appleday family, who live on 72 Count Road in the fictional town of Heisburg.

Rose was created by Peter Davids and began broadcasting on Alimore, a private radio broadcaster, on 5 March 1924, less than three months after Alimore went on the air. The series began airing on ATV, the television channel owned by Alimore, on 7 June 1950, with episodes continuing to air on the radio until 1953. In mid-1957, the rights to the series were sold to the Gandoor Broadcasting Corporation and the series moved to the GBC's television channel, GBN, on 21 August 1957, only a few months before ATV ceased broadcasting in October 1957.

History

1920s and 1930s

The series was conceived during the planning stages of Alimore in 1922, which was going to become the third radio broadcaster in Gandoor, following the GBC and Wonder Radio. In order to distinguish itself from the two extant radio broadcasters, which exclusively broadcast music or news programming, Alimore was going to also broadcast programming intended to entertain listeners. Peter Davids, considered the creator of Rose, was assigned to develop a 'weekly drama program' for the upcoming broadcaster that would 'primarily appeal to female listeners'.

The radio series began broadcasting on Alimore on 5 March 1924 as the first of the entertainment programs intended to distinguish Alimore from its two competitors. The 15-minute episodes focused on Rose Appleday, matriarch of the Appleday family, a young 24 year old mother who had recently given birth to her first child, a son named Peter.

1940s

During the 1940s, when many radio programs were being censored and edited by broadcasting authorities, Rose remained relatively free of censorship, reportedly because Prime Minister Alexei Petrikov was a fan of the program and granted the program an exemption from the censorship laws enacted during his reign. During this decade, Rose Appleday gave birth to her second child, a daughter named Violet, in 1943.

1950s

Rose first debuted on television on the first broadcast day of ATV, the television channel owned by Alimore, 7 June 1950. The series continued to broadcast on the radio until 27 May 1953, with the actors recording the episodes twice - once for the afternoon radio broadcast and once for the evening television broadcast. In addition, the episodes for both television and radio continued to be 15 minutes in length until 1952, when they were expanded to 25 minutes.

The television-run of the program became known for referencing current events in Gandoor, something which was generally avoided during the original radio-run in order to not date the program (in the early days of the program, it did not air at a single time nationally, with some broadcasters not airing the program for weeks or months after an episode was originally broadcast). The Gandoor Civil War played a major part of the program's story during the mid-1950s, although they avoided taking any sides during the conflict, not wanting to alienate any viewers on either side of the war.

In a 1955 episode, Rose received word that her son Peter had been killed in action, with the episode deliberately not stating which of the two Gandoor's Peter had been fighting for. (In a 1972 interview, James Dixon, who played Peter, stated that his character likely would have been serving in the National Army of the Democratic Republic of Gandoor, as Heisburg was established as being in Juon Yon, which remained loyal to the Democratic Republic, as early as 1926)

In the aftermath of the Gandoor Civil War, Alimore faced financial struggles and was forced to shut down ATV in order to save money. Aware of the continued popularity of the series, however, Alimore sold all rights and ownership of Rose to the GBC for 250,000 GDY (equivalent to 2,869,215.26 GDY in 2026) in June 1957, which began broadcasting it on GBN on 21 August 1957, only a few months before ATV ceased broadcasting in October 1957.

Episode 1793, first broadcast on 16 July 1958, was the first Gandoorese television broadcast in colour, although most viewers saw the episode in black and white, as colour television sets were only available to members of the public who had been selected to participate in the test colour broadcasting program and were expected to give their thoughts and opinions on the quality of the colours received by their television sets. Contemporary reports indicate that 'about 10,000 members of the public participated in the program'.

Missing Episodes

Of the 1745 episodes of Rose broadcast on radio and television between 1924 and 1957, only 180 exist in complete or near-complete states, with the remaining 1565 episodes being either entirely missing or with only a few extant surviving clips.

Of particular note is that none of the 1370 episodes broadcast exclusively on Alimore prior to the series debuting on television in 1950 survive in their entirety, with the earliest surviving audio recording of the program being a 90 second clip taken from episode 187, originally broadcast on 5 October 1927, that was used in a record released by Alimore promoting their radio dramas.

Starting in the mid-1930s, Alimore would periodically release episodes of Rose onto 78 rpm records, in order to capitalize on the popularity of the series. As 78s could only play up to five minutes per side, episodes released this way were edited from their original fifteen minute format, with most of them being edited down to five minutes in order to fit two episodes per release.

During the last year that the series was only broadcast on radio, Alimore began releasing what they dubbed Monthly Rose Records, which featured an entire month's worth of episodes edited and condensed onto a single LP record. Because of these releases, the 73 episodes broadcast between January 1949 and May 1950 are considered the best-preserved of the radio-only episodes, as all episodes broadcast during this time have at least some surviving audio.

Of the 155 episodes broadcast on both radio and television between 1950 and 1953, 41 are known to survive in their radio format, including 13 episodes that no longer exist in their televised format. These 41 episodes are the only radio episodes of Rose that exist in their entirety, amounting to only 2.7% of the episodes broadcast on the radio.

The televised episodes of Rose broadcast on ATV from 1950 to 1957 have a much higher survival rate, with 167 of 375 episodes surviving, a survival rate of 44.5%. ATV regularly kinescoped episodes of the series for time-delayed broadcast on smaller ATV stations (in contrast to how other television broadcasters operated in Gandoor, Alimore allowed their non-flagship stations much more leeway in their broadcast schedules), however most of these kinescopes were later destroyed as they were not created for purposes of preservation.

Despite the junking policies maintained by the GBC in various forms until 1970, all episodes of Rose produced since the series began airing on GBN in 1958 survive in their entirety. Due to the series' popularity, the GBC granted Rose an unofficial exemption from the junking policies until 1962, when the series became officially exempt from junking due to its status as a high-priority program.

Despite this exemption, about one-third of episodes originally produced in colour between 1965 and 1970 only survive via black-and-white kinescopes made for sale to countries which did not yet broadcast in colour. The GBC has said that this loss occurred due to confusion over the labelling of film canisters containing the colour kinescopes, used for repeat broadcasts within Gandoor and for sale to countries that were broadcasting in colour, and the black-and-white kinescopes for countries that did not broadcast in colour.

In both cases, the film canisters containing the kinescope recordings were simply labelled as Rose Episode: [number] Kinescope Copy', with no indication on whether the kinescope contained within was in colour or black-and-white. Lacking the time to check the specific contents of each film canister when clearing out duplicate copies of episodes, GBC staff inadvertently discarded the colour kinescopes instead of the black-and-white ones.